"My father bought me from the council for 365 francs", recalls the narrator in Monica Cantieni's novel 'The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons'. She's a young girl, an immigrant to Switzerland whose adoption is yet to be finalized. When she finally moves...

Swiss novelist Catherine Colomb is known as one of the most unusual and inventive francophone novelists of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the processes of memory and consciousness, she has been compared to that of Virginia Woolf and Marcel Prou...

One of the central figures from a remarkable generation of French-language poets, Pierre Chappuis has thus far only been represented in English translation in fragments: a few poems here and there in magazines, online reviews, and anthologies. "Like...