Fuseli and the Modern Woman. Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism
Extraits
Science-fiction
In the end
Voilà trois mois qu'Amy a fui New Hope pour échapper au diabolique docteur Reynolds.
Grâce à l'équipement de Gardienne que lui a fourni Kay et à l'émetteur sonique qui éloigne les créatures, elle survit tant bien que mal dans les étendues désertiques du Texas. Jusqu'au jour où une voix lui parvient à travers l'oreillette qui la relie encore à ses anciens camarades : Baby, restée à New Hope, est en danger.
Amy n'a pas le choix. Si elle veut sauver sa sœur d'adoption, il va lui falloir se rendre à Fort Black, là où d'autres survivants se sont rassemblés et vivent selon la loi du plus fort. Dans cette véritable jungle, la jeune fille va tout faire pour retrouver Ken, le frère de Kay, seul capable de l'aider à secourir Baby. Assistée de Jacks, le neveu du dirigeant de Fort Black, la jeune fille finit par en apprendre un peu plus sur l'invasion des Floraes… Une vérité qui s'avère plus cauchemardesque encore qu'elle ne le croyait !
Après IN THE AFTER, Demitria Lunetta nous entraîne dans une course infernale contre la montre. Avec IN THE END, elle clôt d'une main de maître un dyptique au rythme haletant.
04/2015
Critique littéraire
Ancient Greek by Its Translators
When not familiar with the language itself, most readers over the centuries have had access to the ancient Greek texts only or mostly through (Latin or vernacular) translations. Such an approach is not only indirect and mediated, but also distorted and even impoverishing : meaning then prevails over the linguistic form and substance of the texts themselves. What do later or modern readers read when they read translated texts written in an ancient so-called dead language ? They read a given meaning - sometimes unfaithful, often inaccurate - dictated by a genuine understanding, the blind continuation of tradition, or an untold hidden intention. The complex range of significances conveyed by meaning simultaneously reflects the time and space (called synchrony) of when and where a text has been translated, the historical learning and linguistic skills of the translators, as well as their ideas and style. As a contribution to the perennial debate about translation (mere literary transliteration vs. creative transposition), this volume aims at analyzing some striking cases of various (literary or not) texts translated from ancient Greek showing how much for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries aesthetics and ideology matter as much as - and often even more than - rigorous philology.
02/2022
Comics Indépendants
Something is killing the children Tome 6 : The girl and the hurricane
Erica Slaughter pensait-elle vraiment pouvoir se détourner si facilement de l'Ordre de Saint-Georges et rompre le pacte de sang qui la liait à sa famille d'adoption ? Une chose est sûre, le Vieux Dragon a bien l'intention d'éliminer cet agent renégat en envoyant à ses trousses sa plus impitoyable chasseuse. Après s'être débarrassée de Big Gary, l'ultime allié d'Erica, Miss Cutter est désormais en route pour Tribulation, Nouveau Mexique. Que la traque commence.
07/2023
Monographies
Hilma af Klint. The Five Notebook 1
In 1896, Hilma af Klint and four other like-minded women artists left the Edelweiss Society and founded the "Friday Group", also known as "The Five". They met every Friday for spiritual meetings, including prayers, studies of the New Testament, meditation and séances. The medium exercised automatic writing and mediumistic drawing. Eventually they established contact with spiritual beings whom they called "The High Ones". In 1896, the five women began taking meticulous notes of the mediumistic messages conveyed by the spirits. In time, Hilma af Klint felt she had been selected for more important messages. After ten years of esoteric training with "The Five", aged 43, Hilma af Klint accepted a major assignment, the execution of The Paintings for the Temple. This commission, which engaged the artist from 1906 to 1915, changed the course of her life. In 1908, Rudolf Steiner, leader of the German Theosophical Society, held several lectures in Stockholm. He also visited af Klint's studio and saw some of the early Paintings for the Temple. In 1913, Steiner founded the Anthroposophical Society, which af Klint joined in 1920 and remained a member for the rest of her life.
01/2022
Romance sexy
At the end of the tunnel
Une rencontre va bouleverser tout le quotidien de Lawrence. Romancier à succès, Lawrence s'interroge sur ses choix, son identité, sa vie, après avoir fait la connaissance de Carolanne à un moment crucial de leurs vies. Qui est-il vraiment, que désire-t-il ? Entre doutes et douleur de vivre une vie qu'il n'a pas choisie, un changement s'opère et l'espoir renaît. Commence alors le chemin pour retrouver le bonheur. Une romance atypique
08/2021
Thèmes photo
The Oher End of the Rainbow
"En substituant l'absence à la preuve directe, Kourtney Roy souligne les impossibilités d'un discours d'évidence sur ces vies "minuscules" qui n'attirent jamais l'attention. En Colombie Britannique (Canada), depuis 1969, c'est-à-dire pendant plus de 50 ans, les meurtres vont s'étaler dans le temps. Des dizaines de femmes et de filles vont disparaître, quelques unes seront retrouvées mortes, dispersées le long de ce que l'on appelle désormais "l'autoroute des larmes" . Disparitions et crimes en majeure partie non élucidés. Ainsi ce transport ne sera en rien la description pittoresque du Grand Nord. Roy nous met à l'épreuve de percevoir, depuis des lieux vides en eux-mêmes et sans vie apparente, une humanité sacrifiée et reléguée. Face au déni d'une société, le rôle que Kourtney Roy accorde à la photographie est de s'attacher, malgré tout, à partager une douleur et à faire ressentir une tension qui ne peut trouver d'exutoire que dans le drame.
07/2022
Collège parascolaire
Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Vampire
Grâce à cette célèbre enquête de Sherlock Holmes, les élèves de collège pourront lire en VO, une histoire aussi mystérieuse que passionnante. Pour une meilleure compréhension, tous les textes ont été adaptés et des traductions des mots les plus difficiles figurent dans les marges.
04/2019
Littérature étrangère
Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener
Découvrez en VO de nouvelles aventures de Agatha Raisin, avec des traductions en marge pour vous aider à bien comprendre le texte original. When a series of mysterious assaults on the town's finest gardens is followed by a shocking murder, Agatha gets her wish. Seizing the moment, she immediately starts yanking up village secrets by their roots and digging up details about the victim-who, as it turns out, may just have some hidden dirt of her own...
02/2022
Manga
The song of Yoru and Asa
Asaichi est chanteur dans un groupe qu'il a monté avec des amis afin d'être populaire avec les filles. Lorsque le bassiste s'en va, c'est Yoru, musicien très populaire dans son ancien groupe, qui prend sa place. Un soir, après un live, alors que les membres terminent à l'hôtel avec des fans, Asaichi confond Yoru avec l'une d'entre elles, et couche avec lui ! Par la suite, Yoru en profite pour déclarer ses sentiments à Asaichi. Celui-ci, jaloux de Yoru depuis son entrée dans le groupe, lui répond que l'homosexualité le dégoûte , mais lorsqu'il va voir un concert donné par l'ancien groupe de Yoru, il n'arrive pas à s'empêcher de ressentir du désir en écoutant Yoru chanter...Entre les sentiments de Yoru envers Asaichi et le désir mêlé de dégoût de celui-ci, comment leur relation va-t-elle bien pouvoir évoluer ?
12/2016
Photographie
The adventures of Guille and Belinda
Ce livre présente le retour d'Alessandra Sanguinetti dans l'Argentine rurale pour poursuivre sa collaboration intime avec Belinda et Guillermina, deux cousines qui, en tant que filles, ont été les sujets du premier livre de sa série en cours, Les Aventures de Guille et Belinda et la signification énigmatique de leur Rêves. Dans ce deuxième volume, L'illusion d'un été éternel, nous suivons Guillermina et Belinda de 14 à 24 ans dans la négociation du territoire fluide entre l'adolescence et le jeune adulte. Toujours entouré par les animaux et les milieux ruraux de leur enfance, Everlasting Summer dépeint la vie quotidienne des deux cousins alors qu'ils vivent l'amour, la grossesse et la maternité des jeunes - tout cela, peut-être inévitablement, se traduit par une indépendance toujours croissante de leurs familles. De même, nous pouvons sentir un changement dans la relation de Sanguinetti avec les cousines et le travail qu'elles font : de collaborateurs d'enfance insulaires à trois femmes dont la vie se ramifie dans des directions différentes. Bien que le passage du temps soit l'une des tensions les plus palpables à l'oeuvre dans ces photographies, An Everlasting Summer approfondit l'exploration par Sanguinetti du langage universel et intemporel de l'intimité et de l'amitié féminines.
10/2020
Non classé
The German Naturalists and Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann's relationship to Naturalism has repeatedly been a subject of controversy. To clarify his position, this study analyses both published and unpublished opinions of his contemporaries within Naturalism. Following an outline of Naturalism based on the authors' own views of the often conflicting concepts related to the movement, emphasis is placed upon Naturalist critical response to Hauptmann's early works and upon the works of other Naturalist dramatists in relation to Hauptmann, underlining the authors' dependence upon his dramas as a model for literary success.
12/1982
Histoire internationale
Flavius Josephus, the Zealots and Yavne
The historiography concerning The War of the Jews by Flavius Josephus has underlined the various aspects (economic, social, political, religious) of the Roman-Jewish conflict from 66 to 73 AD. A study of the Jew's vision of himself and the Other, the Roman, makes it possible to see this conflict from the point of view of the conquered. Analysis of the events which, from 6 to 66 AD, resulted in the opening of hostilities, suggests that the Jewish-Roman conflict was also a conflict of mentalities. The Jewish mentality implies a concept of war which contributed to the development of the divisions and schisms between the supporters of full-scale war against Rome (the Zealots) and the non-belligerents (Rabbi Yohanan ben Zaccaï and the Yavne School, Flavius Josephus). Furthermore, the discourse of Flavius Josephus is Jewish discourse. So far as certain options are concerned, such as his rejection of the war against Rome on the one hand, and his hatred of the Zealots on the other, a literal reading of that discourse shows that they are in the direct line of Jewish tradition as represented by RYBZ and his Yavne School. Josephus can be taken literally ; the interest of his writing lies in its presentation of an internal cohesion and in the light that throws on the points of convergence and divergence in the same Pharisaic options. Finally, Josephus' text leads us to reconsider the problem of his 'betrayal'.
01/1994
Non classé
Rudolf Borchardt and the Middle Ages
This study about Rudolf Borchardt analyses and investigates his comprehension of the German and European Culture of the Middle Ages. The selection of this particular aspect is a result of Borchardt's preoccupation with the Middle Ages which form a substantial part of his whole oeuvre. It is also an attempt to interpret Borchardt's controversial nationalistic opinions and attitudes.
12/1980
Non classé
Aurier, Symbolism and the Visual Arts
This is the first fully comprehensive study on the 19th-century poet and art critic, Albert Aurier (1865-1892), in the context of his age. Focusing on Aurier's pivotal role in the development of French Symbolist art and aesthetics, the book explores his contribution to contemporary and subsequent perceptions of Symbolism in art during a period which saw the rise of art criticism as a genre in its own right. Taking Aurier's writings on lesser-known artists such as Henry de Groux, Eugène Carrière and Jean-Jacques Henner, as well as those on Impressionism, and Van Gogh and Gauguin, the study shows how Aurier laid the foundation for the interpretation of Modernist art.
11/1999
Concours
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Traitant d'un des sujets 2024 des agrégations externe et spéciale d'Anglais, cet ouvrage propose tout ce dont le candidat a besoin pour passer les épreuves. Comme tous les Clefs-concours de littérature anglophone, l'ouvrage est structuré en quatre parties : -Repères : le contexte historique et littéraire ; -Thématiques : comprendre les enjeux du programme ; -Perspectives : ouvertures pour des pistes de réflexion ; -Outils : pour retrouver rapidement une définition, une idée ou une référence.
11/2023
Non classé
Thackeray and the Problem of Realism
Although it is traditional to see a certain kind of "realism" as the essence of fiction, in practice novels of course offer not a simple reproduction of experience but a throughgoing organization of it. The novel is, after all, a bourgeois genre and it reflects that bourgeois view of life according to which the world is there merely to be dominated and controlled by man. This study examines both Thackeray's early fiction, in which both the novel form and the manipulative society to which it belongs are attacked, and his later works, in which they are defended, and tries to determine the reasons for this change.
12/1986
Objets d'art, collection
The Wider Goldsmiths' Trade in Elizabethan and Stuart London
The Wider Goldsmiths' Trade in Elizabethan and Stuart London is the first book to study all aspects of the Goldsmiths' trade. It challenges the assumption that the manufacture of silver plate and gold jewellery was the company's only activity during the seventeenth century. It considers allied trades such as refining, wiredrawing, and the making of small-swords and watches, as well as the development of the modern banking system. On Elizabeth I's accession, England was essentially a 'third world economy', with exports mainly of wool, unfinished woolen cloth and some minerals, whilst imports consisted of a great range of goods including luxuries such as silks, fine linens, and even scissors. By the end of the seventeenth century, the situation was transformed : a burgeoning maritime trade with many parts of the world enabled the import of raw materials as well as some luxury goods and a wide range of exports which included certain goods produced in London with an international reputation for quality, such as beaver hats and mathematical instruments. Throughout the period, religious refugees and economic migrants brought their skills and knowledge to England. At the Restoration, Royalists returning to London from the Continent introduced French and Low Country fashions in dress, manners, cuisine and dining practice. Refining, wiredrawing, and the making of plate, smallwares and jewellery were at the heart of the trade and of concern to the Goldsmiths' Company that had responsibility for ensuring that the correct alloys were used for silver and gold wares. This was not always the case for clocks, watches and swords. Nevertheless, they are included in this study as several members of the Company were instrumental in the development of clock and watch making in the city. Towards the end of the seventeenth century, the great increase in the sale of watches with gold and silver cases forced the Company to become involved in the control of this trade. Similarly, after the Civil Wars, the wearing of the small-sword by all those with aspirations to gentility gave rise to a demarcation dispute between the Goldsmiths' and Cutlers' Companies. Further, during the Commonwealth, goldsmith-bankers developed the clearing system which led to modern retail banking. This book considers the wider Goldsmiths' trade against dynamic changes : the organization and control of its branches and the design, manufacture and sale of its wares. The twelve chapters cover a range of topics - from history and context, to the various branches of the trade.
04/2024
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
Littérature française
My Ulster haven
1989, a 23-year-old French woman, an English student with a burdensome family background, leaves for Northern Ireland. She's on her way to start her French assistant job. She discovers this unknown part of Ireland, so underestimated and still plunged into civil war. There, she settles down and blossoms until she decides she actually wants to live there. An unexpected event will bring her back to France in 1991, but the link with this country will carry on until the Brexit announcement in 2016, and well beyond. An intimate journey to the core of Irish History, that reaches the depths of its wars, its men, its women, a journey at the very heart of the past. "A page of history - and of my history - is turning and it throws me off."
02/2022
Décoration
Anatomy of Style
Fashioning your signature style without losing your shirt has never been easier : just take your cue from the iconic looks of 120 celebrities. IN FOUR CHAPTERS YOU'LL FIND : - VIP style hacks to steal - clever tips and tricks for unforgettable looks - wardrobe essentials and how to spice them up - so-called "fashion faux pas" that you should dare to commit This highly illustrated book (354 photos)- a stylish accessory in its own right-reads like a mood board and has fresh inspiration for every occasion.
09/2020
Coloriage, gommettes et autoco
Mon coffret papeterie par Sophie Fantasy. Coffret avec accessoires
Un coffret papeterie pour une année pailletée ! Sophie Fantasy t'a concocté un coffret papeterie à son image : girly et plein de paillettes. Tu y trouveras un carnet pour noter tous tes secrets, un crayon à papier pailleté, deux gommes ultra-kawaii et une règle graduée. Le kit parfait pour une année 100% Sophie Fantasy !
06/2022
Humour
Super Pixel Boy Tome 1 : And the Bit Goes on. And the Bit Goes on
Issu d'une famille de classe moyenne, le jeune Pixel est passionné de Zelda et Megaman. Il est entouré d'une fameuse bande de potes : Guilhem, Jérôme, Elodie et enfin du Scooby gang, un groupe composé des geeks de l'école pour qui le sport est un gros mot. Des récits dessinés tantôt de manière classique tantôt en Pixel Art à dévorer sans modération.
11/2022
Histoire internationale
After The Last Ship
After the Last Ship illustrates the author's own history, as well as its connection to the history of other women and children who left India and made the journey across the Kala Pani, the Indian Ocean, and lived as migrants in other countries. In this book the author brings greater understanding of how subjectivities are shaped through embodied experiences of ‘mixed race'. She bears witness to the oppressive policies of the fascist government in Portugal in the 1960's and 1970's and the effects of displacement and exile, by reconstructing her own passage from India to Mozambique and finally to Australia. Further, the author shows the devastation that labels such as ‘half-caste', ‘canecos' and ‘monhe' can cause, when they eat at your flesh, your being, and your body. She sheds light on how identity and culture can serve as vehicles of empowerment, how experiences of belonging can germinate and take root post-diaspora.
04/2014
Critique littéraire
La Méduse de la Lune / The Jellifish and the Moon
"La Méduse de la Lune est l'histoire d'une méduse qui, fatiguée des touristes dans ses eaux, décide de partir vivre sur la Lune afin de "flotter tranquille" . Mais les choses ne tournent pas comme prévu ... Tout commence sur une plage, à la vue des baigneurs qui jouent et s'éclaboussent. Près des rochers, des pêcheurs raclent les fonds. Au large, des bateaux de plaisance sillonnent la mer bruyamment, des plongeurs se lancent en horde vers les profondeurs. Mais comment les animaux marins peuvent-ils supporter ce tapage ? De ce questionnement est né l'histoire de La Méduse de la Lune. Une méduse, à la beauté souple et luminescente, appartenant à une espèce présente sur notre planète depuis bien plus longtemps que les humains et qui n'a plus d'autre choix que de quitter son habitat. Où ira-t-elle ? Sur la Lune ! Mais les humains, invasifs sur Terre, voyagent aussi dans l'espace... Ce conte aux multiples facettes tisse une épopée fictionnelle, dans une tradition d'aventure sur fond d'évocation de la conquête spatiale, à celle de la migration, sous-tendue par notre relation aux autres êtres vivants, notre façon d'habiter la planète et, peut-être, d'autres corps célestes tels que la Lune. Le texte de Fabienne Gambrelle est illustré par des dessins d'Anaïs Tondeur et Gabriel Grandry qui ont associé des images iconiques de la conquête spatiale à la douceur et la rêverie de la mer et de Séléné, l'ombre et la lumière. Les images furent, en outre, envoyées sur la Lune par l'artiste Daniela de Paulis par le biais de la technologie EME -Earth-Moon-Earth ou "Moonbounce" -, radiocommunication Terre Lune Terre en français. Les différents niveaux de lecture, tout comme la richesse et la dualité des illustrations originales et "moonbouncées" en font un livre aussi bien pour les enfants (testé et approuvé à partir de 4 ans) qu'un collector pour les adultes".
01/2021
Yaoi/homosexualité masculine
Old Fashion Cupcake with Cappuccino
Si je me laisse aller, je risque d'être emporté par une passion qui n'est plus de mon âge... Sanae Nozue vit sur un petit nuage depuis qu'il est en couple avec Minoru Togawa. Ce dernier passe d'ailleurs de plus en plus souvent la nuit chez lui. Mais tandis que leur amour semble se consolider, le quadragénaire commence à douter : est-il bien prudent de passer autant de temps ensemble ? Et leur relation, si elle venait à s'ébruiter, ne risque-t-elle pas de nuire à la carrière de l'homme qu'il aime ? Quand un collègue remarque que Togawa porte la cravate de son supérieur, les choses se compliquent...
11/2023
Non classé
Education and the Values Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe
Fundamental educational reform is one of the central elements of the social transformation taking place in the former socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. In this volume selected experts and eye witnesses of the radical change taking place in the region provide detailed and graphic presentation of the problems and controversies surrounding reform. They explore how the educational systems have responded to the collapse, and they explain the source of new models, ideas, and values on the part of educational policy makers, researchers and teachers. A focus of attention is the values crisis among the youth. The authors explore the values the socialist systems attempted to convey, the manner in which the youth have responded to the collapse, and the possible sources of new values and ideals.
05/1994
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
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
Shonen/garçon
Kirby Fantasy T07
Bienvenue à Dream Land ! Un royaume où règne la paix et la sérénité. C'est ici que vit Kirby, une adorable petite boule rose qui n'hésitera pas à tout renverser sur son passage pour satisfaire son insatiable appétit ! Une nouvelle série d'aventures attend notre petit compagnon star de jeux vidéos !
10/2023
Littérature française
New York Fantasy
J'ai quitté le quartier Pigalle, avec ses putes et ses néons, ses sex-shops et ses camés, pour un entrepôt en plein cœur du Lower East Side. New York était le lieu où les gens venaient non pas afin de vivre ou de concrétiser leurs rêves mais plutôt pour s'inventer les rêves qu'ils n'avaient pas. Mus par un même désir, une même volonté, ils finissaient tous par se ressembler : impossible de trouver une serveuse qui ne rêvait pas de tourner pour Woody Allen ou Ridley Scott, de sortir avec Colin Farrell ou de faire un duo avec Mariah Carey, Beyoncé ou Gwen Stefani. Jeune Français installé à New York, Eric vit son rêve américain. Serveur dans un bar, il rencontre Mick Bowery, écrivain, ex-critique de rock ayant fréquenté Bob Dylan, Lou Reed et bien d'autres. Mick et Eric se découvrent une passion commune pour Leonard Cohen, que Mick a bien connu à l'époque du Chelsea Hotel. Comment la poésie du chanteur peut-elle bien séduire un jeune Français? Eric l'ignore, mais découvre un jour par hasard que son propre père, homme discret jusqu'à l'effacement et mort récemment, écoutait aussi Leonard Cohen... Roman urbain dans une New York d'après le 11 Septembre, New York Fantasy est aussi un roman sur la filiation et la transmission.
08/2009
