French authors
Auteurs francophones traduits en anglais
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'On the morning of April 16, Dr Rieux emerged from his consulting-room and came across a dead rat in the middle of the landing.' It starts with the rats. Vomiting blood, they die in their hundreds, then in their thousands. When the rats are all gone, the citizens begin to fall sick. Like the rats, they too die in ever greater numbers.
The authorities quarantine the town. Cut off, the terrified townspeople must face this horror alone. Some resign themselves to death or the whims of fate. Others seek someone to blame or dream of revenge. One is determined to escape.
But a few, like stoic Dr Rieux, stand together to fight the terror. A monstrous evil has entered their lives but they will never surrender to it.
They will resist the plague.
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Notre-Dame de Paris
Victor Hugo
- Oxford university press english language teacher
- 1 May 2009
- 9780199555802
Dans le Paris du XVe siècle, la belle Esméralda fait battre le coeur de tous. Mais la jeune bohémienne n'a d'yeux que pour le capitaine Phoebus. Enlevée par l'archidiacre Frollo qui la convoite, sauvée par Quasimodo, le sonneur de cloches difforme, elle sera finalement accusée de sorcellerie, puis pendue.
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Version anglaise de «L'homme semence» de Violette Ailhaud traduit par Nancy Huston.
En 1852, Violette Ailhaud est en âge de se marier quand son village des Basses-Alpes est brutalement privé de tous ses hommes par la répression qui suit le soulèvement républicain de décembre 1851. Deux ans passent dans un isolement total. Entre femmes, serment est fait que si un homme vient, il sera leur mari commun, afin que la vie continue dans le ventre de chacune.
«It came from the farthest depths of the valley. Long before it forded the river, long before its shadow interrupted the gleam of water between sandbars like a slow blink, we knew it was a man. Our empty, husbandless women's bodies had started thrumming in a way there was no mistaking. In unison, our exhausted arms left off stacking hay. Glancing at one another, each and all of us remembered our oath. We grasped hands, squeezing each other's hands so hard that our knuckles fairly snapped - our dream, icy with fear and burning with desire, had been set into motion.» Postface de l'historien Jean-Marie Guillon de l'université de Provence, membre de l'association 1851.
Édité sous forme d'un petit livre, ce texte a touché de nombreuses personnes grâce à un bouche-à-oreille qui n'a cessé de s'amplifier. Parmi les lecteurs, un certain nombre d'artistes ont mis leur art au service du témoignage de Violette Ailhaud. Le théâtre, la danse, le conte, la lecture, la gravure, le cinéma et la bande dessinée ont formé une ronde d'interprétations qui permet à ce texte universel de faire le tour de la Terre.
« L'homme semence » a également été traduit et édité en allemand, en italien, en suédois, en espagnol, en néerlandais, en anglais et en occitan provençal. Le film de Marine Francen, « Le Semeur », est sorti le 15 novembre 2017.
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The masterpiece
Emile Zola
- Oxford university press english language teacher
- 1 July 2008
- 9780199536917
The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude's originality is mocked at the Salon and turns gradually into a doomed obsession with one great canvas. Life - in the form of his model and wife Christine and their deformed child Jacques - is sacrificed on the altar of Art.
The Masterpiece is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it provides a unique insight into his career as a writer and his relationship with Cézanne, a friend since their schooldays in Aix-en-Provence. It also presents a well-documented account of the turbulent Bohemia world in which the Impressionists came to prominence despit the conservatism of the Academy and the ridicule of the general public.
Readership: Students of French literature, history, art, and culture.
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In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elzeard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzeard sorting and then planting hundreds of acorns as he walks through the wilderness.
Ten years later, after the war, he visits the shepherd again and sees the young forest he has created spreading slowly over the valley. Elzeard's solitary, silent work continues and the narrator returns year after year to see the miracle he is gradually creating: a verdant, green landscape that is a testament to one man's creative instinct.
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This volume contains English translations of three plays by Ionesco, one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd. Tragic, farcical, alive and kicking, they can be read as a way to liberation.
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En 1664, Dom Juan déchaîne le scandale et soulève les passions. Molière a déjà ridiculisé la société de son temps, précieux, marquis, médecins, dévots. Le personnage de Dom Juan, figure exemplaire de l'impiété et de l'athéisme, lui offre un sujet plus dangereux encore. Ce grand seigneur est le diable en personne. Il blasphème, méprise ses créanciers, étincelle d'esprit et de méchanceté. Il séduit mille femmes, pour les humilier après. À ses côtés, son valet, Sganarelle, est terrorisé par son insolence, son aisance, son cynisme.
Aujourd'hui encore, le génie et le miracle de Molière, dont la voix s'élève chaque soir dans tous les théâtres du monde, nous fait rire et frémir.
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Modern fiction
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General & literary fiction/Classic fictionClassic action-packed historical adventure.
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