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La Femme d'En Haut

Autor: Claire Messud

Número de Páginas: 279

Nora ressemble à votre voisine du dessus, celle qui vous sourit chaleureusement dans l’escalier mais dont vous ignorez tout. Lorsque la belle Sirena, accompagnée de son mari et de son fils, fait irruption dans son existence d’institutrice dévouée, elle réveille un flot de sentiments longtemps réprimés. Mais échappe-t-on réellement au statut de femme de second plan ? Claire Messud brise avec acidité le mythe de la femme sans histoires, pour la révéler grinçante et en colère, habitée d’espoirs fous et, inévitablement, de fracassantes désillusions.

L'étrange tumulte de nos vies

Autor: Claire Messud

Número de Páginas: 400

Juin 1940, Paris tombe aux mains des Allemands. Gaston Cassar décide de rester à son poste d’attaché naval à Salonique et de renvoyer sa femme Lucienne et leurs enfants, François et Suzanne, en Algérie pour les mettre à l’abri. Mais pour cette famille pied-noir, survivre à la guerre ne signifie pas d’en être épargnée. Les Cassar vont vivre ballotés par les événements de l’Histoire, sans jamais vraiment s’ancrer nulle part après leur départ de l’Afrique du Nord. La famille sera toujours séparée par un océan. Tandis que Suzanne, célibataire endurcie, vit auprès de ses parents, François cherche à reproduire le mythe de l’amour idéal, si puissamment incarné par la génération précédente, en épousant la Canadienne Barbara, une femme qui vient d’un tout autre monde que lui. Plus tard, il reviendra à leur fille Chloe de raconter cette quête familiale du bonheur – souvent contrariée par la politique, la foi ou le désir – et d’un endroit où se sentir chez soi. Couvrant sept décennies d’Histoire sur quatre continents, Claire Messud nous offre les plaisirs de lecture d’une saga familiale et parvient en même temps à nous plonger...

Les enfants de l'empereur

Autor: Claire Messud

Número de Páginas: 484

Nouvelle édition en 2018

La fille qui brûle

Autor: Claire Messud

Número de Páginas: 193

Julia et Cassie se connaissent depuis toujours. Amies siamoises, copines jumelles, elles savent tout l'une de l'autre et se fraient ensemble leur chemin vers l'adolescence. L'été précédant leur entrée en cinquième, elles fuient leur petite ville de Royston, dans le Massachusetts, par le biais de l'imagination. Enfoui au milieu d'une forêt subsiste un ancien asile dans lequel elles s'inventent des vies dangereuses. Et puis le quotidien reprend son cours, elles ne sont plus dans la même classe, se font de nouveaux amis et s'éloignent peu à peu. Élève studieuse, Julia se prépare pour le concours d'éloquence tandis que Cassie entame de mauvaises fréquentations. Julia observe, impuissante, son amie de toujours lui échapper et se fondre dans la peau, à vif, de quelqu'un qu'elle ne reconnait pas. Jusqu'à ce que Cassie disparaisse. Claire Messud brosse un tableau sombre et envoûtant de l'adolescence à l'ère des réseaux sociaux et dans lequel parents et enfants font l'apprentissage de la séparation, de l'incompréhension, avant de tenter d'écrire leur propre version de l'histoire.

The Last Life

Autor: Claire Messud

Número de Páginas: 417

A “mesmerizing” novel of a family falling apart by the New York Times bestselling author of The Burning Girl. Set in colonial Algeria, the south of France, and New England, and narrated by a fifteen-year-old girl with a ruthless regard for the truth, The Last Life is the tale of the LaBasse family, whose quiet integrity is shattered by the shots from a grandfather’s rifle. As their world suddenly begins to crumble, long-hidden shame emerges: a son abandoned by the family before he was even born, a mother whose identity is not what she has claimed, and a father whose act of defiance brings Hotel Bellevue—the family business—to its knees. From the PEN/Faulkner Award-nominated author of The Emperor’s Children, named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review, this novel skillfully reveals how the stories we tell ourselves, and the lies to which we cling, can turn on us in a moment. “[A] tour de force . . . every step feels stunningly sure.” —Vogue

La fille qui brûle

Autor: Claire Messud

Número de Páginas: 256

Julia et Cassie se connaissent depuis toujours. Amies siamoises, copines jumelles, elles savent tout l'une de l'autre et se fraient ensemble leur chemin vers l'adolescence. L'été précédant leur entrée en cinquième, elles fuient leur petite ville de Royston, dans le Massachusetts, par le biais de l'imagination. Enfoui au milieu d'une forêt subsiste un ancien asile dans lequel elles s'inventent des vies dangereuses. Et puis le quotidien reprend son cours, elles ne sont plus dans la même classe, se font de nouveaux amis et s'éloignent peu à peu. Elève studieuse, Julia se prépare pour le concours d'éloquence tandis que Cassie entame de mauvaises fréquentations. Julia observe, impuissante, son amie de toujours lui échapper et se fondre dans la peau, à vif, de quelqu'un qu'elle ne reconnait pas. Jusqu'à ce que Cassie disparaisse. Claire Messud brosse un tableau sombre et envoûtant de l'adolescence à l'ère des réseaux sociaux et dans lequel parents et enfants font l'apprentissage de la séparation, de l'incompréhension, avant de tenter d'écrire leur propre version de l'histoire.

Eat Joy

Autor: Natalie Eve Garrett

Número de Páginas: 209

Named a Best Cookbook of the Year by Martha Stewart Living "Magnificent illustrations add spirit to recipes and heartfelt narratives. Plan to buy two copies—one for you and one for your best foodie friend." —Taste of Home This collection of intimate, illustrated essays by some of America’s most well–regarded literary writers explores how comfort food can help us cope with dark times—be it the loss of a parent, the loneliness of a move, or the pain of heartache. Lev Grossman explains how he survived on “sweet, sour, spicy, salty, unabashedly gluey” General Tso’s tofu after his divorce. Carmen Maria Machado describes her growing pains as she learned to feed and care for herself during her twenties. Claire Messud tries to understand how her mother gave up dreams of being a lawyer to make “a dressed salad of tiny shrimp and avocado, followed by prune–stuffed pork tenderloin.” What makes each tale so moving is not only the deeply personal revelations from celebrated writers, but also the compassion and healing behind the story: the taste of hope. "If you've ever felt a deep, emotional connection to a recipe or been comforted by food during a dark time, you'll fall ...

Un vide, en Soi

Autor: Marc Verlynde

Número de Páginas: 98

Par un jeu de collages, emprunts, détournements et liens, Un vide, en Soi réfléchit aux représentations du vide inventées dans la littérature contemporaine. Marc Verlynde interroge les inquiétudes qui creusent notre présent par le rapprochement de certains des aspects essentiels du vide croisés dans quelques textes marquants parus ces dernières années.

Literary Globalism

Autor: Carolyn A. Durham

Número de Páginas: 284

"Johnson's Le Divorce and Le Mariage allow for a consideration of the profound changes that the international novel of Henry James has undergone in a globalized world of altered Franco-American cultural relations. Tremain's The Way I Found Her illustrates the use of cultural borrowing to create an international corpus of texts and a cosmopolitan community of readers. Harris's Chocolat and Blackberry Wine reveal her metaphoric use of the space of provincial France to represent postmodernity as a world of mobility and rootlessness.

In Praise of Profanity

Autor: Michael Adams

Número de Páginas: 273

When President Obama signed the affordable health care act in 2009, the Vice President was overheard to utter an enthusiastic "This is a big f****** deal!" A town in Massachusetts levies $20 fines on swearing in public. Nothing is as paradoxical as our attitude toward swearing and "bad language": how can we judge profanity so harshly in principle, yet use it so frequently in practice? Though profanity is more acceptable today than ever, it is still labeled as rude, or at best tolerable only under specific circumstances. Cursing, many argue, signals an absence of character, or poor parenting, and is something to avoid at all costs. Yet plenty of us are unconcerned about the dangers of profanity; bad words are commonly used in mainstream music, Academy Award-winning films, books, and newspapers. And of course, regular people use them in conversation every day. In In Praise of Profanity, Michael Adams offers a provocative, unapologetic defense of profanity, arguing that we've oversimplified profanity by labeling it as taboo. Profanity is valuable, even essential, both as a vehicle of communication and an element of style. As much as we may deplore it in some contexts, we should...

The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf

Autor: Anne E. Fernald

Número de Páginas: 689

A Handbook on Woolf's achievements as an innovative novelist and pioneering feminist theorist. It studies her life, her works, her relationships with other writers, her professional career, and themes in her work including among others feminism, sexuality, education, and class.

Brexit and Literature

Autor: Robert Eaglestone

Número de Páginas: 267

Brexit is a political, economic and administrative event: and it is a cultural one, too. In Brexit and Literature, Robert Eaglestone brings together a diverse range of literary scholars, writers and poets to respond to this aspect of Brexit. The discipline of ‘English’, as the very name suggests, is concerned with cultural and national identity: literary studies has always addressed ideas of nationalism and the wider political process. With the ramifications of Brexit expected to last for decades to come, Brexit and Literature offers the first academic study of its impact on and through the humanities. Including a preface from Baroness Young of Hornsey, Brexit and Literature is a bold and unapologetic volume, focusing on the immediate effects of the divisive referendum while meditating on its long-term impact.

Disruptive Women of Literature

Autor: Eleanore Gardner

Número de Páginas: 237

Disruptive Women of Literature: Rooting for the Antiheroine critically examines the representation of the literary antiheroine in contemporary Gothic and crime-thriller novels and traces her emergence from the deviant women of Greek mythology and Shakespeare to the twenty-first century. It explores how the antiheroine shifts dependent on genre, time period, and format, demonstrating that she is capable of both challenging and reaffirming problematic ideologies surrounding women, power, violence, sexuality, and motherhood. Eleanore Gardner argues that the antiheroine is almost always defined by her experience of a patriarchal trauma and must therefore navigate her identity differently and more complexly than her antihero counterpart. The author examines a broad range of texts to understand the antiheroine’s fluidity, her liminal and abject existence, and what these suggest about cultural anxieties surrounding transgressive women.

3 Minutes or Less

Autor: Pen/faulkner Foundation,

Número de Páginas: 386

An anthology of never-before-published short essays by America's literary greats. Each October at the PEN Gala, well-known authors take the stage of the Folger Shakespeare Library's Theatre to ponder the meaning of such universal mysteries as "obsession," "illusion," "first love," and more. Each author is given only three minutes or less to speak. The results have been unpredictable--clever, confessional, inspiring, hilarious, profound, and all of them entertaining. These essays have been transcribed for the first time, and comprise this unique anthology. Among the authors are: Russell Banks, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Annie Dillard, Gail Godwin, Allan Gurganus, Jane Hamilton, Alice Hoffman, Susan Isaacs, Charles Johnson, William Kennedy, Chang-rae Lee, Larry McMurtry, Sue Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, George Plimpton, Francine Prose, Maurice Sendak, Anita Shreve, Jane Smiley, William Styron, Deborah Tannen, John Edgar Wideman.

Freeman's: Family

Autor: John Freeman

Número de Páginas: 246

A diverse anthology of new fiction, essays, poetry, and photography exploring the subject of family from this “illustrious new literary journal” (Vogue.com). Following his acclaimed debut issue of collected writing on the theme of “Arrival,” the renowned editor and critic John Freeman circles a topic of constantly shifting definitions and endless fascination for writers: family. In an essay called “Crossroads,” Aminatta Forna muses on the legacy of slavery as she settles her family in Washington, DC—a place where she is routinely accused of cutting in line when she stands next to her white husband. Award-winning novelist Claire Vaye Watkins delivers a stunning portrait of a woman in the throes of postpartum depression. Booker Prize winner Marlon James takes the focus off absent fathers to write about his mother, who calls to sing him happy birthday every year. Novelist Claire Messud’s writes of the two four-legged tyrants in her home; Sandra Cisneros muses about her extended family of past lovers; and Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his uncle’s desperate attempt to remain a communist despite decades in the Soviet gulag. With outstanding,...

True Nature

Autor: Lance Richardson

Número de Páginas: 769

The first biography of Peter Matthiessen, the novelist, naturalist, and Zen roshi, whose trailblazing work championed Native American rights and helped usher in the modern environmental movement, by award-winning writer Lance Richardson. "A stunning, formidable achievement by a brilliant biographer. Lance Richardson takes his readers on a wild ride with Peter Matthiessen."—Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American Prometheus Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), a towering figure of twentieth-century American letters, achieved so much during his lifetime, in so many different areas, that people have struggled to pin him down. While ambivalent about his WASP privilege—as a teenager he demanded that his name be removed from the New York Social Register—he attended Yale and cut his teeth in postwar Paris, co-founding The Paris Review as he worked undercover for the CIA. But then, after a rebellious stint as a Long Island fisherman, he escaped into a series of wild expeditions: floating through the Amazon to recover a prehistorical fossil; embedding with a tribe in Netherlands New Guinea; swimming with sharks off the coast of Australia. His novels, inspired by his travels, ...

The Best American Essays 2021

Autor: Robert Atwan

Número de Páginas: 257

Presents an anthology of the best literary essays published in the past year, selected from American periodicals.

Misreading Anita Brookner

Autor: Peta Mayer

Número de Páginas: 288

Anita Brookner was known for writing boring books about lonely, single women. Misreading Anita Brookner unlocks the mysteries of the Brookner heroine by creating entirely new ways to read six Brookner novels. Drawing on diverse intertextual sources, Peta Mayer illustrates how Brookner’s solitary twentieth-century women can also be seen as variations of queer nineteenth-century male artist archetypes.

Performing the Pied-Noir Family

Autor: Aoife Connolly

Número de Páginas: 235

The impact of the Algerian War (1954-1962) continues to resonate in France, where the subject was long repressed in the collective psyche. This book sheds new light on a memory community at the heart of the conflict: the million European settlers known as the pieds-noirs, who migrated to France as the war reached its bloody end. Aoife Connolly draws on theories of performativity to explore autobiographical and fictional narratives by the settlers in over 30 canonical and non-canonical works of literature and film produced from the colony’s imminent demise up to the present day. Connolly focuses on renewed attachment to the family in exile in a comprehensive analysis of settler masculinity, femininity, childhood, and adolescence that uncovers neglected representations, including homosexual and Jewish voices. Findings on the construction of a post-independence identity and collective memory have broader implications for communities affected by colonization and migration. Scholars of French Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender and Identity Studies, Memory Studies and Migration Studies will find this book particularly useful.