Winner of France's most prestigious literary award, the Prix Goncourt.A haunting work, reminiscent of Albert Camus, that portrays with exquisite psychological detail the emotional crisis in the life o
In "Land and Blood, " his second novel, the Algerian-Kabyle writer Mouloud Feraoun offers a detailed portrait of life for Algerian Kabyles in the 1920s and 1930s through the story of a Kabyle-Berber m
Review from Shelf Awareness (2/7/2012): "Mouloud Feraoun, a friend of Albert Camus, was brutally murdered by right-wing paramilitary terrorists in 1962 during the last days of French colonial rule in
Hailed by Jean Cocteau as a "masterpiece," and by the Guardian as "Bret Easton Ellis's Less Than Zero, avant la lettre," this taut tale written by a teenager in the form of a frank "confession" is a g
A mysterious Phantom haunts the depths of the Paris Opera House where he has fallen passionately in love with the beautiful singer Christine Daai??. When the Phantom is finally unmasked, will Christin
At the center of In Dark Again in Wonder are readings of Rene Char (1907-88) and George Oppen (1908-84). Both of these poets achieved recognition at a young age, Char among the French surrealists in t
The third “branch” of Jacques Roubaud’s epic, Proustian Great Fire of London, Mathematique: is also an excellent entrance into the series. Adopting math as a career relatively late in his studies, Rou
In this brilliant and sobering self-portrait, Edouard Leve hides nothing from his readers, setting out his entire life, more or less at random, in a string of declarative sentences. Autoportrait is a
Reminiscent of novels by Nick Hornby, Muriel Barbery, and Jonathan Tropper, internationally acclaimed novelist David Foenkinos delivers a heartfelt and deftly comedic tale of new love brightening the
"I hate hockey!" is the first and last sentence in this novel that offers a great take on our love-hate relationship with hockey. Narrator Antoine Vachon blames the game for killing his marriage with
The first English translation of Maria de Naglowska’s sexually magical novella, Le rite sacre de l’amour magique • Contains autobiographical material from Maria de Naglows
Coming of age in 1960s Paris, Bernard Appelbaum exists in the hazy shadow of the Holocaust and on the electric cusp of the French New Wave. We find the narrator of Wide Awake as he wanders the city st
Arguing that popular ideas of de Sade (1740-1814) and sadism are misrepresented stereotypes of his thinking, Traore (PhD, French studies, U. of Minnesota) reads his writings as reflections of Enlighte
"In this collection of thematically related stories, celebrated Belgian author Franecois Emmanuel shows his indebtedness to the great poetic iconoclasts of the French language--not least Charles Baude
To the short list that includes Jules Verne and H.G. Wells as founding fathers of science fiction, the name of the Belgian writer J.-H. Rosny Aine must be added. He was the first writer to conceive, a
Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today. Chamoiseau's work sheds light on the dynamic
