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

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

3 min readJan 23, 2024

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

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Abdellah Taïa: Snapshots of Morocco

Revisiting Taïa’s modest yet grand literary debut

3 min readJul 29, 2023

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Abdellah Taïa: Snapshots of Morocco

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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…

3 min readJun 9, 2023

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Constance Debré: the Nouveau Enfant Terrible of French Literature?

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Fatima Daas: Existence at the Intersections

A self-described intersectional feminist, Daas writes to offer a glimpse of her reality and how it connects to larger struggles of…

3 min readJun 6, 2023

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Fatima Daas: Existence at the Intersections

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Of Pig and Men: Thomas Coop-Phane’s Le Procès du cochon

Judging an animal may seem anthropocentric and absurd to us, but to some Europeans before the Enlightenment it seemed like the right thing…

3 min readDec 24, 2022

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Of Pig and Men: Thomas Coop-Phane’s Le Procès du cochon

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Virginie Despentes’ King Kong Theory: Feminist Theory for the Masses

Despentes’ now canonical collection of essays has made feminist theory accessible to a wide readership

2 min readJun 22, 2022

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Virginie Despentes’ King Kong Theory: Feminist Theory for the Masses

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Beyond Good and Evil: Ahmadou Kourouma’s The Suns of Independence

The classic postcolonial novel by Kourouma does far more than criticize colonialism and political instability in his native Ivory Coast

3 min readFeb 12, 2022

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Beyond Good and Evil: Ahmadou Kourouma’s The Suns of Independence

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Traveling to Your Drawers and Wardrobes With Bachelard: Poetics of Space

Bachelard helps us think of space and objects in new ways

3 min readFeb 4, 2022

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Traveling to Your Drawers and Wardrobes With Bachelard: Poetics of Space

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Like Any Other? : Annie Ernaux’s A Woman Story

There is something bittersweet about the fact that Annie Ernaux’s most popular book remains A Man’s Place (Fr: La place). On one hand, La…

4 min readDec 21, 2021

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Like Any Other? : Annie Ernaux’s A Woman Story

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A Season In The Life of Emmanuel: Witnessing a Nation’s Transformation

In her novel A Season In The Life of Emmanuel Québecoise writer Marie-Claire Blais uses a rural family to show the transformation her…

5 min readJul 26, 2021

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A Season In The Life of Emmanuel: Witnessing a Nation’s Transformation

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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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