life of pi
Extraits
Histoire internationale
Each Child Is My Only One
In Each Child Is My Only One : Lotte Carlebach-Preuss, the Portrait of a Mother and Rabbi's Wife, Miriam Gillis-Carlebach, the daughter of Rabbi Dr. Joseph Zvi Carlebach (1883–1942), last Chief Rabbi of Hamburg and its surroundings, describes her childhood in the lively household of a rabbi's family with nine children, focusing on the special personality of her mother, Lotte Carlebach, née Preuss (1900–1942). The book starts with the history of the Preuss family, goes on to describe the marriage of Lotte to Joseph Carlebach, and portrays in detail their dynamic family life – until their deportation with their four youngest children to a Latvian concentration camp in 1942. The book is composed of two main parts. In the first section the reader learns about the events up to 1938, both inside and outside the Carlebach home ; the second section covers the years 1938–1941, in which there was a lively correspondence mainly between the mother and those of her children who succeeded in emigrating from Nazi Germany. This part concludes with several testimonies portraying the special personalities of Rabbi Carlebach and his wife and their devotion to the unfortunate who benefited from their unbounded assistance and altruism during the Holocaust. Many photographs are included in the book, several of them taken by Lotte Carlebach herself. The book is a unique and personal testimony about Jewish life in Germany during the years of persecution that relentlessly led to the conflagration of the Holocaust.
05/2014
Poésie
Epilepsy: the invisible pain
They say life is a long stretch of a calm river, but not for everyone ! She was for me until the day when everything rocked, the day my destiny was changed dramatically. People do not realize how life can be so sweet and so beautiful. They complain all day long for trivialities. They are not even aware that they have before their eyes the most beautiful wealth : the luck and happiness of living in good health. I was rich before. Now I am poor because my child has an incurable disease, that has currently no hope of being healed. As a parent, how can we accept that ? , How to continue living carrying the bundle of pain in my head ? , How to overcome this feeling of helplessness ? When I started speaking to my heart, I didn't know myself that this was the beginning of a new life : a rebirth as a poet. When I learnt that my 7-year-old daughter was suffering from the Dravet Syndrome, a rare genetic epileptic encephalopathy, this was like an earthquake in my life. Then, I needed to write in order to express my sorrow and my pain. Words and rhymes came naturally to my mind. This was obvious that poetry would be my survival weapon.
01/2019
Littérature française
P1, p2
P1, conductrice de VTC spécialisée dans les longs trajets et transports spéciaux, traverse l'Europe de Paris à Irkoutsk, en Sibérie, pour y conduire son client P2, cartographe en mission. Un road trip de 8 159 kilomètres, qui croise vieux bistrots de routiers, magasins d'usine, vestiges monumentaux de l'URSS et paysages de nature toute puissante. Une fresque familiale qui traverse toutes les époques de la Russie. Envie de beauté, confrontation à l'absurde, dans une écriture sensible et drôle, les auteurs nous livrent une comédie humaine sans pitié. Il y aura des rencontres et du caviar.
11/2021
Monographies
Hardy's Wessex. The landscapes that inspired a writer
This fascinating book tells the story of Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Accompanying a multi-venue exhibition, it explores Hardy's life and work. Internationally-acclaimed writer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is best known for his evocative depictions of the West Country landscape and its people, a region that he called 'Wessex'. What is less well-known is that this landscape also inspired him in many other aspects of his life, from campaigning for animal welfare to questioning the way society viewed women. This publication accompanies a blockbuster, multi-venue exhibition of the largest collection of Thomas Hardy memorabilia ever to be displayed at once. Hardy was born in the West Country, a few years after Queen Victoria came to the throne, and spent most of the rest of his life among its landscapes and people. When he turned writer, these landscapes and people re-emerged as his 'partly-real, partlydream country' of Wessex, in novels like Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure. 'Hardy's Wessex' now conjures up a range of mental images : from raging seas on the coast to haunting ancient monuments, Victorian towns packed with life to peaceful hillsides grazed by sheep. However, through Hardy's 87-year life span, the West Country changed dramatically. Ideas of the role of women, humans' responsibility to animals, the realities of war, love and courtship, superstition, social structure, religion and how people related to the world around them altered fundamentally. Through his stories and campaigning, Hardy was keen to show not only the rural idyll, but also the tensions and diffi culties that lay beneath these views. These dramatic landscapes were the lens through which Hardy presented his worldview to his readership. From the tragedy of a woman saying farewell to her sailorlover on the end of Portland Bill, to a shepherd losing his flock and facing ultimate ruin on the chalky hills. The landscapes shape his characters, whose stories in turn convey his messages of social change to his readers. This publication will explore the impact that Wessex had on Hardy's works, and how living there shaped his views on the often divisive social issues of the period. Uniting beautiful landscape imagery with a selection of personal items from Hardy's life, this book will show you the man behind the literature.
06/2022
Non classé
Marie Cardinal
What impact did Cardinal's texts have on the 1970s feminist movement ? What is her position in relation to French women's writing and the French literary tradition today ? This volume brings together a series of papers given at the first international conference on the influential feminist author Marie Cardinal. Leading critics of Cardinal's oeuvre engage in analysis alongside new commentators in the field. The collection provides an extensive yet cohesive overview of Cardinal's writing, including original commentaries on earlier works like Cet été-là, popular classics like Les Mots pour le dire, and more recent texts including Amour... amours... Contributors provide new perspectives on Cardinal's oeuvre, drawing from a range of areas of scholarly interest including film studies, life-writing, postcolonial discourse, critical theory, gender studies, and reception theory.
12/2005
Littérature française (poches)
Comment j'ai appris à lire
"Apprendre à lire a été, pour moi, une des choses les plus faciles et les plus difficiles", constate Agnès Desarthe. Comment apprend-on à lire ? Notre désir de lecture peut-il être entravé ? L'écriture peut-elle rendre meilleur lecteur ? Cheminant à travers ses souvenirs, l'écrivain mène une enquête passionnante, puisant au coeur d'un secret : celui de n'avoir pas aimé lire pendant longtemps.
05/2014
12 ans et +
My Life Matters
Au début, on était quatre. Mes meilleurs potes, mon jumeau et moi. Nés dans un quartier où tout est moche, sale et criblé de balles, on s'en est plutôt bien tirés. Tyler est un gars cool et populaire. Je bosse dur pour sortir du ghetto. On peut être noir et réussir dans ce monde de Blancs. En tout cas, c'est ce que je croyais. Jusqu'au jour où Tyler a disparu...
07/2018
Yaoi/homosexualité masculine
Sugar dog life
Isumi Sakuraba, étudiant complexé par sa petite taille et son visage d'enfant, se fait raccompagner chez lui un soir par le policier Amasawa, qui le prend sur le coup pour un mineur. Le lendemain, Isumi rencontre à nouveau Amasawa au convini où il travaille, découvrant que ce dernier est un policier du kôban voisin. Amasawa devient alors un client régulier, et Isumi le conseille à chaque fois pour ses bentos. Tout en pensant qu'Amasawa est "pénible", Isumi lui propose malgré tout sur un coup de tête d'aller chez lui pour lui préparer un repas fait maison... ce qu'il accepte !
08/2022
Théâtre
Sing my Life
Entre un travail mal rémunéré et une vie de famille épuisante, le quotidien de Sonia, Brigitte et Caroline est teinté de précarité : perspectives de délocalisation, menaces de licenciement, réduction des salaires et accroissement des cadences, tout est centré sur la productivité et la rentabilité. L'ambiance est à la morosité, surtout quand il apparaît que les patrons préparent un mauvais coup. Danièle, la patronne du bistrot où elles se retrouvent chaque midi, va bousculer tout ce petit monde en inscrivant Sonia à un concours de chant faisant fureur sur les petits écrans. Un monde plein de promesses s'ouvre à elle et le rêve d'un futur meilleur semble être à portée de voix. Sidérurgie et divertissement populaire, les deux univers se rencontrent, mais celui des strass et paillettes est-il vraiment plus humain, plus valorisant ? Après Les bonnes intentions, Cathy Min Jung propose un récit émouvant et humain sur fond de fermeture d'usine et d'espoir d'une vie meilleure.
09/2017
Policiers
The life game
Jade Neville, une jeune Franco-américaine étudiante en criminologie à Paris, rêve d'intégrer le FBI. Quand elle entend parler de The Life Game, un jeu de télé-réalité qui fait fureur aux Etats-Unis, elle saisit sa chance : si elle sort gagnante de la nouvelle saison, la production s'engage à tout faire pour qu'elle entre à Quantico. Sur ces promesses, elle se lance sur les traces de Scott Eden, un acteur disparu suite à une série de meurtres non élucidés. Tous ses faits et gestes sont filmés, enregistrés, analysés pour être diffusés sur des centaines de milliers d'écrans télévisés. Dans sa quête, elle peut compter sur l'assistance de son ami Chang, un geek pour qui la technologie n'a aucun secret. The Life Game est un jeu. Mais Jade joue sa vie. Car Jade est prise au piège : d'un tueur, de ses rêves et de sa popularité.
11/2017
Littérature érotique et sentim
Love for life
Alors que Mila file le parfait amour avec Lucas, Andreas revient pour quarante-huit heures, plus décidé que jamais à la reconquérir. Si cette dernière pense que son coeur appartient désormais à Lucas, la venue de son ancien amant va faire voler en éclats toutes ses certitudes. Amoureuse enflammée, romantique, incorrigible fleur bleue, Mila saura-t-elle surmonter les rancoeurs, les désillusions, pour avoir droit au bonheur ? Avec lequel des frères Bellefond finira-t-elle sa vie ? D'Andreas ou de Lucas, qui aura sa préférence ?
07/2018
Décoration
Love Style Life
Durant mon enfance, en Corse, le style était mon évasion – puis il est devenu mon chemin dans le monde. Laissez-moi vous entraîner dans un voyage à la recherche de l'essence du style, en partant de l'apparence (comment porter une veste en jean) jusqu'au plus intime (comment aimer quelqu'un). Des cafés de Paris aux rues de New York en passant par mes voyages aux quatre coins de la planète, j'ai compris que le style, ce sont toutes ces choses invisibles qui font qu'une personne se sent belle et présente au monde. Avertissement : la balade risque d'être bancale, imparfaite, parfois glamour, mais surtout (j'espère ! ! !) hilarante. Allez, c'est parti !
12/2015
Indépendants
Work-life-balance
Anita, Rex et Sandra galèrent pour trouver leur place dans le milieu professionnel. Ils rêvent d'une certaine qualité de vie, d'un job passionnant dans la dernière start-up en vue ou bien d'une consécration dans la sphère artistique. Mais, confrontés à la dure réalité d'un monde, ils devront faire autrement et survivre. S'ils ne souffrent pas d'un burn-out, c'est le bore-out qui les tue à petit feu, et tout ça pour gagner quelques cacahuètes. Perte du sens, aliénation, c'est l'escalade de la frustration. Ces trois-là vont devoir se battre, même si leurs outils sont plus ou moins douteux. Pour cela, ils seront accompagnés par le Dr S. Sharifi, une psy aux méthodes un peu spéciales. Sera-t-elle capable d'aider ses patients à retrouver un équilibre entre leur vie privée et leur professionnelle ?? Rien n'est moins sûr. Avec Work-Life-Balance, sa quatrième bande dessinée, Aisha Franz nous plonge dans la dure réalité des jeunes travailleurs d'aujourd'hui. Elle y exploite le ton absurde et plein d'ironie qu'on lui connait. Tout y est : la désillusion des rêves au profit du libéralisme, le culte et l'optimisation de soi, les rapports de force sur un lieu de travail qui se veut pourtant inclusif et horizontal, l'ubérisation, la société du tout numérique et la difficulté de ne pas s'oublier.
11/2022
Littérature française
My birdy life
Un voyage au coeur du Cotentin, presqu'île normande qui serait aujourd'hui parfaitement inconnue du plus grand nombre si le cours de l'histoire du XXe siècle n'en avait décidé autrement.
L'histoire se passe quelques années après la fin seconde guerre mondiale. Alors que les vestiges sont visibles partout, Sainte Mère Eglise, petite commune d'à peine plus d'un millier d'âmes, tente de refermer les plaies d'un très lourd tribut payé par les populations civiles encore meurtries aujourd'hui.
A ces héros venus d'Outre-Atlantique et Outre-Manche qui ont marqué durablement l'histoire.
07/2018
Lectures graduées
Her Other Life
Lorsque le docteur Lelong arrive à Toulouse pour y soigner une jeune Américaine souffrant d'amnésie, il pense faire face à un cas simple de psychiatrie. Mais rien n'est simple dans le cas de Marilyn Jensen. Elle a endossé une nouvelle personnalité et parle même une nouvelle langue : le français ! Alors que leur relation devient plus intime, le mystère s'épaissit. Thriller psychiatrique dans la meilleure tradition, Her Other Life vous tient en haleine jusqu'à la fin. L'ouvrage est enrichi de ressources pédagogiques et d'une version audio à télécharger.
05/2023
Littérature érotique et sentim
More than life
Cheveux au vent, il roule à tombeau ouvert sur sa moto. Soudain, c'est l'accident. Josh, le bad boy terriblement sexy est gravement blessé et sombre dans le coma. A son réveil, il a complètement oublié sa vie d'avant, comme si rien n'avait existé. Callie, sa petite amie, est effondrée, le jeune homme ne la reconnaît même pas. A ses yeux, elle n'est plus qu'une étrangère n'ayant rien à faire dans sa vie. Pire encore : Julia, la pimbêche qui, depuis toujours, est la grande rivale de Callie, en profite pour se lancer dans un grand numéro de séduction. Et le pire, c'est que ça marche ! Le jeune homme finit par tomber dans ses bras et dans son lit... Les mois passent et Callie semble avoir fait le deuil de son grand amour. Jusqu'au jour où son chemin croise à nouveau celui du beau Josh... Il a tout oublié. Elle doit le reconquérir, comme au premier jour.
04/2017
Littérature française
Sons of Fantasy
When we were children, we believed anything was possible... This book is a fantasy novel originally written for children. But, if you are a father or a mother, a teacher or a writer, if you still have some bits of fantasy in your soul... then, this novel is for you too. We all know how geniuses changed the world with their childlike Imagination, and how people use creative thinking to solve problems. This is a story about hope ; "Sons of Fantasy" shares the story of M. Alger, a father grieving for the loss of his dear wife, who left him with two beautiful kids. Norris and Socrates were adjusting to life without Mom... But things got more complicated when one of them was paralyzed because of a severe psychological trauma due to an overdose of fantasy... This family has a very interesting neighbor who lives a few feet away. He has a weird little hobby, reading books in the most unlikely places... He for example travelled to Romania and read "Dracula" by Bram Stoker in the Castelul Bran Castle, because it's said that the main character Dracula lived in it. And then all of a sudden he stopped travelling... He got a month ago a big long hat that belongs to the greatest witch that lived during the middle ages, "Moje Gayla". In fact, after being burned by the church, one of her relatives kept her belongings inside a wooden box... and in the twentieth century one of her grandchildren donated the box to "The Magic Square Museum" in London. Genius bought the hat at a public auction as an art relic to decorate one of his rooms. Could this weird neighbor be the reason of Socrates' psychological trauma ? Or maybe he is the one who will cure him ? And what has the hat to do with all this ?
08/2018
Shonen/garçon
Sounds of Life Tome 1 : 48h de la BD 2024. Edition limitée
Depuis la rentrée et le départ de ses aînées pour l'université, Tokezô est devenu le seul membre du club de koto. Passionné par cet instrument, il refuse de laisser le club disparaître faute de nouvelles recrues. Mais sa salle est déjà envahie de délinquants, et aucun de ses camarades ne semble s'intéresser à une activité musicale aussi traditionnelle... jusqu'au jour où Chika, un élève à la mauvaise réputation, demande de s'inscrire.
03/2024
Littérature française
Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba)
Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba) This book is dedicated to the unique One who has assumed a form and name to lead the play of universal existence. He throbs in our loving heart ; He breathes in our living soul. He sings in our fervent spirit and he thinks in our purified mind. That infinite Ancient One from his supernal height, bends towards us to embrace us in his love, and to feed our soul with the nectar of his bliss. Blessed are they that have the mind to know him, the heart to feel him and the love to live in his consciousness ! He may have been born to human parents in Poona, studied in a college, played cricket, left home, have seen great souls, sat alone silent, spoken in gestures, written books - but that is not his history. Many live such a life ; many scholars write books ; many saints sit in contemplation ; many monks leave home for mountain resorts ; but they cannot be one like him. Millions of bulbs challenge in vain the darkness of night. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. We have seen monks, yogins and saints. Some live alone for peace. Some open Ashrams and collect donations to run them. Some comercialise their name and form. Some display miracles to surprise human minds ; some offer boons ; some predict the future ; some curse you when you do not offer them what they want. Some seek pleasure and treasure. But who seeks God and finds God in the self to awaken God-awareness in other men and women ? Who says "I am God and you are God too"? Who rises above the prattle of words, the rattle of weapons and battle of ideologies to the lofty peace of supersonic silence and pours his blessings from the dizzy height of the soul in tune with God ? Who is he that embraces all in the heart and awakens the soul which has none of the human creations of caste, religion, race, pedigree nor colour ? Editions ASSA, Christian Piaget
07/2017
12 ans et +
Les 8 royaumes mortels Tome 1 : La cité de Pierre-de-Vie
Raised as a slave in the Darkoath camps of Aqshy, Kiri dreams of a better life. Of a city of wonders, the place of her birth… Lifestone ! She despairs of ever reaching it until a fateful day arrives when her barbarian captors are attacked by Sigmar's noblest warriors, the Stormcast Eternals. Seizing her chance, Kiri flees through a mysterious realmgate that takes her far from the fiery lands of Aqshy. She arrives in the realm of Ghyran and finds the city of Lifestone. But a curse lies on this place, withering its noble spirit. Her path leads her to a special group of children who, like her, are realm-marked the prophecised saviours of Lifestone. There's Thanis, the fighter ; Alish, the inventor ; Kaspar ; the sneak and Elio, the healer. But dark forces are allying against the children and will do anything to stop them achieving their destiny.
06/2019
Littérature française
Bois le vent d'Horizons Lointains - Have a drink of Faraway Winds
J'ai relu "L'Usage du Monde" de N. Bouvier, j'ai pensé que j'avais aussi plein de souvenirs, inspirants, éclairants, éblouissants, de mon voyage en stop vers les Indes en 1969 ; et que je pouvais les faire revivre pour vous. I reread "The Way of the World" of N. Bouvier, I thought I had too a headfull of souvenirs, inspiring, vivid, dazzling, of my 1969 travel, hitchhiking towards the Indies ; and that I could bring them back to life, for you.
11/2017
Non classé
The Peoples of the Jos Plateau, Nigeria
From an investigation of the way of life of the inhabitants of this little-known region, the author attempts to deduce and evaluate the system of thought which governs, at least implicitly, the life-style of the tribal people in question. The significance of the highly spiritual quality of their mental attitudes is discussed from the philosophical angle.
12/1979
Divers
Music Queens. Une histoire du girl power et de la pop... en chansons !
Chaque épisode présente le contexte historique dans lequel la chanson a été écrite, l'importance qu'elle a dans la vie de la chanteuse, et explique pourquoi et comment elle a changé la société. Au menu : Janis Joplin, Piece of my heart Nina Simone, Ain't got no, I got life Anne Sylvestre, Non tu n'as pas de nom Marianne Faithfull, The ballad of Lucy Jordan Patti Smith, Gloria Blondie, Heart of Glass Madonna, Like a virgin Bikini Kill, Rebel girl Queen Latifah, UNITY Beyoncé, Run the world (girls)
05/2023
Livres 0-3 ans
The discovery of magic
Queen Vispa and King Dungammei are the beloved rulers of their respective kingdoms. The two territories live in harmony, sharing a temple that crosses their mutual border, but they pray to different gods and have little in common outside of geography. The monarchs seem an unlikely pair, but when each violates the rules of the temple - one by entering the temple as a woman, and the other by praying to the other kingdom's god - both find themselves abandoned by their people, deciding soon after to declare the approval and presence of both gods in their hearts, as well as their love for each other. The King and Queen's subjects also abandon the shared temple, leaving it to the disobedient pair and building separate temples in their own territories. The monarchs' happy life together is, however, short-lived, as Queen Vispa dies upon giving birth to their child Delarai. The King is urged to repent and return to his kingdom. He complies, leaving princess Delarai with Magi, a nurse from a remote village, to raise her. Delarai rows up in near isolation, far from other people, spending most of her time among flowers and animals of the beautiful temple garden. Meanwhile, battles rage between the two kingdoms following the King's return. Delaware, a son begotten to the King and his next wife, gets badly wounded some years later in an attempt to stop the fighting. On his deathbed, the Prince insists on being taken to the forbidden temple to be buried there. The King, though ill himself, agrees to fulfill his son's dying wish. It is there where Delarai, having become quite an expert at herbal remedies, comes to their aid, preparing a special potion while praying to the temple's two gods in her nurse Magi's native language. As Delarai completes the life-saving act of curing the Prince, she tries to call for Magi, but the word that leaves her lips is "magic". Those who witness the event soon spread the word, and Delarai becomes recognized across both kingdoms as the creator of magic. The King, however, succumbs to old age, imparting his last kernel of wisdom unto his daughter : the two temple gods are one and the same. With this knowledge and their newfound inner strength, Delarai and Delaware unify the two kingdoms, and live happily ever after.
09/2021
Histoire régionale
Le Rouge Gazon. Histoire d'une chaume
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03/2023
Décoration
Stories and Reflections
Eminent tastemaker Axel Vervoordt recounts the pivotal moments in his life that formed the foundation of his guiding philosophy and signature aesthetic. Axel Vervoordt is one of the world's foremost tastemakers. Revered for his discerning eye in art and interior design through a career that has spanned more than fifty years, he is renowned for his captivating minimalist interiors. An iconic figure at the most prominent international art fairs and exhibitions, he incarnates a singular philosophy for how to live with style. In Stories and Reflections, Vervoordt recounts stories about the people who have influenced him most throughout his life - his family, friends, artists, colleagues, clients, and unforgettable mentors - in this memoir that is personal, funny, insightful, and permeated with humility, wisdom, and lessons learned. He reflects on the key moments in his life from childhood to the present - Rudolf Nureyev's visit to the Vervoordt's new castle, his youthful acquisition of a Magritte, discovering Japanese Gutai art, his legendary Venice exhibitions, and insights gained from artists such as Cy Twombly, Anish Kapoor, and musician Mstislav Rostropovich. He details his greatest successes, as well as his personal regrets, while offering first-hand insight into the work that has forged his reputation. A larger-than-life and inspiring man, this book offers snapshots from his life, which paint an overall portrait of his guiding philosophy.
12/2017
Sports
One life. Ballon d'or et icône féministe
Megan Rapinoe est une des athlètes les plus marquantes de la scène sportive mondiale. En parallèle de son succès professionnel sur les terrains de foot, elle est aussi devenue une icône et un modèle pour des millions de personnes en s'exprimant avec courage sur les enjeux sociétaux les plus importants. Elevée dans une petite ville conservatrice du nord de la Californie, benjamine d'une fratrie de six enfants, Megan Rapinoe a quatre ans lorsqu'elle tape dans son premier ballon. Son talent pour ce sport est une évidence. Si ses parents encouragent son amour pour le foot, ils l'incitent également à s'engager auprès des plus démunis. Son enfance, aux côtés de sa soeur jumelle adorée Rachael, est marquée par la tragique addiction à la drogue de son frère Brian. Militante dans l'âme, elle est la première joueuse de football à faire son coming-out dans les médias en 2012, puis en 2016, elle n'hésite pas à s'agenouiller pendant l'hymne nationale en soutien au joueur Colin Kaepernick, parti en guerre contre les discriminations raciales et les violences policières. Son refus public et catégorique de se rendre à la Maison Blanche après la victoire à la Coupe du monde 2019 a fait couler beaucoup d'encre, tout comme l'action en justice qu'elle a intentée avec ses coéquipières contre la fédération américaine de football pour obtenir une rémunération égale à celle de l'équipe masculine. Férocement anti-Trump, elle a apporté son soutien à Joe Biden dans la course à la Maison Blanche. Comme elle l'a déclaré après la victoire au mondial de l'équipe américaine à New York en 2019 : "C'est notre responsabilité de rendre le monde meilleur". Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Marguerite Capelle et Hélène Cohen
11/2020
Philosophie
Why We Are Not What We Think We Are
Questions about personal identity and about time affect us all. The concern for "our" future and the fear of "our" death are based on (mostly vague) concepts of personal identity over time. Though the atomic components of our present body are not identical with the ones shown on our childhood photos, we have no doubts in recognizing ourselves on those pictures. Similarly, we are convinced that "we" will be able to recognize "ourselves" on our present passport-photos even in the future. Is this confidence justified ? If it is not, our conception of life and death would be as faulty as was the image of the universe in the Middle Ages.
10/1987
Littérature française
Saint Shuddhananda Bharati A visionary
Foreword To my friend, to my guide, to the mahatma of my heart, to the visionary of a united world living in peace and harmony in the earthly paradise that God has given us. Life and destiny is like an iceberg ; most of us is hidden, and for some, this is the start of the long path of questioning... For souls that are searching, the time then comes when the seeker finds what is being sought : the precursor, the one that has opened the path, cleared it out and illuminated the way. Thus in the deepest part of our Selves, at the centre of our soul, Joythi, the Divine Light is revealed and works on meeting all those who seek it. Kavi Yogi Maharshi Shuddhananda Bharati was a scholar, linguist, scientist, seer poet, saint and the sage of the Cosmic Age. He was ever agile and active, writing, singing, doing good and observed silence for 30 continuous years. He was a universalist, who was not bound to caste, religion, colour and race or geographic bounds. He was an apostle of Sama Yoga, which seeks for a synthesis of science and yoga, West and East, the actual and the ideal in life. Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati is the author of creative and literary works with diverse writing styles : epic and lyric writings, melodramas, operas, comedies, pastoral theologies, novels, short stories, biographies, notes on famous works, essays. Bharata Shakti Kavi Malayam is his magnum opus. Editions ASSA, Christianananda Bharati
11/2013
Monographies
Towards the Sun. The Artist - Traveller at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Bien qu'il y ait eu des monographies sur les artistes voyageurs britanniques du XVIIIème et du début du XIXème siècles, il n'existe aucune enquête de ce que l'écrivain Henry Blackburn décrivait de "voyage artistique" un siècle plus tard. A partir de 1900, le "Grand Touriste" est devenu un globe-trotteur muni d'un appareil photo et, malgré le développement de la photographie instantanée, l'enregistrement visuel immédiat en huile et aquarelle reste le plus répandu. Kenneth McConkey's exciting new book explores the complex reasons for this in a series of chapters that take the reader from southern Europe to north Africa, the Middle East, India and Japan revealing many artist-travellers whose lives and works are scarcely remembered today. He alerts us to a generation of painters, trained in academies and artists' colonies in Europe that acted as crèches for those would go on to explore life and landscape further afi eld. The seeds of wanderlust were sown in student years in places where tuition was conducted in French or German, and models were often Spanish, Italian, or North African. At fi rst the countries of western Europe were explored afresh and cities like Tangier became artists' haunts. Training that prioritized plein air naturalism led to the common belief that a well-schooled young painter should be capable of working anywhere, and in any circumstances. At the height of British Imperial power, and facilitated by engineering and technological advance, the burgeoning tourism and travel industry rippled into the production of specialist goods and services that included a dedicated publishing sector. Essential to this phenomenon, the artist-traveller was often commissioned by London dealers to supply themed exhibitions that coincided with contracts for colour-illustrated books recording those exotic parts of the world that were newly available to the tourist, traveller, explorer, emigrant, or colonial civil servant. These works were not, however, value-neutral, and in some instances, they directly address Orientalism, Imperialism, and the Post-Colonial, in pictures that hybridize, or mimic indigenous ways of life. Behind each there is a range of interesting questions. Does experience live up to expectation ? Is the street more desirable than the ancient ruin or sacred site ? How were older ideas of the 'picturesque' reborn in an age when 'Grand Tours' once confi ned to Italy, now encompassed the globe ? McConkey's wideranging survey hopes to address some of these issues. This richly illustrated book explores key sites visited by artist-travellers and investigates artists including Frank Brangwyn, Mary Cameron, Alfred East, John Lavery, Arthur Melville, Mortimer Menpes, as well as other under-researched British artists. Drawing the strands together, it redefi nes the picturesque, by considering issues of visualization and verisimilitude, dissemination and aesthetic value.
11/2021
