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Title : The Man Who Grew Younger - Jerome Charyn - book
Summary : The Bronx in the mid-1940s. The war is nearing its end, echoes of which reach the ears of street children. Scenes of daily misery in New York at the time, scenes nuanced with poetry, sometimes with nostalgia, scenes populated by unhappy characters, yearning for better days. Charyn describes a vanished universe. In a series of sequences, he captures images of his childhood: it is the kid raised in Crotona Park, the Jewish-Polish enclave, who shares his memories here. Five texts between reality and imagination, five stories full of tenderness and humor.
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Title : Autobiography of my father - Pierre Pachet - book
Summary : Why revive the man with whom one has spoken so little, one's own father, and of whom one quickly points out that he was "in no way a hero"? To settle scores? Certainly not. By choosing to write an autobiography of his father in the first person, the author takes a risky literary gamble that he masterfully wins. Dr. Simkha Opachevsky, a "Jew of his time," born in Russia in 1905 and died in Vichy in 1965, was undoubtedly not the perfect father figure that everyone dreams of. But the novel of his life, influenced by exile, wars, and then, in France, the Nazi occupation, recounted with intense sobriety, gives voice to a man whose wealth is revealed like a treasure throughout the pages. It is this "voice," which remained internal until his own son gave it a voice here, which makes the magic of this book: familiar, authoritative, enigmatic. As Pierre Pachet says, "the words of my dead father demanded to speak through me as they had never spoken before, beyond our two combined forces."
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Title : The Childhood of a Magician - Hermann Hesse - book
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Title : Martin Dressler or the Novel of an American Dreamer - Steven Millhauser - book
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1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Awarded the Pulitzer Prize and, for its French translation, the Maurice-Edgar Coindreau Prize, Martin Dressler or the novel of an American dreamer is part of the continuity of the demanding and rare work of one of the greatest contemporary writers. The author of "The Too Short Life of Edwin Mullhouse, American Writer, 1943-1954, Told by Jeffrey Cartwright," winner of the Prix Médicis étranger in 1975, recounts here the mythical destiny of a self-made man in New York at the turn of the last century. This "dreamer" is Martin Dressler, the modest son of a cigar merchant, a pragmatic man and brilliant inventor, possessed by a visionary madness. This demiurge who listens to "his heart's desire" will experience a fortune that only dreams can make possible. Steven Millhauser plays this science of trompe-l'oeil like a virtuoso, keeping the reader on the narrow border between dream and life, fiction and reality, truth and its representation. A fabulous story indeed, that of Martin Dressler, the embodiment of the American dream but also of the myths and utopias that have shaped the Western imagination. With this extraordinary novel, Steven Millhauser establishes himself as the most European of current American authors.
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Title : The Condottiere's Journey - Towards Venice, Fiorenza, Beloved Siena - André Suarès - book
Summary : Although he summons the tutelary shadow of Stendhal, the Condottiere has shed all authority. His journey is unique in that it treats cities as characters: Rimini is "gloomy like a successful assassination attempt," Genoa is banal "like the thoughts of an American shopkeeper." Each city not only has its painting, its musical piece, its church, its great man, it also has its own face, its warts, its wrinkles, its bad breath, its smile (the ardent Siena is a "kiss in a mystical smile"). Each corner visited gives birth to a prose poem, where sometimes the vision of a couple united in beatitude emerges. Clare, the patrician of Assisi, seeing Saint Francis booed, reviled, wants no other fiancé than this "mad Little Poor." Catherine of Siena consoles a man condemned to death, promises him eternal marriage, leads him to the scaffold and receives his head in her hands.
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Title : A Monkey in Winter - Antoine Blondin - book
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1959 Interallied Prize
"The driver no longer had the leisure to slow down... Motionless, his stomach touching the hood, his feet together, Fouquet wrapped himself in a caressing movement around the body of the car that was speeding towards him; for a moment, he gave the impression that he was going to abandon his jacket to the bristling side of the car, but it had already passed him, and, tucking his garment under his arm, he freed his right hand to wave to the spectators who were exclaiming variously. "Ollé," he said..."
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Title : A Thousand Suns - Dominique Lapierre - book
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By the co-author of "IS PARIS BURNING?" and the author of "THE CITY OF JOY," "A THOUSAND SUNS": 10 million readers. 16 international editions. 40,000 moving letters. "The characters in this book have piqued my curiosity, fueled my dreams, sparked my rebellion, and enriched my existence. Through their love of noble causes and their rage to win, they have taught me that there are always 'A Thousand Suns' on the other side of the clouds." Dominique Lapierre. "We leave this abundant book with a little more generosity, compassion, and hope." (Le Figaro - Paris). "This book, which can be read in one breath, is worth all the adventure novels." (El Pais - Madrid). "A diamond book." (Le Soir - Brussels). "A book that brings hope." (Corriere della Sera - Milan).
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Title : The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle - book
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Title : Robin Hood and the Green Arrow - Suzanne Pairault - book
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Title : The Novel of Renart - Francis Reille Claire Daymas, Lucien Fleury and Alain le Breton - book
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Title : Tales and Legends of the Antilles - Thérèse Georgel - book
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Title : Oriental notebook working notes - Jacques Ferrandez - book
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