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A Cage in Search of a Bird by Florence Noiville; Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\French List Ser.
Laura Wilmote is a television journalist living in Paris. Her life couldn't be better--a stimulating job, a loving boyfriend, interesting friends--until her phone rings in the middle of one night. It is C., an old school friend whom Laura recently helped find a job at the same television station: "My ph ...Show more
A Season in the Congo by Aimé Césaire; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Translator)
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: The French List Ser.
This play by renowned poet and political activist Aime Césairerecounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo Republic and an African nationalist hero. A Season in the Congofollows Lumumba?s efforts to free the Congolese from Belgian rule and the political struggles ...Show more
A Very Fine Gift and Other Writings on Theory by Roland Barthes; Chris Turner (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\French List Ser.
A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another--he first gained an aud ...Show more
Abysses by Pascal Quignard; Chris Turner (Translator)
Category: Culture | Series: The\French List Ser.
Prolific essayist, translator, and critic Pascal Quignard has described his Last Kingdom series as something unique. It consists, he says, "neither of philosophical argumentation, nor short learned essays, nor novelistic narration," but comes, rather, from a phase of his work in which the very concept o ...Show more
Correspondence - Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein by Gertrude Stein; Pablo Picasso; Lorna Scott Fox (Translator); Laurence Madeline (Editor)
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\French List Ser.
Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. Few can be said to have had as broad an impact on European art in the twentieth century as these two cultural giants. Pablo Picasso, a pioneering visual artist, created a prolific and widely influential body of work. Gertrude Stein, an intellectual tastemaker, hosted th ...Show more
Essays - Volume 1: 1944 - 1948 by Chris Turner (Translator); Georges Bataille; Alberto Toscano (Editor); Benjamin Noys (Editor)
Category: Culture | Series: The\French List Ser.
This first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille's essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings. In the aftermath of the Second World War, French thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a singular path through the moral and political impasses of his age ...Show more
Hypnos by René Char; Mark Hutchinson (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\French List Ser.
Now in paperback, René Char's Hypnos is both a remarkable work of literature and a document of unique significance in the history of the French Resistance.Hailed by the poet Paul Eluard as an "absolute masterpiece" upon its first appearance in 1946, René Char's Hypnos is both a remarkable work of litera ...Show more
Invitation to the Voyage by Charles Baudelaire; Beverley Bie Brahic (Translator)
Category: Poetry | Series: The\French List Ser.
"Baudelaire is indeed the greatest exemplar in modern poetry in any language," said T. S. Eliot. We experience Baudelaire in myriad ways through his multifaceted writing. His sensuous poems--dreams of escape to an impossible, preferably tropical, elsewhere--draw us in with their descriptive and perceptu ...Show more
Occasional Philosophical Writings by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\French List Ser.
Four essays by the French master addressing other philosophers and their work. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through th ...Show more
On American Fiction by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: The\French List Ser.
A brief, powerful analysis of three major twentieth-century writers: Dos Passos, Nabokov, and Faulkner. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and tho ...Show more
On Bataille and Blanchot by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\French List Ser.
An in-depth analysis of two of Sartre's contemporaries, Bataille and Blanchot. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through the d ...Show more
On Camus by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: The\French List Ser.
A window onto one of the most consequential friendships in philosophical history, that of Sartre and Camus--and on its end.Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained ...Show more