A biography of Algerian author Albert Camus, translated from the French manuscript, discussing his impoverished childhood, his education, his association with communism, and other details of his personal life, and examining his writing career.
Contains the text of the play about the swashbuckling Cyrano de Bergerac who secretly loves his cousin Roxane but believes he is too ugly to ever win her affection. Includes twelve critical commentaries about the play.
Presents the true story of the life of Arthur Craven, written in comic format, that chronicles his rebellious exploits during the pre-World War One era.
Reconstructs the life of the French literary genius whose writing changed opinions and fueled fierce debate on both sides of the Atlantic during the period of the American and French revolutions.
Presents the notebooks of author Marguerite Duras kept between 1943 and 1949. Includes early drafts of some of her works including "The Lover" and "The War." Describes Duras's youth in colonial Vietnam where her mother sold her to "the lover" and discusses her war experiences.
The author recalls her traumatic experience with abortion as a young literature student in the early 1960s--an event that left her hemorrhaging in a Paris dormitory.
Presents a 1980s English translation of the seventeenth-century French drama about the swashbuckling and eloquent Cyrano de Bergerac who secretly loves his cousin Roxane but thinks he is too ugly to ever win her affections.
