Pdf: Les Choses Humaines

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The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson—“the French Brokeback Mountain” (Elle)—about an affair between two teenage boys in 1 ...

On the brink of middle age, Paul Blick, a not-so-extraordinary Frenchman and onetime successful tree photographer, discovers that he has somehow arrived at ...

When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves a ...

"A French memoir in the age of #metoo. A literary sensation, Vanessa Springora's Consent weaves her personal narrative of a relationship during her childho ...

"Ben Jelloun is arguably Morocco's greatest living author, whose impressive body of work combines intellect and imagination in magical fusion." --The Guard ...

In 1875-79, Nietzsche turns to the philosophy of the “free spirit”, elaborating thus an original ethic. Our aim here is both to analyse the formation o ...

"Heartbreaking and poetic." —The Guardian One of the Wall Street Journal's 11 best books of the fall Named a most anticipated book by Literary Hub | Elec ...

Susie Salmon is just like any other young American girl. She wants to be beautiful, adores her charm bracelet and has a crush on a boy from school. There's ...

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A gripping, multigenerational tale of a French Algerian woman, her family's past, and the legacies of colonialism Naïma’s family comes from Algeria, but ...

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Quand on lit Aristote dans son texte, on est frappé par la fréquence du retour d'expressions comme " la science de la chose ", " à partir de la chose el ...

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A major historical novel from "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation)—an eerie, unforgettable story of possession, power, and loss in ...

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Mélanges de philosophie, d'histoire, de morale et de littérature ...

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Older Brother is the poignant story of a Franco-Syrian family whose father and two sons try to integrate themselves into a society that doesn't offer them ...

The extraordinary new novel from Nordic Council Literature Prize-winning Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir Iceland in the 1960s. Hekla always knew she wanted to be ...

Tallahassee, Florida, 1960s: Brought up by his loving, strict and clear-sighted grandmother, Elwood Curtis is about to enroll at the local black college. B ...

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"Know My Name is a gut-punch, and in the end, somehow, also blessedly hopeful." --Washington Post Universally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, and an insta ...

In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life ...

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From their initial online encounter, through a shared appreciation of erotic literature, to the highly explicit and shocking story of their brief relations ...

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In August 2002, Mike Horn set out on a mission that bordered on the impossible: to travel 12,000 miles around the globe at the Arctic Circle - alone, again ...

One of the Best Books of the Year: Parade, Glamour, Real Simple, Refinery29, Yahoo! Lifestyle. "A startlingly modern love story and a mesmerizing portrait ...

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Winner of the 2018 Prix Goncourt, this poignant coming-of-age tale captures the distinct feeling of summer in a region left behind by global progress. Augu ...

Tranlsated from the French by George Miller A dazzling and ultimately hopeful exploration and analysis of our disordered and volatile post-9/11 world by on ...

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