Title : A Country Outing - Guy de Maupassant - book Summary : Maupassant's works have tempted many filmmakers. They have found in them the opportunity to illustrate slices of life or to tell picturesque or pathetic stories, capable, by their human value, of interesting a wide audience. A Country Party is a particularly interesting work in this regard: this short story, of classical sobriety, is among the writer's best. And it so happens that it was adapted by one of our greatest filmmakers, Jean Renoir. This happy encounter gave birth to a remarkable film. This edition offers a parallel between the two works that allows for a better understanding of the specificity of these major arts: literature and cinema. In addition, it enlightens the reader on the complex problems of adapting written works to film. EAN: 9782253138051 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Taste of Summer - Collectives - book Summary : More than any other, summer is the season of abolished time, a promise constantly renewed, relegating to the sad winter the care of eternal regrets... This is undoubtedly why writers' summers are often the most beautiful. But this "beautiful" season is not so everywhere... In latitudes and climates other than ours, summer can be harsh. This is also what writers tell us elsewhere. A detour through the Russian steppe to the plains of the American South will provide us with proof of this. Scorching, Indian, deadly, gently sloping, southern, contrary, torrid, or rotten... it is summer in all its forms that Albert Camus, Jacques Lacarrière, Cesare Pavese, Marguerite Duras, Truman Capote, Sébastien Japrisot, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, William Faulkner, Jean-Paul Sartre, Françoise Sagan, JMG Le Clézio, Patrick Modiano, Arthur Rimbaud, Antoine Blondin, Jean Giono, Colette and many others offer us in their wake... EAN: 9782715243750 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Voltaire's L'Ingénu - M.-E. Dieval - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782218744044 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Marriage of Figaro by Beaumarchais - Michel Viegnes - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782218740749 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I write to act - Life of Voltaire - Max Gallo - book Summary : Voltaire's statue and glory hide the man of flesh. It is this man that Max Gallo seeks to revive in this Life of Voltaire. From his birth to his death, at eighty-four years old, a decade before the Revolution, we see the emergence of a man determined to forge his destiny day after day, word after word. Dozens of tragedies, essays, tales, pamphlets, historical studies, and thousands of letters: this work, this life, reflects the entire 18th century, that of the Enlightenment, of the philosophical party, of the fight for the abolition of torture... But there is more. Max Gallo shows us other facets of the character: his ambition, his greed. Ruthless and contemptuous, grumpy, yet capable of passion for the "sublime Émilie." A man of contradictions, placing freedom above all else, Voltaire, dazzling with life, our necessary contemporary. EAN: 9782253128946 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Banquet - Phaedrus - book Summary : In The Banquet, the poet Agathon gives a feast to celebrate his victory in a poetry competition. This is an opportunity for each guest to praise Eros by presenting their vision of love. Following them, Socrates, who claims to be reporting the words of the foreigner Diotima, links love to the desire for immortality that animates all living beings. The praise of love then detaches itself from the sensible world to tend towards a new dimension, that of the Intelligible. It is also Eros that is discussed in the Phaedrus, where Plato distinguishes two kinds of love: vulgar love—selfish, jealous, tyrannical—and honest love, which corresponds to celestial Love. Human souls, which have only glimpsed the world of Ideas before incarnating in a body, retain a fleeting memory of Beauty. It is this search for glimpsed Beauty that would provoke the quest for love. EAN: 9782080700049 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Legend of the Centuries. Volume 2 - Victor Hugo - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782038700602 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Ocean Boulevard - François de Cornière - book Summary : François de Cornière, an inveterate walker and seaside lover, focuses on the life of seaside resorts. With kindness, he describes these timeless summer scenes: hesitant bathers, shellfish gatherers, rainy days or fishing days! - Ocean Boulevard is a succession of chronicles, moments, timeless and universal memories. Through the pages, François de Cornière describes with accuracy and delicacy the passing of time and those “little things” that brighten and brighten our daily lives. - While walking Ocean Boulevard , along the beaches, François de Cornière creates his own album of photographs and memories He focuses on the houses coming back to life in the summer, the bathers hesitating to plunge into the waves, the summer activity of the newsagent's or even the shellfish collectors. - This reissue is enriched by sketches by the artist Valérie Linder. RTL-Poésie 1 prize, Georges Limbour and Guillaume Apollinaire. EAN: 9782859206581 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton - book Summary : In flamboyant New York at the end of the 19th century, Newland Archer is a young man from the upper middle class. Promised a brilliant future, he is about to announce his engagement to the very chaste May Welland. But the appearance of the scandalous Countess Olanska, May's cousin, who has had the audacity to leave her husband, will turn his life upside down. EAN: 9782277233930 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Three Tales - Gustave Flaubert - book Summary : A triple unity - both Trinity and triptych - Flaubert's "Three Tales" evoke a world where the divine presence is as if absent. Foreboding, but mysterious in "Hérodias"; scandalous and incomprehensible in "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller"; confused with superstition and reduced to simulacra in "A Simple Heart." An ironic epic of faith and holiness through the ages, the "Three Tales" question the divine Word and speak of its power, but also its degradation. They affirm, at the end of Flaubert's life, the strength of writing and literature - of the Word. EAN: 9782035881151 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Wyvern - Marcel Aymé - book Summary : Behind the viper appeared a young girl, with a robust body and a proud gait. Dressed in a white linen dress that stopped below the knee, she walked barefoot and bare-armed, her waist arched, with long strides. Her bronzed profile had a relief and a beauty that was a little masculine. On her very black hair, tied back in a crown, was placed a double silver twist, representing a thin serpent whose head, raised, held in its jaw a large oval stone, a limpid red. From the portraits that had been drawn for him and which he had until then believed to be fanciful, Arsène recognized the Vouivre. EAN: 9782070361670 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Heartbeats of History - André Castelot - book Summary : A for Alfred de Musset, B for Benjamin Constant, C for Christine of Sweden, D for Diane de Poitiers... This alphabet is that of the famous loves that André Castelot tells us about. Passing cheerfully from one century to another, crossing borders, we take an indiscreet look deep into alcoves and secret drawers, we listen at doors, we leaf through personal diaries. Legitimate or clandestine loves, star-crossed lovers, faithful spouses, princely marriages that make and unmake Europe, disgraces and intrigues behind these fifty-one comical or tragic stories, we discover that Love is the sinews of war and the fabric of History. EAN: 9782277216209 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Decameron - Boccaccio - book Summary : If, once again, storytellers are in fashion, the time has come to rediscover the first of them, Giovanni Boccaccio, who perhaps owes to the year of his birth – 1313! – one of the most brilliant literary fortunes of all time. Composed around 1350, translated throughout Europe, imitated, even plundered, for centuries, his Decameron had a posterity as prestigious as it was innumerable, from Chaucer to La Fontaine, from Molière to Potocki. Fleeing the plague that decimated Florence in 1348, seven young women and three young men found refuge in a sumptuous Tuscan villa. For ten days, punctuated by concerts, parties, and banquets, each will strive to entertain the others daily by inventing a tale. Neither emotion nor tragedy are absent from these hundred stories, but the overall tone, as we know, is rather gallantry, a gallantry that is prompt, natural, expeditious, and in any case not given to long sighs. "Anyone who wanted to reduce Boccaccio to the same modesty as Virgil would certainly do nothing worthwhile and would be sinning against decorum by taking it upon himself to observe it," remarks La Fontaine. Complete, faithful, precise, this translation has conformed to this wise advice. EAN: 9782253907022 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Rousseau's Confessions. Complete Text of Books 1 to 4 - Marc Robert - book Summary : I am forming an enterprise which has never had an example and whose execution will have no imitators,” Rousseau proudly proclaims in his preamble, thereby showing the novelty and audacity of his autobiographical approach. For the writer, cornered by his detractors, feels obliged to justify himself: he will therefore say everything, even “the most shameful”! In search of coherence, of meaning, he starts from childhood to unravel the thread of his life, constantly trying to explain himself. The reader thus gains access to the secrets of his heart, to his misfortunes of course, but also to many moments of happiness, tender moments, sometimes funny moments. In a remarkably clear style, Jean-Jacques Rousseau recounts his life and his feelings. By telling the unvarnished story of his existence, he holds up a mirror to the reader in which it will not always be pleasant to recognize himself. This book offers: • the full text of books I to IV, • explanatory notes, • questionnaires throughout the text, • an educational tool including reports, documents on the work and its author, as well as a thematic route. EAN: 9782011672384 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Colomba - And Ten Other Stories - Prosper Mérimée - book Summary : Reading Mérimée's short stories is like seeing an author reveal himself over the pages, identifying autobiographical elements, appreciating his erudition and the diversity of his sources of inspiration. This first volume brings together eleven short stories, arranged in chronological order of their writing. Some are well-known; others deserve to be better known. We find here a taste for travel and exoticism (Corsica, the Orient, Spain), meticulous psychological descriptions, a commitment against slavery, stories of honor and revenge, an attraction to mystery and fantasy. While the themes are varied, the writing always retains a great precision, which allows Mérimée to exercise a biting irony. EAN: 9782070368198 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Contemplations. Books IV-V - Victor Hugo - book Summary : "What are Les Contemplations? It is what one could call, if the word had no pretension, the Memoirs of a Soul" (Preface). Few poetic works refer more openly to their historical and biographical context than this one. Published in 1856, Les Contemplations bears the mark of a double mourning: the loss of the poet's daughter, Léopoldine, and the symbolic death represented by exile. But what is at stake touches on the power of poetic speech: through contemplation, plunged into the depths of oneself from which poetry must emerge, Hugo makes heartbreak a creative act and the lyrical word the instrument of a search for the absolute. Dossier 1. Les Contemplations and their reception 2. Mourning, poetry and the strength to live 3. Writing to resist 4. Post-apocalyptic literature EAN: 9782081510845 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Game of Love and Chance - Marivaux - book Summary : Marivaux's charm lies in a unique combination of cruelty and grace, sadness and gaiety. But marivaudage, which evokes banter, a love duel for laughs, a sentimental ballet, does not exist in any of his plays. Nothing is more precise, realistic, than his view of the intermittencies of the human heart and of love, of which he knows all the paths, all the mistakes, all the ruses. In truth, chance plays little role in this comedy where Silvia, to test the sincerity of her fiancé Dorante, pretends to be his servant Lisette, while Dorante does the same with his valet Harlequin. And here is love put to the test by mistrust, social prejudice, timidity, hesitation, smiles and tears. EAN: 9782266163774 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Constance D. - Christian Combaz - book Summary : "If ten young writers took on the same task as Christian Combaz, we would restore readers' taste for stories." Claude Prévost, Révolution: "I'm told that this type of nervous and thrilling story is "not fashionable." I'm happy to do so. I'm told about Lampedusa, Stendhal. Well, I'm happy to do that too." EAN: 9782020089029 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Deceits of Scapin - Molière - book Summary : Disobedient sons, distraught young girls, uncompromising fathers, complex situations, a helpful servant—it doesn't take much for Molière to resurrect the powerful scent of Commedia dell'arte one last time. Laughter bursts forth, farce triumphs unchallenged. Between two deceits, and before the stretcher carries Scapin offstage, the moralist's bitter gaze slips in, denouncing a society where youth is in danger... EAN: 9782038716658 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Great Philosophers, Volume 3 - Kant - Karl Jaspers - book Summary : Kant: one of "those who found philosophy and never cease to generate it." A comprehensive synthesis of Kant's work, in which Jaspers shows how Kant crowns the philosophical tradition whose origin is in the work of Plato, while in turn being the basis of the philosophy of modern times. With Jaspers—and like Jaspers, himself an original thinker—Kant is understood as a fundamental articulation of Western thought. Please note that some pages have been highlighted with highlighter or pencil, but this does not interfere with reading. EAN: 9782266027779 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Song of the World - Jean Giono - book Summary : "The morning blossomed like an elderberry. Antonio was fresh and larger than life, a new youth swelled him with foliage. - Now he has passed the green period, he said to himself. He heard in his hand the trout dying. Without knowing exactly, he saw himself on his island, standing, raising his arms, his fists lit up with joys attached to the world, snapping and golden like captive trout. Clara, sitting at his feet, held his legs in her tender arms. EAN: 9782070368723 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Cry of the Owl - Hervé Bazin - book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Hope - André Malraux - book Summary : "Malraux's book faithfully reflects the disarray, the promiscuities and the atrocities of a revolution; but it also expresses its conscience, its meaning, its subterranean movement. And it is because it hides nothing of the horrors and the silliness of civil war that it charges its title with a singular value. Here are the faults, here are the fools, the mercenaries, the warriors, here is the doubt that takes hold of the most resolute when, at the moment of dying, he feels that his body was beautiful; but here is this expectation, this call, this search, one does not know exactly for what, for something that erases the past, for a more intimate communion in danger, struggle, suffering, for a homeland, for a gestation, for a justification through sacrifice; - hope." EAN: 9782070360208 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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