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The Origin of the World by Pierre Michon
Booksplease Price: £9.55This spare, unforgettable novel is Pierre Michon's luminous exploration of the mysteries of desire. A young teacher takes his first job in a sleepy French town. Lost in a succession of rainy days and... -
Masters and Servants by Pierre Michon 9780300180695
Booksplease Price: £31.90One of Pierre Michon's most powerful works, this book imagines decisive moments in the lives of five artists of different times and places: Vincent van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Antoine Watteau, Claude... -
Winter Mythologies and Abbots by Pierre Michon 9780300179064
Booksplease Price: £9.55Michon's exquisite short narratives transport us to the heart of the Middle Ages as witnesses to the double-edged power of belief This welcome volume brings to English-language readers two... -
Pierre Michon: The Afterlife of Names by Patrick Crowley 9783039107445
RRP: £55.20Booksplease Price: £49.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039107445Author Patrick CrowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher... -
Paths to Contemporary French Literature: Volume 1 by John Taylor
Booksplease Price: £52.94Although the great French novelists of the last two centuries are widely read in America, there is a widespread notion that little of importance has happened in French literature since the heyday of... -
Egalitarian Strangeness: On Class Disturbance and Levelling in Modern and Contemporary French Narrative by Edward J. Hughes 9781802075311
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.91Shortlisted for the 2022 R. Gapper book prize The formulation 'egalitarian strangeness' is a direct borrowing from Courts voyages au pays du peuple [Short Voyages to the Land of the People] (1990), a... -
Egalitarian Strangeness: On Class Disturbance and Levelling in Modern and Contemporary French Narrative by Edward J. Hughes 9781800348424
Booksplease Price: £119.01The formulation 'egalitarian strangeness' is a direct borrowing from Courts voyages au pays du peuple [Short Voyages to the Land of the People] (1990), a collection of essays by the contemporary... -
Biography and the Question of Literature in France by Ann Jefferson 9780199270842
Booksplease Price: £115.45This book takes a fresh look at the relations between literature and biography by tracing the history of their connections through three hundred years of French literature. The starting point for... -
The Colonial Fortune in Contemporary Fiction in French by Oana Panaite 9781800855724
RRP: £32.45Booksplease Price: £30.70"The Colonial Fortune" highlights the features of a paracolonial aesthetics emanating from a significant body of contemporary Hexagonal and non-metropolitan texts. Authored by writers who are either... -
The Colonial Fortune in Contemporary Fiction in French by Oana Panaite 9781786940292
Booksplease Price: £119.73"The Colonial Fortune" highlights the features of a paracolonial aesthetics emanating from a significant body of contemporary Hexagonal and non-metropolitan texts. Authored by writers who are either... -
Pictures into Words: Images in Contemporary French Fiction by Ari J. Blatt
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.65The explosive proliferation of pictures in advertising and pop culture, mass media, and cyberspace following World War II, along with the profusion of critical thinking that tries to make sense of... -
Epic Annette: A Heroine's Tale by Anne Weber
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Could you put your beliefs before your family? Epic Annette is the extraordinary true story of Annette Beaumanoir: brilliant and fierce, she was a medical student living in a world at war who, at... -
Every Minute Is First: Poems by Marie-Claire Bancquart 9781639550906
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.66A penetrating and encompassing English-language translation from the celebrated French poet touching on death, domesticity, nature, language itself, and-always-the body.French literary icon... -
Occupation Journal by Jean Giono
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73A renowned writer and committed pacifist throughout the 1930s - a conviction that resulted in his imprisonment before and after the Occupation - Jean Giono spent the war in the village of Contadour...