Author : Georges Riat
Publisher : Parkstone Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN :
Child of materialism and positivism, Courbet was without a doubt one of the most complex painters of the nineteenth century. Symbolising the rejection of traditions, Courbet did not hesitate to confront the public with the truth by liberating painting of conventional rules. He became from then on the leader of pictorial realism.
Author : Boris Vian
Publisher : Tamtam Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Fiction. Translated from the French by Paul Knobloch. Originally published in 1947. "In the Exopotamian desert, where hepatrols blossom and children collect little animals called sandpeepers, the sun shines in an unusual way: it produces eerie black zones whose mysteries remain unexplained. Above all, Vian's pecurilar way with language proves that, indeed, life in the desert is equal to none. Since unusual language is bound to produce unusual fiction, it follows that the story does not take place in the fall, nor is it set in China" - from the Foreword by Marc Lapprand. The fourth novel by Vian, who was a contemporary of Sartre and Beauvoir. His innovative style, cutting-edge during his lifetime, but only successful in the sixties, made him an icon of the May 1968 student movement.
Author : Alistair Charles Rolls
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042004672
It is a close study of four novels by Boris Vian. It aims to show how L'Ecume des jours, L'Automne a Pekin, L'Herbe rouge and L'Arrache-coeur form a unified and coherent tetralogy. By establishing close links between these four texts, it becomes possible to achieve a more comprehensive understanding, not only of the significance of the tetralogy in exposing a complex and multi-layered novelistic strategy at the heart of the vianesque, but of the individual novels as autonomous creations. An examination of the novels reveals that they are not merely joined to one another via a superficial network of textual similarities (that which I refer to as intratextuality), but that this intertwining is emblematic of a common method of narrative construction. Each Vian novel is dependent, for a thorough understanding of the text to be possible, upon the multiple lines of external influence running through it. The sources of this influence (which I refer to as intertextuality) are located in various major texts of twentieth century literature, anglophone as well as francophone. Thus, in each instance the narrative is driven by a complicated interaction of intratextuality and intertextuality."
Author : Boris Vian
Publisher : Tamtam Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780966234695
A narrative about an engineer, Wolf, who invents a bizarre machine that allows him to revisit his past and erase inhibiting memories.
Author : Timothy Bewes
Publisher : Verso
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 28,85 MB
Release : 1997-05-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781859841969
In this original and provocative book, Timothy Bewes descends into the modern cynical consciousness with a critical assessment of the preoccupations of contemporary society.
Author : Philostratus (the Athenian)
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 1912
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Robert Baldick
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 39,31 MB
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1910213306
Like Froude's biography of Carlyle, Holroyd's Shaw, and Ellmann's Joyce, Robert Baldick's Life of J.-K. Huysmans has become not just a standard reference work, to be consulted as regularly as the writing of the author whose life it chronicles, but a work of literature in its own right. First published fifty years ago, Baldick's classic biography presents a compelling narrative of Huysmans' life and work in all its various phases - from the Naturalism of the 1870s to the Decadence of the 1880s, and from the occult vogue of the 1890s to the Catholic Revival of the turn of the century - and it is written with such impeccable scholarship that it is still relied on today as regards matters of fact and detail. For this new edition - the first time the biography has been reprinted in English -Baldick's notes have been extensively revised and updated by Brendan King to take account of new developments and publications in the field of Huysmansian studies.
Author : Joris-Karl Huysmans
Publisher : Dedalus European Classics
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Jacques' waking reveries and daydreams are balanced by a succession of dreams and nightmares that explore the seemingly irrational, often grotesque, world of unconscious desire, producing a series of images that challenges anything to be found in the fantasies of 'Against Nature', or the Satanic obsessions of 'La-Bas'."
Author : Joris-Karl Huysmans
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Catholic converts
ISBN :
Author : Mirako Press
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 2018-07-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781723229053
This adorable music notebook is perfect for staffs, kids and musicians. The high-quality manuscript book includes 110 pages of 12 staves. Let exercise your composing skills with this well-designed music sketchbook! Enjoy!
