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1) Salammbo
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
French novelist and short story writer, Gustave Flaubert, was considered to be a master of style, obsessively devoted to finding the right word in every piece of literature he produced. As a child he expressed great imagination and took in all the stories he could from his nurse and neighbors, and in doing so, he prepared himself for a life consumed by literature and history. In addition to his "Madame Bovary", his first published novel and the one...
Author
Series
Collection Folio ; 879
Publisher
Gallimard, Éditions de la Nouvelle revue français
Pub. Date
[1925]
Language
Français
Author
Series
Collection Folio ; 30
Publisher
Gallimard
Pub. Date
[1948]
Language
Français
Description
A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The story is told mainly in the form of a flashback, with the killer describing how he carried out his mission. The killer's identity is established from the beginning, but the question is whether his motivations were political or personal. Thus, the play's main theme is not on who did it but on why it was...
10) La femme cachée
Author
Series
Collection Folio ; 612
Publisher
Flammarion
Pub. Date
[1951]
Language
Français
Description
"La Femme Cachée est un recueil de 22 nouvelles très brv̈es qui suggr̈ent des tḧmes à l'imagination. Elles sont inspirées par de petits événements au retentissement imprévisible et capable de modifier le cours de la vie." --
11) Van Gogh
Author
Language
English
Description
Vincent van Gogh's life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, misunderstood martyr of modern art, the emblem of the artist as an outsider. An article, published in 1890, gave details about van Gogh's illness. The author of the article saw the painter as "a terrible and demented genius, often sublime, sometimes grotesque, always...
Author
Series
Collection Folio ; 236
Publisher
Gallimard
Pub. Date
[1954]
Language
Français
Description
This comic drama is a parody on the English way of life.
Author
Series
Collection Folio ; 942
Publisher
Gallimard
Pub. Date
[1956]
Language
Français
Description
Sous l'apparence conventionnelle de deux personnages - un vieil 'avare' et sa fille - sous leurs attitudes, leurs paroles, leurs pensées, celui qui raconte cette histoire découvre un monde invisible. C'est comme une vision au microscope. Mais ce qui se révèle ainsi est tellement complexe, rapide, insaisissable qu'il finit par être contraint d'abandonner et de revenir à l'apparence, aux conventions. Une passionnante exploration que ne permettent...
Author
Series
Collection Folio ; 776
Publisher
Gallimard
Pub. Date
[1957]
Language
Français
Description
A semi-autobiographical, hallucinatory novel about a swarming mass of human beings - Nazi collaborators, whores, fakers, mystics - herded together in the corridors of a dilapidated hotel at the end of World War II.
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