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Luc Sante

Luc Sante was born in Verviers, Belgium and now lives in New York. ‘Lingua Franca’, published in Granta 59:  France: The Outsider, was taken from The Factory of Facts, published by Granta in 1998.

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Lingua Franca

Luc Sante

‘In order to write of my childhood I have to translate. It is as if I were writing about someone else. As a boy, I lived in French; now, I live in English.’

Art & Photography | Issue 41 padlock
Art & Photography | Issue 41 padlock

The Contents of Pockets

Luc Sante

‘Time in its passing casts off particles of itself in the form of images, documents, relics, junk.‘

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 41 padlock

God’s Country

Luc Sante

‘About forty per cent of Americans describe themselves as 'born again', a designation that covers a great many separate creeds, even, these days, a certain strain of Roman Catholicism.‘

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 41 padlock

Plastics

Luc Sante

‘I was fated to work in a factory.’

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