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Miguel Bonnefoy and Big Literature’s Embrace of Magical Realism

Will a rising star resist the appeal of profitable exoticization?

Feb 1

Miguel Bonnefoy and Big Literature’s Embrace of Magical Realism

Feb 1

Being a Japanese Writer

Dany Laferrière’s capricious postmodern musings on identity.

Jan 3

Being a Japanese Writer

Jan 3

Like the Other Girls: On Louise Chennevière’s ‘Pour Britney’

2000s nostalgia should not make us forget the cruelty against women of their and our times

Dec 21, 2024

Like the Other Girls: On Louise Chennevière’s ‘Pour Britney’

Dec 21, 2024

Longings for the Other, Longings for the Self

On how literature has long yearned for the blank slate of the foreign Other

Aug 13, 2024

Longings for the Other, Longings for the Self

Aug 13, 2024

Modiano, Hartman, and the Quest for Archival Justice

Writing As Preservation

Jul 11, 2024

Jul 11, 2024

More Not-Fully-Formed Thoughts on Literary Criticism

For my last piece, I explored a rather tone-deaf piece by Christine Smallwood on The Yale Review on the material conditions of criticism…

Jun 23, 2024

Jun 23, 2024

A Different Reviewer’s Life

Whose critiques are we reading?

Jun 14, 2024

Jun 14, 2024

To Hell With It: Yannick Haenel’s Les Renards pâles

Half novel half manifesto, Haenel’s novel guides us towards a politics of refusal.

Jan 23, 2024

To Hell With It: Yannick Haenel’s Les Renards pâles

Jan 23, 2024

Abdellah Taïa: Snapshots of Morocco

Revisiting Taïa’s modest yet grand literary debut

Jul 29, 2023

Abdellah Taïa: Snapshots of Morocco

Jul 29, 2023

Constance Debré: the Nouveau Enfant Terrible of French Literature?

I picked up a copy of Constance Debré’s Nom recently, after having heard that independent press Semiotext(e) had recently translated some…

Jun 9, 2023

Constance Debré: the Nouveau Enfant Terrible of French Literature?

Jun 9, 2023

French Literature For All

French Literature For All

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

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