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Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels

10 best books like Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels (Colette): La Bâtarde, The Unknown Masterpiece, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, 77 Dream Songs, Geography III, Black Zodiac, The Mooring of Starting Out, Love in Excess, Julie, or the New Heloise, The Simple Truth

La Bâtarde
AuthorViolette Leduc
ISBN1564782891
An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Batarde relates Violette Leduc's long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate love affairs with both men and women. When...
The Unknown Masterpiece
AuthorHonoré de Balzac
ISBN0940322749
One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius--or both. The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso,...
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
AuthorJohn Ashbery
ISBN0140586687
Well, I mean, GOD. You know? So beautiful. But also Ashbery sizing up the same kind of moral question over and over a dozen times in the space of a poem, and with dozens of poems (including the formidable and exhausting kind of index of ideas in the title poem) it just wrung me utterly dry.

I could...
77 Dream Songs
AuthorJohn Berryman
ISBN0571207693
Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic Faber poetry covers, connecting the backlist and...
Geography III
AuthorElizabeth Bishop
ISBN0374514402
Second read. I haven’t the faintest recollection of writing the below review in 2014. .
Black Zodiac
AuthorCharles Wright
ISBN0374525366
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award

Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace. Approaching his vast subjects...
The Mooring of Starting Out
AuthorJohn Ashbery
ISBN0880015470
Most critics would agree that John Ashbery is one of 20th-century American poetry's finest voices. Perhaps his most admired book is Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, a culmination of themes, styles, and forms with which the poet experimented over the course of two decades. Now, the poet's devoted...
Love in Excess
AuthorEliza Fowler Haywood
ISBN1551113678
Panting and misspelled, Love in Excess is easy to roll your eyes at. But I think it deserves more. It was a blockbuster smash when it was published in 1720, as popular as Robinson Crusoe. It influenced Samuel Richardson and it's much more fun than his work. It was written by a woman and shows women who have...
Julie, or the New Heloise
AuthorJean-Jacques Rousseau
ISBN0874518253
An elegant translation of one of the most popular novels of its time. Rousseau's great epistolary novel, Julie, or the New Heloise, has been virtually unavailable in English since 1810. In it, Rousseau reconceptualized the relationship of the individual to the collective and articulated a new moral...
The Simple Truth
AuthorPhilip Levine
ISBN0679765840
Brilliant, engaging, human and personal. Levine is one of the greats.

Ask for Nothing

Instead walk alone in the evening
heading out of town toward the fields
asleep under a darkening sky;
the dust risen from your steps transforms
itself into a golden rain fallen
earthward...
The Dream
AuthorÉmile Zola
ISBN1414275897
Emile Zola's novel Le Rêve (1888) is a love idyll concerning a poor embroideress, Angelique, and the son of a wealthy aristocratic family, set against the backdrop of a sleepy cathedral town in northern France.

A far cry from the seething, teeming world evoked in Zola's best-known novels,...
Brief Lives
AuthorJohn Aubrey
ISBN0140435891
Compiled as material for Anthony Wood's histories of Oxford University, this text contributes to the oral history of Elizabethan and Stuart England. It parades statesmen, poets, philosopers and scientists, Raleigh and Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, and Boyle and Halley. They, together with less...
Airless Spaces
AuthorShulamith Firestone
ISBN1570270821
A collection of short stories, set among the disappeared and darkened sectors of New York City, about characters who fall prey to an increasingly bureaucratized poverty.

In 1970, at the age of twenty-five, Shulamith Firestone wrote and published The Dialectic of Sex, immediately becoming...
The Carrier of Ladders
AuthorW.S. Merwin
ISBN0689103433
Reading Merwin is like reading a puzzle and it´s usually worth the mental effort to get to the heart of his logic. It reminds me of reading the Edda kennings from the old Icelanders, who wrote of objects in a roundabout, playful manner (frozen wave = mountain, etc...). But here, Merwin applies something...
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN0802135293
“I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind,” writes Ursula Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that change in the decade since the publication of her last nonfiction collection, The Language of the Night....
Sleep it Off Lady: Stories by Jean Rhys
AuthorJean Rhys
ISBN0140183450
The late Jean Rhys remains my favourite writer ever and this selection of her work shines as only her words can. There was no one like her before, nor has there been anyone since. Her wry, brutally honest, self-deprecating voice is so beautifully tormented she's irresistible whatever your gender. She...
Intimacy
AuthorJean-Paul Sartre
ISBN0586010874
This is Sartre's masterly portrait of life seen from new and revealing angles, in which the human soul is stripped of all its civilized veneer, and layers of experience are peeled back with ferocious skill - to reveal the depths of the private oppressions, sensualities and neuroses of our time, and the...
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