The Planetarium
Title | The Planetarium PDF eBook |
Author | Nathalie Sarraute |
Publisher | Deep Vellum Publishing |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2023-01-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1628974176 |
A young writer has his heart set on his aunt's large apartment. With this seemingly simple conceit, the characters of The Planetarium are set in orbit and a galaxy of argument, resentment, and bitterness erupts. Telling the story from various points of view, Sarraute focuses below the surface, on the emotional lives of the characters in a way that surpasses even Virginia Woolf. Always deeply engaging, The Planetarium reveals the deep disparity between the way we see ourselves and the way others see us.
Esther Happy
Title | Esther Happy PDF eBook |
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | Good Press |
Pages | 143 |
Release | 2021-04-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
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"Esther Happy" is one of the four parts of the serial novel, "The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (also known as, "A Harlot High and Low,") a novel by French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Lucien de Rubempré and Carlos Herrera (Vautrin) have made a pact, in which Lucien will arrive at success in Paris if he agrees to follow Vautrin's instructions blindly. Esther van Gobseck throws a wrench into Vautrin's best-laid plans, however, because Lucien falls in love with her and she with him. One night, however, the incredibly rich banker Baron de Nucingen spots Esther and falls deeply in love with her. When Vautrin realizes that Nucingen's obsession is with Esther, he decides to use her power as a tool to help advance Lucien by extrapolating the maximum amount of money from the Baron as possible. Something that will result in a series of tragic results...
In the Grip of Minos
Title | In the Grip of Minos PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Senior |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Drama |
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Following Trent, a new mode of confession makes its appearance, a baroque discourse in which "the heart speaks to the heart." Senior argues that Corneille similarly creates a new kind of hero who distinguishes himself as much by the confessional trial of self-statement as by his military exploits. In the work of Racine, Senior notes, Minos appears again, tormenting the conscience of Phedre.
Traveling in French Cinema
Title | Traveling in French Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Sylvie Blum-Reid |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2016-02-25 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1137553545 |
Travel narratives abound in French cinema since the 1980s. This study delineates recurrent travel tropes in films such as departures and returns, the chase, the escape, nomadic wandering, interior voyages, the unlikely travel, rituals, pilgrimages, migrants' narratives and emergencies, women's travel, and healing narratives.
A Short History of French Literature
Title | A Short History of French Literature PDF eBook |
Author | George Saintsbury |
Publisher | |
Pages | 626 |
Release | 1884 |
Genre | French literature |
ISBN |
The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus
Title | The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus PDF eBook |
Author | Nostradamus Nostradamus |
Publisher | General Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-08 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9789354994432 |
Nostradamus (Michel de Nostradame) was born on December 14, 1503 in St. Remy, Provence, France. Nostradamus came from a long line of Jewish doctors and scholars. He is considered by many as one of the most famous and important writers of history prophecies. He is famous mainly for his book 'The Prophecies, ' consisting of quarantine in rhyme. Supporters of the trustworthiness of these prophecies attribute to Nostradamus the ability to predict an incredible number of events in world history, including the French Revolution, the Atomic bomb, the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the attacks of 11 September 2001. However, no one has ever proved that Nostradamus's quarters can provide reliable data for the foreseeable future. Nostradamus had the visions which he later recorded in verse while staring into water or flame late at night, sometimes aided by herbal stimulants, while sitting on a brass tripod. The resulting quatrains (four line verses) are oblique and elliptical, and use puns, anagrams and allegorical imagery. Most of the quatrains are open to multiple interpretations, and some make no sense whatsoever. Some of them are chilling, literal descriptions of events, giving specific or near-specific names, geographic locations, astrological configurations, and sometimes actual dates. It is this quality of both vagueness and specificity which allows each new generation to reinterpret Nostradamus.
Les Tragiques...
Title | Les Tragiques... PDF eBook |
Author | Agrippa d' Aubigné |
Publisher | |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 2013-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781314964714 |