"Aubry's lucid prose has ascended to the heights of poetry."<br>--"Publishers Weekly" <br>"Madness may, as Gwenaelle Aubry writes, 'name nothing, in reality, ' but her Personne definitively conjures its something--makes it tenderly felt in all its mystery, horror, and sorrow. Standing between the hard reckoning of autobiography and that which implores, melancholically, 'to be novelized, ' Personne pushes softly at the limits of what life-writing can be. It is a work of remarkable understatement and earned majesty, both."<br>--Maggie Nelson, author of "Bluets" and The Art of Cruelty" <br> "Gwenaelle Aubry's "Personne" is a beautifully rendered and conceived<br>work. Structured like a duet, with writing by her dead father and<br>herself, "Personne" is about the search for a wanderer father in the<br>morass of his unstable identity. It is an impassioned novel, a<br>psychoanalytic double session, an examination of the limits of<br>language, and an act of filial devotion."<br>--Lynne Tillman, author of "Someday This Will Be Funny" <p>"The words are simple yet offer tremendous power. The fact is: we want to dog ear every page to relive certain moments, those certain expressions that put our hair on end..."<br>--"Le Figaro Litteraire" <br>"A testimony bereft of pathos...["No One"] achieves a double portrait: that of a fragmented man searching desperately for unity through writing, and that of a daughter who will succeed where her father failed by making him a novel's hero..."<br>-- "Magazine Litteraire" <br>"A cubist and polyphonic portrait, ridden with elegance and restraint, ["No One"] is a two-fold autobiography of a father and daughter, its threads are delicately woven with impressions, memories and language that recreate the figure of complex and engaging man, stranger to the world- yet, also stranger to himself..."<br>--"Le Monde des Livres" <br>"Her (Gwenaelle Aubry's) words, persistent and fixed in the glance of she who cannot save him, resem