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Alix's Journal
Journal
by Alix Roubaud
Translated by Jan Stein
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Alix´s Journal is a collection of private notebooks kept by Canadian photographer Alix Cleo Roubaud during the last four years of her life, before her death at the age of 31. Written, in a sense, for her husband—acclaimed novelist, poet, and mathematician Jacques Roubaud—Alix´s Journal straddles the gap between French and English, poetry and prose, the tragic and the comic, the profound and the quotidian. Alix´s idiosyncratic and revealing work gives us access to a singular consciousness, one that was profoundly influential on her husband´s subsequent works, in style as well as content. The notebooks center on themes of love, marriage, photography, addiction, and death, and include examples of Alix´s photographic work, whose strangeness and poignancy is enhanced by its juxtaposition with her plans for and interpretations of it. |
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Editions du Seuil
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Dalkey Archive Press
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2010
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120
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13.95 $
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ISBN :
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978-1564785541
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| If The Sexual Life of Catherine M. celebrated the many forms and flavours of sexual pleasure, Mme. Millet's second memoir explores the other side of her experience – that of her jealousy, and emotional turmoil. Her first book was internationally admired, and not only for its literary qualities. The audacity of a sex life well lived and thoroughly examined left readers wondering how she managed to pull this off while sustaining her relationship with life partner, the poet, Jacques Henric. 'I had love at home', she explained. 'I sought only pleasure in the world outside'. Then one day she discovered a love-letter lying about the apartment, from one of her partner's affairs. Jealousy details the crisis provoked by this discovery, and weaves psychology with sexual encounter, art with lived experience. |
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Jealousy, The Other Life of Catherine M.
Jour de souffrance
by Catherine Millet &
Translated by Helen Stevenson
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Serpent´s tail
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2009
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240
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10.99 £
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978-1846687181
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Notebooks 1951-1959
Carnets, tome 3
by Albert Camus &
Translated by Allan Bloom
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The French existentialist literary lion's belief that one writes as one lives suffuses these journals covering his last decade. Especially in the earlier years, these are very much working notebooks, full of undigested, fragmentary, sometimes cryptic raw material for later writings. Smoothly translated by Bloom, who teaches at the University of Maryland–Baltimore, the entries include thoughts on passages from Tolstoy, Dostoyevski, Emerson and Nietzsche; philosophical pensées (Naturalness is not a virtue that one has: it is acquired); jotted ideas for novels and plays (Play: A happy man. And nobody can put up with him); and crumbs of surreal whimsy (A courageous cravat reads one entry in its entirety). Later entries become more diaristic, expansive and self-revealing. They include Camus's agonized ruminations on France´s war with his native Algeria, letters attacking French intellectuals´ Stalinist sympathies, observations on his wife's depression, an affecting homage to his ailing mother and elaborations on his project of rescuing humanism from ideology. The notebooks' atmospherics, like a Gaulois-hazed room, are serious and tinged with thoughts of suicide. But there are extended breaks in the angst—including luminous travelogues from sojourns in Greece—that reinforce Camus's stubborn determination to lead a meaningful life in an indifferent universe. (May 18)
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Ivan R. Dee
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2008
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288
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978-1566637756
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| For the poet, theorist, philosopher, playwright, actor, and director, Antonin Artaud, magic was always a central concept and positive force, capable of healing the rift between words and things, culture and life. But during his nine years of incarceration in mental asylums, magic seemed to lose its illuminating transformative power and to become demonic and persecutory. Artaud entered the realm of spectres and vampires which he believed were sucking the vitality from his mind and body. Artaud later filled twelve little exercise books with an account of his struggles to escape this physical, psychological and artistic hell. The first eleven books are filled with fragments of writing and extraordinary sketches of totemic figures, pierced bodies and enigmatic machines. Two months before his death, he took a twelfth exercise book and wrote a remarkable, incantatory text, 50 Drawings to Murder Magic. It was the last thing he wrote.
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50 Drawings to Murder Magic
50 dessins pour assassiner la magie
by Antonin Artaud &
Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith
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Gallimard
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Seagull Books
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2008
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112
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29
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978-1905422661
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Beckett before Beckett
Samuel Beckett´s Lectures on French Literature
Beckett avant la lettre
by Brigitte Le Juez
Translated by Ros Schwartz
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Samuel Beckett lectured on modern French literature at his old university, Trinity College, in 1930-31 but those lectures are not widely known and have rarely been studied. This is one of the least known periods of Beckett´s life. He had just returned from Paris where he had met James Joyce and had started his literary career but had not yet written his first novel.
Beckett before Beckett reveals Beckett´s own history of French literature and his understanding of the origins of the modern literature of his time. |
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Grasset & Fasquelle
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Souvenir Press
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2008
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80
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12 £
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9-780285-638129
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