Dusty pink
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Written with the hope of achieving a “dreary distant banality,” Jean-Jacques Schuhl's first novel is a subjective stroll through an underground, glamorous Paris, a city that slips into the background but never disappears, hovering on the verge of its own suppression. An elegiac and luminous cut-up, "Dusty Pink" brings together race wire results, editions of France-Soir,(...)
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Written with the hope of achieving a “dreary distant banality,” Jean-Jacques Schuhl's first novel is a subjective stroll through an underground, glamorous Paris, a city that slips into the background but never disappears, hovering on the verge of its own suppression. An elegiac and luminous cut-up, "Dusty Pink" brings together race wire results, editions of France-Soir, the lyrics to well-known British songs, scripts from famous old films, pharmaceutical leaflets, fashion ads, and strips and scraps of culture in which the avant-garde and academicism blur in an overview of the cultural scene. This world of atmospheres, portraits, and dazzling associations of ideas creates a plane of shimmering surfaces.
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Global dystopias
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Bringing together some of the most prominent writers of science fiction and introducing fresh talent, this collection of stories, essays, and interviews explores global dystopias in apocalyptic landscapes and tech futures, in robot sentience and forever war. Global Dystopias engages the familiar horrors of George Orwell’s 1984 alongside new work by China Miéville,(...)
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Bringing together some of the most prominent writers of science fiction and introducing fresh talent, this collection of stories, essays, and interviews explores global dystopias in apocalyptic landscapes and tech futures, in robot sentience and forever war. Global Dystopias engages the familiar horrors of George Orwell’s 1984 alongside new work by China Miéville, Tananarive Due, and Maria Dahvana Headley. In “Don’t Press Charges, and I Won’t Sue,” award-winning writer Charlie Jane Anders uses popularized stigmas toward transgender people to create a not-so-distant future in which conversion therapy is not only normalized, but funded by the government. Henry Farrell surveys the work of dystopian forebear Philip K. Dick and argues that distinctions between the present and the possible future aren’t always that clear. Contributors also include Margaret Atwood and award-winning speculative writer, Nalo Hopkinson.
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On attendait de Dany Laferrière son premier livre d’académicien. Voici qu’il nous donne un chef-d’oeuvre d’école buissonnière. Il y a du texte et il y a des dessins, mais ce n’est pas une bande dessinée. Ce n’est pas non plus un roman graphique, c’est un roman-roman, calligraphié et dessiné à la main. En fait, c’est Paris qui se dépeint ici, avec les mots et les images de(...)
Autoportrait de Paris avec chat
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On attendait de Dany Laferrière son premier livre d’académicien. Voici qu’il nous donne un chef-d’oeuvre d’école buissonnière. Il y a du texte et il y a des dessins, mais ce n’est pas une bande dessinée. Ce n’est pas non plus un roman graphique, c’est un roman-roman, calligraphié et dessiné à la main. En fait, c’est Paris qui se dépeint ici, avec les mots et les images de Dany Laferrière. Car Paris n’est pas seulement une ville. Paris est une fête, bien sûr, mais c’est également un lieu dans la littérature, un espace de fiction. Paris est « la ville où il y a le plus de livres au monde ». Les écrivains des quatre coins de la planète convergent vers Paris, hantent ses rues, ses cafés. Et les écrivains du passé y sont toujours vivants.
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I love Dick
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In "I Love Dick", published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that "I Love Dick" instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passionate admirers.The story is gripping enough: in 1994 a married, failed(...)
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In "I Love Dick", published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that "I Love Dick" instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passionate admirers.The story is gripping enough: in 1994 a married, failed independent filmmaker, turning forty, falls in love with a well-known theorist and endeavors to seduce him with the help of her husband. But when the theorist refuses to answer her letters, the husband and wife continue the correspondence for each other instead, imagining the fling the wife wishes to have with Dick. What follows is a breathless pursuit that takes the woman across America and away from her husband—and far beyond her original infatuation into a discovery of the transformative power of first person narrative.I Love Dick is a manifesto for a new kind of feminist who isn't afraid to burn through her own narcissism in order to assume responsibility for herself and for all the injustice in world—and it's a book you won't put down until the author's final, heroic acts of self-revelation and transformation.
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In the last years of the Second World War, a million tonnes of bombs were dropped by the Allies on 131 German towns and cities. 600,000 civilians died, seven and a half million Germans were left homeless. W.G. Sebald's lucid but harrowing essays explore the consequences for the German people of the mass destruction of their cities.
On the natural history of destruction
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In the last years of the Second World War, a million tonnes of bombs were dropped by the Allies on 131 German towns and cities. 600,000 civilians died, seven and a half million Germans were left homeless. W.G. Sebald's lucid but harrowing essays explore the consequences for the German people of the mass destruction of their cities.
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Henri Matisse 1907-1918
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"Tout tableau, tout dessin d’Henri Matisse possède une vertu qu’on ne peut toujours identifier, mais qui est une force véritable. Et c’est la force de l’artiste de ne point la contrarier, de la laisser agir. Si l’on devait comparer l’oeuvre d’Henri Matisse à quelque chose, il faudrait choisir l’orange. Comme elle, l’oeuvre d’Henri Matisse est un fruit de lumière(...)
Henri Matisse 1907-1918
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"Tout tableau, tout dessin d’Henri Matisse possède une vertu qu’on ne peut toujours identifier, mais qui est une force véritable. Et c’est la force de l’artiste de ne point la contrarier, de la laisser agir. Si l’on devait comparer l’oeuvre d’Henri Matisse à quelque chose, il faudrait choisir l’orange. Comme elle, l’oeuvre d’Henri Matisse est un fruit de lumière éclatante. Avec une entière bonne foi et un pur souci de se connaître et de se réaliser, ce peintre n’a cessé de suivre son instinct. Il lui laisse le soin de choisir entre les émotions, de juger et de limiter la fantaisie et celui de scruter profondément la lumière, rien que la lumière." Guillaume Appollinaire
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Mapemonde
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Carte du monde et carte du tendre, cette Mappemonde, nécessairement lacunaire, répertorie quelques-unes des coordonnées mystérieuses où les méridiens et les parallèles de notre Terre entrecoupent les lignes d’univers de la fiction. Entre la réinvention du passé, les évidences du présent, et le bruissement des possibles, et en entremêlant mon histoire personnelle à une(...)
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Carte du monde et carte du tendre, cette Mappemonde, nécessairement lacunaire, répertorie quelques-unes des coordonnées mystérieuses où les méridiens et les parallèles de notre Terre entrecoupent les lignes d’univers de la fiction. Entre la réinvention du passé, les évidences du présent, et le bruissement des possibles, et en entremêlant mon histoire personnelle à une mythique littérature universelle, je vous convie à une réflexion sur la façon dont la littérature contribue à l’amplification de notre spectre temporel, et à la découverte de fréquences émotives étrangères, dont nous ne pouvons qu’espérer qu’elles nous acheminent de plus en plus près de nous-mêmes
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To begin at the beginning
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In "To Begin at the Beginning", celebrated Spanish novelist and translator Javier Marías explores his impulse to write, the origins of his own family, and the connection between these two different sorts of beginnings. Exploring the difference between what is true in the world and what is true in fiction, he explains why an appeal to “real” events has never convinced him;(...)
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In "To Begin at the Beginning", celebrated Spanish novelist and translator Javier Marías explores his impulse to write, the origins of his own family, and the connection between these two different sorts of beginnings. Exploring the difference between what is true in the world and what is true in fiction, he explains why an appeal to “real” events has never convinced him; why the history of his own family—with its Cuban and Spanish strands—has left him uncertain about what is legend and what is historic fact; and why what has been imagined or dreamed can end up being truer than what “really happened.” Complemented by an essay by Margaret Jull Costa on the practice of translating Marías, the cahier is also accompanied by images taken from the works of the influential Cuban artist Wifredo Lam. The result is a beautifully produced chapbook by one of Europe’s preeminent novelists, ready to be discovered and celebrated by English readers.
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Generation X
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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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"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(...)
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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