Georges-Michel Sarotte is Professor of American Literature at the University of Paris X-Nanterre. He is the author of an essay on American Literature (Comme un frère, comme un amant, Flammarion, Like a Brother, Like a Lover, Doubleday); he has translated American, English and Irish novels, and written numerous articles on the American novel and theatre. He is also the author of two novels, the second one La Romanesque (Grasset) was nominated for the Prix Goncourt in 1988.