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La Batarde (Paperback)
Violette Leduc; Translated by Derek Coltman
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R618
R436
Discovery Miles 4 360
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An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman
humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical
appearance, La Bâtarde relates Violette Leduc’s long search for
her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate love
affairs with both men and women. When first published, La Bâtarde
earned Violette Leduc comparisons to Jean Genet for the frank
depiction of her sexual escapades and immoral behavior. A
confession that contains portraits of several famous French
authors, this book is more than just a scintillating memoir—like
that of Henry Miller, Leduc’s brilliant writing style and
attention to language transform this autobiography into a work of
art.
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Asphyxia (Paperback)
Violette Leduc; Translated by Derek Coltman
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R321
R264
Discovery Miles 2 640
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In a small French town, a young girl grows up under the hard blue
gaze of a mother who will not hold her hand. Her only comfort lies
in the warmth of her ill grandmother. Yet the world around her is
humming with curiosity. From the obsessive Madame Barbaroux and her
endless spring cleaning, to the homeless Monsieur Dezaille and his
beloved collection of saucepans, Leduc exposes the eccentricities
of provincial life with unflinching candour and striking beauty. An
extraordinary tale of a stifled childhood and an unrelenting love
of life from the protegee of Simone de Beauvoir.
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A Season in the Life of Emmanuel (Paperback)
Marie-Claire Blais; Illustrated by Mary Meigs; Derek Coltman; Introduction by Priscila Uppal
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R646
R530
Discovery Miles 5 300
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Following the life of newborn infant, Emmanuel, this great
contemporary novel of Quebec exposes a painful history central to
the new consciousness that emerged in the 1960s known as "the quiet
revolution." The story of Emmanuel and his 15 brothers and sisters
spotlights the grinding poverty under the mental regime of the
Catholic Church at its least enlightened and most inescapable. This
insightful narrative documents the hardships and cruelties of their
social condition with dark humor and passionate imagination as they
endeavor to survive harsh schools, dreary convents, and hunger.
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General Of The Dead Army (Paperback)
Ismail Kadare; Introduction by David Smiley; Translated by Derek Coltman
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R270
R211
Discovery Miles 2 110
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This sweeping epic of post-war Albania was Kadare's first novel.
Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian
general is dispatched to Albania to recover his country's dead.
Once there he meets a German general who is engaged upon an
identical mission and their conversations bring out into the open
the extent of their horror and guilt, newly exacerbated by their
present task. As they descend from the callous trivialities of
their gruesome business, past and present, to suffering
self-disgust, the author gives us glimpses of the lives of the
people whose graves they are unearthing.
Pauline tells her personal story of growing up through paradoxes
and insights that blend social, religious, and moral textures. Her
world is populated by people who turn to violence or sink into
quiet despair--it is a world damned. Pauline, her family,
schoolmates, teachers, and friends are driven by tempestuous
individual imperatives and the social deprivation they encounter.
Full of satire, fantasy, energy, and lyricism, this chronicle
portrays a reality that neither poetry, nor dreams, nor Pauline's
fantasies can weaken.
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R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
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