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French Literature

Mad Love [Buy Direct]

by André Breton
Translated by Mary Ann Caws
Original title: L’AMOUR FOU

by Georges Rodenbach
Translated by Terry Hale
Original title: Bruges la Morte

Georges Rodenbach’s novella Bruges-la-Morte was originally published in 1892. The translation by Thomas Duncan dates from 1903 but was usefully revised by Terry Hale in 1993. The novella is a minor masterpiece of the Belgian Symbolist movement. (more...)

The Book of Margins [Buy Direct]

by Edmond Jabès
Translated by Rosemary Waldrop

Simple Passion [Buy Direct]

by Annie Ernaux

Liberty or Love! [Buy Direct]

by Robert Desnos
Translated by Stanley Chapman

This novella was written during the hottest epoch of the Surrealist movement, around 1924 when for Europeans the end of World War I had seemed like the end of so many other things, of empires, faiths and philosophies. (more...)

Childish Things [Buy Direct]

by Valéry Larbaud
Translated by Catherine Wald

Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology [Buy Direct]

by Henri Michaux
Translated by David (also the editor) Ball

Hell [Buy Direct]

by Henri Barbusse
Translated by Robert Baldick
Original title: L’ENFER

The Woman Destroyed [Buy Direct]

by Simone De Beauvoir
Translated by P. O’Brian
Original title: LA FEMME ROMPUE

Death on the Installment Plan [Buy Direct]

by Louis Ferdinand Céline
Translated by J. Marks
Original title: Mort à Credit

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