A wicked satire about the chaos that results when there's a rule for everything.In the over-legislated world of this outrageous black comedy, a death-row inmate becomes a darling of the media-- and t
A great food critic who can make or destroy the reputation of a chef with a stroke of his pen, Pierre Arthens faces his imminent death by trying to recall the one perfect flavor he sampled in his yout
Instructors report from the trenches on teaching the work of French Renaissance satirist Rabelais (1490-1533). They cover literary and textual approaches, cultural contexts, teaching gender and sexual
When Tiffany Murano’s parents, French expatriates in Africa, send her to a Catholic boarding school in France, her homeland feels nothing like home. In leaving colonial Africa, she loses the natural w
The fourth title in Claude Izner's bestselling Victor Legris mystery series, set in belle-epoque ParisThe clock of the Eglise Trinite had just struck eight o’clock in the morning when, without warning
Fiction has become nearly synonymous with literature itself, as if Homer and Dante and Pynchon were all engaged in the same basic activity. But one difficulty with this view is simply that a literatur
Larkin (French, U. of Aberdeen) explores the assimilation of photography into late 19th-century and early 20th-century French literature by systemically analyzing Marcel Proust's formal and stylistic
In introducing their translation of Voyage de Campagne (A Trip to the Country, 1699) by Henriette Julie de Castelnau (1668-1716), Gerthner (French, Oklahoma State U.) and Stedman (French, U. of North
From the acclaimed Emmanuel Carrere, an act of generous imagination that unflinchingly records devastating loss and, equally vividly, the wealth of human solace that follows in its wakeIn Sri Lanka, a
In haunting ways, this gorgeous novel prefigures Irene Nemirovsky’s masterpiece Suite Francaise. Set in France between 1910 and 1940 and first published in France in 1947, five years after the author’
A New York Review Books Original ? Elisabeth Gille was only five when the Gestapo arrested her mother, and she grew up remembering next to nothing of her. Her mother was a figure, a name, Irene Nemir
In An Accident in August, Laurence Cosse takes one of the most famous news events of recent world history as the starting point for a novel as intelligent as it is gripping. On the now infamous ni
Writing, one of Marguerite Duras’s last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she explores
One of the greatest adventures of all time comes to the screen this fall-shot entirely in 3D! This October, Alexandre Dumas's enduring adventure classic will get a blockbuster treatment by action di
It may not be immediately clear why anyone should bother to demolish Nisard. Who on earth, after all, is De’sire’ Nisard? A nineteenth-century literary critic, pedagogue, and member of the Acade’mie F
Rewriting the Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers examines how post-colonial women writers Maryse Conde, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner Vieyra emerged with a new vis
This book is the first literary study to examine how France has failed to come to terms with the end of its empire, and is now haunted by the legacy of its colonial relationship with North Africa. It
The delightful and daring English-language debut of French author Herve’ le Tellier is a series of short, intimately interconnected stories making up a lively user’s manual to pleasure, relating the v
