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Cité selon
Cité selon
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«Cité selon» est une action citoyenne qui prend la forme d'un passeport passe-partout pour tous. Avec «Cité selon» en poche, le lecteur-citoyen pourra, où qu'il soit et en tout temps, exercer son droit démocratique et prétendre être ailleurs. À la carte, onze poésies et fictions dont le lieu commun est la ville : Jacob Wren consigne sur papier quelques mouvements(...)
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«Cité selon» est une action citoyenne qui prend la forme d'un passeport passe-partout pour tous. Avec «Cité selon» en poche, le lecteur-citoyen pourra, où qu'il soit et en tout temps, exercer son droit démocratique et prétendre être ailleurs. À la carte, onze poésies et fictions dont le lieu commun est la ville : Jacob Wren consigne sur papier quelques mouvements(...)
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«Cité selon» est une action citoyenne qui prend la forme d'un passeport passe-partout pour tous. Avec «Cité selon» en poche, le lecteur-citoyen pourra, où qu'il soit et en tout temps, exercer son droit démocratique et prétendre être ailleurs. À la carte, onze poésies et fictions dont le lieu commun est la ville : Jacob Wren consigne sur papier quelques mouvements de foule. Dessavage décline une génétique citoyenne. Thomas Braichet est contrevenant à un carrefour typographique. Àlain Farah prend le métro de Paris pour son ventre. Bertrand Laverdure applique ses dons prémonitoires dans les parcs publics Montréalais. Xandaire Sélène indique cinq parcours pour guérir vos maux spirituels. Simon St-Onge nous écrit de Val d'Or, sous le ciel d'Arabie. Daniel Canty prend le Train poussière et voyage vers la République des statues. Félix Philantrope continue de rencontrer des gens. Guy Bennett décrit huit immeubles où nous ne vivons pas. La vie en ville est illustrée par Isabelle Arsenault, Melinda Pap, David Lafrance, et Rafael Sottolichio. Il y a aussi des photos. On s'oriente en consultant la carte dépliable en troisième de couverture.
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«Cité selon» est une action citoyenne qui prend la forme d'un passeport passe-partout pour tous. Avec «Cité selon» en poche, le lecteur-citoyen pourra, où qu'il soit et en tout temps, exercer son droit démocratique et prétendre être ailleurs. À la carte, onze poésies et fictions dont le lieu commun est la ville : Jacob Wren consigne sur papier quelques mouvements de foule. Dessavage décline une génétique citoyenne. Thomas Braichet est contrevenant à un carrefour typographique. Àlain Farah prend le métro de Paris pour son ventre. Bertrand Laverdure applique ses dons prémonitoires dans les parcs publics Montréalais. Xandaire Sélène indique cinq parcours pour guérir vos maux spirituels. Simon St-Onge nous écrit de Val d'Or, sous le ciel d'Arabie. Daniel Canty prend le Train poussière et voyage vers la République des statues. Félix Philantrope continue de rencontrer des gens. Guy Bennett décrit huit immeubles où nous ne vivons pas. La vie en ville est illustrée par Isabelle Arsenault, Melinda Pap, David Lafrance, et Rafael Sottolichio. Il y a aussi des photos. On s'oriente en consultant la carte dépliable en troisième de couverture.
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October 2006, Montréal
October 2006, Montréal
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Literature and poetry
Literature and poetry
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Dandelions
Dandelions
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In ''Dandelions'', Thea Lenarduzzi pieces together her family history through four generations’ worth of migration between Italy and England, and the stories scattered like seeds along the way. Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be 'Italian' or 'English', or both in a culture that prefers us to choose? What does it mean to have(...)
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In ''Dandelions'', Thea Lenarduzzi pieces together her family history through four generations’ worth of migration between Italy and England, and the stories scattered like seeds along the way. Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be 'Italian' or 'English', or both in a culture that prefers us to choose? What does it mean to have(...)
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Dandelions
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In ''Dandelions'', Thea Lenarduzzi pieces together her family history through four generations’ worth of migration between Italy and England, and the stories scattered like seeds along the way. Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be 'Italian' or 'English', or both in a culture that prefers us to choose? What does it mean to have roots? Or to have left a piece of oneself somewhere long since abandoned? At the heart of this book brimming with the lives of remarkable and apparently unremarkable people is Thea’s grandmother Dirce, a former seamstress, who, now approaching 100, is a repository of tales that are by turns unpredictable, unreliable, significant. And that lead us deeper. There’s the one about Mussolini’s modern Icarus who crashed into the murk of a lake; about the Manchester factory worker who wanted only to be seen; about the shadowy demon who visits in your sleep; and the monument to a murdered politician that, when it rains, runs the colour of blood. Through the journeys of Dirce and her relatives, from the Friuli to Sheffield and Manchester and back again, a different kind of history emerges, in which self and place are warp and weft, tightly woven, with threads left hazardously trailing.
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In ''Dandelions'', Thea Lenarduzzi pieces together her family history through four generations’ worth of migration between Italy and England, and the stories scattered like seeds along the way. Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be 'Italian' or 'English', or both in a culture that prefers us to choose? What does it mean to have roots? Or to have left a piece of oneself somewhere long since abandoned? At the heart of this book brimming with the lives of remarkable and apparently unremarkable people is Thea’s grandmother Dirce, a former seamstress, who, now approaching 100, is a repository of tales that are by turns unpredictable, unreliable, significant. And that lead us deeper. There’s the one about Mussolini’s modern Icarus who crashed into the murk of a lake; about the Manchester factory worker who wanted only to be seen; about the shadowy demon who visits in your sleep; and the monument to a murdered politician that, when it rains, runs the colour of blood. Through the journeys of Dirce and her relatives, from the Friuli to Sheffield and Manchester and back again, a different kind of history emerges, in which self and place are warp and weft, tightly woven, with threads left hazardously trailing.
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May 2023
May 2023
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Literature and poetry
Literature and poetry
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Depuis quarante ans, les éditions P.O.L ont affirmé leur place dans le champ de l'édition française. Une place décisive pour l'émergence et la définition de ce qu'on peut appeler le contemporain en littérature, comme en témoignent les contributions rassemblées dans cet ouvrage, qui réunit des universitaires, des auteurs et autrices, et les responsables de la maison(...)
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Depuis quarante ans, les éditions P.O.L ont affirmé leur place dans le champ de l'édition française. Une place décisive pour l'émergence et la définition de ce qu'on peut appeler le contemporain en littérature, comme en témoignent les contributions rassemblées dans cet ouvrage, qui réunit des universitaires, des auteurs et autrices, et les responsables de la maison(...)
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Literature and poetry
Literature and poetry
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March 2023
March 2023
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P.O.L : Futur, ancien, actuel
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Depuis quarante ans, les éditions P.O.L ont affirmé leur place dans le champ de l'édition française. Une place décisive pour l'émergence et la définition de ce qu'on peut appeler le contemporain en littérature, comme en témoignent les contributions rassemblées dans cet ouvrage, qui réunit des universitaires, des auteurs et autrices, et les responsables de la maison d'édition. Il s'agit de montrer comment P.O.L a pu non seulement refléter mais, plus encore, donner forme au contemporain, en raison de la personnalité et des choix de ses éditeurs, Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens puis Frédéric Boyer; en raison d'un catalogue ouvert qui revendique des choix forts (quant à la place de la poésie et du cinéma en particulier); en raison, enfin, d'une attention constante aux matérialités (langue, genres, dispositifs) du littéraire et à leur renouveau.
P.O.L : Futur, ancien, actuel
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Depuis quarante ans, les éditions P.O.L ont affirmé leur place dans le champ de l'édition française. Une place décisive pour l'émergence et la définition de ce qu'on peut appeler le contemporain en littérature, comme en témoignent les contributions rassemblées dans cet ouvrage, qui réunit des universitaires, des auteurs et autrices, et les responsables de la maison d'édition. Il s'agit de montrer comment P.O.L a pu non seulement refléter mais, plus encore, donner forme au contemporain, en raison de la personnalité et des choix de ses éditeurs, Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens puis Frédéric Boyer; en raison d'un catalogue ouvert qui revendique des choix forts (quant à la place de la poésie et du cinéma en particulier); en raison, enfin, d'une attention constante aux matérialités (langue, genres, dispositifs) du littéraire et à leur renouveau.
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March 2023
March 2023
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Literature and poetry
Literature and poetry
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Au large de l’Écosse, en mer du Nord, à la croisée de plusieurs routes maritimes, se trouve un récif meurtrier, où les navires s’abîment par dizaines. En 1807, un homme décide de mettre fin à cette malédiction. Ingénieur pour la Compagnie des Phares du Nord, Robert Stevenson se lance dans une entreprise périlleuse : ériger un phare sur un récif immergé vingt heures par(...)
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Au large de l’Écosse, en mer du Nord, à la croisée de plusieurs routes maritimes, se trouve un récif meurtrier, où les navires s’abîment par dizaines. En 1807, un homme décide de mettre fin à cette malédiction. Ingénieur pour la Compagnie des Phares du Nord, Robert Stevenson se lance dans une entreprise périlleuse : ériger un phare sur un récif immergé vingt heures par(...)
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Journal de la construction d'un phare
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Au large de l’Écosse, en mer du Nord, à la croisée de plusieurs routes maritimes, se trouve un récif meurtrier, où les navires s’abîment par dizaines. En 1807, un homme décide de mettre fin à cette malédiction. Ingénieur pour la Compagnie des Phares du Nord, Robert Stevenson se lance dans une entreprise périlleuse : ériger un phare sur un récif immergé vingt heures par jour. Trois années durant, dans des conditions chaotiques, il coordonne le chantier de Bell Rock. Animés par la volonté de rendre la mer plus sûre, ses hommes et lui luttent contre vents et marées pour mener à bien ce projet ambitieux. En racontant l’histoire de sa famille et en publiant les carnets de son grand-père, Robert Louis Stevenson rend non seulement hommage à la dynastie de pionniers et de bâtisseurs dont il est issu, mais il révèle aussi au public une formidable aventure collective.
Journal de la construction d'un phare
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Au large de l’Écosse, en mer du Nord, à la croisée de plusieurs routes maritimes, se trouve un récif meurtrier, où les navires s’abîment par dizaines. En 1807, un homme décide de mettre fin à cette malédiction. Ingénieur pour la Compagnie des Phares du Nord, Robert Stevenson se lance dans une entreprise périlleuse : ériger un phare sur un récif immergé vingt heures par jour. Trois années durant, dans des conditions chaotiques, il coordonne le chantier de Bell Rock. Animés par la volonté de rendre la mer plus sûre, ses hommes et lui luttent contre vents et marées pour mener à bien ce projet ambitieux. En racontant l’histoire de sa famille et en publiant les carnets de son grand-père, Robert Louis Stevenson rend non seulement hommage à la dynastie de pionniers et de bâtisseurs dont il est issu, mais il révèle aussi au public une formidable aventure collective.
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April 2023
April 2023
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Literature and poetry
Literature and poetry
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Museum visits
Museum visits
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This ensemble of comic miniatures compiles reflections on chairs, stairs, stones, goldfish, objects found, strangers observed, scenarios imagined, reasonable premises taken to absurd conclusions, and vice versa. The author erects a mental museum for his favorite artworks, only to find it swarming with tourists. He attends a harpsichord recital and lets his passions flare.(...)
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This ensemble of comic miniatures compiles reflections on chairs, stairs, stones, goldfish, objects found, strangers observed, scenarios imagined, reasonable premises taken to absurd conclusions, and vice versa. The author erects a mental museum for his favorite artworks, only to find it swarming with tourists. He attends a harpsichord recital and lets his passions flare.(...)
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Literature and poetry
Literature and poetry
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February 2024
February 2024
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Museum visits
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This ensemble of comic miniatures compiles reflections on chairs, stairs, stones, goldfish, objects found, strangers observed, scenarios imagined, reasonable premises taken to absurd conclusions, and vice versa. The author erects a mental museum for his favorite artworks, only to find it swarming with tourists. He attends a harpsichord recital and lets his passions flare. He happens upon a piece of paper and imagines its sordid back story. He wonders if Hegel’s cap, on display in Stuttgart, is really worth the trip. Throughout, Chevillard’s powers of observation chime with his verbal acrobatics. His gaze—initially superficial, then deeply attentive, then practically sociopathic—manages time and again to defamiliarize the familiar with a coherent and charismatic charm. Daniel Levin Becker’s translation deftly renders the marvels of the original, and a foreword by Daniel Medin offers rich contextual commentary, making a vital wing of French literature and humor newly accessible in English.
Museum visits
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This ensemble of comic miniatures compiles reflections on chairs, stairs, stones, goldfish, objects found, strangers observed, scenarios imagined, reasonable premises taken to absurd conclusions, and vice versa. The author erects a mental museum for his favorite artworks, only to find it swarming with tourists. He attends a harpsichord recital and lets his passions flare. He happens upon a piece of paper and imagines its sordid back story. He wonders if Hegel’s cap, on display in Stuttgart, is really worth the trip. Throughout, Chevillard’s powers of observation chime with his verbal acrobatics. His gaze—initially superficial, then deeply attentive, then practically sociopathic—manages time and again to defamiliarize the familiar with a coherent and charismatic charm. Daniel Levin Becker’s translation deftly renders the marvels of the original, and a foreword by Daniel Medin offers rich contextual commentary, making a vital wing of French literature and humor newly accessible in English.
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February 2024
February 2024
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Literature and poetry
Literature and poetry
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With Amazon’s growing power in both bookselling and publishing, considering where and how we get our books is more important now than ever. The simple act of putting a book in a reader’s hands—what booksellers call handselling—becomes a catalyst for an exploration of the moral, financial, and political pressures all indie bookstores face. From the relationship between(...)
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With Amazon’s growing power in both bookselling and publishing, considering where and how we get our books is more important now than ever. The simple act of putting a book in a reader’s hands—what booksellers call handselling—becomes a catalyst for an exploration of the moral, financial, and political pressures all indie bookstores face. From the relationship between(...)
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The art of libromancy: On selling books and reading books in the twenty-first century
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With Amazon’s growing power in both bookselling and publishing, considering where and how we get our books is more important now than ever. The simple act of putting a book in a reader’s hands—what booksellers call handselling—becomes a catalyst for an exploration of the moral, financial, and political pressures all indie bookstores face. From the relationship between bookselling and white supremacy, to censorship and the spread of misinformation, to the consolidation of the publishing industry, veteran bookseller and writer Josh Cook turns a generous yet critical eye to an industry at the heart of American culture, sharing tips and techniques for becoming a better reader and, of course, recommending great books along the way.
The art of libromancy: On selling books and reading books in the twenty-first century
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With Amazon’s growing power in both bookselling and publishing, considering where and how we get our books is more important now than ever. The simple act of putting a book in a reader’s hands—what booksellers call handselling—becomes a catalyst for an exploration of the moral, financial, and political pressures all indie bookstores face. From the relationship between bookselling and white supremacy, to censorship and the spread of misinformation, to the consolidation of the publishing industry, veteran bookseller and writer Josh Cook turns a generous yet critical eye to an industry at the heart of American culture, sharing tips and techniques for becoming a better reader and, of course, recommending great books along the way.
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August 2023
August 2023
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Literature and poetry
Literature and poetry
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Obsidian situations
Obsidian situations
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Tricia Middleton’s debut verse-novel brings the artist’s genius for summoning the psychic life of the object world to the page, here trading in the resonant material vocabulary that she has honed to perfection conjuring the wayward spirits of late-stage capitalism in sculptural form, for the equally resplendent wordplay of incisive observational poetry. Ostensibly set(...)
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Tricia Middleton’s debut verse-novel brings the artist’s genius for summoning the psychic life of the object world to the page, here trading in the resonant material vocabulary that she has honed to perfection conjuring the wayward spirits of late-stage capitalism in sculptural form, for the equally resplendent wordplay of incisive observational poetry. Ostensibly set(...)
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Obsidian situations
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Tricia Middleton’s debut verse-novel brings the artist’s genius for summoning the psychic life of the object world to the page, here trading in the resonant material vocabulary that she has honed to perfection conjuring the wayward spirits of late-stage capitalism in sculptural form, for the equally resplendent wordplay of incisive observational poetry. Ostensibly set in present-day Paris, ''Obsidian situations'' spans centuries, telling a story about the epigenetics of suffering, survival, and redemption in social and cultural form. Alternating between myriad personae—sometimes artist or artwork, poet or amorphous cloud—the anonymous, decidedly female, narrator that serves as our guide to the city of light channels the souls of works of art and ideas, of artists, philosophers, courtesans and, most heartrending of all, des Enfants-Trouvés through incantatory soliloquies that call to account the half-life of Enlightenment ideals propping up the soft and saggy moral economy of the L’age Anthropocentric. As a force of self-definition and a body objectified—and so subject to the same degradation as any and all things—our champion encounters ‘situations’ that are in equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, horrifying and wretched, breathtakingly beautiful, poignant, and mad. It’s a world of museums and collectors, artists and curators, lovers and mothers, daughters and others, charged with desire and repulsion, longing and rejection, death and devastation that, ironically, can only be transformed in art and in poetry and in dreams.
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Tricia Middleton’s debut verse-novel brings the artist’s genius for summoning the psychic life of the object world to the page, here trading in the resonant material vocabulary that she has honed to perfection conjuring the wayward spirits of late-stage capitalism in sculptural form, for the equally resplendent wordplay of incisive observational poetry. Ostensibly set in present-day Paris, ''Obsidian situations'' spans centuries, telling a story about the epigenetics of suffering, survival, and redemption in social and cultural form. Alternating between myriad personae—sometimes artist or artwork, poet or amorphous cloud—the anonymous, decidedly female, narrator that serves as our guide to the city of light channels the souls of works of art and ideas, of artists, philosophers, courtesans and, most heartrending of all, des Enfants-Trouvés through incantatory soliloquies that call to account the half-life of Enlightenment ideals propping up the soft and saggy moral economy of the L’age Anthropocentric. As a force of self-definition and a body objectified—and so subject to the same degradation as any and all things—our champion encounters ‘situations’ that are in equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, horrifying and wretched, breathtakingly beautiful, poignant, and mad. It’s a world of museums and collectors, artists and curators, lovers and mothers, daughters and others, charged with desire and repulsion, longing and rejection, death and devastation that, ironically, can only be transformed in art and in poetry and in dreams.
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January 2023
January 2023
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Literature and poetry
Literature and poetry
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Un lac le matin
Un lac le matin
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Par un beau matin de 1845, Henry David Thoreau prend possession de la cabane qu’il a construite à Walden Pond, en Nouvelle-Angleterre, pour y vivre à l’écart du monde. Le livre qu’il tire de cette expérience, « Walden ou La Vie dans les bois », fera de lui le précurseur du mouvement écologiste, l’ancêtre du nature writing, le prophète de la désobéissance civile. Dans «(...)
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Par un beau matin de 1845, Henry David Thoreau prend possession de la cabane qu’il a construite à Walden Pond, en Nouvelle-Angleterre, pour y vivre à l’écart du monde. Le livre qu’il tire de cette expérience, « Walden ou La Vie dans les bois », fera de lui le précurseur du mouvement écologiste, l’ancêtre du nature writing, le prophète de la désobéissance civile. Dans «(...)
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Un lac le matin
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Par un beau matin de 1845, Henry David Thoreau prend possession de la cabane qu’il a construite à Walden Pond, en Nouvelle-Angleterre, pour y vivre à l’écart du monde. Le livre qu’il tire de cette expérience, « Walden ou La Vie dans les bois », fera de lui le précurseur du mouvement écologiste, l’ancêtre du nature writing, le prophète de la désobéissance civile. Dans « Un lac le matin », Louis Hamelin capte l’extraordinaire sensibilité du personnage, ses liens complexes avec Emerson, mentor à la bienveillance parfois étouffante, et son improbable amitié avec son voisin canadien-français, Alex Therrien, bûcheron et poseur de clôtures. Surtout, le romancier fait vivre pour nous un Thoreau de chair et de sang.
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Par un beau matin de 1845, Henry David Thoreau prend possession de la cabane qu’il a construite à Walden Pond, en Nouvelle-Angleterre, pour y vivre à l’écart du monde. Le livre qu’il tire de cette expérience, « Walden ou La Vie dans les bois », fera de lui le précurseur du mouvement écologiste, l’ancêtre du nature writing, le prophète de la désobéissance civile. Dans « Un lac le matin », Louis Hamelin capte l’extraordinaire sensibilité du personnage, ses liens complexes avec Emerson, mentor à la bienveillance parfois étouffante, et son improbable amitié avec son voisin canadien-français, Alex Therrien, bûcheron et poseur de clôtures. Surtout, le romancier fait vivre pour nous un Thoreau de chair et de sang.
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October 2023
October 2023
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Literature and poetry
Literature and poetry
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books
books
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A load of shit
A load of shit
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John Berger’s essay begins by describing the experience of burying a year’s worth of his household’s excrement. What follows is an extended reflection—at once philosophically detached and engaged with the inescapable stuff of life—on shit as an allegory of what it means to be human.
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John Berger’s essay begins by describing the experience of burying a year’s worth of his household’s excrement. What follows is an extended reflection—at once philosophically detached and engaged with the inescapable stuff of life—on shit as an allegory of what it means to be human.
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A load of shit
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John Berger’s essay begins by describing the experience of burying a year’s worth of his household’s excrement. What follows is an extended reflection—at once philosophically detached and engaged with the inescapable stuff of life—on shit as an allegory of what it means to be human.
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John Berger’s essay begins by describing the experience of burying a year’s worth of his household’s excrement. What follows is an extended reflection—at once philosophically detached and engaged with the inescapable stuff of life—on shit as an allegory of what it means to be human.
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October 2023
October 2023
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Literature and poetry
Literature and poetry
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The lottery in Babylon
The lottery in Babylon
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"The drunkard who comes out with an absurd order, the dreamer who suddenly wakes and with his bare hands strangles the woman sleeping beside him - are they perhaps not carrying out one of the Company's secret decisions? These silent workings, so like those of God, give rise to all manner of speculation." The affairs of Babylon are dictated by a lottery. Discreetly(...)
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"The drunkard who comes out with an absurd order, the dreamer who suddenly wakes and with his bare hands strangles the woman sleeping beside him - are they perhaps not carrying out one of the Company's secret decisions? These silent workings, so like those of God, give rise to all manner of speculation." The affairs of Babylon are dictated by a lottery. Discreetly(...)
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The lottery in Babylon
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"The drunkard who comes out with an absurd order, the dreamer who suddenly wakes and with his bare hands strangles the woman sleeping beside him - are they perhaps not carrying out one of the Company's secret decisions? These silent workings, so like those of God, give rise to all manner of speculation." The affairs of Babylon are dictated by a lottery. Discreetly administered by a mysterious and seemingly omnipotent Company, the lottery can elevate citizens to positions of wealth and power or condemn them to the most shameful punishments. Taking this fantastical conceit as its starting point, Jorge Luis Borges's short story is a characteristically brilliant achievement - a haunting mediation on the nature of chance, paranoia and divinity.
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Summary:
"The drunkard who comes out with an absurd order, the dreamer who suddenly wakes and with his bare hands strangles the woman sleeping beside him - are they perhaps not carrying out one of the Company's secret decisions? These silent workings, so like those of God, give rise to all manner of speculation." The affairs of Babylon are dictated by a lottery. Discreetly administered by a mysterious and seemingly omnipotent Company, the lottery can elevate citizens to positions of wealth and power or condemn them to the most shameful punishments. Taking this fantastical conceit as its starting point, Jorge Luis Borges's short story is a characteristically brilliant achievement - a haunting mediation on the nature of chance, paranoia and divinity.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
September 2024
September 2024
Subject:
Literature and poetry
Literature and poetry
