Over twenty years ago, Godine published the first English translation of Georges Perec's masterpiece, Life A User's Manual, hailed by the Times Literary Supplement, Boston ...

A collection of essays on poetry by the noted French writer

The Year Is 1968, and as France is torn apart by social and political anarchy, the noted eccentric and insomniac Anton Vowl goes missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, his best ...

Queneau uses a variety of literary styles and forms in ninety-nine exercises which retell the same story about a minor brawl aboard a bus

Écrite en dépit de radicales réticences vis-à-vis du genre romanesque, la trilogie d'Hortense conte avec une légèreté feinte les aventures romanesques d'une héroïne un peu ...

A sometimes mocking, sometimes poignant tribute to the City of Light.