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Languages : en
Pages : 1214

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Author: Brian Nelson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827278
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Emile Zola is a towering literary figure of the nineteenth century. His main literary achievement was his twenty-volume novel cycle, Les Rougon-Macquart (1870–93). In this series he combines a novelist's skills with those of the investigative journalist to examine the social, sexual and moral landscape of the late nineteenth century in a way that scandalized bourgeois society. In 1898 Zola crowned his literary career with a political act, his famous open letter ('J'accuse...!') to the President of the French Republic in defence of Alfred Dreyfus. The essays in this volume offer readings of individual novels as well as analyses of Zola's originality, his representation of society, sexuality and gender, his relations with the painters of his time, his narrative art, and his role in the Dreyfus Affair. The Companion also includes a chronology, detailed summaries of all of Zola's novels, suggestions for further reading, and information about specialist resources.

Author: Brian Nelson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349060976
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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Author: Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956558125
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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One day, Mama Ngonsu told her son: "Normally, a child grew up and stayed around to help his parents. The world has changed, and things are no longer as they used to be. Things must not be normal all the time, otherwise life would not be life." When Emmanuel Kwanga gets a University scholarship, he travels from the lake and hills of Abehema to the Great City. Everyone in the village has invested in him their hopes for the good life. When the life they've imagined is cut short by the University guillotine, Emmanuel Kwanga must struggle to make sense of what the good life means - for himself and for Abehema - in a world where things are no longer as they used to be. This novel is about coming of age and coming to terms in Mimboland. It is also about the fragility of life and the strength of the human spirit. The filth and screaming splendor of the city and the perplexed tranquility of the village are juxtaposed, as the tension and conviviality between tradition and modernity are lived and explored. Roads and drivers, dreams and public transport link different geographies. Faltering along or speeding away, these spaces of risk, frustration and solidarity are filled with popular songs as vehicles for understanding events and relationships. With every crossing of the Pont de Maturit the story flows, and its mysteries surge. In this novel, the worlds of the living and the dead intermingle, as do the natural and the supernatural, the visible and the invisible.

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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Author: Emmeline Savart
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291473998
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 221

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Dans le royaume d'Ontalia, où sciences et magie ne font qu'un, la jeune Kalia mène une vie paisible malgré les bouleversements climatiques qui malmènent la population. Mais lorsque ses parents lui offrent un étrange médaillon aux pouvoirs mystérieux, son existence bascule.Alors qu'elle part pour Elégia, la capitale du royaume, afin de retrouver ses véritables parents et de connaître la vérité sur son passé, elle comprend que son destin est bien plus grand qu'elle ne l'aurait cru. Désormais, un lourd fardeau repose sur ses épaules : celui de rétablir l'équilibre du monde.

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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 720

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Author: Daniel CONFLAND
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471704793
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 374

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Ce roman raconte un destin politique de 1985 à...2014.Nice, 1985. Jean Blanquin, participe à un Congrès sur les Sciences de l'Education. Exaspéré par le discours creux d'un psychosociologue médiatisé, il s'en prend au pédant en inventant une Ecole de Léningrad des Sciences de l'Education. Les russes feront de cette créature imaginaire une Ecole mondialement connue. Loin de desservir le héros, l'épisode le mènera de succès en succès, jusqu'au sommet de l'Etat.Blanquin est un Rastignac de circonstances, un surfeur d'évènements fomentés par d'autres et le hasard. Même s'il est capable d'opportunisme. On dira de lui que c'est un suiviste qui s'engage.Mentors et soutiens cachés facilitent l'ascension politique du héros. Les liens occultes et troublants qui les relient se font jour au fil du récit. D'abord, un ministre projette sur lui les désirs qu'il n'a pu assouvir. Les raisons des autres sont du ressort des fils invisibles et mystérieux unissant les êtres.

Author: Carole BARLET
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471696561
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 149

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Jéricho Arïbah est passé par des moments gris. Il a toujours gardé a l'esprit que la vie, c'est aider et aimer son prochain comme soi-même. Il possède le privilège d'avoir en lui ces valeurs qui le poussent à donner. Comptons sur la bonne volonté des hommes afin qu'ils gardent toujours un oeil sur la pauvreté de leurs prochains. La prolifération de la détresse ne doit pas s'accentuer sur notre planète, ce monde qui change trop vite oublie parfois l'humain