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Christiane Duchesne. L'homme des silences. Montreal. Boreal. 1999. 124 pages. Can$17.95. ISBN 2-89052-990-8. Most modern novels start with a peaceful situation, when suddenly disaster strikes. Christiane Duchesne reverses this process. [...]

A monk illuminates the margins of an incunabulum of the twelfth century with superb artistry. He adds to the sacred texts a story of love and death, dear to the [...]

The Melanesian small islands, discovered by Cook in 1774 and annexed to France under the name of New Caledonia in 1853, played the same role for the French as Australia [...]

Imagine a dancer asked to perform while tied to a tree by both visible and invisible chains. That's exactly how Norman Manea feels as he is writing his novel The [...]

At daybreak, Cybil Noland, the middle-aged ecrivaine, heroine, and narrator of Baroque d'aube, brings to orgasm an unknown woman, picked up in the hotel's elevator. She learned in her youth [...]

In her first novel, Le Grand Cahier (1986), Agota Kristof examined Hungarian totalitarian systems which corroded the soul and nurtured the worst instincts. In Hier, her fifth novel, she explores [...]

If you associate the title L'amour au jardin with Emma Bovary, sneaking into the garden at night from the bed of her snoring husband, to throw herself into the fiery [...]

Bertrand du Chambon. Flavie ou l'echappee belle. Paris. Albin Michel. 2004. 400 pages. 21.50 €. ISBN 226-15099-4 WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO SAY when facing a fine river? 'Oh, it's [...]

Paris. Gallimard. 2002. 244 pages. 16 €. ISSN 207-076584-9 VERY FEW BOOKS whisper into your ears: don't put me down! You may learn something important from me. This is the [...]

Paris. Gallimard. 2001. 95 pages. 11.89 € ISBN 2-07-076171-1 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL work Le premier mot reads like an introduction to the author's earlier novels in which he treats his favorite [...]

Jacques Reda. Le lit de la reine Lagrasse, France. Verdier. 2001. 87 pages 59 F. ISBN 2-86432-332-X JACQUES REDA RELATES his personal experience traveling first in France, then in England, [...]