Pati Hill: Impossible Dreams lançement FR/EN !
26 June 2025 06:00PM
26 June 2025 06:00PM
For the summer, Daisy reissues Pati Hill’s cult novel Impossible Dreams, originally published in 1976. Released fourteen years after Hill declared she had « quit writing in favor of housekeeping », Impossible Dreams is both a surprising novel - by turns cruel and funny - and a brilliant artist’s book, featuring some of her earliest experiments with the copier.
Hill tells the story of Geneviève, a middle-aged housewife whose life is upended when she unexpectedly falls in love with her neighbor, Dolly. Before and after that moment, life leads her down ambiguous paths, which she navigates in equally unexpected ways. Marked by Hill's deadpan tone and elliptic voice, the novel stands out as one of her most accomplished works in her effort to fuse language and image.
Pati Hill claimed to have originally written the book in French. Compiled from several drafts in her archive, this carefully revised French translation is the first of her literary works to appear in French. The edition closely follows the design of the original publication, created by Hill herself.
The launch will open with an introduction by Baptiste Pinteaux, publisher of the two books, followed by readings of excerpts from the novel and unpublished texts by Hill.
This publication was made possible with the support of the Centre national des arts plastiques and the Pati Hill Collection at Arcadia University, Glenside.
