• As you were saying (-), ed. Fabrice Rozié, Esther Allen, and Guy Walter - American Writers Respond to Their French Counterparts
  
  
• ALAIN-FOURNIER: The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) (A-)
• ALBERT-BIROT, Pierre: The First Book of Grabinoulor (B)
• AMETTE, Jacques-Pierre: Brecht's Mistress (B+)
• AUDEGUY, Stéphane: The Theory of Clouds (B+)
• BALZAC, Honoré de: A Harlot High and Low (A-)
• BARBERY, Muriel: The Elegance of the Hedgehog (B)
• BÉNABOU, Marcel:
  • Dump This Book While You Still Can ! (B)
  • To Write on Tamara ? (B+)
• BEIGBEDER, Frédéric: Windows on the World (B)
• BENACQUISTA, Tonino:
  • Framed (B)
  • Holy Smoke (B)
• BENOÎT, Pierre: Queen of Atlantis (B)
• BOUCHERON, Bernard du: The Voyage of the Short Serpent (C)
• BOUILLIER, Grégoire: The Mystery Guest (B)
• BOULLE, Pierre:
  • Desperate Games (C-)
  • Planet of the Apes (B+)
  • Trouble in Paradise (C)
• CARRÈRE, Emmanuel:
  • The Adversary (A-)
  • I am Alive and You are Dead (B)
• CÉLINE, Louis-Ferdinand: Conversations with Professor Y (A-)
• CHUNG, Ook: L'Expérience interdite (B)
• CLARO: Electric Flesh (B)
• CLAUDEL, Philippe: Grey Souls (US title: By a Slow River) (A-)
• CONSTANT, Paule:
  • The Governor's Daughter (B+)
  • White Spirit (A-)
• DAI Sijie:
  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (B+)
  • Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch (B)
• DANTEC, Maurice G.:
  • [Babylon Babies (also: Babylon A.D.)]
  • [Cosmos Incorporated]
• DARRIEUSSECQ, Marie:
  • My Phantom Husband (B-)
  • Pig Tales (B-)
  • Undercurrents (UK title: Breathing under Water) (B-)
  • White (B+)
• DIDEROT, Denis: Jacques the Fatalist (A-)
• DIOME, Fatou: The Belly of the Atlantic (B+)
• DJAOUT, Tahar: The Last Summer of Reason (B+)
• DONGALA, Emmanuel:
  • Johnny Mad Dog (B+)
  • Little Boys Come from the Stars (B+)
• DORNER, Françoise: The Woman in the Row Behind (B)
• DUBOIS, Jean-Paul: Vie Française (UK title: A French Life) (B)
• DUFOSSÉ, Christophe: School's Out (B)
• DUTEURTRE, Benoît: The Little Girl and the Cigarette (B-)
• DUTOURD, Jean: A Dog's Head (A-)
• ECHENOZ, Jean:
  • Big Blondes (B-)
  • Chopin's Move (B)
  • I'm Gone (B+)
  • Piano (A)
  • Ravel (A-)
  • S. (B)
• ERNAUX, Annie:
  • See the complete review's Annie Ernaux page
  • Ce qu'ils disent ou rien (B)
  • Cleaned Out (A-)
  • L'ecriture comme un couteau (B)
  • A Frozen Woman (A-)
  • Happening (B+)
  • "I Remain in Darkness" (B-)
  • A Man's Place (A-)
  • L'occupation (B)
  • Se perdre (B)
  • Shame (B+)
  • Simple Passion (A-)
  • La vie extérieure (B+)
• FABRE, Dominique: The Waitress was New (B+)
• FLAUBERT, Gustave:
  • Bouvard and Pécuchet (A-)
  • Madame Bovary (A-)
• GAILLY, Christian:
  • An Evening at the Club (B)
  • The Passion of Martin Fissel-Brandt (B)
  • Red Haze (B+)
• GAVALDA, Anna:
  • I Wish Someone were Waiting for me Somewhere (B)
  • Someone I loved (B-)
• GHATA, Yasmine: The Calligraphers' Night (B+)
• GRAFF, Laurent: Happy Days (B+)
• GRENIER, Roger: Another November (B+)
• GRIMBERT, Philippe: Secret (A-) (US title: Memory)
• GUÈNE, Faïza: Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow (B+) (UK title: Just Like Tomorrow)
• HOUELLEBECQ, Michel:
  • The Elementary Particles, (A-) (UK title: Atomised)
  • Lanzarote (B+)
  • Platform (B+)
  • The Possibility of an Island (B)
  • Whatever (B)
• IZZO, Jean-Claude:
  • Chourmo (B)
  • [The Lost Sailors]
  • Solea (B)
  • Total Chaos (B+)
• JAPRISOT, Sébastien: Trap for Cinderella (B)
• JONCOUR, Serge: UV (B)
• JONQUET, Thierry: Mygale (UK title: Tarantula) (B)
• JOUET, Jacques: Mountain R (B)
• KANE, Cheikh Hamidou: Ambiguous Adventure (B)
• KHADRA, Yasmina:
  • The Attack (B)
  • Autumn of the Phantoms (B)
  • Double Blank (B)
• KOUROUMA, Ahmadou:
  • See the complete review's Ahmadou Kourouma page
  • Allah n'est pas obligé (B+)
  • Monnew (B+)
  • The Suns of Independence (B+)
  • Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals (A-)
• KUNDERA, Milan:
  • The Curtain (B+)
  • Identity (B)
  • See also: François Ricard's Agnès's Final Afternoon
• LACLAVETINE, Jean-Marie: Première ligne (B+)
• LAURENS, Camille: In Those Arms (US title: In His Arms) (B)
• LÉVY, Justine:
  • The Rendezvous (B)
  • Nothing Serious (B)
• LIBERATI, Simon: Anthology of Apparitions (B-)
• [LITTELL, Jonathan: Les Bienveillantes]
• MABANCKOU, Alain: African Psycho (B-)
• MAISTRE, Xavier de:
  • Voyage around my Room (A-)
  • Nocturnal Expedition around my Room (B+)
  • The Leper of the City of Aosta (B)
• MÉROT, Pierre: Mammals (B)
• MICHAUX, Henri:
  • A Barbarian in Asia (A-)
  • Miserable Miracle (B)
  • Stroke by Stroke (-)
  • Tent Posts (B+)
• MONÉNEMBO, Tierno: The Oldest Orphan (B)
• NÉMIROVSKY, Irène:
  • The Ball (Le Bal) (A-)
  • The Courilof Affair (B+)
  • David Golder (B+)
  • David Golder - The Ball - Snow in Autumn - The Courilof Affair (A-)
  • Fire in the Blood (B)
  • Snow in Autumn (B+)
  • Suite française (A)
• NOTHOMB, Amélie:
  • See the complete review's Amélie Nothomb page
  • Antichrista (B-) (Antéchrista)
  • The Book of Proper Names (B) (Robert des noms propres)
  • The Character of Rain (A-) (Métaphysique des tubes)
  • Cosmétique de l'ennemi (A-)
  • Fear and Trembling (A-) (Stupeur et tremblements)
  • The Life of Hunger (A) (Biographie de la faim)
  • Loving Sabotage (A+) (Le Sabotage amoureux)
  • Mercure (B)
  • Péplum (B+)
  • The Stranger next Door (B) (Les Catilinaires)
  • Sulphuric Acid (B) (Acide sulfurique)
  • See also: Amélie Nothomb de A à Z (B), Michel ZUMKIR
• OSTER, Christian:
  • A Cleaning Woman (B)
  • My Big Apartment (B+)
  • The Unforeseen (B+)
• OUOLOGUEM, Yambo:
  • Bound to Violence (B+)
  • See also: Yambo Ouologuem: Postcolonial Writer, Islamic Militant (B-)
• PENNAC, Daniel:
  • Monsieur Malaussène (B)
  • Passion Fruit (B)
  • The Scapegoat (B)
  • Write to Kill (B+)
• PEREC, Georges:
  • See the complete review's Georges Perec page
  • "53 Days" (-)
  • Je me souviens (B)
  • Life A User's Manual (A)
  • A Man Asleep (A-)
  • Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (A-)
  • Things (A-)
  • Three (B)
  • See also: AA files 45/46: Georges Perec + Paris (B+)
  • See also: Georges Perec (A), David BELLOS
• PILLE, Lolita: Paris 75016 (D)
• PONGE, Francis: Soap (B)
• QUENEAU, Raymond:
  • Children of Clay (B+)
  • The Flight of Icarus (A-)
  • The Last Days (B-)
  • Zazie in the Metro (B+)
• QUIGNARD, Pascal: On Wooden Tablets: Apronenia Avitia (B+)
• REZA, Yasmina:
  • See the complete review's Yasmina Reza page
  • Adam Haberberg (B+)
  • 'Art' (B)
  • Conversations after a Burial (B-)
  • Desolation (B)
  • Hammerklavier (B)
  • Life x 3 (B)
  • Nulle part (B)
  • The Unexpected Man (B)
• ROBBE-GRILLET, Alain: Repetition (B+)
• ROLIN, Olivier:
  • Hotel Crystal (B)
  • Paper Tiger (B)
• ROUBAUD, Jacques:
  • The Form of a City Changes Faster, alas, than the Human Heart (A-)
  • The Great Fire of London (A-)
  • The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis (B)
  • Some Thing Black (B+)
• ROUSSEL, Raymond: How I Wrote Certain of my Books (A-)
• ROZIER, Gilles: The Mercy Room (UK title: Love Without Resistance) (B-)
• SALVAYRE, Lydie:
  • The Award (A-)
  • The Company of Ghosts (A-)
  • Everyday Life (B)
  • The Lecture (B)
  • The Power of Flies (B+)
• SATRAPI, Marjane:
  • Embroideries (B)
  • Persepolis (B)
  • Persepolis (vol. 3) (B)
• SCHMITT, Eric-Emmanuel:
  • Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran (B+)
  • [La part de l'autre ]
• SEKSIK, Laurent: Les mauvaises pensées (B)
• SHAN Sa:
  • Empress (B)
  • The Girl who Played Go (B+)
• SIMENON, Georges:
  • Red Lights (B+)
  • The Strangers in the House (B+)
  • Three Crimes (B)
• SPONDE, Jean de: Sonnets of Love & Death (B-)
• STAROVA, Luan: Les livres de mon père (B+)
• THOMAS, Chantal: Farewell, My Queen (B+)
• TOUMI, Alek Baylee: Madah-Sartre (B)
• TOURNIER, Michel: The Mirror of Ideas (B-)
• TOUSSAINT, Jean-Philippe:
  • Fuir (A-)
  • Making Love (B+)
  • Monsieur (A-)
  • Television (B+)
• VARGAS, Fred: Have Mercy on Us All (B)
• VIEL, Tanguy: The Absolute Perfection of Crime (B-)
• VOLODINE, Antoine: Minor Angels (B-)
• ZELLER, Florian:
  • The Fascination of Evil (B+)
  • Lovers or Something Like It (B+)
• ZOLA, Emile: The Kill (A-)

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