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""Raison quittee"" rassemble des mots et des vers autour de la maladie d'Alzheimer qui efface lentement la conscience et la vie des hommes. Des mots et des vers sur l'impuissance face a l'absurdite d'une situation sans issue. Illustration de couverture: Marianic PARRA peinture 2010 ""Arrive"" acrylique 55-75 cm

Des poemes inedits en hommage a ces mots de Tagore Rabindranath: "" ... quand des yeux tendres nous contemplent et que des sourires nous envoient leurs messages, alors il esttemps pour vous, Poete, de livrer vos rythmes au vent, d'unir votre coeur a un coeur et vos levres a d'autres levres.

A la croisee de problematiques incompatibles et incoherentes, le debat sur la fin de la vie et sur l'euthanasie, veritable noeud gordien, est bloque. La poesie et sa parole ouverte s'invitent ici, a la fin de la vie de patients qui n'esperent plus etre gueris le plus vite possible."

Jean-Pierre Parra presente un poeme sur l'amour qui dit un etat different du rapport de force du monde pressenti par deux etres qui participent, sans y penser, a une autre realite. Illlustration de couverture: Marianic Parra sculpture 2009 ""Voyageuse de tous cotes"" 40-30-20 cm sable volcanique

This book is the "greatest hits" compilation of more than 100 French books, journals, papers and articles. It contains more than 15000 key French economic, legal, medical, military, political, scientific, sociological terms and colloquial phrases. It also contains important abbreviations. One look will convince you, the student or interpreter, of the value of this work!