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by Remy De Gourmont
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
When, more than ten years ago, I wrote the first article on Remy de Gourmont which, so far as I know, appeared in America—North America, bien entendu, for the author of La Culture des Idées and Le Chemin de Velours was already well known and admired in such South American literary capitals as Rio...
Feminizing the Fetish
Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Shoes, gloves, umbrellas, cigars that are not just objects—the topic of fetishism seems both bizarre and inevitable. In this venturesome and provocative book, Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French...
Looking for The Stranger
Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus’s novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It’s the rare novel that’s as at likely to be found in a teen’s backpack as in a graduate philosophy...
Ending and Unending Agony
On Maurice Blanchot
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Published posthumously, Ending and Unending Agony is Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s only book entirely devoted to the French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003). The place of Blanchot in Lacoue-Labarthe’s thought was both discreet and profound, involving difficult, agonizing questions...
All Gall Is Divided
The Aphorisms of a Legendary Iconoclast
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Now in paperback, an "antidote to a world gone mad for bedside affirmation" (Washington Post).
E. M. Cioran has been called the last worthy disciple of Nietzsche and "a sort of final philosopher of the Western world" who "combines the compassion of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning"...
by Martine Reid
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
The romantic and rebellious novelist George Sand, born in 1804 as Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, remains one of France’s most infamous and beloved literary figures. Thanks to a peerless translation by Gretchen van Slyke, Martine Reid’s acclaimed biography of Sand is now available in English.
Drawing...
Balzac's Omelette
A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honore'de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
“Tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are. ”This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein’s erudite and witty book about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honoré de Balzac’s The Human Comedy. Balzac uses them as a connecting thread...
Gravé dans le sable (fiche de lecture)
Résumé complet et analyse détaillée de l'oeuvre
Language: French
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Décryptez Gravé dans le sable de Michel Bussi avec l’analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !Que faut-il retenir de Gravé dans le sable, ce polar sur fond du débarquement de Normandie ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une fiche de lecture complète et détaillée.Vous trouverez...
La Cache de Christophe Boltanski (Fiche de lecture)
Résumé complet et analyse détaillée de l'oeuvre
Language: French
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Décryptez La Cache de Christophe Boltanski avec l’analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !Que faut-il retenir de La Cache, lauréat du prix Femina 2015 ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une fiche de lecture complète et détaillée.Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche :•...
Les Prépondérants d'Hédi Kaddour (Fiche de lecture)
Résumé complet et analyse détaillée de l'oeuvre
Language: French
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Décryptez Les Prépondérants d**’Hédi Kaddour avec l’analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !**
Que faut-il retenir des Prépondérants, le roman sur la colonisation française au Maghreb ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une fiche de lecture complète et détaillée.
Vous...
Histoire de l'amour et de la haine de Charles Dantzig (Fiche de lecture)
Résumé complet et analyse détaillée de l'oeuvre
Language: French
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Décryptez Histoire de l’amour et de la haine de Charles Dantzig avec l’analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !Que faut-il retenir d’Histoire de l’amour et de la haine, ce roman esthétique qui aborde le sujet du mariage pour tous ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une fiche...
Roman de Troie de Benoit de Sainte-Maure
Les Fiches de Lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Composé à la suite du Roman de Thèbes (vers 1150) et en même temps ou peu s'en faut que le Roman d'Énéas (vers 1160), le Roman de Troie (vers 1165 au plus tard) de Benoît de Sainte-Maure (seconde moitié du XIIe siècle)...
The Némirovsky Question
The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in Twentieth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
A fascinating look into the life and work of controversial French novelist Irène Némirovsky Irène Némirovsky succeeded in creating a brilliant career as a novelist in the 1930s, only to have her life cut short: a “foreign Jew” in France, she was deported in 1942 and died in Auschwitz. But her...
The Terror of Natural Right
Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are “natural” in origin—is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right...