French artist Henri Rivière (1864–1951) was one of the first to attempt to replicate not just the visual vocabulary of the Japanese masters, but also their printing methods.
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Les Malheurs des immortels (The Misfortunes of the Immortals) was an altogether more experimental collaboration, one that challenged traditional conceptions of what illustrations could or should do.
At first glance, it is difficult to conceive of Nos Invisibles (1907) as a controversial text. Its pages contain dreamy ruminations on the quest for spiritual serenity and “the mystery of eternal life”, interspersed with elegant illustrations by the Italian watercolourist Raffaele Mainella that conjure celestial bodies and the healing power of nature.
In October 1895, a curious announcement appeared in The Lark, a now-defunct literary magazine based out of San Francisco.
When the Brigade de Sûreté was set up in Paris in 1812, it was a first of its kind: a criminal investigation bureau composed of undercover officers, which would later evolve into France’s national police force.
When I was a child, my dad used to tell a funny story about my brother falling out of a window. Louis was five at the time, and they were at my grandmother’s flat in the north of England. It was an ex-council housing complex, the ceilings were mean and low, but it was the second floor nonetheless…
A review of Laurent Mauvignier’s The Birthday Party
Very few of Duras’s works have remained untranslated for so long, which poses the obvious question of why. Was the delay simply a product of happenstance? Or is this early novel not very good?
When Paris’ infamous museum of anatomical pathology closed its doors in 2016, a controversial collection disappeared from view.
Like Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping or Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting, Emmanuel Carrère’s Yoga has the merit of not living up to the promise of its title.
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