Author: Roger Martin du GardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 771
Book Description
The Thibaults
Author: Roger Martin du GardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 771
Book Description
Lieutenant-colonel de Maumort
Author: Roger Martin Du GardPublisher: Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
The unfinished memoir of a French soldier-philosopher. While describing bourgeois life in France before and after World War I, he ruminates on the futility of individual conscience in the face of evil.
Years of Plenty, Years of Want
Author: Benjamin Franklin MartinPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1609090802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The Great War that engulfed Europe between 1914 and 1918 was a catastrophe for France. French soil was the site of most of the fighting on the Western Front. French dead were more than 1.3 million, the permanently disabled another 1.1 million, overwhelmingly men in their twenties and thirties. The decade and a half before the war had been years of plenty, a time of increasing prosperity and confidence remembered as the Belle Epoque or the good old days. The two decades that followed its end were years of want, loss, misery, and fear. In 1914, France went to war convinced of victory. In 1939, France went to war dreading defeat. To explain the burden of winning the Great War and embracing the collapse that followed, Benjamin Martin examines the national mood and daily life of France in July 1914 and August 1939, the months that preceded the two world wars. He presents two titans: Georges Clemenceau, defiant and steadfast, who rallied a dejected nation in 1918, and Edouard Daladier,hesitant and irresolute, who espoused appeasement in 1938 though comprehending its implications. He explores novels by a constellation of celebrated French writers who treated the Great War and its social impact, from Colette to Irène Némirovsky, from François Mauriac to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. And he devotes special attention to Roger Martin du Gard, the1937 Nobel Laureate, whose roman-fleuve The Thibaults is an unrivaled depiction of social unraveling and disillusionment. For many in France, the legacy of the Great War was the vow to avoid any future war no matter what the cost. They cowered behind the Maginot Line, the fortifications along the eastern border designed to halt any future German invasion. Others knew that cost would be too great and defended the "Descartes Line": liberty and truth, the declared values of French civilization. In his distinctive and vividly compelling prose, Martin recounts this struggle for the soul of France.
Summer 1914
Author: Roger Martin Du GardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
The gray notebook. The penitentiary
Author: Roger Martin Du GardThe Quest for Total Peace
Author: R. JouejatiPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714630977
Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
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The Thibaults
Author: Roger Martin Du GardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 871
Book Description
Open Access
Author: Peter SuberPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262517639
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial. The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access is made possible by the Internet and copyright-holder consent, and many authors, musicians, filmmakers, and other creators who depend on royalties are understandably unwilling to give their consent. But for 350 years, scholars have written peer-reviewed journal articles for impact, not for money, and are free to consent to open access without losing revenue. In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber's influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers.
The Postman
Author: Roger Martin Du GardPublisher: Howard Fertig Pub
ISBN: 9780865273337
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Chaos & Classicism
Author: Kenneth E. SilverPublisher:
ISBN: 9780892074051
Category : Art and society
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This catalogue examines the interwar period in its key artistic manifestations. It encompasses painting, photography, film, sculpture, architecture, fashion and decorative arts. The book examines classicism between the wars in Europe.