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Gentlemen Callers

by Corinne Hoex

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 Every night when she goes to sleep, a woman dreams of erotic encounters with different men. She dreams of being the sponge squeezed to foaming in a gas station attendant''s hand, and of twining her bare skin with a sea lion''s thick pelt under the watchful eye of the sea lion trainer. From a gas station attendant to a sea lion trainer, a watchmaker to a teacher, a furrier to an astrologer, each evening''s new encounter is more sensual and extravagant than the last.
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Sally Mara'S Intimate Diary

by Raymond Queneau

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 <i>Sally Mara’s Intimate Diary</i>, dating from 1950, is exceptional; a salacious, black humorous and meaningful story by the influential and erudite French novelist, Raymond Queneau. When ‘Sally Mara’ begins her diary in January 1934, she is 17 years old and lives with her mother, older brother and younger sister in south central Dublin. The everyday language is, of course, English, but she is writing in ‘newly-learned’ French to impress her beloved and just departed French tutor, a professional polyglot linguist. To impress him even more, she decides to learn Irish in order to write a novel of some kind in Irish. However, the action throughout is determined by Sally’s resolution to overcome her ignorance of the mysteries of sex and reproduction. <p>The often sensual and dark humour of Sally Mara’s <i>Journal intime</i> is founded on language and languages, so this translation, while prioritizing clarity, aims to maintain ‘Frenchness’, tinged of course with Dublinese. Surprisingly, for a French author, Irish words and phrases occur throughout; these are not translated but, like some challenging French phrases, are supported by footnotes. In 1949, when Raymond Queneau wrote<i> Journal intime</i>, published anonymously under the pseudonym Sally Mara, he was, as always, greatly influenced by James Joyce and fascinated by the limitations of language. He was also in need of the ready money provided by Éditions du Scorpion, publishers of erotic and violent pulp fiction, and of <i>Journal intime</i>.</p>
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Firsts - A History Of French Superheroes

by Xabi Molia

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 <p><b>The ugly side of superheroes</b><br></p><p><br></p><p>What if you suddenly had superpowers? What would you do? How would your friends and family react? What would your obligations to society be?</p><p><br></p><p>The superheroes’ first missions— combating terrorists or rescuing disaster victims— are a boon to France. Yet while these actions bring the country pride, unity quickly starts to unravel. These superheroes, ultimately, are human. Paparazzi are everywhere. One has an affair with another’s wife. Another questions following the government’s imperialist agenda. Meanwhile the public carps on social media. Molia takes our fascination with superheroes and adds a cutting portrayal of contemporary social mores to create an entertaining and disturbing work with deep dystopian underpinnings.</p>
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Gentlemen Callers

by Corinne Hoex

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 "I would consider it scandalous if Hoexâ€™s fiction is still unknown in the world literature canon ten years down the road." --Lee Yew Leong, Asymptote Journal
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Public Reading Followed By Discussion

by Danielle Mémoire

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 <p><b>Who’s really telling this story? That’s the mystery at the heart of Danielle Mémoire’s novel, which opens with a writer on stage at a public reading—a public reading that isn’t one, because she never reads a word, much to the audience’s annoyance. When an audience member finally heckles her, the writer’s response sets off a chain reaction of nested stories that tumble one after another like a row of dominoes.</b></p><p>Each storyteller in the series (most are writers at public readings) builds on what’s come before while often radically changing its meaning. Along the way, we encounter fatal stepladders, a painter obsessed with a transom window, a lovestruck dog-walker, and a lost cat restored to its owners through divine intervention. Playful, thought-provoking, and utterly unique, <i>Public Reading Followed by Discussion</i> defies classification and invites every reader to join the game.</p>
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Narcisse On A Tightrope

by Olivier Targowla

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 <b>For seventeen years, Narcisse Dièze, chronic sufferer of a mysterious condition called"cerebral rheumatism"; has lived in the protective confines of a psychiatric hospital.</b> Therehe has been attended by a contingent of nurses, for whom he has obligingly fathered somewherebetween thirty-five and one hundred seventy-one children. (No one knows the exact number.)But the doctors abruptly decide that he is cured and prod him to reenter the outside world.Narcisse is floored, yet he gradually summons the will to try. What follows is an account of thisnaïve and timid patient’s adventures in the realm of the so-called sane. An endearing misfit in thetradition of Walter Mitty and Forrest Gump, Narcisse is destined to totter precariously on thehighwire of his existence. Will we see him fall?<br>A quirky fable that pokes holes in the accepted mental health verities and pleads for a touch ofmadness. With an introduction by Warren Motte.
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Disappearance Of Jim Sullivan

by Tanguy Viel

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 <b>"Tanguy Viel''s parody/pastiche of the American novel is subtle and experimental; it tells a story at the same time as it implicitly poses questions about the narrative structure it is deploying." —<i>The French Review</i></b><br><br><i>In The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan</i>, disappearance is both a theme and a stylistic device. Indeed, this publication narrates the disappearance of Dwayne Koster, who, fascinated by the story of Jim Sullivan, commits suicide in the New Mexico desert which was the setting of the rocker’s disappearance in 1975. But this novel is for the most part set in the metanarrative tale of its own genesis, and, as a result, is partially eclipsed: its -fictitious- author doesn’t relate it in its entirety and keeps adding bits and pieces of first drafts and preliminary sketches to his text, thus blurring its boundaries. Tanguy Viel’s work can therefore be perceived as a double response, existential and aesthetic, to the question of the end.
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Castle To Castle

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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 With an undercurrent of sensual excitement, C line paints an almost unbearably vivid picture of society and the human condition.
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Villa Bunker

by Sebastien Brebel

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 <div>The narrator of <I>Villa Bunker</I> receives letters, dozens of them, written by his mother in an isolated seaside villa, which tell of his parents'' troubles in this uninhabitable house, which is soon to become a kind of labyrinth roamed by memories and long-buried feelings. At first the narrator''s parents fret most about the villa''s physical deterioration, but soon their own psychological deterioration becomes the inescapable focus of their stories. Is their joint madness due to the villa''s aberrant architecture? Or is the isolation of the villa to blame? Or were they mad all along? The narrator is left to decipher the clues, himself in turn becoming prey to his <I>own</I> house, which like memory and time, seems in a state of permanent metamorphosis.</div>
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Summer Of The Elder Tree

by Marie Chaix

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 <div>A memoir and meditation on the themes of separation and silence,<I> The Summer of the Elder Tree</I> was Marie Chaix''s first book to appear in fourteen years, and deals with the reasons for her withdrawal from writing and the events in her life since the death of her mother (as detailed in <I>Silences, or a Woman''s Life</I>). With uncompromising sincerity, and in the same beautiful prose for which she is renowned, Marie Chaix here takes stock of her life as a woman and writer, as well as the crises that caused her to give up her work.<I> The Summer of the Elder Tree</I> has its roots in Chaix''s previous books while standing alone as a work of immense power: a new beginning.</div>
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Origin Unknown

by Oliver Rohe

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 A word-crazed monologue in the mind of a man flying to his war-torn native country for the first time in years, Without Origin explores the ways a family, homeland, friendship, or even a favorite author, can come to overwhelm one's individuality.
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Sisters

by Brigitte Lozerec'H

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 <div>Mathilde Lewly—a female painter at the dawn of the twentieth century—has achieved notoriety among the Parisian avant-garde. She and her husband, also a talented young artist, pursue their separate visions side by side in a Clichy atelier, galvanized by the artistic ferment that surrounds them. But the couple are threatened by the shadow of Mathilde''s little sister, Eugénie: since the two girls'' sudden departure from their native England, Eugénie has been determined to vault the eight years separating her from Mathilde. Now, devoured by envy and haunted by a past she never actually experienced, the "little one" hurls herself into the artistic and personal life of her elder sister. It is the birth of a fierce rivalry, an emotional tug-of-war, played out against the bohemian riot of the last century''s wildest years. But will the First World War''s sudden and brutal eruption allow Mathilde to escape this intimate conflict and achieve her destiny?</div>
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Silences, Or A Woman'S Life

by Marie Chaix

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 When a woman falls into a coma, her daughter accompanies her through six weeks of agony, bearing witness to the prolonged death imposed upon her by the monstrous machine of modern medicine. During this final voyage through the fog, the narrator attempts to reconstruct the portrait of a woman who she deeply loved.
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Project For A Revolution In New York

by Alain Robbe-Grillet

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 <div>Part prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity features New York itself—or a foreigner''s nightmare of New York—as its true protagonist. Set in the towers and tunnels of the quintessential American city, Alain Robbe-Grillet''s novel turns this urban space into a maze where politics bleeds into perversion, revolution into sadism, activist into criminal, vice into art—and back again. Following the logic of a movie half-glimpsed through a haze of drugs and alcohol, <I>Project for a Revolution in New York</I> is a Sadean reverie that bears an alarming resemblance to the New York, and the United States, that have actually come into being.</div>
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Truth About Marie

by Jean-Philippe Toussaint

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 <div>Moving through a variety of locales and adventures, <I>The Truth about Marie</I> revisits the unnamed narrator of Toussaint''s acclaimed Running Away, reporting on his now disintegrated relationship with the titular Marie—the story switching deftly between first- and third-person as the narrator continues to drift through life, and Marie does her best to get on with hers. Like all of Toussaint''s novels, <I>The Truth about Marie</I>''s plot matters far less than its pace and tempo, its chain of images, its sequence of events. From pouring rain in Paris to blazing fires on the island of Elba, from moments of intense action to perfectly paced lulls, <I>The Truth about Marie</I> relies on a series of contrasts to tell a beguiling, and finally touching, story of intimacy forever being regained and lost.</div>
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Impressions Of Africa

by Raymond Roussel

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 The long-awaited new translation of the most dazzling and unclassifiable work of fiction in any language.
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Thousand Pearls (For A Thousand Pennies)

by Herva(C) Le Tellier

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 <div>The answers are spontaneous, revealing, ominous, insignificant, grotesque, amusing, lecherous, tragic and trivial by turns, and lovable in their cheerful imperfection. This is a book about the basics: love, sexuality, death, and all the other things that lurk in our everyday thoughts.</div>
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Sextine Chapel

by Hervé Le Tellier

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 <div>The delightful and daring English-language debut of French author Hervé le Tellier is a series of short, intimately interconnected stories making up a lively user''s manual to pleasure, relating the various liaisons of couples from Anna and Ben to Yolande and Zach (taking in Chloe and Xavier along the way, as well as twenty others, as you may have guessed), until the criss-crossing of their lives and partners makes up a pattern as intricate as the fresco on the ceiling of a chapel . . .<BR><br> Harkening back to another playful book on an intimate subject—Harry Mathews''s <I>Singular Pleasures</I>—Hervé le Tellier''s <I>The Sextine Chapel</I> celebrates the wonderful, often random, often excruciating possibilities of sexual intimacy, with something here for just about everyone—and their wife, husband, lover, or passing fancy.</div>
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Making A Novel

by Gérard Gavarry

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 <div>Moving back and forth between detailed explanation and personal anecdotes, Gérard Gavarry's <I>Making a Novel</I> is partly a memoir of a writer's life and partly a memoir of his work, showing us how every story, no matter how well-planned, could always have been written countless other ways.</div>
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Upstaged

by Jacques Jouet

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 <div>Two minutes into the second act, there is a knock on Nicolas Boehlmer''s dressing-room door, just as he''s smoking his last cigarette before having to go back on stage . . . and, without thinking, he says, "Come in," still in character. He quickly finds himself bound, gagged, and stripped by a man who appears to be his mirror image: costumed in the same wig, make-up, and clothes. Nicolas is powerless to prevent his usurper from going out and playing his role—with increasingly ridiculous consequences. Is this "upstaging" the act of a depraved amateur? Sabotage by a rival? A piece of guerrilla theater? A political statement? Whatever the cause, Nicolas and his fellow actors soon find their play—and their lives—making less and less sense, as the parts they play come under assault by this irrational intruder.</div>
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Suicide

by Edouard Leva(C)

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 <p><span><b><i>Suicide</i> cannot be read as simply another novel—it is, in a sense, the author’s own oblique, public suicide note, a unique meditation on this most extreme of refusals.</b></span></p><p>Presenting itself as an investigation into the suicide of a close friend—perhaps real, perhaps fictional—more than twenty years earlier, Levé gives us, little by little, a striking portrait of a man, with all his talents and flaws, who chose to reject his life, and all the people who loved him, in favor of oblivion. Gradually, through Levé’s casually obsessive, pointillist, beautiful ruminations, we come to know a stoic, sensible, thoughtful man who bears more than a slight psychological resemblance to Levé himself. But <i>Suicide</i> is more than just a compendium of memories of an old friend; it is a near-exhaustive catalog of the ramifications and effects of the act of suicide, and a unique and melancholy farewell to life.</p>
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Explosion Of The Radiator Hose - A Novel

by Jean Rolin

18,48€ + 10% CARD

 Originally published in French as: L'Explosion de la durite.
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The Disappearance Of Jim Sullivan

by Tanguy Viel

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Narcisse On A Tightrope

by Olivier Targowla

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