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'Until Tonight'
Laure Adler learned from a colleague that her nine-month-old baby son had been taken ill, and she rushed to the hospital. So began months of battling - with uncommunicative doctors and nurses, and with her own feelings of guilt, terror and hopelessness. Here, she describes the nightmarish events.
Marguerite Duras
Brilliant, prizewinning biography of one of 20th century France's most influential and complex cultural figures, author of the bestselling The Lover
Women who Read are Dangerous
"This book brings together a selection of paintings, drawings, prints and photographs for women reading by a diverse range of artists from the Middle Ages to the present day. Each image is accompanied by a commentary explaining the context in which it was created - who the reader is, her relationship with the artist, and what she was reading. This book will appeal to book lovers and anyone interested in the depiction of women in art."--BOOK JACKET.
A Long Saturday
George Steiner, born in 1929, is one of the preeminent intellectuals of his generation. Reading in many languages, celebrating the survival of high culture in the face of twentieth-century barbarisms, Steiner has probed the ethics of language and literature with an elegance and authority unmatched by any living critic. "A Long Saturday "is a series of conversations between Steiner and the French journalist Laure Adler. It addresses questions that have absorbed Steiner over his career, but in a more personal register than he has offered before. Adler draws out Steiner on his boyhood in Vienna and Paris before the war, on his education at Chicago and Harvard, and on his early academic career. Books are a touchstone throughout, of course, but Steiner and Adler s conversation ranges also over music, chess, psychoanalysis, the place of Israel in Jewish life, and much more. Revealing and exhilarating by turns, this book invites all readers to pull up a chair and listen in on the conversation of a master. "
The Trouble with Women Artists
Sixty-seven female artists and their work from the sixteenth century to the present demonstrate the evolution of art through a female-empowered lens. The history of art has been forever considered, written, published, and taught by men, primarily for a male audience. For women, the mere possibility of becoming an artist--to have access to the necessary materials, to produce, exhibit, and, against all odds, succeed and sustain the activity--has been an incessant, dangerous, and exhausting fight--physically, mentally, and psychologically. The time has come to reframe the history of art in the context of the brave women who had the courage to defy all rules in order to pursue their vocation and...
Daily Life in the Bordellos of Paris, 1830-1930
Combining a welath of sources--police reports, legal documents, court testimonies, and medical records, as well as literary texts and the very rare diaries of madams and prostitutes that have survived--and a passionate, flowing literary style, Adler tries to uncover the story of the women themselves, who are, after all, like all other women.
The Sweetness of Life
"There is a form of lightness and grace in the simple fact of existence, regardless of occupation, of strong feelings, or of political commitments of any sort - and that is the only thing I have wanted to write about. About that little extra thing that is granted to all of us, a lust for life." So begins Francoise Heritier, in her exploration of the things in life worth living for, the moments and events that give life flavour. An eminent anthropologist, now in her eighties, she draws on her own memories and the wisdom gained in a lifetime of exploration, to show how life is richer and more interesting than we often remember.
Histoires de fantômes
Cet ouvrage propose une lecture de textes contemporains qui traitent du fantomatique, de l'absence, de la mort, du deuil, de l'autobiographie, thèmes chers à Jacques Derrida. Les écrivaines dont il est question dans cet essai - Kathryn Harrison, Sybille Lacan, Nelly Arcan, Laure Adler, Anne-Claire Poirier, Annie Ernaux, Catherine Millet et Christine Angot - donnent à lire des textes déstabilisants, voire scandaleux. Chacune d'elles écrit sa vie, convoquant une des figures spectrales les plus importantes: celle du témoin. Delvaux jette ici un éclairage nouveau sur l'écriture récente des femmes en faisant écho aux réflexions de Derrida sur le témoignage, l'identité, le nom, la langue, l'archive, la fiction et la vérité. Et, à l'instar de l'écrivain et lecteur de la différance, elle invente un lieu - entre témoignage et réflexion critique - qui donne à ces Histoires de fantômes une dimension singulière.
Hiroshima Mon Amour
The award-winning screenplay for the classic film the New York Post hailed as “overwhelming . . . a motion picture landmark.” One of the most influential works in the history of cinema, Alain Renais’s Hiroshima Mon Amour gathered international acclaim upon its release in 1959 and was awarded the International Critics’ Prize at the Cannes Film festival and the New York Film Critics’ Award. Ostensibly the story of a love affair between a Japanese architect and a French actress visiting Japan to make a film on peace, Hiroshima Mon Amour is a stunning exploration of the influence of war on both Japanese and French culture and the conflict between love and inhumanity.
Of Mothers and Death
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