French From Elsewhere

March 2009

Guest Co-Editor: Isabelle de Courtivron

Interviews
Murielle Lucie Clément
ENTRETIEN AVEC ANDREÏ MAKINE

Robert Albouker
ENTRETIEN AVEC PATRICK CHAMOISEAU

Excerpts
Patrick Chamoiseau (introduction by Robert Albouker)
CHEMINS D’ÉCOLE

Nancy Huston and Vassilis Alexakis (introduction by Isabelle de Courtivron)
NORD PERDU AND PARIS-ATHÈNES

George-Arthur Goldschmidt (introduction by Isabelle de Courtivron)
LA TRAVERSÉE DES FLEUVES

Jorge Semprun (introduction by Sara Kippur)
ADIEU VIVE CLARTÉ

Anne Weber (introduction by Roger Célestin)
“TROUVER SA LANGUE”

Eva Almassy (introduction by Roger Célestin)
“ECRIRE EN LANGUE D’ADOPTION ”

Articles and Essays
Laura Ceia-Minjares
BALKAN EXOTIC: THE FRANCOPHONE BIRTH AND REBIRTH OF A NATION ACCORDING TO PANAIT ISTRATI AND MARIUS DANIEL POPESCO

Murielle Lucie Clément
ÉCRIVAINS FRANCO-RUSSES

Sara Kippur
POUR OU CONTRE UNE LITTÉRATURE-MONDE? HÉCTOR BIANCIOTTI, SILVIA BARON SUPERVIELLE, AND THE CASE OF ARGENTINA

Karen L. Thornber
FRENCH DISCOURSE IN CHINESE, CHINESE DISCOURSE IN FRENCH: PARADOXES OF CHINESE FRANCOPHONE ÉMIGRÉ WRITING

Fiction
Brina Svit (introduction and translation by Peter Constantine)
MORENO (EXCERPTS)

Albert Cossery (introduction and translation by Alyson Waters)
UN COMPLOT DE SALTIMBANQUES (EXCERPTS)