La Jeune fille du vestiaire. Le film complet
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File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 1933
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White Dog
Author : Romain Gary
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 2004-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226284309
Book Description
Both a personal memoir and a French novelist's encounter with American reality, White Dog is an unforgettable portrait of racism and hypocrisy. Set in the tumultuous Los Angeles of 1968, Romain Gary's story begins when a German shepherd strays into his life: "He was watching me, his head cocked to one side, with that unbearable intensity of dogs in the pound waiting for a rescuer." A lost police canine, this "white dog" is programmed to respond violently to the sight of a black man and Gary's attempts to deprogram it—like his attempts to protect his wife, the actress Jean Seberg; like her endeavors to help black activists; like his need to rescue himself from the "predicament of being trapped, lock, stock and barrel within a human skin"—lead from crisis to grief. Using the re-education of this adopted pet as a metaphor for the need to quash American racism, Gary develops a domestic crisis into a full-scale social allegory.
Patrick Modiano
Author : Akane Kawakami
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 32,46 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1781382743
Book Description
"This is a revised and expanded version of A Self-Conscious Art: Patrick Modiano's Postmodern Fictions by Akane Kawakami, published by Liverpool University Press in 2000"--Title page verso.
French Rhapsody
Author : Antoine Laurain
Publisher : Gallic Books
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1910477389
Book Description
The arrival of a letter delayed by 33 years sparks off a quest that leads both on a nostalgic journey back to the 1980s and right to the heart of France today. Middle-aged doctor Alain Massoulier has received a life-changing letter – thirty-three years too late. Lost in the Paris postal system for decades, the letter from Polydor, dated 1983, offers a recording contract to The Holograms, in which Alain played lead guitar. Overcome by nostalgia, Alain is tempted to track down the members of the group. But in a world where everything and everyone has changed...where could his quest possibly take him?
The Readers' Room
Author : Antoine Laurain
Publisher : Gallic Books
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1910477982
Book Description
From the author of The Red Notebook, described as 'Parisian perfection' by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, The Readers' Room is a thrilling murder mystery set in the world of publishing. ‘The plot blends mystery with comedy to great effect’– Daily Mail When the manuscript of a debut crime novel arrives at a Parisian publishing house, everyone in the readers’ room is convinced it’s something special. And the committee for France’s highest literary honour, the Prix Goncourt, agrees. But when the shortlist is announced, there’s a problem for editor Violaine Lepage: she has no idea of the author’s identity. As the police begin to investigate a series of murders strangely reminiscent of those recounted in the book, Violaine is not the only one looking for answers. And, suffering memory blanks following an aeroplane accident, she’s beginning to wonder what role she might play in the story ... Antoine Laurain, bestselling author of The Red Notebook, combines intrigue and charm in this dazzling novel of mystery, love and the power of books.
Smoking Kills
Author : Antoine Laurain
Publisher : Gallic Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,7 MB
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1910477559
Book Description
From the author of The Red Notebook, described as 'Parisian perfection' by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, Smoking Kills is a darkly comic novel told with Laurain's characteristic Parisian charm. 'A brisk black comedy' The Guardian How far would you go to enjoy a cigarette? When headhunter Fabrice Valantine faces a smoking ban at work, he decides to undertake a course of hypnotherapy to rid himself of the habit. At first the treatment works, but his stress levels begin to rise when he is passed over for an important promotion and he finds himself lighting up again - but with none of his previous enjoyment. Then he discovers something terrible: he accidentally causes a mans death, and needing a cigarette to calm his nerves, he enjoys it more than any other previous smoke. What if he now needs to kill someone every time he wants to properly appreciate his next Benson and Hedges? An original and totally French black comedy from bestselling author, Antoine Laurain.
Women Filmmakers
Author : Jacqueline Levitin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1136743057
Book Description
This wide-ranging volume of new work brings together women filmmakers and critics who speak about what has changed over the past twenty years. Including such filmmakers as Margarethe von Trotta, Deepa Mehta, and Pratibha Parmar, and such critics as E. Ann Kaplan, this comprehensive volume addresses political, artistic, and economic questions vital
Multilingual Life Writing by French and Francophone Women
Author : Natalie Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0429619898
Book Description
This volume examines the ways in which multilingual women authors incorporate several languages into their life writing. It compares the work of six contemporary authors who write predominantly in French. It analyses the narrative strategies they develop to incorporate more than one language into their life writing: French and English, French and Creole, or French and German, for example. The book demonstrates how women writers transform languages to invent new linguistic formations and how they create new formulations of subjectivity within their self-narrative. It intervenes in current debates over global literature, national literatures and translingual and transnational writing, which constitute major areas of research in literary and cultural studies. It also contributes to debates in linguistics through its theoretical framework of translanguaging. It argues that multilingual authors create new paradigms for life writing and that they question our understanding of categories such as "French literature."
The President's Hat
Author : Antoine Laurain
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 2020-12-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781913547165
Book Description
Like Cinderella's glass slipper or Aladdin's lamp, the hat is a talisman that makes its wearers' dreams come true.
The Wilder Shores of Love
Author : Lesley Blanch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 17,3 MB
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439197342
Book Description
Originally published in 1954, The Wilder Shores of Love is the classic biography of four nineteenth-century European women who leave behind the industrialized west for Arabia in search of romance and fulfillment. Hailed by The Daily Telegraph as "enthralling to read," Lesley Blanch’s first book tells the story of Isabel Burton, the wife and traveling companion of the explorer Richard Burton; Jane Digby, who exchanged European society for an adventure in loving; Aimée Dubucq de Rivery, a Frenchwoman captured by pirates who became a member of the Turkish sultan’s harem; and Isabelle Eberhardt, a Swiss woman who dressed as a man and lived among the Arabs of Algeria.
