Randomly across my desk at work: Jean-Paul Sartre, Boris Vian, Michelle Vian, and Simone de Beauvoir at the café Le Procope, 1950. I think the first book I ever read in French was Boris Vian’s J’irai cracher sur vos tombes (1946), set in the U.S. south, published under the name Vernon Sullivan.
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