Excerpts from Novel Lines 101 (a work-in-progress)

by Stephen Bett

Patrick Modiano, Suspended Sentences (trans, Mark Polizzotti)

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (opening lines)

Péter Nádas, A Book of Memories (trans, Ivan Sanders)

Photo of Stephen Bett

BIO: Stephen Bett is a widely and internationally published Canadian poet with 26 books in print from BlazeVOX, Chax, Spuyten Duyvil, Ekstasis Editions, Thistledown Press, & others. His personal papers are archived in the “Contemporary Literature Collection” at Simon Fraser University. His website is stephenbett.com