In Perec's extraordinary tour de force--written entirely without the use of the letter "e"--a group of people die or are otherwise eliminated as a result of their inability to "name the unnameable," i.e. to use the letter "e." This novel is a classic text of the Oulipo, the French literary movement that produces works of art using formal ...
Beginning with Thomas Mann's infatuation with Wladyslaw Moes, a Polish boy he met in Venice, Gilbert Adair goes on to detail Mann's use of Moes (and the fantasy he represented) in his creation of young Tadzio in his 1912 novel DEATH IN VENICE. He also explores Moes's subsequent adult life as an aristocrat in a changed world.
In May 1968, a brother and sister, young, clever and aristocratic, and incestuously involved, become friends with an American who is studying film in Paris. When their parents go on vacation, they invite the American to stay with them in their flat, where they start to play games.
From the Luminere Brothers' first public film screening at the end of the 19th century to the technical wizardry of the present day, the cinema has both recorded and created our history. This text is an anthology of the century of the moving image.
An isolated cottage deep in the heart of the Cotswolds. A writer's den, as dusty, gloomy and full of exotic objets d'art as the cell of a medieval monk. This is an "unsettling, claustrophobic" novel begging the reader to ask many, many questions.
Writing with a philosophical eye worthy of the eighteenth century, and the subtle irony of Voltaire, Verne tells the tale of Dr Ox - one of his most inspired, and insane, visionaries. Something very strange is in the air of the harmonious town of Quiquendone. Unknown to the inhabitants, the mad genius Dr Ox has unleashed a veil of oxy-hydric gas ...
A wealthy widower in his fifties, the author of 4 novels, Giles d'Ath seems to be everyone's idea of England's elder statesman of letters. But one afternoon a sequence of unrelated events contrives to destroy forever the complacency of his existence. The author also wrote "The Holy Innocents".
Part murder mystery and all jet-black satire, and based on a real life scandal, this edgy novella tells the story of Leopold Sfax, world-renowned as the creator of "The Theory"--a bizarre literary theory that grew from an intellectual folly to a dominant school of criticism that enslaved college campuses across the country. However, The Theory, ...
A wonderfully funny yet tender evocation of the hedonistic 1980s. A young gay British man comes to 1980s Paris to teach English and to taste the erotic life that has eluded him in Britain. He suddenly finds himself in the midst of a sexual free-for-all beyond his wildest dreams - and then the AIDS epidemic hits. A beautiful, profane and witty ...
Characterised by Hoffmann's remarkable ingenuity and attention to detail, it has been the inspiration for a host of thriller and crime writers. Parisian goldsmith Monsieur Cardillac is a genius at his craft. Greatly admired throughout Paris, he is renowned for his works of exquisite and matchless beauty. So much so, that it seems the desire to ...
It is London in 1946. An actress is murdered, not just on camera but in full view of a crowded film set. Only six people had an opportunity to administer the poison yet not one of them had a conceivable motive. As Evadne Mount, bestselling crime novelist, discovers, however, all six did have a motive for committing another, earlier, still unsolved ...
A collection of Adair's essays written for the Sunday Times and Esquire magazine dealing with the cultural events and artefacts of the first half of this decade as well as the widest reaches of culture: fashion, commercials, controversies and debates that have engaged the consciousness of people today.
A tale of sexual obsession set during the Paris street riots in 1968. The Dreamers is about a young American student who comes to Paris in 1968. Obsessed with film, he becomes involved with two fellow cineastes, a brother and sister whose incestuous relationship opens up to include him in their menage. Cocooned in their apartment the three of them ...
The author presents a single image from each of 100 years of cinema, together with a short essay on both the still itself and what that image represents in terms of film history. His aim has been to encompass the many facets of film without reducing the book to an academic inventory of highlights.
Film historian Ciment's book, originally published in France in 1980, is based on extensive interviews with the legendary director. After the France edition appeared, Kubrick expanded a number of his responses which were then incorporated into subsequent editions. The interviews explore everything from the technical aspects of the films to Kubrick ...
Paul d'Aspremont, on holiday in Italy, meets his fiancee in all but name, a young English girl named Alicia Ward. What begins as an urbane and courtly affair descends into a Gothic nightmare as Paul is revealed to possess the 'evil eye', a jinx that kills all those he befriends.
A novel set in France and with a complex plot of innumerable twists. It incorporates a silver Rolls-Royce, a mysteriously ubiquitous tower, a chic and mercurial Frenchwoman, a rediscovered masterpiece of art history, and a pursuit across the Brittany coastline, with a climax at Mont Saint-Michel.
With the characteristic variety of mood and tone evident in his films, these letters document the development of Francois Truffaut from rebellious boy to mature film-maker in the last years of his life. They reveal the warmth, humanity, idealism and sharp wit of a man whose work was his lifelong passion. His correspondents include other celebrated ...
Ten-year-old Miranda mysteriously jumps from the ship carrying her and her family from India to England and meets Peter Pan, who now resides beneath the waters of the Indian Ocean.
Film historian Ciment's book, originally published in France in 1980, is based on extensive interviews with the legendary director. After the France edition appeared, Kubrick expanded a number of his responses which were then incorporated into subsequent editions. The interviews explore everything from the technical aspects of the films to Kubrick ...
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