Titres dans Auteurs

Tina Jolas, esprit libre et rêveur, fut la compagne de René Char pendant plus de trente ans. Happée par un amour exigeant et absolu, elle fut pour sa fille une figure de grâce et de disparition. Avec une douceur infinie, Paule du Bouchet retrace ici un parcours de vie: des lieux, des instants, des événements formant cartographie de cette haute figure. La puissance de son écriture rend sensibles à la fois son désespoir d'enfant, la splendeur de cette mère "emportée" dans un ailleurs et l'amour indéfectible qui les lie.

Ein neuer Blick auf Leben und Werk des letzten Universalgenies. Das Goethe-Hörbuch für unsere Zeit: Rüdiger Safranski führt uns Goethe in neuem Licht vor und macht uns zu Zeitgenossen dieses Genies und Menschen, dessen Lebensspanne das verspielte Rokoko, die klassisch-romantische Zeit und die Nüchternheit des Eisenbahnzeitalters umgreift. Mit seinem Namen hat man später eine ganze Epoche bezeichnet: die Goethezeit.

In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the principal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the early death of her husband. 

In George Orwell: The Man and the Mind Behind 1984, Professor Michael Shelden will show you how 1984 presents a plausible reality of thought control and totalitarian power that feels contemporary even as it reflects its own time.

Coetzee grew up in a new development north of Cape Town, tormented by guilt and fear. With a father he despised, and a mother he both adored and resented, he led a double life - the brilliant and well-behaved student at school, the princely despot at home, always terrified of losing his mother's love. His first encounters with literature, the awakenings of sexual desire, and a growing awareness of apartheid left him with baffling questions, and only in his love of the high veld ('farms are places of freedom, of life') could he find a sense of belonging.

"Souvent M. Proust me disait : "Quand je serai mort, vous penserez toujours au petit Marcel, car vous n'en trouverez jamais d'autre comme lui." Et aujourd'hui je vois bien qu'il avait raison, comme toujours d'ailleurs. Je ne l'ai jamais quitté, je n'ai jamais cessé de penser à lui ni de le prendre comme exemple." Céleste Albaret.

Brought to you by Penguin. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2016 Hisham Matar was nineteen when his father was kidnapped and taken...

What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Court jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have assumed, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the title: if a writer is to be seen as "gifted", who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift?

Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, teacher and activist, she moved from the margins to centre stage, taking her place in the spotlight at last. Her journey was a long one, but she made it, and she made history. Manifesto is Bernardine Evaristo's intimate and inspirational no-holds-barred account of how she did it, refusing to let any barriers stand in her way. 

Bloomsbury presents Becoming Beauvoir by Kate Kirkpatrick, read by Rachel Atkins. “One is not born a woman, but becomes one”, Simone de Beauvoir A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir’s unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer...

From rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure featuring “your favorite author’s favorite authors” (Today)—the women who inspired Jane Austen—that’s “a meditation on reading and writing, on honesty and self-discovery—and on what...

Shakespeare: The Illustrated Edition is an exquisitely illustrated, updated edition of Bill Bryson’s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare that takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship. With more than 100...

Die Autobiographischen Schriften sind der Schlüssel zum Werk von Thomas Bernhard. Sie kehren sein Innerstes nach außen. Keine Texte, die intimer, berührender sind als die fünf zwischen 1975 und 1982 geschriebenen Erzählungen, in denen der Autor seine traumatischen Kindheits- und Jugenderinnerungen beschreibt. Fünf aufwühlende Geschichten, gelesen von fünf der besten deutschsprachigen Schauspieler. Die Ursache. Eine Andeutung, gelesen von Ulrich Matthes. 1943: Dreizehnjährig wird Thomas Bernhard in ein Internat nach Salzburg geschickt.

It was Benjamin Franklin who came up with the list - temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, humility. Writer and visual artist Teresa Jordan wondered if Franklin's perhaps antiquated notions of virtue might offer guidance to a nation increasingly divided by angry righteousness. She decided to try to live his list for a year, focusing on each virtue for a week at a time and taking weekends off to attend to the seven deadly sins.

"He aquí a la Mistral comadre y recadera, mujer vieja y criolla, juguetona: ese es su mal y su bien". Así mismísimo se define muy impersonal pero personalmente la propia Gabriela Mistral, revelando en recreadora frase epistolar ese "ser yo" sin miramiento alguno, a no ser su siempre ver...

Pour sa création, le festival « Autour de Mme de Staël » a invité le spectacle d'Alain Carré mettant en scène à partir de leur correspondance amoureuse, Benjamin Constant et Germaine de Staël. Elle naît à Paris en 1766. Il naît à Lausanne en 1767. Ils se rencontrent en 1794 et ne se quitteront plus jusqu'à la mort de Germaine en 1817. Dans une admiration réciproque, la plume à la main, ils partageront et façonneront les idées littéraires, philosophiques et politiques de cette époque mouvementée que fut l'après-révolution française, la Terreur, le Directoire, l'Empire.

"First appearing in print in 1979, this remarkable and intimate audiobook chronicles the implosion of the 1960s and reports on the people, mores, and trends that defined that turbulent time."—AudioFile First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan. “I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right...

El relato deslumbrante de una vida que es memoria de México y de su fascinante literatura. Tras la saga dedicada a sus orígenes llamada no sin ironía «Una familia ejemplar», Gonzalo Celorio habla de sí mismo, y nos entrega unas memorias deslumbrantes que son también una gran obra...

C'est par la bande-dessinée que Jean Teulé investit le monde des livres : d'abord publié dans la revue "L'écho des Savanes", il publie son premier album, "Virus", dès 1980, âgé alors de 27 ans. Encore très prolixe dans ce domaine (il a signé ou co-signé près de 20 albums), il est aujourd'hui davantage connu du grand public pour ses romans : "Darling", "Je, François Villon", "Le Magasin des Suicides", "Le Montespan", "Fleur de tonnerre".