Benoît Reiss

Compagnie de Joseph Tassël

Joseph Tassël Company

February 1, 2009
Novel
150 × 230 mm
19 €
9782841161416
978-2-8411-6141-6
																Benoît Reiss, Compagnie de Joseph Tassël
																Benoît Reiss, Compagnie de Joseph Tassël

“Who knows Joseph Tassël, the young writer from the beginning of the last century who made daydreaming “a personal and serious profession” and who, from boarding school to hospice, gradually escaped from existence, fading into insanity like Robert Walser, whom he so closely resembles? Who knows him? No one, of course, since, however intense and moving the destiny of this fragile soul, infatuated with literature as with an absolute, however moving the events of his inner life as revealed in his diary, his notebooks, his letters, Joseph Tassel never existed... This very paradox constitutes the strange success of Benoît Reiss: it is rare that a being of paper acquires such a presence, reaches such a truth. It is to the point that, leaving the present biography, one cannot accept that it is a fiction. We cannot console ourselves, no doubt, with being deprived forever of the work of a Joseph Tassël!”
—Jean-Pierre Siméon

The author

Benoît Reiss was born in 1976. He studied literature in Lyon and Paris. He worked in educational publishing before moving to Japan in 2007, where he taught French. Since 2017, he has been co-director of Cheyne Editions, with Elsa Pallot. As an author, he published the novel Le petit veilleur with Buchet Chastel in 2019, poetry with Cheyne, and stories including O’Yu, un éloge de l’eau chaude with Esperluète Editions in 2021.

February 1, 2009
Novel
150 × 230 mm
19 €
9782841161416
978-2-8411-6141-6