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On Modern Art by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Art and Design | Series: The\French List Ser.
A collection of insightful essays by the French philosopher on contemporary art. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through th ...Show more
On Poetry by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Poetry | Series: The\French List Ser.
Two long Sartre essays that explore the Négritude poetry movement and the work of French writer Francis Ponge. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant ...Show more
On Revolution by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The\French List Ser.
A two-part essay on the "myth" of revolution and the figure of the artist. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through the de ...Show more
Poetry and Photography by Yves Bonnefoy; Chris Turner (Translator)
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Category: Photography | Series: The\French List Ser.
The international community of letters mourned the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France's greatest poets of the last half century. A prolific author, he was often considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize and published a dozen major collections of poetry in verse and pr ...Show more
Privy Portrait by Jean-Luc Benoziglio; Tess Lewis (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\French List Ser.
The narrator in Jean-Luc Benoziglio's?Privy Portrait?has fallen on hard times. His wife and young daughter have abandoned him, he has no work or prospects, he's blind in one eye, and he must move into a horribly tiny apartment with his only possession: a twenty-five-volume encyclopedia. His neighbors, t ...Show more
Season of the Shadow by Léonora Miano; Gila Walker (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\French List Ser.
Now in paperback, a brutal and dreamlike story about the first victims of the transatlantic slave trade. This powerful novel presents the early days of the transatlantic slave trade from a new perspective: that of the sub-Saharan population that became its first victims. Cameroonian novelist Léonora ...Show more
Signs and Images - Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography by Roland Barthes; Chris Turner (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The\French List Ser.
A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another--he first gained an audie ...Show more
Simply a Particular Contemporary : Interviews, 1970-79 - Interviews, 197079 by Roland Barthes; Chris Turner (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The\French List Ser.
A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another--he first gained an aud ...Show more
Suspended Passion - Interviews by Marguerite Duras; Chris Turner (Translator)
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: The\French List Ser.
A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews--hailed on its French publication as Duras's "secret confession"--offers readers a rich vein of new insight into her work, opinion ...Show more
The Crime of Jean Genet by Dominique Eddé; Andrew Rubens (Translator); Ros Schwartz (Translator)
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\French List Ser.
Now in paperback, The Crime of Jean Genet is a powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on another and one of the most penetrating explorations yet of Genet's work and achievement.Dominique Eddé met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. "His presence, ...Show more
The Fount of Time - The Last Kindom II by Pascal Quignard; Chris Turner (Translator)
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Category: Special Orders | Series: The\French List Ser.
"Last Kingdom is a set of books that . . . is neither philosophical argumentation nor little disparate, scholarly essays, nor novelistic narrative; gradually, for me, all genres have fallen away." So writes Pascal Quignard of his monumental book series, Last Kingdom. In the latest volume, The Fount of T ...Show more
The Legend by Marie Bronsard; Sonia Alland (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\French List Ser.
Now in paperback, Marie Bronsard's strikingly original memoir reweaves the history of her family--and the legend of her grandmother--leaving no stone unturned and no skeleton in the closet.Egocentric and domineering, Bronsard's grandmother was once a vibrant and sensual beauty. In Indochina at the end o ...Show more