by Jacques Roubaud
Translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
Publication Date: 04/01/1999
ISBN: 9781564782069
Written in the years following the sudden death of Roubaud's wife, Some Thing Black is a profound and moving transcription of loss, mourning, grief, and the attempts to face honestly and live with the consequences of death, the ever-present not-there-ness of the person who was/is loved.