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Sep 25

LLMs: Emerging Authors?

The Goncourt Prize does not typically get coverage in the Anglophone press. Why? One, because the shortlisted books are rarely available in…

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Sep 19

Sunny Melancholy: Call Me By Your Name’s Fleeting Preponderance

Aciman and Guadagnino temporarily shifted the aesthetics of gay storylines

Sunny Melancholy: Call Me By Your Name’s Fleeting Preponderance

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Sep 5

The Politics of the Migrant Novel

Is the hottest migrant narrative right now politically flawed? Does it matter?

The Politics of the Migrant Novel

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Aug 28

Grosses fictions

For a literary studies of fatness in the French context

Grosses fictions

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Aug 24

O Fiction, Where Art Thou?

On the decline of “fully fictional” narratives

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Aug 11

The Great Czech Novel

Milan Kundera’s existential ode to lightness

The Great Czech Novel

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Jul 18

Japan Through French Eyes: Pierre Loti’s Madame Chrystanthème

Loti’s novel contains some outdated ideas of its time, but sometimes it is rather prescient as well

Japan Through French Eyes: Pierre Loti’s Madame Chrystanthème

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Jul 12

Cristina Rivera Garza’s Archive of Resistance

Liliana’s Invencible Summer in (exceedingly brief) dialogue with French autofiction

Cristina Rivera Garza’s Archive of Resistance

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Jul 3

Oscar Coop-Phane’s Ugly France

“Un Arabe” boldly explores the racism and the moral decay of modern French provincial towns

Oscar Coop-Phane’s Ugly France

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Jun 21

Nelly Arcan’s Raw Feminist Theory

Putain is at once a feminist theory primer and a highlight of French language-literature

Nelly Arcan’s Raw Feminist Theory

French Literature For All

French Literature For All

Blog dedicated to modern Francophone and occasionally global literature. Written and managed by a Ph.D. in French literature. Contact: salvadorlopz@gmail.com

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