2012, les enfants du chaos PDF Download

Author: Marie Liondor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782812142048
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 425

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Author: Aurore Jolivet
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN: 2322240257
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 302

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La cupidité et le mépris envers la Nature ont fini de détruire la Terre. Seule une Grande Vallée et ses habitants ont survécu au cataclysme et vivent en harmonie. Les Anàfis, de simples Hommes et les Oujdas pourvus de dons surnaturels. Akhela est née sans Empreinte sur sa nuque, elle n'a aucun pouvoir. Mais elle n'en est pas moins intrigante. La rouquine aux yeux vairons est marquée d'une énorme cicatrice; seul souvenir macabre de l'Insurrection des Enfants de Senttoni. Alors qu'elle pense être une banale rescapée, sa vie va basculer à jamais. Pourquoi son père semble-t-il si secret? Un terrible danger menacerait-il leur famille? Akhela va partir en quête d'identité au péril de sa vie, et devra faire de nombreux choix.

Author: Megan Derr
Publisher: Less Than Three Press, LLC
ISBN: 162004546X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Neuf dieux gouvernaient jadis le monde, jusqu'à ce qu'une ultime trahison ne les mène à leur perte. Depuis, le monde se meurt et seul le retour des Dieux disparus pourra le sauver. Le Royaume de Piedre est déchiré par des guerres intestines depuis que le Basilic a été retrouvé mort. La Confrérie de la Rose-Noire cherche le moyen de détruire ce dernier pour de bon, tandis que l'Ordre de la Rose-Blanche désespère de trouver le moyen de lui rendre toute sa puissance. La dernière réincarnation mortelle en date du Dieu disparu de la Mort est le Prince Culebra, autrement appelé le Prince-Basilic. Harcelé par des assassins, l'un de ses amants mort, l'autre disparu, Culebra passe ses journées empli de désespoir, parfaitement conscient que ses prédécesseurs ont tous connu la mort de seulement deux façons : l'assassinat ou le suicide.

Author: Arthur Versen
Publisher: Nombre7 Editions
ISBN: 2381532919
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 459

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Is ont des yeux mais ils ne voient pas. Lors de l’enterrement de Zoé, Sylvestre se promet de retrouver son assassin. Convaincu qu’elle ne s’est pas suicidée comme la police le prétend, il se lance dans une enquête aussi vertigineuse que dangereuse pour découvrir la vérité. Mais il devient vite le pion d’une gigantesque partie d’échecs dont il ignore les règles et les joueurs. Les premiers indices vont le conduire dans les entrailles du Quartier Nord, un des lieux les plus redoutés de Sapir, la capitale de la Cranfe. C’est là que Zoé a croisé le chemin d’une communauté religieuse bien spéciale, les Delcaniens... Happé dès les premières lignes dans le tourbillon d’un monde dur et violent, accompagné d’une plume envoûtante et efficace, laissez-vous tomber dans les sphères, plus sombres les unes que les autres, d’une société rongée par son passé.

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Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738197752
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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Author: Alain Bertho
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786637499
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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"Only martyrs know neither pity nor fear. Believe me, the day when the martyrs are victorious will be the day of universal conflagration". Jacques Lacan made this gloomy prophesy back in 1959: but doesn't it also apply to our own time? Faced with a rise in attacks around the world, can we really just blame the 'radicalization of' Islam'? What hope is there for the alienated youth, as the wars that have ravaged the Middle East spill out across the globe? For Alain Bertho, the mounting chaos we see today is above all driven by the weakening of states' legitimacy under the pressure of globalization. Add to this the hypocrisy of the elites who beat the drum of 'security measures', even as they sow the seeds of violence around the world. This disorder is the swamp of despair which can only produce fresh atrocities. Today's youth are the lost children of neoliberal globalization, the inheritors of the political and human chaos it produces. When they find it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, their revolt tends to take the paths of martyrdom and despair. The closing of the revolutionary hypothesis allows only fury. The answer, Bertho argues, is a new radicalism, able to inspire a collective hope in the future.

Author: Bradford Lyau
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786462175
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Following World War II, the Fleuve Noir publishing house published popular American genre fiction in translation for a French audience. Their imprint Anticipation specialized in science fiction, but mostly eschewed translations from English, preferring instead French work, thus making the imprint an important outlet for native French postwar ideas and aesthetics. This critical text examines in ideological terms eleven writers who published under the Anticipation imprint, revealing the way these writers criticized midcentury notions of progress while adapting and reworking American genre formats.

Author: Michael Bednar
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801883187
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Outstanding Academic Title for 2007, Choice Magazine Many American democratic ideals are embodied in the public spaces of its cities, especially in Washington, D.C. In L'Enfant's Legacy architect and scholar Michael Bednar explores the public spaces of the nation's capital, examining the context of the surrounding architecture and the roles of the spaces in the changing functional life of the city. Bednar examines the ways in which L'Enfant's innovative plan of 1791, along with later developments, symbolizes and encourages democratic freedoms and traditions. In the spaces of Capitol Square, citizens expect to encounter their government directly in a dignified setting, a symbolic public forum. On the White House grounds they expect to meet the president where he works and lives. At the National Mall—America's front lawn—citizens exercise their rights of assembly and free speech, as well as play football, eat lunch, and socialize. From historic Lincoln Square, Dupont Circle, and Judiciary Square to the newly developed Freedom Plaza, Pershing Park, and Market Square, Bednar's thoughtful study provides a fresh perspective on the role of public space in the expression of democratic ideals.

Author: Yehuda Moraly
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1782845844
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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The era of the German Occupation of France constituted, surprisingly, a golden age for the arts: literature, theater, popular music and cinema. These works of art seem to be devoid of political impact. The widespread trend of unrealistic and fantastic art during this period is explained by some scholars as the artists escape from the omnipotent eye of German censorship. The purpose of the book is to show that, contrary to the accepted view, some of these films were intimately linked to the political situation. They convey the demonization of characters that, while not specifically presented as Jews nevertheless manifested anti-Semitic stereotypes of the Jew as ugly, rootless, low, hypocritical, immoral, cruel and power hungry. All five movies analysed (Les Inconnus dans la maison, dir. Henri Decoin, 1942; Les Visiteurs du Soir, dir. Marcel Carne, 1942; L'Eternel retour, dir. Jean Delannoy, 1943; Les Enfants du Paradis, dir. Marcel Carne, 1943) present characters not identified as Jews but who exhibit negative Jewish traits, in contrast to the aristocratic characters whom they aspire to emulate. They demonstrate, implicitly, central themes of explicit anti-Semitic propaganda. Yehuda Moraly addresses two current major misconceptions regarding the Cinema of Occupied France: (1) that the accepted view that there were almost no explicitly Jewish characters in the cinema of that time and place is patently incorrect; and (2) that the feature films of Occupied France were not as it is commonly thought free of the propaganda messages that permeated the press, the radio and documentary films. Analysis of these films brings out the contradictory nature of European anti-Semitism. On one hand, the Jew is the anti-Christ, throttling the world with disgusting materialism while on the other hand, he is representative of an ancestral stifling morality, which it is time to abolish.

Author: Christine Matzke
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042021683
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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This collection is dedicated to a distinguished scholar and writer who for a quarter of a century wrote consistently on African literature and the arts and was a major voice in Nigerian literary circles. Ezenwa-Ohaeto made a mark in contemporary Nigerian poetry by committing pidgin to written form and, by so doing, introducing different creative patterns. He also saw himself as a 'minstrel', as someone who wanted to read, express and enact his work before an audience. First and foremost, however, Ezenwa-Ohaeto was someone who 'un-masked' ideas and meanings hidden in the folds of literary works and made them available to an international academic public. With his outstanding work on Chinua Achebe, he influenced the reception of African literary biography. His networks and connections were extensive and wide-ranging, and they are partly reflected in the essays, creative writing and personal notes assembled in this volume. In their various modes and expressions, the contributions included here constitute a tribute to Ezenwa-Ohaeto's many talents and achievements. As an extension of Ezenwa-Ohaeto's legacy, they expand on various aspects of minstrelsy and the un/masking of texts in a Nigerian and broader African context. The book is divided into six sections. "In Memoriam" contains personal tributes by long-standing colleagues, mentors and friends. "Poetry and Fiction" collects the voices of three generations of Nigerian writing from the 1960s to the present day, followed by poetic and pictorial insights into the domestic and social life of the scholar and family man. Section Four comprises two interviews, while Sections Five and Six are devoted to critical evaluations of Ezenwa-Ohaeto's work and to contemporary perspectives on Nigerian literature respectively.