Les racines du mal

Les racines du mal

Author: Frédéric Briolet

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-02-27

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 1291763155

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1983 : Les États-Unis vacillent dans le chaos. C'est l'Armageddon tant redouté. La population découvre avec horreur ce que le gouvernement lui avait caché depuis trop longtemps.A travers la vie d'un homme au passé trouble et aux mains tachées de sang, nous replongeons vers les racines du mal, pendant les heures noires de la guerre en Europe.


The Pleasures of Crime

The Pleasures of Crime

Author: David Platten

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2011-12

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9401207178

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For 150 years the French public and literati have enjoyed a love affair with crime fiction. This book investigates the nature of this relationship and how through periods of dramatic social and political change in France it has flourished. It challenges the conventional view of a popular genre feeding a niche market, depicting crime fiction instead as a field of creative endeavour, which has gradually matured into one of considerable literary fertility. By inviting us to share secrets and crack codes, creating suspense and (at times) not shirking from presenting horrific events in graphic language, the crime story brings into play the intellect and emotions of its readership. This book explores both this intrinsic literary value of the crime novel and its extrinsic witness to historical events and cultural trends, arguing that these apparently distinct aspects are in fact dynamic, interrelated parts of the same whole. This blend of cultural history with literary analysis allows for the discussion of themes such as politics, memory, the urban environment and youth cultures, mixed with case studies of major French crime writers, including Gaston Leroux, Georges Simenon, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Daniel Pennac and Fred Vargas.


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Publisher: Odile Jacob

Published:

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 2738175287

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French Crime Fiction, 1945–2005

French Crime Fiction, 1945–2005

Author: Margaret-Anne Hutton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 131713270X

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In the first major study of representations of World War II in French crime fiction, Margaret-Anne Hutton draws on a corpus of over a hundred and fifty texts spanning more than sixty years. Included are well-known writers (male and female) such as Aubert, Simenon, Boileau-Narcejak, Vargas, Daeninckx, and Jonquet, as well as a broad range of lesser-known authors. Hutton's introduction situates her study within the larger framework of literary representations of World War II, setting the stage for her discussions of genre; the problem of defining crimes and criminals in the context of the war; the epistemological issues that arise in the relationship between World War II historiography and the crime novel; and the temporal textures linking past crimes to the present. Filling a gap in the fields of crime fiction and fictional representations of the War, Hutton's book calls into question the way both crime fiction and the French theatre of World War II have been conceptualized and codified.


French Post-modern Masculinities

French Post-modern Masculinities

Author: Lawrence R. Schehr

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1846312159

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As traditional notions of masculinity have been put into question, there have been representational reactions to and articulations of changing masculinities in post-modern culture. Certain contemporary French cultural productions are illustrative of these changing masculinities and this book offers the first comprehensive examination of these manifestations. Acclaimed critic Lawrence Schehr uses analysis of AIDS narratives, mainstream films, popular novels, more mainstream novels, a graphic novel, and rightist polemics to explore the changing meaning of masculinity in French society. French Postmodern Masculinities will appeal to a broad range of researchers and postgraduate students working in French cultural studies, cinema, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century French literature.


Selected Essays on Gnosticism, Dualism, and Mysteriosophy

Selected Essays on Gnosticism, Dualism, and Mysteriosophy

Author: Bianchi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1978-06-01

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9004378561

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Preliminary Material /Ugo Bianchi -- Le dualisme en histoire des religions /Ugo Bianchi -- Il Dualismo come categoria storico-religiosa /Ugo Bianchi -- Der demiurgische Trickster und die Religionsethnologie /Ugo Bianchi -- Trickster e demiurgi presso culture primitive di cacciatori /Ugo Bianchi -- Pour l'histoire du dualisme: un Coyote africain, le Renard Pâle /Ugo Bianchi -- Seth, Osiris et l'ethnographie /Ugo Bianchi -- Prometheus, der titanische Trickster /Ugo Bianchi -- Dualistic Aspects of Thracian Religion /Ugo Bianchi -- Initiation, mystères, gnose /Ugo Bianchi -- Péché originel et péché « antécédent » /Ugo Bianchi -- L'orphisme a existé /Ugo Bianchi -- Psyche and Destiny /Ugo Bianchi -- Mithraism and Gnosticism /Ugo Bianchi -- Le problème des origines du gnosticisme et l'histoire des religions /Ugo Bianchi -- Perspectives de la recherche sur les origines du gnosticisme /Ugo Bianchi -- Gnostizismus und Anthropologie /Ugo Bianchi -- Docetism /Ugo Bianchi -- Anthropologie et conception du mal les sources de l'exegese gnostique /Ugo Bianchi -- Marcion: théologien biblique ou docteur gnostique? /Ugo Bianchi -- Basilide, o del tragico /Ugo Bianchi -- Le fonti del dualismo di Bardesane /Ugo Bianchi -- La rédemption dans les Livres d'Adam /Ugo Bianchi -- La doctrine Zarathustrienne des deux esprits /Ugo Bianchi -- Alcuni aspetti abnormi del dualismo persiano /Ugo Bianchi -- Aspects of Modern Parsi Theology /Ugo Bianchi -- A propos de quelques discussions récentes sur la terminologie, la définition et la méthode de l'étude du gnosticisme /Ugo Bianchi -- Modern Authors /Ugo Bianchi -- Index Locorum /Ugo Bianchi -- Subject Index /Ugo Bianchi -- Errata /Ugo Bianchi.


Novels of the Contemporary Extreme

Novels of the Contemporary Extreme

Author: Alain-Philippe Durand

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2006-06-08

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1441162135

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This book investigates a new form of fiction that is currently emerging in contemporary literature across the globe. 'Novels of the contemporary extreme' - from North and South America, from Europe, and the Middle East - are set in a world both similar to and different from our own: a hyper real, often apocalyptic world progressively invaded by popular culture, permeated with technology and dominated by destruction. While their writing is commonly classified as 'hip' or 'underground' literature, authors of contemporary extreme novels have often been the center of public controversy and scandal; they, and their work, become international bestsellers. This collection of essays identifies and describes this international phenomenon, investigating the appeal of these novels' styles and themes, the reasons behind their success, and the fierce debates they provoked.


Ténèbres 2013

Ténèbres 2013

Author: Benoît Domis

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-05

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 2849580139

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Pour l'edition 2013 de Tenebres, Benoit Domis a selectionne 18 nouvelles d'auteurs francais, belges, neerlandais et americains, debutants et confirmes. Les textes vont de la "ghost story" au gore, en passant par toutes les couleurs du fantastique et de l'horreur.