The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men simply waiting for someone—or something—named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own consciousness. Th…
Prix Médicis 1966.Dans un monde hostile et froid, où la mort et la maladie sont partout présentes, où régnent la misère et l'obscurité, des enfants cherchent, à l'ombre de leur grand-mère toute-puissa…
Cachée derrière les rideaux de se chambre, une prostituée patiente entre deux clients. L'attente se nourrit du souvenir : une famille dévote, une mère absente et un père distrait. Et parfois la jouiss…
The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope.
Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime which mirrors the predicament of the French people of …
Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar transla…
In this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail , Ruth Harwood Cline restores to life the thematically crucial Arthurian tale of the education of a knight in his search for the Holy …
