"Available in English for the first time, the latest astonishing, bestselling, and award-winning book by Annie Ernaux. The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present -- even projections into the future -- photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect,...

Kindhearted, but confused activist Andrew Markovski hires a pair of eccentric 'existential detectives' to help him find the meaning of life. All the while, a sexy, French author is trying to throw a wrench in their plan by seducing Andrew's mind and body.

After marrying 'Willy', a successful Parisian writer, Colette is transplanted to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation, inspiring additional Claudine novels. Colette's fight over creative ownership and gender roles drives her to overcome societal constraints, revolutionizing...

"The story of how Victor Hugo wrote Les Misérables and why it became among the most influential and protean works of art ever created"--

"Una carretera rural del sur de Francia, un hombre surge de la oscuridad y desencadena una serie de extraños acontecimientos, convirtiendo en una pesadilla las vidas del escritor Bert Amandale y su amigo Chucks Basil, una estrella de rock en horas bajas. Santiago se sirve de un escenario idílico e inquietante, en el corazón de la Provenza, para atraparnos en una historia que se lee compulsivamente y en la que late, de fondo, el destino de unos...

Using selected texts, photographs, and previously unpublished documents, Catherine Camus takes readers through the fascinating life and work of her father, Albert Camus, who, in his defense of the individual, also saw himself as the voice of the downtrodden. Writer, journalist, philosopher, playwright, and producer, he was a shining defender of freedom, whose art and person were dedicated to serving the dignity in humanity.

Raul Ruiz's most ambitious literary adaptation and considered his greatest cinematic achievement. The movie distills all of Marcel Proust's iconic In Search of Lost Time into a single epic feature.