The Two Georges is an alternate history and detective thriller novel co-written by science fiction author Harry Turtledove and Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss. It was originally published in 1995 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom, and in 1996 by Tor Books in the United States, and was nominated for the 1995 Sidewise Award for Alternate History.
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The Two Georges
The Two Georges | Introduction
It is an "alternate history" and "detective thriller". An alternate history and detective thriller novel Alternate history and detective thriller. An alternate history and detective thriller novel.
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The Two Georges is an alternate history and detective thriller novel co-written by science fiction author Harry Turtledove and Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss. It was originally published in 1995 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom, and in 1996 by Tor Books in the United States, and was nominated for the 1995 Sidewise Award for Alternate History.
The Two Georges | Introduction
Georges is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père set on Isle de France (Mauritius), from 1810 to 1824. This novel is of particular interest to scholars because Dumas reused many of the ideas and plot devices later in "The Count of Monte Cristo", and because race and racism are at the center of this novel, and this was a topic on which Dumas, despite his part-African ancestry, rarely wrote. "Georges" was first published in 1843. It has been republished in English as "George; or, the Planter of the Isle of France". A new translation by Tina Kover, edited by Werner Sollors and with an introduction by Jamaica Kincaid, was published by Random House, Inc./Modern Library in May 2007.
Georges (novel) | Introduction
The novel concerns the life of Georges, the son of a wealthy mulatto plantation owner named Pierre Munier, on Mauritius. While part-black, Georges is very light-skinned, if not white. As a child, he witnesses the British invasion of Isle de France. Because Georges' father is a mulatto, the other plantation owners refuse to let him fight alongside them. Instead, Georges' father leads the blacks and delivers a crushing blow against a British column. Refusing to acknowledge that a man of colour saved them, M. Malmédie and the other white plantation owners ignore the accomplishment. M. Malmédie's son Henri mocks Georges because of this, resulting in a fight between the two.
Georges (novel) | Plot
Afterward, worried about any retaliation from M. Malmédie, Georges' father sends Georges and his older brother Jacques to Europe to be educated. In Europe, the brothers are separated when the older brother gets a job on a sailing ship. Georges becomes cultured, deeply educated, and popular in Parisian circles. Through numerous tests of will Georges overcomes his weaknesses and becomes skilled in a variety of fields, ranging from hunting to the art of seducing women.
Georges (novel) | Plot
He finished the novel in prison before he was released in 1952. The novel was published in two volumes, with 496 and 519 pages respectively.
Les Deux Étendards | Introduction
The "Houston Chronicle" listed "The Two Georges" as one of many pieces of fiction that have pictured blacks as the head of the executive branch, in this case Sir Martin Luther King, Governor General of North America. "Publishers Weekly" praises the novel's "recognizable yet delightfully distorted" world where "engaging characters play out a suspenseful and satisfying story". "School Library Journal" described the novel as "a fast-paced and gripping story."
The Two Georges | Reception
However, this remains unsubstantiated.
Maurice (novel) | Introduction
Georges "Jo" Querelle () is the protagonist and antihero of Jean Genet's 1947 novel "Querelle de Brest".
Georges Querelle | Introduction
"George" falls under several genres of literature. The intended reader for "George" is eight to twelve years old. "George" is a fictional novel that also falls under the genres of children and LGBTQ+ literature. This novel contributes to the small but growing repertoire of middle-grade literature about gender and sex identity.
George (novel) | Genre
Georges d'Esparbès (24 March 1863 - 25 June 1944) was a French novelist. Three film versions were made of his work "Les demi-soldes", set during the Napoleonic era.
Georges d'Esparbès | Introduction
This edition included a foreword (dated "Les Jardies, May 1840") and a dedication to George Sand. The original division of the novel into three parts was retained.
Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées | History of the text
The characters in the novel do not hold as much textual importance as the things ("les choses") meticulously described throughout, which are the subject of frequent digressions even in passages focusing on the main characters; no line of dialogue appears until the epilogue. The grammatical tense used by the author progresses from the conditional to the present to the future over the course of the novel. Perec's use of the conditional tense plunges the reader into the dreams of the characters in the novel, most of which focus on their material desires, including residences, furniture, and fashionable clothing. The first chapter consists entirely of a description of a desirable apartment and its furnishings, opening with: "L'œil, d'abord, glisserait sur la moquette grise d'un long corridor, haut et étroit [The eye, at first, would glide over the grey carpet of a long hallway, tall and narrow]." The main characters are a young couple, the mononymous Jerôme and Sylvie, whose names are first mentioned in the second chapter.
Things: A Story of the Sixties | Themes and structure
The novel is split into two parts: "I – L’Enquête" (The Inquiry), "II – L’Honneur du nom" (The Honour of the Name). Binyon observes that this is a common structural characteristic of Gaboriau's novels, which separates the different subjects of each part: "Each novel falls into two-halves: the first begins with the discovery of the crime and narrates the activities of the detective; the second, which usually takes the form of a complicated family history, describes the events leading up to the crime."
Monsieur Lecoq (novel) | Background
The plot revolves around Georges de Sarre, a fourteen-year-old boy who is sent to a Catholic boarding school in 1920s France. Getting to know the other boys, he is immediately interested in Lucien Rouvière, of whom he is warned by the unsympathetic Marc de Blajan, who cryptically informs him that some of the students "may seem good, but are in fact not". Georges is dismayed when he learns that Lucien already has a boyfriend, André Ferron. He befriends Lucien, but filled with envy, tries to destroy their relationship, eventually succeeding in getting André expelled in a Machiavellian scheme. When his advances towards Lucien remain fruitless, Georges starts a "special friendship", i.e.
Les amitiés particulières | Plot summary
The novel mixes fiction with real people: Marine Le Pen, François Hollande, François Bayrou, Manuel Valls, and Jean-François Copé, among others, fleetingly appear as characters in the book.
Submission (novel) | Introduction
Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Doré is an 1857 French historical novel by George Sand.
Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Doré | Introduction
Many of his novels have been dramatized with great success, "Le Maître de forges", produced at the Gymnase in 1883, holding the stage for a whole year. His later publications include "Le Crépuscule" (1902), "Le Marchand de Poison" (1903), "La Conquérante" (1905), "La dixième muse" (1906). In 1902 he was elected president of the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques.
Georges Ohnet | Life and career
L'Abbé C (1950) was Georges Bataille's first published novella. It is a work of dark eroticism, centred on the relationship between two twentieth century brothers in a small French village, one of whom is a Catholic parish priest, while the other is a libertine. It explores issues of split subjectivity and existentialist bad faith.
L'Abbé C | Introduction
Georges escapes to the depths of the forest, where he joins the slave rebels or Maroons and bides his time.
Le Mulâtre | Plot
Typical among them were apprentices and students of various nationalities, giving the young Simenon an important introduction to the wider world; this marked his novels, notably "Pedigree" and "Le Locataire".
Georges Simenon | Early life and education
It recounts the amours of the Englishman George and the American Lyonel for two sisters, Henriette and the widow Mme. Darbel. These are complicated by everyone being a bit indecisive and variable in their choice of preferred partner, and then further complicated by the temporary blindness suffered by Lyonel when he is struck by lightning in a thunderstorm.
L'Éclair | Synopsis
The book marks a novelty in the novelistic genre of Quebec literature, placing fictitious action in a real event and compelling an important historiographical research. A posthumous edition is made in 1945 by Éditions Lumen. The novel "François de Bienville" (1870), scenes from Canadian life in the seventeenth century, focuses on the historical figure of François Le Moyne de Bienville.
Joseph Marmette | Thematic and aesthetic
The novel has been praised by a large number of French-language writers, critics and intellectuals, such as Roger Nimier, Antoine Blondin, Jean Paulhan, Étiemble, Pol Vandromme, José Cabanis, Jean Dutourd, George Steiner, Anne Desclos, Jean Duvignaud and Marc-Édouard Nabe. Several of them have named it as one of the greatest novels of the post-war era, but it is also controversial due to the writer's background. Pascal Alain Ifri, professor of French at the Washington University in St. Louis, wrote in his monograph about the novel: "Because of Rebatet's pro-fascist, pro-German and antisemitic positions before and during World War II, notably seen in his virulent pamphlet "Les Décombres", there is, indeed, in the literary and journalist environment, a consensus, which was set at the publication of the book and which continues to this day, to keep quiet about Rebatet's novel, and this despite the fact that love, religion and art, and not politics, constitute its principal themes."
Les Deux Étendards | Reception
Many of Perec's novels and essays abound with experimental word play, lists and attempts at classification, and they are usually tinged with melancholy. Perec's first novel "Les Choses: Une Histoire des Années Soixante" ("") (1965) was awarded the Prix Renaudot. Perec's most famous novel "La Vie mode d'emploi" ("") was published in 1978. Its title page describes it as "novels", in the plural, the reasons for which become apparent on reading. "La Vie mode d'emploi" is a tapestry of interwoven stories and ideas as well as literary and historical allusions, based on the lives of the inhabitants of a fictitious Parisian apartment block.
Georges Perec | Work
A populist author, he published "Du raisin dans le gaz-oil" in 1954 dedicated to Jacques Perret with whom Georges Bayle was interned during the Second World War. The plot is located in the corporation of truckers. The novel was adapted by Michel Audiard under the title "" directed by Gilles Grangier with Jean Gabin and Jeanne Moreau.
Georges Bayle | Biography
The novel describes the life of a young man (Frédéric Moreau) living through the revolution of 1848 and the founding of the Second French Empire, and his love for an older woman (based on the wife of the music publisher Maurice Schlesinger, who is portrayed in the book as Jacques Arnoux). Flaubert based many of the protagonist's experiences (including the romantic passion) on his own life. He wrote of the work in 1864: The novel's tone is by turns ironic and pessimistic; it occasionally lampoons French society. The main character, Frédéric, often gives himself over to romantic flights of fancy.
Sentimental Education | Plot introduction
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George Dandin ou le Mari confondu | Introduction
Serge Panine is an 1880 novel by the French writer Georges Ohnet.
Serge Panine (novel) | Introduction
This development became a target of right-wing politicians of that period, Jean Royer and Michel Debre. Continuing in this genre, Pichard reunited with Danie Dubos to produce "Caroline Choléra" which was serialised in "L'Écho des savanes" in 1975. Upon publication of "Marie-Gabrielle de Saint-Eutrope" in 1977, the explicit nature of Pichard's work led to a ban from bookshops and kiosks.
Georges Pichard | Biography
Book Three covers July 1789 in eleven chapters. The action in the novel occurs against the backdrop of the beginnings of the French Revolution. Characters in the novel mention their awareness of the unrest in France as their own dramas unfold.
Demelza (novel) | Book Three
Reviewers universally condemned its morals and its style. More recent critics have shown greater sympathy toward the book, seeing it as a "psychological novel – a study of the moods, thought processes, and perceptions of his hero".
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities | Introduction
The novel is set in Paris in the upper-middle class environment of the leading journalists of the newspaper "La Vie Française" and their friends. It tells the story of Georges Duroy, who has spent three years in military service in Algeria. After working for six months as a clerk in Paris, an encounter with his former comrade, Forestier, enables him to start a career as a journalist. From a reporter of minor events and soft news, he gradually climbs his way up to chief editor. Duroy initially owes his success to Forestier's wife, Madeleine, who helps him write his first articles and, when he later starts writing lead articles, she adds an edge and poignancy to them.
Bel-Ami | Summary
His book won the ‘Mention’ Budding Critic Award from Bologna Children's Book Fair in 1983. Another book (English edition – "Writing: The Story of Alphabets and Scripts") was one of the bestsellers in France, and has been translated into 21 languages.
Georges Jean | Career
In 1999 was published the novel "Les malentendus", which details a series of crossed courses involving a young Arab immigrant in France, a company head woman, a young man who had graduated from Science-po, and a disabled gay middle-aged man. In 2001 the novel "Le Voyage en France" was awarded the Prix Médicis (Medicis award). In this last novel a young American, fond of the late 19th-early 20th century France discovers the modern France and in the same time, interlinked, the course of a middle-age man spending his life between euphoria and depression.
Benoît Duteurtre | Late '90s works
Georges Le Faure (12 June 1856 – 25 May 1953) was a French writer who authored many popular novels, including swashbuckling ones.
Georges Le Faure | Introduction
Charbonneau" (1862), which under the form of a novel offered a series of malicious and witty portraits of contemporary writers.
Armand de Pontmartin | Introduction
Georges immediately seeks Félix to get revenge. When he finds him in the presence of the police, he kills him anyway, condemning himself in the process. With the two murders on his hands, Georges is sentenced to die by the guillotine, and a broken Marie watches in horror as he is executed.
Casque d'Or | Plot
Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées (Letters of Two Brides) is an epistolary novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It was serialized in the French newspaper "La Presse" in 1841 and published by Furne in 1842 as the first work in the second volume ("Scènes de la vie privée, tome II" or "Scenes from Private Life, Volume 2") of Balzac's "La Comédie humaine". It was dedicated to the French novelist George Sand. The first English translation of the novel appeared in 1902, with a preface by Henry James.
Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées | Introduction
Les Deux Étendards ("The two banners") is a 1952 novel by the French writer Lucien Rebatet. The narrative is partly autobiographical and set in Lyon in the 1920s. It follows two young men who are in love with the same woman; one of them is to become a Jesuit priest, while the other—the author's alter ego—is a fierce agnostic. Rebatet began to write the novel in 1942 and continued to write it in the Sigmaringen enclave, where he fled together with the Vichy government in 1944. In 1946 he was sentenced to death for his sympathy for National Socialism and collaboration during the war, but the penalty was commuted to forced labour the next year.
Les Deux Étendards | Introduction
The search takes Bushell, Flannery, and Stanley across the country via airship (an advanced form of dirigible), train, and steamer. They also meet many members of the Sons of Liberty, including "Common Sense" editor John F. Kennedy.
The Two Georges | Plot
Georges Charles-Jules Bugnet (1879 - 1981) was a French Canadian writer and plant hybridiser. He wrote poetry, stories, articles, plays and four novels, the most well known of which is "La Forêt" (English: "The Forest"), published in 1935. His first two novels, "Les Lys de sang" (1922) and "Nipsya" (1924), were published under the pseudonym Henri Doutremont. He introduced the rose cultivar 'Thérèse Bugnet', named after his sister.
Georges Bugnet | Introduction
The French version of the novel won the Prix Femina.
Jean-Paul Dubois | Introduction
A French reviewer remarked that the novel shows that "overworked brains" sometimes fall prey to "dangerous aberrations". A brief note in "The Modern Language Journal" remarked that "trivial but intensely human emotional reactions are realistically depicted", and the 1935 "New International Year Book" warned that the students depicted in the book have a "strong emotional reaction of an undesirable nature". The book is no longer in print; passages from it were anthologized in a 1985 collection of erotic women's literature.
Jeunes filles en serre chaude | Introduction
1942 was the year his novel "La Veuve Couderc" was published at around the same time as Camus' The Stranger. Both novels contain a similar main character and themes, and Simenon was upset that Camus' work went on to greater acclaim. During his "American" period, Simenon reached the height of his creative powers, and several novels of those years were inspired by the context in which they were written ("Trois chambres à Manhattan" (1946), "Maigret à New York" (1947), "Maigret se fâche" (1947)).
Georges Simenon | Works
The novel's plot is purposely underdeveloped, as Dujardin acknowledged in a later essay on his novel and its technique, "Le Monologue intérieur" (1931) and especially in a letter written a year after the novel's publication. His is a "roman de quelques heures, d'une action banale, d'un personnage quelconque"—a novel whose narrative time is only a few hours, of a banal action, with a random [main] character. It concerns a naive and amorous student, Daniel Prince, who is about to be taken in by an actress, Lea d'Arsay, whose only interest is his money. As the novel develops, Prince daydreams of proposing the actress to elope with him, and when he is in her apartment, before they are to take an evening stroll, he falls asleep and dreams of his past, of his parents and the first girl he fell in love with.
Les lauriers sont coupés | Plot
A young man, Georges, married for money and is unhappy because he has fallen in love with Isabelle. To escape from reality one night he hires actors to play his parents and a butler and invites over Isabelle. But George's parents are determined to save their son's marriage and turn up with George's worthless friend Jacques. Barbara is Jacques' wife.
Dinner with the Family | Plot
The French critic Gaëtan Picon wrote: ""Gilles" (1939) is, without any doubt, one of the greatest novels of the century—and one of those books in which the disarming sincerity of a man rises to the grandeur usually reserved to literary transpositions."
Gilles (novel) | Reception
Written by Alexandre Dumas "fils" (1824–1895) when he was 23 years old, and first published in 1848, ' is a semi-autobiographical novel based on the author's brief love affair with a courtesan, Marie Duplessis. Set in mid-19th-century France, the novel tells the tragic love story between fictional characters Marguerite Gautier, a demimondaine or courtesan suffering from consumption, and Armand Duval, a young bourgeois. Marguerite is nicknamed ' () because she wears a red camellia when she is menstruating and unavailable for making love and a white camelia when she is available to her lovers. Armand falls in love with Marguerite and ultimately becomes her lover.
La Dame aux Camélias | Summary and analysis
Monsieur, or "The Prince of Darkness" (1974), is the first volume in Lawrence Durrell's "The Avignon Quintet." Published from 1974 to 1985, this sequence of five interrelated novels explore the lives of a group of Europeans before, during, and after World War II. Durrell uses many of the experimental techniques of metafiction that he had integrated into his "Alexandria Quartet," published 1957 to 1960. He described the later quintet as a quincunx. "Monsieur" is based on a metafictional narrative in five major sections, each with a competing narrator. The novel does not resolve which narrative is 'real' and which are 'fiction.' The novel was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1974.
Monsieur (novel) | Introduction
In Bouvard et Pécuchet, Gustave Flaubert made fun of 18th and 19th century attempts to catalogue, classify, list, and record all of scientific and historical knowledge. In October 1872, he wrote, the novel is "a kind of encyclopedia made into a farce... I am planning a thing in which I give vent to my anger... I shall vomit over my contemporaries the disgust they inspire in me... It will be big and violent." It is possible that the stress contributed to his death as he was drawing near to the close of the novel. Indeed, in 1874, he confessed to George Sand "[it] is leading me very quietly, or rather relentlessly, to the abode of the shades.
Bouvard et Pécuchet | Major themes
Valentine (1832) is a novel published by French author George Sand. This was the second novel published in Sand's career as an independent author, the novel is notable for displaying many of Sand's preoccupations as an emerging novelist: love, social class, greed, liberty, and family ties. Like many of Sand's novels, the novel takes its name from its title character Valentine, who is born into an aristocratic family but falls in love with the peasant farmer, Benedict. Star-crossed lovers belonging to different social classes were to become a major theme in Sand's works, which interrogated what the author perceived as the hypocrisy and rigidity of social norms in the Restoration-period French republic.
Valentine (novel) | Introduction
Georges Eekhoud (27 May 1854 – 29 May 1927) was a Belgian novelist of Flemish descent, but writing in French. Eekhoud was a regionalist best known for his ability to represent scenes from rural and urban daily life. He tended to portray the dark side of human desire and write about social outcasts and the working classes.
Georges Eekhoud | Introduction
They take an extended journey together on the Nile River in this section. (Durrell's second novel of the Quintet, "Livia," has characters make a river journey on the Rhone).
Monsieur (novel) | Plot summary
The novel remains popular, figuring in both public and academic conversations. In 2005, "Time" magazine chose the novel as one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. Part of the novel's reputation is based on its expression of postmodern literary concerns through thematic focus on metafiction, historiography, , Marxist criticism and feminism. Stylistically and thematically, Linda Hutcheon describes the novel as an exemplar of a particular postmodern genre: "historiographic metafiction." Because of the contrast between the independent Sarah Woodruff and the more stereotypical male characters, the novel often receives attention for its treatment of gender issues.
The French Lieutenant's Woman | Introduction
The first major novel of his second period to be published was "Un roi sans divertissement" (published in 1947, and made into a successful film for which Giono himself wrote the screenplay, in 1963). It takes the form of a detective story set in Haute Provence in the early nineteenth century, and reveals Giono's new pessimism about human nature in that the policeman is forced to the realisation that he himself is capable of being as evil as the murderer he is tracking. Stylistically brilliant, it consists of the juxtaposed accounts of events as told by the different people affected, devoid of explanation, from which the reader must piece together the meaning.
Jean Giono | Second period
Jacques (1833) is a novel by French author George Sand, née Amantine Dupin. The novel centers on an unhappy marriage between a retired soldier, aged 35 (Jacques), and his young teenaged bride, Fernanade. The novel is the first by Sand to be named after a male character. While previously, her novels had focused on female experiences within marriage, in "Jacques," she turns her attention to describing a male partner in a marriage. The novel details how he feels about ongoing events in often painful detail. It has been suggested by some critics that the character of Jacques later reappears as an unnamed fellow traveler in Sand's fictionalized travel account "Letters of a Voyager".
Jacques (novel) | Introduction
Two English Girls (original French title: Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent, UK Title: Anne and Muriel), is a 1971 French romantic drama film directed by François Truffaut and adapted from a 1956 novel of the same name by Henri-Pierre Roché. It stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Claude, Kika Markham as Anne, and Stacey Tendeter as Muriel. Truffaut restored 20 minutes of footage, which fills out the characters, before his death in 1984. The novel was first published in English in 2004, translated by Walter Bruno and published by Cambridge Book Review Press, Cambridge, Wisconsin.
Two English Girls | Introduction
Their three children include the eldest son Octave, an intelligent but feckless ladies' man (featured as the principal character of two later novels in the cycle, "Pot-Bouille" (1882) and "Au Bonheur des Dames" (1883), but here little more than a footnote), as well as the quiet and introverted younger son Serge and the mentally handicapped daughter Desirée. Their home lives are shattered by the arrival of a strange cleric, Abbé Faujas, and his mother, who rent a room in the Mourets' house. Slowly, it transpires that the mysterious stranger has arrived to try to win influence in the town for outside political forces (which never manifest themselves) through a series of Machiavellian intrigues, plots, slanders and insinuations; in the process of doing so, he proceeds to unravel the Mourets' lives to such an extent that the bewildered Francois is unwillingly and unnecessarily committed to a mental institution, while poor Marthe becomes obsessively religious, though whether her devotion is to God or Faujas becomes increasingly unclear.
La Conquête de Plassans | Introduction
His wife was the younger sister of Raoul Gradis and aunt of Gaston Gradis.
Georges Schwob d'Héricourt | Early years
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George Devereux | Secondary literature
Le Bourgmestre de Furnes is a Belgian novel by Georges Simenon. It was first published in 1939.
Le Bourgmestre de Furnes | Introduction
The novel comprises two parts, two stories, which are really two sides of the same story. The plot revolves around an act of adultery - a double life, a second family - which is in some sense justified. From the beginning, the setting recalls the atmosphere of Balzac's "Ferragus". In a squalid house, in a sordid neighbourhood, an old woman offers an angelic creature - her own daughter - to passers by. The Comte de Granville, unhappily married to a sanctimonious woman, falls in love with this "grisette". An aristocrat and a magistrate of integrity, he had made a name for himself in the Gondreville affair, which Balzac would later recount in "Une ténébreuse affaire" ("A Murky Affair").
Une double famille | Introduction
In later editions its chapter breaks were removed (though some versions now restore them), and the work is in three sections – the final of which comprises nearly half the novel. The novel's feel is compounded by the lack of clarity on some points; some characters' motives are unclear even at the end, and the chaotic sequence of events is difficult to track.
Les Chouans | Style
The later critic , however, praised the novel's realism, characterising it as "remarkable", though "perfectly forgotten, even unknown".
Serge-Simon Held | Introduction
Gréville (1958).
Georges Marchal | Introduction
Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud (born 1947 in Paris) is a French novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the Prix Renaudot in 1982 for the novel "La Faculté des songes" and the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle in 2005 for "Singe savant tabassé par deux clowns". He has been general secretary of the Prix Renaudot since 2010.
Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud | Introduction
Julie; or, The New Heloise (), originally entitled "Lettres de Deux Amans, Habitans d'une petite Ville au pied des Alpes" ("Letters from two lovers, living in a small town at the foot of the Alps"), is an epistolary novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, published in 1761 by Marc-Michel Rey in Amsterdam. The novel's subtitle points to the history of Héloïse d'Argenteuil and Peter Abelard, a medieval story of passion and Christian renunciation. The novel was put on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
Julie; or, The New Heloise | Introduction
He then discovers that the presence of Georges Vallier comes from the fact that he is the lover of Anne-Marie. It is while she both hides them in a closet that Georges Vallier finally meets Pierre.
C'est pas moi, c'est lui | Plot
The work follows the lives and adventures of the steadfast companions as they age, encounter new experiences and individuals, and face numerous challenges alongside one another.
Nicole Georges | Graphic novels
The novel illustrates vivid details that are not facts, per se, but are based on actual events. The book also graphically depicts the witness account of Monsieur Joseph Gros. It was nominated for the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award and a finalist for the 1996 US National Book Award. It also won the 1996 Anisfield-Wolf Award for best book of the year which dealt with matters of race.
Georges Biassou | Contemporary Scholarship
By 1994, 400,000 copies of the novel were sold. Guibert wrote two sequels: "Le Protocole Compassionel" and "L'homme au chapeau rouge".
À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie | Introduction
During this search, he introduces a group of 1960s stars to the two young people, despite the initial scepticism of Harvey and the growing mistrust of Dinara.
Le Fils de Gascogne | Synopsis
Pierre et Luce is a 1920 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning French author Romain Rolland. It focuses on the impact of the First World War on two lovers, Pierre and Luce. The older brother of Pierre is off fighting on the Western Front. The novel also seems to depict the Paris Gun attack on the St-Gervais-et-St-Protais Church.
Pierre et Luce | Introduction
Set in Paris on the eve of and during World War II, the novel revolves around Françoise, whose open relationship with her partner Pierre becomes strained when they form a ménage à trois with her younger friend Xaviere. The novel explores many existentialist concepts such as freedom, angst, and the other.
She Came to Stay | Plot
Les Fiançailles de M. Hire ("Monsieur Hire's Engagement") is the title of a short novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon. It is one of the author's first self-described "roman durs" or "hard novels" to distinguish it from his "romans populaires" or "popular novels," which are primarily mysteries that usually feature his famous Inspector Maigret character. The novel is divided into eleven chapters, and is written using the third-person narrative mode.
Les Fiançailles de M. Hire | Introduction
Beauvallet is a 1929 novel written by Georgette Heyer.
Beauvallet | Introduction
Both novels were received with great enthusiasm in France.
Anne-Sophie Brasme | Novels
Most of his novels ran into several editions, for example : "Lolotte et Fanfan, ou Histoire de deux enfants abandonnés dans une île déserte" (Lolotte and Fanfan, the Story of Two Children Abandoned on a Desert Island ) ( Paris, 1788, 4 vol. in-12) ; "Alexis, ou la Maisonnette dans les bois" (Alexis or the small house in the woods) (1789, 4 vol. in-12) ; "Petit Jacques et Georgette, ou les Petits montagnards auvergnats" (The Little Mountaineers of Auvergne, Or, The Adventures of James and Georgette) (1791, 4 vol. in-12) ; "Victor, ou l’Enfant de la forêt" (Victor, a Child of the Forest) (1797, 4 vol.
François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil | Works
Julian Barnes called it "a contemporary novel set in the past" and the book does not aim to stick closely to the historical record at every point.
Arthur &amp; George | Plot introduction
The Two Dianas () is a historical novel published in 1846-47 under the name of Alexandre Dumas but mostly or entirely written by his friend and collaborator Paul Meurice. The "two Dianas" of the title are Diane de Poitiers (the mistress of Henry II) and her supposed daughter Diana de Castro. The novel's setting is earlier than Dumas's better known "Valois trilogy". The principal character is Gabriel, comte de Montgomery; other characters include Martin Guerre, Catherine de Médicis and Ambroise Paré. When Meurice later published a dramatisation of the novel, a letter supposedly written by Dumas was attached as a preface, stating that he had never even read the book and that Meurice was the real author.
The Two Dianas | Introduction
While the novel never provides an explanation for the dissolution of Jacques and Fernande's marriage, the novel highlights that differences in how the couple express emotion and how they see the world. The inability of the couple to comprehend one other may be what causes their relationship, although the question is left open. However, Sand also highlights the social aspects of this problem by emphasizing the youth of Ferndande, who is married by her family as a teenager, and the impossibility of the couple's divorcing under Napoleonic law. Like many of Sand's novels, Jacques argued in favor of the education and independence of 19th century women and against a view of marriage in which the husband dominated the wife legally.
Jacques (novel) | Themes
La Veuve Couderc is a Belgian novel by Georges Simenon. It was first published in 1942. The novel was published at around the same time as Camus' "The Stranger". Both novels contain a similar main character and themes, and Simenon was upset that Camus' work went on to greater acclaim. The novel was republished as "The Widow" by NYRB Classics in 2009.
La Veuve Couderc | Introduction
Marien Defalvar began writing his first novel in 2007, after having produced some youth texts. His first novel, ‘Du temps qu’on existait’ (The time when we existed) appeared in 2011; it is distinguished by the style of its author, which surprises with respect to his youth. The reception of the novel is more divided. While Jérôme Garcin discovers "a sumptuous and well-mannered prose", Jérôme Dupuis calls it "indigestible pavement". In spite of these contrasting reactions, ‘Du temps qu’on existait’ caught the attention of the critics on the occasion of the literary re-entry 2011 alongside the French art of the war of Alexis Jenni: the novel received the prices of Flore and the first novel, and appears in the first selection of Renaudot and December.
Marien Defalvard | Literary career
This novel was awarded the prix Laurent-Bonelli Virgin-Lire in its first year. The novel was nominated to the Prix Feminas list. It was a finalist on the short list of nominations for the 2007 prix Goncourt. In 2011 she published "Nestor rend les armes", a novel about an obese man. This novel was nominated for the 2011 Femina.
Clara Dupont-Monod | Novels
Cécile is an historical novel by the British writer F. L. Lucas. His second novel, first published in 1930, it is a story of love, society and politics in the France of 1775–1776, set largely in Picardy and Paris, which locations form its two parts.
Cécile (novel) | Introduction
The novel adheres to that spirit, capturing the thoughts of a student in Paris over a six-hour period in the spring.
Les lauriers sont coupés | Introduction
"Les Poneys Sauvages" (1970) is a story of murder, intrigue, and revenge. It begins in 1937, as George, Barry, Cyril, and Horace, students of varying backgrounds, complete their educations at the University of Cambridge. As the decade ends, the group becomes tangled in the Second World War. Those who survive the war take the reader on a journey that spans three decades and covers all of Europe, from Italy to Poland and back to Paris. As the friends age, they learn that the past is not forgotten quickly. In 1981, it was the basis of a six-part television series that starred Hélène Vincent.
Michel Déon | Novels
Monsieur Ouine is a 1943 novel by the French writer Georges Bernanos. It tells the story of a retired teacher who settles in a village in northern France, where he becomes surrounded by mysterious deaths and other unexplained events. The book was published in English in 1945 as The Open Mind, translated by Geoffrey Dunlop. A new translation by William Bush was published in 2000 under the original French title.
Monsieur Ouine | Introduction
His first novel is "Aux animaux la guerre" ("To Animals War"; 2014), a mystery and crime novel. It was adapted to a 6-part France 3 television series in 2018. His second novel, "Leurs enfants après eux" (2018) is about a group of young people in a fictional rural northeastern French town over the course of six years. The novel portrays the problems caused by deindustrialization. It has been translated by William Rodarmor and was published in the United States as "And Their Children After Them" on 7 April 2020 by Other Press.
Nicolas Mathieu (writer) | Biography
Julie is a children's novel by Jean Craighead George, published in 1994, about a young Iñupiaq girl experiencing the changes forced upon her culture from outside. It is the second book in a trilogy by George, after "Julie of the Wolves" (1973) and before "Julie's Wolf Pack" (1997).
Julie (George novel) | Introduction
The main character of "L’Heure sexuelle" (1898) is a man who may be conflicted, but is not typically effeminate. Both novels are also more introspective than the others published up to this point, invoking sexual guilt and raising questions about the relationship between sex and abusive violence.
Rachilde | Novels
The US premiere opened on 24 February 2012 at the New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco.
Maurice (novel) | Adaptations
His novel "Les Deux Gosses" (1880) was his most successful. It was adapted for the cinema by several directors.
Pierre Decourcelle | Life
Paul et Virginie (or Paul and Virginia) is a novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, first published in 1788. The novel's title characters are friends since birth who fall in love. The story is set on the island of Mauritius under French rule, then named "Île de France". Written on the eve of the French Revolution, the novel is recognized as Bernardin's finest work. It records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the artificial sentimentality of the French upper classes in the late eighteenth century. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre lived on the island for a time and based part of the novel on a shipwreck he witnessed there.
Paul et Virginie | Introduction
The novel deals with the relationship between writers and society.
Jean Santeuil | Themes
It was written according to a complex plan of writing constraints, and is primarily constructed from several elements, each adding a layer of complexity. The 99 chapters of his 600-page novel move like a knight's tour of a chessboard around the room plan of the building, describing the rooms and stairwell and telling the stories of the inhabitants. At the end, it is revealed that the whole book actually takes place in a single moment, with a final twist that is an example of "cosmic irony". It was translated into English by David Bellos in 1987.
Georges Perec | Work
Le Guin's novels and in the 1980s of those of Roger Zelazny.
Jean Bailhache | Introduction
Menaud, maître-draveur is a novel by Félix-Antoine Savard, first published in 1937. It is considered as a classic masterpiece of Quebec literature's traditional "roman de terre", or "novel of the land". Savard made four editions of his novel :
Menaud, maître draveur | Introduction
Soon afterwards, Duroy receives a letter from Madeleine imploring him to join her and help her bear the last moments of her husband's life. When Forestier dies, Duroy asks Madeleine to marry him. After a few weeks to consider, she agrees. Georges now signs his articles Du Roy (an aristocratic style of French name) in order to add prestige to his name. The married couple travels to Normandy, the region of Georges's childhood, and meets his peasant parents. Finding the reality different from her romantic expectations, Madeleine feels very uncomfortable with his parents and so their stay with them is short.
Bel-Ami | Summary
Pierre et Jean is a naturalist or psycho-realist work written by Guy de Maupassant in Étretat in his native Normandy between June and September 1887 . This was Maupassant's shortest novel. It appeared in three instalments in the Nouvelle Revue and then in volume form in 1888, together with the essay “Le Roman” [“The Novel”]. "Pierre et Jean" is a realist work, notably so by the subjects on which it treats, including knowledge of one's heredity (whether one is a legitimate son or a bastard), the bourgeoisie, and the problems stemming from money.
Pierre et Jean | Introduction