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In ''Suppose a sentence,'' Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called ''a literary flâneur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin,'' has written a sequel of sorts to ''Essayism,'' turning his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence—from Shakespeare to James Baldwin, John Ruskin to Joan(...)
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In ''Suppose a sentence,'' Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called ''a literary flâneur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin,'' has written a sequel of sorts to ''Essayism,'' turning his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence—from Shakespeare to James Baldwin, John Ruskin to Joan(...)
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Suppose a sentence
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In ''Suppose a sentence,'' Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called ''a literary flâneur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin,'' has written a sequel of sorts to ''Essayism,'' turning his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence—from Shakespeare to James Baldwin, John Ruskin to Joan Didion—this new book explores style, voice, and language, along with the subjectivity of reading. Both an exercise in practical criticism and a set of experiments or challenges, ''Suppose a sentence'' is a polemical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature.
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In ''Suppose a sentence,'' Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called ''a literary flâneur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin,'' has written a sequel of sorts to ''Essayism,'' turning his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence—from Shakespeare to James Baldwin, John Ruskin to Joan Didion—this new book explores style, voice, and language, along with the subjectivity of reading. Both an exercise in practical criticism and a set of experiments or challenges, ''Suppose a sentence'' is a polemical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature.
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'Wapke' – « demain » en langue atikamekw – est le premier recueil de nouvelles d'anticipation autochtone publié au Québec. Quatorze auteurs de nations et d'horizons multiples se projettent dans l'avenir par le biais de la fiction, abordant des thèmes sociaux, politiques et environnementaux d'actualité. Sous la direction de Michel Jean, 'Wapke' offre un commentaire social(...)
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'Wapke' – « demain » en langue atikamekw – est le premier recueil de nouvelles d'anticipation autochtone publié au Québec. Quatorze auteurs de nations et d'horizons multiples se projettent dans l'avenir par le biais de la fiction, abordant des thèmes sociaux, politiques et environnementaux d'actualité. Sous la direction de Michel Jean, 'Wapke' offre un commentaire social(...)
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Wapke
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'Wapke' – « demain » en langue atikamekw – est le premier recueil de nouvelles d'anticipation autochtone publié au Québec. Quatorze auteurs de nations et d'horizons multiples se projettent dans l'avenir par le biais de la fiction, abordant des thèmes sociaux, politiques et environnementaux d'actualité. Sous la direction de Michel Jean, 'Wapke' offre un commentaire social souvent saisissant où se dessine l'espoir d'un changement.
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'Wapke' – « demain » en langue atikamekw – est le premier recueil de nouvelles d'anticipation autochtone publié au Québec. Quatorze auteurs de nations et d'horizons multiples se projettent dans l'avenir par le biais de la fiction, abordant des thèmes sociaux, politiques et environnementaux d'actualité. Sous la direction de Michel Jean, 'Wapke' offre un commentaire social souvent saisissant où se dessine l'espoir d'un changement.
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May 2021
May 2021
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''The disassembled dictionary'' is a growing series of books that each, in various ways, discusses a particular word. ''Non-territorial'' consists of texts by Yoko Andersson Yamano, Rachel Armstrong, Ylva Björnberg, Athena Farrokhzad, Jörg Heiser, Rolf Hughes, Ronald Jones, Lundahl & Seitl, Petra Malm, Aldy Milliken, David Neuman, Aleksander Perski, Tessa Praun,(...)
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''The disassembled dictionary'' is a growing series of books that each, in various ways, discusses a particular word. ''Non-territorial'' consists of texts by Yoko Andersson Yamano, Rachel Armstrong, Ylva Björnberg, Athena Farrokhzad, Jörg Heiser, Rolf Hughes, Ronald Jones, Lundahl & Seitl, Petra Malm, Aldy Milliken, David Neuman, Aleksander Perski, Tessa Praun,(...)
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Disassembled dictionary: “Non-territorial”
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''The disassembled dictionary'' is a growing series of books that each, in various ways, discusses a particular word. ''Non-territorial'' consists of texts by Yoko Andersson Yamano, Rachel Armstrong, Ylva Björnberg, Athena Farrokhzad, Jörg Heiser, Rolf Hughes, Ronald Jones, Lundahl & Seitl, Petra Malm, Aldy Milliken, David Neuman, Aleksander Perski, Tessa Praun, Theodor Ringborg, Robert Stasinski and Alessandra Di Pisa, and Liv Stoltz.
Disassembled dictionary: “Non-territorial”
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''The disassembled dictionary'' is a growing series of books that each, in various ways, discusses a particular word. ''Non-territorial'' consists of texts by Yoko Andersson Yamano, Rachel Armstrong, Ylva Björnberg, Athena Farrokhzad, Jörg Heiser, Rolf Hughes, Ronald Jones, Lundahl & Seitl, Petra Malm, Aldy Milliken, David Neuman, Aleksander Perski, Tessa Praun, Theodor Ringborg, Robert Stasinski and Alessandra Di Pisa, and Liv Stoltz.
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January 2020
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For the past seven years, the Stanford Literary Lab, founded by Franco Moretti and Matthew Jockers, has been a leading site of literary scholarship aided by computers and algorithmic methods. This landmark volume gathers the collective research of the group and its most remarkable experiments. From seemingly ineffable matters such as the "loudness" of thousands of novels,(...)
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For the past seven years, the Stanford Literary Lab, founded by Franco Moretti and Matthew Jockers, has been a leading site of literary scholarship aided by computers and algorithmic methods. This landmark volume gathers the collective research of the group and its most remarkable experiments. From seemingly ineffable matters such as the "loudness" of thousands of novels,(...)
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Canon/Archive: Studies in quantative formalism
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For the past seven years, the Stanford Literary Lab, founded by Franco Moretti and Matthew Jockers, has been a leading site of literary scholarship aided by computers and algorithmic methods. This landmark volume gathers the collective research of the group and its most remarkable experiments. From seemingly ineffable matters such as the "loudness" of thousands of novels, the geographic distribution of emotions, the nature of a sentence and a paragraph, and the evolution of bureaucratic doublespeak, descriptions emerge. The Stanford Literary Lab lets the computers provide new insights for questions from the deep tradition of two centuries of literary inquiry. Rather than, like the rest of us, letting the computers lead. The results are adventurous, witty, challenging, profound. The old questions can finally get new answers—as the prelude to new big questions. "Canon/Archive" is the fulfillment and further development of "distant reading," adding a rare, full-length monument to the piecemeal progress of the digital humanities. No student, teacher, or inquisitive reader of literature will want to be without this book—just as no one interested in the new data-attentive methods in history, criticism, and the social sciences can afford to evade its summons.
Canon/Archive: Studies in quantative formalism
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For the past seven years, the Stanford Literary Lab, founded by Franco Moretti and Matthew Jockers, has been a leading site of literary scholarship aided by computers and algorithmic methods. This landmark volume gathers the collective research of the group and its most remarkable experiments. From seemingly ineffable matters such as the "loudness" of thousands of novels, the geographic distribution of emotions, the nature of a sentence and a paragraph, and the evolution of bureaucratic doublespeak, descriptions emerge. The Stanford Literary Lab lets the computers provide new insights for questions from the deep tradition of two centuries of literary inquiry. Rather than, like the rest of us, letting the computers lead. The results are adventurous, witty, challenging, profound. The old questions can finally get new answers—as the prelude to new big questions. "Canon/Archive" is the fulfillment and further development of "distant reading," adding a rare, full-length monument to the piecemeal progress of the digital humanities. No student, teacher, or inquisitive reader of literature will want to be without this book—just as no one interested in the new data-attentive methods in history, criticism, and the social sciences can afford to evade its summons.
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June 2018
June 2018
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On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth comes this stunning landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry. Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust(...)
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On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth comes this stunning landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry. Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust(...)
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The flowers of evil / Les fleurs du mal
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On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth comes this stunning landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry. Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the banality of modern city life.
The flowers of evil / Les fleurs du mal
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On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth comes this stunning landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry. Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the banality of modern city life.
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December 2021
December 2021
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Orwell's roses
Orwell's roses
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Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to(...)
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Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to(...)
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Orwell's roses
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Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers encounter the photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her Stalinism, Stalin’s obsession with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid’s critique of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' that completes her portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as a reflection on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.
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Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers encounter the photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her Stalinism, Stalin’s obsession with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid’s critique of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' that completes her portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as a reflection on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.
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October 2021
October 2021
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Klara and the sun
Klara and the sun
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“The Sun always has ways to reach us.” From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change(...)
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“The Sun always has ways to reach us.” From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change(...)
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Klara and the sun
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“The Sun always has ways to reach us.” From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In ''Klara and the Sun,'' Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
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“The Sun always has ways to reach us.” From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In ''Klara and the Sun,'' Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
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March 2021
March 2021
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Les personnages centraux du présent « Minos » sur la vie littéraire, telle que l'a pratiquée et subie Henry James, sont des écrivains subtils et désillusionnés, qui estiment qu'ils ont toutes les responsabilités envers leurs propres oeuvres, mais qu'ils n'en ont aucune envers leurs lecteurs, lesquels doivent se débrouiller tout seuls pour décrypter « le motif dans le(...)
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Les personnages centraux du présent « Minos » sur la vie littéraire, telle que l'a pratiquée et subie Henry James, sont des écrivains subtils et désillusionnés, qui estiment qu'ils ont toutes les responsabilités envers leurs propres oeuvres, mais qu'ils n'en ont aucune envers leurs lecteurs, lesquels doivent se débrouiller tout seuls pour décrypter « le motif dans le(...)
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Le motif dans le tapis et onze autres nouvelles
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Les personnages centraux du présent « Minos » sur la vie littéraire, telle que l'a pratiquée et subie Henry James, sont des écrivains subtils et désillusionnés, qui estiment qu'ils ont toutes les responsabilités envers leurs propres oeuvres, mais qu'ils n'en ont aucune envers leurs lecteurs, lesquels doivent se débrouiller tout seuls pour décrypter « le motif dans le tapis » de l'auteur qu'ils admirent. Tantôt, comme dans Entre deux âges ou L'Endroit parfait, surgit un lecteur, un jeune homme ouvert, qui a senti, et compris. Un seul suffit pour la rédemption du vieil écrivain solitaire et isolé. Mais tantôt, comme dans Le Gant de velours, une romancière mondaine et calculatrice se présente comme une admiratrice, alors qu'elle n'a rien compris. Les femmes, d'ailleurs, sont-elles capables de comprendre le « motif » d'un écrivain ? Celles qui écrivent, en tout cas, sont traitées avec une sympathique mais cruelle drôlerie, dans Greville Fane, par exemple, ou dans La Prochaine Fois.
Le motif dans le tapis et onze autres nouvelles
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Les personnages centraux du présent « Minos » sur la vie littéraire, telle que l'a pratiquée et subie Henry James, sont des écrivains subtils et désillusionnés, qui estiment qu'ils ont toutes les responsabilités envers leurs propres oeuvres, mais qu'ils n'en ont aucune envers leurs lecteurs, lesquels doivent se débrouiller tout seuls pour décrypter « le motif dans le tapis » de l'auteur qu'ils admirent. Tantôt, comme dans Entre deux âges ou L'Endroit parfait, surgit un lecteur, un jeune homme ouvert, qui a senti, et compris. Un seul suffit pour la rédemption du vieil écrivain solitaire et isolé. Mais tantôt, comme dans Le Gant de velours, une romancière mondaine et calculatrice se présente comme une admiratrice, alors qu'elle n'a rien compris. Les femmes, d'ailleurs, sont-elles capables de comprendre le « motif » d'un écrivain ? Celles qui écrivent, en tout cas, sont traitées avec une sympathique mais cruelle drôlerie, dans Greville Fane, par exemple, ou dans La Prochaine Fois.
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November 2021
November 2021
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In the middle of the salt-frosted Afghan desert, in a village so remote that Google can’t find it, a woman squats on top of a loom, making flowers bloom in the thousand threads she knots by hand. Here, where heroin is cheaper than rice, every day is a fast day. B-52s pass overhead—a sign of America’s omnipotence or its vulnerability, the villagers are unsure. They know,(...)
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In the middle of the salt-frosted Afghan desert, in a village so remote that Google can’t find it, a woman squats on top of a loom, making flowers bloom in the thousand threads she knots by hand. Here, where heroin is cheaper than rice, every day is a fast day. B-52s pass overhead—a sign of America’s omnipotence or its vulnerability, the villagers are unsure. They know,(...)
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The World is a Carpet: Four seasons in an afghan village
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In the middle of the salt-frosted Afghan desert, in a village so remote that Google can’t find it, a woman squats on top of a loom, making flowers bloom in the thousand threads she knots by hand. Here, where heroin is cheaper than rice, every day is a fast day. B-52s pass overhead—a sign of America’s omnipotence or its vulnerability, the villagers are unsure. They know, though, that the earth is flat—like a carpet. Anna Badkhen first traveled to this country in 2001, as a war correspondent. She has returned many times since, drawn by a land that geography has made a perpetual battleground, and by a people who sustain an exquisite tradition there. Through the four seasons in which a new carpet is woven by the women and children of Oqa, she immortalizes their way of life much as the carpet does—from the petal half-finished where a hungry infant needs care to the interruptions when the women trade sex jokes or go fill in for wedding musicians scared away by the Taliban.
The World is a Carpet: Four seasons in an afghan village
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In the middle of the salt-frosted Afghan desert, in a village so remote that Google can’t find it, a woman squats on top of a loom, making flowers bloom in the thousand threads she knots by hand. Here, where heroin is cheaper than rice, every day is a fast day. B-52s pass overhead—a sign of America’s omnipotence or its vulnerability, the villagers are unsure. They know, though, that the earth is flat—like a carpet. Anna Badkhen first traveled to this country in 2001, as a war correspondent. She has returned many times since, drawn by a land that geography has made a perpetual battleground, and by a people who sustain an exquisite tradition there. Through the four seasons in which a new carpet is woven by the women and children of Oqa, she immortalizes their way of life much as the carpet does—from the petal half-finished where a hungry infant needs care to the interruptions when the women trade sex jokes or go fill in for wedding musicians scared away by the Taliban.
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November 2014
November 2014
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En voulant devenir maman, la journaliste Véronique Leduc ne se doutait pas qu’au cours des cinq années qui suivraient s’enchaîneraient les injections, les médicaments, les inséminations et les fécondations in vitro, mais aussi les maladresses de son entourage, l’incompréhension de ses proches, la culpabilité, l’épuisement, les idées sombres, le violent sentiment(...)
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En voulant devenir maman, la journaliste Véronique Leduc ne se doutait pas qu’au cours des cinq années qui suivraient s’enchaîneraient les injections, les médicaments, les inséminations et les fécondations in vitro, mais aussi les maladresses de son entourage, l’incompréhension de ses proches, la culpabilité, l’épuisement, les idées sombres, le violent sentiment(...)
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Infertilité : traverser la tempête
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En voulant devenir maman, la journaliste Véronique Leduc ne se doutait pas qu’au cours des cinq années qui suivraient s’enchaîneraient les injections, les médicaments, les inséminations et les fécondations in vitro, mais aussi les maladresses de son entourage, l’incompréhension de ses proches, la culpabilité, l’épuisement, les idées sombres, le violent sentiment d’injustice, les espoirs immenses suivis de déceptions terribles, les nombreux deuils. Elle dresse ici son récit, qu’elle entrecoupe d’entrevues, de témoignages et de réflexions. En résulte un bricolage à la fois intime, authentique et informatif sur l’infertilité, une réalité encore trop taboue qui affecte pourtant un couple canadien sur six.
Infertilité : traverser la tempête
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En voulant devenir maman, la journaliste Véronique Leduc ne se doutait pas qu’au cours des cinq années qui suivraient s’enchaîneraient les injections, les médicaments, les inséminations et les fécondations in vitro, mais aussi les maladresses de son entourage, l’incompréhension de ses proches, la culpabilité, l’épuisement, les idées sombres, le violent sentiment d’injustice, les espoirs immenses suivis de déceptions terribles, les nombreux deuils. Elle dresse ici son récit, qu’elle entrecoupe d’entrevues, de témoignages et de réflexions. En résulte un bricolage à la fois intime, authentique et informatif sur l’infertilité, une réalité encore trop taboue qui affecte pourtant un couple canadien sur six.
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September 2021
September 2021
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