The Illiterate
by Ágota Kristóf, translated from the French by Nina Bogin, with an introduction by Helen Oyeyemi and an afterword by Gabriel Josipovici.
New Directions, 68 pp., $13.95 (paper)
The Notebook, The Proof, and The Third Lie: Three Novels
by Ágota Kristóf, translated from the French by Alan Sheridan, David Watson, and Marc Romano.
Grove, 478 pp., $20.00 (paper)
Collected Plays
by Ágota Kristóf, translated from the French by Bart Smet.
Oberon/Bloomsbury, 215 pp., $29.95 (paper)
Years ago, when assigning my graduate students Ágota Kristóf’s The Notebook (1986)—a hair-raising novel told from the perspective of identical twin boys in an unnamed war-torn country—I’d joke that they shouldn’t confuse it with the identically titled Nicholas Sparks best seller. It was fun to imagine one of them renting the film adaptation…
