Marie Redonnet: La femme au Colt 45 [The Woman with the Colt 45]
The latest addition to my website is Marie Redonnet's La femme au Colt 45 [The Woman with the Colt 45]. Redonnet seemed to have stopped publishing but she has now…
The latest addition to my website is Marie Redonnet's La femme au Colt 45 [The Woman with the Colt 45]. Redonnet seemed to have stopped publishing but she has now…
I was a long time subscriber to the French literary magazine La Quinzaine Littéraire, founded by the wonderful writer and editor Maurice Nadeau, who died in 2013 aged 102! He…
The latest addition to my website is Claude Ollier's Déconnection (later: Obscuration) (Disconnection). Ollier was one of the French writers associated with Editions de Minuit and the nouveau roman but…
The latest addition to my website is Mathias Enard's Boussole (Compass). This is about one man, an Austrian musicologist called Franz Ritter, who is currently ill with an unspecified disease,…
'Tis the season for la rentrée, which, in France, refers both to going back to school at the beginning of the new school year but, more importantly, for us, the…
The latest addition to my website is Michel Houellebecq's Soumission [Submission]. This novel has received considerable pre-publication publicity because of its controversial subject matter. The book, set in 2022, follows…
The latest addition to my website is Irène Némirovsky's Les Chiens et les loups (The Dogs and the Wolves). This novel, unlike some of her others, is set, initially, in…
The latest addition to my website is Irène Némirovsky's Suite française (Suite française), a novel written in 1940-41 but only published in 2004. This book is in two parts. The…
We have already had the Prix Femina - Haitian novelist Yanick Lahens won with Bain de lune, and the Prix Médicis - Antoine Volodine won with Terminus radieux and today…