Joyce Cary
The horse’s mouth
En Anglais – The Horse’s Mouth, the third and most celebrated volume of Joyce Cary’s First Trilogy, is perhaps the finest novel ever written about an artist. Its painter hero, the charming and larcenous Gulley Jimson, has an insatiable genius for creation and a no less remarkable appetite for destruction. Is he a great artist? a has-been? or an exhausted, drunken ne’er-do-well? He is without doubt a visionary, and as he criss-crosses London in search of money and inspiration the world as seen though his eyes appears with a newly outrageous and terrible beauty.
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En anglais – From the end of the roman world in the west to the beginnings of the western states. « A model of descriptive and objective commentary, so objective that it seems to be itself a part of history »
Marker, segnali d’allarme
En italien – New York, Manhattan General Hospital: persone sane e giovani, sottoposte a interventi di routine, muoiono ventiquattr’ore dopo l’operazione. La cosa insospettisce Laurie Montgomery, medico legale dell’ospedale. La dottoressa si getta a capofitto nell’indagine, anche se ostacolata da superiori e colleghi che pensano si tratti di pure coincidenze. Le morti però aumentano e Laurie è sempre più convinta che sia opera di un serial killer: tutte le vittime hanno infatti mappe genetiche simili. Che qualcuno abbia bisogno di materia su sui fare esperimenti? Il tempo scorre rapido ed è necessario trovare una soluzione all’enigma anche per salvare la vita alla stessa Laurie, che, positiva a un marker tumorale, scoprirà di avere un legame particolare con la vicenda…
Cool !
En Anglais – One day Robbie is hit by a car while running after his dog, Lucky. Unconscious, Robbie lies in hospital, unable to speak, move or eat. But he can hear; he is aware. His friends and family try desperately to reach him – even Zola, his favourite Chelsea footballer, comes to see him. And still Robbie can’t ‘wake up’. Until one day, against hospital rules, Dad brings Lucky into the hospital. Can Lucky bring Robbie back to life ?
Charles de Foucauld et la fraternité
Il ne suffit pas de prier pour « faire son salut », il ne suffit pas de se donner aux autres dans la charité. Il faut encore s’offrir soi-même, corps et âme, pour le salut de tous. Telle fut la voie de Charles de Foucauld. Son implacable logique l’entraîne à cette conclusion devant laquelle se raidit ou se dérobe la raison humaine : le chrétien, « autre Christ », peut aller jusqu’à donner sa vie pour les autres – la donner physiquement, mais aussi offrir chaque instant de sa vie pour participer à la libération des âmes captives. Dans son ermitage de Tamanrasset, au Hoggar, Charles de Foucauld a pris l’Evangile au sérieux. Il en a vécu et il en est mort. Point n’est besoin de chercher d’autre signification à son message, ni d’autre raison à l’attrait qu’il continue d’exercer.