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Leslie Kaplan: L' excès-l'usine (French language, 1994, P.O.L., POL) 4 stars

L’excès-l’usine montre de face l’usine, le travail à l’usine et le devenir de ceux qui …

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I wanted to read Kaplan for a while and L'excès-l'usine didn't disappoint. Leslie Kaplan worked in a factory for two years during the May 68 events. Here describing the factory, Kaplan transcends genre, as Blanchot also affirms by questioning whether it should rather be called poetry or more-than-poetry.