Lectures de A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
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Anglais apprentissage
Lectures de A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
Roman de formation, autofiction, le Portrait de l'artiste jeune homme est une oeuvre clé du XXe siècle, et de la modernité en son ensemble. Deuxième par ordre chronologique des quatre monuments qu'a laissés Joyce, il a constitué une véritable révolution littéraire en mettant l'écriture elle-même au centre du processus de formation de l'artiste; l'écriture du Portrait en effet reproduit de façon mimétique l'évolution de son jeune héros, Stephen Dedalus. Portrait retouché, très ironique, de Joyce jeune par lui-même, le roman est à la fois un credo artistique et un manifeste politique. Etat des lieux d'une Irlande encore colonie britannique, ce portrait sans illusions est aussi celui d'une ville, Dublin, que Joyce qualifiait depuis Dubliners de " centre de la paralysie " et, au-delà, celui de la nation irlandaise tout entière à laquelle Joyce l'exilé volontaire voua toute sa vie un amour aussi ambivalent et douloureux qu'indéfectible. Comme le dit Stephen dans une de ses célèbres formules lapidaires: " Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow ". Ces lectures, qui font le point sur les principaux enjeux littéraires, esthétiques et historiques du Portrait, ont pour ambition de faire découvrir - ou redécouvrir - aux étudiants anglicistes ce texte fondamental de notre culture contemporaine.
01/2010
Biographies
James Joyce, Une lecture amoureuse
Réédition de l'étude biographique de Joyce, reprise et corrigée et initialement publiée chez Golias.
02/2022
Littérature anglo-saxonne
James & Nora. Portrait de Joyce en couple
Edna O'Brien n'a jamais caché que James Joyce lui avait ouvert les portes de la littérature. Vibrant hommage à un "mec funnominal" - mot emprunté à Joyce - et à son stupéfiant corps-à-corps avec le langue, James & Nora retrace la vie de l'artiste en couple, depuis sa rencontre à Dublin en juin 1904 avec une belle fille de la campagne originaire de Galway, Nora Barnacle, jusqu'à sa mort, en 1941. Leur fuite on Italie, la naissance de leurs enfants, leur misère matérielle, leur flamboyante vie sexuelle, et aussi leurs deux solitudes, Edna O'Brien les concentre en autant de fulgurants instantanés.
03/2021
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
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
Mouvements artistiques
Frank Auerbach. The Charcoal Heads
Accompanying an exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, London, Frank Auerbach : The Charcoal Heads presents a remarkable series of hauntingly beautiful largescale drawings by the artist. The catalogue includes a new piece of writing on one of the drawings from critically acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín. This catalogue explores one of Frank Auerbach's most remarkable bodies of work - a series of large-scale portrait heads made in charcoal, produced during his early years as a young artist in postwar London. Auerbach (b. 1931) spent months on each drawing, working and reworking them during numerous sessions with his sitters. This prolonged and vigorous process of creation is evident in the finished drawings, which are richly textured and layered. Auerbach would sometimes even break through the paper and patch it up before carrying on. His heads thus emerge from the darkness of the charcoal with burning vitality, born of an artistic as well as a physical struggle with the medium. The process of repeated creation and destruction, of which these images bear the visible scars, speaks profoundly of their times, as people rebuilt their lives after the ruination and upending of the war. The exhibition will be the first time Auerbach's extraordinary drawings, made in the 1950s and early 1960s, have been brought together as a comprehensive group. They will be shown together with a selection of paintings he made of the same sitters ; for the artist, painting and drawing have always been deeply entwined. The accompanying catalogue - by Deputy Head of The Courtauld Gallery, Barnaby Wright, and with an essay by one of the greatest contemporary voices in the English language, Colm Tóibín - is the first publication to explore in depth this magnificent series. Tóibín spent several hours one afternoon in front of Auerbach's Self-Portrait (1958), which features on the front cover of the book, looking closely and taking notes. His essay is an account of his experience and offers new insights into the work and the nature of self-portaiture.
03/2024
Romans policiers
The tears of the mysterious forest
At the start of the school year in Massata, Galia, an enticing young lady showed up in one of the university classes. Her homeric intelligence and her magical beauty would make her the focus, the subject of monologues and desire. Her allure enticed lecturers and mates, the brightest of the class included. They found her interesting and desirable but mysterious and reluctant about her life. The day before her birthday, the young lady decided to open up to the one she was already falling for. That night, something heart-rending happened.
12/2021
Critique littéraire
James Joyce. Tome 2
Nous n'avons pas fini d'apprendre à être les contemporains de James Joyce, à comprendre notre interprète. Ce livre pénètre dans la vie de Joyce en vue de refléter l'incessante et complexe union des faits et de l'art. La vie d'un artiste, et particulièrement celle de Joyce, diffère des vies ordinaires en ce que les événements y deviennent des sources d'art, dans le moment même où ils s'imposent à son attention. Au lieu de laisser chaque journée, poussée par la suivante, tomber dans un imprécis souvenir, il remodèle les expériences qui l'ont modelé lui-même. II est à la fois le prisonnier et le libérateur. A son tour, le remodelage de l'expérience devient une partie de sa vie, une autre de ses récurrences telles que le réveil ou le sommeil. Le biographe doit mesurer en chaque moment la participation de l'artiste à deux processus simultanés.
05/1987
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
A Passion for DNA. Genes. Genomes, and Society
In 1953, two young scientists sparked a revolution. James Watson and Francis Crick deduced the molecular composition of DNA and immediately realized that the structure implied how genes were copied and passed on from one generation to the next. Their observation had extraordinary consequences; the discovery of a genetic code; the ability to alter an organism's genetic make-up; new ways of fighting disease; and the means of cloning plants and animals. Nobel Prize-winner, James Watson, has long been a commentator on DNA science and its implications for society. In essays and lectures he delivered dispatches from the front lines of the revolution. Collected here is a selection of these outspoken and topical pieces, mingling with memoirs of distinguished former colleagues, advice for young scientists, and a pointed account of Germany's troubled historical relationship with genetics. Augmented by elegant commentaries from the distinguished molecular biologist Walter Gratzer, this volume portrays the thoughts and work of an intellectual leader of the twentieth century.
01/2000
Décoration
The New Tattoo
Tattoos are everywhere-especially where they are least expected. Once the specialty of bikers and sailors, they now are frequently spotted in art galleries, fashion shows, and even corporate boardrooms. "Mom-in-a-heart" has been replaced by striking monochromatic patterns; intricate reproductions of famous artworks; elaborate mythical beasts and deities; and the oddly unclassifiable (the innards of a video camera, a monolithic black wedge). This sophisticated look at the latest high-style skin decorations, created by the most creative contemporary tattoo artists, is divided into five chapters: Tribal; Paintings, Prints, and Portraits; Imagination and Fantasy; Neotraditional; and All the Rest. A lively introduction provides a cogent history of tattooing through the ages, making clear that the compulsion to personalize the body has characterized humanity throughout recorded history. Concluding the introduction is an informative evaluation of how the tattoo scene has changed since the "tattoo renaissance" that began in the 1960s and has culminated in today's heady mix of inventive old masters and young artschool-trained hotshots. An invaluable appendix gives answers to the questions anyone should ask before getting a tattoo, including: How Is a Tattoo Made? Is It Safe? How Do I Find the Right Tattoo Artist? How Do I Pick the Right Design? How Much Will It Cost? How Long Does It Take? What Maintenance Does a Tattoo Require? Can 1 Get Rid of It?
01/1994
Essais
James Joyce, hérétique et prodigue
Lacan et Joyce, se reconnaissant tous deux comme "hérétiques", sont reliés en un noeud dont l'invention remonte à Giordano Bruno, le martyr de l'hérésie brûlé vif à Rome pour avoir osé proposer une théorie de l'infinité des mondes. Comme nous le rappelle Jorge Luis Borges qui servira ici de médiateur, c'est la pensée de l'infini, avec son déploiement dans l'histoire universelle, plus qu'une nouvelle cosmogonie, qui fait l'hérétique. Reste à suivre le cheminement de Joyce depuis sa rébellion esthétique, éthique et politique contre les idéologies dominantes jusqu'à la synthèse de Finnegans Wake dont l'idiome obscur et inouï, fabriqué de toutes les langues, offre un compendium des cauchemars de l'histoire. Joyce se fonde sur une théologie augustinienne qui prend l'"heureuse chute" de l'humanité comme point de départ dialectique afin d'inviter ses lecteurs à se retrouver en une "secte du Phénix" ouverte à tous et grâce à laquelle nous partagerons un certain savoir sur ce que Lacan appelle "Joyce le sinthome".
01/2022
Instruments de musique
String quartet. Op. 8. 2 violins, viola and cello. Partition et parties
The String Quartet in G minor Op. 8 dates from the time when Joseph Haas studied with Max Reger (1905). While reflecting the clear influence of his teacher as to form, it also shows the young composer as an artist with an independent personality as well as a true master of his craft. Instrumentation : String quartet op. 8
07/2023
Histoire de l'art
Titian, the Della Rovere Dynasty, and His Portrait of Guidobaldo II and his Son. Edition
Le portrait Klesch, par Titien, de Guidobaldo II avec son fils Francesco Maria représente le duc d'Urbino dans ses pleins pouvoirs de commandant suprême des troupes papales avec son héritier à ses côtés. Ce rare double portrait en pied vient seulement d'être attribué à Titien après avoir entrepris des analyses et une restauration minutieuses qui révèlent une belle peinture au style "non finito" avec de superbes touches d'empâtement totalement typiques au maître. Tout ceci est illustré et développé dans ce nouveau livre. Titian provided portraits for the greatest men and women of Europe, Charles V and Philip II of Spain primary among them. For years the Klesch portrait was dismissed as a workshop product - partly because poor condition hid its true quality, but also because it was not believed that Titian could have deigned to create one for Guidobaldo, whose father Guidobaldo della Rovere (1514-1574) and family had a long history of patronizing the artist. Recent research, however, has thrown Guidobaldo's geopolitical significance into relief. He was supreme commander of Venice, the Papal States and then Spain. He sent thousands of soldiers to the major conflicts of his day, particularly the defense of Malta (1565) and the Battle of Lepanto (1571) and his engineers were sought throughout Europe for their ingenuity. In this volume full of new research, Ian Verstegen reveals that Guidobaldo was not peripheral but central to Italian politics and was regarded at several points in history as a key figure who could bring peace or who could influence major conflicts on the Italian peninsula, particularly the War of Siena, and then Pope Paul IV's offensive war against Spain. Anne-Marie Eze gives the first comprehensive examination of the painting's provenance, outlining the portrait's vicissitudes and reception at different moments in its near 500-year history, reexamining received wisdom about its past ownership, and presenting new documentary evidence to expand on and fill gaps in our knowledge of its whereabouts. Finally, Matthew Hayes and Ian Kennedy reflect on the technique, date, recent conservation, and authorship of the painting, proving it to be a masterpiece that only the great Titian could have created.
11/2021
Historique
The young lion
Dans le cimetière des héros, à la périphérie de Sopron, en Hongrie, il existe un monument spécial. Une pierre tombale ornée d'une hélice tordue, celle d'un avion abattu pendant la seconde guerre mondiale. Un jeune homme repose ici avec sa famille. Son nom est László Molnár ; il fut jusqu'à sa mort le pilote de chasse le plus efficace de Hongrie. Son surnom était LION. Voici son histoire... A partir du printemps 1944, d'énormes formations de bombardiers alliés survolent la Hongrie se dirigeant de l'Italie vers l'Allemagne ou même attaquant des cibles hongroises. La grande surface d'eau du lac Balaton est un repère utile pour la navigation. Les pilotes hongrois appelaient cette période de la guerre aérienne "la saison américaine" . La performance du groupe "Puma" de l'armée de l'air royale hongroise est également légendaire parmi leurs adversaires. Voici leur histoire, voici l'histoire de quelques jeunes hommes confrontés à la violence de la guerre.
08/2023
Divers
Young man
Etudiant aux Beaux-Arts de Paris dans les années 1990, Joann Sfar noircit déjà inlassablement ses carnets à dessin. Stimulé par le vent nouveau et la franche camaraderie qui se dégagent des ateliers qu'il partage avec d'autres auteurs de bande dessinée, comme Christophe Blain ou Emmanuel Guibert, il imagine les contours des personnages qui feront son succès. Mais pour l'heure, il cumule les lettres de refus d'éditeurs. Trente ans plus tard, l'auteur se replonge dans les tranches de vie du jeune Joann, et commente avec amusement et lucidité les pages inédites de ses tout premiers carnets.
10/2023
Sculpteurs
Standing women of Venice/Femmes debout de Venise ; Standing black woman of Venice/Femme noire debout de Venise. Edition bilingue français-anglais
Barbara Chase-Riboud est sculptrice, poétesse et romancière franco-américaine. Elle vit à Paris. Elle rencontre Alberto Giacometti au tout début des années 1960. Tous deux ont tracé, au l des décennies, des parcours de sculpteurs différents - d'homme et de femme artiste aussi. Leur dialogue repose sur des points de contact : le travail de la matière et du bronze, la passion pour l'Egypte ancienne, l'écriture. Cette confrontation entre Giacometti, que l'on croit "épuré" et classique, et Chase-Riboud, "matérielle" et baroque, révèle également une commune attention passionnée à la représentation du corps. Cette exposition, première en France de Barbara Chase-Riboud depuis 1974, nous livre le regard d'une artiste sur l'oeuvre d'Alberto Giacometti avec laquelle elle entre en sympathie. Barbara Chase-Riboud is a French-American sculptor, poet and novelist. She lives in Paris. She met Alberto Giacometti in the ? early 1960s. Throughout the decades, both artists have traced different paths as sculptors - as man and woman artists too. Their dialogue rests on points of contact : the work on matter and bronze, a passion for Ancient Egypt and writing. This confrontation between Giacometti, whom one considers as "streamlined" and classical, and Chase-Riboud, "tangible" and baroque, also reveals a shared passionate attention to the representation of the body. This exhibition, the rst in France for Barbara Chase-Riboud since 1974, offers us the gaze of a woman artist on the oeuvre of Alberto Giacometti with whom she is in sympathy.
11/2021
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
CONSTRUCTING QUARKS. A Sociological History of Particle Physics
Widely regarded as a classic in its field, Constructing Quarks recounts the history of the post-war development of elementary particle physics. Inviting a reappraisal of the status of scientific knowledge, Andrew Pickering suggests that scientists are not passive observers; and reporters of nature. Rather, they are active producers of the world through a social symbiosis of experimental and theoretical practice.
"Constructing Quarks chronicles what many have begun to regard as a major revolution in 20th century science-the discovery of quarks and gauge field theories of strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions. A prodigious piece of scholarship that I can heartily recommend."
-Michael Riordan, New Scientist
"An admirable history.... Because his account is so detailed and so accurate, and because it makes clear why the physicists did what they did, it is eminently suited to be required reading for all young physicists entering or contemplating entering the practice of elementary-particle physics."
-Hugh N. Pendleton, Physics Today
"A very detailed description of a remarkable enterprise."
-John Polkinghorne, Times Higher Education Supplement
01/1984
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
Littérature comparée
Le Modernisme au défi de la lecture. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot
En interrogeant les rapports à la lecture de James Joyce, Virginia Woolf et T. S. Eliot, cette étude met en regard une réflexion historique et une reprise des théories de la réception, de l'herméneutique et du post-structuralisme, pour penser une économie de la lecture proprement moderniste.
Littérature comparée
Le Modernisme au défi de la lecture. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot
En interrogeant les rapports à la lecture de James Joyce, Virginia Woolf et T. S. Eliot, cette étude met en regard une réflexion historique et une reprise des théories de la réception, de l'herméneutique et du post-structuralisme, pour penser une économie de la lecture proprement moderniste.
11/2023
Beaux arts
GOYA. Edition en anglais
Goya (1746-1828) is one of Spain's most famous artists and is widely acknowledged as an outstanding painter in the European tradition, often called the last of the Old Masters and the first of the Modems. He is appreciated as a portrait painter; a creator of menacing and melancholy images in oils; a master of enigmatic, satirical and revolutionary drawing and etching; the champion of the Spanish
people in their struggle against oppression and the recorder of their life and sufferings in war. This book brings out many of Goya's moods, from the gaiety and tenderness of the tapestry cartoons to
the mysterious ferocity of the Black Paintings made in his old age.
Enriqueta Harris, former Curator of the Photographic Collection of the Warburg Institute. University of London, is a world-renowned expert on Spanish art. She has curated numerous exhibitions and is the author of Velazquez (Phaidon, 1982).
01/1994
Monographies
Towards the Sun. The Artist - Traveller at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Bien qu'il y ait eu des monographies sur les artistes voyageurs britanniques du XVIIIème et du début du XIXème siècles, il n'existe aucune enquête de ce que l'écrivain Henry Blackburn décrivait de "voyage artistique" un siècle plus tard. A partir de 1900, le "Grand Touriste" est devenu un globe-trotteur muni d'un appareil photo et, malgré le développement de la photographie instantanée, l'enregistrement visuel immédiat en huile et aquarelle reste le plus répandu. Kenneth McConkey's exciting new book explores the complex reasons for this in a series of chapters that take the reader from southern Europe to north Africa, the Middle East, India and Japan revealing many artist-travellers whose lives and works are scarcely remembered today. He alerts us to a generation of painters, trained in academies and artists' colonies in Europe that acted as crèches for those would go on to explore life and landscape further afi eld. The seeds of wanderlust were sown in student years in places where tuition was conducted in French or German, and models were often Spanish, Italian, or North African. At fi rst the countries of western Europe were explored afresh and cities like Tangier became artists' haunts. Training that prioritized plein air naturalism led to the common belief that a well-schooled young painter should be capable of working anywhere, and in any circumstances. At the height of British Imperial power, and facilitated by engineering and technological advance, the burgeoning tourism and travel industry rippled into the production of specialist goods and services that included a dedicated publishing sector. Essential to this phenomenon, the artist-traveller was often commissioned by London dealers to supply themed exhibitions that coincided with contracts for colour-illustrated books recording those exotic parts of the world that were newly available to the tourist, traveller, explorer, emigrant, or colonial civil servant. These works were not, however, value-neutral, and in some instances, they directly address Orientalism, Imperialism, and the Post-Colonial, in pictures that hybridize, or mimic indigenous ways of life. Behind each there is a range of interesting questions. Does experience live up to expectation ? Is the street more desirable than the ancient ruin or sacred site ? How were older ideas of the 'picturesque' reborn in an age when 'Grand Tours' once confi ned to Italy, now encompassed the globe ? McConkey's wideranging survey hopes to address some of these issues. This richly illustrated book explores key sites visited by artist-travellers and investigates artists including Frank Brangwyn, Mary Cameron, Alfred East, John Lavery, Arthur Melville, Mortimer Menpes, as well as other under-researched British artists. Drawing the strands together, it redefi nes the picturesque, by considering issues of visualization and verisimilitude, dissemination and aesthetic value.
11/2021
Théâtre
Impossible lovers
CLAIRE is in charge of a jewelry store. FRANK is a small time hood. A jeweler, who dreams of prince charming, holds up as hostage the man who attempted to break her jewelry. CLAIRE, head of jewelry who has just been let down by a lover she hardly knew, believes that work is her one and only way out. Disappointed, despite the late hour, and after a few drinks, she returns to her jewelry, breaking a store policy, she has disabled security and the guards by pretending that she wants to take advantage of the quiet of the night to update her work. At the same moment, a young ex-con who just got thrown out of a bistro and is passing in front of the jewelry store and decides to break in. Rather than call the police or security, CLAIRE let him in.
02/2013
Histoire internationale
Mao Tsé-toung
On ne saurait comprendre l'extraordinaire " éveil " de la Chine d'aujourd'hui sans connaître le rôle qu'y a joué Mao Tsé-toung des années vingt aux années soixante-dix. Car s'il y eut un géant au XXe siècle, ce fut bien lui ! Ce personnage à facettes multiples,
poète et philosophe, chef de guerre et homme d'État, stratège génial mais aussi, à l'occasion, politicien rusé, suscite à la fois une forme d'admiration pour l'œuvre accomplie et un violent mouvement de
recul pour les moyens employés. Son parcours rien moins que rectiligne, la nature totalitaire du régime avec son inévitable et morbide culture du secret et son goût pour le paraître ; ses interventions dans
tous les domaines de la vie des Chinois, sa longévité au pouvoir (près de quarante ans) et l'adulation absurde dont il a longtemps fait l'objet en Occident ont découragé bon nombre d'analystes. Seuls une présence sur place au long de deux décennies (complétée par de nombreux séjours ultérieurs), une parfaite familiarité avec la langue, l'histoire et le mode de vie des Chinois, une connaissance précise des rouages du Parti communiste, une fréquentation durable de certains hommes clefs et un esprit d'observation aigu ont permis à Philip Short de proposer le récit, aussi exact et objectif que possible, d'un destin hors norme dont l'intéressé lui-même a embrouillé à plaisir la compréhension.
09/2005
Histoire de France
CRASH IN BAYEUX - The Last Flight of Sergeant Ferguson
Normandy, France, January 15, 1943. The weather is clear, the sun is shining. Two Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft fly over the Bayeux-Caen railroad. The target is a German freight train - and its locomotive. Aboard the first Spitfire, Sergeant Ferguson is aligning his gun sights on the target. It is 02 : 30 p. m. This will be his very last flight... HARASSING THE OCCUPYING FORCES TO PREPARE THE INVASION The RAF and RCAF had been flying hundreds of similar sorties over France for months, in order to weaken the German forces, particularly the Luftwaffe. The pilots of No. 401 Squadron were among those who took part in this patient work, made up of constant patrols and attacks. Among the 63 men mentioned in this book, 25 were killed in action between 1942 and 1944. A CRASH THAT AWOKE THE SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE Touched by William Ferguson's sacrifice, some French citizens decided to bury the young Canadian flier with dignity, honour and respect. The Germans took this as a provocation. A few weeks later, the Sipo-SD (the "Gestapo") arrested a dozen of them. They were sent to concentration camps - some of them later died in Büchenwald, Dachau and Mauthausen. Others did survive, including Paul Le Caër. He is the one who has supported the author and told him what happened. Today, he is signing the preface of this book. UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTS AND TESTIMONIES Based on an in-depth analysis of unpublished documents, including the Fergusons' archives and No. 401 Squadron Operation Record Book, this work depicts the very last flight of the young Canadian pilot in detail. With a striking truthfulness, you will relive the squadron's daily life, the faith of the pilots, as well as the beginning of the sortie and "Bill" Ferguson's last minutes. FIVE YEARS OF RESEARCH AND EMOTION A young and talented historian involved in the field of remembrance in Normandy, François Oxéant has spent over five years fitting the pieces of the puzzle together. This book will help you discover all aspects of his fascinating investigation with a methodical and rigorous approach. He has met some of the last witnesses of the events and has been in touch with the pilot's family for a few years, making us share his emotion and admiration for Bill, who was barely younger than himself.
09/2014
Non classé
Temporal Logic, Omniscience, Human Freedom - Perspectives in Analytic Philosophy
The work shows the usefulness and limitation of modern logic in the study of traditional metaphysical problems. As is the usual case in all criticism of analytic philosophers against traditional philosophy, word usage must be limited to what the human mind can know. The notion of timeless knowledge for example contradicts our normal mode of word usage and cannot serve as adequate in reference to knowledge be it that of man or of God. If timeless knowledge applied to divine mode of knowing then there cannot be human freedom.
09/1991
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 étrangère
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Watch as Anne Elliot reunites with Frederick Wentworth, whose proposal she rejected eight years ago for fear of compromising herself by marrying a young officer at the beginning of his career, poor and with an uncertain future. Classique - Niveau avancé Découvrez notre édition avec des notes de bas de page pour traduire les mots et expressions que le lecteur est susceptible de ne pas connaître, permettant une lecture ininterrompue de l'ouvrage.
Roman d'amour, roman sentiment
Persuasion. Textes en français et anglais
Watch as Anne Elliot reunites with Frederick Wentworth, whose proposal she rejected eight years ago for fear of compromising herself by marrying a young officer at the beginning of his career, poor and with an uncertain future. Classique - Niveau avancé Découvrez notre édition avec des notes de bas de page pour traduire les mots et expressions que le lecteur est susceptible de ne pas connaître, permettant une lecture ininterrompue de l'ouvrage.
Critique littéraire
James Joyce et la création d'Ulysse
A Zurich, en 1918 et 1919, le peintre anglais Frank Budgen et l'écrivain irlandais James Joyce se rencontraient presque quotidiennement pour de longues conversations, soit au cours de promenades à travers les rues, soit devant un verre de vin dans quelques brasseries de la ville. L'objet le plus fréquent de leurs entretiens était cet Ulysse que Joyce écrivait alors et dont il communiquait au fur et à mesure des épisodes à son ami. Cette chronique d'une amitié fut élaborée du vivant de Joyce qui, maintes fois, suggéra à Budgen des précisions et des mises au point. Elle nous donne une image extrêmement vivante de l'auteur d'Ulysse, de la lente gestation de son oeuvre, de sa conception de l'art et de l'écriture. Budgen s'est aussi voulu le guide attentif et méthodique des lecteurs d'Ulysse. Il nous mène d'un épisode à l'autre à travers ce vaste continent. S'aidant de sa connaissance concrète de Joyce, il analyse de la façon la plus claire, la plus directe, une oeuvre qui est devenue un mythe mais dont peu de lecteurs ont vraiment exploré tous les aspects.
05/2004
