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Patrick Deville
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Plague and Cholera
Paris, May 1940. Nazi troops storm the city and at Le Bourget airport, on the last flight out, sits Dr Alexandre Yersin, his gaze politely turned away from his fellow passengers with their jewels sewn into their luggage. He is too old for the combat ahead, and besides he has already saved millions of lives. When he was the brilliant young protégé of Louis Pasteur, he focused his exceptional mind on a great medical conundrum: in 1894, on a Hong Kong hospital forecourt, he identified and vaccinated against bubonic plague, later named in his honour Yersinia pestis. Swiss by birth and trained in Germany and France, Yersin is the son of empiricism and endeavour; but he has a romantic hunger for...
Samsara
Les deux héros de ce « roman sans fiction » semblent avoir vécu plusieurs existences. Le jeune avocat londonien Mohandas Gandhi en redingote noire et chapeau haut-de-forme devint l’infatigable marcheur vêtu de drap blanc, tandis que Pandurang Khankhoje, lui aussi militant indépendantiste indien, bourlingua un peu partout dans le monde, du Japon à la Californie, combattant révolutionnaire au Moyen-Orient pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, par la suite exilé au Mexique et proche de la petite bande de Diego Rivera et de Frida Kahlo. Il deviendra alors un scientifique célèbre, mènera des recherches en agronomie comme Alexandre Yersin, le personnage principal de Peste & Choléra ...
Plague and Cholera by Patrick Deville (Book Analysis)
Unlock the more straightforward side of Plague and Cholera with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Plague and Cholera by Patrick Deville, in which the narrator, a “ghost of the future”, sets out to find out more about Alexandre Yersin, a scientist and explorer who invented the cure for the plague but who has sadly been largely forgotten throughout history. The novel was a great success, awarded the Prix du roman Fnac, a French literary award, in the year of its publication, and shortlisted for four other awards in the same year. Patrick Deville is a successful French author whose books have been translated into a dozen language...
The Plausible World
In The Plausible World , the intersections of literature and cartography enable readers to understand that place is anything but purely geographic: a plausible world is created as a strategy to fill the void. Innovative in his approach, Westphal challenges the view that perceptions and representations of space are stable or straightforward.
Fiction Now
Fiction Now reports on the current states of the novel in France, taking a series of soundings within the compass of innovative French writing since 2001. Chapters focus closely upon Jean Echenoz, Marie Redonnet, Christian Gailly, Lydie Salvayre, Gérard Gavarry, Hélène Lenoir, Patrick Lapeyre, and Christine Montalbetti. Each of the authors invoked exemplified in his or her work a different set of strategies, concerns, and approaches: one of them transposes the Book of Judith to the Parisian suburbs; another imagines the most taciturn of cowboys in the American West; still another goes well beyond death, into the afterlife of a concert pianist. Despite their diversity of theme and technique, these writers share a will to make French fiction new, and demonstrate compellingly that the novel as it is practiced in France today is an extremely vigorous, deeply enthralling, and richly plural cultural form.
Thresholds of Meaning
'Thresholds of Meaning' offers evidence not only of a reprise and reworking of certain 'traditional' themes (family, heritage and history; memory and commemoration; the relationships between the generations, between the individual and the community), but also of a reinstatement of meaning at the centre of literary enquiry.
The Routledge Companion to Biofiction
The Routledge Companion to Biofiction provides readers with the history, origins, and evolution of this popular genre. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, this authoritative collection foregrounds analyses of biofiction's core foundations through contemporary debates. The volume is organized into seven sections: Histories of biofiction; Theoretical reflections on biofiction; Biofiction, national models and (trans)national constructions; Biofiction as political intervention; Biofictional case studies; Activating lives: early modern women; and Authorial reflections. This groundbreaking collection features works that refine our understanding of the genesis and evolution ...
Autour de l'inconscient
L'humanité évolue, dans la violence. Une conscience nouvelle émerge de la souffrance et change les hommes. À l'ère du numérique, le processus s'accélère. Les réseaux sociaux utilisent ce nouveau langage, celui des images. Un langage qui acquiert une puissance nouvelle, au-delà des mots, et au-delà de l'écrit. Une conscience collective, celle des liens qui nous lient, celle de notre solidarité, est lisible dans les mémoires que nous construisons, l'Histoire. Essayons de la voir apparaitre.
