'Babelia' experts review the titles by Paul Auster, Jessica Au, Julia Viejo, Roland Barthes, Sheila Heti and Ana Carbajosa. The writer responsible for The New York Trilogy returns to the literary foreground with Baumgartner.

A 13-year-old girl struggles between the childish treatment that her environment provides her and the adult impulses that already haunt her brain. The author's lexicon is a collection of material from the seminar held at the École des Hautes Études between 1973 and 1974.