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The myth of Transparency (Latin, trans, 'beyond,' + parere, 'to appear' or 'show through') lies at the heart of J. M. G. Le Clezio's 1980 novel Desert. The hallucinatory images [...]

Modern Women Playwrights of Europe. Alan P. Barr, ed. New York. Oxford University Press. 2001. xiii + 592 pages, ill. $34. ISBN 0-19-513536-9. ALAN BARR'S Modern Women Playwrights of Europe, [...]

Andree Chedid. Le message. Paris. Flammarion. 2000. 207 pages. 90 F. ISBN 2-08-068046-3. A CEREMONIAL OF IMAGES -- harsh, brutal loving, and infinitely tender -- leaps forth from the pages [...]

Dominique Noguez, Le grantecrivain & autres textes. Paris. Gallimard. 2000. 116 pages. 98 F. ISBN 2-07-075780-3. DOMINIQUE NOGUEZ'S BRILLIANT, sardonic, moving, and Ubuesquely humorous volume presents nine essays probing the [...]

Valere Novarina. L'origine rouge. Paris. POL. 2000. 204 pages, 100 F. ISBN 2-86744789-5. A PAINTER, ESSAYIST, and director, Valere Novarina is also the author of several stage pieces, including Entree [...]

Liliane Atlan. Petites bibles pour mauvais temps. Paris. L'Harmattan. 2001. 317 pages. ISBN 2-7475-0268-6. POWERFUL, PROFOUND, and visceral, Liliane Atlan's latest and perhaps most poignant work yet took thirty years [...]

Han Shaogong. Bruits dans la montagne et autres nouvelles. Annie Curien, tr. Paris. Gallimard. 2000. 150 pages. 83 F. ISBN 2-07-074743-3. THAT HAN SHAOGONG WAS BORN in 1953 and lived [...]

Yu Hua. Un amour classique. Jacqueline Guyvallet, tr. Paris. Actes Sud. 2000. 260 pages. 129 F. ISBN 2-7427-2610-1. BORN IN 1960 IN HANGZHOU, Yu Hua first demonstrated his writing talents [...]