Michel Michel: 4109 books

In the aftermath of French defeat in July 1940, twenty-year-old Jean Arnaud and his ally, the charming conman Palfy, are hiding out at a brothel in Clermont-Ferrand, having narrowly escaped a firing squad. At a military parade, Jean falls for a beautiful stranger, Claude, who will help him forget...

Presented in two dialogues The School of Venus recounts the sexual enlightenment of our naive protagonist Katherine (Katy) under the sagely tutelage of older cousin and kinswoman Frances (Frank). The older takes great pleasure in sharing all those lascivious deeds and desires men are woman...

Michel Saint-Denis was one of twentieth century theatre’s most influential directors and theorists. This book combines his seminal Theatre: The Rediscovery of Style with material from Training for the Theatre, newly edited to create a work which moves seamlessly from theory to practice. Theatre:...

In 1968, Michel Foucault agreed to a series of interviews with critic Claude Bonnefoy, which were to be published in book form. Bonnefoy wanted a dialogue with Foucault about his relationship to writing rather than about the content of his books. The project was abandoned, but a transcript of the initial...

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, to a Cree mother and a French father, Réauna, affectionately known throughout Tremblay’s work as “Nana,” was sent with her two younger sisters, Béa and Alice, to be raised on her maternal grandparents’ farm in Sainte-Maria-de-Saskatchewan, a francophone Catholic...

Florent-Claude Labrouste tiene cuarenta y seis años, detesta su nombre y se medica con Captorix, un antidepresivo que libera serotonina y que tiene tres efectos adversos: náuseas, desaparición de la libido e impotencia. Su periplo arranca en Almería –con un encuentro en una gasolinera con dos...

Louise Michel, alias « Enjolras », est une institutrice, militante anarchiste, franc-maçonne, aux idées féministes et l’une des figures majeures de la Commune de Paris. Première à arborer le drapeau noir, elle popularise celui-ci au sein du mouvement libertaire. En France en 1880, elle est...

‘Mijn overtuigingen zijn beperkt, maar wel intens. Ik geloof in de mogelijkheden van het speciale koninkrijk. Ik geloof in de liefde,’ schreef Michel Houellebecq onlangs. De depressieve verteller van Serotonine zou het daar zonder voorbehoud mee eens zijn. Zijn verhaal vindt plaats in een Frankrijk...

A serious and independent contribution to the literature of autobiography. -- John SturrockFrench StudiesClearly a landmark study. It seems certain to provoke a great deal of productive debate among those concerned with any of the many issues it raises. -- Comparative Literature The literary self-portrait,...

The last fifty years has seen a worldwide trend toward constitutional democracy. But can constitutionalism become truly global? Relying on historical examples of successfully implanted constitutional regimes, ranging from the older experiences in the United States and France to the relatively...

Innovation numérique pédagogique : adaptation de la série BILINGUE de Pocket-Langues Pour Tous ! Cinq nouvelles d'auteurs britanniques incontournables. La série BILINGUE de 12-21 propose : • une traduction fidèle et intégrale, accompagnée de nombreuses notes • une méthode originale...

The title of this timely and thought-provoking book, a French bestseller, refers to schoolgirls sending text messages to their friends on their smart phones. Michel Serres, one of France's most important living intellectuals, uses this image to get at something far broader: that humans are formed...

Le traité Du ciel est l’un des plus importants traités de cosmologie que nous a transmis l’Antiquité. Aristote y livre une physique générale du domaine où se trouvent les astres, et s’emploie à montrer que l’univers obéit à des lois physiques et structurelles qui ont un caractère...

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.