Title search results
Showing 1 - 20 of 48 items
Adieu vive clarté
By Jorge Semprun. 1998
"Ce livre est le récit de la découverte de l'adolescence et de l'exil, des mystères de Paris, du monde, de…
la féminité. Aussi, surtout sans doute, de l'appropriation de la langue française. L'expérience de Buchenwald n'y est pour rien, n'y porte aucune ombre. Aucune lumière non plus..."You're sending me where?: dispatches from summer camp
By Eric Dregni. 2017
Tacomba
By Nicole Caligaris. 2000
C'est une idée fixe : hobby, manie du voyage, nous partons, promis à la tristesse océanique des pèlerins du dimanche…
qui vont au bord du quai se faire une idée de l'horizon, alors que la contemplation du large nous rend non pas méditatifs mais malheureux profondément, mais objets d'un spleen sans mesure. Notre regard n'est pas fait pour courir hors limites, non. Notre regard est fait pour les immeubles, pour les toits de la ville, pour les parois montagneuses où accrocher ses rêves et ses ambitions. Et nous partons voir le désert, nous partons voir l'océan. -- 4e de couvWhat to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness
By Candia McWilliam. 2010
The British literary sensation—“the most startling, discomforting, complicated, ungovernable, hilarious and heart-rending of memoirs ” (The Telegraph)—the story of a…
celebrated writer’s sudden descent into blindness, and of the redemptive journey into the past that her loss of sight sets in motion. Candia McWilliam, whose novels A Case of Knives, A Little Stranger, and Debatable Land made her a reader favorite throughout the United Kingdom and around the world, here breaks her decade-long silence with a searing, intimate memoir that fans of Lorna Sage’s Bad Blood, Mary Karr’s Lit, and Diana Athill’s Somewhere Toward the End will agree “cements her status as one of our most important literary writers beyond question” (Financial Times).Le mort qu'il faut
By Jorge Semprun. 2001
Dans ce livre, l'auteur poursuit sa réflexion sur les camps de concentration, c'est-à-dire sur la vie et la mort, sur…
la condition humaine, sur l'erreur des hommes de foi, et sur l'horreur du monde. (J. Folch-Ribas)La femme rompue ; L'âge de discrétion ; Monologue (Soleil #223)
By Simone De Beauvoir. 1967
Trois récits, les "voix de trois femmes qui se débattent avec des mots dans des situations sans issue" (S. de…
Beauvoir) aux prises avec la jalousie, la vieillesse, l'isolement, l'échec professionnel, la déception causée par les enfants, etc. [SDMLa lumière du monde
By Christian Bobin. 2001
L'amant en culottes courtes: roman (Fiction & cie)
By Alain Fleischer. 2006
"Si ce livre peut être considéré comme un roman, c'est dans la mesure où toute initiation, toute expérience formatrice, entre…
en dialogue avec l'imagination dès le moment vécu, puis dans le souvenir et tout au long de l'existence. Dans ce récit strictement autobiographique, tout l'effort consiste à retrouver et à restituer avec leurs composantes contradictoires les circonstances, l'état d'esprit, les états de corps, les sentiments, les sensations, les pulsions, d'une aventure amoureuse et sexuelle qui est celle de la première fois. Cela se passe à Londres en juillet 1957, alors que l'auteur, âgé de treize ans, séjourne dans une famille pour apprendre la langue anglaise. Pendant quelques jours, cohabitent violemment dans le même être le désir érotique pour une jeune fille de sept ans son aînée, et la volonté farouche de rester un petit garçon en culottes courtes, attaché à son univers d'enfance." -- 4e de couvOn writing
By Charles Bukowski. 2015
Collection of previously unpublished correspondence by the author of Pulp (DB 40326) and The Pleasures of the Damned (DB 66380),…
discussing the art of creation with publishers, editors, friends, and peers. Shares the joys and tribulations of not only writing, but writing for publication. 2015The Waterfront Journals
By David Wojnarowicz. 2014
Voices from the margins of American life tell tales of trickery, betrayal, sex, and defeat in these short monologues by…
&“a spokesman for the unspeakable&” (New York magazine). In his full but regrettably brief lifetime, David Wojnarowicz was many things: a visual and performance artist whose radical work incensed the right-wing establishment, a tireless AIDS and anticensorship activist, and, most emphatically, a writer. His Waterfront Journals are a remarkable collection of fictionalized stories spoken in the voices of unforgettable characters the author met during his time spent living on America&’s streets and traveling her back roads. The narrators speak from the heart and from the depths of despair, creating an often shocking and powerfully moving mosaic of life in the shadows. Here are junkies and boy hustlers, truckers and hoboes. A runner tells of his encounter with two drug-using priests who openly and proudly discuss their various sexual exploits. Whores tell of johns who brutalized them and corrupt cops who did the same. A young man relays his tale of a seedy movie balcony pickup and his shocking discovery that his &“date&” was not who she seemed. Another man describes sex with an amputee Vietnam veteran. Each of their stories stuns with hard and haunting truths that will leave the reader staggered and breathless, yet exhilarated. From a Lambda Literary Award winner and the subject of a new documentary by Chris McKim, these are &“dispatches from that region of dissolute grace at the city&’s edge&” (Time Out New York).Que signifie prendre racine, habiter un espace, le faire nôtre, le transformer à notre image et, en retour, devenir autre…
sous son influence?? En somme, que signifie devenir «?habitant?»?? Le terme a longtemps été péjoratif chez nous. À tort. Il n’y a pas de plus beau destin que celui d’habiter pleinement un lieu. Ce petit livre en témoigne.Matar el nervio
By Anna Pazos. 2023
Matar el nervio es una descarnada revisión de una juventud que está llegando a su final. «La turbulencia de en…
medio es difícil de explicar. Queremos pensar que las decisiones irracionales las toman los demás y que nosotros actuamos con entereza, lucidez y amor propio. Después nos encontramos en medio del ciclón y el mundo se pone del revés. Lo quedesde fuera parece una profanación imperdonable tiene ahora una explicación plausible. La decisión recta y evidente ahora resulta cobarde y la que habríamos dicho que implicaba negación y abyección denota generosidad y grandeza de espíritu». Matar el nervio es la descarnada revisión de una juventud que busca su final. Es el lugar de expiación de una década vital, la de losveinte, ansiosa por obtener respuestas. Son fragmentos de una autobiografía sin secretos donde la literatura se funde con la vida. Un nervio indómito, huidizo, caprichoso, conducirá a la autora a Grecia, Israel, Turquía y Estados Unidos para finalmente sumergirse en la historia de su propia familia. Su atracción por los personajes extremos hará el resto.La mirada de Anna Pazos es desafiante e incisiva: periodística. Liberada y talentosa, osada y fiestera, Pazos abre interrogantes que deja flotando en una atmosfera formada por la potencia portentosa de su escritura. Quién sabe si, sin pretenderlo, ha escrito un retrato generacional de primer orden.Night Shift
By Debi Gliori. 2017
&“Scottish author and illustrator Debi Gliori's small but mighty picture book, Night Shift, is an eye-opening look at depression.&”—BookPage"A poignant,…
empathetic and ultimately hopeful book."—School Library Journal "By giving depression physical dimension, Gliori diffuses some of its strange, persistent power.&“—Publishers Weekly"Debi Gliori has given us all a powerful, and beautiful, gift with Night Shift."—Jay Asher, author of Thirteen Reasons Why and Piper, his first graphic novel, which he coauthored"It's a masterpiece.&”—David Walliams, bestselling children's author From beloved author and illustrator Debi Gliori (No Matter What) comes Night Shift, a groundbreaking lushly illustrated picture book based on Gliori's own personal history with depression.Fighting dragons is one way of fighting depression. This book is another. Through stunning black and white illustration and deceptively simple text, author and illustrator Debi Gliori provides a fascinating and absorbing portrait of depression and hope in Night Shift, a moving picture book about a young girl haunted by dragons. The young girl battles the dragons using 'night skills': skills that give her both the ability to survive inside her own darkness and the knowledge that nothing—not even long, dark nights filled with monsters—will last forever. Drawn from Gliori's own experiences and struggles with depression, the book concludes with a moving author's note explaining how depression has affected her and how she continues to cope. Gliori hopes that by sharing her own experience she can help others who suffer from depression, and to find that subtle shift that will show the way out. A brave and powerful book, give Night Shift to dragon fighters young and old, and any reader who needs to know they're not alone.Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey
By Gb Tran. 2010
A superb new graphic memoir in which an inspired artist/storyteller reveals the road that brought his family to where they…
are today: Vietnamerica GB Tran is a young Vietnamese American artist who grew up distant from (and largely indifferent to) his family&’s history. Born and raised in South Carolina as a son of immigrants, he knew that his parents had fled Vietnam during the fall of Saigon. But even as they struggled to adapt to life in America, they preferred to forget the past—and to focus on their children&’s future. It was only in his late twenties that GB began to learn their extraordinary story. When his last surviving grandparents die within months of each other, GB visits Vietnam for the first time and begins to learn the tragic history of his family, and of the homeland they left behind. In this family saga played out in the shadow of history, GB uncovers the root of his father&’s remoteness and why his mother had remained in an often fractious marriage; why his grandfather had abandoned his own family to fight for the Viet Cong; why his grandmother had had an affair with a French soldier. GB learns that his parents had taken harrowing flight from Saigon during the final hours of the war not because they thought America was better but because they were afraid of what would happen if they stayed. They entered America—a foreign land they couldn&’t even imagine—where family connections dissolved and shared history was lost within a span of a single generation.In telling his family&’s story, GB finds his own place in this saga of hardship and heroism. Vietnamerica is a visually stunning portrait of survival, escape, and reinvention—and of the gift of the American immigrants&’ dream, passed on to their children. Vietnamerica is an unforgettable story of family revelation and reconnection—and a new graphic-memoir classic.Los abrazos lentos: Esbozos, reflexiones y vida
By Elísabet Benavent. 2022
MÁS DE 3.600.000 EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS «Las palabras son abrazos y aquí van los míos:Un recopilatorio de lo sentido, imaginado y…
vivido en los últimos años». ELÍSABET BENAVENT «Las palabras son para mí un salvavidas; una forma de vivir, un puñado de abrazos lentos».Elísabet Benavent Elísabet Benavent (Valencia, 1984). La publicación de la Saga Valeria en 2013 la catapultó a la escena literaria y se convirtió en un auténtico fenómeno. Desde entonces ha escrito 22 novelas. Algunas han sido traducidas a varios idiomas y publicadas en diez países. En 2020 la serie Valeria se estrenó en Netflix en más de 190 países y batió records de audiencia. En 2021 se estrenó con gran éxito la película Fuimos canciones, inspirada en la Bilogía Canciones y recuerdos. Sus libros llevan vendidos más de 3.600.000 ejemplares.Trece sentidos: una memoria
By Victor Villaseñor, Victor Villasenor. 2001
Abriendo con las bodas de oro de Lupe y Salvador, la familia Villaseñor vive con la pobreza, volencia y perjuicios…
de la gran Depresión en el sur de California. La familia se sostiene con amor, humor y alegría de vivir. Sigue a Lluvia de Oro (RC 50714). Contiene descripciones de índole sexual, de violencia y lenguaje injuriosoWings of madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the invention of flight
By Paul Hoffman. 2003
Author of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (RC 48056) examines the life and work of Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932), the…
Brazilian-born aeronautical pioneer whose dirigibles captivated Paris. Hoffman highlights Santos-Dumont's aerial accomplishments, role in the race for manned flight, and despair at the destructive power of militarized aircraft during World War I. 2003Jesus land: a memoir
By Julia Scheeres. 2005
Blonde-haired Julia fondly recalls David, her adoptive black brother, and recounts their experiences surviving family violence and a stay at…
a Christian reform school in the Dominican Republic. Explicit descriptions of sex, strong language, and some violence. Alex Award. 2005Blueberry summers: growing up at the lake
By Curtiss Anderson. 2008
In this classic story of a midwestern boyhood, Curtiss Anderson takes readers into the colorful lives of his robust Norwegian…
family and their wonderfully familiar summerscape in northern Minnesota: the lake place. Sweet childhood reminiscences comprise this coming-of-age memoir set in the poignant summers of the 1930s and '40sThe opposite of loneliness: essays and stories
By Marina Keegan. 2014
Collection of essays and short stories by Keegan (1989-2012), who was killed in a car accident five days after her…
college graduation. In the title essay--which appeared in the graduation issue of the Yale Daily News--she reflects on the bright future awaiting the graduates. Bestseller. 2014