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Par Frédéric Beigbeder. 2015
" Version complète des entretiens débridés, sincères et cocasses que l'écrivain a menés entre 1999 et 2014 avec ses écrivains…
favoris pour la télévision et la presse écrite, Michel Houellebecq, James Salter, Bret Easton Ellis, Tom Wolfe et Jean d'Ormesson. "Par Alain Baraton. 2010
180 chroniques historiques, exotiques ou érotiques, du jardinier de Versailles qui anime une rubrique hebdomadaire sur France Inter, révélent les…
secrets des jardins ainsi que les trucs et les recettes de l'auteur.Par John Ralston Saul. 1997
L'auteur poursuit dans cet ouvrage la réflexion amorcée dans ses deux essais précédents: "Les bâtards de Voltaire" et "Le compagnon…
du doute", dans lesquels il critiquait le pouvoir de la raison et l'esprit technocratique dans les sociétés occidentales. Dans ce troisième livre, qui a reçu le Prix du Gouverneur général 1996, il traite du pouvoir du langage dans les sociétés en crise, il clarifie les notions d'individualisme et de démocratie et dénonce le retour des corporatismes. 1997. Titre uniforme: The unconscious civilization.Par François Cheng. 2016
Par Milan Kundera. 1986
Constitué de conférences, d'articles et d'entretiens, cet essai est centré sur les rapports que Kundera entretient avec ses propres romans…
autant que sur l'art du roman européen en général. Kundera affirme, dans l'avant-propos, qu'il n'a pas la moindre ambition théorique et que son livre est la "confession d'un praticien". De très bons chapitres sur Cervantes, Flaubert, Broch et Kafka. En appendice, l'auteur recense en 71 mots-clés les "difficultés et éblouissements qu'ont occasionnés les traductions de ses livres en de nombreuses langues". 1986.Par Paul Monette. 1994
Ten essays written from August 1992 to New Year's Eve 1993. While "leashed to three separate IV drugs and a…
small mountain of oral medication," AIDS patient Monette wrote as thoughts came to him. Topics include Puck, the dog left by one of his lovers; selecting his own grave site; and the lives of gay priests. Follows "Borrowed time" and "Becoming a man." Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1994.Par Henry David Thoreau, Louis Fabulet. 1922
Par J. M Coetzee. 2007
Si l'on connaît l'oeuvre romanesque de J. M. Coetzee, on oublie trop souvent qu'il est aussi un analyste et un…
essayiste des plus remarquables. Qu'il s'exprime sur la littérature classique (Tolstoï, Rousseau, Dostoïevski), contemporaine (Salman Rushdie, J. L. Borges, Naguib Mahfouz, Joseph Brodsky, Aharon Appelfeld) ou sud-africaine (Doris Lessing, Breyten Breytenbach, Nadine Gordimer), ou sur la genèse de son oeuvre (ses travaux sur Beckett), Coetzee le fait chaque fois avec la même rigueur et la même élégance dans le propos. Les vingt et un essais et entretiens présentés ici offrent une sélection très large de ses interventions critiques les plus importantes et visent à donner une vue d'ensemble du savoir et du savoir-faire de l'auteur. Tous ces textes sont d'une grande intelligence, tantôt érudits, tantôt provocateurs, et révèlent l'intérêt de l'auteur pour l'histoire, la politique, les liens de la littérature avec la culture et la société. 2007.Par Paul Theroux. 2018
A delectable collection of Theroux's recent writing on great places, people, and prose In the spirit of his much-loved Sunrise…
with Seamonsters and Fresh Air Fiend, Paul Theroux's latest collection of essays leads the reader through a dazzling array of sights, characters, and experiences, as Theroux applies his signature searching curiosity to a life lived as much in reading as on the road. This writerly tour-de-force features a satisfyingly varied selection of topics that showcase Theroux's sheer versatility as a writer. Travel essays take us to Ecuador, Zimbabwe, and Hawaii, to name a few. Gems of literary criticism reveal fascinating depth in the work of Henry David Thoreau, Graham Greene, Joseph Conrad, and Hunter Thompson. And in a series of breathtakingly personal profiles, we take a helicopter ride with Elizabeth Taylor, go surfing with Oliver Sacks, eavesdrop on the day-to-day life of a Manhattan dominatrix, and explore New York with Robin Williams. An extended mediation on the craft of writing binds together this wide-ranging collection, along with Theroux's constant quest for the authentic in a person or in a place. 2018. Uniform title: Essays.Par Wendell Berry. 1995
A series of provocative essays espousing the importance of strong communities and local economies. Berry laments the adverse effects on…
community life of such forces as centralized government and the global economy. He offers suggestions for returning to simpler ways. 1995.Par Anne Rivers Siddons. 1975
Personal essays spanning a year in the author's life. She writes of her peculiar response to the evening news, a…
visit to a haunted wintertime beach, a wild--but touching--college reunion, and loving memories of her grandfather. 1975.Par Jorge Carrión. 2017
Jorge Carrión collects bookshops: from Gotham Book Mart and the Strand Bookstore in New York City to City Lights Bookshop…
and Green Apple Books in San Francisco and all the bright spots in between (Prairie Lights, Tattered Cover, and countless others). In this thought-provoking, vivid, and entertaining essay, Carrión meditates on the importance of the bookshop as a cultural and intellectual space. Filled with anecdotes from the histories of some of the famous (and not-so-famous) shops he visits on his travels, thoughtful considerations of challenges faced by bookstores, and fascinating digressions on their political and social impact, 'Bookshops' is both a manifesto and a love letter to these spaces that transform readers' lives. 2017. Uniform title: Librerías.Par M. Nourbese Philip, Marlene Nourbese Philip. 2017
A collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada's most important contemporary writers and thinkers. Through…
an engagement with her earlier work, M. NourbeSe Philip comes to realize the existence of a repetition in the world: the return of something that, while still present, has become unembedded from the world, disappeared. Her imperative becomes to make us see what has gone unseen, by writing memory upon the margin of history, in the shadow of empire and at the frontier of silence. In heretical writings that work to make the disappeared perceptible, "Blank" explores questions of race, the body politic, timeliness, recurrence, ongoingness, art, and the so-called multicultural nation. Through these considerations, Philip creates a linguistic form that registers the presence of what has seemingly dissolved, a form that also imprints the loss and the silence surrounding those disappearances in its very presence. 2017. Uniform title: Essays.Par Salman Rushdie. 1991
The seventy essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects, many dealing with…
India - the literature of the received masters and of Rushdie's contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. 1991.Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul celebrates the magic of gardening - the feeling of satisfaction that comes from creating…
something from nothing; the physical and spiritual renewal gained after a day in the garden; and the special moments spent in nature with friends and family. Written by hobbyists and celebrity gardeners, the stories relate the joys and challenges of gardening, with chapters on Blossoming Friendships, The Family Tree, Love in Bloom, The Seasons of Life, Overcoming Obstacles and Potpourri. 2000.Par Liz Primeau, Ed Primeau Liz. 2004
A tour of gardens across Canada, covering: Small Gardens, Classic Gardens, Perennial Gardens, Family Gardens, and Serenity Gardens. Offers landscape…
designers' strategies for making small spaces look bigger, dark spaces look brighter, and condominium buildings less noticeable. There are also step-by-step instructions for family projects and advice on subjects ranging from growing roses to building a bog. 2004.Par Naben Ruthnum. 2017
Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this essay points out, a dish that doesn't properly exist…
can have infinite, equally authentic variations. By grappling with novels, recipes, travelogues, pop culture, and his own background, Ruthnum depicts how the distinctive taste of curry has often become maladroit shorthand for brown identity. Ruthnum sinks his teeth into the story of how the beloved flavour calcified into an aesthetic genre that limits the imaginations of writers, readers, and eaters. Following in the footsteps of Salman Rushdie's Imaginary Homelands, 'Curry' cracks open anew the staid narrative of an authentically Indian diasporic experience. 2017.Par Des Kennedy. 1994
Par Bronwen Wallace, Joanne Page. 1992
Par Jean McKay. 2001
The exploded view is a diagram which shows how each component of an object relates to the whole, and is…
usually applied to machinery. McKay uses it to explode everything from macaroons to metaphors. In her alphabetical essays she explodes language and her world view, taking a variety of things apart, from babies and crabapples to funerals and acorns, and putting them back together in unexpected ways. Some strong language.