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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 [...]

Abdellatif Laabi. Rimbaud et Sheherazade. Paris. La Difference. 2000. 296 pages. 145 F. ISBN 2-7291-1288-X. PROVOCATIVE, INNOVATIVE, AND, paradoxically, derivative, Rimbaud et Sheherazade makes for both a good read and [...]

A Map of Hope: Women's Writing on Human Rights -- An International Literary Anthology. Marjorie Agosin, ed. Mary Robinson, foreword. New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press. 1999. xxix + 369 [...]

Claude Pujade-Renaud. Platon etait malade. Arles, France. Actes Sud. 1999. 312 pages. 229 F. ISBN 2-7427-2344.7. Claude Pujade-Renaud's latest novel is brilliant, profound, and original. It focuses on a writer [...]

Christian Oster. Mon grand appartement. Paris. Minuit. 1999. 254 pages. 95 F. ISBN 2-7073-1682-2. Having authored such remarkable novels as Le Pique-Nique and Lion d'Odile (1997, 1998; see respectively WLT [...]

Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche (Jamyang Dorje). Le chant d'illusion et autres poemes. Stephane Arguillere, tr. Paris. Gallimard. 2000. 258 pages. 220 F. ISBN 2-07-075503-7. Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche (1932-99) was one of [...]

Liu Xinglong. La deesse de la modernite. Francoise Naour, tr. Paris. Bleu de Chine. 1999. 74 pages. 119 F. ISBN 2-910884-23-6. Liu Xinglong (b. 1956 in Hangchow [Hubei]) completed his [...]

Chi Li. Trouee dans les nuages. Isabelle Rabut, Shao Baoqing, trs. Arles, France. Actes Sud. 1999. 116 pages. 69 F. ISBN 2-7427-2491-5. A practicing physician for many years, Chi Li [...]

Richard Dembo. Le Jardin vu du ciel. Lagrasse, France. Verdier. 2005. 121 pages. 12 €. ISBN 2-86432-436-9 RICHARD DEMBO, the director of such films as The Diagonal of a Mad [...]

Ook Chung, L'Experience interdite. Paris. Le Serpent a Plumes. 2003. 178 pages. 15.50 €. ISBN 2-84261-440-2 THE WELL-TRAVELED OOK CHUNG, of Korean origin, was born in Japan in 1963. He [...]

Colette Cosnier. Hugo et le Mont-Blanc. Chamonix, France. Guerin. 2002. 193 pages. 11 €. ISBN 2-911755-57-X VICTOR HUGO'S delightful manuscript 'Fragments du voyage aux Alpes'--segments of which had been printed [...]

Claude Pujade-Renaud. Le Jardin forteresse. Arles. Actes Sud. 2002. 275 pages. 19 €. ISBN 2-7427-4109-7 LE JARDIN FORTERESSE is a marvel--a gem. It melds the writing of an artist, the [...]

Paris. Seuil. 2002. 107 pages. 11.50 €. ISBN 2-02054003-7 YING CHEN WAS BORN IN CHINA, emigrated to Canada, and lives in Quebec. She is the author of L'Ingratitude (1996; see [...]

Paris. Pauvert. 2002. 141 pages. 14 €. ISBN 2720-21-464-7 ANDREE CHEDID'S LATEST WORK, Petite terre vaste reve, bursts onto a verbal canvas replete with the cumulative wisdom, vigor, and passion [...]

Paris. La Table Ronde. 2001 270 pages + 8 plates. 120 F ISBN 2-7103-2389-3 FASCINATING, INFORMATIVE, and dramatic, Jean-Paul Kauffmann's novel La lutte avec l'ange focuses on the mysterious meanings [...]

La Tour d'Aigues, France. L'Aube. 2001 503 pages. 158 F. ISBN 2-87678-631-1 A TRULY REMARKABLE work by an author whose poetic sensibilities encouraged her to interweave the artistic and philosophical [...]

Lagrasse, France. Verdier. 2001.74 pages. 10.30 €. ISBN 2-86432-348-6 THE AUTHOR OF NOVELS (Calvaire des chiens, 1990), of narratives (Mecanique, 2001), and of plays (Bruit, 2000), Francois Bon's drama Quatre [...]

Paris. L'Harmattan. 2001 190 pages. ISBN 2-7475-1593-1 --. Ou tes traces Paris. L'Harmattan. 2001 190 pages. ISBN 2-7475-1594-X MONUMENTAL, MEMORABLE, and excoriatingly painful are adjectives apt to describe Daniel Cohen's [...]

Paris. L'Olivier (Seuil, distr.). 2001 124 pages. 90 F. ISBN 2-87929-282-4 REMINISCENT OF THE physically and psychologically distorted images of little girls and their parents in the paintings of Balthus, [...]

Pierre Bayard Comment ameliorer les oeuvres ratees? Paris. Minuit. 2000. 173 pages. 98 F ISBN 2-7073-1725-X GROUND-BREAKING, THOUGHTFUL, provocative, and fascinating, Pierre Bayard's latest critical venture -- others being Le [...]

Daniel Cohen D'humaines conciliations Paris. L'Harmattan. 2000. 320 pages 150 F. ISBN 2-7384-8929-X DANIEL COHEN'S GIANT and ever-glimmering tapestried novel of prewar, postwar, and World War II Europe is based [...]

Su Jung In. Talgung Maryse Bourdin et al., trs. Paris Seuil. 2001. 325 pages. 140 F ISBN 2-02-033977-3 SU JUNG IN, born in South Korea in 2936, received his diploma [...]

Francois Cheng. The River Below Julia Shirek Smith, tr. New York Welcome Rain. 2000. xii + 288 pages $24.95. ISBN 1-56649-100-2 THE RIVER BELOW IS STIRRING for its insights into [...]

Marie Depusse Qu'est-ce qu'on garde? Paris. POL. 2000. 166 pages. 90 F ISBN 2-86744-756-4 MARIE DEPUSSIE'S REMARKABLE work on the poetics of teaching and its effectiveness yields first place to [...]

Jean Fremon La Vraie Nature des ombres Paris. POL. 2000. 301 pages 130 F. ISBN 2-86744-733-X THE TITLE ITSELF, La Vraie Nature des ombres, discloses the intangible, abstract, sublimated, free-flowing [...]

Francoise Asso. Rien n'est perdu Seyssel, France. Champ Vallon 2000. 110 pages. 75 F ISBN 2-87673-304-8 A SELF-REFLECTIVE POET, Francoise Asso is a scientist of the word as well. As [...]

Hong Ying. Une fille de la faim Nathalie Louisgrand, tr. Paris. Seuil. 2000 399 pages. 139 F. ISBN 2-02-033598-0 HOW MUCH MORE meaningful is a novel when the reader has [...]

Francoise Kourilsky, ed. Andrei Codrescu, pref. New York. Ubu Repertory Theater (Theater Communications Group, distr.). 1997. xii + 442 pages. $19.95. ISBN 0-913745-48-0. The plays of such exiled dramatists as [...]

Like the watercolor by the contemporary Chinese painter Qi Baishi featured on the cover of Yang Jiang's Memoires decousus, her finely tuned collection of colorful vignettes is also a composite [...]

Although Hong Ying's father was a boatman on the Yangtze River and her mother a factory worker, she opted for a different kind of life. After completing her studies at [...]

Au-dela des illusions, the fourth of Duong Thu Huong's novels to be translated from Vietnamese into French, takes place in a socialist Vietnam after the reunification of the northern and [...]

Known most particularly for her critical works and for her association with the literary group Tel Quel, Julia Kristeva has also branched out into the world of fiction. Although her [...]

Splendid's, Jean Genet's two-act play, was written in 1948, Albert Dichy informs us in his introduction. Five years later, Bernard Frechtman, Genet's literary agent, not only sent a typescript copy [...]

The three short stories that make up Le porteur de jeunes mariees combine the glistening simplicity of Han, T'ang, and Sting dynasty poetics, as manifested in the vetoes of Pan [...]

While Catherine Pozzi's Journal spanning the years 1913-34 was published eight years ago, we are only now made privy to her earlier diary, which takes us from the age of [...]

Readers interested in pornography, in the lives of gigolos, male and female prostitutes, heterosexuals, homosexuals, and transvestites, each plying his or her trade in the neighborhoods devoted to this kind [...]

Zhang Xinxin's three-character novel Le partage des roles spans an eight-day period, from Sunday to Sunday. Her protagonists consist of a narrator who is also a writer; a young divorcee [...]