Le film "Black Swan", de Darren Aronofsky, a été une intense émotion cinématographique. Nous l’avons vu avant-hier soir avec Sabine à la maison, en grand sur notre mur (via vidéo-projecteur et chaîne hi-fi); à défaut d’une salle de cinéma, les conditions de visionnement comptent pour entrer dans cet (...)
Far From the Madding Crowd (1874)
This novel was the first of Thomas Hardy’s major works, and this Penguin Classics edition is the first time it has ever been published in its original manuscript form, without the zillion cuts and corrections made by the editor of the original serialized (...)
Adam Bede (1859)
A rich, complex, indubitably well-written tale of seduction and disappointment in a bucolic, pastoral setting that has its charms, even though one could find the almost ethnological concentration on the ways and manners of the village people herein portrayed not quite as (...)
Chronicle in Stone (1970)
A homely and almost nostalgic evocation of life in a sleepy provincial Albanian town in the 1940s before, during, and after its occupation by Italian, German and partisan forces (in that sequence) during the Second World War. The politics are almost surprisingly (...)
The Devil’s Elixirs (1815)
Hoffmann is one of the masters of the romantic movement in Germany, he is one of my favourite authors, and this book is usually considered to be his masterpiece, so Achtung!
This novel, his first, about the doings of a strange monk who guards a mysterious elixir of (...)
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