Emmanuel Bove

• Mar-2019
• / General Fiction

Bove's tale of a World War I veteran living in postwar Paris, searching for friendship and warmth, is an ironic, entertaining masterpiece by one of France's favorite authors.My Friends is Emmanuel Bove’s first and most famous book, and it begins si...

• Mar-2018
• / Historical

Arrivé en France, le héros de ce roman retrouve sa famille et ses amis. Mais il remarque qu’indifférence et hostilité. L’Occupation, jusque-là absente des romans d’Emmanuel Bove, est à l’origine de ce récit, mais elle est vite dépassÃ...

• Oct-2015
• / General Fiction

Fiction. Translated from the French by Mitchell Abidor. Introduction by Brian Evenson. A RASKOLNIKOFF was originally commissioned for a series of novels called "The Great Fable: Chronicle of Imaginary Characters," in which figures from literature, th...

• Aug-2015
• / Historical

An NYRB Classics Original 

Emmanuel Bove was one of the most original writers  to come out of twentieth-century France and a popular  success in his day. Discovered by Colette, who arranged for the publication of his first novel, My Friends...

• Dec-2009
• / General Fiction

• Mar-2000
• / General Fiction

Emmanuel Bove's Armand follows the sensitive title character and the people in his orbit over the course of a day. There is Jeanne, Armand's wealthy lover and keeper; his awkward and penniless old friend Lucien; and Lucien's younger sister Marguerite...

• Jun-1999
• / General Fiction

Maurice Lesca is fifty-seven--older, not much wiser, and painfully comical in his failures. Though educated as a doctor, he's a ne'er-do-well who milks family and friends for money and lives in poverty with his widowed sister. When he encourages a di...

• Apr-1998
• / Literary

Paris in the 1930s: Louis Grandeville has a beautiful wife, a nice home, a loyal servant, and a large circle of well-placed friends. His financial situation doesn't require him to work. Yet Louis is obsessed by the nagging reality that he never has a...

• Oct-1995
• / General Fiction

In a state of permanent tension and relieved moral paralysis, Jean-Marie Thély, an anguished bystander confined to the margins of polite society, has based the whole of his existence upon the idea that he is unlike others. He derives his singularity...

• Jun-1995
• / Literary

French soldiers escape from a German prison camp during World War II and, on foot and unarmed, make a dangerous and heroic journey back to France, beset by hunger, paranoia, physical exhaustion, and hopelessness....

• Apr-1994
• / General Fiction

• Dec-1993
• / General Fiction

After the fall of France, colorless Joseph Bridet determines to go to Vichy and ingratiate himself with the regime there as a first step towards escaping to England, only to discover that he is in agreement with the suspicious and pitiless world of t...

• / General Fiction

The interior layout of a Paris apartment reveals the personalities of a newlywed couple. A writer who is suffering from writer's block and his wife are described through their living space.Emmanuel Bove (20 April 1898 – 19 July 1945) was a...