Romain Gary: How to Be Someone Else
The novelist Romain Gary had two connected but quite distinct literary careers, in two languages and...
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Solitude, du roman au musée : l’œuvre mémorielle d’André Schwarz-Bart
Figure légendaire de l’histoire antillaise et de l’univers des plantations, Solitude, l’héroïne du...
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Soupault and USA: cinema and Surrealist poetry in the Roaring Twenties
In the early 1920s, French Surrealist Philippe Soupault saw in American film a new form of modernity...
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Can one « jazz » the French language ?
The preface to Paul Morand’s collection Magie noire (1929) has been the subject of much discussion,...
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Blanche and Alfred Knopf: circulating transatlantic literature
In 1915, the Knopfs founded a publishing company focusing on translations of contemporary European...
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L’orientalisme hispano-américain
L’orientalisme hispano-américain est une dimension de la production littéraire hispanique depuis 1810....
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Octavio Paz
If there is one Latin-American writer who embodies the fertility of intellectual and aesthetic...
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Boris Vian, inventor of America
During his short life, Boris Vian introduced American culture to France in his two favorite forms:...
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William Faulkner, écrivain baroque de la Méditerranée américaine
Faulkner est au carrefour de plusieurs histoires littéraires mais est aussi l'inspirateur de nombreux...
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Robinson Crusoé
Em 1719, o romance de Daniel Defoe, Vida e Aventuras de Robinson Crusoe, teve inúmeras edições e se...
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Transatlantic authors in European publishing after 1945
This article on the circulation of books in the transatlantic space starts with a historically datable...
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Literary Agents
Over the course of the 20th century, literary agents have maintained an important role in the...
