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Posts Tagged with ‘France’

  • The War: A Memoir – Marguerite Duras

    01 May 2019

      Marguerite Donnadieu was seventeen years old when she moved to France from a small village near Saigon, Vietnam, where…

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  • Translation: What Goes Missing in Love

    11 Mar 2017

    As an excursion away from politics and the mysteries of man’s love-affairs with war I picked up an old classic,…

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  • Andre Malraux — Man in his Violence

    14 Dec 2016

    Andre Malraux was the quintessential adventurer-intellectual of the between the World War years.  Man’s Hope was on 1960s high school…

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  • Under Fire: A French Novel of WW I Trenches

    14 Nov 2012

      Although All Quiet on the Western Front is the best known, and possibly the best written, novel of soldiers…

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  • The French Resistance, A Priest and Dammed Desire

    01 Aug 2012

    Updated at * below… Jean-Pierre Melville, whose well-regarded noir gangster film are on every Francophile or film-buff’s list of must-sees,…

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  • The Red and The Black: Love and Ambition in a time of Revolution

    07 Feb 2012

    If it has been years since you attended to Stendhal’s great novel, The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of…

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  • Inch’ Allah Dimanche: Algerian Immigrants to France

    16 Jun 2011

    Immigration is big in the news these days – mostly the opposition to it–  around the world.  It is absolutely…

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  • Potiche – Trophy Wife, a frothy French Labor Film

    02 Apr 2011

    We took a flyer last night on Potiche – Trophy Wife, based on Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu being the leads.…

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  • Army of Crime — Immigrants Who Fought for France, A Film

    26 Mar 2011

    My dear Melinée, my beloved little orphan, In a few hours I will no longer be of this world. We…

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  • Chabrol’s Eye on the Eye of Vichy

    16 Sep 2010

    Claude Chabrol (and here and here,) one of the founders of French New Wave Cinema and director of some 50…

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  • Surprises in France

    19 May 2007

    Nicolas Sarkozy, the newly elected President of France, who famously courted Jean Le Pen, the extreme right winger, during the…

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  • Les Femmes et Les Hommes

    04 May 2007

    “…she is looking at him, and he is looking at his audience…” A friend, a fine writer and translator, Allison…

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