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This engrossing book sets out to claim something for its subject that no other English-language publication has even thought of. I do not believe that any among those of us who have written on Surrealism in general and on Robert Desnos in partic[...]texte imprimé
When pregnant Rosie Carpe, her fatherless five-year-old son in tow, arrives in Guadeloupe looking for her elusive brother, Lazare, the world already seems a plenty confusing place. Could the man who comes to meet her, an elegant black man callin[...]texte imprimé
Azouz Begag, Auteur ; Naima Wolf, Traducteur ; Alec G. Hargreaves, Traducteur | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press | 2007texte imprimé
Silence on the Shores depicts the final day in the life of a Maghrebian immigrant in France. Having crossed the Mediterranean to "the other shore" as a young man to find work, he ultimately remained in France, married a French woman, and broke t[...]texte imprimé
Hélène Cixous ; Betsy Wing, Traducteur | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press | European women writers series | 1991texte imprimé
The Governor’s Daughter is an extraordinary tale of innocence adrift in a monstrous world. Set just after World War I in the French penal colony in Cayenne, French Guiana, it is the story of Chrétienne,texte imprimé
Many recent books have documented the collaboration of the French authorities with the anti-Jewish German policies of World War II. Yet about 76 percent of France's Jews survived-more than in almost any other country in Western Europe. How do we[...]texte imprimé
The Impostor is a searching account of the torment that besets Father Cénabre, historian of mysticism and controversial star of the Parisian clergy, when his faith suddenly deserts him. As the priest struggles to cope secretly, he crosses paths [...]texte imprimé
Henri Alleg ; Jean-Paul Sartre, Préfacier, etc. ; John Calder, Traducteur | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press | 2006Originally published in 1958, The Question is the book that opened the torture debate in France during Algeria?s war of independence and was the first book since the eighteenth century to be banned by the French government for political reasons.[...]texte imprimé
J. M. G. Le Clézio, Auteur ; Caroline Dickson, Traducteur | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press | 2002Set largely in locations near the French Riviera, these eleven short stories depict the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this very privileged region. Distinguished French writer J. M. G. Le Clézio lends his voice to[...]texte imprimé
Nina Bouraoui ; Jehanne-Marie Gavarini, Traducteur ; Marjorie Attignol Salvodon, Traducteur | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press | 2007How do you live in Algeria when you grow up speaking French, with a French mother? How do you live in France when you?ve spent your childhood in Algeria with an Algerian father? Tomboy is the story of a girl whose father calls her Brio, whose al[...]texte imprimé
Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1998, this book is the work of one of France's most celebrated and interesting novelists writing at the height of her powers. It is fiction that leads readers through fascinating chambers of life where autobiograph[...]texte imprimé
This new translation marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of Georges Bernanos's first novel, Under Satan's Sun, a powerful account of intense spiritual struggle that reflects the author's deeply-felt religion. The work develops a theme that persi[...]texte imprimé
In the summer of 1973, the journalist Xavière Gauthier interviewed the writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras for an article in Le Monde. The meeting began a productive friendship between the two women that included the recording of four more int[...]