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On Modern Art by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: The\French List Ser.
A collection of insightful essays by the French philosopher on contemporary art. 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 Poetry by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Poetry | Series: The\French List Ser.
Two long Sartre essays that explore the Négritude poetry movement and the work of French writer Francis Ponge. 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 ...Show more
On Revolution by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: The\French List Ser.
A two-part essay on the "myth" of revolution and the figure of the artist. 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 de ...Show more
Sick Planet by Guy Debord; Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\French List - (Seagull Titles CHUP) Ser.
A Sick Planet, written in 1971, is an extremely prescient polemic on global environmental degradation.
Signs and Images - Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography 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 audie ...Show more
Suspended Passion - Interviews by Marguerite Duras; Chris Turner (Translator)
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: The\French List Ser.
A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews--hailed on its French publication as Duras's "secret confession"--offers readers a rich vein of new insight into her work, opinion ...Show more
The Crime of Jean Genet by Dominique Edde
Category: Biography | Series: The\French List Ser.
Now in paperback, The Crime of Jean Genet is a powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on another and one of the most penetrating explorations yet of Genet's work and achievement.Dominique Eddé met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. "His presence, ...Show more
The Crime of Jean Genet by Dominique Eddé; Andrew Rubens (Translator); Ros Schwartz (Translator)
Category: Culture | Series: The\French List Ser.
Now in paperback, The Crime of Jean Genet is a powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on another and one of the most penetrating explorations yet of Genet's work and achievement.Dominique Eddé met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. "His presence, ...Show more
The Emperor by Makenzy Orcel; Nathan H. Dize (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\French List Ser.
A tragicomic novel that explores deep-seated tensions and social violence in Haiti. After committing an irreparable crime, the narrator of The Emperor waits in his bedroom for the police to arrest him. His past reverberates inside of him like a drum: his youth spent in captivity as a zonbi, under the c ...Show more
The Fount of Time - The Last Kindom II by Pascal Quignard; Chris Turner (Translator)
Category: Culture | Series: The\French List Ser.
"Last Kingdom is a set of books that . . . is neither philosophical argumentation nor little disparate, scholarly essays, nor novelistic narrative; gradually, for me, all genres have fallen away." So writes Pascal Quignard of his monumental book series, Last Kingdom. In the latest volume, The Fount of T ...Show more
The Legend by Marie Bronsard; Sonia Alland (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\French List Ser.
Now in paperback, Marie Bronsard's strikingly original memoir reweaves the history of her family--and the legend of her grandmother--leaving no stone unturned and no skeleton in the closet.Egocentric and domineering, Bronsard's grandmother was once a vibrant and sensual beauty. In Indochina at the end o ...Show more
The Present Hour by Yves Bonnefoy; Beverley Bie Brahic (Translator)
Category: Poetry | Series: The\French List - (Seagull Titles CHUP) Ser.
From the publication of his first book in 1953, Yves Bonnefoy has been considered the most important and influential French poet since World War II. A prolific writer, critic, and translator, Bonnefoy continues to compose groundbreaking new work sixty years later, constantly offering his readers what Pa ...Show more