Quand l'invasion croissante des touristes prend la ville de Venise en otage. Dans une forme littéraire, ce texte raconte l'effet dévastateur des passages ininterrompus des grands paquebots dans la lagune de Venise et les sentiments qu'ils provoquent chez la plupart d'entre nous, les Vénitiens. Un texte qui met face à face le pouvoir et l'indignation, la politique et la résignation, avec la certitude que la seule et ultime ressource que l'on...

Originally published in Paris in 1929, this collage novel by avant-gardist Max Ernst constitutes a seminal 20th-century work of art. The artist's striking combinations of engravings from Victorian-era books and magazines, accompanied by enigmatic captions, offer a universe of mystery replete with all the possibilities of the bizarre dream world of the surreal. Images speak, language illustrates, and the reader's imagination provides the glue. "Irrational,...

In a society uprooted by two world wars, industrialization, and dehumanizing technology, a revolutionary farmer turns to poetry to reconnect his people to the land and one another. A farmer, poet, activist, pastor, and mystic, Britts (1917–1949) has been called a British Wendell Berry. His story is no romantic agrarian elegy, but a life lived in the thick of history. As his country plunged headlong into World War II, he joined an international pacifist...

Extrait : "Je suis né à Paris, le 12 janvier 1628 ; je fus nommé Charles par mon frère le receveur-général des finances, qui me tint sur les fonts avec Françoise Pepin, ma cousine. Ma mère se donna la peine de m'apprendre à lire, après quoi on m'envoya au collège de Beauvais, à l'âge de huit ans et demi. J'y ai fait toutes mes études, ainsi que tous mes frères."

À l'époque victorienne, l'angleterre, balayée par la révolution industrielle, la confrérie préraphaélite, William morris et le mouvement Arts and Crafts, aspirait à un retour aux valeurs passées. souhaitant faire renaître les formes pures et nobles de la renaissance italienne, les peintres du groupe tels que John everett millais, dante gabriel rossetti et edward burne-Jones, favorisèrent le réalisme et les thèmes bibliques. ce titre de...

This book evaluates the transformational process of left populism across grassroots, national and European levels and asks what we can do to harness the power of broad-based, popular left politics. While the right is using populist rhetoric to great effect, the left's attempts have been much less successful. Syriza in Greece and Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party in Britain have both failed to introduce socialism in their countries, while Podemos has had...

Presented in both English and Portuguese, this lyric poetry collection explores the "troublesome blessing and burden of being human" (Publishers Weekly). Love. Sex. Death. Meat. Traffic. Pets. In Cattle of the Lord, Rosa Alice Branco offers a stunning poetic vision at once sacred and profane, a rich evocation of daily life troubled by uneasy sacramentality. In a collection translated by Alexis Levitin and presented in both Portuguese and English,...

Mémoires de la politique belge au XXe siècle Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb est l'une des figures majeures de notre paysage politique et l'un des artisans des transformations successives de l'Europe et de la Belgique parlementaire. Les responsabilités successives qu'il a endossées tout au long de sa carrière l'ont amené à faire des choix décisifs aux plus hauts niveaux. Descendant d'une famille qui compte de nombreux serviteurs de l'État, fils...

So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Brave New World tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Aldous Huxley's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Brave New World includes: Historical contextChapter-by-chapter overviewsProfiles of the main charactersThemes and symbolsImportant...

One of William Shakespeare's most farcical comedies, "The Comedy of Errors" is notable for its use of mistaken identity to achieve a slapstick comedic effect. Ripe with the bard's characteristic word play, the comedy concerns the lives of two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated shortly after their birth. The play begins by the elderly Syracusian trader Egeon relating the back-story of his family. When Egeon was young, he married...