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Languages : fr
Pages : 0
Book Description
Notice de dessins et gravures livres sur la peinture et les beaux-arts ouvrages a figures histoire, romans, belles-lettres, etc. provenant du cabinet de M. Meynier saint-Fal dont la vente aux enchères publiques aura lieu par suite de son décès Hotel des Commissaires-priseurs, Rue Drouot, 5 Salle no 6 le samedi 13 avril 1861 ... Me Charles Pillet, Commissaire-Priseur ... assisté de M. Clément ... et de M. Lavigne, expert ...
Author: Jewish American Literature
Author: Jules ChametzkyPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393048094
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
A collection of Jewish-American literature written by various authors between 1656 and 1990.
I Remember
Author: Georges PerecPublisher: Gallic Books
ISBN: 9781910477854
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
'Perec is serious fun' The Guardian Both an affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring memoir, Georges Perec's I Remember is now available in English to UK readers for the first time, with an introduction by David Bellos. In 480 numbered statements, all beginning identically with 'I remember', Perec records a stream of individual memories of a childhood in post-war France, while posing wider questions about memory and nostalgia. As playful and puzzling as the best of his novels, I Remember is an ode to life: the ordinary, the extraordinary, and the sometimes trivial, as seen through the eyes of the irreplaceable Georges Perec.
The Ubu Plays
Author: Jeff GoodePublisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN: 9780874400519
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
Author: Georges PerecPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 178478656X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Darkly funny account of the office worker’s mindset by the celebrated French novelist A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the looming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What is the best day to see the boss? What if he doesn’t offer you a seat when you go into his office? The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise is a hilarious account of an employee losing his identity—and possibly his sanity—as he tries to put on the most acceptable face for the corporate world,with its rigid hierarchies and hostility to new ideas. If he follows a certain course of action, so this logic goes, he will succeed—but, in accepting these conditions, are his attempts to challenge his world of work doomed from the outset? Neurotic and pessimistic, yet endearing, comic and never less than entertaining, Perec’s Woody Allen-esque underling presents an acute and penetrating vision of the world of office work, as pertinent today as it was when it was written in 1968.
Gadsby
Author: Ernest Vincent WrightPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Gadsby is a novel by Ernest Vincent Wright. A fading fictitious city known as Branton Hills is rejuvenated due to the efforts of central character John Gadsby and a youth organizer. A humorous read!
Children of Clay
Author: Raymond QueneauPublisher: Sun and Moon Press
ISBN:
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A portrait of French society in the first half of the century. The protagonists are the family of a man who made a fortune from wireless radio and the novel follows their intrigues, which are of great interest to their employees.
Impressions of Africa
Author: Raymond RousselPublisher: Calder Publications
ISBN: 9780714548586
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The first of Roussel's two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in a highly individual fashion and with an unusual time sequence, whereby the reader is even made to choose whether to begin with the first or the tenth chapter. A veritable literary melting pot, Roussel's groundbreaking text makes ample use of wordplay and the surrealist techniques of automatic writing and private allusion.
Thoughts of Sorts
Author: Georges PerecPublisher:
ISBN: 9781907903007
Category : Essays
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Perec was a leading exponent of French literary surrealism who found humour - and pathos - in the human need for classification. Thoughts of Sorts is itself unclassifiable, a unique collection of philosophical riffs on his obsession with lists, puzzles, catalogues, and taxonomies. Introduced by Margaret Drabble.
Aden, Arabie
Author: Paul NizanPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231063579
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Aden, Arabie is the story of a man who attempts to flee bourgeois life in France by seeking exoticism in the Middle East. His trip is a failure; the freedom of travel is exposed as an illusion. This account is based on Nizan's own trip to Arabia and has been resurrected through the efforts of Jean-Paul Sartre. In Aden, Arabie, Nizan came to understand that everywhere-in Arabia as in France-oppressive forces drain us of our humanity.