Emmanuel Bove, Author Carcanet Press, $0 (150p) ISBN 978-0-85635-643-8
This wistful, sad little French novel from the 1920s is here translated into English for the first time. Bove, who died in 1945, has regularly been admired by other writers but never by a wide audience. His melancholy clown, Baton, is a damaged...
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Emmanuel Bove, Author, Dominic Di Bernardi, Translator Marlboro Press $18.95 (187p) ISBN 978-0-910395-69-4
Bridet, the timid, melancholy protagonist of Bove's (1898-1945) searing novella set in 1940, four months after France's defeat, is avid to flee from Lyon to England. Resigned about leaving his ``pro-Hitler'' wife, Yolande, a milliner whom he still...
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Emmanuel Bove, Author, Carol Volk, Translator Four Walls Eight Windows $14.95 (467p) ISBN 978-0-941423-98-4
Written shortly before he died in July 1945, the last works by the prolific French author of Quicksand really had to be published together. It's not just that they make a continuous narrative, but had Night Departure been published alone, it would...
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Emmanuel Bove, Author, Nathalie Favre-Gilly, Translator Marlboro Press $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56897-029-5
Written in the late '30s but not published until 1991, Bove's novel is not a book for the sentimentally inclined. Revisiting many of the psychological nooks and crannies of A Singular Man , it is filled with self-involved characters who, if not...
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Emmanuel Bove, Author, Nathalie Favre-Gilly, Translator, Keith Botsford, Afterword by Marlboro Press $77 (219p) ISBN 978-0-8101-6046-0
All but forgotten today, the cheerless French novels of Bove (nee Bobovnikoff, 1898-1945) were much admired among certain intellectual Modernists in Europe. In this 1931 novel, the ""Bovian narrator"" is immediately recognizable: a heartless master...
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Emmanuel Bove, Author, Emmanuel Bove, Author, Dominic Di Bernardi, Translator Marlboro Press $29.95 (181p) ISBN 978-0-910395-94-6
Bove's ( Quicksand ) new novel is perplexing at the beginning, heart-wrenching in the middle and a tad too long at the end. About emotional torpor and showy middle-class charity, the book, like its protagonist, is decidedly singular. What makes Jean-
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Emmanuel Bove, trans. from the French by Alyson Waters. New York Review Books, $14.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-59017-832-4
The prolific and melancholic Bove (My Friends) wrote all manner of stories, fragments, and novellas before WWII, when he was forced into Algerian exile, from the off-the-cuff confessional to the darkly weird, but this collection features just a...
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