The Planetarium
by Nathalie Sarraute | 
Froth on the Daydream
by Boris Vian |
Count D'Orgel's Ball
by Raymond Radiguet | 
Heartsnatcher
by Boris Vian |
The Pastoral Symphony
by Andre Gide |
The Devil in the Flesh
by Raymond Radiguet |
Death on the Installment Plan
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine |
The Golden Droplet
by Michel Tournier | 
The Counterfeiters
by Andre Gide |
The Sea Wall
by Marguerite Duras | 
Strait is the Gate
by Andre Gide | 
The Vatican Cellars
by Andre Gide | 
The Opposing Shore
by Julien Gracq |
Thomas the Obscure
by Maurice Blanchot |
The Blue Flowers
by Raymond Queneau | 
Take Me With You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo |
Anne of Windy Poplars
by Lucy Maud Montgomery | 
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes | 
Out Stealing Horses
by Per Petterson |
THE GOTHIC SETTING of a lonely castle in the middle of thick, dense woods contrasts with the contemporaneity of the characters who inhabit it: a dissolute, rich and aimless young man who invites his best friend to stay in his newly-acquired chateau. The friend arrives not alone, but with a beautiful woman whose detached amorality disturbs both men.