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L'homme au parapluie et autres nouvelles : The Umbrella man and other stories

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Anglais apprentissage

L'homme au parapluie et autres nouvelles : The Umbrella man and other stories

A Londres, il pleut souvent. Au beau milieu d'une averse, si un vieux monsieur d'allure distinguée vient offrir à une dame un parapluie, celle-ci, malgré sa méfiance initiale, l'acceptera avec joie. Et ce sera le début d'une histoire aussi stupéfiante qu'amusante. Dans les quatre nouvelles de ce recueil, Roald Dahl se révèle à la fois un moraliste impitoyable démasquant nos petits travers, un humoriste toujours raffiné et, surtout, un merveilleux écrivain.

02/2003

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Anglais apprentissage

La fêlure et autres nouvelles : The Crack-Up and other short stories

Annotations de Dominique Aury, Roger Grenier et Suzanne Mayoux

09/2004

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Anglais apprentissage

Les neiges du Kilimandjaro et autres nouvelles : The snows of Kilimandjaro and other short stories

"Le Kilimandjaro est une montagne couverte de neige, haute de 19 710 pieds, et que l'on dit être la plus haute montagne d'Afrique. La cime ouest est appelée en langue masai Ngaje Ngai, "Maison de Dieu". Tout près de la cime ouest il y a une carcasse gelée et desséchée de léopard. Nul n'a expliqué ce que le léopard allait chercher à cette altitude". Ainsi commence l'une des plus célèbres et des plus belles nouvelles d'Ernest Hemingway, adaptée au cinéma avec Ava Gardner et Gregory Peck.

09/2001

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Littérature française

Tina shot me between the eyes and other stories

"Tidjani Alou's writing sketches the commonplace and the metaphysical, with heft, honesty, and audacity. The range is compelling, as she takes us through lives in places as diverse as Accra and Niamey. The prose is deft, her metaphors sting with accuracy. This is a writer to think and feel with". - Emmanuel Iduma, editor, Saraba Magazine. In fifteen formidable lyrical prose, Tina Shot Me Between the Eyes explores how the self is shaped and transformed by the knots we yearn to tie around ourselves : familial, spousal, parental, and societal. It tackles how we struggle in relationships for nourishment and fulfilment, and how connections could kill us and how we could kill to survive - a potent force for understanding humanity and the nuances of acts of violence, tolerance, faith and love.

11/2017

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Littérature française

L'homme-parapluie

Pascale, jeune polytechnicienne, et Olivier, la maturité avenante, se rencontrent sur le port de Deauville. Il lui propose de monter à bord de son voilier, L'homme parapluie. Elle finit par accepter et le bateau lève l'ancre. Commence ici un jeu de séduction, une partie de black-jack assortie d'une règle labyrinthique : au perdant de raconter une histoire, au vainqueur de deviner quel élément en est faux. Les histoires doivent être chronologiques. Elle et lui se lancent dans le récit de leurs ascendants et se démasquent au fil des évocations. Juges de la véracité des confidences ou plutôt de la mosaïque d'histoires, nous le devenons rapidement : Varsovie et le ghetto, juin 40 et la France occupée, Saint-Germain-des-Prés et l'existentialisme, la guerre d'Indochine et Mai 68...

02/2012

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Littérature française

Handicapped

The mere fact of existing is already a battle of every moment, but that of being born a woman is seen as the most arduous of battles, in a society that considers women not only less than men, but below men. The simple attributes devolved to human being are sometimes denied to them, under the indifferent eye of the society. Who is to blame for this general contemptuous attitude vis-à-vis the woman ? The man ? Society ? Or the woman herself ? Woman parenthood, excision, rape, sexual harassment, the prison, early marriages and widowhood are core points tackled in the seven short stories of this book where the main characters ; Micheline, Amina, Jenaëlle, Ann-Lise, Lucie, Violet and Bernadette shall each take the reader through their stories using their own words. Based on true stories, these fictions are a personal move to throw more light on the stumbling blocks faced by the woman in her struggle for optimal fulfillment. Through the life stories clearly depicted in this book, most readers can picture their own lives, the lives of a mother, a sister, a friend or a daughter. Two objectives constitute the backbone of this book ; draw attention on the way the woman is perceived by the African society and Cameroon in particular and raise awareness in the woman so that she can come to understand that the key to her destiny lies within herself and nowhere else. Hence the need to portray womanhood as society sees it : a handicap.

10/2020

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Littérature française

L'homme sans parapluie

Un curieux individu fait une proposition inattendue à Robert Hunter : l'aider à mourir contre une grosse somme d'argent. Que faire ? C'est la question posée dans "L'Homme sans parapluie", première nouvelle de cette sélection d'histoires cruelles, touchantes, drôles ou simplement intrigantes.

11/2013

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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

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Romance sexy

Love and other word

Les histoires de coeur sont à jamais indélébiles Première Women fiction de Christina LaurenLe livre : Macy, interne en pédiatrie, prépare son mariage avec un homme plus âgé qu'elle, tout en gardant ses distances. Lorsqu'elle tombe sur Elliot - son premier et unique amour - la vie parfaite qu'elle avait construite commence à se craqueler. Le véritable amour ne disparaît jamais totalement des coeurs. Une histoire d'un amour de jeunesse entre deux adolescents plein de promesses, interrompu en plein vol, et qui évolue onze ans plus tard, en une histoire d'amour forte et confiante, entre adultes.

11/2023

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Romance sexy

Love and Other Words

Les histoires de coeur sont à jamais indélébiles Première Women fiction de Christina Lauren Le livre : Macy, interne en pédiatrie, prépare son mariage avec un homme plus âgé qu'elle, tout en gardant ses distances. Lorsqu'elle tombe sur Elliot - son premier et unique amour - la vie parfaite qu'elle avait construite commence à se craqueler. Le véritable amour ne disparaît jamais totalement des coeurs. Une histoire d'un amour de jeunesse entre deux adolescents plein de promesses, interrompu en plein vol, et qui évolue onze ans plus tard, en une histoire d'amour forte et confiante, entre adultes.

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Décoration

Stories and Reflections

Eminent tastemaker Axel Vervoordt recounts the pivotal moments in his life that formed the foundation of his guiding philosophy and signature aesthetic. Axel Vervoordt is one of the world's foremost tastemakers. Revered for his discerning eye in art and interior design through a career that has spanned more than fifty years, he is renowned for his captivating minimalist interiors. An iconic figure at the most prominent international art fairs and exhibitions, he incarnates a singular philosophy for how to live with style. In Stories and Reflections, Vervoordt recounts stories about the people who have influenced him most throughout his life - his family, friends, artists, colleagues, clients, and unforgettable mentors - in this memoir that is personal, funny, insightful, and permeated with humility, wisdom, and lessons learned. He reflects on the key moments in his life from childhood to the present - Rudolf Nureyev's visit to the Vervoordt's new castle, his youthful acquisition of a Magritte, discovering Japanese Gutai art, his legendary Venice exhibitions, and insights gained from artists such as Cy Twombly, Anish Kapoor, and musician Mstislav Rostropovich. He details his greatest successes, as well as his personal regrets, while offering first-hand insight into the work that has forged his reputation. A larger-than-life and inspiring man, this book offers snapshots from his life, which paint an overall portrait of his guiding philosophy.

12/2017

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Petits classiques parascolaire

L'homme fort et autres nouvelles fantastiques

Ce recueil comprend 3 nouvelles de René Barjavel, extraites du recueil Le Prince blessé. Il s'agit de : Béni soit l'atome (nouvelle de science-fiction) ; L'Homme fort (nouvelle de science-fiction) ; Monsieur Charton (nouvelle fantaisiste). On retrouve les grands thèmes chers à Barjavel, entre fantaisie et fantastique, satire et humanisme René Barjavel (1911-1985), écrivain français qui s'est imposé comme l'un des maîtres de la science-fiction française.

09/2015

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Science-fiction

Les chambres inquiètes

Nouvelles choisies, présentées et traduites par Nathalie Serval. Un nid d'insectes (Bug House) Sans regrets (No Regrets) En pièces détachées (Bits and Pieces) La tombe de Jamie (Jamie's grave) Lézard du désir (Lizard Lust) Vol pour Byzance (Flying to Byzantium) L'autre chambre (The Other Room) Oiseaux de lune (Birds of the moon) Propriété commune (Community Property) Une amie en détresse (A Friend in Need) L'autre mère (The Other Mother) Les mains de Mr.
Elphinstone (Mr. Elphinstone's Hands) La plaie (The wound) Le nid (The Nest)

03/2014

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Littérature française

Un nouvel an pas comme les autres. Et autres nouvelles

Cet ouvrage est un recueil de huit nouvelles qui illustre la dure réalité de l'existence, qui peut tout nous donner d'une main, et aussitôt nous reprendre de l'autre, même ce que nous avons obtenu à la sueur de notre front. Texte après texte, se côtoient ainsi les cycles du crépuscule et de l'aube, de la jeunesse et de la vieillesse, des doutes et de l'espérance, de la différence et des similitudes, de l'homme et de la femme, de la trahison et de la loyauté, de la peur et du courage...

06/2013

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Lecture 9-12 ans

L'homme et le loup et autres nouvelles

Abandonné par son compagnon dans l'immensité gelée du Klondike, un homme blessé s'obstine pourtant à avancer. Bientôt, sur ses traces, rôde une nouvelle menace. Un loup malade, squelettique, tout aussi affamé que lui...

09/2014

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Contes et nouvelles

La fille au parapluie rouge et autres histoires courtes

Au gré de ces courtes nouvelles se croisent des personnages étonnants : une chapardeuse de livre, des amoureux passionnés, des destins entrelacés entre la vie et la mort. Ce livre aurait dû être mon premier, mais l'inspiration capricieuse et les détours du destin en ont décidé autrement. A travers des souvenirs romancés, des prémonitions et des rêves qui ont éveillé ma plume, je vous invite à découvrir ces histoires palpitantes, où toute ressemblance avec la réalité n'est pas forcément un hasard.

09/2023

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Littérature française

L'âne amoureux et autres nouvelles

A cause de son analphabétisme et de sa misère, la majorité des habitants de ma tribu se trouve souvent tiraillée entre les coutumes, la politique, la religion, la misère et le sexe. Voici donc quelques nouvelles qui illustrent plus ou moins ce tiraillement tout en se basant sur des amours insolites : L'âne amoureux / Une guerre oedipienne / Le relais / Le grand mensonge / Les deux fesses / Le meilleur ami / Dur de tuer le temps quand on est vieux / La femme qui voulait libérer la Palestine / Une rencontre insolite.

06/2018

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Poches Littérature internation

Fan Man. L'homme au ventilo

Horse Badorties se lève et se couche dans sa turne du Lower East Side, navigue du Bronx à Chinatown, plane sur les hauteurs de Brooklyn. Son immense parapluie sur l'épaule, son merveilleux ventilateur à la main - le fan man rafraîchissant - pour rester cool en toutes circonstances, Horse arpente les rues mythiques du New York sixties, maestro en quête de jolies recrues pour la Chorale de l'Amour, sa principale lubie. Sous ses allures clochardesques de Yogi foutraque, Horse garde le coeur d'un jeune homme. Sa petite santé, ses grandes idées ont la démesure héroïque de l'Ignatius de Kennedy Toole. Son langage infusé aux drogues douces, la coolitude hilarante du Big Lehowski des frères Coen. Grand roman comique, Fan Man est comme une parenthèse enchantée, un message beat enregistré, une musique éternellement juvénile. On attendait depuis 1974 la traduction française de ce livre culte.

11/2017

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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

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Sciences de la terre et de la

Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats

Cuckoos and cowbirds are amongst the select bird groups renowned as professional parasites, who always lay their eggs in the nests of other species. Occasional parasitic laying is also widespread in many other birds, who gladly parasitise the nests of their own kind when the opportunity arises. In this fascinating new book, Nick Davies describes the natural histories of all the brood parasites and examines the exciting questions they raise about the evolution of cheating and the arms race between parasites and their hosts. Brood parasites fill their armoury with adaptations including exquisite egg mimicry, rapid laying, ejection of host eggs, murder of host young, chick mimicry and manipulative begging behaviour: ploys shown by recent research to have evolved in response to host defence behaviour or through competition among the parasites themselves. While many host species appear defenceless, accepting parasite eggs quite unlike their own, others are more discriminating against odd-looking eggs and some have evolved the ability to discriminate against odd-looking chicks as well. How does this arms race proceed? Will defenceless hosts improve their armoury in time, or are there sometimes constraints on hosts which allow the parasites to gain the upper hand? And why are so few species obliged only to lay eggs in host nests? Have host defences limited the success of brood parasitism, or is it in fact much commoner than we suspect, but occurring mainly when birds parasitise the nests of their own kind? All of these puzzles are examined in descriptions of the natural history of each of the groups of parasites in turn. Here is a book with wide appeal, both to amateur naturalists fascinated by this most singular and macabre of behaviours and to ornithologists and ecologists interested in the evolution of ecology and behaviour. The story takes us from the strange tales of folklore to the classic field work earlier this century by pioneer ornithologists such as Edgar Chance, Stuart Baker, Herbert Friedmann and others, through to the recent experimental field work and molecular techniques of today's leading scientists. We visit brood parasites in Europe, Asia, Japan, Africa, Australasia, and North and South America, to look at some of the world's most interesting birds and sortie of biology's most interesting questions, many of which still beg answers from ornithologists in the future. Brilliant illustrations by David Quinn depict many behaviours for the first time and convey the thrill of watching these astonishing birds in the wild.

04/2000

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Anglais apprentissage

A multitude of Sins. Richard Ford

A sequel to Rock Springs and Women with Men, the collection of short stories entitled A Multitude of Sins was published in 2001 and immediately achieved worldwide recognition. If this series of ten short stories seems to feature adultery, it would be a major mistake to believe that the stories can be reduced to what is actually a side issue or a pretext to something else, sometimes of much greater importance. As often with great writers, Richard Ford tackles several other topics along with the sin of unfaithfulness which is a base camp from which to go further up into the knowledge of human deficiency, lack and want. Pondering these sins, Richard Ford lays them all bare while often unveiling the issue of the story right from the beginning, instead of cautiously preserving it as a last chance literary trick to pull it off at the fast moment. Showing insight through observation, his writing is deceptive in as much as it seems natural and easygoing when it requires close analysis and several successive readings to yield up its literary and humane secrets. The comparison some critics have made to Chekhov is not overblown and Agregation students, certainly among the most perceptive readers in the world, should naturally enjoy both reading and studying A Multitude of Sins, pleasure and scholarship being complementary, not antagonistic. The exclusive interview of Richard Ford at the end of the book will certainly be appreciated by Agregation students, who will thus be able to finish off their knowledge of Ford's works.

11/2007

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Littérature française

La fortune de l'homme. Et autres nouvelles

Une femme rêve d'être une chatte, une femme a envie d'une chose, une femme s'imagine des choses, une femme se prend pour un chimpanzé, une femme prend son amant pour un grillon, une femme se voit dans un hamster

02/2008

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Littérature française (poches)

La fortune de l'homme. Et autres nouvelles

Une femme rêve d'être une chatte. Une autre renoue avec un ex, cambrioleur. Une troisième s'imagine être poursuivie. Une femme se prend pour un chimpanzé et l'autre prend son amant pour un grillon. Dans ces six nouvelles, les femmes racontent leurs amours dérisoires et leur désir insatiable d'hommes lâches, insuffisants ou absents.

06/2009

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Non classé

From the village to presidential suite, my life journey

I did not intend to write a scholarly book, for I did not want to intellectualize my life. Nor did I wish to romanticize it. I wanted to describe it as I lived it, with emphasis on people. I wanted to express in this book the joy I experienced in giving generously of myself, my time, and my modest material possessions, to make others happy and to share the many gifts of life. I wanted also to share with those who aspire to become academic leaders the myriad lessons my upbringing, education, and professional life have taught me. I thought they might find these lessons learned useful, as they strive for successful careers and, more importantly, for rewarding personal and professional lives. Again, this book is a story, the story of my life, wherein the personal and the professional have intermingled and strengthened each other, making a better whole of my person, personality, aspirations, and talents. This unique alliance between the professional and the personal dimensions of my life, I am happy to say, always triumphed and accounted for the successes that so many good people helped me achieve. Without the guidance, advice, cooperation, and support of others, I am sure my life would not have been as fulfilling.

08/2022

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Roman d'amour, roman sentiment

Don’t leave me

Jordan and Florence had made a promise never to part with each other, having managed to heal their past pains. Unfortunately, one day she will return to France, leaving Jordan, alone, in Boston. Their love, their carnal complicity in which they always found refuge and had fun in unusual places, cannot be ended on a whim. The death of a child, of a parent, suicide, disability, so many trials that will test their love, so that they admit they are nothing without the other. Will they succeed, knowing that when one is loved, one strength is increased tenfold when one encounters an obstacle ? Besides, distance is nothing when two people love each other so passionately, destiny is supposed to bring those who love each other together.

07/2022

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Non classé

Desert Isles & Pirate Islands

Desert Isles & Pirate Islands examines the development of the island theme in nineteenth-century English juvenile fiction. The earliest island stories, Robinsonnades designed to teach both piety and natural history, gave way in mid-century to adventure stories with their primary emphasis on excitement and entertainment. By the end of the Victorian era, while elements of the Robinsonnade still featured in adventure fiction, the island story accommodated other traditions. It was particularly in the periodicals known as 'penny dreadfuls' that the island story became a lively and often lurid tale of pirates and their buried treasure. The book contains a detailed 505-item bibliography of stories on the island theme appearing in England from 1788 to 1910. Sixty-five illustrations reproduced from contemporary children's books and periodicals depict typical characters, situations and motifs in this fiction.

12/1984

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Beaux arts

Italian Maiolica and Other Early Modern Ceramics in the Courtauld Gallery

This is the first catalogue of the collection of early modern ceramics in the Courtauld. The pieces in the collection showcase brilliantly the skill of potters and pottery painters working at the time of Raphael and Titian. Maiolica is one of the most revealing expressions of Renaissance art. Its extraordinary range of colours retain the vividness that they had when they left the potter's kiln. Italian potters absorbed techniques and shapes from the Islamic world and incorporated ornament and subject matter from the arts of ancient Rome. This new approach to pottery making, combined with the invention of printing, woodcut and engraving, resulted in an extraordinary type of painted pottery, praised by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists for 'surpassing the ancient with its brilliance of glaze and variety of painting'. The collection boasts a magnificent group of vessels made during the high Renaissance, the golden age of Italian maiolica. It includes precious and delicate Deruta lustreware with imagery deriving from Perugino and Raphael, as well as vessels painted in a narrative style of pottery painting known as istoriato. Highlights include vessels depicting episodes taken from the first printed Bibles of the Renaissance. Istoriato maiolica flourished particularly in the lands of the Dukes of Urbino, who promoted this craft by sending painted pottery to prestigious patrons across Europe. Emblems and devices painted on the pottery help us understand that they were meant to be used and enjoyed by the elites in Renaissance society, such as the Medici and other great Tuscan families. The catalogue will include two recent gifts to the Courtauld, a rare tile of the famous patroness of the arts Marchioness Isabella D'Este, and a refined dish painted with the story of Diana and Actaeon. All major Renaissance pottery centres are represented in the collection, including Siena, Faenza and Venice, as well as splendid examples of the mysterious pharmacy jars made at the foot of the mountain of Gran Sasso in the town of Castelli d'Abruzzo. These achievements of the art of pottery in the early modern period are completed by fine examples of Ottoman pottery, as well as examples of Valencian lustreware. Sani's introductory essay on the Victorian collector Thomas Gambier Parry will shed new light on the development of this fascinating collection, making links between Gambier Parry's artistic practice and his collecting and revealing new insights into his taste as a collector. Each detailed entry uncovers a wealth of new information on the provenance of the pieces.

03/2023

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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

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Non classé

Literary Marriages

A series of intertextual short stories by Joyce Carol Oates, published in 1972, constitutes the subject-matter of the present work. Having entered into ‘literary marriages' with beloved masters, such as Kafka, Joyce, Thoreau, Flaubert, James and Chekhov, Oates has ‘re-imagined' their classic masterpieces. This study aims at finding out whether Oates remains ‘faithful' to the original versions. What elements besides the titles are retained, or added ? Why does a young American woman writer undertake a dialogue with deceased authors and their texts ? Why the short story genre ? What is Oates's relationship to intertextuality, literary tradition, or the very aesthetics of her own art ? Grounded in theories of intertextuality, comparative analyses show that Oates remains ‘faithful' in some of her spiritual unions, while committing ‘infidelities' in others. For a woman writer in the 1970s transgression was a necessity for survival ; these stories thus belong to the revisionary movement. While assimilating and engendering a strongly Eurocentred male literary tradition, Oates manages to unlock energy from the original stories transforming them into expressions of her very own distinct literary voice.

12/2001

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Littérature française

Un homme de passage et autres nouvelles

" A côté, dans un minuscule couloir, un homme très élégant était assis sur un banc un peu délabré. Il attendait patiemment son tour, une certaine angoisse sur le visage. Cet homme était vêtu d'un costume couleur ivoire, d'une chemise blanche et d'une cravate bleue avec des petits motifs blancs en forme de losanges assortis à sa chemise. Et dans la salle où ma mère et moi avions été installées, il y avait toute l'équipe médicale prête à nous assister... ". Dans ce recueil de quinze textes, vous ferez connaissance avec des personnages aussi différents et attachants qu'un chef cuisinier, un aveugle, un sans-abri, une gynéco, un voisin nonagénaire, etc. Dans un style simple et direct, ces courtes histoires mêlent amour, intrigue, humour et mélancolie, avec parfois une touche de mystère.

10/2019