At his La république des livres weblog Pierre Assouline reports on L'angoisse de Milan Kundera -- the anguish of Milan Kundera -- quoting at length from a recent speech Kundera gave when he accepted the Prix de la BnF (the French national library) a few weeks ago.
Kundera said:
C’est à cause de cette angoisse que, depuis plusieurs années déjà, j’ajoute à tous mes contrats, partout, une clause stipulant que mes romans ne peuvent être publiés que sous la forme traditionnelle du livre.
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Two weeks ago I reported on the best-selling French novelists of 2010; now L'Express provides a list of the thirty best-selling titles in France in 2010, in Le palmarès des ventes de livres 2010 (with sales figures !). Indignez-vous... Read Post
As Mohammed Aissaoui reports in Le Figaro, Milan Kundera entre dans La Pléiade -- noteworthy because: "Il en est le seul écrivain vivant", i.e. he is (currently) the only living author in the esteemed French equivalent of the Librar... Read Post
French author Thierry Jonquet has passed away; see, for example, the short note at Pierre Assouline's La république des livres. The only Jonquet title available in English is Mygale (published in the UK as Tarantula; d... Read Post