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81. The Sextine Chapel (French Literature Series) by Hervé Le Tellier | |
Paperback: 104
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(2011-07-19)
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82. The Form of the City Changes Faster, Alas, than the Human Heart (French Literature Series) by Jacques Roubaud | |
Paperback: 247
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(2006-06-01)
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A collection written as an homage and response to the best-known poets of France |
83. Francophone Literatures: An Introductory Survey by Belinda Jack | |
Paperback: 320
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(1997-03-27)
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84. Revolution and Reaction in Nineteenth Century French Literature by Georg Brandes | |
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(1960)
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85. Odile (French Literature) by Raymond Queneau | |
Paperback: 117
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(1999-01)
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A very moving piece of art
Slight Charm
THE STRANGER FOR HAPPY PEOPLE Queneau does a brillant job of showing the absurdity and humor in everything that happens in Odile. From the beginning there's a laugh when Roland states that his fellow soldiers "are really good guys and all capable no doubt of making really good butchers". The bohemians are seen as ineffectual idiots more interested in preaching to their own circle of disciples than improving the common people. They're the same posers you see nowadays in cafes preaching to each other about the sad state of humanity but having no effect upon their fate. Roland sees all this but goes along with the different movements, at least superficially. At one point he visits a seance where the spirit of Lenin is summoned and as he walks out he comments how pathetic the spectacle was. Even Roland is guilty, spending 8-12 hours a day in his apartment working with mathematical problems. He has spent years in the belief that he is a latter day Isacc Newton or an Einstein who will discover the true nature of reality through mathematics and physics. He's also too proud to admit he's in love with Odile. It wouldn't be in keeping with his image if anyone knew he was in love. At the end of the book he has a vision of what he truly is and he snaps out of the childish games of his adulthood. This novel is funny, and I mean that in the humorous sense. The characters are a little weak except for Roland but that's to be expected in an autobiographical work. The beginning and the end of the novel pack more punch than the middle. The crisis of identity is equal to The Stranger in some passages but here we have a happy ending. A realization of meaning. Or IS it a happy ending? Roland decides to live a "normal" life and dismisses any rebellion against society as a childish act of defiance and a losing battle. You have to be assimilated sooner or later.
A great writer's most autobiographical novel. Travy, returned from two years military service in a mostly clerical position, subsists in Paris on an allowance from a gay, ex-colonial uncle, conducting obscure mathematical research, lost in a fug of solipsism, passivity and a lack of self-esteem.He drifts in with a group of petty criminals, where he meets another bourgeois abscondee, Odile, and, with equal passivity, gets involved with the Infrapsychics, an eccentric group of intellectuals who hope to provoke revolution through liberating the unconscious and the irrational. For such a small book, 'Odile' is many things: a damning account of French colonialism in North Africa - the opening scenes depicting the crushing of a local rebellion in Morocco are frightening precisely because of their un-Tolstoyan vagueness; a satire/critique/fond evocation of political and cultural life in 1920s Paris, all the groups, -isms, infighting, experiments, flirting with Communism - in particular the Surrealists, to whom Queneau was briefly affiliated (he married Andre Breton's sister), relentlessly lampooning their arbitrary games and theories, while admitting the creative debt he owes them; a love story, postponed by a hero who 'despises' bourgeois notions like 'love' and 'marriage'; and the bildungsroman of an artist who goes along with whatevercomes his way, be it the army, the Infrapsychics, criminals, Communists etc., always unhappy, but never taking the active step thta might transform his, or reconcile him to, life. Fans of Queneau's more linguistically playful works like 'Zazie' and 'Exercises of Style' might find 'Odile' disappointing.As a love story, the figure of Odile is too idealised and symbolic to be affecting; the satire on Surrealism and its cultural milieu is too laboured and obvious to be laugh-out-loud (although this might be a problem with the flat translation: Queneau needs someone as recklessly inventive as Barbara Wright to survive in English) - there is fun to be had in recognising the fictionalised Breton, Aragon, Eluard etc., and there is an Alice-like court hearing, in which the magistrate starts interrogating Travy about Fermat's last theorem and the 'excluded middle'; the narrative of maturity is blunted by the narrator's rather unsympathetic personality, even if his aesthetics of mathematics is frequently, to this ignoramous, enrapturing, and his struggle to record his memories, imperfectly exploring the landscape of his mind with as many black holes as open spaces, is very poignant. 'Odile' has been called 'gentle', but what is most immediately apparent is the sadness and emptiness behind the logorrheic comedy.Where 'Odile' succeeds is formally and philosophically.It lacks the set-pieces of 'Zazie', but there is the same dizzying, elliptical style, what Gilbert Adair calls Queneau's 'jump cuts', the same telescoping and contracting of narrative time and space, that can be disorienting and liberating. The novel opens with a beautiful paragraph about the narrator's (re?)birth, at 21, walking down a muddy road skirting a North African town, the rain just stopped, the last clouds caught fleeing in a puddle.Straight ahead of him stands an Arab, possibly a nobleman, a philosopher or a poet, staring at something.What that something might be, for the narrator, the reader, the novelist, the book, is what 'Odile' movingly explores. ... Read more |
86. DU COTÉ DE CHEZ SWANN (A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, Tome 1) (French Edition) by Marcel Proust | |
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(2009-06-22)
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87. The French Revolution Debate in English Literature and Culture (Contributions to the Study of World Literature) by Lisa P. Crafton | |
Hardcover: 176
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(1997-11-25)
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88. Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature: From Loti to Genet (Cambridge Studies in French) by Edward J. Hughes | |
Paperback: 224
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(2006-04-20)
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89. Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (University of Exeter Press - Exeter Performance Studies) by Richard J. Hand, Michael Wilson | |
Paperback: 336
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(2002-10-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Since the theatre closed its doors forty years ago, the genre has been overlooked by critics and theatre historians. This book reconsiders the importance and influence of the Grand-Guignol within its social, cultural and historical contexts, and is the first attempt at a major evaluation of the genre as performance. It gives full consideration to practical applications and to the challenges presented to the actor and director. The book also includes oustanding new translations by the authors of ten Grand-Guignol plays, none of which have been previously available in English. The presentation of these plays in English for the first time is an implicit demand for a total reappraisal of the grand-guignol genre, not least for the unexpected inclusion of two very funny comedies. Customer Reviews (2)
Not strong enough.
blood, guts and gore on stage |
90. Dancing with de Beauvoir: Jazz and the French by Colin Nettelbeck | |
Paperback: 240
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(2005-04-01)
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Good book that goes well with Vian's 'Manual of Saint-Germain-des-Pres |
91. Normance (French Literature) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline | |
Paperback: 328
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(2009-05-05)
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An excellent translation!
easily Céline's worst |
92. Historical Dictionary of French Theater (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts) by Edward Forman | |
Hardcover: 336
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(2010-05-16)
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93. For the People by the People? Eugene Sue's Les Mysteres de Paris--A Hypothesis in the Sociology of Literature (Legenda: Research Monographs in French Studies, ... French Studies, 16) (Legenda French Studies) by Christopher Prendergast | |
Paperback: 256
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(2003-10-01)
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94. Larousse Picture Dictionary: English-French/French-English (French Edition) by Natacha Diaz | |
Hardcover: 48
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(2002-09-09)
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Colorful and Fun, but no phonetic spelling. |
95. Classic French Literature in English: 162 stories by Guy de Maupassant in a single file, improved 8/19/2010 by Guy de Maupassant | |
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(2008-10-21)
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96. A Guide To French Literature: Early Modern to Postmodern by Jennifer Birkett, James Kearns | |
Paperback: 372
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(1997-08-15)
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A good reference. For an inquiry, A GUIDE TO FRENCH LITERATURE: FROM EARLY MODERN TO POSTMODERN really came in handy for a quick reference and for awell-done narrative that read almost like a novel.Recently someone hadmentioned the poet Lamartine to me. Coincidentally, this book for personalenjoyment included the needed reference about his work.Later, theexcellent index led back to the relevant text and the end notes (abibliographyby itself!).The easy access to needed information and thehighly readable narrative to pleasant reading yielded an overall excellentbook. The content covered a broad sweep of literary, sociological,political, and intellectual history with emphasis on explicating theliterary.The clearly written, chronological organization from 1515 andonwards joined to build both an enlightening narrative and a referencebook.The French-English translations in the narrative (except for titles)enlivened otherwise word-for-word ones; just the right amount of theseadditions (divergences) supported the text.A balanced amount ofpolitical, sociological, and intellectual background illuminated thewriters' prose, poetry, and drama. These writers' comparative viewpointswith predecessors, contemporaries, and successors provided depth; while theliterary details remained securely afloat to take along this reader. The cover design depicting Pissarro's 'Rue Saint-Honore, Effect of Rain'with its picturesque city-life and its swiftly moving clouds over therooftops, pedestrians, and carriages convinced one to sit with this book ina warm, dry place until the final page. ... Read more |
97. Francophone Women: Between Visibility and Invisibility (Francophone Cultures and Literatures) by Cybelle H. McFadden, Sandrine F. Teixidor | |
Hardcover: 162
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(2009-12-15)
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98. Modern French Literature by Benjamin Willis Wells | |
Paperback: 254
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(2010-10-14)
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99. The Roland Legend in Nineteenth-Century French Literature by Harry, Jr. Redman | |
Hardcover: 247
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(1991-01)
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100. Love, Desire And Transcendence in French Literature: Deciphering Eros by Paul Gifford | |
Hardcover: 345
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(2005-12-30)
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