Title : Tlacuilo - Michel Rio - book Summary : I feel I come from both worlds, a hybrid tlacuilo, a mixture of Chimalpahin obsessed with origins and a jester obsessed with death. Will I seek the only foundation through the multiplicity of stories? The truth in the profusion and disorder of invention? Knowledge in illusion? No longer knowing clearly where I come from, and not at all where I am going, and therefore basically ignorant of who I am, what reference points will I give to my wisdom? The only one left to me is that I must die. I will speak of death and the desire to live. And I will die, while this desire will survive me and keep, perhaps, some trace of me. EAN: 9782020215398 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories - Carson McCullers - book Summary : In his life as in his work, we find the same unbridled need for love, the same obsession with this music through which people believe they can reconcile themselves. And we are struck above all by the tenacious search for human contact, reduced to chance encounters in small bars where alcohol warms the body and soul, erases the pain of the world and makes God superfluous... A brief relief since solitude returns. This solitude that Carson McCullers and each of his creatures seek to escape but which they all end up choosing, as a privilege or a lesser evil. Because, as we know, there will always be solitude for those who are worthy of it. Hector Bianciotti. EAN: 9782253035893 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Snow Citadel - Matthieu Ricard - book Summary : Born in a small village in Bhutan, at the foot of the Himalayas, Dechen feels more drawn to the spiritual life of the monks than to the hard work of the fields. So, when his uncle offers to accompany him to the mysterious Snow Citadel, he doesn't hesitate for a single moment. There, in this place out of this world, he could follow the teachings of a spiritual master, and develop both wisdom and method with him. But before arriving there, a long journey awaits Dechen, a path that will in itself carry many lessons... "A gentle introduction to Buddhism for the uninitiated, a little gem for others to ponder." Isabelle Francq – The life Matthieu RICARD studied cellular genetics before turning to Buddhism. Ordained a monk in 1978, he is one of the world's leading experts on Tibetan Buddhism. He lives in the Himalayas with great spiritual masters. He is the French interpreter for the Dalai Lama. EAN: 9782266165778 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Suspicions River - Laura Kasischke - book Summary : Leila is twenty-four years old. She's a receptionist at the Swan Motel in Suspicious River, a quiet little town in Michigan. And for a few dollars more, she can be included in the room rate. She sells her body without passion, without sadness, or greed for money either. Saint and martyr, Leila is beyond her own body, more sensitive to the matter of the world than to men. The key to her descent into hell lies in childhood, and Leila undoubtedly knows that she is replaying her mother's tragic destiny, the parable of Eros and Thanatos at the end of which, perhaps, she will discover who she is... Laura Kasischke delivers here a first novel where hyperrealism, violence, and crudeness are transfigured by a poetic and lyrical universe of exceptional force. EAN: 9782020396080 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sinuhe the Egyptian volume 1 - Mika Waltari - book Summary : For the love of a courtesan, the Egyptian physician Sinuhe sold himself into slavery. He will experience an odyssey halfway between myth and reality. A physician, but also a spy for Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, he will travel from Thebes to Babylon, and also to the mysterious Hittites and the Cretans subject to the Minotaur. A prodigious adventure novel that introduces us to the politics, religion, and science of the fourteenth century BC, the masterpiece of the great Filipino writer Mika Wlatari also invites us to reflect on the man of today, pleasure, freedom, power, violence, injustice, and everything that makes up our destiny. EAN: 9782070372973 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Preacher's Wife - Joanna Trollope - book Summary : Because she is suffocating in this sad English village where her husband, with his five parishes to serve, vegetates waiting for a promotion that will never come. Anna, the pastor's wife, finds a job in the neighboring supermarket. A first step towards freedom, to the scandal of her mediocre and boring entourage. Aged forty-two, with a strong appetite for life and ambition for her three children, Anna is in no way resigned to a life of habits and frustrations. The arrival of a rich and charming London intellectual precipitates the metamorphosis of this simple and attractive woman. A woman breaks the moorings and rediscovers the power to live and love. In the tradition of the great British novelists, Joanna Trollope possesses this inimitable gift of the poetry of the everyday and the art of making ordinary existences extraordinary, those where nothing happens in appearance. Nothing, that is to say, everything. EAN: 9782266065719 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Machine - René Belletto - book Summary : Leonardo would wait until his mother was in bed to kill her. He would kill her in her bed. Soon... The fatal mechanism is wound up. On the edge of fantasy and scientific anticipation, an unprecedented human drama, a relentless suspense that leads us to the height of horror. A formidable literary machine. EAN: 9782277230809 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Café du Pont - Childhood Scents - Pierre PERRET - book Summary : These adventures of a child, a teenager destined to become one of the public's most beloved artists, resemble a song from sweet France. It blends the shade of the Garonne Canal, the bustle of the market in his native Castelsarrasin, and the joyful hubbub of the popular café his parents ran. It was the 1940s, the war was beautiful and dangerous, Mama's cooking was succulent, the girls were incomprehensible, the spectacle of nature and life was inexhaustible. Still unaware of his gifts, Pierrot cultivated his taste for poetry, the saxophone, comedy, humor, and friendship. At twenty, after his apprenticeship in Toulouse, he already knew everything. All that remained was for him to conquer Paris... EAN: 9782266170888 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : My Mother's Freedom - Jean-Michel Aphatie - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782290171455 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Feminine humor in 700 quotes - Christian Moncelet - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782757879085 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Wild Herb Soup - Emilie Carles - book Summary : A miserabilist novel, a tearful tale? That was the pitfall. But the old lady is not one of those who laments or pities herself. She exudes a quiet strength, unfailing health, even an astonishing joy. In this rural world that believes only in God and authority, she professes feminism, anarchism, and pacifism. Like her grandchildren today. She accepts no fatality, no submission. And fights in the name of an ideal that nothing will undermine. " Janick Jossin, L'Express "Let no one expect from this Wild Herb Soup a pleasant collection of picturesque stories, an anthology of country traits, old herbal teas, and old moons. Emilie Carles, at the end of her days, took up her pen as one takes up a sword: to fight prejudice, to smite the powerful and the rich, to tell the clever what they think. " Bruno Frappat, Le Monde "Her book is wonderful. She doesn't try to be literary, and she's right there, straight away. Go for it." Cavanna, Charlie Hebdo EAN: 9782253021537 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Rats - Bernard Frank - book Summary : Thanks to this reprint, thousands of readers will now enter the dream, enjoy the author's never-failing intelligence, imagine themselves as Bourrieu or Ponchard, meet Sartre, get drunk at Gallimard... A book of extraordinary impudence, health, violence, and strength. It is a marvelously written novel. The serious dialogue is hilarious. The false naivety hits the mark. Insolence creeps in insidiously, casually, but stupidity, pettiness, and cowardice do not recover. It is also a tenderness that we did not know Frank had. Bourrieu, Weil, and the other characters in The Rats are burning to write something immortal. In the meantime, they place themselves in the press, dine out, parasitize, and flirt. The Rats was written when they were less than twenty-four years old. There is a stunning breath, culture and maturity evident there. EAN: 9782253046103 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Rebel Son - Olivier Todd - book Summary : Before Sartre, living or dead, petrified by his devotees or stoned by bigots, I have no rights to claim, no duties to fulfill. A few scores to settle, perhaps, and, no doubt, more with myself or with the times than with him. Breathing in fresh air or rotten winds, flying in the calm or the storm, how he held the place, the good man! I confess: I was never a Sartrean. I admit: I was influenced by him. I'm not the only one. Illness is not shameful. We recover from it. Sartre obsessed many people, from the palest leftist to Raymond Aron. A vast procession for such modest pride. EAN: 9782253038993 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Last Woman - Jean-Paul Enthoven - book Summary : Why did Louise Brooks, in her heyday, read Proust and Schopenhauer in Broadway bars? What kind of pleasure did Nancy Cunard derive from the tortures Aragon demanded of her? Did Louise de Vilmorin, alias "Marilyn Malraux," prefer money, feelings, or four-leaf clovers? How did Freud manage to persuade Marie Bonaparte that a woman could enjoy herself through her head? Was it because Georges Bataille transformed her into a poisonous saint that Laure confused mysticism with debauchery? What connection does Françoise Dorléac have with an hourglass? Was the extravagant Zelda Fitzgerald a muse or a jealous woman? A madwoman or a madwoman in love? When did Françoise Sagan understand that her legend was a mask behind which she could hide her melancholy? What man, finally, would not be frightened at the idea of ​​meeting his last wife? EAN: 9782253118756 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The French Omerta - Sophie Coignard, Alexandre Wickham - book Summary : There is a law in France that is not published in the "Official Journal" but is rigorously enforced: the law of silence. Cash can circulate with impunity and completely legally in ministries... A taboo subject. Romantic intrigues play an important, and hidden, role in the functioning of the State... Private life! Fascinated by power, a few star journalists become - involuntarily? - accomplices of an invisible censorship. It is in bad taste to address these sensitive topics reserved, in any case, for the sole use of the microcosm. Sophie Coignard and Alexandre Wickham, to whom we also owe the "French Nomenklatura", attack here the stiflers who lock down the system and all the beautiful souls who protect the French from truths that are, it seems, not good to say. EAN: 9782266124126 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Fox - Hugues Douriaux - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782286032456 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 : The Mystery of the Key - Patricia Wentworth - book Summary : Upon learning of Michael Harsh's death, the residents of the small village of Bourne are in turmoil. Suicide or murder? The results of the investigation confirm the first hypothesis, yet Scotland Yard is alerted. What could be the motives for the crime? Professional jealousy, enmity, political gain? Anything seems possible... While the inspectors follow several leads, Miss Silver, for her part, makes sure to lead them to the right one! EAN: 9782264021632 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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