An ambitious teaching student’s finals studies are interrupted by a passionate affair with a jazz musician.

Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife’s plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one…

Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and…

At the Café des Poètes in Paris, a fight breaks out between the poet Orphée and a group of resentful upstarts. A rival poet, Cègeste, is killed, and a mysterious…

The story of a man who has stopped drinking- and then dreaming- and who thanks to a young man who tries to forget a lost love in alcohol will turn…