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Politeness and its Discontents
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 42.00This is a study of the place and nature of the ideal of politeness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writing in France, Britain and Russia. more...
Novels in Three Lines
New York Review Books 2011; US$ 14.00A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Novels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906—true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. This extraordinary trove, undiscovered until the 1940s... more...
Conduct Books for Girls in Enlightenment France
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 104.95At the same time that secular and religious authorities suppressed women's efforts to read, conduct books written specifically for girls and young unmarried women emerged as a new genre. Nadine Berenguier offers an in-depth analysis of this development in eighteenth-century France, situating conduct books in the context of Enlightenment concerns... more...
Marcel Proust
Infobase Publishing 2003; US$ 54.00An avid critic an translator, Marcel Proust is best remembered as author of the novel "The Remembrance of Things Past. more...
Saint-exupery
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 30.00Provides an in-depth study of the swashbuckling life and writing career of Antoine de Saint-Exupe+a7ry, discussing his role as a pioneering aviator, disastrous marriage, complex personal life, and literary work, including the classic, The Little Prince. more...
Death and the Labyrinth
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 140.00Death and the Labyrinth is unique, being Foucault's only work on literature. For Foucault this was by far the book I wrote most easily and with the greatest pleasure. Here, Foucault explores theory, criticism and psychology through the texts of Raymond Roussel, one of the fathers of experimental writing, whose work has been celebrated by the likes... more...
Cyrano de Bergerac
Oxford University Press, UK 1998; US$ 8.99Rostand's hero has become a figure of theatrical legend: Cyrano, with the nose of a clown and the soul of a poet, is by turns comic and sad, as reckless in love as in war, and never at a loss for words. Audiences immediately took him to their hearts, and since the triumphant opening night in December 1897 - at the height of the Dreyfus Affair -... more...
Shadow
Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2011; US$ 7.99Shadow lives in the forest... It goes forth at night to prowl around the fires. It even likes to mingle with the dancers... Shadow... It waves with the grasses, curls up at the foot of trees... But in the African experience Shadow is much more. The village storytellers and shamans of an Africa that is passing into memory called forth for the poet... more...
On Reading
Hesperus Press 2011; US$ 9.99"To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard... more...
Le savoir partagé
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1987; US$ 113.00Une analyse systématique et détaillée des fines stratégies du secret et du désir de savoir à l??vre entre les protagonistes de A la recherche du temps perdu , conduite à la lumière de la théorie sémiotique, et qui dévoile, à travers le texte de Proust, la présence implicite d?une théorie et d?une esthétique de la connaissance. La perspective adoptée,... more...









