Babelguides: Marion Boyars

Marion Boyars

Seducer, the It Is Hard to Die in Dieppe [Buy Direct]

by Henrik Stangerup
Translated by Sean Martin
Original title: Det er svert at do i Dieppe

The Road to Lagoa Santa [Buy Direct]

by Henrik Stangerup
Translated by Barbara Bluestone
Original title: Vejen til Lag

Turkish Delight (1969) [Buy Direct]

by Jan Wolkers
Translated by Greta Kilburn
Original title: Turks fruit

Wolkers’ initial training was in the arts and during the 1950s he studied sculpture under Zadkine in Paris. It is not surprising, therefore, that the unnamed narrator of this best-selling novel should be an avant-garde sculptor. (more...)

Take It and Leave It: Aspects of Being Ill (1982) [Buy Direct]

by Renate Rubinstein
Translated by K. Fierke and A. Janssen
Original title: Nee heb je

The Ant Heap (1917) [Buy Direct]

by Margit Kaffka
Translated by Charlotte Franklin
Original title: Hangyaboly

Just as elsewhere in Europe at the turn of the century, the Austro-Hungarian empire was characterised by social, political and intellectual ferment. Change and modernisation also included a new and acute perception of women’s situation, and the modern woman was born, with her new moral, social, (more...)

Scenes from the Life of a Faun a Short Novel [Buy Direct]

by Arno Schmidt
Translated by J E Woods
Original title: Aus dem Leben eines Fauns

Egghead Republic, the a Short Novel from the Horse Latitudes [Buy Direct]

by Arno Schmidt
Translated by M Boyars
Original title: Die Gelehrtenrepublik

Levin’s Mill [Buy Direct]

by Johannes Bobrowski
Translated by J Cropper
Original title: Levin’s Mühle

South [Buy Direct]

by Julien Green

Paris [Buy Direct]

by Julien Green

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