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Smile takes the reader on a one-woman journey through the terrors and vicissitudes of growing old. This is a monologue for the 21st century, a treatise on appearance and reality, and the acceptance of the inevitable.
A translation of a biography of Belgian writer Neel Doff describing in a novelistic fashion the life of an extraordinary woman. Wilwerth blends hypothetical conversations with serious research, rendering Doff's ordeals as a starving child and prostitute, her move into the upper echelons of Brussels' society, and the beginning of her writing career at the age of 51. Perhaps more remarkable than her literary achievements are Doff's sheer determination and hunger for knowledge. Lacks an index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Over the last two decades, the experiences of colonization and decolonization, once safely relegated to the margins of what occupied students of history and literature, have shifted into the latter's center of attention, in the West as elsewhere. This attention does not restrict itself to the historical dimension of colonization and decolonization, but also focuses upon their impact upon the present, for both colonizers and colonized. The nearly fifty essays here gathered examine how literature, now and in the past, keeps and has kept alive the experiences - both individual and collective - of colonization and decolonization. The contributors to this volume hail from the four corners of the ...
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La sensualité des femmes à l'honneur Un hôtel aux allures de castel, entouré d’un jardin. Le lecteur s’y glisse et s’amuse à entrouvrir la porte des quatorze chambres. Il découvre, furtivement, des scènes intimes : tendres, fantasques, déjantées, osées, pathétiques, provocantes, délirantes. Trois visites par chambre. Le temps de faire la connaissance de Sven, Marceline, Pénélope, Bassam, Maximilien et les autres... tandis que le soir tombe, que la nuit vient offrir au lecteur un rien voyeur une célébration de la sensualité de plus en plus fiévreuse. Et contagieuse. Mais pendant tout ce temps, par intermittence et sur la pointe des pieds, le lecteur suit aussi un petit...