Skeletons in the Closet, originally published in 1976 and newly translated by Alyson Waters, is up there with his brutal best. Read more
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Tag: French Authors
The Essential Colette
The author, considered by some to be the greatest French writer of her time, played with words and convention. Here’s where to start with her work. Read more
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Where to Start with Marcel Proust
A new translation commemorating a century since the monumental masterpiece was first published in English–and since Proust died–Swann in Love is a sublimely witty and poignant story of the illusions of love and desire. Full of the rich social satire and penetrating insight that distinguish Proust’s style, it is the perfect introduction to one of the world’s great novelists. Read more
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Unorthodox French Memoirist Annie Ernaux Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
French author Annie Ernaux, who mined her own biography to explore life in France since the 1940s, was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for work that illuminates murky corners of memory, family and society. Read more
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Newly Unearthed Work by a Revered and Reviled Novelist Causes a Stir in France
A legal battle is raging over manuscripts written by the antisemitic writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline that disappeared almost eight decades ago. Read more
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