44 stories by "John Taylor"
Despite one's aspirations to another kind of reality, for Pierre Reverdy one is forced to return to one's fetters.
It would be a mistake to call the absorbing Eve out of her Ruins a mystery novel.
A perspicacious, multifarious, and compelling fictional field report on how we get hitched or unhitched, coupled or uncoupled.
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…
France: Story of a Childhood is half personal essay, half autobiographical novel.
An absorbing and disturbing novel that explores the dangerous turns that erotomania can take.
Did Marguerite Duras, who had worked in the French résistance during the war, feel guilty about not having been sufficiently concerned about the Shoah?
The author makes fully human an illness marked by absence and estrangement from humanity.
One reads this strangely engaging book, like Volodine's others, with a sort of knitted-brow amusement.
Audin scrutinizes political commitment when it is undertaken by representatives of an intellectual discipline detached from the real world.
An extraordinary book that should be in the hands of every lover of the French capital. And don't we all love Paris?
This invigorating book formulates a caveat: beware of music..
In "Les Diaboliques" readers must expect quite a lot of crime and some misogyny as well.
Whenever there is a choice to be made between meaning and melody, the translator tends to opt for the latter.
In contrast to similar extermination-camp memoirs, But You Did Not Come Back focuses on the affliction of women.
Tram 83 mirrors the most sordid and chaotic features of contemporary African cities, in which non-Africans also remain intimately and often deviously involved.
Antoine Volodine is a master of the prolonged, very prolonged, tongue-in-cheek spoof. But he is also dead serious.
The Bloody Hand stands alongside other autobiographical classics devoted to the First World War.
Garréta pulls off a stylistic feat: it is impossible to determine the gender of the two main characters.
Poet Klaus Merz wields his deceptively simple diction in order to pry open hidden secrets: what we leave unsaid, what we neglect, avoid.
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.
Pascal Garnier's characters slip through cracks, cross borders, pass through the thin mirrors of the self, and commit irreparable acts.
French writer Pascal Quignard strives to peer beyond, or behind, what psychoanalysts typically rationalize as the primal parental realities.
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.
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.
