french books

French Book: Amélie Nothomb relooke Barbe bleue
En France, la rentrée littéraire bat son plein. Zoom sur Barbe bleue, le dernier roman…


French fairytales: Amélie Nothomb gives 'Barbe-Bleue' a makeover
Will she be able to save herself? In this novel, Nothomb explores the nature of…


Top 3 new francophile reads: France between book covers
When I’m not living or traveling in France, I do one of the next best…


Interview with Anne Trager of Le French Book
“Translation is about recreating an experience you have reading, which necessarily means some kind of…


What the French Révolution means to me
I want to shove underlined passages under the noses of uninterested Frenchmen, to point to…


Villes françaises: Montreuil-sur-Mer - the town that inspired 'Les Misérables'
I could hardly believe my eyes as I drove through a huge archway and into…

French literature sans translation
You cannot beat a good book in its original language. Reading a novel in its original version permits one to wholly understand what the author wanted to get across.