Title : A Short Treatise on Nonchalance - Denis Grozdanovitch - book Summary : Are cats wiser than us? Do you have to train your whole life to become a tennis champion? What lies behind the famous British fair play? What do Proust and Robinson Crusoe have in common? Through brief chronicles, Denis Grozdanovitch sketches a hymn to nonchalance and the simple joys of everyday life. Born in 1946, Denis Grozdanovitch was a professional athlete: tennis, squash, and real tennis. A Little Treatise on Nonchalance, published in 2002, is his first book. He is also the author of Dreamers and Swimmers, Brief Glimpses of the Eternal Feminine and of The art of taking the ball on the bounce. "A short treatise on nonchalance is winning – and rightly so – the prize for best word of mouth. The Express Society of People and Letters Prize 2002 EAN: 9782020659215 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Words for Teenagers The Lobster Complex - Françoise Dolto, Catherine Dolto-Tolitch - book Summary : A teenager, said Françoise Dolto, is like a lobster during moulting: without a shell, forced to make another one, and in the meantime confronted with all the dangers. Self-discovery, first social experiences, sexuality, rebellion, temptations of violence or drugs: this book aims to help you address all these challenges. It is primarily aimed at teenagers, but parents and educators will also find food for thought. Speaking directly to adolescents, sincerely, instead of talking about them: such was the last audacity of the great psychoanalyst, author of Quand l'enfant semble and La Cause des enfants. A legal guide covering all aspects of adolescent life, written by a specialist, completes this work destined to become a classic. EAN: 9782253060116 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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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 : In childhood - Mathieu Lindon - book Summary : He's willing to admit that this Santa Claus was created for his own good, that he was the one who was wrong. The fact remains that a character is created from scratch, made up entirely of benevolence and rewards, and that we therefore have a thousand good reasons to adore him, and then we come and tell him that this Santa Claus is no more Santa Claus than he is and that he's just his mother and father. We want to steal his affection, divert it from him, that we wouldn't act any differently. He's ashamed of his parents. "It wasn't worth it," he says to his mother. "I'll never get out of this if I have to love people who don't exist." Being a child is like being a dinosaur, it goes back so far. Under Mathieu Lindon's pen, memories take shape again. What's the point of childhood? We fall into it to do what? EAN: 9782070450350 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : O Solitude - Catherine Millot - book Summary : "The happy impatience of beginnings. The horizon is a perfect circle, the sea is deserted, empty like the blank page that awaits me, like the days to come, with just the sun and the sea, and the islands. And the sun will rise over the sea, will set over the sea. I will be able to go out on deck in the morning to watch it rise until the gray dawn becomes the pink dawn, and then go back to sleep, completely enclosed in the beauty of the dawning day. Happiness merges with the sea and the sun and the writing to come, the long mornings of writing, time restored to its freedom." By taking the paths of solitude, from the Mediterranean to the Lofoten Islands, Catherine Millot offers us an initiatory journey: how artists and writers, naturalists and madmen perceive the world on the crest of the abyss. EAN: 9782070450411 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Let's go further, shall we? - Anny Duperey - book Summary : Christine, who runs a travel agency, feels exhausted for no reason. At fifty, without ever having dared to admit it to herself, fear to age the mine. Paul, the peasant, a man sensitive and gentle, was never able to tear himself away from the brutal family he was born into. Solange, a ticket clerk at the SNCF, is angry with the the whole world and first of all to herself. Luc, to strength to fight to save one's relationship, is at the end of one's rope. All four of them will experience these moments where one is suddenly confronted with oneself and where we become aware of dead ends we have entered. Everyone has their own way finally agrees to escape the fate to which he thought he was doomed. When we change, everything around us changes. self. Christine, Paul, Solange and Luc will cross paths and their stories will no longer be than one. After the storms and the heartbreaks, a new harmony is born, like a something due to those who know how to crack when it is necessary and to face it when it is necessary, with courage and humility. EAN: 9782020620543 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : My House Has Two Doors - Suyin Han - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253027577 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bartleby and Company - Enrique Vila-Matas - book Summary : Twenty-five years after writing a romance novel, a clerk returns to this ancient trauma and starts a sort of journal, in search of these countless negative writers who fill the history of writing with their deafening silence. Unfinished or unfinishable books, editorial failures, posthumous successes, authors of a single book, late confessions of an unfulfilled vocation, pseudonym maniacs, incapable adults, desperate a priori, partisans of human brevity to the point of choosing life over letters or even taking it away from themselves out of spite, militants of the ineffable, or consenting negroes, all these second cousins ​​of Bartleby form a constellation from which, without a doubt, the best have emerged, when they have not simply remained there. EAN: 9782264036131 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Follies of Singapore - Paul Kenny - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782265035942 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Cause of Children - Françoise Dolto - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253039365 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Montparnasse - The Golden Age - Jean-Paul Caracalla - book Summary : Writers, poets, painters, sculptors, musicians, directors, actors, and singers as familiar figures. La Coupole, le Dôme, la Closerie as sets. Bohemianism as atmosphere. And night as kingdom. Throughout the twentieth century, the world's greatest intelligence and beauty met on the most Parisian of boulevards. Today, this submerged universe endures through the works it inspired. But it took the erudition and style of Jean-Paul Caracalla, his love for Montparnasse above all, to resurrect its golden legend, alive and vibrant. EAN: 9782710327974 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Taste of Paris - Collectives - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782715224179 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 : I haven't said anything yet - Chronicles 2017-2019 - François Morel - book Summary : The spirit of the times, François Morel style, is a hundred biting, salutary, often murderous, always enjoyable chronicles. A Ministry of Laughter in France? Any tips for dealing with a hangover? And why not a hymn to Camembert? Every Friday morning on France Inter, François Morel does it again. A few minutes to capture the worst, and sometimes the best, of the era. A few minutes to laugh at everything, without limits, and console yourself for stupidity. EAN: 9782266312899 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Ghost of the Moor - Martha GRIMES - book Summary : A stab in the back. One after the other, the victims fall. Always children. Assisted by Commissioner Malcavie, Inspector Jury and his faithful Melrose Plant are following every lead. But why does Malcavie persist in believing there is a link between these murders and that of Rose Mulvanney, committed twenty years earlier? And why has this desolate pub, located on the side of the road, in the middle of the countryside, become his headquarters? In a country where family secrets have the opacity of fog falling over the moor, will the legendary complicity of Jury and Plant be enough to make the ghosts of the past speak? EAN: 9782266171205 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Thoughts - Blaise Pascal - book Summary : This edition of the Pensées aims to be as faithful as possible to Pascal's intentions, in particular by establishing the text, entirely reread from the manuscript, and by the notes. These present, by quoting them in extenso, which is an original feature of this edition, the entirety of the readings on which Pascal's reflection is based. The Pensées are not a posthumous book, they are the papers of a dead man, of a man who knows and who believes at the moment when death interrupts the Apology of the Christian religion. To say what this man was, such is the meaning of Michel Le Guern's edition which was crowned by the Critical Edition Prize. EAN: 9782070316250 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Spring Moon - Bao Lord Bette - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253036814 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Borodins, Dreams and Destiny - Arlen Leslie - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277213642 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Tell me how you were born, I'll tell you who you are - Lise Bartoli - book Summary : They say that everything happens in early childhood. But what if our birth already marks our adult life? Lise Bartoli shows us the link between this key moment and our current behaviors, our fears, our blockages. She helps us free ourselves from a weight, from ideas, images, or emotions that have remained frozen. And for you, how did it happen? Were you wanted? Did you come into the world easily? How were you welcomed? Each case is unique, but this fascinating book, built around forty testimonies, will resonate with each of you, and will give you the opportunity to relive your birth to finally be yourself. EAN: 9782228920766 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Dream of Broken Horses - William Bayer - book Summary : In a Midwestern city, on a sweltering afternoon, a man and a woman are making love in a motel room when, suddenly, the door opens. A silhouette appears. Then follows a double detonation... The two victims are Barbara Fulraine, a socialite, and her lover Tom Jessup, a modest professor. How could this upper-class woman have ended in such a sordid way? Who killed the two lovers? Twenty-six years after the events, courtroom illustrator David Weiss returns to the town where he grew up, on the occasion of a trial. He will attempt to find an answer to these questions that have constantly haunted him. A quest from which he will not emerge unscathed. EAN: 9782743615840 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Race to the Abyss - Dominique Fernandez - book Summary : Rome, 1600. A young, unknown painter arrives in the capital and, in a few paintings of unprecedented power and eroticism, revolutionizes painting. Realism, cruelty, chiaroscuro: he overturns three hundred years of artistic tradition. Cardinals protect him, princes court him. He becomes, under the pseudonym Caravaggio, the official painter of the church. But here's the thing: he is a born outsider, violent, antisocial; the very idea of ​​"making a career" is repugnant to him. In defiance of the law, he is passionately fond of boys, especially bad boys, thugs. He likes to fight, as skilled with a sword as he is a virtuoso with a brush. Sentenced to death for killing a man, he fled, wandered between Naples, Malta, and Sicily, caused further scandals, and died at the age of thirty-eight on a beach north of Rome. Murdered? Probably. By whom? We don't know. Why? Everything is mysterious in this life and in this death. It took a novelist to resurrect, beyond this fabulous era of Baroque Rome, an extraordinary temperament about whom we know nothing for sure, except that he was an absolute genius, one of the greatest painters of all time. EAN: 9782253112754 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 : If the Left Knew. Interviews with Georges-Marc Benamou - Michel Rocard - book Summary : If the left knew... In this unusual and fascinating face-to-face, Michel Rocard answers Georges-Marc Benamou's perilous questions without hesitation. From Mitterrand to Jospin, via the Algerian War, May '68, and Le Pen, this socialist at heart recounts, reveals, confesses, and accuses, breaking the prevailing code of silence. A magnificent lesson in political history at a time when the Socialist Party is searching for a new path. Prime Minister from 1988 to 1991, Michel Rocard is now elected to the European Parliament. He is the author of numerous books, including The Ways Out, available in Points. Georges-Marc Benamou, journalist and writer, was François Mitterrand's last confidant. "Michel Rocard has lost none of his verve. Better still: biting and enjoyable." The Parisian Expanded edition with a previously unpublished interview in which Michel Rocard looks at current events: Jacques Chirac's referendum on Europe, institutions, and Ségolène Royal's presidential candidacy. EAN: 9782757803783 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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