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  • Monique Wittig
  • The Lesbian Body
  • Translated by David Le Vay

  • In this genre- and gender-breaking work of theory-fiction, legendary writer and cofounder of the 1970s French feminist movement Monique Wittig celebrates the body—lesbian, literary and defiantly political—and challenges the order of heterosexuality in literature.
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  • Monique Wittig
  • Across the Acheron
  • Translated by David Le Vay with Margaret Crosland

  • In her darkly funny 1985 take on Dante’s Divine Comedy, acclaimed French writer and activist Monique Wittig restages the journey through the circles of hell, limbo, and paradise from a lesbian feminist perspective.
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  • Nathalie Quintane
  • The Cavalier
  • Translated by Jonathan Larson

  • A Parisian ’68er embarks to the provinces to teach high school Philosophy but is soon driven out for “corrupting the youth.” Fifty years later, and teaching in the same French Alpine town, Nathalie Quintane delves into the scandal to probe the political order and the failures of a utopian generation.