Tag: Mercure de France

Rien à craindre | Nothing to Be Frightened of (Mercure de France / Folio, 2009; French)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Rien à craindre | Nothing to Be Frightened of. [Paris]: Mercure de France, 2009. Pp. 395 [396] + [4]. 17.7 x 10.7 cm. Translated by Jean-Pierre Aoustin. ISBN: 9782070418824. (French).

Gallimard Folio series no. 5070.

Une histoire de monde en 10 chapitres 1/2 | A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (Mercure de France/Folio, 2011; French)

Notes on this edition: Une histoire de monde en 10 chapitres 1/2. Paris: Mercure de France, 2011. Translated into French by Michel Courtois-Fourcy.

Spine and back cover indicate this is a Folio imprint, no. 5612.

La Doulou | In the Land of Pain (Mercure de France, 2007)

Notes on this edition: Daudet, Alphonse. La Doulou. Paris: Mercure de France, 2007. Pp. 123 [124] + [4]. 16 x 10 cm. ISBN: 9782715228191. (French).

In 2002, Barnes translated Daudet’s journal into English, which brought renewed attention to Daudet’s work. This edition of Daudet’s La Doulou features a preface by Julian Barnes, his additional notes on the text, and his postscript, as was available in Barnes’s translation under the English title In the Land of Pain.