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...Mission Cleopatra, which did almost as well. Asterix has a massive fan base to draw upon: the comic books have sold 330 million copies in over 100 languages. While France likes to boast of its high-brow credentials, Asterix books easily outsell those of worthy rivals Proust, Sartre and Balzac...
...fiction sold in France is translated from English. That's about the same percentage as in Germany, but there the total number of English translations has nearly halved in the past decade, while it's still growing in France. Earlier generations of French writers - from Molière, Hugo, Balzac and Flaubert to Proust, Sartre, Camus and Malraux - did not lack for an audience abroad. Indeed, France claims a dozen Nobel literature laureates - more than any other country - though the last one, Gao Xingjian in 2000, writes in Chinese...
...architect Baron Haussmann - with their vision of an imposing, rectilinear city - had launched the orgy of destruction, and the advance of the new Métro system was finishing the job. Soon, it seemed, the Paris of Abelard and Héloïse, Voltaire and Molière, Balzac and Hugo would be a dusty memory, surviving only in literature and paintings...
...Orchestra in a 7 p.m. “open rehearsal” at Sanders Theatre tonight. The evening will feature music by composers ranging from Mozart to contemporary Chinese-American composer Zhou Long. Today’s events begin with a free 4 p.m. screening of “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” at Sanders. The 2005 film explores artistic expression during China’s Cultural Revolution, a tumultuous 10-year period starting in 1966 during which thousands of Chinese were executed and millions more displaced. The manager of the Office for the Arts?...
...Proust-obsessed? Steve Carell's character in the film, Uncle Frank, is a depressed, suicidal homosexual who also happens to be the self-declared number one Proust scholar in the U.S. At first I figured this was a completely random association; the writers could have just as easily picked Balzac or John Donne or some other semi-obscure, all-but-forgotten philoso-poet. But maybe these arbitrary snippets of Proust in current popular culture amount to something. In Search of Lost Time is six volumes long and rife with allusions and metaphors, so easy to apply Proust to just about...