Author: Assia Djebar
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In this stunning novel, Assia Djebar intertwines the history of her native Algeria with episodes from the life of a young girl in a story stretching from the French conquest in 1830 to the War of Liberation of the 1950s. The girl, growing up in the old Roman coastal town of Cherchel, sees her life in contrast to that of a neighboring French family, and yearns for more than law and tradition allow her to experience. Headstrong and passionate, she escapes from the cloistered life of her family to join her brother in the maquis' fight against French domination. Djebar's exceptional descriptive powers bring to life the experiences of girls and women caught up in the dual struggle for independence - both their own and Algeria's.
Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade
Author: Assia Djebar
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In this stunning novel, Assia Djebar intertwines the history of her native Algeria with episodes from the life of a young girl in a story stretching from the French conquest in 1830 to the War of Liberation of the 1950s. The girl, growing up in the old Roman coastal town of Cherchel, sees her life in contrast to that of a neighboring French family, and yearns for more than law and tradition allow her to experience. Headstrong and passionate, she escapes from the cloistered life of her family to join her brother in the maquis' fight against French domination. Djebar's exceptional descriptive powers bring to life the experiences of girls and women caught up in the dual struggle for independence - both their own and Algeria's.
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In this stunning novel, Assia Djebar intertwines the history of her native Algeria with episodes from the life of a young girl in a story stretching from the French conquest in 1830 to the War of Liberation of the 1950s. The girl, growing up in the old Roman coastal town of Cherchel, sees her life in contrast to that of a neighboring French family, and yearns for more than law and tradition allow her to experience. Headstrong and passionate, she escapes from the cloistered life of her family to join her brother in the maquis' fight against French domination. Djebar's exceptional descriptive powers bring to life the experiences of girls and women caught up in the dual struggle for independence - both their own and Algeria's.
In Praise of Love
Author: Alain Badiou
Publisher: New Press/ORIM
ISBN: 1595588892
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The renowned French philosopher’s “ode to love’s power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain” (Publishers Weekly). In a world rife with consumerism, where online dating promises risk-free romance and love is all too often seen as a mere variant of desire and hedonism, Alain Badiou believes that love is under threat. Taking to heart Rimbaud’s famous line “love needs reinventing,” In Praise of Love is the celebrated French intellectual’s passionate treatise in defense of love. For Badiou, love is an existential project, a constantly unfolding quest for truth. This quest begins with the chance encounter, an event that forever changes two individuals, challenging them “to see the world from the point of view of two rather than one.” This, Badiou believes, is love’s most essential transforming power. Through thought-provoking dialogue edited from a conversation between Badiou and Truong, a vibrant cast of thinkers are invoked: Kierkegaard, Plato, de Beauvoir, Proust, and more, create a new narrative of love in the face of twenty-first-century modernity. Moving, zealous, and wise, Badiou’s “paean to the anticapitalist, antiessentialist, unifying power of love” urges us not to fear it but to see it as a magnificent undertaking that compels us to explore others and to move away from an obsession with ourselves (Publishers Weekly). “Finally, the cure for the pornographic, utilitarian exchange of favors to which love has been reduced in America. Alain Badiou is our philosopher of love.” —Simon Critchley, author of The Faith of the Faithless
Publisher: New Press/ORIM
ISBN: 1595588892
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The renowned French philosopher’s “ode to love’s power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain” (Publishers Weekly). In a world rife with consumerism, where online dating promises risk-free romance and love is all too often seen as a mere variant of desire and hedonism, Alain Badiou believes that love is under threat. Taking to heart Rimbaud’s famous line “love needs reinventing,” In Praise of Love is the celebrated French intellectual’s passionate treatise in defense of love. For Badiou, love is an existential project, a constantly unfolding quest for truth. This quest begins with the chance encounter, an event that forever changes two individuals, challenging them “to see the world from the point of view of two rather than one.” This, Badiou believes, is love’s most essential transforming power. Through thought-provoking dialogue edited from a conversation between Badiou and Truong, a vibrant cast of thinkers are invoked: Kierkegaard, Plato, de Beauvoir, Proust, and more, create a new narrative of love in the face of twenty-first-century modernity. Moving, zealous, and wise, Badiou’s “paean to the anticapitalist, antiessentialist, unifying power of love” urges us not to fear it but to see it as a magnificent undertaking that compels us to explore others and to move away from an obsession with ourselves (Publishers Weekly). “Finally, the cure for the pornographic, utilitarian exchange of favors to which love has been reduced in America. Alain Badiou is our philosopher of love.” —Simon Critchley, author of The Faith of the Faithless
Dedication de L'Amour
Author: Sarah Margaret Jespersen
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440178461
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Exceptional and moving poetry by someone who has been there.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440178461
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Exceptional and moving poetry by someone who has been there.
The Triumph of Love
Author: Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822214151
Category : Disguise
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
THE STORY: Princes Leonide, in disguise, arrives in the garden of the philosopher, Hermocrate. She has come to try and win some time in his retreat for she has fallen in love, from afar, with Hermocrate's student, Agis, who is the legitimate prin
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822214151
Category : Disguise
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
THE STORY: Princes Leonide, in disguise, arrives in the garden of the philosopher, Hermocrate. She has come to try and win some time in his retreat for she has fallen in love, from afar, with Hermocrate's student, Agis, who is the legitimate prin
MY HAN ou la QUÊTE DE L'AMOUR
Author: My Han, Martine GEORGES
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291080678
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
MY HAN, Martine GEORGES, n e au Vietnam en 1963, a travers la vie sur un chemin parsem de drames et de d sillusions. En tentant d' chapper ce monde hostile elle s'est perdue dans l'alcoolo-d pendance. Prisonni re de cette "cage," elle y a tout perdu. En retrouvant l'Amour, elle est sortie de la cage et s'est envol e pleine de confiance et d'esp rance. Un drame a mis fin son envol. Elle a rejoint Tyr na nOg, le pays de l' ternelle jeunesse, laissant ceux qui restent sur le quai le go t de l'inachev, l'espoir de s'en sortir et la Foi en l'Amour infini...
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291080678
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
MY HAN, Martine GEORGES, n e au Vietnam en 1963, a travers la vie sur un chemin parsem de drames et de d sillusions. En tentant d' chapper ce monde hostile elle s'est perdue dans l'alcoolo-d pendance. Prisonni re de cette "cage," elle y a tout perdu. En retrouvant l'Amour, elle est sortie de la cage et s'est envol e pleine de confiance et d'esp rance. Un drame a mis fin son envol. Elle a rejoint Tyr na nOg, le pays de l' ternelle jeunesse, laissant ceux qui restent sur le quai le go t de l'inachev, l'espoir de s'en sortir et la Foi en l'Amour infini...
The Walking Drum
Author: Louis L'Amour
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553900161
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Louis L’Amour has been best known for his ability to capture the spirit and drama of the authentic American West. Now he guides his readers to an even more distant frontier—the enthralling lands of the twelfth century. Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge, danger, and revenge. Across Europe, over the Russian steppes, and through the Byzantine wonders of Constantinople, Kerbouchard is thrust into the treacheries, passions, violence, and dazzling wonders of a magnificent time. From castle to slave galley, from sword-racked battlefields to a princess’s secret chamber, and ultimately, to the impregnable fortress of the Valley of Assassins, The Walking Drum is a powerful adventure in an ancient world that you will find every bit as riveting as Louis L’Amour’s stories of the American West.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553900161
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Louis L’Amour has been best known for his ability to capture the spirit and drama of the authentic American West. Now he guides his readers to an even more distant frontier—the enthralling lands of the twelfth century. Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge, danger, and revenge. Across Europe, over the Russian steppes, and through the Byzantine wonders of Constantinople, Kerbouchard is thrust into the treacheries, passions, violence, and dazzling wonders of a magnificent time. From castle to slave galley, from sword-racked battlefields to a princess’s secret chamber, and ultimately, to the impregnable fortress of the Valley of Assassins, The Walking Drum is a powerful adventure in an ancient world that you will find every bit as riveting as Louis L’Amour’s stories of the American West.
Author:
Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738179894
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738179894
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Catalogue of Rare Books
Author: Ellis (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Publications
Author: Société des anciens textes français
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description