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Dominic DiBernardi

Translations by Dominic DiBernardi

by Jacques Roubaud
Translated by Dominic DiBernardi
Original title: Enlèvement d'Hortense

The second installment in Roubaud's popular and widely acclaimed "Hortense" series opens with a murder of a dog at the Church of Sainte-Gudule. Chief Inspector Blognard and his sidekick Arap de are on the scene, as is our narrator, Jacques Roubaud. While they track down the Poldevian criminal, (more...)

Hortense in Exile [Buy Direct]

by Jacques Roubaud
Translated by Dominic DiBernardi
Original title: Exil d'Hortense

Set to marry Gormansko, the Premier Prince Presumptive, our beautiful heroine Hortense has been exiled to Queneau'stown, where she finds herself in a real-life production of Hamlet —or is it Hatmel, the original Poldevian tal e scandalously plagiarized by that Englishma (more...)

Great Fire of London [Buy Direct]

by Jacques Roubaud
Translated by Dominic DiBernardi
Original title: Grand incendie de Londres

"I've devoted myself to the enterprise of destroying my memory. . . . I set fire to it, and with its debris I charcoal-scrawl the paper." Part novel and part autobiography, The Great Fire of London is one of the grea t literary undertakings of the last fifty years. At various (more...)

Mise-en-Scene [Buy Direct]

by Claude Ollier
Translated by Dominic DiBernardi
Original title: Mise-en-Scène

First published in France in 1958 and winner of the prestigious Prix Medecis, The Mise-en-Scene takes place in the mountains of Morocco when the French still controlled North Africa. An engineer named Lassalle has been sent from France to plan a road through the mountains. Althoug (more...)

Disconnection [Buy Direct]

by Claude Ollier
Translated by Dominic DiBernardi
Original title: Déconnection

In two interconnected, alternating stories, Claude Ollier has written a disturbing, haunting, apocalyptic novel that brings together the end of the Third Reich with the closing of the twentieth century. The first is the autobiographical story of Martin, a French student conscripted into a mun (more...)

Cave of Heaven [Buy Direct]

by Patrick Grainville
Translated by Dominic DiBernardi
Original title: Caverne céleste

This extravagant novel marks the English-language debut of one of France's most exciting and controversial writers. At the center is a mysterious excavation site in southwest France, where the skull of a 500,000-year-old man has been discovered. Simon, a journalist assigned to do a story on t (more...)

Mordechai Schamz [Buy Direct]

by Marc Cholodenko
Translated by Dominic DiBernardi
Original title: Mordechai Schamz

In a series of comic vignettes and letters, Mordechai Schamz sets out to investigate himself, his world, and the language which makes them both intelligible. Dumbfounded at every turn and undiscoura ged by—perhaps even unaware of—his failures, he confidently gets lost in the la (more...)

Street Girl [Buy Direct]

by Muriel Cerf
Translated by Dominic DiBernardi
Original title: Les Rois et les voleurs

Street Girl is no ordinary coming-of-age novel, but rather an apprenticeship of the imagination. Lydie Tristan, a renegade born into a postwar European world that craves stability, is nourished in childhood by exotic fantasies while menaced by real-life t eachers and parents who lash o (more...)

London Bridge [Buy Direct]

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Translated by Dominic DiBernardi
Original title: Pont de Londres

In this widely acclaimed translation, Dominic DiBernardi expertly captures Celine's trademark style of prose which has served as inspiration to such American writers as Philip Roth, Kurt Vonnegut, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Norman Mailer and Joseph Heller. One o (more...)

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ape [Buy Direct]

by Michel Butor
Translated by Dominic DiBernardi
Original title: Portrait de l'artiste en jeune singe

Like James Joyce's and D ylan Thomas's similar titles, Butor's novel is autobiographical in nature and explores the way a writer develops. Shortly after World War II a young man travels to a castle in Franconia housing the second largest private library in Germany. There he disco v ers a m (more...)

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