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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Venices	Paul Morand	This autobiography is a poetic evocation of certain scenes of Morand's varied encounters & experiences. All this is filtered through the one constant in his life - the one place to which he would alw…	OL1331587W
La Nuit / L'Aube / Le Jour	Elie Wiesel	Contains: [La Nuit](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14856842W/La_Nuit) L'Aube Le Jour	OL14856828W
Camus, a romance	Elizabeth Hawes	Elizabeth Hawes, from the writing of her college honors thesis on Albert Camus, began a forty-year quest to create a portrait of Camus as a man and writer. She chronicles her own experiences as she f…	OL16163883W
Coma	Pierre Guyotat	A poetic exploration of trauma and renewal from the last avant-garde visionary of the twentieth century. The novelist and playwright Pierre Guyotat has been called the last great avant-garde visio…	OL16413815W
Especes D'Especes (Collection Ecritures-figures)	Georges Perec	Georges Perec contempla las muchas maneras en que ocupamos el espacio que nos rodea, describe los elementos comunes con los que estamos familiarizados de una manera sorprendente y engorrosa, mientras…	OL1715289W
The pilot and the little prince	Peter Sís	Antoine de Saint-Exupery was born in France in 1900, when airplanes were just being invented. Antoine dreamed of flying and grew up to be a pilot--and that was when his adventures began. He found a j…	OL19977207W
33 days	Léon Werth	"A rare eyewitness account by an important author of fleeing the Nazis' march on Paris in 1940, featuring a never-before-published introduction by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. In June of 1940, Leon Wert…	OL20002638W
Looking for the stranger	Alice Yaeger Kaplan	"A National Book Award-finalist biographer tells the story of how a young man in his 20s who had never written a novel turned out a masterpiece that still grips readers more than 70 years later and i…	OL20035882W
Flaubert in the ruins of Paris	Peter Brooks	"In 1869, Gustave Flaubert published what he considered to be his masterwork novel, A Sentimental Education, which told a deeply human and deeply pessimistic story of the 1848 revolutions. The book w…	OL20052762W
Autoportrait en vert	Marie NDiaye	"It seems there is no genre of writing Marie NDiaye will not make her own. Asked to write a memoir, she turned in this paranoid fantasia of rising floodwaters, walking corpses, eerie depictions of he…	OL2082301W
The pilot and the little prince	Peter Sís	The life of Antoine De Saint-Exupery.	OL24846268W
Madame du Deffand and Her World	Benedetta Craveri	Biography of Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, Madame du Deffand. Madame du Deffand, a popular and influential Parisian salon hostess, was widely respected for her keen wit and intellect, and she was a…	OL3507833W
Science fiction pioneer	Thomas Streissguth	Follows the life of the well-known novelist from his childhood in Nantes, France, to his career as a successful fiction writer whose imaginative works often gave glimpses into the future.	OL441730W
A mind of her own	Tamara Hovey	A biography of the nineteenth-century French author who defied many social conventions in order to live and write as she wanted.	OL4446500W
Marguerite de Navarre	Patricia Francis Cholakian	Sister to the king of France, queen of Navarre, gifted writer, religious reformer, and patron of the arts - in her many roles, Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) was one of the most important figures …	OL4452534W
What Is There to Say?	Ann Smock	"Herman Melville's Bartleby, asked to a account for himself, "would prefer not to." Tongue-tied Billy Budd, urged to defend his innocence, responds with a murderous blow. The Bavard, by Louis-Rene de…	OL5100421W
Mistress to an Age	J. Christopher Herold	J. Christopher Herold vigorously tells the story of the fierce Madame de Stael, revealing her courageous opposition to Napoleon, her whirlwind affairs with the great intellectuals of her day, and her…	OL5105957W
Friend and foe	Frederick John Harris	"Marcel Proust and Andre Gide precipitated the French defeat to Germany in 1940 - this according to a press campaign organized by Marshal Petain's puppet government at Vichy. Proust and Gide clearly …	OL5904109W
Dinner at Magny's	Robert Baldick	253 p. : 22 cm	OL7285942W
Memoirs of an egoist	Stendahl.,Stendhal	Written in 1832, three years before The Life of Henry Brulard (which recounts the author?s boyhood and youth), Memoirs of Egotism forms the essential middle section of Stendhal?s intended autobiograp…	OL733412W