The latest literary AI scandal forces us to question what we expect of writers. Some French authors argue AI is now part of our lives – and authorship is evolving.
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How do you put the past aside when you have no choice but to care for a parent who treated you badly?
Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel suggests solidarity is possible, but only under conditions of risk and mutual obligation.
For a decade the architect Albert Speer enjoyed a unique position as courtier and protege to Adolf Hitler. A new novel examines the man, and his lies.
A tale of one friendship over 20 years between a narrator and doomed woman.
Step into the gloomy and inky artwork of the famous French writer.
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.
The final novel from France’s most famous literary provocateur, set in 2027, features an antihero based on a real-life French politician – who reports to a president modelled on Macron.
A life in five parts in a changing France is wrought powerfully on stage in this adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s book The Years
In his collection of stories, “The Human Comedy”, the French 19th-century writer Honoré de Balzac turned the shaming of single women into an art.
Mysteries from China, short stories from the Balkans, a French-Morrocan autobiography and more.
French has historically been a language of human rights. That’s why the Québec government should promote it as a tool of a human rights-based civic education, not force it on newcomers.
From electricity to X-rays, the Doppler Effect and even quantum theory, Proust’s writing is littered with physics references.
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.
The French writer has won the Nobel for literature for her ascetic approach to writing and fearlessness in covering the personal and taboo.
There was a real man behind the swashbuckling hero who was as deft at sparring with his pen and sword as Rostand’s hero.
He is the first writer from sub-Saharan Africa to lift the Prix Goncourt, one of the book world’s most important prizes. And his win matters.
A story about male violence and a damsel in distress, it is based on a true crime
The French-Senegalese author’s novel At Night All Blood is Black is a harrowing and politically profound story of a Senegalese soldier fighting for the French in the first World War.
Samuel Beckett’s first play was once most notorious for the audible yawns, walkouts (and fights) during interval. But it is a play of great insight into the condition of waiting.
Top contributors
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A.R. Chisholm Professor of French, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor, American University of Paris (AUP)
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Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London
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Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities, Queen's University Belfast
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Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford
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Visiting Researcher in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Lecturer in French Studies, University of Sheffield
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Lecturer, Department of French, University of Cambridge
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Professor of French, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer in French, University of Surrey
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Professor of Creative Writing, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor in French and Francophone Women’s Writing; Head of Department of French, King's College London
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Reader in Late Victorian Literature, Loughborough University
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Impact Officer, University of Derby
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Assistant Professor of French, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater