The novel by French pataphysicist Jean-Louis Bailly (b. 1953) alternates between the life story of a brilliant but deformed pianist and a detailed chronicle ...

An essay by the French writer, director and journalist Georges Perec (1936–1982) “Think/Classify” is a collection of reflections on a variety of things: from...

Christian Gayly is a famous French writer. In his youth he became interested in jazz and tried to make a career as a saxophonist. Then he switched to psychoa...

The third work of the famous French writer Georges Perec (1936–1982), “The Man Who Sleeps,” was published on the eve of the revolutionary events of 1968 in F...

Serge Gainsbourg - singer, poet, composer, screenwriter, actor, film director - was the idol of the French public, the “sacred monster” of the European stage...

The dystopia “Eagles Stink”, translated by Valery Kislov, came from the pen of Lutz Bassman (1952). But the fact is that in reality such a person does not ex...

A flip book consisting of two novels by the French author Regis Messac. The novel with the unpronounceable title “Iesinanepsi” continues the tradition of pos...

Valery Kislov is known to readers as a translator of the great French experimenters - Perec, Vian, Queneau, Jarry. With his own writings, he irresponsibly an...

At first glance, the theme of the book is a naive inventory of the territories we inhabit. But the virtuoso stylist and experimenter Georges Perec (1936–1982...

A short-sighted incompetent, dancing with whom is simply dangerous to life... She, clearly unable to find a husband, is destined for the fate of an old maid....

First published in the magazine “Dans le Train”. From the collection “The Werewolf”.

A lonely man rented a room at a ski tourist base. During one unsuccessful descent, he broke his skis and suffered a leg injury. During the difficult journey ...