An emerging genre of fiction in France is providing an unlikely brand of escapism.
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The French writer’s work and life make perfect cinematic subjects.
Proust’s masterpiece À La Recherche du Temps Perdu reveals how people’s irrational beliefs become entrenched.
Two women writers died in July 1817. One was Jane Austen. The other was much more famous.
Macron’s portrait and taste in literature are full of political symbols to be sussed.
There was more than meets the eye to one of the most famous versions of Beauty and the Beast.
Though sharing with Fifty Shades the overall themes of sexual domination and submission, Story of O remains a work of substantial literary merit.
When translating The 120 Days of Sodom, we had a duty to be just as rude, crude, and revolting as Sade.
The French novel uniquely blends social critique, personal struggle, entertainment and aesthetics – underpinned by an irony that winks at human weakness. Can it help us in these dark days of extremist violence?
The original book is one of the most influential French crime novels, but the film is an utter flop.
When gunmen (thought to be radicalized Muslims) burst into the offices of Charlie Hebdo on the morning of January 7, the front page of the satirical newspaper’s most recent edition featured a caricature…
As part of its revamp of the A Level curriculum, the government has launched a consultation on the way modern languages are taught at sixth form. If introduced, the changes herald a real boost to the teaching…
Liberté, égalité, infidélité. The three stout pillars of the French constitution. Mitterrand, Chirac, Sarkozy, and now François Hollande: it’s a grand tradition – and if you tot their conquests up they…
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