Introduction to Roussel
Roussel's Impressions of Africa can be challenging without a minimum of context. Here it is: a minimum of context.
Topic
french literature
A collection of 4 issues
Contre-voyages
In the interwar period, a cluster of works out of France did something strange with the travel-writing genre. They took it apart, limb by limb. This series attempts to make sense of this moment, collectively, and the individual works that contributed to it.
Birds of paradise, Night Flight edition
Perhaps Saint-Exupéry's novel about air mail in South America will help us grasp the reason for LAPD's helicopter division
Forever Valley
Redonnet's novel about a sixteen-year-old digging holes for the dead is a signature occasion for serious reading