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The man who had just crossed the frontier without the police knowing, on that 23rd of July, , was a dead man. Dead to threats, blackmail, little schemes. A dead man who will make love before 8 days would come to a close. While exiled in Switzerland, Gustave Courbet gave himself to the great pleasures of life: One is bewitched by the freedom of this body, whose wake untangles the lanes of the borough, of this big belly which slowly parts waters, valleys and woods.
When he was painting, Courbet would plunge his face in nature, his eyes, his lips, his nose, both his hands, at the risk of going astray, but most of all of being dazzled, uplifted, freed from himself. This period is usually summed up in two facts —Courbet stops painting and he kills himself with drinking — but there is a much longer story to tell. This secret, tested in the fire of la Commune de Paris, is the contagious joy of a man who is the master of himself. David Bosc was born in in Carcassonne, south of France.
He lives and works in Switzerland where he works as an editor. Around 10, copies of La Claire fontaine were sold in France and francophone territories thus far. Beirut, Marsad neighborhood, Khattar is a Christian notable whose family is in the marble industry. This elopement is bad news for him since he is obsessed with the transmission of his patrimony. The kidnapping comes to a sudden end after the two lovers try to marry secretly. Forced to turn out Hamid, Khattar watches the world around him slowly change: Lebanon sinks deep into war, between and the end of the s.
Isolated, abandoned by his family, the last lord of Marsad is at the heart of the convulsions of a country given over to militia and chaos. The wind of History blows through this romanesque fresco which is also a fable on the vanity of strength and power.
On the outskirts of a burgeoning town that all trails lead to, a fresh breath is blowing over the inhospitable prairies of the Far West. That breath belongs to Water-Running-Over-the-Plains, a young Indian woman whose clan was decimated and who has been using her skills as a healer for the good of both Whites and Indians ever since. She will meet plenty of people: And plenty of other characters whose singular fates, like the entwined strands of a colorful skein of wool, are woven into a boldly revisited Western tale in which that mythically untamed American landscape becomes a shared, still-permeable space open to all sorts of trafficking, transits and wanderings.
All of her books have been critically acclaimed for their demanding style and their narrative virtuosity.
She is seen as one of the most unusual voices in contemporary literature. The novel describes the paths of two young men who have come from France to fight the Serbs. The first is named Joss Moskowski, known as Mosko.
The son of Polish communist immigrants, he meets at University a Muslim fellow student who will set him on the path of Islam. When the conflict breaks out in Yugoslavia, he joins the mujahidin who are firmly determined to save their Bosniac brothers. The son of Yugoslav immigrants, he arrived in a housing project of the suburbs of Rouen Normandy as a teenager. With no hope for a professional future, he joins the Foreign Legion where he meets other ex-Yugoslavs and becomes a disciplined and effective soldier. When the war begins, he decides to go to Bosnia to fight the Serbs.
And so he encounters Mosko…. The Road of Salvation casts an in-depth and sincere light upon political commitment and faith, on military virtues and their limits, and on the rise of nationalism in recent European history. A man is investigating what has happened to a woman, the mother of his young child, whom he once loved passionately.
As the novel begins, he has just received a phone-call informing him that she has been found dead, naked, on a beach, presumably drowned, in a faraway country somewhere in the gulf. She was an artist, and her name was Paz.
Judith Perrignon , Les Faibles et les forts, Stock, Fiction, August , pages The man who had just crossed the frontier without the police knowing, on that 23rd of July, , was a dead man. The author, novelist and translator Laura Alcoba, lived in Argentina until the age of ten. This distinctive panel is intended to verify the judicial, legal, and scientific importance of the text while offering a fresh non-literary and subjective look at works of fiction. So we decided to narrow the scope and focus on the best-selling awards. Fiction, August , pages Bosnia,
She was solar, incredibly gifted… and suffocating in old Europe. From the treasures of old Europe to the megalopolises of the new world, the marble of museums to the sand of sensuous banks where one is cleansed of all, Plonger explores the itinerary of a heroine of our times, in quest of liberty, meaning, and purity in an increasingly stifling world.
Journalist and writer, Christophe Ono-dit-Biot was born in Jan , pages. Stanley North teaches philosophy at a well-endowed university. As a widower, he leads a sad and solitary life. But one morning, he is picked up by the police, who accuse him of having downloaded images from a pedophile site on his computer.
Everyone remembers a word, a gesture, transformed into proof of the charges in light of the terrible accusation. Even the innocent photo of his niece taken at the beach, found in his library, leads to dreadful suppositions. And the awful chain of events has only just been set in motion This first novel is brilliantly written, the author knows how to perfectly plot successive developments that lead the hero to his fall. Alexandre Postel meticulously describes the farce of social conventions, the affable masks that hide power, jealousy, and the desire to harm.
Palladium by Boris Razon Stock , nominated for the three Goncourt awards.
August , pages. Late Middle English word derived via Latin from the Greek palladion , denoting an image of the goddess Pallas Athene , on which the safety of Troy was believed to depend. The story of a man who, in the space of a few days and for no obvious reason, ends up paralysed from head to toe, unable to move a single muscle, robbed of all his senses and any means of communication with the outside world. Then began a journey through the furthest reaches of human existence, territories ruled over by fear, violence, death, pain and sex… because illness is like stepping through the looking glass, a gateway to other worlds, a place of prostitutes and demons, of men living like vegetables with bodies like birds, of nurses and firework makers thrown together in a whirlwind of hate and debauchery.
A manic, terrifying world: Palladium is my account of this crossing, an expedition to the land of the dead and through the subconscious.
Palladium delves into the very roots of pain and literature, to a place where our life force itself is huddled alongside the myriad different stories it has to tell. Boris Razon is He studied history before embarking on a career in journalism. He was editor of monde. A plea for posterity.
The confrontation between politicians and writers has been a feature of Chinese civilization since time immemorial; above and beyond revolutions and regime changes, it grants depth and mystery to Chinese culture. A young academic writer who is close to the powers-that-be, the narrator took part in this reform, and he tells his tale. By this time, he has been marginalized for 20 years: He now lives a solitary life, besieged by his dream of being rediscovered and recognized as a secretive but extraordinary player in the Cultural Revolution, a period that even now, Chinese historiography tends to avoid.
He currently devotes his time to writing fiction, philosophy, translation. In San Francisco, Richard B.
Her father, Kaze, who lives in Japan, has left without a trace and she would like Richard B. How can one disappear so easily? And for what reason? Out of love for Yukiko, Richard B. From the poor working-class neighbourhood of San'ya, Tokyo to the refugee and work camps around Sendai, we follow four parallel stories, that of Richard B.
It evokes modern Japan, Fukushima and the Yakuzas, but also the mystery that we may represent for one another, the experience of heartbreak and our wish, at times, to take flight. Born in , Thomas B Reverdy is the author of four novels: The story takes place during the s in Marsovie, at the borders of Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. The novel tells the tale of two friends, Alexandre de Rocoule, proprietor of the luxurious Hotel Arden , and Salomon Lengyel, a serious and solitary Jewish tailor. An insightful look at the long-lasting effects of the Algerian war on its veterans The Wound , by Laurent Mauvignier, transl.
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The most handsomely illustrated introduction to a classical hero Orpheus in the Underwold , by Yvan Pommaux, transl.