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Touriste
"Certains veulent faire de leur vie une oeuvre d'art, je compte en faire un long voyage. Je n'ai pas l'intention de me proclamer explorateur. Touriste, ça me suffit".
The Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis
The Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis provides deep insight into a complex and multi-layered phenomenon. The third decade of the twenty-first century is being marked by a polycrisis caused by various world crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflicts and climate change leading to economic, geopolitical, environmental, health and security crises. Featuring 42 chapters, the collection examines crises through literary texts in relation to the environment, finance, migration and diaspora, war, human rights, values and identity, health, politics, terrorism and technology. It illuminates the many faces of the current permacrisis as well as the multifarious crises of the past ...
Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change
Drawing together key frameworks and disciplines that illuminate the importance of communication around climate change, this Research Handbook offers a vital knowledge base to address the urgency of conveying climate issues to a variety of audiences.
Berezina
October 1812, Napoleon enters Moscow. The Russians have set fire to the city, soon it will be reduced to a pile of ash. The Emperor equivocates, decides to turn back. This is the beginning of the retreat from Russia, a page of history that has become legendary for its degree of suffering and horror, but also for the heroic acts that took place. Two hundred years later, Sylvain Tesson, accompanied by four friends (two Russians and two French), decides to follow the route of the retreat. Perched on two Soviet Ural sidecar motorcycles, they will rejoin Paris from Moscow, guided only by the spectres of the two hundred thousand soldiers who died through cold, starvation, and in battle. Twenty five hundred miles travelled in a wild escapade to salute the ghosts of history, across the white plains of Russia.
Suzanne
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette never knew her grandmother Suzanne, an artist who abandoned her husband and children in her youth and never looked back. The Escape Artist is a fictionalized account of Suzanne’s life over 85 years, taking readers through Québec’s Quiet Revolution and the American civil rights movement, offering a portrait of a volatile woman on the margins of history.
My Place At The Table
In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award–winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson’s, tells how he became one of Paris’s most influential food critics Until Alec Lobrano landed a job in the glamorous Paris office of Women’s Wear Daily, his main experience of French cuisine was the occasional supermarket éclair. An interview with the owner of a renowned cheese shop for his first article nearly proves a disaster because he speaks no French. As he goes on to cover celebrities and couturiers and improves his mastery of the language, he gradually learns what it means to be truly French. He attends a cocktail party with Yves St. Laurent and has dinner with Gi...
Bungalow
« C’est le moment de fuir la ville qui flingue les nerfs, les écrans qui dévorent le cerveau, le travail qui blesse. Je mise sur ce périple pour réparer la Femme, édifier l’Enfant et lutter contre l’encroûtement qui guette les hommes de mon âge. C’est simple. On va partir et quand on reviendra, on sera plus heureux. » L’époque grince et l’ambiance est morose à Paris. Le narrateur a des fourmis dans les jambes. Sa compagne, cadre surmenée, frôle le burn-out. Il faut réagir. Changer d’air, pour trouver un nouveau souffle. Alors ils s’embarquent, avec leur fils de neuf ans, dans une aventure à l’autre bout de la planète. C’est l’histoire d’une fugue en As...
Briser la glace
" Voilà, j'arrive dans un pays où les vaches se déguisent en chèvres, où l'on vend des flingues à la supérette, où l'on prend l'avion avec des guêtres. Un panneau indique Paris à 4 h 25 et le pôle Nord à 3 h 15. " Le ton est donné. Nouvel invité de la collection Démarches, l'auteur de Touriste s'attaque au Grand Nord, et nous embarque dans un Arctique tragi-comique. Une immersion polaire tout en finesse par un écrivain-voyageur au ton unique. Ni aventurier, ni ethnologue, ni sportif, ce " Touriste " faussement candide relate un périple au Groenland où l'on croise des chasseurs de baleine et des aurores boréales, des pêcheurs énervés et des dealers fanfarons, des doux rêveurs et surtout des icebergs. Beaucoup d'icebergs. En ville, devant les glaciers ou sur les flots, les rencontres incongrues et les panoramas grandioses invitent à la réflexion. Le Groenland est une des destinations les plus prisées des français, et en même temps une des plus mystérieuses. Julien Blanc-Gras est sans conteste un guide remarquable : il nous livre ici une vision de ce pays à la fois pleine d'humour, de sensibilité, et de connaissance.
Postcards
E. Annie Proulx's first novel, Postcards, winner of the 1993 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, tells the mesmerizing tale of Loyal Blood, who misspends a lifetime running from a crime so terrible that it renders him forever incapable of touching a woman. Blood's odyssey begins in 1944 and takes him across the country from his hardscrabble Vermont hill farm to New York, across Ohio, Minnesota, and Montana to British Columbia, on to North Dakota, Wyoming, and New Mexico and ends, today, in California, with Blood homeless and near mad. Along the way, he must live a hundred lives to survive, mining gold, growing beans, hunting fossils and trapping, prospecting for uranium, and ranching. In his absence, disaster befalls his family; greatest among their terrible losses are the hard-won values of endurance and pride that were the legacy of farm people rooted in generations of intimacy with soil, weather, plants, and seasons. Postcards chronicles the lives of the rural and the dispossessed and charts their territory with the historical verisimilitude and writerly prowess of Cather, Dreiser, and Faulkner. It is a new American classic.
