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The past is a haunted place in Fred Vargas’s L’Armée furieuse
The theme of this year’s Reading Group at the Institut français (http://bit.ly/1TzgI5I) is Testing translations, but there is a definite...


Le Condottière: Georges Perec’s Artistry
It seemed fitting that amid all the furore around the supposed disappearance of the circumflex accent in French, the Reading Group at the...


Michel Houellebecq’s Mapping of French Culture
We kicked off the new year with an absolutely electric session of the Reading Group at the Institut français on Jan 14. Here's the...

A Life in Fiction: Emmanuel Carrère’s Limonov
Leading the Reading Group at the Institut français is proving to be an incredibly enjoyable experience. With reading being a solitary –...
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