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Hate
"From an award-winning journalist, a provocative, deeply reported expose of the history and present crisis of anti-Semitism in France--and its dire consequences for the rest of Europe. Hate explores the alarming history and present predicament of anti-Semitism in France. By examining the issue at local, international, and personal levels--interviewing everyday French men and women as well as powerful leaders such as National Front president Marine Le Pen--Weitzmann attempts to understand how nine Jews have been murdered by French citizens in the last eight years, and how France has become the number one country from which Western jihadists flee to join ISIS and other extremist Middle Eastern...
Chaos
Le frère du narrateur, qui fut l'enfant terrible d'une famille juive haute en couleurs, disparaît dès les premières pages, absent aux obsèques de son propre père. Pour régler une question d'héritage, le narrateur, un universitaire sans envergure, se transforme alors en une sorte d'enquêteur : un détective en filature de son passé. On croyait ce frère fugueur en rupture avec les conventions. Mais quel secret dissimulait-il donc ? Peu à peu, le narrateur, aussi gris de caractère que son aîné fut un adolescent impétueux, comprend la nature scandaleuse de ce secret familial : son frère, qui répond au nom de Marc Weitzmann, travaille sur d'obscurs textes révisionnistes. Horreu...
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Une matière inflammable
Début des années quatre-vingt-dix. Au terme d’une jeunesse tumultueuse, Frank Schreiber cherche à rentrer dans le rang. Apprenti écrivain, il accepte un travail de « nègre » auprès d’un ami de sa famille, Patrick Zimmermann, ancien gauchiste devenu économiste à succès. Frank est bientôt attiré par son épouse Paula, une femme aux multiples facettes, dont il devient l’amant. S’ensuit alors une spirale de mensonges et d’ambiguïtés où nul n’est ce qu’il semble. Pas même Frank, tandis que, adopté par le couple, il pénètre dans un milieu intellectuel et politique proche du pouvoir qui le fascine et le révulse à la fois. Ce n’est que vingt ans plus tard, sur fond de déréliction sociale et de scandales publics, qu’il en découvrira certaines clés. Marc Weitzmann, fidèle à ses obsessions, offre ici une fiction explosive sur quelques aspects de la crise française. Corruption et intégrité, relations de couple et domination, imposture et quête de soi, sont quelques-uns des thèmes de ce roman audacieux et drôle dont l’action se déroule sur deux décennies.
Quand j'étais normal
C’est le printemps 2003 : le monde bascule. Un an plus tôt, Jean-Marie Le Pen a pulvérisé ses records aux présidentielles. La guerre explose en Irak, dans les rues de la capitale, dans les cercles médiatiques, manifestants pacifistes et soutiens à Bush s’affrontent brutalement. Comédiens à la retraite, mais leurs idéaux gauchistes intacts, les parents du narrateur Gilbert Bratsky ont repris le chemin du militantisme. A plus de soixante-dix ans, convaincus de l’urgence de leur mission, ils sillonnent les banlieues déshéritées de la Seine Saint-Denis, à la grande inquiétude du narrateur, pour y monter une troupe de théâtre militant contre la guerre. Gilbert, quant à lui,...
Redefining the Real
What is 'the literary fantastic' and how does it manifest itself in the texts of French and francophone women writers publishing at the close of the twentieth and start of the twenty-first century? What do we mean today when we talk of 'the real' and 'realism'? These are just some of the questions addressed by the papers in this volume which derive from a conference entitled 'The Fantastic in Contemporary Women's Writing in French' held in London in September 2007. This book sets out to refocus through a non-realist lens on the works of high-profile authors (Darrieussecq, Nothomb, Germain, Cixous and NDiaye) and some of their less highly publicised contemporaries. It analyses and mobilises a wide range of both gendered and non-gendered practices and theories of 'the contemporary fantastic' whilst critically interrogating both of the latter terms and their inter-relation.
1968 Magnum Throughout the World
The March on the PentagonThe Vietnam WarThe Prague SpringCuba after CheThe Biafran WarPacifists and HippiesThe murders of Martin Luther King and Robert KennedyThe counterculture in the U.S.May in ParisRepublican and Democratic ConventionsThe invasion of PragueMexico City: the massacre and the Olympic GamesYouth protests in Germany, Italy, Britain, Mexico, Japan
Why the French Don't Like Headscarves
The French government's 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers, both because it seemed to infringe needlessly on religious freedom, and because it was hailed by many in France as an answer to a surprisingly wide range of social ills, from violence against females in poor suburbs to anti-Semitism. Why the French Don't Like Headscarves explains why headscarves on schoolgirls caused such a furor, and why the furor yielded this law. Making sense of the dramatic debate from his perspective as an American anthropologist in France at the time, John Bowen writes about everyday life and public events while also presenting intervie...
Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction
Autobiographical writings have been a major cultural genre from antiquity to the present time. General questions of the literary as, e.g., the relation between literature and reality, truth and fiction, the dependency of author, narrator, and figure, or issues of individual and cultural styles etc., can be studied preeminently in the autobiographical genre. Yet, the tradition of life-writing has, in the course of literary history, developed manifold types and forms. Especially in the globalized age, where the media and other technological / cultural factors contribute to a rapid transformation of lifestyles, autobiographical writing has maintained, even enhanced, its popularity and importanc...
The Man Who Closed the Asylums
When the wind of the 1960s blew through the world of psychiatry In 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded, redolent of Basaglia’s own wartime experience inside a fascist gaol. Patients were frequently restrained for long periods, and therapy was largely a matter of electric and insulin shocks. The corridors stank, and for many of the interned the doors were locked for life. This was a concentration camp, not a hospital. Basaglia, the new Director, was expected to practise all the skills of oppression in which he had been schooled, but he wou...
