No time to read "Remembrance of Things Past"?

Stop beating yourself up with your baguette! Read
Valery Larbaud's "Childish Things" instead.

This is the book Proust would have written if he'd given up three-page sentences and 3,000-page novels and switched to short stories instead.

No wonder Proust called "Childish Things" his favorite book.

Judge for yourself. Read the reviews, or an excerpt or order from Sun & Moon Press or amazon.com

For my take on the translation experience, read my article
"The Writer as Translator" from Poets & Writers Magazine.