The novel, with the subtitle Moeurs de province ("Provincial Customs"), first appeared in installments in the Revue from October 1 to December 15, 1856. It ushered in a new age of realism in literature. In Madame Bovary, Flaubert took a commonplace story of...

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A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope,...

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Jean-Paul Sartre's first published novel, Nausea is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals, and a profound fictional exploration of a man struggling to restore a sense of meaning to his life....

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Au rouge des armes, Julien Sorel préfèrera le noir des ordres. Au cours de son ascension sociale, deux femmes se singularisent, comme pour figurer les deux penchants de son caractère : Madame de Rênal - le rêve, l'aspiration à un bonheur pur et simple - et Mathilde...

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Sous son titre sage et méthodique mais dont on saisit vite l'ambivalence, L'Emploi du temps est d'abord un roman policier, bâti, selon la définition qu'en donne l'auteur, « sur deux meurtres dont le premier, commis par l'assassin, n'est...

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After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. In Words Sartre recalls growing up within the confines of French provincialism in the...

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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, and an unequalled meditation on different forms of love, charged with the narrator's memories of...

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De nos jours. Dans un pays imaginaire d'Afrique noire...Après plusieurs années d'études en Europe, la « fille de l'étrangère », Ayané, retourne à Eku, son village natal, au chevet de sa mère. La colère gronde dans cette région entourée de collines au milieu de la brousse, qui évolue hors du...

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