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Author: Colin Davis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780198159551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors examine some of the most popular and some of the most challenging of texts that emerged during Francois Mitterrand's presidency. They relate these texts to the dominant literary and cultural trends of the period.
Author: Colin Davis
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Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781383006780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors examine some of the most popular and some of the most challenging of texts that emerged during Francois Mitterrand's presidency. They relate these texts to the dominant literary and cultural trends of the period.
Author: Rancois Mitterrand
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-09-29
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 162872174X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNear the end of his second term as president of France, François Mitterrand decided to talk openly about his life, both personal and political. President for fourteen years, longer than anyone else in the history of the French Republic, Mitterrand was interested not in constructing an elaborate memorial to himself in words but in leaving behind a living testament. He therefore turned to someone whom he knew and trusted, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, a close friend of many years, to join him in a vibrant, vigorous exchange. The topics they discuss in these pages are childhood, faith, war, power, writing, and those moments––however and whenever they arrive––that shape and sometimes define us as people. Mitterrand and Wiesel's dialogue is spontaneous, thoughtful, lyrical, blunt, far-reaching, and candid, whether it involves controversial moments in Mitterrand's political career, Wiesel's memories of Auschwitz, the importance of family and religion in their lives, or simply their favorite books and walks. Here is an unobstructed view into the lives and times of two of the greatest figures of conscience of our century, an inspiring memoir in two voices.
Author: Simon Kemp
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2010-07-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1783164158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe French novel’s “return to the story” in the last decades of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first is has been widely acknowledged in literary scholarship. But is this assessment accurate? With French Fiction in the Twenty-First Century, Simon Kemp looks at the work of five contemporary writers—Annie Ernaux, Pascal Quignard, Marie Darrieussecq, Jean Echenoz, and Patrick Modiano—in the context of the current French literary scene, and examines how far they pursue the innovations of their predecessors and just how far they have turned their backs on the era of experiment.
Author: Ruth Cruickshank
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-10-08
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0199571759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this closely analytical study, Cruickshank reads the work of four influential writers of prose fiction - Angot, Echenoz, Houellebecq, and Redonnet - in the context of the turn of the millennium in France, which coincided with a number of tangible crises and apocalyptic discourses, and with the growth of the mass media and global market.
Author: Antoine Laurain
Publisher: Gallic Books
Published: 2016-09-26
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1910477389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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?
Author: Anne Grydehøj
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2021-07-05
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 178683720X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a study of Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and French crime fictions covering a fifty-year period. From 1965 to the present, both Scandinavian and French societies have undergone significant transformations. Twelve literary case studies examine how crime fictions in the respective contexts have responded to shifting social realities, which have in turn played a part in transforming the generic codes and conventions of the crime novel. At the centre of the book’s analysis is crime fiction’s negotiation of the French model of Republican universalism and the Scandinavian welfare state, both of which were routinely characterised as being in a state of crisis at the end of the twentieth century. Adopting a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book investigates the interplay between contemporary Scandinavian and French crime narratives, considering their engagement with the relationship of the state and the citizen, and notably with identity issues (class, gender, sexuality and ethnicity in particular).
Author: Maria del Pilar Blanco
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1441164014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLocated in the ambivalent realm between life and death, ghosts have always inspired cultural fascination as well as theoretical consideration.
Author: W. Scott Haine Ph.D.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2006-10-30
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0313060444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe French are of perennial interest, for, among other things, their style, their cuisine and wine, and their cultural output. Culture and Customs of France is a thoroughly jam-packed narrative through the glories that France continues to offer the world. The volume is a boon for preparing country reports, a must-read for travelers, and perfect for culture studies. Chapters on the land, people, and history, religion, social customs, gender, family, and marriage, cinema and media, literature, food and fashion, architecture and art, and performing arts are current and pleasurable to read.
Author: Melvyn New
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780896724518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a world in which everything is reduced "to the play of signs detached from what is signified," Levinas asks a deceptively simple question: Whence, then, comes the urge to question injustice? By seeing the demand for justice for the other—the homeless, the destitute—as a return to morality, Levinas escapes the suspect finality of any ideology.Levinas’s question is one starting point for In Proximity, a collection of seventeen essays by scholars in eighteenth-century literature, philosophy, history, and religion, and their readings of Spinoza, Kant, Goethe, Wordsworth, Behn, Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, Diderot, Laclos, and Mendelssohn. The title In Proximity alone speaks volumes about Levinas’s philosophy and its relevance today. "If it is true that we are, through technology, moving closer and closer to one another," writes editor Melvyn New, then "the importance of proximity and our response to it cannot be overstated." For the contributors to this volume, the question of whether we may, ethically, appropriate the object of study for our own causes has become vital. Levinas asks us to see ourselves, our own reading, "in proximity" to what is not ourselves, not our understanding of the world.The dialogue created among the essays themselves establishes an enormous diversity of texts and ideologies to which Levinas can contribute something of significant value. At a time when the secondary literature on Levinas and his work is expanding explosively, the cross-disciplinary voices gathered together in In Proximity come at precisely the right time.
