Le jour de travail
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Recueil de textes et de dessins à travers lesquels l'auteure partage ses pensées sur le concept du travail, adoptant dans ses écrits un ton direct mais non dépourvu d'humour et dans ses illustrations un style léger, au plus proche de ses émotions.
Le jour de travail
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Recueil de textes et de dessins à travers lesquels l'auteure partage ses pensées sur le concept du travail, adoptant dans ses écrits un ton direct mais non dépourvu d'humour et dans ses illustrations un style léger, au plus proche de ses émotions.
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Véhémente, compulsive et acidulée, la poésie directe de Maude Veilleux est embrassade totale de moments de délire ou de lucidité, désire changer le monde, mais se meut entre colère et résignation, quand le langage semble une frontière et non la solution.
Une sorte de lumière spéciale
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Véhémente, compulsive et acidulée, la poésie directe de Maude Veilleux est embrassade totale de moments de délire ou de lucidité, désire changer le monde, mais se meut entre colère et résignation, quand le langage semble une frontière et non la solution.
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In "Winterlust", a farmer painstakingly photographs five thousand snowflakes, each one dramatically different from the next. Indigenous peoples thrive on frozen terrain, where famous explorers perish. Icicles reach deep underwater, then explode. Rooms warmed by crackling fires fill with scents of cinnamon, cloves, and pine. Skis carve into powdery slopes, and iceboats(...)
Winterlust: finding beauty in the fiercest season
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In "Winterlust", a farmer painstakingly photographs five thousand snowflakes, each one dramatically different from the next. Indigenous peoples thrive on frozen terrain, where famous explorers perish. Icicles reach deep underwater, then explode. Rooms warmed by crackling fires fill with scents of cinnamon, cloves, and pine. Skis carve into powdery slopes, and iceboats traverse glacial lakes.
Literature and poetry
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In ''Doomed and famous,'' an obituarist opens his archive in celebration of the most marginal and improbable characters, creating a meta-fiction of extinction and obscurity. For many decades Adrian Dannatt tracked and dredged the dead, with a macabre disregard for the etiquette of mortality. His specialty, much in demand among even the most mainstream publications, was to(...)
Doomed and famous: selected obituaries
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In ''Doomed and famous,'' an obituarist opens his archive in celebration of the most marginal and improbable characters, creating a meta-fiction of extinction and obscurity. For many decades Adrian Dannatt tracked and dredged the dead, with a macabre disregard for the etiquette of mortality. His specialty, much in demand among even the most mainstream publications, was to memorialize those whose eccentricity or criminality made them unlikely candidates for the fleeting immortality of a newspaper necrology. Dannatt maintained a veritable lust, perverse certainly, for capturing and celebrating such wayward existences. This book is a selection of some of the best—meaning most improbable—of these miniature biographies.
Literature and poetry
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Alberto Manguel examines how literary characters live with us from childhood on. Throughout the years, they change their identities and emerge from behind their stories to teach us about the complexities of love, loss, and the world itself. Manguel’s favorite characters include Jim from ''Huckleberry Finn,'' Phoebe from ''The Catcher in the Rye,'' Job and Jonah from the(...)
Fabulous monsters: Dracula, Alice, Superman, and other literary friends
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Alberto Manguel examines how literary characters live with us from childhood on. Throughout the years, they change their identities and emerge from behind their stories to teach us about the complexities of love, loss, and the world itself. Manguel’s favorite characters include Jim from ''Huckleberry Finn,'' Phoebe from ''The Catcher in the Rye,'' Job and Jonah from the Bible, Little Red Riding Hood and Captain Nemo, Hamlet’s mother, and Dr. Frankenstein’s maligned Monster. Sharing his unique powers as a reader, Manguel encourages us to establish our own literary relationships.
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Nouveaux jeux intéressants
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Les ludophiles trouveront ici de quoi satisfaire leur passion : mots croisés ou carrés, cryptogrammes, rébus, séries défectives, problèmes logiques, anagrammes et autres jeux de lettres. Avec les solutions en fin d'ouvrage.
Nouveaux jeux intéressants
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Les ludophiles trouveront ici de quoi satisfaire leur passion : mots croisés ou carrés, cryptogrammes, rébus, séries défectives, problèmes logiques, anagrammes et autres jeux de lettres. Avec les solutions en fin d'ouvrage.
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Perec/rinations
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"J'aime Paris", "J'aime jouer" : avec ses deux amours cardinaux, Georges Perec a composé une ludique visite de la capitale, en autant d'étapes que d'arrondissements. Comme dans un jeu de piste, il y a des énigmes à résoudre, des questionnaires de culture générale, des exercices pédestres légèrement tordus (par exemple : comment aller de Faidherbe-Chaligny au cours de(...)
Perec/rinations
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"J'aime Paris", "J'aime jouer" : avec ses deux amours cardinaux, Georges Perec a composé une ludique visite de la capitale, en autant d'étapes que d'arrondissements. Comme dans un jeu de piste, il y a des énigmes à résoudre, des questionnaires de culture générale, des exercices pédestres légèrement tordus (par exemple : comment aller de Faidherbe-Chaligny au cours de Vincennes en empruntant six rues dont les noms commencent tous par la même lettre), qui nous plongent dans un Paris labyrinthe. Chaque arrondissement se décline de surcroît dans une grille de mots croisés (très coton)
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March 2014
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What time is it?
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The last book that John Berger wrote was this precious little volume about time titled What Time Is It?, now posthumously published for the first time in English by Notting Hill Editions. Berger died before it was completed, but the text has been assembled and illustrated by his longtime collaborator and friend Selçuk Demirel, and has an introduction by Maria Nadotti. (...)
What time is it?
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The last book that John Berger wrote was this precious little volume about time titled What Time Is It?, now posthumously published for the first time in English by Notting Hill Editions. Berger died before it was completed, but the text has been assembled and illustrated by his longtime collaborator and friend Selçuk Demirel, and has an introduction by Maria Nadotti. What Time Is It? is a profound and playful meditation on the illusory nature of time. Berger, the great art critic and Man Booker Prize–winning author, reflects on what time has come to mean to us in modern life. Our perception of time assumes a uniform and ceaseless passing of time, yet time is turbulent. It expands and contracts according to the intensity of the lived moment. We talk of time “saved” in a hundred household appliances; time, like money, is exchanged for the content it lacks. Berger posits the idea that time can lengthen lifetimes once we seize the present moment. “What-is-to-come, what-is-to-be-gained empties what-is.”
Literature and poetry
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When the Catastrophe occurred, part of humanity took refuge in the Greenhouses. They survived there, locked up for over a century, in the company of selected plants and animals. Outside, the wars exhausted themselves and the climate stabilized: the time came to reclaim the Earth. "Braids" tells the story of an expedition in this now foreign universe, and the reunion of(...)
Braids: memories of the narratocene
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When the Catastrophe occurred, part of humanity took refuge in the Greenhouses. They survived there, locked up for over a century, in the company of selected plants and animals. Outside, the wars exhausted themselves and the climate stabilized: the time came to reclaim the Earth. "Braids" tells the story of an expedition in this now foreign universe, and the reunion of the inhabitants of the Greenhouses with a humanity that has followed a different path.
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Lignes de fuite
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Un souper entre anciens amis du secondaire s'est étiré, et, peu à peu, les échangent dérapent. La réalité individuelle de ces jeunes trentenaires prend le pas sur les souvenirs chéris, et, soudain, les visions du monde se confrontent. Les partis pris sont dévoilés au grand jour, les visions de l'avenir, de la maternité et de l'amitié sont brouillées à jamais. Maniant(...)
Lignes de fuite
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Un souper entre anciens amis du secondaire s'est étiré, et, peu à peu, les échangent dérapent. La réalité individuelle de ces jeunes trentenaires prend le pas sur les souvenirs chéris, et, soudain, les visions du monde se confrontent. Les partis pris sont dévoilés au grand jour, les visions de l'avenir, de la maternité et de l'amitié sont brouillées à jamais. Maniant l'hyperréalisme avec une extrême précision, l'auteure dresse un portrait incisif du Québec d'aujourd'hui, de ses penchants politiques et de notre besoin urgent de trouver de véritables issues de secours.
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