Abstract

Rue Jacob and Lubbock, Texas

The article presents information on two books. "The Park," by Philippe Sollers, and "Luminous Night," by George Lewis. Published before their authors are 30, these two fictions construe, in accomplishment and exasperation, the enterprise of the young French, the young American novelist: on the far side of the Atlantic, an embarrassment of riches; here at home, a wealth of embarrassments. Sollers' subject is the purity of narration: "to be able to catch the glance between the beginning of the glance and its reflection in the mirror. He wants to effect a coincidence between the agent who acts and the agent who writes, to represent the self authentically, which means that he must represent the self representing, the self writing.