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In this stunning novel, Assia Djebar intertwines the history of her native Algeria with episodes from the life of a young girl in a story stretching from the French conquest in 1830 to the War of Liberation of the 1950s. The girl, growing up in the old Roman coastal town of Cherchel, sees her life in contrast to that of a neighboring French family, and yearns for more than law and tradition allow her to experience. Headstrong and passionate, she escapes from the cloistered life of her family to join her brother in the maquis' fight against French domination. Djebar's exceptional descriptive powers bring to life the experiences of girls and women caught up in the dual struggle for independence - both their own and Algeria's.
Excerpt from The Secret Spring Long have I hesitated to give back to Life the legacy left me by Death. But at last, reflecting that Lieutenant Vignerte and She whom he loved have vanished into the eternal shades, I have decided that there is no longer any reason to keep silence about the tragic events staged in the German court of Lautenburg-Detmold in the months immediately preceding the Great War. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
De A à Z, recense au masculin comme au féminin tous les hommes et les femmes qui ont contribué tout au long de l'histoire à faire entendre et reconnaître une autre façon d'aimer, le droit à la différence : Erasme et Fassbinder, Sappho et Virginia Woolf, etc. « Copyright Electre »
Lou Bertignac has an IQ of 160 and a good friend called Lucas, who gets her through the school day. At home her father cries in secret in the bathroom and her mother hasn't been out of the house properly for years. But Lou is about to change her life - and that of her parents - for good, all because of a school project she decides to do about the homeless. Through the project Lou meets No, a teenage girl living on the streets. As their friendship grows, Lou cannot bear that No is still on the streets when she goes back home - even if it is to a home that is saddened and desolate. So she asks her parents if No can come to live with them. To her astonishment, her parents - eventually - agree. No's presence forces Lou and her parents to finally face the sadness that has enveloped them. But No has disruptive as well as positive effects. Can this shaky newfound family continue to live together? A tense, brilliant novel tackling the true meaning of home and homelessness.
Les auteurs, spécialistes de l'histoire de l'édition, de la sociologie de la lecture, de l'économie des biens culturels, de la littérature ou du monde des bibliothèques, s'attachent à présenter l'enjeu livre dans ses dimensions les plus contemporaines : concentration éditoriale, éditeurs en région, commerce en ligne, numérisation, évolution du statut de l'auteur et du lecteur ...
G. Chazal, partant de l'idée que le sens naît du rapport entre l'homme et le monde et des hommes entre eux, constate que le rapport n'a lieu que très rarement directement. Les intermédiaires ou interfaces que sont le langage, les techniques, les institutions, le corps construisent et renforcent les liens de l'homme avec la nature et ses semblables.
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