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"Generation X" is Douglas Coupland's acclaimed salute to the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s - a generation known vaguely up to then as "twentysomething." Andy, Claire, and Dag, each in their twenties, have quit "pointless jobs done grudgingly to little applause" in their respective hometowns and cut themselves adrift on the California desert. In search of the(...)
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"Generation X" is Douglas Coupland's acclaimed salute to the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s - a generation known vaguely up to then as "twentysomething." Andy, Claire, and Dag, each in their twenties, have quit "pointless jobs done grudgingly to little applause" in their respective hometowns and cut themselves adrift on the California desert. In search of the(...)
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"Generation X" is Douglas Coupland's acclaimed salute to the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s - a generation known vaguely up to then as "twentysomething." Andy, Claire, and Dag, each in their twenties, have quit "pointless jobs done grudgingly to little applause" in their respective hometowns and cut themselves adrift on the California desert. In search of the drastic changes that will lend meaning to their lives, they've mired themselves in the detritus of American cultural memory. Refugees from history, the three develop an ascetic regime of story-telling, boozing, and working McJobs - "low-pay, low-prestige, low-benefit, no-future jobs in the service industry." They create modern fables of love and death among the cosmetic surgery parlors and cocktail bars of Palm Springs, disturbingly funny tales of nuclear waste, historical overdosing, and mall culture. A dark snapshot of the trio's highly fortressed inner world quickly emerges - landscapes peopled with dead TV shows, "Elvis moments," and semi-disposable Swedish furniture. And from these landscapes, deeper portraits emerge, those of fanatically independent individuals, pathologically ambivalent about the future and brimming with unsatisfied longings for permanence, for love, and for their own home. Andy, Dag, and Claire are underemployed, overeducated, intensely private, and unpredictable. Like the group they mirror, they have nowhere to assuage their fears, and no culture to replace their anomie.
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"Generation X" is Douglas Coupland's acclaimed salute to the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s - a generation known vaguely up to then as "twentysomething." Andy, Claire, and Dag, each in their twenties, have quit "pointless jobs done grudgingly to little applause" in their respective hometowns and cut themselves adrift on the California desert. In search of the drastic changes that will lend meaning to their lives, they've mired themselves in the detritus of American cultural memory. Refugees from history, the three develop an ascetic regime of story-telling, boozing, and working McJobs - "low-pay, low-prestige, low-benefit, no-future jobs in the service industry." They create modern fables of love and death among the cosmetic surgery parlors and cocktail bars of Palm Springs, disturbingly funny tales of nuclear waste, historical overdosing, and mall culture. A dark snapshot of the trio's highly fortressed inner world quickly emerges - landscapes peopled with dead TV shows, "Elvis moments," and semi-disposable Swedish furniture. And from these landscapes, deeper portraits emerge, those of fanatically independent individuals, pathologically ambivalent about the future and brimming with unsatisfied longings for permanence, for love, and for their own home. Andy, Dag, and Claire are underemployed, overeducated, intensely private, and unpredictable. Like the group they mirror, they have nowhere to assuage their fears, and no culture to replace their anomie.
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March 1991
March 1991
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Literature and poetry
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"Fairy tales 3" brings together the most innovative entries to the third annual fairy tales competition, out of a field of over 1500 participants. The format of each story varies dramatically – from comics, to love stories, text message threads to police reports – but the mission of each is the same: to dramatically rethink how architecture addresses the real issues we(...)
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"Fairy tales 3" brings together the most innovative entries to the third annual fairy tales competition, out of a field of over 1500 participants. The format of each story varies dramatically – from comics, to love stories, text message threads to police reports – but the mission of each is the same: to dramatically rethink how architecture addresses the real issues we(...)
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Fairy tales : when architecture tells a story vol.3
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"Fairy tales 3" brings together the most innovative entries to the third annual fairy tales competition, out of a field of over 1500 participants. The format of each story varies dramatically – from comics, to love stories, text message threads to police reports – but the mission of each is the same: to dramatically rethink how architecture addresses the real issues we face today. The submissions, handpicked by the star-studded jury of the contest, are a kaleidoscopic collection of stunning images and gripping stories, daringly experimenting in the visual realm as well as in the storytelling field. With a layout designed by Bruce Mau Design, Fairy Tales Volume 3 brings together 25 new architectural fairy tales.
Fairy tales : when architecture tells a story vol.3
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"Fairy tales 3" brings together the most innovative entries to the third annual fairy tales competition, out of a field of over 1500 participants. The format of each story varies dramatically – from comics, to love stories, text message threads to police reports – but the mission of each is the same: to dramatically rethink how architecture addresses the real issues we face today. The submissions, handpicked by the star-studded jury of the contest, are a kaleidoscopic collection of stunning images and gripping stories, daringly experimenting in the visual realm as well as in the storytelling field. With a layout designed by Bruce Mau Design, Fairy Tales Volume 3 brings together 25 new architectural fairy tales.
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October 2016
October 2016
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Dear Architecture
Dear Architecture
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"Dear Architecture" brings together a collection of the most powerful letters submitted to the Dear Architecture Competition, hosted by Blank Space in 2015. "Dear Architecture" is an ideas competition that challenged designers to explore one of the most important communication tools of all time - the letter. With entries submitted from over 60 countries around the world -(...)
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"Dear Architecture" brings together a collection of the most powerful letters submitted to the Dear Architecture Competition, hosted by Blank Space in 2015. "Dear Architecture" is an ideas competition that challenged designers to explore one of the most important communication tools of all time - the letter. With entries submitted from over 60 countries around the world -(...)
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Dear Architecture
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"Dear Architecture" brings together a collection of the most powerful letters submitted to the Dear Architecture Competition, hosted by Blank Space in 2015. "Dear Architecture" is an ideas competition that challenged designers to explore one of the most important communication tools of all time - the letter. With entries submitted from over 60 countries around the world - the open letters challenge architects and designers to think deeply about the profession they are participating in.With a special cover designed by Irena Gajic, this book includes the three winning entries, and 12 honorable mentions to the competition, as well as a selection of additional noteworthy entries.
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"Dear Architecture" brings together a collection of the most powerful letters submitted to the Dear Architecture Competition, hosted by Blank Space in 2015. "Dear Architecture" is an ideas competition that challenged designers to explore one of the most important communication tools of all time - the letter. With entries submitted from over 60 countries around the world - the open letters challenge architects and designers to think deeply about the profession they are participating in.With a special cover designed by Irena Gajic, this book includes the three winning entries, and 12 honorable mentions to the competition, as well as a selection of additional noteworthy entries.
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December 2015
December 2015
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Vous souffrez d'agoraphobie, de la crise de la quarantaine, d'une jambe cassée ou d'un chagrin d'amour ? Sachez qu’un livre peut avoir l'effet d'un prodigieux médicament, voire vous sauver ! Vous en doutez ? Essayez plutôt... Vous trouverez ici les meilleurs romans adaptés à votre cas. Garantis sans effets secondaires, ils vous permettront de traiter les pathologies(...)
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Vous souffrez d'agoraphobie, de la crise de la quarantaine, d'une jambe cassée ou d'un chagrin d'amour ? Sachez qu’un livre peut avoir l'effet d'un prodigieux médicament, voire vous sauver ! Vous en doutez ? Essayez plutôt... Vous trouverez ici les meilleurs romans adaptés à votre cas. Garantis sans effets secondaires, ils vous permettront de traiter les pathologies(...)
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November 2016
November 2016
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Remèdes littéraires : se soigner par les livres
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Vous souffrez d'agoraphobie, de la crise de la quarantaine, d'une jambe cassée ou d'un chagrin d'amour ? Sachez qu’un livre peut avoir l'effet d'un prodigieux médicament, voire vous sauver ! Vous en doutez ? Essayez plutôt... Vous trouverez ici les meilleurs romans adaptés à votre cas. Garantis sans effets secondaires, ils vous permettront de traiter les pathologies telles que : abandon, alcoolisme, calvitie, rage de dents, mal de dos, harcèlement, hémorroïdes, insomnie, jalousie, ménopause, obésité, rhume des foins, solitude… et bien d'autres !
Remèdes littéraires : se soigner par les livres
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Vous souffrez d'agoraphobie, de la crise de la quarantaine, d'une jambe cassée ou d'un chagrin d'amour ? Sachez qu’un livre peut avoir l'effet d'un prodigieux médicament, voire vous sauver ! Vous en doutez ? Essayez plutôt... Vous trouverez ici les meilleurs romans adaptés à votre cas. Garantis sans effets secondaires, ils vous permettront de traiter les pathologies telles que : abandon, alcoolisme, calvitie, rage de dents, mal de dos, harcèlement, hémorroïdes, insomnie, jalousie, ménopause, obésité, rhume des foins, solitude… et bien d'autres !
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La fonte hivernée
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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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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"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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January 2017
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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 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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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.
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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September 2010
September 2010
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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(...)
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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(...)
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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.
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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June 2017
June 2017
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Walks with Walser
Walks with Walser
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After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser practiced another favorite activity: walking. Starting in 1936, Carl Seelig, Walser’s friend and literary executor, visited and(...)
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After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser practiced another favorite activity: walking. Starting in 1936, Carl Seelig, Walser’s friend and literary executor, visited and(...)
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Walks with Walser
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After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser practiced another favorite activity: walking. Starting in 1936, Carl Seelig, Walser’s friend and literary executor, visited and accompanied him on these walks, meticulously recording their conversations. As they strolled, Walser told stories, shared his daily experiences of the sanatorium, and expressed his opinions about books and art, writing and history. When Seelig asked why he no longer wrote, Walser famously replied: “I’m not here to write, I’m here to be mad.” Filled with lively anecdotes and details, Walks with Walser offers the fullest available account of this wonderful writer’s inner and outer life.
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After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser practiced another favorite activity: walking. Starting in 1936, Carl Seelig, Walser’s friend and literary executor, visited and accompanied him on these walks, meticulously recording their conversations. As they strolled, Walser told stories, shared his daily experiences of the sanatorium, and expressed his opinions about books and art, writing and history. When Seelig asked why he no longer wrote, Walser famously replied: “I’m not here to write, I’m here to be mad.” Filled with lively anecdotes and details, Walks with Walser offers the fullest available account of this wonderful writer’s inner and outer life.
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April 2017
April 2017
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Miniaturiste
Miniaturiste
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Nella Oortman n’a que dix-huit ans ce jour d’automne 1686 où elle quitte son village pour rejoindre à Amsterdam son mari, Johannes Brandt. Homme d’âge mûr, riche marchand, il vit dans une opulente demeure entouré de ses serviteurs et de sa sœur, Marin, une femme restée célibataire qui accueille Nella avec une extrême froideur. Johannes offre à son épouse une maison de(...)
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Nella Oortman n’a que dix-huit ans ce jour d’automne 1686 où elle quitte son village pour rejoindre à Amsterdam son mari, Johannes Brandt. Homme d’âge mûr, riche marchand, il vit dans une opulente demeure entouré de ses serviteurs et de sa sœur, Marin, une femme restée célibataire qui accueille Nella avec une extrême froideur. Johannes offre à son épouse une maison de(...)
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Nella Oortman n’a que dix-huit ans ce jour d’automne 1686 où elle quitte son village pour rejoindre à Amsterdam son mari, Johannes Brandt. Homme d’âge mûr, riche marchand, il vit dans une opulente demeure entouré de ses serviteurs et de sa sœur, Marin, une femme restée célibataire qui accueille Nella avec une extrême froideur. Johannes offre à son épouse une maison de poupée représentant leur propre intérieur, que la jeune fille entreprend d’animer grâce aux talents d’un miniaturiste. Les fascinantes créations de l’artisan permettent à Nella de mettre peu à peu au jour de dangereux secrets… S’inspirant d’une maison de poupée exposée au Rijksmuseum d’Amsterdam, Jessie Burton livre ici un premier roman haletant, et dessine le portrait d’une femme résolument moderne, déterminée à affirmer son existence dans un monde hostile, où la rigueur morale le dispute à l’intransigeance religieuse.
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Nella Oortman n’a que dix-huit ans ce jour d’automne 1686 où elle quitte son village pour rejoindre à Amsterdam son mari, Johannes Brandt. Homme d’âge mûr, riche marchand, il vit dans une opulente demeure entouré de ses serviteurs et de sa sœur, Marin, une femme restée célibataire qui accueille Nella avec une extrême froideur. Johannes offre à son épouse une maison de poupée représentant leur propre intérieur, que la jeune fille entreprend d’animer grâce aux talents d’un miniaturiste. Les fascinantes créations de l’artisan permettent à Nella de mettre peu à peu au jour de dangereux secrets… S’inspirant d’une maison de poupée exposée au Rijksmuseum d’Amsterdam, Jessie Burton livre ici un premier roman haletant, et dessine le portrait d’une femme résolument moderne, déterminée à affirmer son existence dans un monde hostile, où la rigueur morale le dispute à l’intransigeance religieuse.
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March 2017
March 2017
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C’est par pur altruisme que Michel Ohl a rejoint le groupe des écrivains imaginatifs débordants, et s’est laissé classer dans ce club informel des gens d’esprit avec ses pairs Maurice Roche, Jean-Pierre Verheggen, Alphonse Allais, Raymond Queneau, Boris Vian, Alfred Jarry et quelques moralistes carabinés du genre de Félix Fénéon. Ajoutez à cela son goût personnel pour les(...)
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C’est par pur altruisme que Michel Ohl a rejoint le groupe des écrivains imaginatifs débordants, et s’est laissé classer dans ce club informel des gens d’esprit avec ses pairs Maurice Roche, Jean-Pierre Verheggen, Alphonse Allais, Raymond Queneau, Boris Vian, Alfred Jarry et quelques moralistes carabinés du genre de Félix Fénéon. Ajoutez à cela son goût personnel pour les(...)
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Petites scènes de la vie en papier
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C’est par pur altruisme que Michel Ohl a rejoint le groupe des écrivains imaginatifs débordants, et s’est laissé classer dans ce club informel des gens d’esprit avec ses pairs Maurice Roche, Jean-Pierre Verheggen, Alphonse Allais, Raymond Queneau, Boris Vian, Alfred Jarry et quelques moralistes carabinés du genre de Félix Fénéon. Ajoutez à cela son goût personnel pour les collages à usage épistolaire, vous avez le portrait de l’original bravant les conventions d’un monde codifié qui n’apprécie rien tant que le sérieux et la morgue. Dans ces pages où se percutent les notes de zinc, les détournements, les anagrammes, les calembours, les anecdotes, les récits de rêves fous et ses méditations de lecteur frénétique, ces pages où résonne le «mastaraglu», la langue des morts de son invention, on retrouve toute la jubilation et toute la déflagration de la littérature en marche.
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C’est par pur altruisme que Michel Ohl a rejoint le groupe des écrivains imaginatifs débordants, et s’est laissé classer dans ce club informel des gens d’esprit avec ses pairs Maurice Roche, Jean-Pierre Verheggen, Alphonse Allais, Raymond Queneau, Boris Vian, Alfred Jarry et quelques moralistes carabinés du genre de Félix Fénéon. Ajoutez à cela son goût personnel pour les collages à usage épistolaire, vous avez le portrait de l’original bravant les conventions d’un monde codifié qui n’apprécie rien tant que le sérieux et la morgue. Dans ces pages où se percutent les notes de zinc, les détournements, les anagrammes, les calembours, les anecdotes, les récits de rêves fous et ses méditations de lecteur frénétique, ces pages où résonne le «mastaraglu», la langue des morts de son invention, on retrouve toute la jubilation et toute la déflagration de la littérature en marche.
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March 2017
March 2017
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