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Now the work will be part of a solo exhibition at Gallery 90220 titled “Notre Recit” — presented with multidisciplinary visual artist Will “WCMTL” Raojenina’s “The Inspirations & Joys of an Immigrant Child.”

Within all the chapters, the stories float like this, lightly tethered to what the French call récit—the moment in which the story is being told, the narrative present.

Vuillard’s remarkable account of the lead-up to the Nazi invasion of Austria, in 1938, won last year’s Prix Goncourt as a récit, or tale, but it reads like history.

At the other historic and histrionic extreme was “Récit de Voyage,” Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky’s sonic evocation of his odyssey from Soviet Russia to Switzerland in the mid-1970s.

The French have a term for what Garner writes: récit, where the narration draws attention to itself.