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French Literature | French Literature

marilyn-yalom's picture
Oct.17.2012
How the French love love!  It occupies an honored place in their sense of identity, on a par with fashion, food, wine, and the rights of man.  For hundreds of years, the French have championed themselves as guides to the art of love.  Marilyn Yalom distills her readings of...
beverley-bie-brahic's picture
Apr.10.2011
"A compelling work of autobiographical fiction, Hélène Cixous's Hemlock weaves tragedy and comedy, narrative and meditation in its exploration of various human attachments:  between an elderly but still truculent mother and her writer-daughter, between the mother and her sister, and...