Street Life – In the Stretch of Water
Reading of Joseph Mitchell (USA) by François Tizon (France)
presented on 30 June 2018 at Saint-Vit (France)
Street Life is the start of an autobiographical project begun at the end of the 60s, which was never completed. The thirty-one final years of Joseph Mitchell’s life were dominated by a long literary aphasia. These several pages of text – published posthumously – nevertheless examine the city of New York, then the childhood and nature in such a striking way that it leaves us plagued by an unsettling sense of comprehensiveness.
