Louis Calaferte was born in Turin in 1928. He was a playwright, poet, and writer of prose. The Way It Works with Women, published by the Marlboro Press/Northwestern in 1998, was the first of his many novels to be translated into English.
Austryn Wainhouse is the founder of the Marlboro Press and has translated the works of the Marquis de Sade and Simone de Beauvoir, among others.
Bracingly unsentimental, [it] is a remarkable song of innocence
sung in perfect pitch. --St. Petersburg Times
In compact and visceral detail, Calaferte succeeds in portraying
this terrifying and shameful period in French history, when nearly
everyone--especially seemingly innocent villagers--is guilty of
crimes against humanity. --Publishers Weekly
One's will can be deployed at others' expense, a fundamental
ambivalence that Calaferte . . . often brought to light. Because of
this excruciating honesty, he produced some of the most troubling
writings of recent times. --Times Literary Supplement
Bracingly unsentimental, [it] is a remarkable song of innocence
sung in perfect pitch. --St. Petersburg Times
In compact and visceral detail, Calaferte succeeds in portraying
this terrifying and shameful period in French history, when nearly
everyone--especially seemingly innocent villagers--is guilty of
crimes against humanity. --Publishers Weekly
One's will can be deployed at others' expense, a fundamental
ambivalence that Calaferte . . . often brought to light. Because of
this excruciating honesty, he produced some of the most troubling
writings of recent times. --Times Literary Supplement
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