Suzanne et Louise, n.é.
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Suzanne et Louise, publié en 1980, raconte la vie de deux soeurs, l'une veuve, l'autre célibataire, recluses dans un hôtel particulier du XVe arrondissement, gardées par un chien, un gros berger allemand. Suzanne, la plus âgée, tient les cordons de la bourse. Louise, ancienne carmélite, lui sert de bonne, humble et tyrannique. L'auteur, qui est aussi leur petit-neveu, est(...)
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Suzanne et Louise, publié en 1980, raconte la vie de deux soeurs, l'une veuve, l'autre célibataire, recluses dans un hôtel particulier du XVe arrondissement, gardées par un chien, un gros berger allemand. Suzanne, la plus âgée, tient les cordons de la bourse. Louise, ancienne carmélite, lui sert de bonne, humble et tyrannique. L'auteur, qui est aussi leur petit-neveu, est un des rares à leur rendre visite. Mêlant ses textes manuscrits à ses photos, Hervé Guibert a composé un « roman-photo » unique, réédité aujourd'hui accompagné de témoignages, documents et photos inédits.
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John Smith
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"John Smith" is a book from poet Steve Savage, produced in 100 copies only, each one having an original book jacket. On the front cover, 100 unique signatures of John Smith. On the spine, 100 sentences taken from the book. On the back cover, 100 faces recombined from a series of original portraits from Stéphane Poirier. John Smith is the story of a name and stories or(...)
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"John Smith" is a book from poet Steve Savage, produced in 100 copies only, each one having an original book jacket. On the front cover, 100 unique signatures of John Smith. On the spine, 100 sentences taken from the book. On the back cover, 100 faces recombined from a series of original portraits from Stéphane Poirier. John Smith is the story of a name and stories or ideas to be found within a name. The whole text is taken from Internet search results. Produced with the support of Baillat Studio (design) and Stéphane Poirier (illustrations), the book is also declined in a number of ways: photos, posters, graphic animation and web site (johnsmithis.com).
Islands of decolonial love
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In her debut collection of short stories, ''Islands of decolonial love,'' renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup(...)
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In her debut collection of short stories, ''Islands of decolonial love,'' renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup trucks, Simpson's characters confront the often heartbreaking challenge of pairing the desire to live loving and observant lives with a constant struggle to simply survive the historical and ongoing injustices of racism and colonialism. Told with voices that are rarely recorded but need to be heard, and incorporating the language and history of her people, Leanne Simpson's ''Islands of decolonial love'' is a profound, important, and beautiful book of fiction.
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De A, comme Abaton, à Z, comme Zuy, voici qu'un dictionnaire offre la plus merveilleuse des invitations au voyage. À partir des univers que de tous temps se plurent à inventer les écrivains du monde entier, Alberto Manguel et Gianni Guadalupi, forts de leur conviction que la fiction est réalité, ont recensé lieux imaginaires et sites chimériques.
Dictionnaire des lieux imaginaires
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De A, comme Abaton, à Z, comme Zuy, voici qu'un dictionnaire offre la plus merveilleuse des invitations au voyage. À partir des univers que de tous temps se plurent à inventer les écrivains du monde entier, Alberto Manguel et Gianni Guadalupi, forts de leur conviction que la fiction est réalité, ont recensé lieux imaginaires et sites chimériques.
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Nos cabanes
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Vite, des cabanes, en effet. Pas pour s'isoler, vivre de peu, ou tourner le dos à notre monde abîmé ; mais pour braver ce monde, l'habiter autrement : l'élargir. Marielle Macé les explore, les traverse, en invente à son tour. Cabanes élevées sur les ZAD, les places, les rives, cabanes de pratiques, de pensées, de poèmes. Cabanes bâties dans l'écoute renouvelée de la(...)
Nos cabanes
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Vite, des cabanes, en effet. Pas pour s'isoler, vivre de peu, ou tourner le dos à notre monde abîmé ; mais pour braver ce monde, l'habiter autrement : l'élargir. Marielle Macé les explore, les traverse, en invente à son tour. Cabanes élevées sur les ZAD, les places, les rives, cabanes de pratiques, de pensées, de poèmes. Cabanes bâties dans l'écoute renouvelée de la nature - des oiseaux qui tombent ou des eaux qui débordent -, dans l'élargissement résolu du « parlement des vivants », dans l'imagination d'autres façons de dire nous.
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Mount analogue: a novel of symbolically authentic non-Euclidean adventures in mountain climbing
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A beloved cult classic of surrealism, pataphysics and Gurdjieffian mysticism, René Daumal’s ''Mount Analogue'' is the allegorical tale of an expedition to a mountain whose existence can only be deduced, not observed. As its numerous editions (most now rare) over the decades attest, the book has been highly influential: Alejandro Jodorowsky's visionary 1973 film ''The Holy(...)
Mount analogue: a novel of symbolically authentic non-Euclidean adventures in mountain climbing
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A beloved cult classic of surrealism, pataphysics and Gurdjieffian mysticism, René Daumal’s ''Mount Analogue'' is the allegorical tale of an expedition to a mountain whose existence can only be deduced, not observed. As its numerous editions (most now rare) over the decades attest, the book has been highly influential: Alejandro Jodorowsky's visionary 1973 film ''The Holy Mountain'' is a loose adaptation of the book, and John Zorn based an eponymous album on it. Left unfinished after Daumal’s death from tuberculosis in 1944—in mid-sentence, as he broke from writing to receive a visitor—''Mount Analogue'' offers a compelling and philosophically resonant chronicle of a group of travelers seeking the titular mountain, based on the symbolic calculations of one Father Sogol (“Logos” spelled backward) and his students. As Daumal writes, “ 'Mount Analogue' is the symbolic mountain—the way that unites Heaven and Earth, a way which must exist in material and human form, otherwise our situation would be without hope.”
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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.
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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.
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