“A void. A gaping void. A void which swallows up all, which annihilates all, which voids all.” Chapter 1: The Vanishing The novel opens with the sudden disappearance […]
French literature
Things: A Story of the Sixties
“They had wanted happiness, and they had wanted things.” Chapter 1: The Illusion of Desire The novel opens with Jérôme and Sylvie, a young Parisian couple in their […]
French literature
W, or the Memory of Childhood
“I remember that my mother had beautiful hands. But I don’t remember my mother.” Part I: The Alternating Narratives The book alternates between two distinct narratives: one autobiographical, […]
French literature
Life: A User’s Manual
“To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere […]