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  • Looking for The Stranger

    Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

    by Alice Kaplan ...
    A New York Times Notable Book. A literary exploration that is "surely destined to become the quintessential companion to Camus's most enduring novel" ( PopMatters).The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as likely ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • French Lessons

    A Memoir

    by Alice Kaplan ...
    "[A] cultural odyssey, a brave attempt to articulate the compulsions that drove [Kaplan] to embrace foreignness in order to become truly herself." — The Washington Post Book WorldBrilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Childhood

    by Nathalie Sarraute ...
    As one of the leading proponents of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute is often remembered for her novels, including The Golden Fruits, which earned her the Prix international de litterature in 1964. But her carefully crafted and evocative memoir Childhood may in fact be Sarraute's most accessible and emotionally open work. Written when the author was eighty-three years old, but dealing with ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dreaming in French

    The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis

    by Alice Kaplan ...
    "Alice Kaplan's triple portrait of three iconic mid-century American women dazzles beyond our evergreen fascination with [their] wildly disparate lives." —Patricia Hampl, New York Times Notable authorA year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision—and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seeing Baya

    Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris

    by Alice Kaplan ...
    The first biography of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, celebrated in mid-twentieth-century Paris, her life shrouded in myth.On a flower farm in colonial Algeria, a servant and field worker known as Baya escaped the drudgery of her labor by coloring the skirts in fashion magazines. Three years later, in November 1947, her paintings and fanciful clay beasts were featured in a solo show in Paris ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • States of Plague

    Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic

    by Alice Kaplan, Laura Marris ...
    "A moving, thoughtful, and scrupulous examination of both [ The Plague ] and its readers, the book's inheritors." — Times Literary SupplementAs one of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert Camus's classic novel The Plague has become a new kind of literary touchstone. Surrounded by terror and uncertainty, often separated from loved ones or unable to travel, readers sought... ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Palace of Books

    by Roger Grenier ...
    Translated by Alice Kaplan ...
    For decades, French writer, editor, and publisher Roger Grenier has been enticing readers with compact, erudite books that draw elegant connections between the art of living and the work of art. Under Grenier's wry gaze, clichés crumble, and offbeat anecdotes build to powerful insights.With Palace of Books, he invites us to explore the domain of literature, its sweeping vistas and hidden recesses. ... Read more

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  • The Interpreter

    by Alice Kaplan ...
    No story of World War II is more triumphant than the liberation of France, made famous in countless photos of Parisians waving American flags and kissing GIs, as columns of troops paraded down the Champs Élysées. Yet liberation is a messy, complex affair, in which cultural understanding can be as elusive as the search for justice by both the liberators and the liberated. Occupying powers import ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Collaborator

    The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach

    by Alice Kaplan ...
    On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinction—a prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He was also a dedicated anti-Semite, an acerbic opponent of French democracy, and editor in chief of the fascist weekly Je Suis Partout, in whose pages he regularly printed wartime denunciations of Jews and resistance ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Travels in the Americas

    Notes and Impressions of a New World

    by Albert Camus ...
    Translated by Ryan Bloom ...
    Series series The France Chicago Collection
    Albert Camus’s lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation.In March 1946, the young Albert Camus crossed from Le Havre to New York. Though he was virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, all that was about to change—The Stranger, his first book translated into English, would soon make him a literary ... Read more

    Was $15.99 USD Now $12.99 USD

  • Paper Gardens

    A Stroll through French Literature

    by Evelyne Bloch-Dano ...
    Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan ...
    From Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Marcel Proust, from Marguerite Duras to George Sand, from Colette to Patrick Modiano, gardens appear in novels as representations of the real world, but also as reflections of the imagination. In Paper Gardens: A Stroll through French Literature, Évelyne Bloch-Dano contemplates the role of the garden in the work of great prose writers, ruminating on how the garden can ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Blood Dark

    by Louis Guilloux ...
    Translated by Laura Marris ...
    Set during World War I, this monumental philosophical novel about human despair inspired Albert Camus' own writing and prefigured the greater existential movement.Blood Dark tells the story of a brilliant philosopher trapped in a provincial town and of his spiraling descent into self-destruction. Cripure, as his students call him—the name a mocking contraction of Critique of Pure Reason—despises ... Read more

    $14.99 USD