EXTASE (L) ET ERRANCE (L) (Profils dun classique) (French Edition)

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Dans le creuset du vent French Edition. Provide feedback about this page. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime. Get to Know Us. English Choose a language for shopping. During an evening of victory - but at what a price! Autour des yeux, au-dessus des pommettes hautes, des rhizomes de rides profondes. Une fatigue centenaire embrumait le regard du vieux.

Si vous voulez, je peux vous expliquer. With dirty hands but an almost clear mind, he begins to understand that he has been beating up intellectuals, journalists, who never defend themselves. One night, he decides to ask his victim some questions before beating him up; he understands some of it and ends up embarking to Marseille, looking for a veteran from the Algerian War.

The novel turns into a roadmovie, concurrently with the story of a barracks during the dirty war: A d a r k t e x t of incredible force […]. A resounding success and confirmation of a leading author. Hi s hard-hitting and bitter prose competes with a backstory that never excludes reflection or humanity. This is great and very noir art. Le Fruit de vos entrailles [The fruit of your loins] with the publisher Toute Latitude.

In he published his second thriller: Fakirs Suspense novel, pages - Foreign rights: When John Nichols arrives to identify the body of an old friend, he is immediately caught up in the detritus of Alan Musgrave's life, the side of Paris the tourists don't see, where everyone has a past but very few count on a future. Now there's a maverick police lieutenant on the prowl who thinks that Musgrave's suicide was murder.

As the horrific extent of police abuse is revealed, the race is on to find the link between a slew of recent suicides - and the key to it is buried deep in Nichols's past. She is an acknowledged Proust and Yourcenar specialist. She writes Crime novels which give an insight in Literature. Spanish political refugees who arrived in France after the fall of Barcelona in and were dumped in camps, while Neruda chartered a boat, the Winnipeg, helping them to get back to Chili.

One morning, Maria Loncomilla, the unhappy chambermaid, is forced to confront the formidable Villa director to inform her of the disappearance of Celia Martin, one of the guests… Press review: The narrator, diabolically skillful, quite talented in exploring souls and decrypting the twists and turns of history, builds a real suspenseful thriller tinged with a keen irony for the environment she describes and a true tenderness for others.

We warmly recommend this novel as well as all her previous works …. Inspector Foucheroux is called from Paris to investigate. He soon discovers that the victim was as ruthlessly ambitious as the pretentious intellectuals on his list of suspects, and that almost everyone who knew her had a motive to kill.

Commissaire Foucheroux, a regular character in the books of Estelle Monbrun, and federal agent bradford take on the investigation as a team, and uncover the incredible truth of the Yourcenar affair. Funny and cruel, half-way between Agatha Christie and David Lodge.

In he interrupted his studies and enrolled in the White Army. His exile took him to Turkey and then to Paris where he arrived in By night he worked driving taxis and by day he became a fiction-writer. In , he moved to Munich where he worked for Radio Liberty. He died in without ever seeing his country again. In contrast to his literary rival Vladimir Nabokov who, with already a great body of Russian works behind him, switched languages and set about writing in English, Gazdanov himself never took that step. Gazdanov drew inspiration from two sources. French or, more precisely, Paris.

These two currents, whose waters interflow but are always discernible, make up the distinctive character of his work. He must have recognized himself in them. The sequence of events and their consequences are unforeseeable; no one is master of their destiny and only fate decides. But in his novels, more explicitly from The Ghost of Alexander Wolf onwards, we witness a total reversal of existentialist discourse. It is not that Gazdanov rejects its relevance but rather that he decides, given the consequences it engenders, to fight against it.

Of course, chance is always there ready to destroy the best laid plans; but we nevertheless remain entirely responsible for our actions. Night R oa ds, w hich firViviane st Hamy appeared in , is a major work of R ussia n exile Viviane Hamy literature.

Viviane H amy administers the rights for Viviane Hamy it worldwide , with the exception of Poland. At the wheel of his taxi, every night parisiens. Au volant de son taxi, toutes les he follows the labyrinth of streets in the capital and itsil parcourt suburbs, as well as. Un texte hors du commun. Alexandria is the cosmopolitan scene of an abundant time. The Orient in all its splendor meets the Occident in war. We witness the greatness and the decadence of a city and of its inhabitants.

He studied Law at the Athens University. He tra nslat ed severa l g reat aut hors: It is an urban saga layered with a family chronicle and a tableau of all the Diasporas that come together on their way to this anchored Cytherea of the Mediterranean. Mira Popovic tells us stories of her childhood, love stories, and pure fantasies which take a different view of the everyday. This collection vigorously unites burlesque, tenderness and humour.

We meet a man fascinated by a pair of subtle grey-black shoes, as well as a pitcher patterned with kitsch flowers and despised by a whole family, which is nevertheless stolen by a thief. There is even an apparently useless key which the author decides to put into her text so as not to throw it away.

She pulls surprisingly bright and enigmatic stories out of their apparent banality. She has worked for ma ny yea rs as a Paris correspondent for the Yugoslav and Serb press. She is published by the best Serbian literary magazines. She was born in and started writing early. Her novels were immediately w i d e ly t r a n s l at e d. When Ettie's husband dies, her daughter Iza insists that her mother give up the family house in the countryside and move to Budapest.

Displaced from her community and her home, Ettie tries to find her place in this new life, but can't seem to get it right. She irritates the maid, hangs food outside the window because she mistrusts the fridge and, in her naivety and loneliness, invites a prostitute in for tea. It is about the meeting of the old-fashioned and the modern worlds and the beliefs we construct over a lifetime. It has altered the way I understand my own life.

Emerence is a servant, generous as only a queen without a kingdom can be. Naturally unselfish, she is deeply preoccupied by every living thing around her, but she has a strong nature and keeps her flat as a sanctuary where no one ever enters. The mistress is an intellectual, awkward with everyday things and basic feelings. They share their universe amidst tension and misunderstanding, and their relationship smoothly turns upside down, until it reaches crisis point.

Eszter is a famous actress. Her poor and frustrating childhood suddenly resurfaces the day she discovers that Angelina, the perfect little girl from her village, has married the man she loved. In the form of confiding in the man, she recounts the moments when she had to earn a few pennies everyday. She also tells of the jealousy that haunts her: Angelina had everything, including a fawn given to entretain her Eszter will destroy this perfect little world just like the war destroyed her world. And years later, when they meet again, the same jealousy takes over her.

A lively depiction of Hungarian society during the interwar years. Katalin Street was the place, the time of happiness, the space of love. It was before the war, in Budapest. The children played together and all the girls were in love with Balint. The war did not succeed in breaking this harmony, and even though the Helds were deported, fragile Henriette continued to live with the others — hidden in the attic.

Until the unfortunate day when a soldier flushed her out. It is a reconstitution, a profound rewriting, but also a modern interpretation. One of the bastions of her universe was imagination: In short chapters, she narrates her findings, her disappointments, and her sweet and tender life: Kortars Hungary rights sold to Germany Klett-Cotta In the 10th century, in central Europe, a monk is sent as a secret emissary of the pope. He must convince the Magyars to form an alliance with the pope, while Byzantium on one side and the Emperor Oton on the other divide up the Carpathian Basin territories.

A n epic por trait of th e days of knights and plots between princes and popes… A genuine rite-of-passage adventure novel. He is obviously being taken for a descendant of a prince, the Kunde, who, according to the ancient order, was linked to the Ancestor-God and incarnated religious power. At first reluctantly, Stephanus slips into his new identity, letting himself be convinced to abandon his initial mission and reestablish the ancient order. But a mystery surrounds him: Could it possibly be that he is indeed the Kunde? An historical tale with a clear message: His country is disintegrating, and there are unmistakable signs of decay in the army as well.

Shortly before his discharge, he is sent to a fortress in the mountains. Cut off from the outside world, nothing appears as it should be: G e r m a n y K l e t t - C o t ta - Ita ly Nottetempo The Garden Of Diogenes Novel, pages - The narrator of this novel clearly autobiographical abandons his country ripped apart by civil war and goes to the neighboring country. However, the uprooted feeling creates a heavy atmosphere around him.

He lives from hand to mouth and takes refuge in the wait and inactivity. He is torn between two worlds: The narrator hesitates, but when he realizes that he is no longer able to integrate into society, that his marriage is a failure, he joins Diogenes, with his car cemetery and his strange stories. Some of these memoirs are poetic anf funny; others, more realistic and sharp. A voice that desserves to be heard The two men, seemingly far apart, become the best of friends.

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The independent spirit runs through his works and still causes intense controversy: His writing testif ies of the ideas of these times, of the political problems colonialism, wars, etc.. Families, animals, furniture — everything is on the road. Witness to this strange and wild caravan, he is at the heart VH 9: Essential to those who wish to understand the concrete meaning of an occupied country. Le t Prince en enfer. Souvenirs, drawings, notes, letters A deep and intimate friendship told with a lot of decency, and a few words.

These notes taken at the time of the war, completely rough, give this journal an invaluable perspective on a secret place of power, relatively unknown to the general public. Out of the question for her to judge or to denounce. Her account speaks crudely and simply of the daily life of these men. At no moment do anger or dangerous pity rise to the surface. He escaped the mass murder of Hungarian Jews, and then fled Communism in He came back for the first time to Budapest in , but felt nothing. Once he comes back from his trip, the old Budapest emerges from him.

A novel of real-life, this book is also the history of the 20th French century up to May, What would he say to us? What could that sound of wheezing possibly be which little Alix can hear in the middle of the night, in the Illiers household? And there, sitting on the floor, she comes across a little boy who seems to have come straight out of the Belle Epoque and who is having trouble breathing.

On his lap is an open book. Bravely, Alix begins to talk to him. Mainly fell within the Art Performance, her artistic research negotiates with the borders of the expression fields. She strongly emphasises on the physical investment owing to her will of letting her porous to the use of a predilection discipline. The body becomes the cenesthesic vector of the act. Rachel Echenberg — Canada — Edition Rachel Echenberg is a multidisciplinary art performer; she is a part of the Collective of performance Play Group.

She has been program associate, invited to an event of the 5th instance of the Month of the performance at La Centrale in December I always have been attracted by the long duration actions which tend toward a slow conceptual and physical transformation. An offering to a divinity given in fulfilment of a vow or in gratitude from a vow obtained.

It was created jointly by Pablo Volo and Manuel Pons in The first one is actor, photographer and art performer, and the second one is stage director and actor. At the same time as the festival, he organises training. The programme includes quotidian trainings, personal work based on one picture.

This training fall within the European framework of the project Circonnection Art Street , started in According to him, the poetry of each intervention has to match with the political aspect that he underlies. In , he received the prize of the best staging for its presentation at the 24th International Festival of Lomza in Poland. They create poetic and abstract images, drawing on concrete social positions as their source. They bring about reflection think about the state of the world and the tradition of foolishness in which we are anchored. He needs to invent quite fun devices that allow the audience to step into an artistic action, to perform and to contribute in his quest for Freedom, Equality, and Fraternity.

The exchange and the relation with the other are at the centre of his performances. He is trying to create a link and lead the public, the passers-by to a collective action. His main wish is to perform with marginal population, to create a recapture process of the public areas through a collective action in the city. Her work is usually conceived as a process of interaction with an audience that Fojtuch often puts in uncomfortable or embarrassing situations. He is stage director accompanying the actors and actresses, sometimes actor himself.

Together, they wish go out of the usual spaces and timetables of performance, in a work of research with which the speech, the text and the danced movement are reconciled. Through his works, he continuously experiments different artistic techniques: The attention to the gesture, as expressive fundamental component, deeply marks the work of the performer.

This is about the poetry of the sound, of a sound event as artistic object, where text, music and voice are closely related. Lucille Pradier This duo of artists, born in , keeps using a kitsch style and explores the video art and the performance. How to consider the FU? How Marseille will welcome this new currency? The main part of his job is based on the rewriting and the reinterpretation of classic texts and biographies. Garcia Miguel is characterized by his taste for the risk, his provocation, his desire to go through the artistic limits.

Domix Garrido — Spain — Edition The influence that the migratory cultures produce on the citizen is remarkable. A research in the field to capture the energy existing with the desires, the hopes, the aspirations of these who are in quest, emigrate and accept a travel to the unknown. The aim of this action is to consider from a transcultural point of view, inside an urban environment, the different reactions in front of a stranger who bear simple stones in his heavy baggage and invites us to feel and to look back with only one word, on the influence of this element on our life.

Creator and researcher in performance; his performances explore the links between the socio-politics and the private. If the society has been built by the human being, how can we take on the balance between the vital consciousness and the social system? Why do we sometimes lose our identity? Influenced by the Fura del Baus , he essentially dedicates himself to the performance. Miguel Angel Gil, also plastic and art performer, makes effort to highlight the paradoxes of our postmodern society with an essential purpose: While turning containers of selective sorting into confessional, they denounce the antagonism between moral hygiene and the business as well as the recycling policies.

They invite the public to purify itself of its sins in the rubbish urn. I have the intent to present this play in a public garden planted with trees, where people gathers. In this situation, questions are asked: How can I communicate with the birds? Which are our common interests? What advantage can I take of it? What can I teach them? What about advice concerning the birds security, the new migratory routes, the aerodynamic laws?

Lucille Pradier He was a multimedia artist. His work was similar to multimedia compositions in which were gathered techniques which belong to very various types. Peter Grzybowski created multimedia installation performances in which he mixed different contemporary techniques: His performances were inspired by the new media and the computer technology.

Their content was usually inspired by phenomenon and events which take place around us, occasionally at the politics or social level, whatever it was in the everyday life or in a historical context. Each of their projects is thought in a global way, linked with the esthetical aspirations as much as ethical aspirations of the different members.

At these time of crisis, those performers offer to the spectators a time off inviting them to the dream, last rampart of utopia. In Sleeping resistance pattern, they get the public to sleep with tales. These times of afternoon nap are designed to last just long enough to let you lull by the dreams the most subversive. Lucille Pradier Multidisciplinary artist, Dominique Herma is fond of transversal projects with artist coming from different worlds. Its action takes place in two times. The first step is about crossing the installation performance with the writing of a scenario for the street, including the public in the resistance against the video surveillance.

He comes up with an idea or a subject then distributes all the components in a space, connects them to the time, the body and the performance can begin. He often includes autobiographical references while leaving an opening to luck and improvisation. For the festival, he presents Tabula Rasa which means clean sweep, in other words start over. It is a way, for the artist to offer an experience and in the same time, a re-birth. In the urban area performance Signs , he bothers the points of view, the usual processes and let some signs that people can read into, modify or remove.

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In the inside performance Noise , he engages in a show in the urban area and expresses it with sounds and noises. Jeff Huckleberry — United States — Edition The artist inspires himself from his family environment and objects which have marked his childhood and his everyday life, a close relationship between the questions relative to the life, broadcast, appearances and death concepts. With the cutting, the planning and the assembly of the wood, the artist reveals the action of the work: Tribune by Jean-Georges Tartare.

He realized hundreds of performances and published four books of experimental poetry. He is co-organiser of the Performance Festival of Kosice. Losing spaces offers a loss of space references. Have a lunch is an urban staging, the artist choose 12 women within the public and invites them to a bit particular banquet.

After philosophy and history studies, he turned towards the video art, the performance and the theatre. Non revolutionary cities is an activist and participative project which explores the civil disobedience. Un langage universel sur le fil du temps. Her work is overall focused on the Woman and the feminine body. At the heart of her work, 3 main topics: Anne Carles Since almost fifteen years, Istvan Kovacs, Hungarian artist, has been practicing the performance with all the poetry that it needs to. The flesh becomes then support of resistance. Their performances are interactive: With a subtle game of interventions, Remote Citizen opens a breach in the space-time from where emerges a strange or funny little temporary movement.

The project consists in forecasting the mechanics of the attitudes, gestures, movements and habits on the public areas. With Instant Urban Remote Performance , be a part of an experience which mangles our space-time perception to better transport us in another Marseille, a parallel Marseille, an unsuspected Marseille.

As soon as she arrived in Paris in , she offered her first installation to innovative artistic events and participated as dancer and performer for other artists. In , she showed her first video-dance creation Bas-Haut-Bas , at the Alvin Room Contemporary Arts Festival, in which has appeared her main concerns, the human condition of the modern world. First inspired by the minimalist style, later he took a drastic turning point; his music has become more chaotic and aggressive. He is interested in the relation between performances and documents about space and time, situation and action, ephemeral events and how they are related.

This interest has grown in him soon, while the experimental activities of a group he founded Vaasa Palaa — Very soon, he took as habits to make speak the walls of the city.

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Brownfields, ruined buildings and other disused territories are his areas of predilection as graffiti artist. He was recycling a petrol station in art shop. He knew the city is a political space and he must not forget his poetic dimension. At this time, when the poor housing face up to the luxurious sites of Marseille, his Abris furtifs project appears as an installation of communal tents on a scaffolding along a wall of the Friche la Belle de Mai.

These shelters are taken over by the performers of the festival. In the name of its obvious relation to the body, the performance act related to the multimedia arts imposed themselves on me as being really suitable medium to question these subjects. It comes from a series of performances in which the eggs are in the same time the material, the matter and the symbol of its original creation, 97 invites to explore the limits of the social life. The egg is here the symbol of the exploitation of the animal world by the humans modelled on the industrialization and the intensive farming.