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Edward Gauvin

    Edward Gauvin ist ein gefeierter Übersetzer, dessen Werk sich auf französischsprachige fantastische Literatur und Comics konzentriert. Seine Übersetzerfähigkeiten haben ihm renommierte Auszeichnungen und Stipendien eingebracht, die es ihm ermöglichten, vielfältige literarische Stimmen zu erforschen und Lesern nahezubringen. In seinen Essays und Kolumnen befasst sich Gauvin eingehend mit der Analyse spezifischer Genres und untersucht deren stilistische und thematische Nuancen. Seine redaktionelle Arbeit bekräftigt sein Engagement, globale Literatur zu teilen und zu fördern.

    Little Vampire
    A bag of marbles
    The Cathedral of Mist
    • The Cathedral of Mist

      • 99 Seiten
      • 4 Lesestunden

      First published in French in 1983, The Cathedral of Mist is a collection of stories from the last of the great Francophone Belgian fantasists: distilled tales of distant journeys, buried memories and impossible architecture. Described here are the emotionally disturbed architectural plan for a palace of emptiness; the experience of snowfall in a bed in the middle of a Finnish forest; the memory chambers that fuel the marvelous futility of the endeavor to write; the beautiful woodland church, built of warm air currents and fog, scattering in storms and taking renewed shape at dusk, that gives this book its title. The Cathedral of Mist offers the sort of ethereal narratives that might have come from the pen of a sorrowful, distinctly Belgian Italo Calvino. It is accompanied by two meditative essays on reading and writing that fall in the tradition of Marcel Proust and Julien Gracq. Paul Willems (1912-97) published his first novel, Everything Here Is Real, in 1941. Three more novels and, toward the end of his life, two collections of short stories bracketed his career as a playwright.

      The Cathedral of Mist2016
      4,2
    • A bag of marbles

      • 128 Seiten
      • 5 Lesestunden

      In 1941 in occupied Paris, brothers Maurice and Joseph play a last game of marbles before running home to their father?s barbershop. This is the day that will change their lives forever. With the German occupation threatening their family's safety, the boys' parents decide Maurice and Joseph must disguise themselves and flee to their older brothers in the free zone. Surviving the long journey will take every scrap of ingenuity and courage they can muster. And if they hope to elude the Nazis, they must never, under any circumstances, admit to being Jewish. The boys travel by train, by ferry, and on foot, facing threats from strangers and receiving help from unexpected quarters. Along the way they must adapt to the unfamiliar world beyond their city?and find a way to be true to themselves even as they conceal their identities. Based on an autobiographical novel by Joseph Joffo and adapted with the author?s input, this true story offers a harrowing but inspiring glimpse of a childhood cut short.

      A bag of marbles2013
      3,8
    • Little Vampire

      3 Stories! Little Vampire Goes to School, Little Vampire Does Kung Fu!, Little Vampire and the Canine Defenders Club

      • 92 Seiten
      • 4 Lesestunden

      Living in a house filled with grown-up ghouls and monsters, Little Vampire is so lonely that he’s even willing to go to school if that’s what it takes to find friends. Unfortunately, school seems to be filled with children who are still alive. . . .Little Vampire finds friendship with a boy named Michael, and they embark on adventures in the three stories in this collection. Included in this book are Little Vampire Goes to School (a New York Times Bestseller), Little Vampire Does Kung Fu, and Little Vampire and the Society of Canine Defenders (now published in the United States for the first time). Insightful and inventive, Joann Sfar brings Little Vampire and Michael’s fantastical world to young readers in stories that both feed the imagination and resonate with emotional truth.

      Little Vampire2008
      3,8