Mirjam de Veth Libri

One of the major accomplishments of Cohen-Solal's book is not only to place Sartre in the context of history, but to reopen the question of his role and to reassess the full import of his literary and political accomplishments. Discovering untold aspects of Sartre's private and political life, Cohen-Solal weaves together all the elements of an exceptional career. From the description of his previously unknown father to the painful last moments of Sartre's own declining years, this is biography on the grandest scale.

Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent. A succès de scandale at the end of the eighteenth century, it has attracted and unsettled readers ever since. For Diderot's novel is not simply a story of a young girl with a bad habit; it is also a powerfully emblematic fable about oppression and intolerance.This new translation includes Diderot's all-important prefatory material, which he placed, disconcertingly, at the end of the novel, and which turns what otherwise seems like an exercise in realism into what is now regarded as a masterpiece of proto-modernist fiction.

Au Château des Oliviers, là, entre Rhône et Ventoux, les cigales craquettent, la vigne mûrit au soleil, le bois d'oliviers offre sa paix ; il y a du mistral dans la cheminée et du Mistral sur les rayons de la bibliothèque. Quand Estelle était une enfant, son père lui disait qu'ils étaient là depuis toujours. Ils étaient heureux. C'était il y a trente-cinq ans. Avant le drame... Cet été, en retrouvant le domaine, elle décide de le ramener à la vie. Elle ne sait pas que le Château des Oliviers doit être rasé puis englouti sous les eaux d'un lac artificiel. Aidée par l'amour de la terre, par l'amour des siens et par l'amour d'un homme, Estelle va-t-elle gagner contre l'argent, le pouvoir, et le béton pour défendre ses racines ?

Protagonista del romanzo è una giovane donna impiegata in un salone di bellezza: una creatura che obbedisce soltanto al suo istinto e che con la massima naturalezza esegue gli scabrosi "servizi" che le vengono richiesti da clienti di ambo i sessi. E con la stessa naturalezza accetta la straordinaria metamorfosi che sta trasformando il suo corpo: inizia a crescerle una mammella di troppo, la pelle si copre di peli ispidi e duri, una piccola coda le spunta sopra le natiche...

Wanneer haar moeder niet komt opdagen op een afspraakje in een café in Parijs, komt de dochter tot een frappante conclusie.