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FRANCE WEEK: L'Etranger/ The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus 12 comments

marygm wrote 1 month ago: I nervously decided to review The Stranger for our French week - nervously because I’m not sure wh … more →

Tags: Fiction & Literary, Entries by Mary, French Literature, existentialism, absurdism, meaning in life, Nobel Prize for Literature

FRANCE WEEK: Marguerite Duras: La pluie d'été / Summer Rain6 comments

Leena wrote 1 month ago: Duras’ Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein was one of the first books I ever blogged about, and not … more →

Tags: Entries by Leena, Fiction & Literary, French Literature, marguerite duras

Guest Article: Jane Aitken on Marketing French Translation in the UK23 comments

Guest wrote 1 month ago: The first of our two guest pieces this week is from Jane Aitken, Managing Director of Gallic Books. … more →

Tags: Publisher Features, Special Features, France, French fiction, Gallic Books, translation

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink8 comments

Jackie wrote 2 months ago: Anyone picking up Bernhard Schlink’s novel, as I did, planning on being titillated by the older … more →

Tags: Entries by Jackie, Fiction: Historical, WW2, Relationships, Germany, Lawyers, secrets

Red Love, by Alexandra Kollontai9 comments

kirstyjane wrote 2 months ago: There are so many myths and half-truths surrounding the name of Alexandra Kollontai that, rather tha … more →

Tags: Fiction & Literary, Fiction: women's, Entries by Kirsty, Feminism, Bolshevism, kollontai, RED [love], vasilisa malygina

The Kreutzer Sonata by Count Lev Tolstoy26 comments

kirstyjane wrote 4 months ago: Thus we passed two years more. The method prescribed by the rascals [doctors] had evidently succeede … more →

Tags: Fiction Short Stories, Fiction: 19th century, Entries by Kirsty, Tolstoy, sex, Kreutzer Sonata, russian literature

Mother by Maksim Gorky19 comments

kirstyjane wrote 5 months ago: Part of Mother’s Day Week on Vulpes: a week of items on the themes of mothers and motherhood The … more →

Tags: Entries by Kirsty, , Gorky, Mother, Russia, Socialism

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry9 comments

Jackie wrote 6 months ago: Rohinton Mistry’s novel of India is at once sweeping and quite intimate. In the tradition of J … more →

Tags: Entries by Jackie, Family, India, poverty, Working Class

Secret by Philippe Grimbert9 comments

Eve wrote 7 months ago: I am delighted to be reviewing this glorious book from the Portobello imprint. Secret by Philippe Gr … more →

Tags: Non-fiction: memoir, Fiction: Historical, Eve's reviews, secret, Philippe Grimbert, Family, Paris

The Theory of Clouds by Stéphane Audeguy9 comments

Jackie wrote 8 months ago: There is something about clouds that is magical and inspiring, that is one of the premises of this … more →

Tags: Entries by Jackie, clouds, scientific theories, Weather

Elina Hirvonen: When I Forgot5 comments

Leena wrote 9 months ago: I have now made several attempts at describing When I Forgot, the debut novel by young Finnish autho … more →

Tags: Fiction & Literary, Entries by Leena, Finnish literature, Elina Hirvonen, mental illness, Siblings, Vietnam, iraq, trauma

The Sorrow of Belgium, by Hugo Claus10 comments

Trilby wrote 9 months ago: I decided to read The Sorrow of Belgium as research for my current work in progress, a novel narrat … more →

Tags: Entries by Trilby, Fiction General, Fiction: Historical, Belgium, Fiction, Hugo Claus, Novel, Trilby’s reviews

Tove Jansson: The Summer Book6 comments

Leena wrote 10 months ago: It may make me a Bad Finn, but I’ve never properly read the Moomin books. As a child I was uni … more →

Tags: Entries by Leena, Tove Jansson, Finnish literature


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