Warren Motte

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Warren Motte is Distinguished Professor of French and Comparative Literature (emeritus) at the University of Colorado Boulder. In 2015 the French Republic named him a Knight in the Order of Academic Palms for career service to French culture. His most recent books include Mirror Gazing (2014), French Fiction Today (2017), Pour une littérature critique (2021), and Reading Contemporary French Literature (2022).

  • Roberto Giannotti, “Island within an Island,” August 28, 2012

    Multitasking: The Narrative Alchemy of Maylis de Kerangal

    March 29, 2017 Warren Motte
    Roberto Giannotti, “Island within an Island,” August 28, 2012In early 2014, Maylis de Kerangal wrote a short text entitled À ce stade de la nuit [At this point of the night] at the invitation…
  • Mirror Gazing

    Mirror Gazing by Warren Motte

    Warren Motte
    Champaign, Illinois. Dalkey Archive Press. 2014. ISBN 9781628970142 What do we see when we read? For Warren Motte, the question is more properly stated, what do we see reflected when we…
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    The Purple Turtleneck Imperative

    July 2, 2013 Warren Motte
    “Dogs bark,” writes Warren Motte, “for the same reasons that I write: it’s our way of coming to terms with things, gropingly, imprecisely, and as best we can.” Photo: Thomas Hawk/FlickrI…
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    Slow Fiction

    September 19, 2012 Warren Motte
    Photo by Michael McKelvaney/FlickrI read Robert Shapard’s remarks about “flash” fiction in the September 2012 issue of WLT with a great deal of interest. Having spent quite a bit of time in m…