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Book Le Bal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Irene Nemirovsky
  • Publisher : Vintage Canada
  • Release : 2010-11-05
  • ISBN : 0307370712
  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book Le Bal written by Irene Nemirovsky and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Suite Française comes Némirovsky’s third novel, a masterpiece of French literature, available for the first time in Canada. Le Bal is a penetrating and incisive book set in early twentieth century France. At its heart is the tension between mother and daughter. The nouveau-riche Kampfs, desperate to become members of the social elite, decide to throw a ball to launch themselves into high society. For selfish reasons Mrs. Kampf forbids her teenage daughter, Antoinette, to attend the ball and banishes her to the laundry room. In an unpremeditated fury of revolt and despair, Antoinette takes a swift and horrible revenge. A cruel, funny and tender examination of class differences, Le Bal describes the torments of childhood with rare accuracy. Also included in this volume is Snow in Autumn, in which Némirovsky pays homage to Chekov and chronicles the life of a devoted servant following her masters as they flee Revolutionary Moscow and emigrate to a life of hardship in Paris.

Book Snow in Autumn

Download or read book Snow in Autumn written by Irn̈e Nm̌irovsky and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Suite Francaise comes Nemirovsky's third novel, a masterpiece of French literature, available for the first time in Canada. Le Bal is a penetrating and incisive book set in early twentieth century France. At its heart is the tension between mother and daughter. The nouveau-riche Kampfs, desperate to become members of the social elite, decide to throw a ball to launch themselves into high society. For selfish reasons Mrs. Kampf forbids her teenage daughter, Antoinette, to attend the ball and banishes her to the laundry room. In an unpremeditated fury of revolt and despair, Antoinette takes a swift and horrible revenge. A cruel, funny and tender examination of class differences, Le Bal describes the torments of childhood with rare accuracy. Also included in this volume is Snow in Autumn, in which Nemirovsky pays homage to Chekov and chronicles the life of a devoted servant following her masters as they flee Revolutionary Moscow and emigrate to a life of hardship in Paris.

Book Count D Orgel s Ball

    Book Details:
  • Author : Raymond Radiguet
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2005-03-31
  • ISBN : 9781590171387
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Count D Orgel s Ball written by Raymond Radiguet and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Count d'Orgel is handsome, charming, and carefree, a model of cool aristocratic aplomb. His wife, the Countess, is beautiful and pure and loves her husband more than anything in the world. But from the moment the d'Orgels meet and befriend the clever young François de Séryeuse backstage at the circus, all three of these supremely civilized and witty people are caught up in an ever more intricate and seductive dance of deception and self-deception. At Count d'Orgel's masquerade ball, the real disguises are those of the human heart. Completed just before Raymond Radiguet's death at the age of twenty, Count d'Orgel's Ball is a love story that is as disturbing as it is delicious.

Book Polar Night

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Mahaney
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-11-08
  • ISBN : 9780578581330
  • Pages : 50 pages

Download or read book Polar Night written by Mark Mahaney and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Mahaney's Polar Night is a passage through a rapidly changing landscape in Alaska's northernmost town of Utqiagvik. It's an exploration of prolonged darkness, told through the strange beauty of a snowscape cast in a two month shadow. The unnatural lights that flare in the sun's absence and the shapes that emerge from the landscape are unexpectedly beautiful in their softness and harshness. It's hard to see past the heavy gaze of climate change in an arctic town, though Polar Night is a visual poem about endurance, isolation and survival.

Book Provoke

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  • Author : Matthew S. Witkovsky
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9783958291003
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Provoke written by Matthew S. Witkovsky and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short-lived Japanese magazine Provoke is recognized as a major achievement in world photography of the postwar era, uniting the country's most contentious examples of protest photography, vanguard fine art, and critical theory of the late 1960s and early 70s in only three issues overall. Provoke is accordingly treated here as a model synthesis of the complexities and overlapping uses of photography in postwar Japan. The writing and images by Provoke's members - critic Koji Taki, poet Takahiko Okada, photographers Takuma Nakahira, Yutaka Takanashi, Daido Moriyama - were suffused with the tactics developed in some Japanese protest books which made use of innovative graphic design and provocatively "poor" materials. Recording live actions, photography in these years was also an expressive form suited to emphasize and critique the mythologies of modern life with a wide spectrum of performing artists such as Nobuyoshi Araki, Koji Enokura and Jiro Takamatsu. This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition ever to be held about the magazine and its creators and focuses on its historical context. It covers the preliminary period leading to its first and the aftermath following its last issue. Provoke takes shape as a strongly interpretative explanation of currents in Japanese art and society at a moment of historical collapse and renewal.

Book Stutters

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  • Author : Dominique Hurth
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-07-02
  • ISBN : 9780894391019
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Stutters written by Dominique Hurth and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hot Damn

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  • Author : Chloe Sells
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-01-24
  • ISBN : 9781910401453
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Hot Damn written by Chloe Sells and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunter S. Thompson was an American journalist who became a legendary icon for his anti-establishment and counter culture lifestyle. Known for his contribution to American political writing, he is best known for his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which was later turned into a film staring Johnny Depp. Hunter lived a life that few can imagine and many have tried to emulate. Chloe Sells worked as a personal assistant for Hunter from 2003 until his death in 2005. This new book combines Sells' photographs of Hunter's home --documenting the interior, his possessions and handwritten notes--with landscape of Aspen, Colorado, and her recollections of her time spent working with him. Some of Sells' hand-printed photographs have been overlaid with traditional marbling techniques from Italy and Japan, to create a psychedelic ride through the home of one of the most brilliant writers of our time.

Book Enghelab Street  a Revolution Through Books

Download or read book Enghelab Street a Revolution Through Books written by Hannah Darabi and published by Spector Books. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enghelab Street, or Revolution Street, is located in the center of the Iranian capital Tehran--a main artery in the city's cultural life with a host of bookshops. This book presents a variety of rarely seen photographic and propaganda books collected by Iranian-born, Paris-based artist Hannah Darabi (born 1981), drawing on works published between 1979 and 1983--years corresponding to the short period when freedom of speech prevailed at the end of the Shah's regime and the beginning of the Islamic government. Darabi takes us to the heart of an intense artistic and cultural period in Iranian history in a visual essay accompanied by a critical essay by Chowra Makaremi. With its revelatory landscape of publications, Enghelab Street gives us the opportunity to look at rare printed matter for the first time.

Book Images of Conviction

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christian Delage
  • Publisher : Xavier Barral
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 9782365110839
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Images of Conviction written by Christian Delage and published by Xavier Barral. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the way experts, researchers and historians produce images as evidence in instances of crimes or acts of violence suffered by individuals or groups.

Book The Rhetoric of Topics and Forms

Download or read book The Rhetoric of Topics and Forms written by Gianna Zocco and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume of the collected papers of the ICLA congress “The Many Languages of Comparative Literature” includes articles that study thematic and formal elements of literary texts. Although the question of prioritizing either the level of content or that of form has often provoked controversies, most contributions here treat them as internally connected. While theoretical considerations inform many of the readings, the main interest of most articles can be described as rhetorical (in the widest sense) – given that the ancient discipline of rhetoric did not only include the study of rhetorical figures and tropes such as metaphor, irony, or satire, but also that of topoi, which were originally viewed as the ‘places’ where certain arguments could be found, but later came to represent the arguments or intellectual themes themselves. Another feature shared by most of the articles is the tendency of ‘undeclared thematology’, which not only reflects the persistence of the charge of positivism, but also shows that most scholars prefer to locate themselves within more specific, often interdisciplinary fields of literary study. In this sense, this volume does not only prove the ongoing relevance of traditional fields such as rhetoric and thematology, but provides contributions to currently flourishing research areas, among them literary multilingualism, literature and emotions, and ecocriticism.

Book Billboard

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999-04-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-04-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Book Faust   A Lyric Drama in Five Acts

Download or read book Faust A Lyric Drama in Five Acts written by Charles Fran̤ois Gounod and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expertly arranged Vocal score by Charles Fran̤ois Gounod from the Kalmus Edition series. This Opera Score is from the Romantic era.

Book Judith Joy Ross  Photographs 1978 2015

Download or read book Judith Joy Ross Photographs 1978 2015 written by Joshua Chuang and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith Joy Ross: Photographs 1978-2015 is an illuminating retrospective that explores the life and career of a revered American photographer, illustrated by two hundred of her images, many never before seen or published. The work of Judith Joy Ross marks a watershed in the lineage of the photographic portrait. Her pictures--unpretentious, quietly penetrating, startling in their transparency--consistently achieve the capacity to glimpse the past, present, and perhaps even the future of the individuals who stand before her lens. Adolescents swim at a local municipal park, ordinary people are at work and play. From immigrants and refugees, to tech workers and students, military reservists and civilians--all are incisively rendered with equal tenderness in Ross's black-and-white, large-format portraits. Published alongside the largest exhibition to feature Ross's work to date, and drawn from her extensive archive of photographs made over the span of more than thirty-five years, Judith Joy Ross: Photographs 1978-2015 encompasses the best work of this influential photographer.

Book A new dictionary of the French and English languages compiled from the dictionaries of the French Academy  Bescherelle  Littr    Beaujean  Bourguignon  etc   etc   and from the most recent works on arts and sciences

Download or read book A new dictionary of the French and English languages compiled from the dictionaries of the French Academy Bescherelle Littr Beaujean Bourguignon etc etc and from the most recent works on arts and sciences written by Ebenezer Clifton and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1984-03-26
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1984-03-26 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Book The Art of Ballets Russes

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  • Author : Exhibition Design, Dance and Music of the Ballets Russes 1909 - 1929 (1997 - 1998, Hartford, Conn. u.a.)
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1997-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300074840
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book The Art of Ballets Russes written by Exhibition Design, Dance and Music of the Ballets Russes 1909 - 1929 (1997 - 1998, Hartford, Conn. u.a.) and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Præsentation af en række balletter illustreret med fotografier og tegninger af kostumer og kulisser, ordnet alfabetisk efter designeren

Book The Chakhle India Cookbook

Download or read book The Chakhle India Cookbook written by Aditya Bal and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: