The Ogre of Grand Remous

The Ogre of Grand Remous PDF

Author: Robert Lalonde

Publisher: Ekstasis Editions

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780921215929

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Told in a series of notebook entries, letters and dreams, The Ogre of Grand Remous records the history of four siblings abandoned by their parents. Growing up alone, they are haunted by a terror of the ogre who awaits them at the edge of consciousness.

One Beautiful Day to Come

One Beautiful Day to Come PDF

Author: Robert Lalonde

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13:

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In One Beautiful Day to Come a writer introduces his bride to the enchanted village in which he was raised. He is haunted by his birth to parents who left him long ago, and by the hope of an expected child of his own who will yet know the wonder of a new world.

The Planetarium

The Planetarium PDF

Author: Nathalie Sarraute

Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

Published: 2023-01-31

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1628974176

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A young writer has his heart set on his aunt's large apartment. With this seemingly simple conceit, the characters of The Planetarium are set in orbit and a galaxy of argument, resentment, and bitterness erupts. Telling the story from various points of view, Sarraute focuses below the surface, on the emotional lives of the characters in a way that surpasses even Virginia Woolf. Always deeply engaging, The Planetarium reveals the deep disparity between the way we see ourselves and the way others see us.

Daybreak

Daybreak PDF

Author: Claire Malroux

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2020-11-17

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1681375036

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A bilingual collection of poetry, from elegies to poem memoirs, by a revered French master. For more than four decades Claire Malroux has blazed a unique path in contemporary French poetry. She is influenced by such French poets as Mallarmé and Yves Bonnefoy, but her work also bears the mark, and this is unusual in France, of Anglophone poets like Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, and Derek Walcott. A prominent translator of poetry from English into French, Malroux is one of those rare poets whose work is informed by a day-to-day intimacy with a second language in its greatest variations and subtleties. Her poems move between an intense but philosophical and abstract interiority and an acute engagement with the material world. This bilingual selection by the award-winning poet and translator Marilyn Hacker presents Malroux’s oeuvre, from her early lyric poems to an excerpt from A Long-Gone Sun—a poem-memoir of life in southern France before and during World War II—to new and uncollected poems, including an elegiac sequence written after the death of her life partner, the writer Pierre Silvain.