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Marriage as a Fine Art (Hardcover)
Julia Kristeva, Philippe Sollers; Translated by Lorna Scott Fox
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Discovery Miles 5 740
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"We found so much to say, to share, to learn...For it wasn't just
the Marquis de Sade profile and the sporty thighs-and-calves that
seduced me. It was even more, perhaps, or certainly just as much,
the speed at which you used to read, and still do."-Julia Kristeva
"We're married, Julia and I, that's a fact, but we each have our
own personalities, our own name, activities, and freedom. Love is
the full recognition of the other in their otherness. If this other
is very close to you, as in this case, it seems to me that what's
at stake is harmony within difference. The difference between men
and women is irreducible; there's no possibility of
fusion."-Philippe Sollers Marriage as a Fine Art is an enchanting
series of exchanges in which Julia Kristeva and Philippe Sollers,
married for fifty years, speak candidly about their love. Though
they live separately, Kristeva and Sollers are fully committed to
each other. Their bond is intellectual and psychological,
passionate and mundane. They share everything when together, and
lose themselves in their interests when apart. Their marriage is
art, rich with history and meaning, idiosyncratic, and dynamic in
its expression. Yet it is also as common as they come. Kristeva and
Sollers have lived through the same challenges, peaks, and lulls as
all married couples do. With humor and honesty, they elaborate on
these moments, turning marriage's familiar aspects into exceptional
examples of relating, struggling, transcending, and being. Marriage
as a Fine Art is a rare chance to know these intellectuals-and
marriage-more intimately.
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Semmelweiss (Paperback)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine; Introduction by Philippe Sollers; Translated by John Harman
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R297
Discovery Miles 2 970
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Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961) is best known for his early
novels "Journey to the End of the Night" (1932)--which Charles
Bukowski described as the greatest novel of the past 2,000
years--and "Death on the Installment Plan" (1936), but this
delirious, fanatical "biography" predates them both. The astounding
yet true story of the life of Ignacz Semmelweis provided Celine
with a narrative whose appalling events and bizarre twists would
have lain beyond credibility in a work of pure fiction. Semmelweis,
now regarded as the father of antisepsis, was the first to diagnose
correctly the cause of the staggering mortality rates in the
lying-in hospital at Vienna. However, his colleagues rejected both
his reasoning and his methods, thereby causing thousands of
unnecessary deaths in maternity wards across Europe. This episode,
one of the most infamous in the history of medicine, and its
disastrous effects on Semmelweis himself, are the subject of
Celine's semi-fictional evocation, one in which his violent
descriptive genius is already apparent. The overriding theme of his
later writing--a caustic despair verging on disgust for
humanity--finds its first expression here, and yet he also reveals
a more compassionate aspect to his character. "Semmelweis" was not
published until 1936, after the novels that made Celine famous. "It
is not every day we get a thesis such as Celine wrote on Semmelweis
" wrote Henry Miller of this volume.
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Writing and Seeing Architecture (Paperback)
Christian De Portzamparc, Philippe Sollers; Translated by Catherine Tihanyi; Foreword by Deborah Hauptmann
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Discovery Miles 4 580
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The creative forms of literature and architecture appear to be
distinct, one constructing a world on the page, the other producing
the world in which we live. It is a conscious act to read
literature, but the effects of architecture can pass by unnoticed.
Yet, despite such obvious differences, writers and architects share
a dynamic with their readers and visitors that is unpredictably
similar. Writing and Seeing Architecture" unveils a candid
conversation between Christian de Portzamparc, celebrated French
architect, and influential theorist Philippe Sollers that
challenges us to see the analogous nature of writing and
architecture. Their fascinating discussion offers a renewal of
visionary architectural thinking by invoking past literary ideals
that sought to liberate society through the reinvention of writing
itself. Urging that new rules be set for each creation rather than
resorting to limitations of the capitalist society, the authors'
daring confrontation of the interactions between writing and
designing a space forcefully demonstrates the importance of
intellectuals and practitioners intervening in the public sphere.
Christian de Portzamparc is an architect whose designs include the
French Embassy in Germany, the Cite de la Musique in Paris, and the
LVMH Tower in New York City. He was winner of the Pritzker
Architecture Prize in 1994. Philippe Sollers is a novelist and
critic whose journal Tel Quel "(1960-1982) published Jacques
Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Bernard-Henri Levy. He is the author
of many books, including The Park "and Une Vie Divine." Catherine
Tihanyi's translations include One Must Also Be Hungarian" by Adam
Biro and The Story of Lynx" by Claude Levi-Strauss.Deborah
Hauptmann is associate professor of architecture theory at Delft
University of Technology, The Netherlands.
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Philippe Sollers; Translated by Veronika Stankovianska, David Vichnar
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R416
Discovery Miles 4 160
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Both a beguiling portrait of the artist and an idiosyncratic
self-portrait of the author, "Mysterious Mozart" is Philippe
Sollers's alternately oblique and searingly direct interpretation
of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's oeuvre and lasting mystique,
audaciously reformulated for the postmodern age.
With a mix of slang, abstractions, quotations, first- and
third-person narratives, and blunt opinion, French writer and
critic Philippe Sollers taps into Mozart's playful correspondence
and the lesser-known pieces of his enormous repertoire to analyze
the popularity and public perceptions of his music. Detailing
Mozart's drive to continue producing masterpieces even when saddled
with debt and riddled with illness and anxiety, Sollers powerfully
and meticulously analyzes Mozart's seven last great operas using a
psychoanalytical approach to the characters' relationships.
As Sollers explores themes of constancy, prodigy, freedom, and
religion, he offers up bits of his own history, revealing his
affinity for the creative geniuses of the eighteenth century and a
yearning to bring that era's utopian freedom to life in
contemporary times. What emerges is an inimitable portrait of a man
and a musician whose greatest gift is a quirky companionability, a
warm and mysterious appeal that distinguishes Mozart from other
great composers and is brilliantly echoed by Sollers's artful
tangle of narrative.
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