The Enchanted Clock
Title | The Enchanted Clock PDF eBook |
Author | Julia Kristeva |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2018-01-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0231542739 |
In the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the king’s engineer, Claude-Siméon Passemant. The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon and the movements of the planets, and it will tell time—hours, minutes, seconds, and even sixtieths of seconds—until the year 9999. Passemant’s clock brings the nature of time into sharp focus in Julia Kristeva’s intricate, poetic novel The Enchanted Clock. Nivi Delisle, a psychoanalyst and magazine editor, nearly drowns while swimming off the Île de Ré; the astrophysicist Theo Passemant fishes her out of the water. They become lovers. While Theo wonders if he is descended from the clockmaker Passemant, Nivi’s son Stan, who suffers from occasional comas, develops a passion for the remarkable clock at Versailles. Soon Nivi is fixated on its maker. But then the clock is stolen, and when a young writer for Nivi’s magazine mysteriously dies, the clock is found near his body. The Enchanted Clock combines past and present, jumping back and forth between points of view and across eras from eighteenth-century Versailles to the present day. Its stylistically inventive narrative voices bring both immediacy and depth to our understanding of consciousness. Nivi’s life resembles her creator’s in many respects, coloring Kristeva’s customary erudition with autobiographical poignancy. Part detective mystery, part historical fiction, The Enchanted Clock is a philosophically and linguistically multifaceted novel, full of poetic ruminations on memory, love, and the transcendence of linear time. It is one of the most illuminating works of one of France’s great writers and thinkers.
Enchanted Clock
Title | Enchanted Clock PDF eBook |
Author | Gibson Katrina (author) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780578962320 |
The Enchanted Time Traveller
Title | The Enchanted Time Traveller PDF eBook |
Author | Mal Mohanlal |
Publisher | Dr Mal Mohanlal |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Self-actualization (Psychology) |
ISBN | 9780646571577 |
The Enchanted Grandfather’s Clock
Title | The Enchanted Grandfather’s Clock PDF eBook |
Author | Charlotte Jones |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1291478086 |
Jamie's adventure begins with his summer holiday at Aunt Jane's Flamingo Pink cottage and the 'Twist of a Key' in an old wooden Grandfather's Clock. He can't believe he is faced with the 'Challenge of Chime' or the doom that will come if he does not complete all the challenges ahead of him successfully. Jamie delights in meeting his new friends especially the Time-Keeper who explains how he is the 'Chosen Guest' in their Enchanted Land. The evil Time-Taker has quite a different plan and is determined to see Jamie fail his mission. He plots to take the Crown of Cogs from the Time-Keeper and will not tolerate any child getting in his way.
Sleeping Hearts of Enchanted Clock
Title | Sleeping Hearts of Enchanted Clock PDF eBook |
Author | Marvina Erickson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 105 |
Release | 1998-03-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781552376744 |
The Clock, the Cloak and the Needles: The Stories of the Enchanted Items from Beneath the Morvan Moon
Title | The Clock, the Cloak and the Needles: The Stories of the Enchanted Items from Beneath the Morvan Moon PDF eBook |
Author | Courtney Mroch |
Publisher | Writers Exchange E-Publishing |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2017-05-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1922233870 |
Gretchen Lauterbach travels to Brevard, where she meets Zachary, an American ex-pat living in France who deals in antiquities...decidedly unusual antiquities. This collection of three short stories features the backstories of the cursed items from Beneath the Morvan Moon. In "Le Meneur Des Loups", Zachary possesses a cloak rumored to have the power to transform a man into a wolf that Pascal, a Brevardian, wants for his collection of lycanthropic memorabilia. Europeans have a history of suffering due to wolves. Thus it was wolves and werewolves, or loup garous, came to be among the most feared beasts in French folklore, as did Le Meneur de Loops, the Wizard of the Wolves, responsible for commanding the wolves on their missions of terror. But were the legends merely that? "The Clockmaker" tells the tale of a clock Zachary discovers in Pascal's shop that chimes only when Death is near. Finally, "Casting On, Binding Off" features a pair of knitting needles that almost kill Zachary.
The House With a Clock In Its Walls
Title | The House With a Clock In Its Walls PDF eBook |
Author | John Bellairs |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2004-08-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1101659718 |
A haunting gothic tale by master mysery writer John Bellairs--soon to be a major motion picture starring Cate Blanchett and Jack Black! "The House With a Clock in Its Walls will cast its spell for a long time."--The New York Times Book Review When Lewis Barnavelt, an orphan. comes to stay with his uncle Jonathan, he expects to meet an ordinary person. But he is wrong. Uncle Jonathan and his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zimmermann, are both magicians! Lewis is thrilled. At first, watchng magic is enough. Then Lewis experiments with magic himself and unknowingly resurrects the former owner of the house: a woman named Selenna Izard. It seems that Selenna and her husband built a timepiece into the walls--a clock that could obliterate humankind. And only the Barnavelts can stop it!