ABSTRACT
The Peacock Emperor Moth (Burning Deck, 1995) and Mirrors (Green Integer, 1998) revealed to American readers that Marcel Cohen (b. 1937) was a subtle French stylist of a most unusual kind. The short prose narratives gathered in these and his other, untranslated, collections rely on understatement, oblique irony, and often—for subject matter—ordinary events whose harrowing psychological, social or historical depths the author unveils almost in passing.
