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King Kong Theory
King Kong Théorie
by Virginie Despentes
Translated by Stephanie Benson
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With humor, rage, and confessional detail, Virginie Despentes—in her own words “more King Kong than Kate Moss”—delivers a highly charged account of women´s lives today. She explodes common attitudes about sex and gender, and shows how modern beauty myths are ripe for rebelling against. Using her own experiences of rape, prostitution, and working in the porn industry as a jumping-off point, she creates a new space for all those who can´t or won´t obey the rules. |
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LGF
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The Feminist Press
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2010
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160
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15.95 $
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978-1558616578
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| In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. Félix Guattari was a political militant and the director of an unusual psychiatric clinic at La Borde. Their meeting was quite unlikely, yet the two were introduced in an arranged encounter of epic consequence. From that moment on, Deleuze and Guattari engaged in a surprising, productive partnership, collaborating on several groundbreaking works, including Anti-Oedipus, What Is Philosophy? and A Thousand Plateaus.François Dosse, a prominent French intellectual known for his work on the Annales School, structuralism, and biographies of the pivotal intellectuals Paul Ricoeur, Pierre Chaunu, and Michel de Certeau, examines the prolific if improbable relationship between two men of distinct and differing sensibilities. Drawing on unpublished archives and hundreds of personal interviews, Dosse elucidates a collaboration that lasted more than two decades, underscoring the role that family and history—particularly the turbulent time of May 1968—play in their monumental work. He also takes the measure of Deleuze and Guattari&cutes posthumous fortunes and the impact of their thought on intellectual, academic, and professional circles.François Dosse is a professor at the IUFM Creteil, Paris Institute for Political Studies, and at the Center for Cultural History, University of Versailles/Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. He has published several important books on intellectual history, including History of Structuralism: The Rising Sign, 1945-1966, and History of Structuralism: The Sign Sets, 1967-Present. Deborah Glassman is the author of several works on literature, education, and international development and is the translator of Dosse&cutes two books on structuralism. Based in Paris and Washington, D.C., she is currently living and working in Tunis for the African Development Bank. |
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Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives
Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari
by François Dosse
Translated by Deborah Glassman
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La Découverte
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Columbia University Press
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2010
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672
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37.5
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978-0231145602
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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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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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Letter to D
Lettre a D
by André Gorz
Translated by Julie Rose
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"You’re 82 years old. You’ve shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet you’re still beautiful, graceful and desirable" – so begins André Gorz’s ‘open love letter’ to the woman he has lived with for 58 years and who lies dying next to him.
As one of France’s leading post-war philosophers, André Gorz wrote many influential books, but nothing he wrote will be read as widely or remembered as long as this simple, passionate, beautiful letter to his dying wife.
It is impossible not to be moved by this exquisitely touching story, the ultimate love letter from a man to the woman he loves more than life itself, written after he discovers she is dying.
′I have to appreciate the story of our love piece by piece to appreciate its full meaning. It′s allowed us to become who we are now, living side by side, and only for each other ... Lately I′ve fallen in love with you all over again ...′
A year after Letter to D was published, a single sheet of paper pinned to the door for the cleaning lady marked the final chapter in a love affair that remained to the end as intense and passionate as their first encounter, love at first sight, almost 60 years before. In the bedroom lying peacefully side by side were the bodies of author André Gorz and his terminally ill wife Dorine. They simply could not have lived without each other.
But this book is not about death - it′s about life and love, and what a love.
Of all the millions of words André Gorz wrote as one of the 20th century′s leading social philosophers, pioneering ecologist and associate of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, none will be remembered as long as this beautiful and moving tribute to his lover and wife, Dorine. |
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Gallimard
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Polity Press
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2009
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144
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9.99 £
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0745646778
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