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Mémoires insolites (Biographie)
Par Prince of Greece Michel. 2005
Leslie Stephen: the Godless Victorian
Par Noel Gilroy Annan. 1984
Focuses on Stephen as exemplar of the age of Evangelical morality and Victorian rationalism. Stephen was a clergyman turned agnostic,…
and also a mathematician whose life work was in history, philosophy and literary criticism. 1984.The Ratzinger report: an exclusive interview on the state of the Church
Par Pope Benedict, Vittorio Messori. 1985
An interview between then-Cardinal Ratzinger and writer Vittorio Messori, discussing the roots of the crisis that has troubled Catholics in…
the years since the Council of the 1960's. A report on the dangers that threaten the faith, as well as of Ratzinger's common themes: the Eucharist at the heart of the faith, the commitment to the reconstitution of unity among Christians, the centrality of liturgy, and the proclamation of Christ to the entire world. 1985. Uniform title: Rapporto sulla fede.Time remembered
Par Miss. Read. 1986
Miss Read's second book of memoirs begins when, at the age of seven, she was transported to Chelsfield in Kent.…
It was a magical new world and she recalls with affection the three happy years she spent at the local village school. It was here that she resolved never to return to the suburbs, and her memories of that time were later woven into her novels about Thrush Green and Fairacre. Sequel to "Fortunate grandchild". 1986.Lev and Sonya: the story of the Tolstoy marriage
Par Louise Smoluchowski, Leo Tolstoy. 1987
Dramatizes the 48-year union of writer Leo and his wife, Sonya. The marriage is portrayed as happy for 15 years…
until Leo suffered a deep depression and turned to a repressive moral discipline. c1987.Las genealogías
Par Margo Glantz. 2019
"At the heart of this brilliant and colourful Mexican novel lies the search for a family history. Using ancestral recollections,…
flashbacks through history, and personal memory, the author traces her family roots from pre-Revolutionary Russia to contemporary Mexico. Margo Glantz's Mexico is a mysterious world--a cultural carnival where Flash Gordon crosses paths with Columbus: a Mexico of Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky and Frida Kahlo, hijacked by Dracula and King Kong, filled with the aromas of a kosher bakery and the echoes of jokes, some corny, some not." -- GoodreadsLa nuit (Documents)
Par Elie Wiesel. 1999
Ce que j'affirme, c'est que ce témoignage qui vient après tant d'autres et qui décrit une abomination dont nous pourrions…
croire que plus rien ne nous demeure inconnu, est cependant différent, singulier, unique... L'enfant qui nous raconte ici son histoire était un élu de Dieu. Il ne vivait, depuis l'éveil de sa conscience, que pour Dieu, nourri du Talmud, ambitieux d'être initié à la Kabbale, voué à l'Eternel. Avions-nous jamais pensé à cette conséquence d'une horreur moins visible, moins frappante que d'autres abominations, - la pire de toutes, pourtant, pour nous qui possédons la foi : la mort de Dieu dans cette âme d'enfant qui découvre d'un seul coup le mal absolu ?What so proudly we hailed: Francis Scott Key, a life
Par Marc Leepson. 2014
This full-length biography explores the life and legacy of Francis Scott Key, who made his mark as an American icon…
by one single and unforgettable act, writing "The Star-Spangled Banner." AdultLa conquête du cheval: une histoire génétique (Sciences)
Par Ludovic Orlando. 2023
Une histoire des chevaux et du long compagnonnage entre l'homme et cet animal qui lui a offert un moyen de…
parcourir le monde. Le paléogénéticien retrace cette aventure, vieille de 4.200 ans, depuis les steppes de l'ouest de la Russie et de l'Ukraine, montrant la grande diversité de populations de chevaux, leur évolution et leurs déplacements sur la planète au cours des siècles.Goodbye christopher robin: A. a. milne and the making of winnie-the-pooh
Par Ann Thwaite. 2023
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite's Whitbread Award-winning biography of A.…
A. Milne, one of England's most successful writers. After serving in the First World War, Milne wrote a number of well-received plays, but his greatest triumph came when he created Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, and, of course, Christopher Robin, the adventurous little boy based on his own son. Goodbye Christopher Robin inspired the film directed by Simon Curtis and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, and Kelly Macdonald. It offers the listener a glimpse into the relationship between Milne and the real-life Christopher Robin, whose toys inspired the magical world of the Hundred Acre Wood. Goodbye Christopher Robin is a story of celebrity, a story of both the joys and pains of success, and, ultimately, the story of how one man created a series of enchanting tales that brought hope and comfort to an England ravaged by the First World WarShakespeare was a woman & other heresies: How doubting the bard became the biggest taboo in literature
Par Elizabeth Winkler. 2023
An "extraordinarily brilliant" and "pleasurably naughty" (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare…
wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy...and who the Bard might really be. The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English literature. Scholars admit that the Bard's biography is a "black hole," yet to publicly question the identity of the god of English literature is unacceptable, even (some say) "immoral." In Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies , journalist and literary critic Elizabeth Winkler sets out to probe the origins of this literary taboo. Whisking you from London to Stratford-Upon-Avon to Washington, DC, she pulls back the curtain to show how the forces of nationalism and empire, religion and mythmaking, gender and class have shaped our admiration for Shakespeare across the centuries. As she considers the writers and thinkers—from Walt Whitman to Sigmund Freud to Supreme Court justices—who have grappled with the riddle of the plays' origins, she explores who may perhaps have been hiding behind his name. A forgotten woman? A disgraced aristocrat? A government spy? Hovering over the mystery are Shakespeare's plays themselves, with their love for mistaken identities, disguises, and things never quite being what they seem. As she interviews scholars and skeptics, Winkler's interest turns to the larger problem of historical truth—and of how human imperfections (bias, blindness, subjectivity) shape our construction of the past. History is a story, and the story we find may depend on the story we're looking for. "Lively" ( The Washington Post ), "fascinating" (Amanda Foreman), and "intrepid" (Stacy Schiff), Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies will forever change how you think of Shakespeare...and of how we as a society decide what's up for debate and what's just nonsense, just heresyDe l'autre côté du trou noir (Mammouth rock)
Par Eveline Payette. 2022
Au spectacle de Noël de l’école, Louis propose à ses camarades d’assister à une expérience scientifique exceptionnelle qui permettra de…
vérifier une théorie sur le fonctionnement des trous noirs. En vue de sa démonstration, Louis a modifié l’aspirateur Shoptou de son père pour en accroître la puissance, et l’a intégré dans un appareil complexe. C’est son fidèle ami, le légendaire mammouth rock Mayonnaise, qui servira de cobaye dans cette grande aventure. Mais l’expérience n’est pas sans risques. Qu’y a-t-il de l’autre côté du trou noir? L’imperturbable Louis ne se laissera pas démonter par les découvertes imprévues qu’il fera !Tiff: A life of timothy findley
Par Sherrill Grace. 2021
Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada's foremost writers—an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his career as…
an actor in London, England. Findley was instrumental in the development of Canadian literature and publishing in the 1970s and 80s . During those years, he became a vocal advocate for human rights and the anti-war movement. His writing and interviews reveal a man concerned with the state of the world, a man who believed in the importance of not giving in to despair, despite his constant struggle with depression. Findley believed in the power of imagination and creativity to save us. Tiff: A Life of Timothy Findley is the first full biography of this eminent Canadian writer. Sherrill Grace provides insight into Findley's life and struggles through an exploration of his private journals and his relationships with family, his beloved partner, Bill Whitehead, and his close friends, including Alec Guinness, William Hutt, and Margaret Laurence. Based on many interviews and exhaustive archival research, this biography explores Findley's life and work, the issues that consumed him, and his often profound depression over the evils of the twentieth-century. Shining through his darkness are Findley's generous humour, his unforgettable characters, and his hope for the future. These qualities inform canonic works like The Wars (1977), Famous Last Words (1981), Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984), and The Piano Man's Daughter (1995)Knife: Meditations after an Attempted Murder
Par Salman Rushdie. 2024
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on…
his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him.Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife is a gripping, intimate, and ultimately life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art—and finding the strength to stand up again.Le couteau
Par Salman Rushdie. 2024
"Il était essentiel que j'écrive ce livre : une manière d'accueillir ce qui est arrivé, et de répondre à la…
violence par l'art." Pour la première fois, Salman Rushdie s'exprime sans concession sur l'attaque au couteau dont il a été victime le 12 août 2022 aux États-Unis, plus de trente ans après la fatwa prononcée contre lui. Le romancier lève le voile sur la longue et douloureuse traversée pour se reconstruire après un acte d'une telle violence ; jusqu'au miracle d'une seconde chance. "Le Couteau" se lit aussi comme une réflexion puissante, intime et finalement porteuse d'espoir sur la vie, l'amour et le pouvoir de la littérature. C'est également une ode à la création artistique comme espace de liberté absolue. Clément Bresson met tout son talent au service de la plume limpide et directe de Salman Rushdie, qui témoigne ici de l'attentat dont il a été victime. Couverture : d'après photos © Nenov / MirageC / Getty Images