World Literature - France - 20th Century

  • The Camp of the Saints

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    A migrant fleet, a million strong, sets sail from Calcutta. Its destination: Europe. As the fleet advances, the continent is submerged by a torrent of words. Will the old nations of Europe resist the … [more below]

    • Author: Raspail, Jean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 356
    • Publish Date: September 16 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798988739999
    • Language: English
  • Nadja

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    A new translation of one of the defining works of the French surrealist movement, an energetic autobiographical novel that is at once both a tumultuous romance story and an initiation into the surreal[more below]

    • Author: Breton, André
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: June 17 2025
    • ISBN10: 1681379368
    • Language: English
  • Alice B. Toklas Is Missing

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    Jazz-age Paris was the center of the artistic and literary world, and the center of the center was Gertrude Stein’s salon, where the famous and aspiring creative talents gathered to gawk at Stein’s Pi… [more below]

    • Author: Archambeau, Robert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 274
    • Publish Date: November 28 2023
    • ISBN10: 164603385X
    • Language: English
  • La Batarde

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    An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La B?arde relates Violette Leduc’s long search for her own i

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    • Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
    • Author: Leduc, Violette
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 672
    • Publish Date: June 27 2023
    • ISBN10: 1628974575
    • Language: English
  • Pierrot Mon Ami

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    Pierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau’s finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man’s initiation into a world filled with deceit, fraud, and

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    • Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
    • Author: Queneau, Raymond
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 204
    • Publish Date: September 26 2023
    • ISBN10: 1628974613
    • Language: English
  • The Fire Within

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    Adapted to film by both Louis Malle and Joachim Trier, this heart-rending and tenderly wrought novel narrates the decline of an artist and heroin addict in 1920s Paris.

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    • Author: Drieu La Rochelle, Pierre
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: December 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 1681376210
    • Language: English
  • The Postcard

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    A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
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    • Author: Berest, Anne
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: May 16 2023
    • ISBN10: 1609458389
    • Language: English
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