Follow the flow
Extraits
Littérature française
Presque une nuit d'été
Un premier roman plein de fraîcheur où une jeune photographe cherche à saisir les beautés éphémères du quotidien. Elle suit un inconnu qui rentre chez lui avec ses courses, discute dans un bus avec un employé noctambule, observe une mère portant son bébé sur le dos… Et, surtout, elle fait la rencontre d'une vieille dame énigmatique et de l'insaisissable Joh. Au fil de ses promenades, notre héroïne convoque des souvenirs personnels, recueille des histoires intimes, pleines d'humanité et de courage, mais aussi des récits plus extravagants ou merveilleux. On suivra ainsi les aventures d'un jeune expatrié dans les bas-fonds d'une ville vietnamienne, le combat d'Ibtissem pour échapper à l'emprise de sa famille, le tragique destin de Tsukuyomi, dieu de la Lune banni du royaume céleste, ou encore les errances du fantôme de Yoru à la recherche de sa sœur perdue…
08/2018
Sciences politiques
The Structure of Political Communication in the United Kingdom, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany
Political Communication in The United Kingdom, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany differs in terms of what the peoples expect to take issue with, how they are prepared to talk about them, which choices they can make to solve problems and, finally, whom or which organizations they delegate to resolve them. This comparative media study of The Economist, Time and Der Spiegel attempts to extract the differences in politics of the three societies.
11/1987
Sciences de la terre et de la
CARDANO'S COSMOS. The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer
GIROLAMO CARDANO was an Italian doctor, natural philosopher, and mathematician who became a best-selling author in Renaissance Europe. He was also a leading astrologer of his day, whose predictions won him access to some of the most powerful people in sixteenth-century Europe. In Cardano's Cosmos, Anthony Grafton invites readers to follow this astrologer's extraordinary career and explore the art and discipline of astrology in the hands of a brilliant practitioner.
Renaissance astrologers predicted everything from the course of the future of humankind to the risks of a single investment, or even the weather. They analyzed the bodies and characters of countless clients, from rulers to criminals, and enjoyed widespread respect and patronage. This book traces Cardano's contentions career from his first astrological pamphlet through his rise to high-level consulting and his remarkable autobiographical works. Delving into astrological principles and practices, Grafton shows how Cardano and his contemporaries adapted the ancient art for publication and marketing in a new era of print media and changing science. He maps the context of market and human forces that shaped Cardano's practices-and the maneuvering that kept him at the top of a world rife with patronage, politics, and vengeful rivals.
Cardano's astrology, argues Grafton, was a profoundly empirical and highly influential art, one that was integral to the attempts of sixteenth-century scholars to understand their universe and themselves.
01/1999
Dessin
Dogs. Authentic and fictitious graphic inventory
Dogs is a kennel of 200 drawings made by Jochen Gerner between 2021 and 2023, following his study of birds. Each of these dogs was drawn with pigmented Indian ink felt pens on small-format lined and squared school notebooks from China and India. This series of drawings follows the graphic experiment of Jochen Gerner to explore all the potentialities of the grids, lines and colours in the representation of textures and hair. Focusing on dogs, which Jochen Gerner represents in a touching and very funny multiplicity, this collection reveals us that hardly nothing is required on paper for these dogs to breathe, each of them in an outstanding singularity. Braces, squares, lozenges, waves... The colorful patterns cut and cross each other with a disconcerting, always innovative simplicity to make their hair shine and ripple. With this new bestiary holding as much of the illustration as of graphic design, Jochen Gerner invites us to a whimsical look at the world and proves us once again the singularity of his observation.
09/2023
Non classé
Ambivalence and Irony in the Works of Joseph Roth
Did Joseph Roth, the socialist, revolutionary and sceptic, become a monarchist, reactionary and believer ? This work attributes the contradictory manifestations in the life and personality of Roth to the attitude of ambivalence and irony that characterised him and his generation. The historical and intellectual situation that led to the dominance of this attitude and Roth's susceptibility to it due to the circumstances of his life are discussed. A meticulous study of Roth's letters, journalistic work and novels follows substantiating the thesis advanced.
12/1984
Esotérisme
L'école rosicrucienne du dimanche
On sait que les impressions reçues dans l'enfance sont déterminantes pour le comportement de l'adulte. D'où leur importance. Les directives que nous a laissées Max Heindel au sujet de l'éducation pourront être utilisées avec profit par tout parent ou éducateur, conscient de l'avenir de notre société et désireux d'inculquer à ses enfants les valeurs morales indissociables du progrès de l'humanité.
11/2002
Non classé
The Two Sources of Indian Asceticism
This book argues that the Indian ascetic traditions have two independent sources, the one Vedic, the other non-Vedic. This point of view has been expressed here and there in the scholarly literature, but it has never yet been argued in detail on the basis of textual evidence. The primary evidence is as follows : Early Indian literature - primarily the Epics, Buddhist and Jaina literature - explicitly differentiates between two types of ascetics, who distinguish themselves from each other in their aims, as well as in various other respects.
07/1993
Science-fiction
The aumakua. The great white shark novel
Just as I finished grabbing it, a sharp pain suddenly was erupting on the inside edge of my lair ! Simultaneously, a tension as unbearable as it was horrifying blocked me trying to pull me towards the surface. The kanakäs had just intercepted me through this lethal decoy ! So, with all my mass and was arching my body with all my strength in the opposite direction, I was regained some slack on this terribly resistant link, feeling all the mass of the platform preventing me from probing like the dontokä before. However, I was determined to show them which of us would be most worthy of remaining in the Incompressible, when with a devastating lateral movement, I severed with a sharp blow the lethal and imperceptible tether ! By this counter blow, I was as if immediately ejected : the perfidious artifact still embedded in my lair lying painfully like a relic of this ubiquitous creature of the System.
09/2023
Littérature française
Un garçon flou
"Elle s'appelle Léna, elle me tend une main franche, spontanée, déterminée. Et en même temps délicate. - Moi, c'est Richard. Dick en anglais, j'ai cru bon d'ajouter. Richard Federman. - Ah oui ? Pourtant, on ne dit pas Dick Coeur de Lion. La remarque est pertinente, sans conteste". Richard Federman, étudiant, traverse Mai 68 à Paris, un peu ahuri, vaguement amoureux, mais de qui ? Léna Chevalier ? Solange Sarfati ? Esther Litvak, sa directrice de thèse ? Rosine Dufreynois, à qui il donne des cours de français ? À moins que, tel le Frédéric Moreau de Flaubert, Richard ne traverse la Seine, la cour de la Sorbonne, la Révolution, les amours, la vie, sans adhérer, lointain, détaché. Et d'abord de lui-même. Et si résidait là, dans ce trait, son désir d'être un jour écrivain ?
01/2014
Romans historiques
Le grand flot
La révolution de février 1848 et les débuts de la IIe République, l'insurrection ouvrière de juin 1848 et sa répression, le coup d'Etat de Louis Napoléon Bonaparte de décembre 1851, ces événements forment la toile de fond de ce roman historique. Le fil conducteur, c'est la dure vie de Juste Bourdon, un ouvrier combatif de Clamecy dans la Nièvre, flotteur de bois qui, avec ses compagnons, convoie par millions les bûches des forêts du Morvan jusqu'à Paris. Ces flotteurs à la vie périlleuse souffrent de leur condition d'exploité soumise à l'arbitraire du règlement des Compagnies. L'instauration de la République, après le soulèvement populaire de février 1848, fait naître en eux l'espoir d'une vie meilleure. Mais déceptions et désillusions suivent, et après le coup d'Etat de 1851, ils se heurtent à la force des nantis et à une répression impitoyable. Reconstitution basée sur des faits authentiques, ce roman fait revivre une époque avec laquelle la nôtre partage cette aspiration obstinée à un monde plus juste et plus solidaire.
02/2020
Littérature française
Apologie du slow
Il y a quelque temps, en milieu d'après-midi, quelque chose d'étrange s'est produit : j'ai réalisé qu'il était urgent de reconsidérer ce qui, dans ma vie, m'apparaissait comme essentiel. L'urgence était telle que je ne pouvais attendre un jour ou une seconde de plus. Fabio Viscogliosi poursuit une entreprise romanesque faite de fragments d'existence avisés et électriques. Un manifeste en forme d'autoportrait jubilatoire, aussi ludique qu'inventif, aussi pudique que burlesque.
01/2014
Littérature française
L'Amour flou
L'absurdité des situations cache souvent le sublime des espérances mais la tendre guerre des sexes pimente le quotidien. La juxtaposition soudaine des destins, due a une erreur d'appréciation, crée des situations cocasses et conduit à la remise en causé d'existences apparemment figées. Dès lors, des êtres rassemblés par un hasard espiègle, jouent, dans la fluidité des sentiments et l'appétit du plaisir, une congédie de notre temps. Tous les héros de ce roman, lucides et chaleureux, ont en commun une vraie gourmandise pour la vie et une saine aspiration au bonheur. Les uns connaissent, d'instinct, la bonne voie polir y parvenir, d'autres l'ignorent, tons la cherchent. Cette quête engendre péripéties, méprises, bévues, ,jusqu'au jour ou tout s'ordonne en une aimable farandole, conduite par Vénus et Bacchus. Cette histoire est avant tout un roman d'humour et d'humour, porté par un roman d'amour.
10/2008
Pensée positive
Mon cahier Glow
Le cahier qui fait rayonner ! L'alimentation, le lifestyle, la pensée positive et les rituels beauté qui rendent naturellement belle à l'intérieur, et ça se voit à l'extérieur ! Le glow, c'est être belle, naturelle, healthy et rayonnante. #NoFilter, le glow, c'est l'éclat de la surfeuse californienne, au quotidien. Le secret ? Tout un lifestyle qui illumine de l'intérieur, grâce à une nutrition saine qui donne de l'énergie et des beautyfood, à un état d'esprit good vibes et à des rituels beauté naturels qui révèlent l'éclat... Une beauté intérieure qui rayonne à l'extérieur ! Au programme : La nutrition glowy, saine et naturelle, qui prend soin du corps et du microbiote, pleine de vitamines et minéraux, afin d'optimiser l'assimilation du corps, être pleine d'énergie, de vitalité et de santé. Une nutrition fraîche et équilibrée + une détox + une cure de jus qui boostent le glow intérieur ! Du good mood ! L'idée : rayonner de good vibes et les diffuser autour de soi ! S'offrir de la bienveillance, cultiver des émotions positives grâce à des techniques feel good (respiration, EFT, fleurs de Bach...) et psy (gratitude, expression...), suivre ses aspirations... Objectif : prendre conscience de son bonheur et le développer ! Le lifestyle glowful, car pour sécréter du glow, le corps a besoin de bouger (yoga routine glowy) et de bien dormir pour récupérer ! Tous les secrets et les rituels d'une beauté authentique et naturelle ! D'abord, apprendre à connaître sa peau et mettre au point la routine parfaite. Puis drainer son corps pour lui rendre sa vitalité, obtenir des cheveux forts et redonner de l'éclat à son visage grâce à des DIY cocooning !
05/2021
Réussite personnelle
Objectif Glow Up
Le guide pratique pour se sentir bien dans sa tête et dans son corps pour enfin s'apprécier tel que l'on est ! Souvent, quand on parle de glow up, on a tendance à voir du contenu autour des relookings, des avant / après où les personnes perdent du poids, deviennent d'un coup " belles " en fonction des critères imposés par la société. Ici, le glow up est avant tout dans la tête et passe par un travail intérieur avant de se refléter à l'extérieur. Le véritable glow up est un équilibre parfait entre le corps et l'esprit, l'extérieur et l'intérieur, le visible et l'invisible, le tangible et l'intangible. Grâce à cet ouvrage et aux nombreux exercices pratiques qui l'accompagnent, découvrez vos forces intérieures et faites les ressortir à l'extérieur de vous même pour briller de toute votre splendeur !
10/2022
Erotisme, Kama-sutra
Slow Kama Sutra
Dans un monde où l'obsession de la performance a colonisé jusqu'à notre sexualité, les moments de complicité amoureuse sont de plus en plus vécus comme un effort à fournir. Marc Dannam et Inès Allahverdian proposent de réfléchir le Kama Sutra à l'envers : et si, au lieu de se focaliser sur la performance, l'on tendait vers une sexualité-plaisir, avec des positions reposantes favorisant la tendresse et la complicité? Ce livre propose au lecteur plus de 40 positions faciles et inclusives, adaptées à toutes les sexualités et à tous les corps. Les illustrations sensuelles d'Inès Allahverdian accompagnent le discours bienveillant de Marc Dannam, pour guider le lecteur vers une pratique sexuelle garantie sans tracas.
01/2024
Non classé
Sir Charles Sedley’s «The Mulberry-Garden» (1668) and «Bellamira: or, The Mistress» (1687)
In his own time, the court wit Sir Charles Sedley (1639-1701) was praised for his poetic skill rather than for his dramatic talent. Yet, as this old-spelling critical edition of his two comedies shows, Sedley was also a satirist whose plays are worth reading along with the ones of his more celebrated fellow-artists Etherege, Wycherley, and Shadwell. After a biographical introduction, a detailed analysis of the plays and characters concentrates on Sedley's satiric strategies which lambaste the marriage of convenience as well as the conduct of a hypocritical and materialistic society.
03/2001
Anglais apprentissage
LA VIERGE ET LE GITAN : THE VIRGIN AND THE GIPSY
When the vicar's wife went off with a young and penniless man the scandal knew no bounds. Her two little girls were only seven and nine years old respectively. And the vicar was such a good husband. True, his hair was grey. But his moustache was dark, he was handsome, and still full of furtive passion for his unrestrained and beautiful wife. Why did she go ? Why did she burst away with such an éclat of revulsion, like a touch of madness ? Nobody gave any answer. Only the pious said she was a bad woman. While some of the good women kept silent. They knew. The two little girls never knew. Wounded, they decided that it was because their mother found them negligible. The ill wind that blows nobody any good swept away the vicarage family on its blast. Then lo and behold ! the vicar, who was somewhat distinguished as an essayist and a controversialist, and whose case had aroused sympathy among the bookish men, received the living of Papplewick. The Lord had tempered the wind of misfortune with a rectorate in the north country. [...] "Lorsque la femme du pasteur s'enfuit avec un jeune homme sans le sou, le scandale ne connut pas de bornes. Ses deux fillettes n'avaient que sept et neuf ans respectivement. Et le pasteur était un si bon mari. Certes, il avait les cheveux gris, mais sa moustache était restée noire, il était bel homme et brûlait encore d'une passion furtive pour sa belle épouse immodeste. Pourquoi était-elle partie ? Pourquoi s'était-elle arrachée à lui, dans un tel éclat de dégoût, comme un grain de folie ? Personne n'apporta de réponse. Seules, les dévotes dirent que c'était une mauvaise femme. Cependant que certaines femmes de bien gardaient le silence. Elles comprenaient, elles. Les deux fillettes ne comprirent jamais. Blessées, elles jugèrent que c'était parce que leur mère les tenait pour quantité négligeable. Le vent du malheur qui est censé être bon à quelque chose balaya de son souffle les habitants de la cure. Puis, miracle, le pasteur, qui avait une certaine éminence comme essayiste et polémiste, et dont la situation avait su émouvoir certains intellectuels, fut nommé à la paroisse de Papplewick. Le Seigneur avait adouci l'ouragan du malheur par un bénéfice de recteur dans le nord du pays. " [...]
02/1993
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
The Undergrowth of Science. Delusion, self-deception and human frailty
Walter Gratzer's themes in the stories he relates in The Undergrowth of Science are collective delusion and human folly. Science is generally seen as a process bound by rigorous rules, which its practitioners must not transgress. Deliberate fraud occasionally intrudes, but it is soon detected, the perpetrators cast out and the course of discovery barely disturbed. Far more interesting are the outbreaks of self-delusion that from time to time afflict upright and competent researchers, and then spread like an epidemic or mass-hysteria through a sober and respectable scientific community. When this happens the rules by which scientists normally govern their working lives are suddenly suspended. Sometimes these episodes are provoked by personal vanity, an unwillingness to acknowledge error or even contemplate the possibility that a hard-won success is a will o' the wisp; at other times they stem from loyalty to a respected and trusted guru, or even from patriotic pride; and, worst of ail, they may be a consequence of a political ideology which imposes its own interpretation on scientists' observations of the natural world. Unreason and credulity supervene, illusory phenomena are described and measured, and theories are developed to explain them - until suddenly, often for no single reason, the bubble bursts, leaving behind it a residue of acrimony, recrimination, embarrassment and ruined reputations.
Here, then, are radiations, measured with high precision yet existing only in the minds of those who observed them; the Russian water, which some thought might congeal the oceans: phantom diseases which called for heroic surgery; monkey testis implants that restored the sexual powers of ageing roués and of tired sheep; truths about genetics and about the nature of matter, perceptible only to Aryan scientists in the Third Reich or Marxist ideologues in the Soviet Union; and much more. The Undergrowth of Science explores, in terms accessible to the lay reader, the history of such episodes, up to our own time, in ail their absurdity, tragedy and pathos.
01/2000
Technique et entraînement
Running flow. Immersion mentale pour une course optimale
Le flow n'a rien de mystérieux ou d'éphémère : c'est un phénomène psychologique auquel s'intéressent beaucoup les scientifiques depuis que Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi a introduit cette notion dans les années 1970. L'expérience et l'entraînement sont nécessaires pour profiter pleinement des bienfaits du flow : la course à pied favorise un état d'esprit immersif qui, travaillé, représente un levier ultime pour optimiser ses performances sportives. Running flow est composé en deux parties : dans la première, l'ouvrage s'intéresse au flow de manière générale (historique, composants, intérêt pour la performance sportive) ; dans la deuxième, il présente l'application de ces connaissances à la course à pied (facteurs indispensables, accessibilité, compétition, données scientifiques). Le flow est à la portée de tout le monde, athlètes professionnels comme amateurs : l'ouvrage fournit des outils pratiques (tableaux, illustrations, exercices) pour rendre accessible et optimiser la course à pied par l'immersion mentale.
08/2021
Littérature française
The Shipping Agent has Disappeared
Mrs. Lemardeley, an elderly lady living in Granville, is attacked one night in July. Customs officer Weber, asked by the local police to investigate, suspects that burglary was the real motive. Except nothing is missing. When Mrs. Lemardeley's two children are also both victims of the same man, Weber starts to look into the family's colonial past. Who is the attacker and what is his interest in the family ? As the criminal manages to repeatedly evade capture, Weber follows a trail of clues which eventually lead him to discover the truth. But can he find his man before it's too late ?
09/2010
Poésie
Epilepsy: the invisible pain
They say life is a long stretch of a calm river, but not for everyone ! She was for me until the day when everything rocked, the day my destiny was changed dramatically. People do not realize how life can be so sweet and so beautiful. They complain all day long for trivialities. They are not even aware that they have before their eyes the most beautiful wealth : the luck and happiness of living in good health. I was rich before. Now I am poor because my child has an incurable disease, that has currently no hope of being healed. As a parent, how can we accept that ? , How to continue living carrying the bundle of pain in my head ? , How to overcome this feeling of helplessness ? When I started speaking to my heart, I didn't know myself that this was the beginning of a new life : a rebirth as a poet. When I learnt that my 7-year-old daughter was suffering from the Dravet Syndrome, a rare genetic epileptic encephalopathy, this was like an earthquake in my life. Then, I needed to write in order to express my sorrow and my pain. Words and rhymes came naturally to my mind. This was obvious that poetry would be my survival weapon.
01/2019
Littérature française
France US UK
The new French anticorruption law on transparency, fight against corruption and the modernisation of the economy ("Sapin II") promises to bring significant changes in French domestic law and imposes new obligations on large French and foreign businesses. Sapin II clearly follows an international trend towards tougher and more transparent anticorruption laws and a large part of Sapin II provisions have obviously been influenced by other anticorruption standards such as notably the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the UK Bribery Act. This publication describes these three regulations allowing the reader to understand the major factors and provisions within these laws that are now governing the fight against corruption in the world of globalisation.
06/2017
Physique, chimie
CHEMISTRY IN CONTEXT. Applying Chemistry to Society, Third Edition
Chemistry in Context Online Learning Center www.mhhe.com/cic
New to the third edition is the Chemistry in Context Online Learning Center (OLC). This Internet-based resource, for both students and instructors, includes web-searching activities that are embedded right in the text as part of the Consider This and Your Turn exercises. End-of-chapter questions also include web-based activities. In addition, the OLC includes searching tips and information to help students evaluate the quality of web sites. Instructors can find links to useful source material for lectures and classroom discussions. Also available online are sections of the Instructors Resource Guide (IRG).
Laboratory Manual to accompany Chemistry in Context: Applying Chemistry to Society, Third Edition
This laboratory manual is specifically designed to support the concepts presented in Chemistry in Context. The experiments use simple chemical equipment and easy-to-follow procedures. Some are adaptations of traditional experiments; others are quite novel. The experiments require little mastery of traditional laboratory techniques, so maximum student time can be devoted to explorations and acquiring data.
01/2000
Histoire de France
Protestant resistance (version poche)
Strategically located between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, criss crossed by major communication axis joining north to South ant east to West, the South of France has always been a melting pot of people and ideas... No wonder then that as soon as the Reformation started, it received and enthusiastic welcome in many of the towns and villages and soon swept most of the Southern half of France. In many of these villages, the descendants of the Cathars and the Vaudois had been living quietly and were among the first to join the new churches. However, challenging the spiritual, and in some cases the secular, power of Rome wasn't without danger ; soon the "heretics" were being persecuted, harassed and burned with their seditious books. As the French Kings (with the notable exception of Henry IV), sided with the Pope, a culture of resistance developed and has remained to this day. This book shows the clear link and shared ideas between the Huguenots who fought Louis XIVth and their descendants who hid Jewish children and fought nazi occupation forces. Richar Maltby, retired Professor of History at King's School in Canterbury and the author of a successful illustrated history of Canterbury takes us through the villages, towns and hideouts of the Huguenots and follows the Renaissance to WWII. His well-researched and well-illustrated book describes how the influence of the Bible and protestant theology permeated a whole civilization with a strong love for freedom and rejection of oppression.
07/2018
Philosophie
The Recovery of Purpose
This book aims to remedy the breakdown in the intelligibility of ethical theory well charted by MacIntyre and others. This aim is pursued through analyses of the phenomenology of morality, of its relation to our generic nature, of the historical cultural divorce between secularism and inherited spirituality, of ways of overcoming this via renewed understanding of the role of love and benevolence in particular. There follows critical discussion of remedies proposed by J. Finnis and G. Grisez, and by P.T. Geach. The work concludes with a defence of human rights based on the worth of the person, finally buttressed by a defence of the need for an external ethical instance as pledge of society's commitment to the good life.
08/1993
Monographies
Street Art. Casablanca's new urban energy
For some years, street artworks have appeared across the walls of Casablanca. From the city's downtown to its outskirts, young people are expressing themselves and reinventing the face of their hometown. This book aims to recognise the work of these artists as well as the urban heritage of the city of Casablanca. This work retraces the development of street art in the city, its history, its artists, and its events. Separated into 16 sections illustrated by photos of wall murals, and accompanied by brief, dynamic texts. The latest work in the Vivacité collection, STREET ART, Casablanca's New Urban Energy follows in the footsteps of STREET FOOD IN MOROCCO, Authentic Flavour, Cafés du Maroc, Miroirs des cultures urbaines, and the upcoming HOMEFOOD, The Art of Moroccan Hospitality in Morocco.
12/2078
Monographies
Georges troubat
Le jeu, toujours recommencé, est donc infini. Assemblages, recouvrements, juxtapositions. Bleus, rouges, jaunes. Lignes, surfaces, figures. Une exposition de Georges Troubat est toujours une expérience singulière : comme un musicien avec un ensemble limité de notes, l'artiste multiplie les variations, les improvisions, offrant l'étonnante impression d'un ruissellement permanent. Cet homme a toujours été très actif dans sa vie ; rien n'est définitif, le courant nous emporte et il nous faut nager avec lui. L'acte créatif n'existe que répété puisqu'il est lié à la marche, aux mouvements du temps, aux passages des saisons, aux rythmes du monde. La peinture de Georges Troubat est vivante, au sens plein : elle régie son pas sur les impulsions du vivant. Son animation procède de la vie elle-même, à laquelle elle retourne comme un acquiescement permanent. Cet homme que l'on croit pressé est un nageur ébloui, et sa peinture témoigne pour un monde qui ne serait qu'éblouissement. The game that is started over and over, is then infinite. Assemblages, collections, juxtapositions. Blus, reds, yellows. Lines, textures, shapes. An exhibition of Georges Troubat is always a peculiar experience : just like a musician with a few limited notes, the artist multiplies the variations, improvisations, offering the astonishing feeling of an on-going flow. This man was always very active in his life, but nothing lasts forever, the flow takes us with it and we have to swim with it. The creative act only exists by repetition as it's tied to the pace, to the mouvements of time, to the passing seasons, to the world's rhythms. George Troubat's painting is alive, taking on the whole meaning of the word : it regulates its pace on the impulsion of the living. Its animation begins from life itself, to whom it goes back to, like a perpetual approbation. This man, who we think in a hurry, is a dazzling swimmer and his painting attests for a world which would only be dazzling.
03/2022
Musique classique
Songs of Love. 12 Romances. 12 Lieder. Soprano (tenor) and piano.
Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky's piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, she emerged as a virtuoso pianist and composer in the romantic tradition. She was associated with some of the great musicians of her day, including Balakirev and Auer. She performed in both Germany and the UK in the 1900s, but her career petered out after 1920. Songs of Love was first published in 1904. No evidence survives of any public performance in Kashperova's lifetime although it is very likely that they were performed at her regular 'musical evenings at home on Tuesdays' mentioned in her Memoirs. The transparency of the piano writing strongly suggests that she would accompany herself singing. Kashperova, by all accounts, possessed a fine voice, and in the summer of 1906 she decided 'to learn from the artistry', as she put it, of the tenor Raimond von Zur-Mühlen who was widely celebrated for having developed (with Clara Schumann) the Lieder-Abend tradition. His summer-schools on the Baltic coast were frequented by aspiring singers from all over Europe, even Japan and India. Kashperova herself was responsible for the poetic lyrics of Songs of Love (in both Russian and German), which may well have emerged from her own bittersweet experience of life and love ; she was not to marry until 1916 at the age of forty-four. That Kashperova is the author of both the music and the lyrics of Songs of Love would suggest that they express very personal sentiments. Instrumentation : soprano (tenor) and piano
12/2023
Lâcher prise
La révolution slow attitude
Tout va vite, trop vite. Nous sommes happés par la frénésie du quotidien. Et si nous décidions de ralentir ? De profiter de l'instant présent, de retrouver le rythme naturel qui nous convient, de simplifier la vie pour retrouver le goût des bonheurs simples ? Dans ce livre, l'auteure explique comment adopter la slow attitude et redéfinir ses priorités personnelles et professionnelles. Grâce à des techniques de méditation, de gestion du stress ou de naturopathie, on apprend à ralentir et être à l'écoute des véritables besoins de son corps et de son esprit. Cette méthode permet de réapprendre progressivement à vivre le moment présent, loin du stress et de l'agitation du quotidien. C'est un nouvel art de vivre, une transformation profonde permettant à chacun de retrouver le chemin du bonheur et de l'épanouissement. Apprendre a ralentir pour vivre mieux !
02/2021
Histoire de la danse
Slow. Désir et désillusion
Le slow apparaît à Chicago à la fin des années 1950 sur le plateau d'une émission de télévision. Avec le twist, il est l'un des marqueurs festifs de l'époque Yéyé. Des surprises-parties aux boums, sa gestuaire incontournable rythme l'éveil sensuel et sexuel des boomers. Il devient l'emblème d'une jeunesse allègre, consciente de son existence en tant que groupe influent. Mais, au tournant du siècle, le désamour l'étreint. Sans justification autre que l'établissement d'une relation sensuelle, cette non-danse est devenue une étrangeté dans une époque où l'impératif pragmatique domine. Qu'est devenu le slow ? Sa fonction de rencontre est-elle détrônée par les applications numériques ? Est-il concurrencé par d'autres danses collées-serrées plus attractives ? La banalisation du sexe le rend-il caduc ? Même à moitié mort, le slow reste un révélateur d'enjeux liés au désir de se rencontrer, de s'enlacer et de se toucher, comme un moment pour éprouver l'expérience d'un plaisir au résultat incertain.
09/2021
