Titres dans Mémoires, journaux et correspondance

Du Souverain Pontife Benoît XVI aux évêques, aux prêtres et aux diacres, aux personnes consacrées et à tous les fidèles laïques, sur l'Amour Chrétien...

Across the world the number of refugees and exiles, the dispossessed and displaced, the politically homeless and the economically excluded is growing. In the decade since she left her own home, Ece Temelkuran has been a political Cassandra, warning those convinced it couldn't happen in their country that fascism is coming. Now, as oppression spreads and temperatures rise she has written Nation of Strangers: a series of letters from one stranger to another.

Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters updated with 14 riveting new missives and a new introduction from curator Shaun Usher.

Seeing self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', the Stoic philosophy called for the restraint of animal instincts and the importance of upright ethical ideals and virtuous living. Seneca's writings are a profound, powerfully moving and inspiring declaration of the dignity of the individual mind. 

Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey read a love story in letters, played out against the backdrop of the Second World War. 'Can you feel, as you read these words, that I am thinking of you now; aglow, alive, alert at the thought that you are in the same world, and by some strange chance loving me.' A small blue box opened in 2008 revealed a wartime world of love, longing and frustration. Inside were bundles and bundles of letters written neatly on thin blue airmail paper or headed army notepaper.

When Paul Auster was asked to join NPR's Weekend All Things Considered program to tell stories, he turned the proposition on its head: he would let the stories come to him. He invited listeners to submit brief, true-life anecdotes about events that touched their lives. And so the National Story...

Camille Claudel la transgressive, la sculptrice de génie, l’artiste sulfureuse et maudite, l’amante libre de Rodin, basculant dans la folie, enfermée à l’asile durant les trente dernières années de sa vie. Artiste trop avance sur son temps, elle s’affranchit de toutes les règles, de toutes les conventions sociales. Son œuvre sera sa vie. Outre qu’elle a sculpté avec acharnement durant trente ans, elle a été, quasiment toute sa vie, une épistolière assidue. Des lettres, elle en a écrit des centaines, et nombreuses sont celles perdues ou détruites.

Il est une forme qui fertilise les champs littéraire et politique au XVIIIe : celle de la lettre. Et plus spécifiquement celle de la correspondance féminine. Elle est l'expression, pour les femmes de l'élite aristocratique, d'une progressive percée du domaine privé au terrain public. S'appuyant sur le précédent sévignéen, les épistolières ont compris que la lettre est action.

Living with a powerfully ambitious writer who is consumed by his work, and trying to find a place for her own spirit to thrive, she rails against the confines. At the same time, she is desperate to find the truth in their relationship—and the truth of her own self.

Although Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee had been reading each other’s books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, “God willing, strike sparks off each other.” Here and Now is the result of that proposal: the epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends. Over three years their letters touched on nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, film festivals to incest, philosophy to politics....

Ces lettres furent sans doute écrites par Marianna Alcaforado, jeune religieuse du couvent de Beja au Portugal...

Vom Frühstücksei bis zum Cocktail bei Präsident Roosevelt, vom gemütlichen Weihnachtsabend zu den Erfahrungen des Exils – Thomas Mann verbindet in den erhaltenen Journalen nahtlos das Alltägliche mit dem Weltgeschehen. Schonungslos erzählt er von familiärem Zwist, von Krankheit und Knabenliebe, von Politik und literarischen Projekten. Die interessantesten Einträge hat Hermann Kurzke für diese Edition ausgewählt. Mit gekonnter Balance und fein nuanciert bringt sie kein geringerer als Hanns Zischler zu Gehör.

Obra mais conhecida da escritora mineira Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de despejo reúne entradas dos diários que a autora manteve enquanto vivia na favela do Canindé, em São Paulo. Publicado em 1960, o livro narra o cotidiano de Carolina, a criação de seus filhos, seu trabalho como catadora de papel e escritora, suas preocupações literárias, afetos e a vida com outros moradores do Canindé. Quarto de despejo serve como porta de entrada para a escrita de uma autora fundamental, traduzida para inúmeros idiomas, que arrebata leitores de todo o mundo por sua precisão e força literária.

John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation but also had an extraordinary life, from his childhood with a con man father to his inimitable career as a writer. From his involvement in the Cold War, time in Berlin, travels to Vietnam and engagement with world leaders, his experiences were truly remarkable. This collection of letters reveals John le Carré—the man, the writer and his world—for the first time and most intimately.

"18 janvier 1895 : Un bon mot vaut mieux qu'un mauvais livre." Le Journal intime de Jules Renard s'étend de 1887 à sa mort en 1910. Plus qu'une confession, il s'agit de dialogues pris sur le vif et de maximes, souvent piquantes, sur des personnes de son entourage et plus largement à propos de traits de caractère ou de faits de société. Jules Renard note également ses réflexions sur l'écriture et la réception critique de la littérature.

Between the years of 1762 and 1763, James Boswell kept a journal of his time in London. During his time, he met the renowned writer, moralist, and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, with whom Boswell would form a close relationship. This account, told with much detail and candor, was one of the various journals written by Boswell, but it is the journal that has undergone the least amount of censorship, leading it, and the racy material within, to be deemed a best seller upon publication.

Au travers d'une trentaine de lettres absolument inédites en français, ce premier volume des lettres de Lovecraft, offre l'opportunité de se forger sa propre idée du Maître de Providence.

Brought to you by Penguin. This collection of letters forms a fascinating day-by-day account of Steinbeck's writing of EAST OF EDEN, his longest and most ambitious novel. The letters, ranging over many subjects - textual discussion, trial flights of workmanship, family matters - provide an...

Celui qu'on nomme Bussy-Rabutin est l'un des plus fameux libertins du Grand Siècle. Apprécié du roi pour ses qualités militaires et ses talents de plume, il fut reçu à l'Académie française en 1665. Pour autant, son comportement avait déjà conduit Richelieu à l'envoyer méditer à La Bastille. Ses duels et ses aventures galantes le rangent parmi la jeunesse indisciplinée de la fin du règne de Louis XIII et de la Régence. En 1666, il fut envoyé en exil sur ses terres où il resta dix-sept ans.

Jane Birkin - actor, singer, songwriter and model - attained international fame with her decade-long musical and personal relationship with Serge Gainsbourg that featured their internationally controversial hit song 'Je t'aime...moi no plus'. She has also enjoyed a notable career as a movie actress in Blow-Up, Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun. Munkey Diaries re-creates the flamboyant era of Swinging London and Saint-Germain-des-Prés in the 1970s, and lets us into the everyday life of an exceptional woman.