Narcisse on a Tightrope

Olivier Targowla

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• For seventeen years, Narcisse Dièze, chronic sufferer of a mysterious condition called "cerebral rheumatism"; has lived in the protective confines of ... Lees meer

Graal Flibuste

Robert Pinget

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• This early work by the landmark Swiss author Robert Pinget is unlike any other he produced over his long career; indeed, there are few books by any wr... Lees meer

Demolishing Nisard

Eric Chevillard

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• New work from the acclaimed author of "The Crab Nebula" and "Palafox." Lees meer

Monsieur

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

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• The hero of this cool novel is 'Monsieur', a nameless young man whose everyday life is followed in precise detail during the course of the narrative. ... Lees meer

Hoppla! 1 2 3

Gerard Gavarry

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• The tale is simple, if grim: a disenfranchised teenage boy from the housing projects on the outskirts of Paris rapes and murders the manager of the su... Lees meer

The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart

Jacques Roubaud

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• Composed of 150 poems, with a title taken from Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, and partly a response to the poetry of Raymond Queneau, this co... Lees meer

Silences, or a Woman's Life

Marie Chaix

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• When a woman falls into a coma, her daughter accompanies her through six weeks of agony, bearing witness to the prolonged death imposed upon her by th... Lees meer

Orphans

Hadrien Laroche

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• A forlorn traveler is taken in by three suffering orphans, who, in the midst of their pain, give him food and shelter. The first, orphaned by history,... Lees meer

Antagonist

Jean-Pierre Attal

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• A covert war has begun in which two adversaries of the current regime, Lauménès and Gonamména, have pitted themselves against double agent Karl Résa; ... Lees meer

The Firsts

Xabi Molia

• Paperback | Engels | French Literature
• The ugly side of superheroes What if you suddenly had superpowers? What would you do? How would your friends and family react? What would your obligat... Lees meer

As You Were Saying

• Paperback | Engels | French Literature
• 'As You Were Saying' pairs some of America's best writers with their French contemporaries, to show the importance of considering - and responding to ... Lees meer

Suicide

Edouard Levé

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• Suicide cannot be read as simply another novel--it is, in a sense, the author's own oblique, public suicide note, a unique meditation on this most ext... Lees meer

Villa Bunker

Sebastien Brebel

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• The narrator of "Villa Bunker" receives letters, dozens of them, written by his mother in an isolated seaside villa, which tell of his parents' troubl... Lees meer

Impressions of Africa

Raymond Roussel

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• The long-awaited new translation of the most dazzling and unclassifiable work of fiction in any language. Lees meer

Sisters

Brigitte Lozerec'h

• Paperback | Engels | French Literature
• Mathilde Lewly--a female painter at the dawn of the twentieth century--has achieved notoriety among the Parisian avant-garde. She and her husband, als... Lees meer

La Batarde

Violette Leduc

• Paperback | Engels | French Literature
• An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Bâtarde... Lees meer

Newspaper

Edouard Levé

• Paperback | Engels | French Literature
• In Newspaper , Edouard Levé's second "novel," the acclaimed writer, photographer, and artist made perhaps his most radical attempt to remove himself f... Lees meer

Writers

Antoine Volodine

• Paperback | Engels | French Literature
• Here we have the anatomy of the contemporary writer, as imagined by the pseudonymous, "post-exotic" Antoine Volodine. His writers aren't the familiar,... Lees meer

London Bridge

Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Louis-Ferdinand C Line

• Paperback | Engels | French Literature
• In this widely acclaimed translation, Dominic DiBernardi expertly captures C?line's trademark style of prose which has served as inspiration to such A... Lees meer

Martereau

Nathalie Sarraute

• Paperback | Engels | French Literature
• Martereau is narrated by a tubercular young man driven by a compulsion to discover what lies behind faades, especially in relation to the adults aroun... Lees meer

Mahu, Or, the Material

Robert Pinget

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• In the tradition of Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds, Gilbert Sorrentino's Mulligan Stew, and Raymond Queneau's The Flight of Icarus, Robert Pinget's... Lees meer

Fables of the Novel

Warren Motte

• Paperback | Engels | French Literature
• Readers of the contemporary novel in France are witnessing the most astonishing reinvigoration of narrative prose since the New Novel of the 1950s. In... Lees meer

Hortense Is Abducted

Jacques Roubaud, Dominic Di Bernardi

• Paperback | Engels | French Literature
• -- First paperback edition. -- In this madcap metafictional mystery a 22-year-old philosophy student (Hortense) is kidnapped and a dog is murdered -- ... Lees meer

Fragments of Lichtenberg

Pierre Senges

• Paperback | Engels | French Literature
• The eighteenth-century German physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg left behind at the time of his death thousands of fragmentary notes commenting on ... Lees meer