Jean Frémon was born in Asnières, outside Paris, in 1946. He has written art criticism, poetry, and fiction.
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Translated from the French by Brian Evenson. Jean Frémon's THE PARADOXES OF ROBERT RYMAN is a collection of essays about the American abstract painter, Robert Ryman. Robert Ryman's remarks were written down by Fremon during...
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Poetry. Translated from the French by Brian Evenson. PROUSTIENNES takes its lead from Erik Satie's Gnossiennes—each is a light, lively, take on some aspect of Proust's oeuvre. It touches lightly on asparagus, and equally lightly on the Dreyfus Affai...
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Translated from the French by Cole Swensen. Jean Frémon writes about painters he loves, contemporary and otherwise, about writers, whose books are sometimes named, and who at other times stay unnamed. He visits each one at ...