Selected Works
- Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (Friday) (1967) - Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
- Le Roi des aulnes (1970) (The Erl-King translated 1972 by Barbara Bray, aka The Ogre)
- Le Roi des aulnes was made into a 1996 movie Der Unhold (The Ogre) directed by Volker Schlöndorff
- It has also been adapted for the stage by Tom Perrin. This originated as a post-graduate research project at the Mountview Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2002. The show The Erl King was then taken to the 2003 Edinburgh Festival..
- Les Météores (Gemini, 1975)
- Le Vent Paraclet (The Wind Spirit, 1977)
- Vendredi ou la Vie sauvage (Friday and Robinson, 1977)
- Le Coq de bruyère (The Fetishist and Other Stories, 1978)
- Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar (The Four Wise Men, 1980)
- Le Vol du vampire (1981)
- Gilles et Jeanne (Gilles and Jeanne, 1983)
- La Goutte d'or (The Golden Droplet, 1986)
- Petites Proses (1986)
- Le Medianoche amoureux (The Midnight Love Feast, 1989)
- La Couleuvrine (1994)
- Le Miroir des idées (The Mirror of Ideas, 1994)
- Eléazar ou la Source et le Buisson (Eleazar, Exodus to the West, 1996)
- Journal extime (2002)
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