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Clementine Melois is a writer, artist, and member of Oulipo. Her first published work, Cent titres (2014), is a cult classic. She has gone on to subvert children's literature and - more recently - the photo-story genre. Sinon j'oublie (2017) - Otherwise...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679764014Author Albert CamusFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645251361Author Jean LorrainFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 5mm

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Filled with devotion and lust, sensuality and eroticism, fevers and overtures, these poems showcase some of the most passionate verses in the French language. From the classic sixteenth-century love sonnets of Louise Labe and Maurice Sceve to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156074063Author St John PerseFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 129mm * 7mm

First published in French magazines in the 1960s, the essays and interviews collected in this volume tackle two of Sartre's most enduring concerns as a philosopher: politics and literature. With regard to the former, they develop the notion of the...

This translated edition of Madame de Maintenon's school plays showcases their emphasis on the importance of girls' self-reliance and resilience in an accessible and engaging format for modern students. Madame de Maintenon's Dramatic Proverbs provides...

This book makes an argument critical to literary theory and sexuality in 2022. It argues that Colette's fiction portrays a woman struggling to live in the throes of the incest taboo, understood in its psychological implications for power relations both...

Here is an unexpected Gerard Genette, looking back at his life and time with humour, tenderness and lucidity. 'Bardadrac' is the neologism a friend of his once invented to name the jumbled contents of her handbag. A way of saying that one finds a little...

Here is an unexpected Gérard Genette, looking back at his life and time with humour, tenderness and lucidity. ‘Bardadrac’ is the neologism a friend of his once invented to name the jumbled contents of her handbag. A way of saying that one finds a little...

“But when I close my eyes, I first fall as if drowning into the silty waters of the Chari River, which traces the border between Chad and Cameroon, and into which so many men, women and even children were thrown, sometimes still alive, their hands...

The extraordinary story of a seventeenth-century French midwife and her treatise on childbirth. In 1671, Marie Baudoin (1625-1700), head midwife and governor of the Hotel-Dieu of Clermont-Ferrand, sent a treatise on the art of childbirth to her...

The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture argues that globalized media has allowed for efficient transmission of transnational culture, and in turn, our everyday experiences are informed by sounds ranging from voices, to music, to...

Le siècle des Lumières constitue un moment important dans l’émergence de la littérature pour la jeunesse en France. La production destinée aux jeunes lecteurs rassemble alors non seulement des ouvrages initialement rédigés pour ce public, mais aussi des...

Beginning as a road novel reuniting Donovan and Tom Lee, old friends from their college days, Christine Montalbetti's novel quickly becomes a playfully unpredictable exploration of American culture. Reflecting on college football, small-town gossip, and...

I heartily recommend this translation and edition of the two works by Jacques Du Bosc. The introduction provides a solid, erudite entry to Du Bosc and his world, with a clear emphasis on the gender issues central to the Other Voice. Especially good is...

"But when I close my eyes, I first fall as if drowning into the silty waters of the Chari River, which traces the border between Chad and Cameroon, and into which so many men, women and even children were thrown, sometimes still alive, their hands...

The texts available here in English for the first time open a window into the lives of three early modern Frenchwomen as they explore the common themes of family, memory, sin, and salvation. The Regrets of Marguerite d'Auge (1600), the Memoirs of Renee...

Historians agree: the diary of Leon Werth (1878-1955) is one of the most precious--and readable--pieces of testimony ever written about life in France under Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime. Werth was a free-spirited, unclassifiable writer, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809071944Author Roland BarthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.

Thousand Times Broken brings together three extraordinary, previously untranslated books in which Henri Michaux's art and poetry merge in ways never seen before, composing a journey in which we----with the great visionary Michaux as our guide----are...

Albert Camus's lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation. In March 1946, the young Albert Camus crossed from Le Havre to New York. Though he was virtually unknown to...

A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeys A writer of enormous erudition and wide-ranging travels, Claudio Magris selects for this volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943813568Author Octave MirbeauFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105367Author Angela CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143133711Author Marcel ProustFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645250470Author Remy De GourmontFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645250081Author Elemir BourgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 349g

Antonin Artaud's journey to Ireland in 1937 marked an extraordinary-and apocalyptic-turning point in his life and career. After publishing the manifesto The New Revelations of Being about the "catastrophic immediate-future," Artaud abruptly left Paris...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645250357Author Jean LorrainFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645250043Author Auguste Villiers De L'Isle AdamFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645250364Author Marcel SchwobFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943813636Author Renee VivienFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645250029Author Remy De GourmontFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645250333Author J -K HuysmansFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

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...

Did you hear the one about the newlywed who rushes off for legal advice before the honeymoon is over? Or the husbands who arrange for an enormous tub in which to cure their sugary wives with a pinch of salt? How about a participatory processional toward...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645250098Author Count StenbockFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 133g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645250166Author Jules-Amedee Barbey d'AurevillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm)...