Simone de Beauvoir: The Mandarins (1954–) [EN, ES, RU]

In her famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around her – Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, Nelson Algren – de Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philosophical currents of her time. At once an engrossing drama and an intriguing political tale, The Mandarins is the emotional odyssey of a woman torn between her inner desires and her public life.

First published in French as Les Mandarins, Gallimard, 1954

English edition
Translated by Leonard M. Friedman
First published in English in 1956
Publisher Harper, London, 2005
With an Introduction by Doris Lessing
ISBN 0007203942

Wikipedia
Publisher (EN)

The Mandarins (English, trans. Leonard M. Friedman, 1956/2005, EPUB)
Los Mandarines (Spanish, PDF’d HTML)
Мандарины (Russian, trans. Наталья Полторацкая and Нина Световидова, 2005)

Olivier Messiaen: The Technique of My Musical Language, 2 Vols. (1944/1956)

In this relatively brief book, Messiaen has laid out a clear outline of certain principles of construction he has employed in composition. The second volume consists of musical examples taken from the French original.

First published in French as Technique de mon langage musical, Alphonse Leduc, Paris, 1944
Translated by John Satterfield
Publisher Alphonse Leduc, Paris, 1956
ISBN 0685148270, 9780685148273
74 and 61 pages

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Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont: Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern Philosophers’ Abuse of Science (1997–) [FR, EN, ES, IT, RU, TR, PL]

When Intellectual Impostures was published in France, it sent shock waves through the Left Bank establishment. When it was published in Britain, it provoked vicious debate. Sokal and Bricmont examine the canon of French postmodernists – Lacan, Kristeva, Baudrillard, Irigaray, Latour, Virilio, Deleuze and Guattari – and systematically expose their abuse of science.

French edition
Publisher Odile Jacob, Paris, 1997
413 pages

English edition
Publisher Profile Books, 1998
ISBN 1861970749, 9781861970749
274 pages

Wikipedia (EN)

Impostures intellectuelles (French, 2nd Edition, 1997, DJVU)
Intellectual Impostures (English, 1998/99, EPUB), MOBI.
Fashionable Nonsense (English, 1998)
Imposturas intelectuales (Spanish, trans. Joan Caries Guix Vilaplana, 1999)
Imposture intellettuali (Italian, trans. Fabio Acerbi and Monica Ugaglia, 1999, added on 2014-10-24)
Интеллектуальные уловки. Критика современной философии постмодерна (Russian, 2002), HTML
Son moda saçmalıklar: Postmodern aydınların bilimi kötüye kullanmaları (Turkish, trans. Mehmet Baydur and Ongun Onaran, 2002)
Modne bzdury: O nadużywaniu pojęć z zakresu nauk ścisłych przez postmodernistycznych intelektualistów (Polish, trans. Piotr Amsterdamski, 2004)

See also:
Mara Beller, “The Sokal Hoax: At Whom Are We Laughing?” (published in Physics Today, September 1998, pp 29-34)