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23 January 2014updated 28 Jun 2021 4:46am

Damaged goods: two new French novels, two tragic infants

Both of these remarkable novels are rooted in 19th-century realism, but they are profoundly subversive of its conventions.

By Jane Shilling

The Foundling Boy Translated by Julian Evans
Michel Déon
Translated by Julian Evans
Gallic Books, 416pp, £9.99

 The Erl-King
Michel Tournier
Translated by Barbara Bray
Atlantic Books, 336pp, £12.99

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