Category Archives: France
The Women on the 6th Floor
In the 60′s in Paris, a very conservative couple is faced with a group of Spanish maids who live on the 6th (and last) floor of the building owned by the very same couple. A new maid turns up to … Continue reading
The Equation of Love and Death (李米的猜想)
I have decided that contemporary French and Chinese movies have quite a bit in common. This includes people smoking all the time and yelling at each other every five minutes or so. There’s also a fair amount of drinking going … Continue reading
Flowers in Lorraine, France
It’s funny how sometimes you are so used to seeing things that your eyes just glaze over them. Going back to Lorraine in North East France last summer – which is where I grew up – I rode my bike … Continue reading
Ajaccio, Corsica, a jewel in the Mediterranean
I had been to Corsica before, but only to the Northern part of the island: Cap Corse, Calvi, Bastia, and the mountains inside the island, but never to the South. I spent a few hours in Ajaccio last summer and … Continue reading
Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey
Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey, was nominated for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. It is loosely based on Alexis de Tocqueville‘s journey in America. Tocqueville was a French aristocrat who in the early 1800’s wrote what was … Continue reading
Little White Lies
I recently asked a friend of mine if he wanted to go and see a French movie, and his answer was, “I’d love to, but to be honest I am not very keen on French movies. They have no plot.” … Continue reading
Lissa Oliver: “Chantilly Dawns”
Hi Lissa, could you please describe yourself in five words? Addicted and passionate for writing! What can you tell us about “Chantilly Dawns“? It was written as a psychological drama, exploring a young man’s emotional destruction as he loses his job … Continue reading
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The Insomnia of Stars (L’insomnie des etoiles), by Marc Dugain
Marc Dugain is a French novelist who became famous for The Officers’ Ward (1999), a novel set in World War I. His latest novel, L’insomnie des etoiles takes places at the end of World War II, in Nazi-torn Germany. The Allied Forces, the French ones … Continue reading
