Céline portrays the vertigo of the human condition with an intensity that still has no equal, eighty years on. But this English version is not quite Céline.
- A.R. Chisholm Professor of French, The University of Melbourne
The latest book by the author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a poetic travelogue replete with papier-mâché characters in trompe-l'oeil settings.
Annie Ernaux is the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her autofiction masterpiece, The Years, has been called a modern In Search of Lost Time.
Amid the trauma and boredom of war, soldiers turned to reading — often magazines they wrote themselves.
Created by a prolific French author, Inspector Jules Maigret observes without judgement and moves like a chameleon between social classes.
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