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In the collection Meadowlands Louise Glick interweaves the story of a modern divorce with Odysseus’ return to Ithaca, with a rewriting of the myth that gives voice, first and foremost, to the secondary characters. Poetic composition, which followed the publication of the collection The Wild Iris, of great precision and clarity, written with metaphorical density and lyrical intensity, is at once comic and heartbreaking, reflective and not at all melodramatic.
After the triumph of Vernon Subutex‘s trilogy, Virginie Despentes makes a significant return with these ultra-modern Dangerous Relationships. This novel is a tale of fury and consolation, anger and acceptance, where friendship is stronger than human frailties.
Çanakkale, a city near Troy in the Dardanelles region, became known as early as the 18th century for its ceramics, which were exported throughout the East. Cultural archaeology is the subject of this comparative study that embraces many disciplines to help us understand the reasons that have shaped this heritage’s appropriation, reception, and triumphant recognition.
Renan, as an historian of religion with a rationalistic background, but above all as a philologist with an exceptional knowledge of and connection with the French language, left us an excellent translation of the Song of Songs. This text never ceased to intrigue and attract with its mystery people of science, letters, and art
Paris may burn, the world may crumble, but Vernon Subutex shall reign supreme! Virginie Despentes’s epochal trilogy ends with Vernon Subutex 3―in fire, blood, and even forgiveness. But not everyone will survive to see the dawning of the golden age of Subutex.
In the summer of 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville journeyed to the very limits of American civilization. The admiration and awe before a still pristine nature and the march of relentless urbanization westward inspired the author in this surprisingly timely narrative that brings the myth of the frontier to life.
What are these “algorithms” that are changing our daily lives? What lies on the other side of the mathematical iceberg? For the eminent scientist Aurelie Jean, there is nothing simpler or more readable than a line of code: it is the promise of understanding, through the visualization of phenomena, the very life itself – all physical, economic, or social phenomena – of any system, living or inert.
Yves Bonnefoy is one of the most important French poets of the post-war period. The classicism of his poetry is embedded in the most advanced modernist achievements of European poetry, while his modernism soars to the highest realms of classical poetry.
