My Digital Library

Aymé – Le passe muraille

This book is a collection of short stories by Marcel Aymé – who writes in a fantastic Parisian realism – that is at the same time evocative and realistic, and another fantastical. I love this collection. Read it enthusiastically in grad school – even though it is rarely read in an acdemic context (not “serious” enough maybe).

A man named Dutilleul lived in Montmartre. Having just begun his…

My digital library, one book at a time

Ten books down, about 3,000 to go. I have a few hundred already scanned, but most of my library is still to go…

Well, it’s about time – I’ve finally updated some texts online. I have two types of books online: ones I have collected from other sources (as I wanted to provide a consolidated library of French ebooks) and books that are exclusive to my website.

I originally planned on including…

La vie devant soi, par Romain Gary

I’m finally reading this book – I’ve owned since the 1980s. For some reason I’ve had a block against tackling this classic. I remember it being introduced in a XXth century literature class by Marc Bertrand at Stanford University. Maybe some of my resistance recently was due to the suicide of Romain Gary and, previously, his wife Jean Seberg – actress in Rosemary’s baby.[gview…

Here are some new scans. Excerpts and blog posts are not up yet.

Oct 4 Ayme-Marcel_Contes-du-chat-perche_folio.pdf Stendhal_Chartreuse-de-Parme_Folio.pdf Valery_Regards-sur-le-monde-actuel_GallimardNRF-1945-1961.pdf beckett par lui-même MALRAUX_critique-de-notre-temps_Garnier-1971 Malraux_Les-conquerants_poche-1961 Bernanos_Nouvelle-histoire-de-Mouchette_Poche-1967

Oct 6 Villard-Marc_Jaura…

Exercises systématique de prononciation. Vol II

Volume 2 (more…)

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Emmanuel Carrère “La classe de neige”

Emmanuel Carrère (born 9 December 1957) is a French author, screenwriter and director.

    He is the son of Louis Édouard Carrère, often known as Louis Carrère d’Encausse, after his wife, the historian and Académie française member, Hélène Carrère d’Encausse. Carrère studied at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (better known as Sciences Po). Much of his writing, both fiction and…

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We are moving ebooks from scribd.com

Hi – books are temporarily disabled for the time being on scribd.com. we are migrating to another site. I would be curious to know from our readers which sites they might recommend? I am looking for document hosting for pdf files (mainly). So far I have been using issuu.com and calameo.com

Do you have recommendations for others?

Marc

Hi there – dropbox documents are blocked as it is using too much bandwidth. I will need to correct this by transfering documents elsewhere. You can email me if you want to see something right away. marc

Livres audio accessibles à tous

- Au fil des lectures : Retrouvez sur ce site créé par Victoria de très nombreuses lectures de grande qualité, notamment des grands auteurs classiques français : Maupassant, Flaubert, Balzac, etc.

- Audiocite.net: Le site…

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via Decouverte Et Creation.

This is the textbook we used as graduate students to teach French at Stanford University in the 1980s:

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via Lagarde et Michard.

A classic edition of a classic anthology of French literature. I read it in its entirety in the early 1980s

Still contains great selections.

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via Je Me Souviens.

I say this is not by georges perec, as someone else riffed on a similar theme. But the result is no less interesting. Ask students what they remember. A good & painless way to practice the construction Je…