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Elaine Castillo : How to Read Now

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

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What I'm Saying Is That It's Literature Written in French

I started learning French in 2004 and then I found his books in 2006 or something. The way he wrote in French, the way he writes in French is such a resistance to the kinds of French I was being taught. He talks about it as Beauvoir Faucée, not bad French but the French of the poor, poor French.

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