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Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell’s entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic, from freedom of the press to what patriotism really means. From the Penguin Great Ideas series.
Books v. cigarettes
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Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell’s entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic, from freedom of the press to what patriotism really means. From the Penguin Great Ideas series.
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A1
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A1 est une réalisation de Daniel Canty dans le cadre du projet NextText, une initiative du laboratoire de médias expérimentaux Obx Labs à l’Université Concordia de Montréal. A1 combine un volet imprimé et un volet interactif.
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A1 est une réalisation de Daniel Canty dans le cadre du projet NextText, une initiative du laboratoire de médias expérimentaux Obx Labs à l’Université Concordia de Montréal. A1 combine un volet imprimé et un volet interactif.
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Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called an American virtuoso of the short story form" ( Salon ) and "one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction" ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ). Now, for the first time, Davis's short stories will be collected in one volume, from the groundbreaking Break It Down (1986) to the 2007(...)
Collected stories of Lydia Davis
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Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called an American virtuoso of the short story form" ( Salon ) and "one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction" ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ). Now, for the first time, Davis's short stories will be collected in one volume, from the groundbreaking Break It Down (1986) to the 2007 National Book Award nominee Varieties of Disturbance . "The collected stories" of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters.
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The perpetual motion machine
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In the last days of 1907, the German novelist and exponent of glass architecture Paul Scheerbart embarked upon an attempt to invent a perpetual motion machine. Originally published in German in 1910, is an indefinable blend of diary, diagrams and digression that falls somewhere between memoir and reverie. The Perpetual Motion Machine is an ode to the fertility of misery(...)
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The perpetual motion machine
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In the last days of 1907, the German novelist and exponent of glass architecture Paul Scheerbart embarked upon an attempt to invent a perpetual motion machine. Originally published in German in 1910, is an indefinable blend of diary, diagrams and digression that falls somewhere between memoir and reverie. The Perpetual Motion Machine is an ode to the fertility of misery and a battle cry of the imagination against praxis.
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Translated By is published to coincide with an exhibition at the AA, which gathers eleven literary writers and eleven literary places and subjects them to an act of immaterial translation – via the voice. The stories run through Ramallah, recollect turn-of-the-century Sofia, remember the spaceship-looking-Sheraton Hotel in Doha, wander through the 'Metaverse' and(...)
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Translated By is published to coincide with an exhibition at the AA, which gathers eleven literary writers and eleven literary places and subjects them to an act of immaterial translation – via the voice. The stories run through Ramallah, recollect turn-of-the-century Sofia, remember the spaceship-looking-Sheraton Hotel in Doha, wander through the 'Metaverse' and end at the end of the world in West Vancouver. Each of the authors invent or interpret place. Mundane, marginal, infamous, impossible. Together, the texts create a strange and beautiful territory that traverses distance and time. Writers include Douglas Coupland, Rana Dasgupta, Hu Fang, Julien Gracq, Jonathan Letham, Tom McCarthy, Guy Mannes Abbott, Sophia Al Maria, Hisham Matar, Adania Shibli, and Neal Stephenson, with essays by Charles Arsène-Henry and Shumon Basar.
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Publié pour la première fois en 1978 dans l'admirable traduction de René Sieffert, ce livre culte est une réflexion sur la conception japonaise du beau.
Junichiro Tanizaki : Éloge de l'ombre
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Publié pour la première fois en 1978 dans l'admirable traduction de René Sieffert, ce livre culte est une réflexion sur la conception japonaise du beau.
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Nouvelle édition, avec couverture illustrée. « Nous voulons examiner des images bien simples, les images de l’espace heureux. L’espace saisi par l’imagination ne peut rester l’espace indifférent livré à la mesure et à la réflexion du géomètre. Il est vécu. Et il est vécu, non pas dans sa positivité, mais avec toutes les partialités de l’imagination. Sans cesse(...)
Gaston Bachelard : La poétique de l'espace (édition 2012)
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Nouvelle édition, avec couverture illustrée. « Nous voulons examiner des images bien simples, les images de l’espace heureux. L’espace saisi par l’imagination ne peut rester l’espace indifférent livré à la mesure et à la réflexion du géomètre. Il est vécu. Et il est vécu, non pas dans sa positivité, mais avec toutes les partialités de l’imagination. Sans cesse l’imagination imagine et s’enrichit de nouvelles images. C’est cette richesse d’être imaginé que nous voudrions explorer. »
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This is a book about how we live in geographical space and how work and patterns of domicile affect our status and our inner being. Despite the apparent simplicity of the fictional premise, Augé’s book asks serious questions about the nature of our culture.
No fixed abode: ethnofication
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This is a book about how we live in geographical space and how work and patterns of domicile affect our status and our inner being. Despite the apparent simplicity of the fictional premise, Augé’s book asks serious questions about the nature of our culture.
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Myth of Sisyphus
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Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.
Myth of Sisyphus
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Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.
Nature
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Originally published anonymously, Nature was the first modern essay to recommend the appreciation of the outdoors as an all-encompassing positive force. Emerson's writings were recognized as uniquely American in style and content, and launched the idea of going for a walk as a new way of looking at the world.
Nature
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Originally published anonymously, Nature was the first modern essay to recommend the appreciation of the outdoors as an all-encompassing positive force. Emerson's writings were recognized as uniquely American in style and content, and launched the idea of going for a walk as a new way of looking at the world.
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