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This timely book builds bridges between the notions of art and
aesthetics, human rights, universality, and dignity. It explores a
world in which art and justice enter a discussion to answer
questions such as: can art translate the human experience? How does
humanity link individuality and community building? How do human
beings define and look for their identity? The fields of human
rights and art are brought together in order to open the
discussion. This interdisciplinary book brings together experts in
the fields of art, cultural heritage, social justice, human rights,
international law, and transitional justice, and presents the idea
that a complex interplay between morality, politics, law, and
aesthetics remains present in concrete settings such as the rights
of cultural creators, the right to artistic expression, art as a
catalyst of change in times of conflict, and post-conflict
restitutions. Such Chapters offer vignettes of the current debates
in the fields of art and human rights, tackling the issues at the
confluence of these fields by providing both a general framework to
understand the basis upon which the conversation can be built, and
also by bringing to the discussion a diverse range of contemporary
themes and concrete case analyses. This book will be an ideal read
for academics interested in international law, transitional justice
and human rights. Historians, lawyers, artists, and activists
looking to explore the relationship between art and human rights in
times of war, peace, and transition through their assessment of
contemporary issues will also benefit from this comprehensive book.
This collection of essays comprises a number of case studies from
key wine-growing regions and countries around the world. The
contributors focus on the development of the wine business and its
overall importance and impact in terms of the regional and domestic
economy and the international economy.
With a foreword by Maggie Nelson, an introduction from Frieze
editor Andrew Durbin and afterword from Edmund White
'Unforgettable, heartbreaking' New York Times 'As much about
friendship, intimacy, and betrayal as it is about sickness. ...
Brilliant' - Dazed 'The father of autofiction, the master of
finding that perfect balance of truth and beauty.' Guardian 'As
brutal as it is elegant; shot through with a scalding and necessary
rage.' - Neil Bartlett, author, Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall
'Written with urgency, clarity ... it is electrifying in its
searing honesty' - Colm Toibin 'One of the most beautiful,
haunting, and fascinating works in the French autofictional canon.
Guibert grapples with his own AIDS diagnosis, and the death of his
friend Muzil (Michel Foucault), in a dazzling piece of writing.' -
Katherine Angel After being diagnosed with AIDS, Herve Guibert
wrote this devastating, darkly humorous and personal novel,
chronicling three months in the penultimate year of the narrator's
life. In the wake of his friend Muzil's death, he goes from one
quack doctor to another, from holidays to test centres, and charts
the highs and lows of trying to cheat death. On publication in
1990, the novel scandalized French media, which quickly identified
Muzil as Guibert's close friend Michel Foucault. The book became a
bestseller, and Guibert a celebrity. The book has since attained a
cult following for its tender, fragmented and beautifully written
accounts of illness, friendship, sex, art and everyday life. It
catapulted Guibert into notoriety and sealed his reputation as a
writer of shocking precision and power.
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My Manservant and Me (Paperback)
Herv e Guibert; Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman; Foreword by Shiv Kotecha
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R369
R285
Discovery Miles 2 850
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A madcap tale of sadistic power-play by one of the 20th century's
most beloved French gay writers. My Manservant and Me is a story
about the trials and tribulations of having a live-in valet.
Written from the uneasy perspective of an aging, incontinent author
of extremely successful middlebrow plays, we learn about his
manservant, a young film actor who is easily moved to both delicate
gestures and terrible tantrums; who's been authorized to handle his
master's finances, who orders stock buys, dictates his master's
wardrobe, sleeps in his master's bed, and yet won't let him watch
variety television. My Manservant and Me reveals the rude
specificities of this relationship with provocative humor and
stylistic abjection. This manservant won't be going anywhere.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
By the time of his death, Herve Guibert had become a singular
literary voice on the impact of AIDS in France. He was prolific.
His oeuvre contained some twenty novels, including To the Friend
Who Did Not Save My Life and The Compassion Protocol. He was
thirty-six years old. In Cytomegalovirus, Guibert offers an
autobiographical narrative of the everyday moments of his
hospitalization because of complications of AIDS. Cytomegalovirus
is spare, biting, and anguished. Guibert writes through the
minutiae of living and of death-as a quality of invention, of
melancholy, of small victories in the face of greater threats-at
the moment when his sight (and life) is eclipsed. This new edition
includes an Introduction and Afterword contextualizing Guibert's
work within the history of the AIDS pandemic, its relevance in the
contemporary moment, and the importance of understanding the
quotidian aspects of terminal illness.
Made in France: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive
introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of
contemporary French popular music. The volume consists of essays by
scholars of French popular music, and covers the major figures,
styles, and social contexts of pop music in France. The book first
presents a general description of the history and background of
popular music in France, followed by essays that are organized into
thematic sections: The Mutations of French Popular Music During the
"Trente Glorieuses"; Politicising Popular Music; Assimilation,
Appropriation, French Specificity; and From Digital Stakes to
Cultural Heritage: French Contemporary Topics. Contributors:
Christian Bethune Juliette Dalbavie Gerome Guibert Fabien Hein
Olivier Julien Marc Kaiser Barbara Lebrun David Looseley Stephanie
Molinero Anne Petiau Cecile Prevost-Thomas Vincent Rouze Catherine
Rudent Matthieu Saladin Jedediah Sklower Raphael Suire Florence
Tamagne
This book proposes a new and original analysis of tourism
employment in order to understand the multiple dimensions
(economic, cultural, temporal, geographical, etc.) of this
cross-cutting sector. It offers an overview of French knowledge,
mainly in sociology, anthropology, geography and law, in the light
of singular empirical fields. The diversity of disciplinary
approaches, methods and questions allows for comparisons between
various segments of the tourism employment market in France and
with other countries. Based on in-depth case studies, this book
will be a valuable resource for students and academics who wish to
understand the specificities of tourism employment and the methods
for studying them, as well as for professionals in the sector and
decision-makers in European tourist destinations who wish to enrich
their approaches to these phenomena.
Made in France: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive
introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of
contemporary French popular music. The volume consists of essays by
scholars of French popular music, and covers the major figures,
styles, and social contexts of pop music in France. The book first
presents a general description of the history and background of
popular music in France, followed by essays that are organized into
thematic sections: The Mutations of French Popular Music During the
"Trente Glorieuses"; Politicising Popular Music; Assimilation,
Appropriation, French Specificity; and From Digital Stakes to
Cultural Heritage: French Contemporary Topics. Contributors:
Christian Bethune Juliette Dalbavie Gerome Guibert Fabien Hein
Olivier Julien Marc Kaiser Barbara Lebrun David Looseley Stephanie
Molinero Anne Petiau Cecile Prevost-Thomas Vincent Rouze Catherine
Rudent Matthieu Saladin Jedediah Sklower Raphael Suire Florence
Tamagne
By the time of his death, Herve Guibert had become a singular
literary voice on the impact of AIDS in France. He was prolific.
His oeuvre contained some twenty novels, including To the Friend
Who Did Not Save My Life and The Compassion Protocol. He was
thirty-six years old. In Cytomegalovirus, Guibert offers an
autobiographical narrative of the everyday moments of his
hospitalization because of complications of AIDS. Cytomegalovirus
is spare, biting, and anguished. Guibert writes through the
minutiae of living and of death-as a quality of invention, of
melancholy, of small victories in the face of greater threats-at
the moment when his sight (and life) is eclipsed. This new edition
includes an Introduction and Afterword contextualizing Guibert's
work within the history of the AIDS pandemic, its relevance in the
contemporary moment, and the importance of understanding the
quotidian aspects of terminal illness.
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