This book is a collection of some very good short stories of some of the best contemporary French authors. Carefully selected and translated. Besides Sartre, Camus and Beckett (and I wish there was a place for Simone de Beauvoir too) I really liked Boris Vian's Les Fourmis from his book with the sam...
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I suspect that the accompanying text will not be of too much interest to Proust 'hands', and is a bit eccentric by any measure. Some of the photos are quite interesting -- period shots of buildings and so forth. But even here, one often can't tell from the caption what is in the photo, both captions...
Borges and IThe other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to. I walk through the streets of Buenos Aires and stop for a moment, perhaps mechanically now, to look at the arch of an entrance hall and the grillwork on the gate; I know of Borges from the mail and see his name on the lis...