Nomen Omen Tome 1 : Total Eclipse of the Heart
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Comics
Nomen Omen Tome 1 : Total Eclipse of the Heart
Dans le monde de Nomen Omen, il est plus important de voir avec son coeur qu'avec ses yeux. Becky, Rebecca Kumar de son vrai nom, est une jeune New-Yorkaise plutôt dégourdie et geek qui a deux mères attentionnées et deux chiens. Elle est atteinte d'achromatopsie, ce qui signifie qu'elle est incapable de voir les couleurs. Mais cela ne l'empêche pas de poster des photos sur son compte Instagram _nomen.omen_. La nuit de son vingt et unième anniversaire, entourée de ses amis, la jeune femme découvre bien malgré elle que le monde est plus vaste qu'elle ne l'avait jamais imaginé...
01/2020
Comics divers
Nomen Omen Tome 2 : Wicked Game
Atteinte d'achromatopsie, Becky Kumar est incapable de voir les couleurs. Sa vie a basculé le soir de son vingt et unième anniversaire, lorsqu'une ombre lui a arraché le coeur. Mais Becky n'est pas morte, bien au contraire. Elle a découvert que de puissants êtres ancestraux vivent en nous. Notre monde est imprégné de magie, et ce savoir est réservé à un cercle restreint. La jeune femme sait désormais qu'elle est une sorcière !
02/2021
Comics divers
Nomen Omen Tome 3 : As the World Falls Down
La fin approche ! Tandis que Becky, la sorcière, et Taranis, le Roi, s'affrontent, le rituel de Medea change à jamais le monde de Nomen Omen. Survivre à des changements si drastiques sera difficile, et la tragédie peut survenir au détour de chaque page. La mort, la culpabilité et la vengeance seront-elles au bout du chemin ? Après tout, c'est la fin de tout ! Ultime chapitre de l'épopée de Marco B. Bucci et Jacopo Camagni, une production Panini Comics publiée aux Etats-Unis chez Image Comics. Une réussite dans le style très particulier de l'Urban Fantasy.
09/2021
Littérature française
Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba)
Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba) This book is dedicated to the unique One who has assumed a form and name to lead the play of universal existence. He throbs in our loving heart ; He breathes in our living soul. He sings in our fervent spirit and he thinks in our purified mind. That infinite Ancient One from his supernal height, bends towards us to embrace us in his love, and to feed our soul with the nectar of his bliss. Blessed are they that have the mind to know him, the heart to feel him and the love to live in his consciousness ! He may have been born to human parents in Poona, studied in a college, played cricket, left home, have seen great souls, sat alone silent, spoken in gestures, written books - but that is not his history. Many live such a life ; many scholars write books ; many saints sit in contemplation ; many monks leave home for mountain resorts ; but they cannot be one like him. Millions of bulbs challenge in vain the darkness of night. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. We have seen monks, yogins and saints. Some live alone for peace. Some open Ashrams and collect donations to run them. Some comercialise their name and form. Some display miracles to surprise human minds ; some offer boons ; some predict the future ; some curse you when you do not offer them what they want. Some seek pleasure and treasure. But who seeks God and finds God in the self to awaken God-awareness in other men and women ? Who says "I am God and you are God too"? Who rises above the prattle of words, the rattle of weapons and battle of ideologies to the lofty peace of supersonic silence and pours his blessings from the dizzy height of the soul in tune with God ? Who is he that embraces all in the heart and awakens the soul which has none of the human creations of caste, religion, race, pedigree nor colour ? Editions ASSA, Christian Piaget
07/2017
Non classé
Brides on Sale
Beginning in the 1990s large numbers of women from Mainland China and Southeast Asia married men in Taiwan. They now number over 400,000, warranting some to call them "Taiwan's Fifth Ethnic Group". This book argues that the rise of these marriages is a gendered and relational phenomenon, linked to the forces of globalization. Traditional ideas of marriage, such as the belief that a woman "marries out" of her natal family to be dependent upon her husband and his family, and the idea that a man should "marry down" to a woman of a lesser social and economic status, have not kept pace with changes in women's educational and career opportunities. How these relationships are formed, how they impact gendered understandings of women and men, how families are constituted and relationships developed, and how they affect the children of these families and their education, are the issues explored in this book. It breaks new ground in our understanding of transnational and cross-border marriages by looking at the long-term effects of such marriages on communities, families, and individuals.
04/2015
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
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
WHY SEX MATTERS. A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior
Why are men, like other primate usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? Why is killing infants routine in some cultures, but forbidden in others? Why is incest everywhere taboo? Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the Amazon to the Arctic, and from single-celled organisms to international politics to show that these and many other questions about human behavior largely come down to evolution and sex. More precisely, as she shows in this uniquely comprehensive and accessible survey of behavioral and evolutionary ecology, they come down to the basic principle that all organisms evolved to maximize their reproductive success and seek resources to do so.
Low begins by reviewing the fundamental arguments and assumptions of behavioral ecology: selfish genes, conflicts of interest, and the tendency for sexes to reproduce through different behaviors. She explains why in primate species-from chimpanzees and apes to humans-males seek to spread their genes by devoting extraordinary efforts to finding mates, while females find it profitable to expend more effort on parenting. Low illustrates these sexual differences among humans by showing that in places as diverse as the parishes of nineteenth-century Sweden, the villages of seventeenth-century China, and the forests of twentieth-century Brasil, men have tended to seek power and resources, from cattle to money, to attract mates, while women have sought a secure environment for raising children. She makes it clear, however, they have not done so simply through individual efforts or in a vacuum, but that men and women act in complex ways that involve cooperation and coalition building and that are shaped by culture, technology, tradition, and the availability of resources. Low also considers how file evolutionary drive to
acquire resources leads to environmental degradation and warfare and asks whether our behavior could be channeled in more constructive ways.
Why Sex Matters is a compelling work of biology, sociology, and anthropology and a penetrating study of the deep motivations that underlie individual and social behavior.
01/2000
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
Science-fiction
Dangerous women Tome 1
Guerrières, souveraines, sorcières, muses, conspiratrices, cavalières, intrigantes... Les femmes de ces nouvelles sont dangereuses, chacune à sa manière. George R. R. Martin et son compère de toujours, Gardner Dozois, ont convoqué les plus fines plumes de l'imaginaire pour leur rendre hommage.
04/2018
Théâtre
Eclipse Totale
Tout commence par un suicide. Celui de Juliette, vingt ans. Son petit frère en fait la macabre découverte. L'ambulancier appelé sur les lieux ne peut rien faire d'autre que constater le décès et appeler les pompes funèbres. Mais une tempête de neige s'abat sur la ville : les pompes funèbres n'arrivent pas et tout semble se figer autour de ce corps qui ne peut plus apporter de réponses aux inépuisables questions de ses proches.
02/2014
Religion
Like Man, Like Woman
Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male counterparts, frequently defining them as ‘other'. This book shows how Roman male writers at the turn of the first century actually described women as not so different from men : the same qualities and abilities pertaining to the domains of parenthood, intellect and morals are ascribed by writers to women as well as to men. There are two voices, however : a traditional, ideal voice and an individual, realistic voice. This creates a duality of representations of women, which recurs across literary genres and reflects a duality of mentality. How can we interpret the paradoxical information about Roman women given by the male-authored texts ? How does this duality of mentality inform us about gender roles and gender hierarchy ? This work analyses well-known, as well as overlooked, passages from the writings of Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Suetonius, Quintilian, Statius, Martial and Juvenal and sheds new light on Roman views of women and their abilities, on the notions of private and public and on conjugal relationships. In the process, the famous sixth satire of Juvenal is revisited and its topic reassessed, providing further insights into the complex issues of gender roles, marriage and emotions. By contrasting representations of women across a broad spectrum of literary genres, this book provides consistent findings that have wide significance for the study of Latin literature and the social history of the late first and early second centuries.
07/2013
Non classé
A Life of Her Own
This study reconstructs Brittain's feminist theory, which mainly refutes assumptions made about women, supports companionate marriage, and demands the communal reorganization of child care and domestic work to enable a married woman to work outside her home. It compares her theory to her five novels. Doing so, it uncovers revealing feminist 'flaws', above all that marriage remains, the sine qua non for a woman's happiness. The study describes Brittain's way to the top as a formidable obstacle race, in which she constantly had to fight the men she loved, her children, her parents, and resulting domesticity in order to find time to write "the book of the decade". She reached her goal with the publication of Testament of Youth in 1933.
11/1996
Littérature française
Heart of the Ocean
Mathéo n'a que 9 ans, il est le grand et unique frère de Mélissa. Parents absents, la maladie de leur fils les oblige à travailler trois fois plus afin de financer ses soins. Mathéo a un cancer au coeur. Il se tue à vivre et profite comme il le peut du "temps qu'on lui laisse". Mélissa veille tous les jours à ce qu'il se sente bien, il est pour elle son unique héro et elle s'y est attaché bien plus que de raison. Elle fera tout pour réaliser le rêve de son frère avant que celui-ci ne l'emporte. Mais que réserve l'avenir à ces deux enfants ?
08/2020
Sociologie
Marital Separation in Contemporary Ireland
This book is based on detailed interviews with a group of Irish women who have experienced marital separation. It links the women's accounts with literature on the values and beliefs about marriage, women and family which were prevalent when they were growing up in Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s. The book chronicles their young adult years, the early stages of their marriages and the events and processes which led to their separations. It explores the women's emotional reactions at the time of separating, the types of support which they found beneficial and the personal, social and financial consequences of having separated. Although the book is written from a sociological perspective, the combination of theory and practical insights make it accessible to a wide variety of readers. It aims to generate discussion and deepen understanding of an area into which there has been minimal research in Ireland and which poses a range of important questions for future researchers, practitioners and policy-makers.
12/2015
Non classé
The Search for Lyonnesse
Although Mme de Lafayette is acknowledged as the founder of the modern novel, her precise legacy has been understood only in relation to male-authored texts. However, she wrote as a woman, addressing issues that concerned women of her day, particularly the problem of the apparent incompatibility of sexual fulfilment and the institution of marriage. This study seeks to identify how La Princesse de Clèves was interpreted by three of Mme de Lafayette's most talented women successors and to show how their more sombre and subversive view of society was mediated in works of fiction which have strong affinities with the contes de fées for which they are well known. The novels of Mlle Bernard, Mme d'Aulnoy and Mlle de La Force are significant, not simply for what they tell us about themselves as women writers but also for what they reveal about the origins of the eighteenth-century novel.
07/1999
Non classé
A linguistic picture of women's position in society
A discussion of English and Polish gender systems, generic words, forms of address, referring expressions and other topics, provides evidence that in these two languages males and females are not treated equally. The main concern of this book is linguistic sexism. The data indicate that speakers of both languages treat male as the norm, attribute less desirable qualities to the speech and behaviour of women, stereotype women more than men, or simply make women linguistically invisible members of society.
12/1986
Informatique
The Heart of Dead Cells
A la fois artbook et making of, les ouvrages de la collection The Heart Of, avec l'appui d'informations et de propos inédits provenant des équipes de développement, reviennent en détail et en images sur une ouvre vidéoludique, sa conception, son univers et ses mécaniques de jeu. Brillant héritier de Rogue et Castlevania, Dead Cells a bâti son succès sur le perfectionnisme de ses concepteurs et leur capacité d'écoute. Ce livre s'intéresse au jeu, mais aussi à l'histoire et à la philosophie singulière du studio français Motion Twin. A l'instar de ce qui se fait dans les grands studios, les développeurs de Motion Twin ont insufflé un peu d'eux-mêmes dans leur jeu. Découvrez le coeur de Dead Cells.
01/2019
Manga
Lustful Women
Le vrai plaisir ne se dévoile que lorsqu'on s'y abandonne... Pour commencer nous découvrons deux couples à la vie sexuelle routinière qui trouvent un arrangement pour éveiller leur libido. Ensuite, un beau-fils ligote sa belle-mère et tandis que la corde s'enfonce peu à peu dans sa chair, elle s'inquiète de cette relation qui lui semble malsaine... Puis deux amis d'enfance élevés comme frère et soeur étouffent leurs sentiment jusqu'à ce que les flammes du désir finissent par les consumer au risque de révéler leur relation au grand jour. Enfin, un jeune étudiant s'éveille à la sexualité auprès de ses amies. La nostalgie de cette douce époque se confond peu à peu avec les souvenirs si éphémères d'un ancien rêve.
05/2019
Photographie
8 Women
Le dernier livre de Collier Schorr, 8 Women, présente des travaux qui s'étendent du milieu des années 90 à nos jours. Les premières oeuvres de Schorr ont utilisé des publicités appropriées de magazines de mode pour aborder les questions de paternité et de désir ; les travaux ont introduit un regard féminin dans le débat sur la représentation féminine. L'appropriation a été le premier médium de Schorr et dans un certain sens, elle y revient, prenant ses propres images de mode commandées et les repliant dans un dialogue avec d'autres oeuvres. Les oeuvres de 8 Women proposent une variété de sujets, tous impliqués dans la performance, que ce soit en tant qu'artistes, mannequins ou musiciens. Schorr, qui travaille dans la mode depuis 10 ans, a créé des décors qui faisaient aussi office d'atelier, révélant des images qui ne pouvaient être faites qu'avec un sujet qui pouvait voyager entre l'objet du désir et le garant d'une identité conçue dans ce moment précis. Travaillant entre les sorties et les manipulations de feuilles lacrymales, Schorr se demande qui sont les femmes qui souhaitent être regardées, ainsi que quel pouvoir existe en reconnaissant cela comme une position post-féministe.
03/2014
Littérature anglo-saxonne
Difficult Women
Paroles de femmes Récits tranchants et cruels comme la vie Par l'autrice du best-seller Bad Feminist. Romancière et essayiste, Roxane Gay est l'une des voix contemporaines qui ébranlent les certitudes et les systèmes.
08/2022
Science-fiction
Dangerous women Tome 2
Guerrières, souveraines, sorcières, muses, conspiratrices, cavalières, intrigantes... Les femmes de ces nouvelles sont dangereuses, chacune à sa manière. George R.R. Martin et son compère de toujours, Gardner Dozois, ont convoqué les plus fines lames de l'imaginaire pour leur rendre hommage. Alors que le premier volet de cette anthologie rassemblait les plumes masculines, ce sont ici les auteures qui sont l'honneur : Megan Lindholm, Diana Gabaldon, Nancy Kress, Sherrilyn Kenyon...
06/2018
Mondes fantastiques
The Remnant Chronicles Tome 2 : The Heart Of Betrayal
Pour échapper à un mariage arrangé qui l'aurait privée de sa liberté, Lia s'était enfuie le matin de ses noces. La voici rattrapée par son destin de princesse et incarcérée à Venda, territoire de redoutables barbares.
Loin de chez elle et sans aucun espoir de s'échapper, Lia ne sait à qui faire confiance. Rafe, le garçon qu'elle aime, lui a menti, mais il a aussi sacrifié sa liberté pour elle. Quant à Kaden, elle a découvert qu'il était en réalité un assassin envoyé pour la tuer. Il lui a pourtant sauvé la vie en faisant croire au Komizar, le tyran qui règne sur Venda, qu'elle avait le don de seconde vue. Et ce mensonge a pris une ampleur qui la dépasse complètement, car aux yeux du peuple de Venda, elle pourrait incarner la sauveuse d'une très ancienne légende. . .
Tiraillée entre deux hommes, contrainte de jouer la comédie, Lia devra faire des choix qui détermineront son avenir, mais aussi le destin de tout le continent.
05/2022
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
Romance sexy
Heart Players Tome 2 : The heart beat
Ashley court après les mecs, court après l'amour, court après son père. Niais la vérité, c'est qu'elle ne cesse jamais d'être déçue par les hommes. Elle collectionne les plans cul sans attaches et,les coups d'un soir qu'elle finit toujours par regretter. Cette fois, c'en est trop pour son petit coeur malmené : les hommes, c'est terminé ! Mais difficile de fuir ses mauvaises habitudes lorsque le joueur le plus sexy des Giants lui tourne autour, pour des raisons qu'elle ne parvient pas à saisir. Au football comme dans ses activités illégales, Ted Greyson ne joue que pour gagner. Il gérait plutôt bien sur les deux fronts, jusqu'à ce que ses erreurs le rattrapent. Il échappe alors de peu à la suspension, grâce à un accord particulier passé avec son coach, qui s'avère plus mesquin qu'il n'en a l'air... L'objectif ? Faire chavirer le coeur d'Ashley Hawkins.. Même s'il sait que rester loin d'elle, comme il en a l'habitude depuis toujours, est la plus sage des décisions. Même si toute cette histoire ne peut que mal finir... Quand Ted veut quelque chose, il l'obtient. A n'importe quel prix ?
01/2024
Philosophie
Reading Life / Writing Fiction
Studies of the American novel of the 20s and 30s have tended to concentrate either on works by men (Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck), or on those written in the tradition of experimental modernism (Stein, Faulkner, Djuna Barnes). Based on the conviction that women writers of the period fictionalized their own private and public experiences and concerns, the present study offers an analytical introduction to some hundred novels by more than thirty writers. Its aim is to recover a significant corpus of forgotten or ignored texts, which will make a reconsideration of the centers of interest of American modernism unavoidable.
01/1994
Littérature érotique et sentim
Exile and Identity in Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Spanish Women
In Exile and Identity in Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Spanish Women, Karla P. Zepeda studies the experience of exile and its effects on identity in three autobiographies : In Place of Splendor by Constancia de la Mora, Memoria de la melancolía by María Teresa León, and Seis anos de mi vida by Federica Montseny. These three prominent Spanish women of the Second Republic became exiles at the conclusion of the Spanish Civil War due to the onset of the Francisco Franco regime. The political expatriation caused their relocation into various countries : the United States, France, Argentina, and Italy. The repositioning initiated a process of self-reinvention, as the women come in contact with social circumstances prompting new versions of self. Through their works, these women negotiate their identity in relation to the lost homeland and the new locale. Exile and Identity in Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Spanish Women examines the diverse character of diaspora, the social transactions deployed in a variety of circumstances, and the self-negotiations elicited in social interactions. Identity proves to be an intentional re-creation of self, enacted in particular circumstances, and negotiated as a response to social conditions.
05/2012
Monographies
Fuseli and the Modern Woman. Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism
This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition devoted to a fascinating group of drawings by the Anglo-Swiss Henry Fuseli (1741-1825), one of eighteenth-century Europe's most idiosyncratic, original and controversial artists. Best known for his notoriously provocative painting The Nightmare, Fuseli energetically cultivated a reputation for eccentricity, with vividly stylised images of supernatural creatures, muscle-bound heroes, and damsels in distress. While these convinced some viewers of the greatness of his genius, others dismissed him as a charlatan, or as completely mad. Fuseli's contemporaries might have thought him even crazier had they been aware that in private he harboured an obsessive preoccupation with the figure of the modern woman, which he pursued almost exclusively in his drawings. Where one might have expected idealised bodies with the grace and proportions of classical statues, here instead we encounter figures whose anatomies have been shaped by stiff bodices, waistbands, puffed sleeves, and pointed shoes, and whose heads are crowned by coiffures of the most bizarre and complicated sort. Often based on the artist's wife Sophia Rawlins, the women who populate Fuseli's graphic work tend to adopt brazenly aggressive attitudes, either fixing their gaze directly on the viewer or ignoring our presence altogether. Usually they appear on their own, in isolation on the page ; sometimes they are grouped together to form disturbing narratives, erotic fantasies that may be mysterious, vaguely menacing, or overtly transgressive, but where women always play a dominant role. Among the many intriguing questions raised by these works is the extent to which his wife Sophia was actively involved in fashioning her appearance for her own pleasure, as well as for the benefit of her husband. By bringing together more than fifty of these studies (roughly a third of the known total), The Courtauld Gallery will give audiences an unprecedented opportunity to see one of the finest Romantic-period draughtsmen at his most innovative and exciting. Visitors to the show and readers of the lavishly illustrated catalogue will further be invited to consider how Fuseli's drawings of women, as products of the turbulent aftermath of the American and French Revolutions, speak to concerns about gender and sexuality that have never been more relevant than they are today. The exhibition showcases drawings brought together from international collections, including the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Auckland Art Gallery in New Zealand, and from other European and North American institutions.
12/2022
Littérature érotique et sentim
Senses Tome 2 : The sound of your heart
"Dans le premier tome de la série Senses, The taste pf your lips, Allan et Sofia ont aiguisé vos papilles. Ecoutez maintenant l'histoire poignante de leur amie Béa. . ". Difficile de se reconstruire après une rupture douloureuse. Abandonnée par son amour de jeunesse, Béatrice ne vit plus que pour le fruit de cette relation : Ben, un adorable petit garçon. Et si Jay faisait un retour fracassant dans leur quotidien de la jeune femme ? IL suffit d'un contrat, d'un tournée pour que le musicien soit confronté à ses erreurs passées. Il ne sera pas le seul à lutter contre ses démons... Et si la vie ne tenait qu'à un battement de coeur ?
10/2019
Gestion
Ambition, at the Heart of Change
Le management s'invente et se renouvelle, d'abord et avant tout, dans les entreprises et dans les moments extrêmes qu'elles rencontrent. Bénéficiant d'un accès privilégié au coeur de l'action, l'auteur nous restitue l'incroyable transformation de la première entreprise du Maroc, l'Office chérifien des phosphates (OCP), acteur stratégique et mondial dans une activité industrielle hautement concurrentielle et sensible. Cet ouvrage est d'abord le récit d'une aventure managériale, avec ses difficultés, ses heurts et ses rebondissements. Mais il nous donne aussi les clés de compréhension d'un processus d'une extraordinaire complexité : celui de la transformation radicale, improbable et réussie d'une entreprise pourtant figée et sans marge de manoeuvre apparente. Cette leçon de management, techniquement audacieuse et conceptuellement novatrice, saura parler aux dirigeants et aux managers animés de la volonté de peser sur le cours des événements. Elle nous vient d'un de ces pays dits "émergents", pays qui ouvrent des voies nouvelles, y compris dans le management, jusqu'ici dominé par des standards anglo-saxons.
05/2014
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
