At Slate.fr Charlotte Pudlowski offers Top 5 des meilleurs livres de l'année 2012 -- with a Jean-Philippe Toussaint coming in fifth.
Meanwhile, at Libération they got twenty foreign (for France) writers to recommend books, in Vingt écrivains étrangers commentent leurs ouvrages préférés pour «Libération»; at The Los Angeles Times Jacket Copy weblog Hector Tobar -- whom Libération had asked to play along -- offers an English-language summary, in The buzz in Paris: What books do international writers recommend ?
With writers including Peter Handke, César Aira, and Salman Rushdie contributing, it's a pretty interesting selection -- though Dubravka Ugrešić's selection of Goce Smilevski's disappointing Freud's Sister is kind of a shocker -- at first I thought maybe she had read it in a closer-to-home translation, but, no, she read the (edited) English version.
Meanwhile, at Libération they got twenty foreign (for France) writers to recommend books, in Vingt écrivains étrangers commentent leurs ouvrages préférés pour «Libération»; at The Los Angeles Times Jacket Copy weblog Hector Tobar -- whom Libération had asked to play along -- offers an English-language summary, in The buzz in Paris: What books do international writers recommend ?
With writers including Peter Handke, César Aira, and Salman Rushdie contributing, it's a pretty interesting selection -- though Dubravka Ugrešić's selection of Goce Smilevski's disappointing Freud's Sister is kind of a shocker -- at first I thought maybe she had read it in a closer-to-home translation, but, no, she read the (edited) English version.