Henri Calet: La Belle Lurette [A Long Time Ago]
The latest addition to my website is Henri Calet's La Belle Lurette [A Long Time Ago]. This is a grim autobiographical novel about a boy, born in 1900. His parents…
The latest addition to my website is Henri Calet's La Belle Lurette [A Long Time Ago]. This is a grim autobiographical novel about a boy, born in 1900. His parents…
The latest addition to my website is Hervé Le Tellier's L’Anomalie (The Anomaly). We follow the stories of various different and seemingly unconnected people, till we gradually learn that they…
The latest addition to my website is Anne Serre's Les Gouvernantes (The Governesses). This is very much a post-modern French fairy tale. The austere Austeur family engage three governesses, firstly…
The latest addition to my website is Sándor Márai's A sziget [The Island]. This novel, available in seven other languages but not English, tells the story of Viktor Henrik Askenazi,…
The latest addition to my website is Anne Serre's Voyage avec Vila-Matas [Journey with Vila-Matas]. This is quirky novel about a woman author, clearly based on Serre herself, attending a…
The latest addition to my website is Bernard Prou's Alexis Vassilkov ou la vie tumultueuse du fils de Maupassant [Alexis Vassilkov or the Tumultuous Life of the Son of Maupassant].…
The latest addition to my website is Patrick Modiano's Encre sympathique [Invisible Ink]. Our hero/narrator is Jean Eyben. He is a would-be writer but works at a detective agency to…
The latest addition to my website is Georges Perec's L’Attentat de Sarajevo [The Sarajevo Assassination]. This is Perec's first (written) novel. It was believed lost and only found and published…
The latest addition to my website is Patrick Modiano's Pour que tu ne te perdes pas dans le quartier (So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighbourhood). This one starts…
The latest addition to my website is Bernard Chambaz's Vladimir Vladimirovitch. This is a novel about Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin, both of them. The narrator, called Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin, is a…