Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Despite one's aspirations to another kind of reality, for Pierre Reverdy one is forced to return to one's fetters.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 26, 2017
It would be a mistake to call the absorbing Eve out of her Ruins a mystery novel.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2016
A perspicacious, multifarious, and compelling fictional field report on how we get hitched or unhitched, coupled or uncoupled.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Scholastique Mukasonga's autobiography, Cockroaches, examines the three decades leading up to the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda. Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga. Translated from the French b…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2016
France: Story of a Childhood is half personal essay, half autobiographical novel.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 7, 2016
An absorbing and disturbing novel that explores the dangerous turns that erotomania can take.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:50AM[SHARE]Monday, June 13, 2016
Did Marguerite Duras, who had worked in the French résistance during the war, feel guilty about not having been sufficiently concerned about the Shoah?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2016
The author makes fully human an illness marked by absence and estrangement from humanity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2016
One reads this strangely engaging book, like Volodine's others, with a sort of knitted-brow amusement.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2016
Audin scrutinizes political commitment when it is undertaken by representatives of an intellectual discipline detached from the real world.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:02AM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2016
An extraordinary book that should be in the hands of every lover of the French capital. And don't we all love Paris?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:14PM[SHARE]Friday, March 25, 2016
This invigorating book formulates a caveat: beware of music..
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 31, 2016
In "Les Diaboliques" readers must expect quite a lot of crime and some misogyny as well.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Whenever there is a choice to be made between meaning and melody, the translator tends to opt for the latter.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 23, 2015
In contrast to similar extermination-camp memoirs, But You Did Not Come Back focuses on the affliction of women.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AM[SHARE]Friday, October 2, 2015
Tram 83 mirrors the most sordid and chaotic features of contemporary African cities, in which non-Africans also remain intimately and often deviously involved.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Antoine Volodine is a master of the prolonged, very prolonged, tongue-in-cheek spoof. But he is also dead serious.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:46AM[SHARE]Friday, August 28, 2015
The Bloody Hand stands alongside other autobiographical classics devoted to the First World War.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Garréta pulls off a stylistic feat: it is impossible to determine the gender of the two main characters.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Poet Klaus Merz wields his deceptively simple diction in order to pry open hidden secrets: what we leave unsaid, what we neglect, avoid.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:27AM[SHARE]Monday, June 8, 2015
This study is an attempt to "enter" a foreign way of thought and to study the "possibilities" and, by extension, "potential mindsets" of the human mind.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Pascal Garnier's characters slip through cracks, cross borders, pass through the thin mirrors of the self, and commit irreparable acts.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:28AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 21, 2015
French writer Pascal Quignard strives to peer beyond, or behind, what psychoanalysts typically rationalize as the primal parental realities.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Like James Baldwin, Alain Mabanckou is striving to see beyond comforting or righteous notions and grasp a world full of movement, migration, diversity, and unexpected mixtures.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:03AM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2015
Looking deeply into things and, by no means least of all, into other human beings implies meditating on brevity, on ephemerality"and this is what Tone Å krjanec does in this book.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:24PM[SHARE]Friday, February 27, 2015
Sometimes called the "Turkish Balzac" and, more often, the "Turkish Chekhov," Sait Faik actually had a literary vision all his own.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:22PM[SHARE]Friday, January 30, 2015
Tsvetanka Elenkova is one of the key figures in contemporary Bulgarian poetry.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:52AM[SHARE]Monday, January 26, 2015
Very little happens in Dominique Fabre's books, yet one keeps on reading. because he so genuinely depicts the ordinary lives that most of us lead.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 8, 2015
Valuable new translations of Aimé Césaire imply that we have overemphasized the political dimension of his poetry and overlooked other, purely literary, qualities.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:34AM[SHARE]Monday, December 29, 2014
The success of this short novel set in Japan lies in the empathy it creates for a pair of ordinary and lonely characters.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 30, 2014
Philippe Rahmy is afflicted with brittle-bone disease: in his superb writing, he takes off from his incurable inherited condition and ventures out courageously.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:08PM[SHARE] 
