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french fiction

Book Review: “Interior” — The Thing-as-Himself

Thomas Clerc’s novel reminds us of a stubborn truth: we are all narcissists that live to accumulate shit in rooms.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: french fiction, Interior, Jeffrey Zuckerman, Lucas Spiro, Thomas Clerc, translation

Book Review: Incurable Absences — Olivia Rosenthal’s novel about Alzheimer’s and Much More

The author makes fully human an illness marked by absence and estrangement from humanity.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Alzheimer's, Béatrice Mousli, french fiction, Olivia Rosenthal, Otis Books / Seismicity Editions, translation, We’re Not Here to Disappear

Book Review: Antoine Volodine’s “Bardo or Not Bardo” — Seriously Spoofing the Afterlife

One reads this strangely engaging book, like Volodine’s others, with a sort of knitted-brow amusement.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Antoine Volodine, Bardo or Not Bardo, french fiction, Open-Letter, translation

Book Review: Mathematicians in Combat — Michèle Audin’s “One Hundred Twenty-One Days”

Audin scrutinizes political commitment when it is undertaken by representatives of an intellectual discipline detached from the real world.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Christiana Hills, Deep Vellum, french fiction, Michèle Audin, One Hundred Twenty-One Days, translation

Book Review: Michel Houellebecq and the Wages of “Submission”

If you’ve recently been mourning the end of the Novel of Ideas—take heart. And dig in, for Submission offers a smorgasbord.

By: Kai Marstead Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: french fiction, Islam, Kai Maristed, Lorin Stein, Michel Houellebecq, Paris Bombing, Submission, Terrorism

Book Review: Dystopia as Our Future — Antoine Volodine’s “Post-Exotic” Oeuvre

Antoine Volodine is a master of the prolonged, very prolonged, tongue-in-cheek spoof. But he is also dead serious.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Review, World Books Tagged: french fiction, Lesson 11, Post-Exoticism in 10 Lessons, translation, Writers

Book Review: Two From Andreï Makine — A Matter of Trust

Makine may be plagiarizing himself, which is a perfectly legitimate thing for a writer to do, but scenes of spring snow and railroad stations become clichés even in talented hands.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Review, World Books Tagged: A Woman Loved, Andreï Makine, Brief Lives That Live Forever, french fiction, Graywolf Press, translation

Book Review: Anne Garréta’s “Sphinx” — A Compelling Story of Genderless Love

Garréta pulls off a stylistic feat: it is impossible to determine the gender of the two main characters.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Anne Garétta, Deep Vellum, french fiction, Sphinx, translation

Book Review: “Nagasaki”‘s Diptych of Aloneness

The success of this short novel set in Japan lies in the empathy it creates for a pair of ordinary and lonely characters.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Éric Faye, french fiction, Gallic Books, Nagasaki, translation

Book Review: Into the Labyrinth of Fragmentary Memories — The Novels of Patrick Modiano

The prose of Patrick Modiano, this year’s Nobel prizewinner, has a distinctive French style whose directness and grammatical limpidity by no means exclude semantic depth and complexity.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: french fiction, literature, Patrick Modiano, Pour que tu ne te perdes pas dans le quartier, Suspended Sentences, translation, Yale-University-Press

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