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The great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser lived eccentrically on the fringes of society, shocking his Berlin friends by enrolling in butler school and later developing an urban-nomad lifestyle in the Swiss capital, Bern, before checking himself into a psychiatric clinic. A connoisseur of power differentials, his pronounced interest in everything inconspicuous(...)
Clairvoyant of the small: life of Robert Walser
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The great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser lived eccentrically on the fringes of society, shocking his Berlin friends by enrolling in butler school and later developing an urban-nomad lifestyle in the Swiss capital, Bern, before checking himself into a psychiatric clinic. A connoisseur of power differentials, his pronounced interest in everything inconspicuous and modest — social outcasts and artists as well as the impoverished, marginalized, and forgotten — prompted W. G. Sebald to dub him 'a clairvoyant of the small.' He was long believed an outsider by conviction, but Susan Bernofsky presents a more nuanced view in this biography. Setting Walser in the context of early twentieth century European history, she provides illuminating analysis of his extraordinary life and work.
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The craft of poetry
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How does poetry work? What should readers notice and look out for? Poet Lucy Newlyn demystifies the principles of the form, effortlessly illustrating key approaches and terms—all through her own original verse. Each poem exemplifies an aspect of poetic craft—but read together they suggest how poetry can evoke a whole community and its way of life in myriad ways.
The craft of poetry
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How does poetry work? What should readers notice and look out for? Poet Lucy Newlyn demystifies the principles of the form, effortlessly illustrating key approaches and terms—all through her own original verse. Each poem exemplifies an aspect of poetic craft—but read together they suggest how poetry can evoke a whole community and its way of life in myriad ways.
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The masterplan : a novel
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When asked to design the capital of a young African republic, Rodrigo Tomás sees the opportunity of a lifetime. Eager to outshine his famous father he accepts, but he soon discovers that not all is what it seems… Chronicling the trajectory of an architect craving recognition, 'The Masterplan' delivers a fictional reconstruction of an architectural dream blown to dust by(...)
The masterplan : a novel
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When asked to design the capital of a young African republic, Rodrigo Tomás sees the opportunity of a lifetime. Eager to outshine his famous father he accepts, but he soon discovers that not all is what it seems… Chronicling the trajectory of an architect craving recognition, 'The Masterplan' delivers a fictional reconstruction of an architectural dream blown to dust by bigger forces. A personal story comes to reveal a larger story – of an emerging nation’s struggle with colonial residue, the growing Chinese influence in Africa and the fraught workings of a global real estate market.
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Le 6 avril 1909, l’exporateur blanc Robert Peary a conduit une expédition qui, pour la première fois, a atteint le pôle Nord en traîneau à chiens. Dès son retour, il suscite la polémique avec Frederick Cook, un autre explorateur qui, lui aussi affirmait avoir atteint le pôle nord, le 21 avril 1908. La controverse sera tranchée par le congrès des États-Unis, qui fait(...)
Journal d’un explorateur noir au pôle Nord
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Le 6 avril 1909, l’exporateur blanc Robert Peary a conduit une expédition qui, pour la première fois, a atteint le pôle Nord en traîneau à chiens. Dès son retour, il suscite la polémique avec Frederick Cook, un autre explorateur qui, lui aussi affirmait avoir atteint le pôle nord, le 21 avril 1908. La controverse sera tranchée par le congrès des États-Unis, qui fait officiellement de Peary le premier vainqueur du pôle Nord. Mais l’histoire est tout autre, car ni Cook, ni Peary ne furent les premiers à fouler le sol du « toit du monde ». Matthew Henson est né en 1866 dans l’état du Maryland et décède en 1955 à New York. Fils d’esclaves, après avoir passé plusieurs années à Baltimore, une ville « noire », il fut l’accompagnateur de Peary lors de sept expéditions dans l’Arctique, y compris lors de l’expédition de 1908-1909 qui a atteint le pôle Nord géographique le 6 avril 1909. Après bien des débats, il a été établi que Matthew Henson a bel et bien été le premier homme à atteindre le pôle Nord en 1909. Il faudra attendre 1988 pour que Henson soit officiellement reconnu comme étant le premier à avoir atteint le toit du monde, et l’année 2000 pour qu’il soit récipiendaire de la médaille Hubbard, décernée à titre posthume, une récompense remise par la National Geographic Society pour des distinctions dans les domaines de l’exploration, de la découverte et de la recherche. Pourquoi cette reconnaissance tardive? Pourquoi, pendant longtemps, Peary reçut seul tous les honneurs, alors que la présence de Matthew fut occultée (quand il est cité, il est réduit à n’être qu’un porteur)? Pourquoi Peary, à son retour du pôle Nord, fut nommé à des postes prestigieux, alors qu’Henson devint gardien de parking? Parce que Henson était noir, et les préjugés racistes de l’époque firent douter qu’un Afro-Américain ait pu vivre dans le froid polaire…
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Suppose a sentence
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In ''Suppose a sentence,'' Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called ''a literary flâneur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin,'' has written a sequel of sorts to ''Essayism,'' turning his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence—from Shakespeare to James Baldwin, John Ruskin to Joan(...)
Suppose a sentence
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In ''Suppose a sentence,'' Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called ''a literary flâneur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin,'' has written a sequel of sorts to ''Essayism,'' turning his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence—from Shakespeare to James Baldwin, John Ruskin to Joan Didion—this new book explores style, voice, and language, along with the subjectivity of reading. Both an exercise in practical criticism and a set of experiments or challenges, ''Suppose a sentence'' is a polemical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature.
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'Wapke' – « demain » en langue atikamekw – est le premier recueil de nouvelles d'anticipation autochtone publié au Québec. Quatorze auteurs de nations et d'horizons multiples se projettent dans l'avenir par le biais de la fiction, abordant des thèmes sociaux, politiques et environnementaux d'actualité. Sous la direction de Michel Jean, 'Wapke' offre un commentaire social(...)
Wapke
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'Wapke' – « demain » en langue atikamekw – est le premier recueil de nouvelles d'anticipation autochtone publié au Québec. Quatorze auteurs de nations et d'horizons multiples se projettent dans l'avenir par le biais de la fiction, abordant des thèmes sociaux, politiques et environnementaux d'actualité. Sous la direction de Michel Jean, 'Wapke' offre un commentaire social souvent saisissant où se dessine l'espoir d'un changement.
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''The disassembled dictionary'' is a growing series of books that each, in various ways, discusses a particular word. ''Non-territorial'' consists of texts by Yoko Andersson Yamano, Rachel Armstrong, Ylva Björnberg, Athena Farrokhzad, Jörg Heiser, Rolf Hughes, Ronald Jones, Lundahl & Seitl, Petra Malm, Aldy Milliken, David Neuman, Aleksander Perski, Tessa Praun,(...)
Disassembled dictionary: “Non-territorial”
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''The disassembled dictionary'' is a growing series of books that each, in various ways, discusses a particular word. ''Non-territorial'' consists of texts by Yoko Andersson Yamano, Rachel Armstrong, Ylva Björnberg, Athena Farrokhzad, Jörg Heiser, Rolf Hughes, Ronald Jones, Lundahl & Seitl, Petra Malm, Aldy Milliken, David Neuman, Aleksander Perski, Tessa Praun, Theodor Ringborg, Robert Stasinski and Alessandra Di Pisa, and Liv Stoltz.
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La fonte hivernée
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"Se reposer du travers Jaune des seize heures Comme égarement D'alcool d'automne Tu contemples À trop voir l'oiseau nous envole"
La fonte hivernée
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"Se reposer du travers Jaune des seize heures Comme égarement D'alcool d'automne Tu contemples À trop voir l'oiseau nous envole"
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In this collection of essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and the many translators of 1001 Nights. Varied and enthralling, these pieces examine the very nature of our lives, from cinema and books to history and religion.
The perpetual race of Achilles and the tortoise. Great Ideas V
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In this collection of essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and the many translators of 1001 Nights. Varied and enthralling, these pieces examine the very nature of our lives, from cinema and books to history and religion.
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In 'Aurelia', Mavor takes special interest in the fairy tale’s gastronomy, including Alice’s Wonderland cake marked eat me, the sugar of the witch’s house in ‘Hansel and Gretel’ and the more disturbing ingestions of cannibalism, as in the Brothers Grimm’s ‘The Juniper Tree’, where a murdered boy sings through the mouth of a bird: ‘My mother she killed me. My father he ate(...)
Aurelia: art and literature through the mouth of the fairy tale
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In 'Aurelia', Mavor takes special interest in the fairy tale’s gastronomy, including Alice’s Wonderland cake marked eat me, the sugar of the witch’s house in ‘Hansel and Gretel’ and the more disturbing ingestions of cannibalism, as in the Brothers Grimm’s ‘The Juniper Tree’, where a murdered boy sings through the mouth of a bird: ‘My mother she killed me. My father he ate me.’ Moving beyond this, Mavor discovers the fairy-tale realm in more surprising places: the tragic candy-land poetry of the 1950s ‘genius’ child-poet Minou Drouet; the subterranean world of enchantment in the cave paintings of Lascaux; the brown fairies of African American poet Langston Hughes; and Miwa Yanagi’s black-and-white, bloody photograph of the Grandmother and Little Red Riding Hood holding one another in the cut open belly of the wolf, as an allegory of the victims of Hiroshima. Through the lens of the fairy tale Mavor reads the world of literature and art as both magical and political.
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