Title : Kamouraska - Anne Hébert - book Summary "Anne Hébert is the best-known of Quebec writers. A notoriety that dates in particular from the publication, in 1971, of the very romantic Kamouraska . » The Cross At the bedside of her dying husband, Elisabeth d'Aulnières watches over her own memory. Buried beneath time and dreams, the memories of her tumultuous youth resurface: the story, in 1839, of her sullied innocence, of a tragic passion of flesh and blood, of love and death. A secret hidden beneath the opaque silence of appearances and honor. A desperate love buried alive beneath the snows of Quebec... A great voice of Quebec literature, Anne Hébert (1916-2000) is the author of novels, plays, short story collections and poetry. Winner of the Booksellers' Prize in 1971, Kamouraska was brought to the screen. The Northern Gannets (Femina Prize 1982) and The Child Laden with Dreams are also available at Points. EAN : 9782020061230 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Little Tour of the Hindu Kush - Eric Newby - book Summary When, in 1956, Eric Newby decided to leave for Nuristan, this particularly rugged and wild region of Afghanistan, he knew nothing about Afghans, mountaineering and, frankly, travel... His legendary humor and an unsuspected practical sense would allow him to escape the worst traps. EAN : 9782228895408 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Disincarnation - Jean Rouaud - book Summary "At that precise moment, literature was hanging by a thread. Two friends advised a third, who had just read them a long melody into which he had put the best of himself, to give it up altogether. No big deal, we'll say. Literature will recover. Yes, but not like before. Literature's survival here, in Croisset, near Rouen, requires renunciation. For young Gustave, the good-for-nothing son of Doctor Flaubert, until then had a different idea of ​​it. For many months, in his Temptation of Saint Anthony, he had indulged in "desperate style" that he would never recover. To cure his "cancer of lyricism," Maxime Du Camp and Louis Bouilhet, the two friends, prescribed him a drastic treatment: write a novel "à la Balzac," "down to earth." It would be, by force and duress, Madame Bovary. The times ahead were not easy. for those who favor the phrase and the song. From now on, realism imposes its iron law, the visions are sent back to the desert and the dead are asked not to be resurrected. As if this fission between earth and heaven referred to another secret war, unleashed several centuries ago around this question of the dual nature. The meeting at Croisset, the ultimate avatar of the Council of Nicaea? Jean Rouaud. EAN : 9782070425457 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Cocteau Prince Without a Kingdom - Lange Monique - book Summary Cocteau, as we know, is avant-garde, curiosity. Strange, this gaze that is always "ahead", to the point of always grasping in those around him (Picasso, Diaghilev, Gide, Proust, Radiguet, Chanel...) or in new technical means (cinema, photography...) what will make the sensitivity of tomorrow. It has been said that he followed fashion. No, he preceded it. Restore the multiple, remake the kaleidoscope of Cocteau the man, tightrope walker of ideas and dreams, enchanter crushed by the difficulty of being, eternal child forever in search of love, such is the undertaking of Monique Lange's book. More than the detail of everyday life, it is the spirit of Cocteau that interests us here. Hence a lively reading of a world whose effervescence never ceases to amaze us, hence this cheerful way of giving taste to the work, one of the most singular of this century. EAN : 9782253053323 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Kidneys and Hearts - Paul-André LESORT - book Summary Husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and lovers, cousins ​​and comrades, near and far, all the characters in this book weave together the bonds of a visible society, that of a middle-class group in France on the eve of war. But also more secret bonds, those that connect their consciences, their visions of the world. How the story of each of them is seen by others, and how each of them sees their own story, the reader witnesses by participating successively in a few moments of the life of each of them. EAN : B0014UCFKI Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Insomnia - John Cheever - book Summary The short stories of John Cheever, that physician of the American soul who enchanted readers of the prestigious New Yorker for decades, are the keystone of American literature in the second half of the 20th century. The torments, neuroses, and defeats of the average American are examined as signs and symptoms of a society simultaneously disintegrating and renewing itself. The impossibility of saying things and living one's dreams without compromise: such is the secret thread that runs from one to the other of these sixteen short stories, chosen from among sixty that received the Pulitzer Prize in 1978, one of which, "5:48 PM," was taken up and continued by Raymond Carver in the collection The Vitamins of Happiness. EAN : 9782253933595 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Christianity under accusation - Marc Leboucher, René Rémond - book Summary After centuries of history, Christianity often appears as the accused. Alongside expressions of curiosity or historical interest, it is fashionable to make it a sort of scapegoat, held responsible for certain blockages in society: one will denounce "Judeo-Christian morality," another will denounce the burdens of a society marked by centuries of Catholicism, a third will condemn a religion that exalts passivity or weakness... How can we understand this accusation, this discredit, at a time when Christianity seems weakened? Should we attribute them to older causes or to an inevitable destiny? Should we also see in them the consequences of a Christian spirituality often obsessed with sin and death? Finally, is Christianity capable of leaving traces, key values ​​in history? René Rémond and Marc Leboucher analyze this rejection and question the future of a tradition which, without doubt, has not had its last word. EAN : 9782226149039 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Man with the Windy Soles - Michel Le Bris - book Summary We will go one day, beyond the horizon, in search of our Irelands. "What would a journey be without the book that enlivens it and prolongs its trace - without the rustling of all those books that we read before setting off? Samarkand, Trebizond, so many words, from childhood, that were like doors to us, so many stories, so many legends!" EAN : 9782228894982 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : An Island in the Wind - Barbara Kingsolver - book Summary Twelve short stories, like so many capsules of Kingsolver in a nutshell. Simple and disturbingly accurate stories that exalt the strength and fragility of women. Always intimately embedded in an XXL America, they are here dignified, tenacious, and rebellious in the face of adversity. Of all ages, from all walks of life, they try to make sense of their trials and strive to become themselves. Barbara Kingsolver's political charge and evocative power have not lost an iota of intensity since the first publication of this book in 1989. EAN : 9782743614676 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : How to Support Your Freedom - Chantal Thomas - book Summary The spirit of independence - its insolence, its euphoria, its strength of detachment - blows for each person according to a singular biographical disposition, at the whim of moments which, perhaps insignificant from the outside, are inscribed in us as the decisive moments of our history. This essay speaks of the importance of knowing how to seize them on the fly. The taste for play, the desire to laugh, the art of travel, the pleasure of reading, the right to say no to the chain of obligations and that of generations are the elements of an enjoyment as fragile as it is vital of one's freedom. EAN : 9782743606091 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert - book Summary A young eighteen-year-old provincial, full of dreams and rather attractive, comes to study in Paris. From 1840 to the evening of the coup d'état of 1851, he learns about the world in a society in full upheaval. Along the way, he encounters true love and the contingencies of pleasure, the Revolution and its false apostles, art, the power of money and stupidity, the reversibility of beliefs, fraternal friendship and the inevitability of betrayals, without managing to commit himself to any cause other than that of following the loss of his illusions. Written in dazzling language and according to unprecedented narrative rules, L'Education sentimentale , published in 1869, is perhaps Flaubert's most accomplished and mysterious masterpiece. In seeking to represent the very essence of lived time, the author conveys to us a philosophy of history, a morality of existence and an aesthetic of memory that remain surprisingly relevant for elucidating the enigmas of today. EAN : 9782253010692 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Working with Bourdieu - Rose-Marie Lagrave - book Summary They are sociologists, historians, anthropologists, linguists, economists... Some are fellow travelers, others have been close to Bourdieu, at one time or another. All bear witness to an experience of working with him in the double sense of the term: working together and theory in action that continues to regenerate scientific approaches and practices. Hence the diversity of contributions but also the singularity of the tone of this work, unclassifiable according to current academic rules: from the account of a fragment of life, passing through the anecdotal trait, to the analysis of theoretical and methodological contributions, all registers intersect, attesting that working with Bourdieu has not calibrated thought or ways of doing things. These different positions and objects reveal new facets and readings of Bourdieu, which concern as much reflexivity, the logic of practice, classifications as the economy of symbolic goods and forms of domination. In many contributions, the emotion of memory also emerges, through modest touches, a sort of reminder of the sensitive conditions of scientific production, often passed over in silence and yet which are part of the daily life of the researcher. If one had to speak of homage, it is an anti-academic homage that the authors of this book wanted to pay to the author of Homo academicus. EAN : 9782080801128 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In My Footsteps - Gregor von Rezzori - book Summary Following in the footsteps of his own life, from this space of deterritorialization that is Bukovina, Rezzori inevitably sets out on the trail of a Europe that is constantly recomposing itself. Like a photograph immersed in a developer bath, the images of these periods become clearer as they are evoked, reconstituting themselves into a framework to form the story of a turbulent and irreversible destiny. Neither fresco nor autobiography, this work in perpetual movement, written with a lively and jubilant, impertinent pen, precisely renders this ambiguous universe where the feeling of isolation, the tearing apart of identity, the quest for a saving denial combine in such a way that Claudio Magris ranks Rezzori among the great names of "Austrian" literature, alongside Musil and Doderer. We could add Joseph Roth and Elias Canetti. Gregor von Rezzori (1914-1997) is one of the great names in European literature. His most famous books include: The Dirty Ermine (Gallimard); Oedipus at Stalingrad (Salvy); My Brother Abel (Salvy); Snow of Yesteryear (Éditions de l'Olivier); The Swan (Éditions du Rocher). EAN : 9782268059396 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : This stranger who resembles me - Jean Daniel - book Summary "When you see your life unfold, you say to yourself, in front of certain scenes: how could I have? And in front of others: who is this man?..." Facing Martine de Rabaudy, Jean Daniel takes a new distance from what he has experienced most intimately. A writer watches a journalist live. He sees without indulgence, at the heart of this story, a foreigner sure of himself in action and skeptical in ideas, peremptory and disenchanted, aesthete and committed, secular and mystical, Gidian, Camusian, Mendésist, faithful to a certain idea of ​​the left and who is trying to survive the death of utopias and the failures of decolonization. This foreigner who resembles me thus revisits the adventure of a journalist-writer and, through him, that of the weekly he founded in 1964, Le Nouvel Observateur, grappling with his century. EAN : 9782070319831 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Léone and her family - Claude Roy - book Summary New York, one summer in the 1950s. Near Queensboro Bridge and the docks, Léone nonchalantly reigns over a precarious republic of displaced people. The pleasure of living with Léone makes them forget their homesickness. Sweet and secretive, perhaps indifferent, giving of herself easily but revealing little, Léone asks nothing of anyone. Until the day Pierre arrives... EAN : 9782070377954 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Culottes - Françoise Dorin - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782290306970 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Tieta d'Agreste - Goat Girl or the Return of the Prodigal Daughter, a melodramatic soap opera in five sensational episodes and a surprising epilogue - Jorge Amado - book Summary As a teenager, the carnal goatherd Tieta fled the hills of Agreste under public opprobrium and the vindictive stick of her father, old Esteves. Thirty years later, as an influential woman from São Paulo, she returns to the lost paradise of her native town in the province of Bahia. The inhabitants of Agreste then seem determined to wipe the slate clean to welcome her properly and consecrate her as the tutelary figure of the small community. But what will become of this fascination when they discover that behind a facade of cheerful respectability hides a brothel owner who, far from having stifled her sensuality, deludes her chaste nephew every night, promised to the seminary? EAN : 9782290108000 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Men Who Move Away - François Taillandier - book Summary In the Saint-Lazare district, between the train station, offices, and department stores, three friends regularly meet for a drink. In their forties, Manu the cop, Jean the history teacher, and Xeni the advertising executive feel marginalized in a society they believe is given over to televised conformity and the omnipresence of Merchandise. But what, for the former, is merely an amused or melancholic skepticism, gradually turns, for Xeni, into an obsessive denunciation of common values, to the point of praising terrorists, drug dealers, or neo-Nazis. Manu, Jean, and also Gina, the woman who loves him, will helplessly watch the drift of the man they knew to be intelligent and generous. Why this divorce of an individual from his world? What demon is at work, making rupture and violence desirable? This is what this novel, which earned the author of Les Clandestins an enthusiastic critical reception, attempts to understand - or rather, no. EAN : 9782253147220 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Tea Master - Yasushi Inoue - book Summary It's 1591, in the midst of the feudal revolution. The Taiko, the emperor's advisors, are working to unify Japan. The tea men, their mentors, are preparing ceremonies to help them find Zen peace. Rikyu, the tea ceremony master attached to the governor, commits hara-kiri. Six years after his death, the monk Honkakubo recalls the memory of his master. Rikyu had invented "simple" tea, stripped of luxury. Why did he kill himself? Who ordered it? In his journal, Honkakubo recalls his encounters with great tea masters and notes imaginary conversations with Rikyu beyond death. The dream that concludes the book finally provides an answer to the questions he has been asking himself for thirty years. In sixteenth-century Japan, the Way of Tea became a ritual. Tea ceremony masters were important figures, alternately protected and rejected by those in power. Inoue wrote this book based on recovered manuscripts, and it suggests that these ceremonies were the site of secret negotiations. He meticulously and poetically details each gesture and each utensil, introducing us to an increasingly pure ritual. EAN : 9782234049222 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Syngué sabour - Stone of patience - Atiq Rahimi - book Summary "This stone that you place before you... before which you lament all your misfortunes, all your miseries... to which you confide everything that is on your heart and that you dare not reveal to others... You speak to it, you speak to it. And the stone listens to you, soaks up all your words, your secrets, until one fine day it bursts. It falls to pieces. And that day, you are freed from all your suffering, from all your sorrows... What do they call this stone?" In Afghanistan perhaps or elsewhere, a woman watches over her wounded husband. Deep down, they do not know each other. Hours and days pass as the war approaches. And the woman's tongue loosens, weaving the story of a life of humiliation, in the hope of possible redemption. EAN : 9782070416738 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Bay of Biscay - Bertrand Poirot-Delpech - book Summary A port in the Cotentin Peninsula. After the turmoil of May 1968, history and spirits are enjoying the respite of the ebbing seas. A young teacher, Isabelle, and her friend Christopher, a sailor, are preparing to set sail on an old sailboat: heading for the antipodes and mad love. In the countryside, an older woman, Victoire, repairs the church towers in danger, until the day when a dizzying, mutual passion binds her to the departing couple. Will she, too, embark? EAN : 9782070384112 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Suor - Jorge Amado - book Summary In the heart of old Bahia, an old colonial building, seemingly like any other, at number 68 Montée-du-Pelourinho. Four floors. A dark staircase. Fernandes's bistro at the front. In the one hundred and sixteen rooms, more than six hundred people, not counting the rats. Isaac, Dona Risoleta, the sweet Linda, the black Henrique, Artur, whose machine crushed both arms, who begs and scares the children, the agitator Alvaro Lima... it is a whole world supposedly without hygiene and morals that Jorge Amado stages in this single place that evokes the arena of the ancient theater and where the pillory for slaves once stood. A sick, rebellious, miserable world, sweating with the sweat of the oppressed, giving off the smell of a dead man's room, but which loves and remains vitality itself, and will perhaps one day be able to upset its condition, even though it is the most desperate. EAN : 9782070384266 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Angel - Elizabeth Taylor - book Summary "Here is a novel whose subject is the gift of a lifetime to writing, and it is told in such a romantic way that we are caught in a sort of circular and dramatic whirlwind. The extravagant child who is the heroine, Angel, who is anything but angelic, immediately appears to us to be restive, despising the grocery store where her mother works, absent from everyday life, deliberately blind to reality." (Excerpt from the preface by Diane de Margerie) EAN : 9782869304468 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mr. & Mrs. Bridge - Evan Shelby Connell - book Summary Mr. Bridge is a serious man. A lawyer, he spends twelve hours a day immersed in his files. Mrs. Bridge is a decent woman who never goes out without a hat. Yes, a model couple: a bourgeois house, gleaming silverware, a black housekeeper, three beautiful children. Not a single escapade, not an argument, barely one or two misunderstandings and a few domestic worries. Life is a long river... Side by side, they will drift on these calm waters, crossing without batting an eyelid the crisis of 1929, the rise of Nazism in Europe... A bittersweet chronicle of an America deeper than nature, sewn with certainties and frozen in its good conscience. As Mrs. Bridge reminds us: "We don't say cleaning lady but cleaning woman, my dear. Ladies are Mama's friends." EAN : 9782277230410 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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