In The Rafters Of Paris
By Jeff Senatra
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In a state of profound personal crisis, a struggling American writer travels to Paris with just one salvaging hope: to find his words again. Emotionally unraveling in a tiny Latin Quarter apartment he’s nicknamed “the rafters”, Roman Perrish begins writing his story—writing to save his life. Over the course of three weeks he pours himself into six notebooks, detailing his time in Paris and the shattering heartbreak that led him there, and then abandons them. These notebooks are later recovered by the apartment’s proprietor, who, after failed attempts to reunite them with their author, prepares the abandoned work for publication under the title, IN THE RAFTERS OF PARIS. This is the core premise of the book, and at first glance, with a more straight-ahead prose style than previous books (MEAT TOOTH, AQUA VITAE), RAFTERS may appear to be a traditionally crafted work. Its unconventionality, however, lies beyond prose and storyline and makes up its very structure. Blending genres, RAFTERS is a work of literary fiction in the form of memoir. Beginning with a preface by Richard Fields, the proprietor of the Paris apartment and the man who came to be custodian of the abandoned notebooks, we learn the story of the book itself and how it came to be. From there the narrative begins, admittedly disjointed and tentative at first, befitting the narrator’s state of mind, who overtly acknowledges this fact himself. Then, finding its rhythm nearly a quarter of the way in, the story gradually unfolds. Nonlinear in structure, the narrative moves in two directions at once—backward through the past toward the foreseeable climax, while moving in the present through the climax’s aftermath. Swinging back and forth in alternating chapters from Paris to San Francisco, and backward and forward in time, Roman Perrish records his existential teeter as he carries us along with him on his journey.
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