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En Anglais – The definitive study of one of America’s most unusual experiments in establishing the ideal society. Introduction by Joseph Schiffman
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Adam Runaway
En Anglais – « It is 1721 and young Adam Hanaway, devastated by his father’s sudden death, leaves England to seek his fortune in Lisbon, where his uncle is a successful merchant. But almost nothing turns out as Adam planned. His family’s welcome is cool, and Adam’s rise to the top is thwarted by Bartolomeu Gomes, his uncle’s treacherous clerk. » « As Adam attempts to overcome these obstacles he is handicapped by a certain personal trait. Not, he insists, that he is a coward exactly, but he is inclined to boldly put himself in dangerous situations and then at the last minute run away from them – hence the nickname given to him by friends who had observed this failing once too often. » « While Adam’s mother and sisters wait in England for him to rescue them from poverty, Adam is preoccupied with more compelling women: the beautiful, older half-Portuguese lady Maria Beatriz Hutchinson; the spoiled, rich Gabriella Lowther; and his charming young cousin Nancy. But Adam commits a social faux pas so severe he forever ruins his chances for making a good match – yet no one dares tell him what he has done wrong! » « Adam certainly has a lot to learn. …
Marker, segnali d’allarme
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Tibère
Tibère est-il un méconnu ? voire un homme calomnié ? On se le représente, d’après Tacite, méfiant et cruel, perché sur son flot rocheux de Capri comme un vieil aigle cruel, prompt à fondre sur ses adversaires, réels ou présumés, pour les déchirer. Est-ce là la véritable image que l’Histoire doit garder de lui ?. Woilhelm Gollub, un des maîtres de la jeune école artistique d’Allemagne, rompt avec les jugements tout faits. Il nous montre un Tibère modeste, laconique et secret, plus humain qu’un vain peuple ne pense, un chef surtout passionné de son métier d’empereur, embrassant les questions dans leur ensemble, mais sachant aussi contrôler les détails, un prince qui avait au plus haut degré le sens de ses responsabilités, de ses devoirs d’état. Si Tibère fut à maintes reprises sévère jusqu’à l’apparente cruauté, ne serait-ce pas tout simplement en vertu de la fatalité qui pèse sur tous les dictateurs ? M. Gollab n’aurait-il pas pensé à tels ou tels de nos dictateurs modernes, que l’Histoire juge aussi avec sévérité ? Ce portrait d’un homme va loin dans l’analyse des conditions où s’exerce les gouvernements des hommes.