The Thief's Journal - format ePub

Le projet d'un livre sur Rembrandt accompagna longtemps Jean Genet. Il découvre l'œuvre du peintre au début des années 1950 lors de séjours à Londres, puis à Amsterdam, Berlin et Vienne, et lui consacre...

Quel contraste entre Splendid's et 'Elle', les deux pièces posthumes de Genet! La première est sérieuse et collet monté, à l'instar des gangsters qui, juste avant l'assaut de la police, occupent le palace...

Étranges prisonniers réunis par Genet dans la cellule d'un quartier de haute sécurité ! Loin de souhaiter échapper à leur condition, ils constituent à eux trois un petit monde clos dont ils exagèrent...

En 1955, Jean Genet rencontre Abdallah Bentaga, un jeune acrobate, avec lequel il vit sa plus belle et dramatique histoire d’amour. Il lui dédie « Le Funambule », un long poème amoureux, mais aussi une...

Jean Genet évoque son itinéraire qui fit d’un enfant de l’Assistance publique injustement soupçonné d’un vol et placé dans une maison de correction celui qui, dans sa souffrance, choisit d’être ce dont...

Una nave attracca al molo di Brest, sulla costa atlantica. A bordo, un equipaggio di marinai nerboruti contrae i muscoli annodando le funi sulla poppa, in una guazza di umori che impregna le fronti e...

Scritto in carcere nel 1943-44 sui fogli forniti ai detenuti per la confezione di sacchetti di carta e ambientato nel penitenziario di Fontevrault durante l’inverno 1940-41, Miracolo della rosa è un’opera...

Divine e i suoi molti amanti abitano una Montmartre sgargiante: si ubriacano nei caffè fumosi, adescano clienti nei vicoli equivoci, si amano nelle soffi tte disordinate e si torturano. Figure evocate...

Per Jean Genet la Palestina si divide in oppressi e oppressori, e non ha dubbi su chi ricopra l'uno o l'altro ruolo. Da un lato c'è uno stato fiancheggiato e armato fino ai denti dalle potenze occidentali;...

Scritto in carcere nel 1943-44 sui fogli forniti ai detenuti per la confezione di sacchetti di carta e ambientato nel penitenziario di Fontevrault durante l'inverno 1940-41, Miracolo della rosa è un'opera...

Divine e i suoi molti amanti abitano una Montmartre sgargiante: si ubriacano nei caffè fumosi, adescano clienti nei vicoli equivoci, si amano nelle soffi tte disordinate e si torturano. Figure evocate...

Una nave attracca al molo di Brest, sulla costa atlantica. A bordo, un equipaggio di marinai nerboruti contrae i muscoli annodando le funi sulla poppa, in una guazza di umori che impregna le fronti e...

Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady Of The Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictional work. The first draft was written while Genet was incarcerated in a French prison; when the manuscript...

Genet's fictionalized and distant account of his rambles through France, Czechoslavakia, Germany and elsewhere in the '30s and '40s, covering his time in prison, his relationships with men such as the...

Genet nous avertit. Il ne faut pas prendre cette tragédie à la lettre : "C'est un conte, c'est-à-dire une forme de récit allégorique." "Sacrées ou non, ces Bonnes sont des monstres. Elles ont vieilli,...

"Une paillette d'or est un disque minuscule en métal doré, percé d'un trou. Mince et légère, elle peut flotter sur l'eau. Il en reste quelquefois une ou deux accrochées dans les boucles d'un acrobate."...

"Avant d'y arriver, je savais que ma présence au bord du Jourdain, sur les bases palestiniennes, ne serait jamais clairement dite : j'avais accueilli cette révolte de la même façon qu'un oreille musicienne...

Dans le brouillard d’un port, un matelot nommé Querelle entraîne le lecteur dans un Brest interlope, inquiétant et aussi fascinant que sa palette de personnages absurdes. Aimantés par ce monde nocturne...

Aux personnages de Genet on pourrait dire : ' Arrête de faire le Nègre ! ', comme on dit à d'autres : ' Arrête de faire le clown ! '. En fait, ici, c'est la même chose : Nègre et clown c'est tout un,...

'L'artiste n'a pas - ou le poète - pour fonction de trouver la solution pratique des problèmes du mal. Qu'ils acceptent d'être maudits. Ils y perdront leur âme, s'ils en ont une, ça ne fait rien. Mais...

Venez découvrir Les Bonnes, la pièce de théâtre de Jean Genet, grâce à une analyse littéraire de référence. Écrite par un spécialiste universitaire, cette fiche de lecture est recommandée par de nombreux...

"En quittant la Santé pour Fontevrault, je savais déjà qu'Harcamone y attendait son exécution. À mon arrivée, je fus donc saisi par le mystère d'un de mes anciens camarades de Mettray, qui avait su, notre...

"Je nomme violence une audace au repos amoureuse des périls. On la distingue dans un regard, une démarche, un sourire, et c'est en vous qu'elle produit des remous. Elle vous démonte. Cette violence est...

"Weidmann vous apparut dans une édition de cinq heures, la tête emmaillotée de bandelettes blanches, religieuse et encore aviateur blessé, tombé dans les seigles, un jour de septembre pareil à celui où...

"Mon casier judiciaire est vierge et je n’ai pas de goût pour les jeunes garçons : or les écrits de Genet m’ont touché. S’ils me touchent, c’est qu’ils me concernent ; s’ils me concernent, c’est que j’en...

Juin 1942. Jean Genet est incarcéré à la prison de Fresnes, condamné à huit mois de réclusion pour vol de livres. À trente et un ans, le détenu n’a encore rien publié ; mais la cellule est un lieu propice...

Le Bagne est la queue de comète carcérale de Genet : de 1942, où il ébaucha Haute surveillance, à 1964, où il abandonna la rédaction du Bagne, Genet n'a cessé d'ériger l'enfermement en idéal d'une vie...

Le projet d'un livre sur Rembrandt accompagna longtemps Jean Genet. Il découvre l'œuvre du peintre au début des années 1950 lors de séjours à Londres, puis à Amsterdam, Berlin et Vienne, et lui consacre...

The instant number one Sunday Times bestseller and thrilling sequel to the global phenomenon, Fourth Wing! THE IRON FLAME PAPERBACK EDITION INCLUDES A BRAND NEW CHAPTER FROM XADEN'S POINT OF VIEW!'Yarros...

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for more than half a century,...

An enchanting collection containing the first three novels in New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Bridgerton series set in Regency England—The Duke and I, The Viscount Who Loved Me,...

DON'T BE THE LAST TO DISCOVER THE SERIES THAT EVERYONE CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT: 'Pure escapism - think Hunger Games meets Fifty Shades' The Sun'We weren't expecting to become obsessed . . . but we very...

When her former governess finds happiness as the bride of a local widower, the brilliant and beautiful Emma Woodhouse — one of Jane Austen’s immortal creations — flatters herself that she alone has secured...

"One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world." —D. H. Lawrence "‘Moby-Dick’ is the book which I put down with the unqualified thought, 'I wish I had written that'…" —William Faulkner "What...

Pre-order Beth's epic new novel, SWEPT AWAY, now! 'Beth O'Leary is that rare, one-in-a-million talent who can make you laugh, swoon, cry and ache all in the same book' EMILY HENRYTiffy and Leon share...

"'There is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year.'" Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy...

The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov...

Wilde’s only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life and consequence....

The books that inspired the Netflix crime series. Here you will find the following original works: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar - Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes - The Hollow Needle - 813 -...

The series that inspired the Netflix show. This collection contains 38 Arsène Lupin stories (the biggest and greatest Arsène Lupin collection in the eBook world), including: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman...

Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway–a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide...

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of...

The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the Number One New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive. Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future...

Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there’s tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there’s Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together...

Fame. Fashion. Friendship. Hollie can't catch a break. She's broke, she's back living with her family, and her career prospects are precisely zero. So when the chance arises for her and her best friend...

Jonathan Harker, a young London solicitor travels to Transylvania to help a rich nobleman, Count Dracula, purchase an estate in England. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker to...

SOMETIMES WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE... YOU LIEThe bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama Fool Me Once explores the dangers of obsession in this #1 bestselling suspense thriller. Six years...

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil...

This ebook compiles Jule Verne's complete collection, including "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth", "The Mysterious Island", "Around the World in Eighty Days",...

In the vast expanse of the treacherous ocean, a legendary tale unfolds, gripping the hearts of readers for generations to come. Immerse yourself in the thrilling world of "Moby Dick," a literary masterpiece...

This volume collects the complete writings of Virginia Woolf: 8 novels, 3 'biographies,' 46 short stories, 606 essays, 1 play, her diary and some letters. Contents: THE NOVELS The Voyage Out Night...

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being...

"Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'."Harry Potter has never even heard...

The most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories, Animal Farm is the account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny...

A funny, emotional and uplifting novel from the French Marian Keyes. 'Heartwarming' Good Housekeeping'A gorgeous story, charming and funny and poignant' Nicola Cornick For fans of Ruth Hogan, Veronica...

In exploring everyday life and its intersections with death, this enduring collection of stories offers a naturalistic depiction of the working class in early twentieth-century Dublin. Joyce masterfully...

This ebook contains Oscar Wilde's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)...