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 to be found in a teen's backpack as in a g...

"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 of that experience, and how it changed the lives of ...

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 activists.Was Brasillach in fact guilty of treason? Was he condemned for his denuncia...

"[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 grips with her history of learning.In spare,...

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. She wasn't yet sixteen years old. In this first biography of Baya, A...

Dans une composition virtuose, Alice Kaplan, écrivaine et spécialiste d'Albert Camus, démontre qu'un roman peut s'avérer la plus belle leçon d'Histoire.Au début des années 1990, Emily quitte le Minnesota pour s'installer à Bordeaux. Sur les bancs de l'université, elle rencontre Daniel Atlas, un Juif algérien dont elle tombe amoureuse. Il n'est encore qu'un jeune dandy lorsque la guerre civile déchire son pays, l'obligeant à quitter Emily et la France.De retour à El Biar, le ...

經典小說與不朽作者的綻放歷程卡繆的小說《異鄉人》自一九四二年在法國出版以來，已被翻譯為六十種語言，光法語版就售出超過千萬冊。如果二十世紀曾產生一部可說無所不在的小說，它就該是《異鄉人》了。一位小說新手的二十來歲年輕人怎麼能寫成這部傑作，而且在出版逾七十年後仍然對讀者深具吸引力？艾莉絲．卡普蘭透過《尋找異鄉人》講述了這個故事：她揭示了卡繆的成就其實比最熱切的讀者所知的更令人欽佩，更不可思議。卡繆在出版《異鄉人》而被法國文化圈「接納」之前，他只是一個在殖民地阿爾及利亞出生的，對哲學、文學、戲劇有興趣的年輕人而已，與巴黎文化圈一點關係都沒有。他出身貧困勞工階層，父親在他一歲時被徵召上戰場過世，母親是文盲，卡繆的中學和大學都是透過老師支持、獎學金和半工半讀才完成。他從阿爾及利亞大學畢業後，在當地報紙工作，同時參與劇團從事社會運動。...

"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...

Une bibliothèque pour faire quoi ? 19 écrivains et 1 plasticienne répondent, à leur manière – pour faire un tour, pour regarder un film, pour donner RDV, pour se mettre au chaud, pour lire, pour mettre le feu, pour parler de Flaubert, pour photographier le chantier, pour faire le ménage, pour être seul avec d'autres, pour travailler, pour dormir... Dans des styles différents, entre récits, nouvelles ou témoignages, les auteurs ont composé un portrait à multiples facettes de ce lieu public,...

Canine and Feline Geriatric Oncology: Honoring the Human-Animal Bond, Second Edition provides a complete clinical approach to the most common neoplasias in geriatric dogs and cats.Provides the tools needed to diagnose and treat aging pets with cancer and to help clients make the best decisions for themselves and their animalsAddresses the "what-ifs" that often arise during interactions with clients of aging pets with cancer and helps to determine when a pet...

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 only the first twelve years of her life, Childhood is constru...

Gray Love narrates stories about the most common themes – searching for and (perhaps) finding love. Forty-five men and women between ages 60 and 94 from diverse backgrounds talk about dating, starting or ending a relationship, embracing life alone or enjoying a partnered one. The longing for connection as old age encroaches is palpable here, with more and more senior singles searching online. Those who find new partners explore issues that most relationships encounter at any age, ...