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P's Three Women
Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes, Margaret A. Neves
In a picaresque journey from youth to old age, P., a wealthy
businessman who abhors his real name, tells the stories of his
three greatest passions, his three greatest affairs, his three most erotic encounters: a married woman, a demanding . . .
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With the Animals
Noëlle Revaz, W. Donald Wilson
Considered the standard-bearer for the great Franco-Swiss literary tradition, exemplified by authors such as Jacques Chessex and C. F. Ramuz, Noëlle Revaz may also remind English-language readers of Louis-Ferdinand Céline . . .
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Walaschek's Dream
Giovanni Orelli, Jamie Richards
Giovanni Orelli's docufictional phantasmagoria revisits a lesser-known painting by Paul Klee titled Alphabet I, which features black letters and symbols scrawled over the sports page of a newspaper reporting the results of the 1938 Swiss National Cup . .
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Hotel Europa
Dumitru Tsepeneag, Patrick Camiller
The author-narrator, a Romanian émigré with a French wife, tells with great insight and humor the story of a young student's life and education as he passes from post-Ceausescu Romania through an unwelcoming Western Europe . . .
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