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Author
Publisher
Presses de la Cité
Pub. Date
1967
Language
Français
Description
Emile Jovis leaves the old apartment in the rue des Francs-Bourgeois where he has lived for years, to settle, with his family, in Clairevie, a modern housing estate in the suburbs. From this new installation, Jovis promises a lot of happiness. Soon, it must be agreed that Clairevie, where everyone isolates himself in anonymity, hardly replaces his old district of Paris. But Jovis made, thanks to a poorly soundproofed partition, a singular discovery....
3) The move
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
Description
Emile Jovis leaves the old apartment in the rue des Francs-Bourgeois where he has lived for years, to settle, with his family, in Clairevie, a modern housing estate in the suburbs. From this new installation, Jovis promises a lot of happiness. Soon, it must be agreed that Clairevie, where everyone isolates himself in anonymity, hardly replaces his old district of Paris. But Jovis made, thanks to a poorly soundproofed partition, a singular discovery....
5) The cat
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
1967
Language
English
Description
Psychological novel of a husband and wife, both past 70, whose affection has turned to hate.
Author
Series
Collection Soleil volume 248
Publisher
Gallimard
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
Français
Description
By creating the character of Zénon, alchemist and doctor of the 16th century, Marguerite Yourcenar, the author of the Memoirs of Hadrian, does not only tell the tragic destiny of an extraordinary man. It's a whole era that lives again in its infinite richness, as well as in its acrid and brutal reality; a contrasting world where the Middle Ages and the Renaissance clash, and where modern times are already emerging, a world from which Zeno came, but...
7) The delivery
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
Small-town, middle-class doctor Elie Bergelon, urged on by materialistic wife Germaine, has finally referred one of his patients -- the pregnant wife of low-born, ambitious Jean Cosson -- to the ritzy clinic of surgeon Mandalin. As Bergelon and Mandalin are drunk on the night of the delivery, both mother and baby die. Unhinged husband Cosson begins terrorizing Dr. Bergelon with legal actions, death threats, and verbal abuse on the street. Bergelon...
8) Striptease
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1989], ©1958
Language
English
Description
"An unusual tale is set in a seedy night club on the Riviera, in Cannes. In a world of mesh tights and spangled G-strings, one girl has higher aspirations. She intends to steal the club owner from his wife - but another ambitious young stripper beats her at her game."--Goodreads
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1954
Language
English
Description
Belle: Spencer Ashby, a teacher, lives a quiet comfortable life married to Christine, a cold, dry-hearted woman. One day, Belle Shermann, an American student and daughter of one of his wife's friends, comes to stay at their villa. The teacher hardly notices her. But his dull uneventful life is turned upside down when Belle is found strangled to death. Ashby, who was alone with the victim but claims he was sleeping in his room at the time of the crime,...
10) The long exile
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
©1983
Language
English
Description
"Longer--but lesser--Simenon: a gloomy, picaresque tale of doomed love (originally published in France in 1936), featuring yet another Simenon quasi-hero who is led astray by an unworthy woman. Joseph ("Jef") Mittel, young second-generation anarchist (he has reluctantly followed in his legendary father's footsteps), finds himself on the run with lover/comrade Charlotte. . .who has murdered her former employer/lover for supposedly "political" reasons....
11) Maigret in Vichy
Author
Series
Inspector Maigret volume 67
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Description
Paris has taken its toll and Maigret is sent to Vichy for the cure, but the Inspector finds it difficult to give his curiosity a rest. He compiles a mental dossier on his fellow guests, including a curious woman he and Madam Maigret note in particular -- the lady in lilac. When a headline in the local paper announces the woman's murder, Maigret -- with some relief -- interrupts his routine to aid the investigation. The arrival of the dead woman's...
12) La prison: roman
Author
Series
Publisher
Presses de la Cité
Pub. Date
1968
Language
Français
Description
Alain Poitaud, 32 and already a successful Paris magazine publisher, arrives home one night to be told that his wife, Kitten, has shot her sister, with whom he had an affair. Faced with questions from the police, family, and friends -- and with Kitten's absolute refusal to see him -- Alain examines his marriage to find the reasons for his wife's actions.
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
This anthology of nineteen short stories by thirteen different authors introduces the reader to L'ecole belge de l'etrange, the Belgian School of the Bizarre. This is a brand of concrete fantasy that has been the hallmark of Belgian fiction since 1975. Though this school has links to both French surrealism and the magic realism of Marquez and other South American authors, Belgium's concrete fantasy, or fantastique reel, is closer to realism than either...
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