Enigmatik

Alexis Villadiers, Christian Berguenier et Mathias Peligaud, trois hommes politiques haut placés, sont victimes d'un corbeau. La police prend l'affaire en main : qui se cache derrière ces menaces, quel est le lien entre les hommes, quel est ce secret inavouable qu'ils dissimulent sans aucun doute ? Parallèlement à cette enquête, Goody, jeune migrant afghan, survit dans un quartier dans lequel sévit un violent réseau de prostitution. Ne supportant plus la maltraitance des femmes, il s'improvise justicier. Enfin, Debbie entretient une relation épistolaire avec un certain Grégory, qui la mène dangereusement vers un point de bascule dont elle ne reviendra pas. Ces trois intrigues qui cohabitent reposent sur un lien énigmatique, un suspens en équilibre, entre fiction et réalité, entre puissance et insignifiance, entre révolte et acceptation.

Enigmatic for many years, cosmic rays are now known to be not rays at all, but particles, the nuclei of atoms, raining down continually on the earth, where they can be detected throughout the atmosphere and sometimes even thousands of feet underground. This book tells the long-running detective story behind the discovery and study of cosmic rays, a story that stretches from the early days of subatomic particle physics in the 1890s to the frontiers of high-energy astrophysics today.

Some mysterious graffiti on the walls of the Castillet, a crowned reptile in Saint Jean Cathedral, the Campo Santo defiled : these are some of the bizarre clues in Lieutenant Dominique d'Astié's latest investigation. Is there a link between their symbolism, the enigmatic poems strewn all over the streets of Perpignan and the bloody assassination of "King Arthur Pendragon" ? The young Parisian police officer, newest member of La Police Judiciaire de Perpignan, will need to brush up on the old Arthurian legends if she is to solve this very non-Catalan murder !

Une balade estivale sur le littoral Bas-Normand dans la Manche, à la découverte de la côte, des plages, des pointes, des endroits sympas loin de la foule. Saint-Jean-le-Thomas, paradis de la pêche à pied dans la baie du Mont-Saint-Michel ; l'énigmatique vallée du Lude, Carolles, Saint-Pair-sur-Mer, l'embouchure du Thar, Granville, Donville-les-Bains, Saint-Martin-de-Bréhal. Pour le plaisir des sorties iodées en bord de mer . A summer walk on the Normandy coast in the Manche department, discovering the beaches, the nice places away from the crowd. Saint-Jean-le-Thomas, paradise of fishing on foot in the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel ; the enigmatic Lude valley, Carolles, Saint-Pair-sur-Mer, the mouth of Thar river, Granville, Donville-les-Bains, Saint-Martin-de-Bréhal. For the pleasures of iodinated walks by the sea.

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).

This important book presents the work of the fascinating and singular artist Luigi Pericle (1916-2001). Pericle was a painter, illustrator and scholar, as well as a leading figure in the story of art in the second half of the twentieth century. The artist initially found fame as an illustrator, gaining widespread renown in the 1950s as the inventor of the character Max the Marmot. But his intense, enigmatic and multi-layered paintings increasingly drew the attention of the art world, with works that reflect his personal, metaphysical take on post-war abstraction exhibited at numerous venues in Britain during the 1960s. Pericle then abruptly retreated from the art system, and for the rest of his life continued to paint, write and to study esoteric philosophy in the secluded house he shared with his wife Orsolina on Monte Verit in the Ticino region of Switzerland. The artist's work was dramatically rediscovered in 2016 when the contents of his former residence were revealed. The process of restoring, cataloguing and researching his vast oeuvre is ongoing, and is overseen by Ascona's Archivio Luigi Pericle, with which the exhibition has been organised. This beautifully illustrated publication, which accompanies an exhibition at the Estorick Collection, London, includes a full catalogue of the works, as well as essays by noted scholars.