7 November 2015

Boualem Sansal: Rue Darwin (2011)

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Rue Darwin is the final book in the six-novel Romans 1999–2011 collection, and although it's tempting I'll be making a pause o...
5 November 2015

Boualem Sansal: Le Village de l'Allemand, ou Le journal des frères Schiller (2008)

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Le Village de l'Allemand, ou Le journal des frères Schiller is the other novel of Boualem Sansal's which has been translated in...
4 November 2015

Boualem Sansal: Harraga (2005)

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Harraga, I believe, is one of only two of Boualem Sansal's novels that have been translated into English. Bizarrely, two English-sp...
1 November 2015

Boualem Sansal: Dis-moi le paradis (2003)

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In my post below on Boualem Sansal's Le Serment des barbares I mentioned his fondness for quoting from books. More than halfway t...

Boualem Sansal: L'Enfant fou de l'arbre creux (2000)

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L’enfant fou de l’arbre creux (lit. The Mad Boy in the Hollow Tree ) is set in the present day in the Algerian prison of Lambèse, where...
30 October 2015

Boualem Sansal: Le Serment des barbares (1999)

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I suspect that a major reason why Gallimard brought out this collection of all of the six novels that Boualem Sansal published before t...
27 October 2015

Régis Jauffret: Claustria (2012)

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There's a sort of legal disclaimer at the front of this book, stating that it's a work of fiction, as of course you'd expect ...

Paris 2015: Cimetière parisien de Bagneux #12: François-Charles Barlet

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'ALBERT FAUCHEUX DIT F.-CH. BARLET 1838 – 1921' François-Charles Barlet was an occulist and had similar interests to thos...

Paris 2015: Cimetière parisien de Bagneux #11: Semyon Yushkevich

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'SEMEON JONCHKEVITCH NÉ LE 6 DÉCEMBRE 1869 MORT LE 12 FÉVRIER 1927' I've not been able to discover much about this...

Paris 2015: Cimetière parisien de Bagneux #10: Brigitte Gros

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'BRIGITTE GROS NÉE SERVAN-SCHREIBER LE 12 JUIN 1925 SÉNATEUR MAIRE DE MEULAN 1965 – 1985 DÉCÉDÉE LE 11 MARS 1985' ...
26 October 2015

Paris 2015: Cimetière parisien de Bagneux #9: Pierre Morhange

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'PIERRE MORHANGE POÈTE 1901 – 1972' Pierre was a poet born into a Jewish family and was a teacher of Philosophy. ...

Paris 2015: Cimetière parisien de Bagneux #8: Jehan-Rictus

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'Voui, dormir... n'pus jamais rouvrir Mes falots sanglants su'la Vie, Et dès lorss ne pus rien savoir Des espoirs ou des ...

Paris 2015: Cimetière parisien de Bagneux #7: Barbara

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'MONIQUE SERF DITE BARBARA 1930 – 1997' The family plot of Barbara, one of France's greatest singer-songwriters. ...
25 October 2015

Paris 2015: Cimetière parisien de Bagneux #6: Rachilde and Alfred Valette

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'MME ALFRED VALETTE "RACHILDE" 1860 – 1955' The grave of Rachilde (née Marguerite Eymery) and her husband A...

Paris 2015: Cimetière parisien de Bagneux #5: Francis Carco

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'FRANCIS CARCO DE L'ACADÉMIE GONCOURT 1886 – 1958' Francis Carco was born in Nouméa, New Caledonia, which he ...

Paris 2015: Cimetière parisien de Bagneux #4: Bernard Frank

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This is by no means an easy grave to find, particularly as it doesn't appear to have a single legible word on it.  And there are othe...
24 October 2015

Paris 2015: Cimetière parisien de Bagneux #3: Jean Paulhan

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'JEAN PAULHAN 1884–1968' In   photographs the Paulhan family tomb looks deceptively tall, whereas in reality it stands at l...
23 October 2015

Paris 2015: Cimetière parisien de Bagneux #2: Alfred Jarry

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The unnamed grave of Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) is fittingly bizarre. Jarry had a huge influence on a large number of people and lit...

Paris 2015: Cimetière parisien de Bagneux #1: Armando Chirveches

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The grave of Armando Chirveches is written in Spanish: 'AQUI REPOSAN LOS RESTOS DEL ESCRITOR Y DIPLOMATICO BOLIVIANO ARMANDO CHI...
21 October 2015

'Walt Whitman: The Commercialization of an American Icon' by Ed Centeno

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On seeing my blog post here following my visit to Walt Whitman's birthplace in Huntington Station, Long Island last year, Ed Centeno ...