An apocalyptic tale set in a nation ruled by Big Brother, where speech is doctored and thoughts are controlled by totalitarian agents. From the author of Animal Farm and Down and Out in Paris and London.
Anouilhs Bearbeitung des Antigone-Stoffes ist ein Klassiker des modernen französischen Theaters und eines seiner meistdiskutierten Stücke. Die zentrale Auseinandersetzung zwischen der Titelheldin und Kreon über Leben und Tod, Staatsräson und individuelle Freiheit hat zu immer neuen Deutungsversuchen geführt und sich doch jeder abschließenden Festlegung entzogen. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.
À Cuba, le vieux Santiago ne remonte plus grand-chose dans ses filets, à peine de quoi survivre. Seul Manolin, un jeune garçon, croit encore en lui. Désespéré, Santiago décide de partir pêcher en pleine mer. Un énorme espadon mord à l'hameçon...
Combat de l'homme et de la nature, roman du courage et de l'espoir, Le vieil homme et la mer est un des plus grands livres de la littérature américaine.
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster?! Or is he all of these?
Bilingue Série italienne dirigée par Christian Bec Les ouvrages de la collection bilingue vous proposent :
- des textes de grands auteurs étrangers ;
- une traduction fidèle et précise, sans être étroitement littérale ;
- une introduction critique permettant d'approfondir le sens des textes ;
- de nombreuses notes de caractère culturel, et des précisions linguistiques éclairant certains partis pris de traduction.
La collection bilingue permet ainsi au plus grand nombre d'accéder à une réelle compréhension des littératures et donc des cultures étrangères.
Le K Il Colombre Traduction de Jacqueline Remillet.
Introduction et notes de François Livi.
Half German, half Russian, Hel was raised by a Japanese general and survived Hiroshima to become a mystic, a master of the senses, and the most deadly assassin in the world. Nicholai has left his past behind him to live a life of isolation in a remote mountain fortress, determined to attain a state of effortless perfection known as shibumi. Then Hannah Stern arrives at his door. Hannah needs protection from a sinister organization known as the Mother Company. But, as Hel knows all too well, they are not easy to escape. And now they're coming after him too. The battle lines are drawn: ruthless power and corruption on one side, and on the other...shibumi.
Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe
Blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat's efforts to renounce sensual and material pleasures and discover spiritual truths.
Forced by the sudden death of her father to act as paid companion to the comical - and tiresome - Mrs Van Hopper, our herione meets handsome widower Maxim de Winter on a trip to Monaco and accepts his sudden marriage proposal. But she is unprepared for the shadows cast by his past.
The Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sula presents the story of embittered Korean War veteran Frank Money, who struggles against trauma and racism to rescue his medically abused sister and work through identity-shattering memories. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
Une mère de famille s'est enfuie avec un jeune homme sur un coup de tête! Ce scandale rappelle à une vieille Anglaise une autre histoire de coup de foudre : des années plus tôt, au casino de Monte-Carlo, Mrs. C. a rencontré un homme qui en vingt-quatre heures a fait basculer le cours de sa vie.
Roman de la passion amoureuse, Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'une femme est un grand classique de la littérature du XXe siècle.
Moby Dick, la terrible baleine blanche ! Depuis qu'elle l'a privé d'une jambe, le capitaine Achab s'est juré de se venger. Ignorant tous les présages funestes, il entraîne pendant de longs mois l'équipage du Pequod dans une folle poursuite à travers les océans.
Examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later. This book explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limits of self, leave civilization behind and seek enlightenment through solitude.
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous paths. Four Fergusons will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and passions contrast. Each version of Ferguson's story rushes across the fractured terrain of mid-twentieth century America, in this sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself.
Emma Bovary yearns for a life of luxury and passion of the kind she reads about in romantic novels. But life with her country doctor husband in the provinces is unutterably boring, and she embarks on love affairs to realize her fantasies. This new translation by Margaret Mauldon perfectly captures Flaubert's distinctive style.
Eureka Street is a story of Belfast in the 1990s, six months before and after another ceasefire. It is the story of Chuckie Lurgan, fat, Protestant and poor, who suddenly becomes wealthy by various legal but immoral means; Meanwhile the strange letters 'OTG' start appearing on walls and paving stones throughout the city.
Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich - chief of the Nazi secret services, 'the hangman of Prague', 'the blond beast', 'the most dangerous man in the Third Reich'.
à l'occasion de la sortie de "La Beauté et l'Enfer" aux éditions Robert Laffont, la collection « Pavillons poche » réédite "Le Contraire de la mort" en édition bilingue. Ce livre réunit deux textes qui se dressent contre la violence des hommes en général et celle de la mafia en particulier. Le premier, « Le contraire de la mort », raconte le deuil d'une jeune fille de dix-sept ans, Maria, Orphée moderne au féminin, qui a vu partir son amoureux Enzo pour l'Afghanistan ? il voulait ainsi échapper à l'emprise de la camorra ?, dont il ne reviendra pas. L'autre récit, « La bague », fait le portrait de deux jeunes gens, Giuseppe et Vincenzo, qui, parce qu'ils ont choisi d'exercer un vrai métier et refusent de faire le jeu de la camorra, sont condamnés à la misère. Dans les deux cas, Roberto Saviano interroge la mémoire et le temps, la mort et l'amour. Il évoque la confusion des sentiments, la quête d'une identité. Son écriture très réaliste, capable aussi de passer à la dimension du mythe, émeut profondément.
Modern fictionA major publishing event; the first paperback publication of a lost masterpiece written in France in 1941, telling the story of a group of characters living under the Nazi occupation. The author died in Auschwitz in 1942, and was awarded the prestigious Prix Renaudot in 2005 - the first time that the prize has been awarded posthumously. 'A book of exceptional literary quality, it has the kind of intimacy found in the diary of Anne Frank' TLS. 'One of those rare books that demands to be read' Helen Dunmore Guardian. An audio edition is also published this month.
'Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.' Virginia Woolf's delightful biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, which asks what it means to be human - and to be dog. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Zola's masterpiece of working life, "Germinal" (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. The central figure, Etienne Lantier, is an outsider who enters the community and eventually leads his fellow-miners in a strike protesting against pay-cuts.
