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Tag Archives: French
The Cotton Fortress (La forteresse de coton) by Philippe Curval
“The Cotton Fortress” or, more accurately, “the Cotton Castle” is the meaning of the Turkish name Pamukkale given to the thermal water resort famous for its snow-white travertine terraces formed by the calcium carbonide-rich springs over millennia. According to the … Continue reading
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Tagged French, La forteresse de coton, Philippe Curval, The Cotton Fortress
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Bastard Battle by Céline Minard
Céline Minard’s novel is written in a brilliant pastiche of Middle French speckled with amusing anachronisms. She has drawn inspiration from Jean Froissart’s Chronicles as well as Villon’s poems and Rabelais’ satirical pentalogy. The other major source of influence lies in … Continue reading
Guest Post: Simon Collings on Georges Limbour
Michel Leiris, writing in Atoll in 1968, described the writer Georges Limbour as: ‘a great poet in every heart-beat of what he wrote, but a poet without fanfare or vain display’. In ‘a society less gross than ours’ Leiris went on to … Continue reading
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Tagged French, Georges Limbour, Jean Dubuffet, Simon Collings, Surrealism
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