Si c'est un homme est considéré comme l'une des plus importantes oeuvres littéraires du vingtième siècle. C'est le récit bouleversant de la captivité de l'auteur dans le camp d'Auschwitz.
Primo Levi est né à Turin en Italie dans une famille juive de la moyenne bourgeoisie. Il s'inscrit à l'Université de Turin pour étudier la chimie juste avant que la loi fasciste raciale de 1938 interdit l'accès des Juifs aux universités. Primo Levi obtient son diplôme en été 1941 avec la plus haute mention, un an après l'entrée d'Italie dans la Seconde Guerre mondiale à coté de l'Allemagne. Levi décide de prendre le chemin des Alpes et rejoindre le mouvement partisan antifasciste, Giustizia e Libertà, mais il est arrêté en décembre 1943. Deux mois plus tard, Levi, âgé de 24 ans, est déporté à Auschwitz. Grâce à sa spécialité, au lieu d'être sélectionné pour les chambres à gaz, il a été envoyé au camp de travail forcé de Monowitz pour travailler dans l'un des laboratoires de l'IG Farben, entreprise qui produisait du caoutchouc synthétique pour la machine de guerre nazie. Après la libération d'Auschwitz par l'Armée rouge en Janvier 1945, Levi retourne à Turin. Il commence à travailler en tant que chimiste, et en 1947 il publie son premier livre, « Si c'est un homme ». Publié à l'origine dans une petite maison d'édition italienne, ce n'est que dix ans plus tard que ce livre devient mondialement reconnu comme un chef-d'oeuvre.
Jon Krakauer''s Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later.
In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the Alaskan wild. He had given his savings to charity, abandoned his car and his possessions, and burnt the money in his wallet, determined to live a life of independence. Just four months later, Chris was found dead. An SOS note was taped to his makeshift home, an abandoned bus.
In piecing together the final travels of this extraordinary young man''s life, Jon Krakauer writes about the heart of the wilderness, its terribly beauty and its relentless harshness. Into the Wild is a modern classic of travel writing, and a riveting exploration of what drives some of us to risk more than we can afford to lose.
From the author of Under the Banner of Heaven and Into Thin Air. A film adaptation of Into the Wild was directed by Sean Penn and starred Emile Hirsch and Kristen Stewart.
''It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order.'' - Entertainment Weekly
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter. When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist. His fathers impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child, prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times destructive. At the beginning of 2022--after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one satellites, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth--Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. I need to shift my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen years now, or arguably most of my life, he said. It was a wistful comment, not a New Years resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the worlds ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground.For two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress?
REVISED EDITION WITH FIVE THOUSAND WORDS BONUS MATERIAL AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud and Mishima.
Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable artists at work today.
Mises en français moderne et présentées par Claude Pinganaud.
L'édition grand format des Ouvres complètes de François Villon, publié par Arléa en 2005, était fondée sur le même principe que l'édition des Essais de Montaigne, c'est-à-dire sur une modernisation de l'orthographe et sur un système d'équivalence des mots et expression disparus, avec le vocabulaire moderne [placé, en italique, entre crochets]. Ce système, qui s'était avéré très pratique pour un texte en prose, a montré ses limites dans son application à des poèmes. En effet, l'obligation de respecter le mètre et la rime empêche de traduire la plupart des mots, ce qui oblige à de nombreuses insertions entre crochets, l'ensemble offrant un aspect visuel très perturbant, et surtout une quasi-impossibilité de goûter l'élégance et la musique des vers, bref, de saisir toute l'émotion d'un poème.
C'est donc une traduction proprement dite qui est proposée dans ce livre, sous une forme bilingue - et bicolore : en noir et gros caractères les strophes originales , à l'orthographe cependant légèrement modernisée ; en bleu et petits caractères la traduction en français contemporain, disposée en strophe - mais sans souci de mètre ni de rime - pour faciliter le renvoi au texte original.
Quant aux ballades en jargon & jobelin de la dernière partie du livre, elles sont ici présentées avec le même rajeunissement de l'orthographe, mais on n'a pas cherché à en proposer une traduction , les mots jargon et jobelin signifiant langage artificiel, artificieux, en tout cas strictement impénétrable aux non-initiés. D'ailleurs, la plupart des tentatives d'explication réalisées jusqu'à présent ne sont la plupart du temps que des conjectures, des à-peu-près qui n'offrent aucune certitude.
From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life.
Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs' family members, key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.
'Alderton is Nora Ephron for the millennial generation' Elizabeth Day 'With courageous honesty , Alderton documents the highs and the lows - the sex , the drugs , the nightmare landlords , the heartaches and the humiliations . Deeply funny, sometimes shocking, and admirably open-hearted and optimistic' Daily Telegraph 'A sensitive, astute and funny account of growing up millennial' Observer 'The book we will thrust into our friends' hands . . . that will help heal a broken heart. Alderton's wise words can resonate with women of all ages. She feels like a best friend and your older sister all rolled into one and her pages wrap around you like a warm hug ' Evening Standard 'I loved its truth, self awareness, humour and most of all, its heart-spilling generosity ' Sophie Dahl 'Steeped in furiously funny accounts of one-night stands, ill-advised late-night taxi journeys up the M1, grubby flat-shares and the beauty of female friendships, as Alderton joyfully booze-cruises her way through her twenties ' Metro 'Alderton proves a razor-sharp observer of the shifting dynamics of long term female friendship' Mail on Sunday 'It's so full of life and laughs - I gobbled up this book. Alderton has built something beautiful and true out of many fragments of daftness ' Amy Liptrot
From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life -- in good times and bad -- that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion.
One of bell hooks'' foundational works introduced to the UK for the first time.
''With the emotion of poetry, the narrative of a novel, and the truth of experience, bell hooks weaves a girlhood memoir you won''t be able to put down-or forget. Bone Black takes us into the cave of self-creation.'' Gloria Steinem
Stitching together the threads of her girlhood memories, bell hooks shows us one strong-spirited child''s journey toward becoming the pioneering writer we know. Along the way, hooks sheds light on the vulnerability of children, the special unfurling of female creativity and the imbalance of a society that confers marriage''s joys upon men and its silences on women.
In a world where daughters and fathers are strangers under the same roof, and crying children are often given something to cry about, hooks uncovers the solace to be found in solitude, the comfort to be had in the good company of books.
Bone Black allows us to bear witness to the awakening of a legendary author''s awareness that writing is her most vital breath.
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring--and surviving--an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable.< Knife< is a gripping, intimate, and ultimately life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art--and finding the strength to stand up again.
Alors qu'il était déporté sur les îles de Limnos et Makronissos, entre 1948 et 1950, Ritsos tenait un «journal» poétique. Chaque matin, malgré les terribles conditions de détention, il se réveillait avant tout le monde pour écrire ses poèmes, sur des petits carnets ou des paquets de cigarettes.
Le quotidien et l'amertume du détenu, dans la poésie de Ritsos, y font entendre les silences de la pierre et parler les oublis de l'histoire.
Nous avons publié la première traduction française de ce Journal de déportation en 2009, aujourd'hui épuisé. Parmi les trois livres du célèbre poète grec, Yannis Ritsos, que nous avons publiés, celui-ci, son Journal de déportation, a été le plus apprécié et sans cesse demandé lorsqu'il est devenu introuvable. Nous avons donc décidé de proposer cette nouvelle édition, bilingue grec-français, dans un nouveau format et une nouvelle maquette, dans une traduction revue et corrigée par notre traducteur qui ne cesse de « creuser le vers » et de pousser plus loin son travail sur la poésie grecque pour faire mieux connaître son histoire et son actualité, comme le montre bien sa nouvelle postface.
Francs, Mérovingiens, Carolingiens, Capétiens, Valois, Bourbons... Autant de noms de dynasties royales qui ont ponctué nos cours d'histoire, évoquant des souvenirs scolaires plus ou moins précis. Aide-mémoire ou guide pratique, et ouvrage recense les soixante-huit rois, qui, de Clodion le Chevelu, né vers 400, à Louis-Philippe Ier, mort en 1850, ont présidé aux destinées de notre pays. Tableaux généalogiques, cartes, notices biographiques illustrées de portraits apportent ainsi de précieux repères chronologiques à l'étudiant, à l'enseignant, à l'amateur de sites historiques ou, plus généralement, à celui qui souhaite rafraîchir ses connaissances historiques.
Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries. But even as his theoretical work on black holes, imaginary time and multiple histories took his mind to the furt
A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis.
Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Liberation era which resonates just as powerfully today. It is reissued now with a new introduction by Davis, for a new audience inspired and galvanised by her ongoing activism and her extraordinary example.
In the book, she describes her journey from a childhood on Dynamite Hill in Birmingham, Alabama, to one of the most significant political trials of the century: from her political activity in a New York high school to her work with the U.S. Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, and the Soledad Brothers; and from the faculty of the Philosophy Department at UCLA to the FBI's list of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
Told with warmth, brilliance, humour, and conviction, it is an unforgettable account of a life committed to radical change.
'Riveting; as fresh and relevant today as it was almost 50 years ago. The words fire off the page with humour, anger and eloquence' The Guardian Told with warmth, brilliance, humour, and conviction, it is an unforgettable account of a life committed to radical change.
Souad Labbize est descendue "dans les caves de l'enfance", pour écrire ce témoignage en soutien à toutes les femmes et filles victimes d'agressions sexuelles. Rédigé en français, traduit en arabe, il pose dans ces deux langues des mots sur la douleur et la honte, sur la rudesse de la mère et l'indolence du père. Des cris horrifiés, sans compassion ni tendresse pour l'enfant violée, la projettent sur le chemin au bout duquel elle gagnera sa liberté et son indépendance.
Souad Labbize a publié un roman, J'aurais voulu être un escargot (Séguier, ré-édition Éd. des Lisières) et deux recueils de poésie, Une échelle de poche pour atteindre le ciel (Al Manar) et Brouillons amoureux (Éd. des Lisières).
A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun .
''Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language'' On 10 June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria.
In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text, his daughter, a self-confessed daddy''s girl, remembers her beloved father. Notes on Grief is at once a tribute to a long life of grace and wisdom, the story of a daughter''s fierce love for a parent, and a revealing examination of the layers of loss and the nature of grief.
The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice--her truth--was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey--and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable candour and humour, Spearss ground-breaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love--and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last. ____________________________________''The sharpness of her perspective is a miracle... May her truth pose a legitimate threat to the system that exploited her'' - Guardian''Britney Spears holds nothing back in her short, bittersweet and extremely powerful memoir That it hasnt turned into a complete tragedy is a testament to Spearss essential fortitude of spirit something that burns off these pages'' - Telegraph''Spearss prose contains more compassion and perspective than bitterness or self-pity'' - The Times ''Its nearly impossible to come out of it without empathy for and real outrage on behalf of Spears, whose admitted bitterness over the dire circumstances of the last decade-plus of her life is tempered by an enduring, insistent optimism'' - New York Times
A memoir that offers a picture of the author's growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.
THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR SUNDAY TIMES YOU WILL NOT READ A MORE IMPORTANT BOOK ABOUT AMERICA THIS YEAR ECONOMIST THE BEST BOOK ABOUT THE ALIENATION WITHIN AMERICA EVENING STANDARD THE MEMOIR GRIPPING AMERICA VIVIDLY ARTICULATES THE DESPAIR AND DISILLUSIONMENT OF BLUE-COLLAR AMERICA SUNDAY TIMES HILLBILLY ELEGY IS A PASSIONATE AND PERSONAL ANALYSIS OF A CULTURE IN CRISIS?THAT OF WHITE WORKING-CLASS AMERICANS. THE DECLINE OF THIS GROUP, A DEMOGRAPHIC OF OUR COUNTRY THAT HAS BEEN SLOWLY DISINTEGRATING OVER FORTY YEARS, HAS BEEN REPORTED ON WITH GROWING FREQUENCY AND ALARM, BUT HAS NEVER BEFORE BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT AS SEARINGLY FROM THE INSIDE. J. D. VANCE TELLS THE TRUE STORY OF WHAT A SOCIAL, REGIONAL, AND CLASS DECLINE FEELS LIKE WHEN YOU WERE BORN WITH IT HUNG AROUND YOUR NECK.
THE VANCE FAMILY STORY BEGINS HOPEFULLY IN POST-WAR AMERICA. J. D.S GRANDPARENTS WERE DIRT POOR AND IN LOVE, AND MOVED NORTH FROM KENTUCKYS APPALACHIA REGION TO OHIO IN THE HOPES OF ESCAPING THE DREADFUL POVERTY AROUND THEM. THEY RAISED A MIDDLE-CLASS FAMILY, AND EVENTUALLY THEIR GRANDCHILD (THE AUTHOR) WOULD GRADUATE FROM YALE LAW SCHOOL, A CONVENTIONAL MARKER OF THEIR SUCCESS IN ACHIEVING GENERATIONAL UPWARD MOBILITY.
BUT AS THE FAMILY SAGA OF HILLBILLY ELEGY PLAYS OUT, WE LEARN THAT THIS IS ONLY THE SHORT, SUPERFICIAL VERSION. VANCES GRANDPARENTS, AUNT, UNCLE, SISTER, AND, MOST OF ALL, HIS MOTHER, STRUGGLED PROFOUNDLY WITH THE DEMANDS OF THEIR NEW MIDDLE-CLASS LIFE, AND WERE NEVER ABLE TO FULLY ESCAPE THE LEGACY OF ABUSE, ALCOHOLISM, POVERTY, AND TRAUMA SO CHARACTERISTIC OF THEIR PART OF AMERICA. VANCE PIERCINGLY SHOWS HOW HE HIMSELF STILL CARRIES AROUND THE DEMONS OF THEIR CHAOTIC FAMILY HISTORY.
« Au début des années 1990, j'étais correspondant à Londres pour le New Yorker Magazine. C'était un travail excitant et quelque peu étrange : être correspondant étranger dans mon propre pays, jeter un regard neuf sur des coutumes établies et essayer de les expliquer à un public éloigné qui partage la même langue et pourtant peu d'usages communs. Dix ans plus tard, dans le nouveau siècle et le nouveau millénaire, les choses ont changé et pourtant - c'est la Grande-Bretagne - n'ont pas beaucoup changé. Aurions-nous dû être si surpris ? Sans doute pas ; la Grande-Bretagne est un pays profondément conservateur, peu importe qui le dirige. » Julian Barnes.
The First Graphic Adaptation of the Multi-Million Bestsellerbr>br>''12th June, 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.''br>br>In the summer of 1942, fleeing the horrors of the Nazi occupation, Anne Frank and her family were forced into hiding in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse. br>br>Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe, Anne Frank kept a diary in which she confided her innermost thoughts and feelings, movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat of discovery and death.br>br>Adapted by Ari Folman, illustrated by David Polonsky, and authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation in Basel, this is the first graphic edition of the beloved diary of Anne Frank.br>br>''Faithful to the spirit and often the language of the diary... Mr Polonsky''s beautiful artwork offers a charming and convincing view of Anne on the page'' THE ECONOMISTbr>br>''Folman and Polonsky have reclaimed Anne Frank in all of her humanity, and they allow us to witness for ourselves her beauty, courage, vision and imagination. And, in doing so, they have elevated the tools of the comic book to create an astonishing work of art.'' JEWISH JOURNALbr>br>''The illustrations [. . .] retell Anne''s diary with great compassion, wit and ebullience'' StANDPOINT>
