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Michael McLaverty
In this thy day
En Anglais – In « In this thy land » (1945) McLaverty explores the effects of the famine on the consciousness of the Irish rural poor after the passage of the Wyndham Land Act (1903) enabled to possess land. For them, it symbolized autonomy, social respectability, and the ability to resist the disasters and starvation of the past …..
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En Anglais – This sequel to THE FLAME TREES OF THIKA continues the story of Elspeth Huxley’s childhood in Kenya. British settlers, called to serve in WW I, return to their neglected farms and ranches. For Tilly and Robin it is back to the struggle. For their daughter, now 11, it is back to the ponies, lessons at home, wild pets (this time a cheetah named Rupert), and hunting trips with Njombo, the Kikuyu headman. But more is happening. The child narrator is growing into a woman. We lose the wide-eyed child narrator of Thika, but gain in her place a thoughtful and prescient observer of the rapidly changing continent.
Histoire de la littérature française, de Chateaubriand à Valéry
« Les textes littéraires appartiennent à tout le monde ; or, tout le monde n’est pas aujourd’hui en mesure de percevoir les significations, les enjeux, les attraits des faits culturels. Cela exige une information de base, et une maîtrise suffisante de la perspective historique. » – Marie-Madeleine Fragonard
Earthly powers
En Anglais – Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, is regarded as one of the most original and daring writers in the English language. His work is illuminated by a dazzling imagination, by a gift for character and plot, by a talent for surprise. In Earthly Powers Burgess created his masterpiece. At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power—Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into honored, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety; and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. Through the lives of these two modern men Burgess explores the very essence of power. As each pursues his career—one to sainthood, one to wealthy exile—their relationship becomes the heart of a narrative that incorporates almost everyone of fame and distinction in the social, literary, and political life of America and Europe. This astonishing company is joined together by the art of a great novelist into an explosive and entertaining tour de force that will captivate fans of sweeping historic fiction.
Bagatelle
1898-1920. Le tournant du XXe siècle, des péripéties ignorées du conflit hispano-américain pour l’enjeu cubain à la participation des États-Unis à la Première Guerre mondiale, en passant par le jaillissement de l’or noir dans les terres à coton, les balbutiements du jazz, les pétarades des premières automobiles, les exploits des fous volants. Printemps 1898 : dans le souvenir de Virginie, l’inoubliable dame de Bagatelle, et de Clarence Dandrige, fidèle intendant de la plantation, prototype du Cavalier d’un Vieux Sud aboli depuis la guerre de Sécession, sous la houlette de Gustave de Castel-Brajac, exubérant descendant de mousquetaire émigré en Louisiane, la jeune génération tente, à sa manière, de maintenir les traditions, tout en se fondant dans la modernité. Le paisible petit-fils de la belle Virginie, appelé à un avenir serein au côté de son épouse, petite-fille d’une Choctaw de haut lignage, va se trouver emporté vers un destin tragique pour satisfaire les ambitions de son père… Un nouvel épisode de cette vaste fresque romanesque, tendre et violente, sur les rives du Mississippi.