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MARTINE REID Colette avant Colette: Trouver saplace, se faire un nom Paris. Gallimard. 2023.192 pages. 176 pages. OPENING WITH THE QUERY "Qui est Colette?", this work examines French author Colette's [...]

Tiphaine Samoyault. La cour des Adieux. Paris. Nadeau. 1999. 164 pages. 90 F. ISBN 2-86231-153-7. AN INTERESTING PROJECT, an original approach, and an often poetical style contrast the stagnant stability [...]

Madeleine Chapsal. La mieux aimee. Paris. Fayard. 1998. 294 pages. 120 F. ISBN 2-213-60209-3. The prolific Madeleine Chapsal's latest work returns to a favorite topic: matters of the heart. The [...]

Francoise Chandernagor. La premiere epouse. Paris. Fallois. 1998. 255 pages. 118 F. ISBN 2-87706-333-X. The end of both a marriage and its accompanying false sense of security is told most [...]

Ici. At ninety-five, Nathalie Sarraute gives us another powerful work which shares her effort to find meaning and form in the indescribable, unformed, and perhaps unformable zone beneath all words. [...]

Dacia Maraini. Love Letters: Unedited Letters by Gabriele D'Annunzio Presented as Theatre. Thomas Simpson, tr. Branko Gorjup, interview. Toronto. Guernica. 2003. 91 pages. Can$12. ISBN 1-55071-178-4 IN THIS RECENT TRANSLATION [...]

Paris. Gallimard. 2000. 131 pages 75 F. ISBN 2-07-075800-1 FOR ANNIE ERNAUX, a journal does not necessitate intimacy, but rather a series of neutral observations on 'exterior' life. The RER, [...]

Paris. Flammarion. 2000. 198 pages 100 F. ISBN 2-08-067816-7 CONSTANT RAIN, shadows, and death form the backdrop of this inventive novel, which re-creates Henri Matisse's friendship with his dear Lydia, [...]

Paris. Seuil. 2001. 198 pages. 4.94 €. ISBN 202-047783-1 BORN IN BUENOS AIRES and now over-thirty-year inhabitant of Paris, the prolific translator and novelist Silvia Baron Supervielle strikingly evokes the [...]