Imagine an ambulance crew who decided they wouldn’t go to help a casualty because they’d seen one too many people injuring themselves because of drinking too much. It doesn’t seem likely. Yet compa…| Market Garden Reader
Nina Bouraoui’s novel Satisfaction is told in the form of journal entries. The journals, seven of them, belong to Mme Akli and cover the period 1977-1978. Mme Akli is a French woman married t…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
“When people write about the working-class world, which they rarely do, it is most often because they have left it behind,” admits Didier Eribon, in his 2009 French memoir of class transition, Returning to Reims. “They thereby contribute to perpetuating the social illegitimacy of the people they are speaking of in the very moment of speaking about them.” But he can only acknowledge this problem... The post “I Will Write to Avenge My Race”: Baglin, Louis, and Ernaux on Class Transi...| Public Books
Inès Cagnati’s Free Day was the ninth book I read for the #NYRBWomen25 reading project — one I had never heard of before, but which turned out to be a marvellous discovery, much like Maria Dermoût’s gorgeous, enigmatic The Ten Thousand Things, which I read thanks to #NYRBWomen23. Set against the bleak marshlands of southwestern…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
This post contains minor spoilers. My Classics Club list contains quite a few novels that I read in an abridged form in my childhood. One such text is Jules Verne’s French classic Voyage au centre de la Terre, first published in 1864. A revised version containing additional chapters appeared in 1867. It is this edition … Continue reading #Classics Club: Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne (1867)→| a hot cup of pleasure
Originally published in French, The Radiance of the King is the most famous novel of Camara Laye (1928–80), whose name is sometimes listed as Laye Camara. In contrast with a number of early African…| Literary Theory and Criticism
The Plague was written by Albert Camus (1913–60), one of the most gifted and influential writers and philosophers in the French language of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in liter…| Literary Theory and Criticism