A new translation of this taut novel from the 1970s is a good English-language entry point into the works of French novelist Patrick Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Book Review: Saint Genet by Jean-Paul Sartre
Sartre's classic Genet critical biography reissued.
Read More »Book Review: The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
Narcissistic teenager engages in affair with wife of a French soldier during the First World War.
Read More »Book Review: Writing by Marguerite Duras, Translated by Mark Polizzotti
In Writing, Marguerite Duras muses on life, death, and the act of writing in thoughtful, mind-provoking essays.
Read More »Book Review: All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Némirovsky
Némirovsky's tale of a French family during the first half of the 19th century
Read More »Book Review: The Interrogation by J.M.G. Le Clézio
Abstract experimentalism of reissued English translation of 2008 Nobel Prize winner's debut novel leaves it unlikely to capture broad U.S. audience.
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