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Venusia
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Primitive literacy is redundant. Mere words are expelled. We inaugurate a world of pure presence. The mind, that intrudes itself between ourselves and those memories too terrible to know, must keep us moving beyond the grasp of their claw. To control the flow, it will be necessary that political order be imposed always temporarily. The state shall enjoy direct, creative(...)
Venusia
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Primitive literacy is redundant. Mere words are expelled. We inaugurate a world of pure presence. The mind, that intrudes itself between ourselves and those memories too terrible to know, must keep us moving beyond the grasp of their claw. To control the flow, it will be necessary that political order be imposed always temporarily. The state shall enjoy direct, creative access to the real.
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février 2005
Architecture et l'imaginaire
The nose
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The Nose, one of Nikolai Gogol's most important and influential tales, is now available in this volume illustrated with photographs by British artist Rick Buckley. Taking on a life of its own, the nose of a St Petersburg official leaves its rightful place to cause havoc in the city. The novel ends with the author seemingly addressing the reader directly, refusing to(...)
The nose
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The Nose, one of Nikolai Gogol's most important and influential tales, is now available in this volume illustrated with photographs by British artist Rick Buckley. Taking on a life of its own, the nose of a St Petersburg official leaves its rightful place to cause havoc in the city. The novel ends with the author seemingly addressing the reader directly, refusing to resolve the story he has narrated. Written between 1835 and 1836, and a key precursor to absurdist and Magical Realist strains in 20th-century fiction, this fantastic tale is extended in Buckley's photographs, which document a Gogol-inspired street intervention for which he fixed plaster noses on to buildings all over London.
Architecture et l'imaginaire
The overcoat
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This edition of Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat (a short story originally published in 1842) includes newly commissioned artwork from Sarah Dobai. This influential story - in which a lowly government clerk's life is briefly transformed by the extravagant purchase of a new coat - has been adapted into a variety of stage and film interpretations. Artist, filmmaker and(...)
The overcoat
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This edition of Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat (a short story originally published in 1842) includes newly commissioned artwork from Sarah Dobai. This influential story - in which a lowly government clerk's life is briefly transformed by the extravagant purchase of a new coat - has been adapted into a variety of stage and film interpretations. Artist, filmmaker and photographer Sarah Dobai responds to the story's preoccupation with material desire and illusion; the text is printed alongside her photographs of shop windows in London and Paris, showing ready-made still lifes of merchandise and mannequins in window displays.
Architecture et l'imaginaire
Can't and won't
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Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of “Bloomington” reads, “Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before.” Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in “A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates,” a professor receives a gift of(...)
Can't and won't
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Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of “Bloomington” reads, “Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before.” Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in “A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates,” a professor receives a gift of thirty-two small chocolates and is paralyzed by the multitude of options she imagines for their consumption. The stories may appear in the form of letters of complaint; they may be extracted from Flaubert’s correspondence; or they may be inspired by the author’s own dreams, or the dreams of friends. What does not vary throughout Can’t and Won’t, Lydia Davis’s fifth collection of stories, is the power of her finely honed prose. Davis is sharply observant; she is wry or witty or poignant. Above all, she is refreshing. Davis writes with bracing candor and sly humor about the quotidian, revealing the mysterious, the foreign, the alienating, and the pleasurable within the predictable patterns of daily life.
Architecture et l'imaginaire
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Réunissant des poèmes inédits en français tirés de ses plus grands recueils (tels que Poésie en forme de rose) et des poèmes issus de manuscrits retrouvés, le deuxième volume de cette anthologie de référence forme le reflet objectif de l'oeuvre poétique de Pasolini. Un ouvrage-somme pour mieux comprendre cet artiste protéiforme qui luttait contre l'hypocrisie, les(...)
La persécution: une anthologie, 1954-1970
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Réunissant des poèmes inédits en français tirés de ses plus grands recueils (tels que Poésie en forme de rose) et des poèmes issus de manuscrits retrouvés, le deuxième volume de cette anthologie de référence forme le reflet objectif de l'oeuvre poétique de Pasolini. Un ouvrage-somme pour mieux comprendre cet artiste protéiforme qui luttait contre l'hypocrisie, les bien-pensants, la société consumériste, l'académisme... et contre lui-même.
Architecture et l'imaginaire
Soumission
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Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s'engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu motivé par l'enseignement, il s'attend à une vie ennuyeuse mais calme, protégée des grands drames historiques. Cependant les forces en jeu dans le pays ont fissuré le système politique jusqu'à provoquer son effondrement. Cette implosion sans soubresauts, sans vraie révolution,(...)
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Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s'engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu motivé par l'enseignement, il s'attend à une vie ennuyeuse mais calme, protégée des grands drames historiques. Cependant les forces en jeu dans le pays ont fissuré le système politique jusqu'à provoquer son effondrement. Cette implosion sans soubresauts, sans vraie révolution, se développe comme un mauvais rêve. L'auteur nous entraîne sur un terrain ambigu et glissant ; son regard sur notre civilisation vieillissante fait coexister dans ce roman les intuitions poétiques, les effets comiques, une mélancolie fataliste. Ce livre est une fable politique et morale.
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Describing the silliness and 'feminine fatuity' of many popular books by lady novelists, George Eliot perfectly skewers the formulaic yet bestselling works that dominated her time, with their loveably flawed heroines. She also examines the great women writers of France and their enrichment of the culture, and the varying qualities of literary translations.
Silly novels by Lady Novelists
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Describing the silliness and 'feminine fatuity' of many popular books by lady novelists, George Eliot perfectly skewers the formulaic yet bestselling works that dominated her time, with their loveably flawed heroines. She also examines the great women writers of France and their enrichment of the culture, and the varying qualities of literary translations.
Architecture et l'imaginaire
Bit rot
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The latest book by acclaimed novelist and artist Douglas Coupland—named after a phenomenon in digital archiving describing the way digital files spontaneously decompose—combines fictional short stories with essays, addressing subjects such as the death of the middle class, and the rise of the Internet and its impact on our lives.
Bit rot
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The latest book by acclaimed novelist and artist Douglas Coupland—named after a phenomenon in digital archiving describing the way digital files spontaneously decompose—combines fictional short stories with essays, addressing subjects such as the death of the middle class, and the rise of the Internet and its impact on our lives.
Architecture et l'imaginaire
Architecture without place, 1968/2008 : unbuilt visionary, ephemeral architecture & installations
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The exhibition 'Architectures without Place (1968-2008)' presents a series of works that either were never built or no longer exist : a vast field which ranges from theoretical speculations, visionary prefigurings and ideas competitions to modified projects, ephemeral installations and botched buildings. This variegated realm of the unbuilt (or of the now non-existent)(...)
juin 2009
Architecture without place, 1968/2008 : unbuilt visionary, ephemeral architecture & installations
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The exhibition 'Architectures without Place (1968-2008)' presents a series of works that either were never built or no longer exist : a vast field which ranges from theoretical speculations, visionary prefigurings and ideas competitions to modified projects, ephemeral installations and botched buildings. This variegated realm of the unbuilt (or of the now non-existent) allows us to analyse the conceptual heritage of a long period of Catalonian cultural history; in other words, it lets us dissect forty years of architecture produced locally, highlighting the prevailing ideas at each step of the way. This is a heterogeneous field of project design in which converge other disciplines fuelled by a powerful desire to articulate and transform space : comics, theatre, film, ephemeral installations and the visual arts in general.
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Dans ce livre de contes absolument pas pour enfants, quatre beaux animaux racontent leurs aventures où la soif de sexe, de sang et d’orgueil transforme les villes en zoos et l’homme en bête féroce. À Moncton, un joueur de hockey junior majeur est catapulté dans une crise politique grave lorsqu’il couche avec une femme entretenant des liens étroits avec l’équipe(...)
novembre 2012
Ménageries : histoires d'animaux
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Dans ce livre de contes absolument pas pour enfants, quatre beaux animaux racontent leurs aventures où la soif de sexe, de sang et d’orgueil transforme les villes en zoos et l’homme en bête féroce. À Moncton, un joueur de hockey junior majeur est catapulté dans une crise politique grave lorsqu’il couche avec une femme entretenant des liens étroits avec l’équipe locale. À Saint-Hyacinthe, une femme apprend à ses dépens qu’un bain de minuit dans la rivière Yamaska peut provoquer de graves effets secondaires. Dans le Village, un bear séropositif s’amourache d’un jeune homme et devient prêt à tout pour le faire passer dans son « équipe ». À Victoriaville, une étudiante s’en prend à la barmaid étoile du bar le plus populaire de la ville pour tenter de sauver son couple. Tout ça illustré en couleur, comme dans les livres de Disney.