Author: Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Author: Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
The Collected Poetry
Author: Aime CesairePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520053206
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The surrealist poetry of the noted Martinican author, Aime Cesaire, portrays Africa's fight for freedom from colonialism.
The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire
Author: Aimé CésairePublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819577510
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 991
Book Description
The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire gathers all of Cesaire's celebrated verse into one bilingual edition. The French portion is comprised of newly established first editions of Césaire's poetic ouvre made available in French in 2014 under the title Poésie, Théâtre, Essais et Discours, edited by A. J. Arnold and an international team of specialists. To prepare the English translations, the translators started afresh from this French edition. Included here are translations of first editions of the poet's early work, prior to political interventions in the texts after 1955, revealing a new understanding of Cesaire's aesthetic and political trajectory. A truly comprehensive picture of Cesaire's poetry and poetics is made possible thanks to a thorough set of notes covering variants, historical and cultural references, and recurring figures and structures, a scholarly introduction and a glossary. This book provides a new cornerstone for readers and scholars in 20th century poetry, African diasporic literature, and postcolonial studies.
Entangled
Author: Cat ClarkePublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0857382063
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Real, compulsive and intense: Cat Clarke is the queen of emotional suspense. For fans of Paula Hawkins, Gillian Flynn, Megan Abbott and Jandy Nelson. Seventeen-year-old Grace wakes up in a white room, with table, pens and paper - and no clue how she got there. As Grace starts writing, pouring her tangled life onto the page, she is forced to remember everything she's tried to forget: falling hopelessly in love with Nat, and the unravelling of her friendship with her best mate Sal. But there's something missing. As hard as she's trying to remember, is there something she just can't see? Grace must face the most important question of all. Why is she here? A compulsive thriller of dangerous secrets, intense friendships and electrifying attraction.
Les trois imams
Author: Paul DOOZPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291863362
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Paul Dooz, dont on sait seulement qu'il a étudié et travaillé avec différents ressortissants étrangers, est resté très marqué par la période noire du terrorisme dans les années 1985-1986. Lorsque l'imam Jimenoz, chef du Mollaland, prononce la sentence qui condamne l'auteur d'un essai controversé sur le climat de son pays, les services anti-terroristes français sont sur les dents. Pour parvenir jusqu'à l'auteur, l'ambassade du Mollaland décide alors de recruter trois malfrats charentais.Déjouant les pronostics, ces trois pieds nickelés vont gagner la confiance de Rosanna, la fille de l'éditeur, au point d'occuper son domicile avec l'aide d'un oncle farfelu et d'une brochette de cousines délurées.Mais la situation de complique fortement : si l'ambassadeur du Mollaland en France sabote secrètement les efforts de ses compatriotes pour appliquer la sentence, la maison d'édition va être rachetée par un prête-nom, qui aura ainsi les mains libres pour trouver l'auteur abhorré.
The Idea of Perfection
Author: Paul ValéryPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374713952
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A fresh look into the monumental work of Paul Valéry, one of the major French literary figures of the twentieth century. Heir to Mallarmé and the symbolists, godfather to the modernists, Paul Valéry was a poet with thousands of readers and few followers, great resonance and little echo. Along with Rilke and Eliot, he stands as a bridge between the tradition of the nineteenth century and the novelty of the twentieth. His reputation as a poet rests on three slim volumes published in a span of only ten years. Yet these poems, it turns out, are inseparable from another, much vaster intellectual and artistic enterprise: the Notebooks. Behind the published works, behind the uneventful life of the almost forgotten and then exceedingly famous poet, there hides another story, a private life of the mind, that has its record in 28,000 pages of notes revealed in their entirety only after his death. Their existence had been hinted at, evoked in rumors and literary asides; but once made public it took years for their significance to be fully appreciated. It turned out that the prose fragments published in Valéry’s lifetime were not the after-the-fact musings of an accomplished poet, nor his occasional sketchbook, nor excerpts from his private journal. They were a disfigured glimpse of a vast and fragmentary “exercise of thought,” a restless intellectual quest as unguided and yet as persistent, as rigorous, and as uncontainable as the sea that is so often their subject. The Idea of Perfection shows both sides of Valéry: the craftsman of sublimely refined verse, and the fervent investigator of the limits of human intellect and expression. It intersperses his three essential poetic works—Album of Early Verse, The Young Fate, and Charms—with incisive selections from the Notebooks and finishes with the prose poem “The Angel.” Masterfully translated by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody, with careful attention to form and a natural yet metrical contemporary poetic voice, The Idea of Perfection breathes new life into poems that are among the most beautiful in the French language and the most influential of the twentieth century.
Le Tumulte Noir
Author: Jody BlakePublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271017532
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Jody Blake demonstrates in this book that although the impact of African-American music and dance in France was constant from 1900 to 1930, it was not unchanging. This was due in part to the stylistic development and diversity of African-American music and dance, from the prewar cakewalk and ragtime to the postwar Charleston and jazz. Successive groups of modernists, beginning with the Matisse and Picasso circle in the 1900s and concluding with the Surrealists and Purists in the 1920s, constructed different versions of la musique and la danse negre. Manifested in creative and critical works, these responses to African-American music and dance reflected the modernists' varying artistic agendas and historical climates.
Using French Vocabulary
Author: Jean H. DuffyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107494028
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 767
Book Description
This textbook provides a comprehensive and structured vocabulary for all levels of undergraduate French courses, including relevant higher and further education courses. It offers a broad coverage of concrete and abstract vocabulary relating to the physical, cultural, social, commercial and political environment, as well as exposure to commonly encountered technical terminology. Within each section, words and phrases have been grouped into manageable, assimilable units and broadly 'graded' according to likely usefulness and difficulty. The accompanying exercises for private study and classroom use are designed to reinforce the work done on lists, to develop good dictionary use, to encourage independent and collaborative learning, to promote precision and awareness of nuance and register, and to offer the opportunity for the development of cognate transferable skills, such as communicative competence, teamwork and problem-solving. The division of the book into twenty thematic sections allows it to be easily integrated into a modular course structure.
La belle ogresse
Author: Joëlle PétillotPublisher: Bouquineo
ISBN: 2313001768
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Dans ce cabinet de psychologie atypique, une vieille dame vient se faire aider pour surmonter l'absence d'un chat fugueur, un jeune garçon trouve tout naturel de venir raconter les rêves de son père, une amazone amputée d'un sein déboule, guidée par un chauffeur de taxi tombé raide amoureux de son visage aperçu dans le rétroviseur... Les vies plus ou moins blessées s'entremêlent, et Louise, la belle et plantureuse secrétaire règne sur ce ballet de dits et de non-dits avec une arme redoutable contre l'angoisse des uns ou la supposée inaptitude au bonheur des autres : la gourmandise. Les odeurs de caramel et de vanille, d'orange et de chocolat interviennent de manière on ne peut plus terrienne pour l'apaisement. Et les deux psys, sensés prendre des notes d'un ton grave, en sont vite conscients. À travailler tels des sculpteurs cette pâte humaine de façon pour le moins inattendue, ils vont se trouver en situation d'exercer une discipline trop méconnue de leurs pairs : la psychologie épicurienne.
Inspiration : Comme un souffle de vie.
Author: Pauline NormanPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471690121
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 114
Book Description
