Pascal Bruckner: 36 books

The sexual revolution is justly celebrated for the freedoms it brought--birth control, the decriminalization of abortion, the liberalization of divorce, greater equality between the sexes, women's massive entry into the workforce, and more tolerance of homosexuality. But as Pascal Bruckner, one of...

Le jour de ses vingt-cinq ans, Balthus Zaminski, ogre de son état, promit à son valet de ne plus manger d'enfants. Cette fois, c'était la bonne, il s'amendait. Balthus n'était pas un de ces ogres grossiers et braillards du temps jadis. Non, c'était un gentleman, un jeune homme de bonne famille...

Fascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, imperialism--the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have been consumed by remorse. But Pascal Bruckner argues that guilt has now gone too far. It has become...

Pascal Bruckner's memoir reads like a novel, a Bildungsroman which charts his journey from pious Catholic child to leading philosopher and writer on French culture. The key figure in Bruckner's life is his father, a virulent anti-Semite, who voluntarily went to work in Germany during the Second World...

Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion--one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone who hasn't yet attained the blessed state of perpetual euphoria. How has a liberating...

‘Islamophobia’ is a term that has existed since the nineteenth century. But in recent decades, argues Pascal Bruckner in his controversial new book, it has become a weapon used to silence criticism of Islam. The term allows those who brandish it in the name of Islam to ‘freeze’ the latter,...

Né en 1948, romancier et essayiste, Pascal Bruckner est, entre autres, l'auteur de La tentation de l'innocence ( Prix Médicis de l'essai en 1995) et Les Voleurs de Beauté (Prix Renaudot en 1997). Il a publié récemment chez Grasset, L'Euphorie perpétuelle (2000). « Dans nos pays développés,...

The diminutive Leon is the envy of all Paris when he becomes engaged to the successful stomatologist and ravishing 6ft beauty Solange, who leaves no man unstirred - including the priest who weds them. The dutiful husband happily ignores jealous remarks about the union of 'giraffe and zebra' as he sires...

In Occidente il matrimonio è in crisi: aumentano i divorzi, sempre più persone scelgono di vivere da sole e le famiglie sono spesso monoparentali. Ma qual è il motivo? Al riguardo Pascal Bruckner ha un'opinione ben precisa: non sarà proprio l'amore, eletto a ideale assoluto e totalizzante, e commercializzato...

La Terra è malata, sovrappopolata, degradata; gli ecosistemi stanno per collassare; mutamenti climatici e cataclismi inauditi semineranno morte e distruzione. E i colpevoli siamo solo e unicamente noi, sperperatori di risorse, consumatori accaniti, inquinatori seriali. Per causa nostra le generazioni...

A trent'anni dalla rivoluzione sessuale, che travolse la società occidentale sconvolgendo in modo profondo e forse irreversibile costumi e istituzioni radicati da secoli, Pascal Bruckner traccia un bilancio di quegli eventi e delle loro conseguenze. Ebbene, il sesso libero e la coppia aperta non sono...

C’est l’histoire d’un enfant à la santé fragile, né après guerre et envoyé aussitôt dans un village d’Autriche pour soigner ses poumons. Sous la neige, il chante la gloire de Dieu et baragouine un patois allemand. Chaque soir, sous le regard aimant de sa mère, le chérubin prie le Seigneur...

Leur jeunesse est un crime. Leur beauté, une malédiction. Un soir d'hiver, Benjamin et sa fiancée Hélène sont pris dans une tempête de neige et trouvent refuge dans un chalet où un avocat aux allures de vieux beau vit avec sa femme et un petit homme repoussant qui leur sert d’homme-à...

Today we like to think that marriage is a free choice based on love: that we freely choose whom to marry and that we do so, not so much for survival or social advantage, but for love. The invention of marriage for love inverted the old relationship between love and marriage. In the past, marriage...