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An Impossible Love

By: Christine Angot

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An agonizing turbulence lies just beneath the surface of this skillfully wrought novel by the French phenom who caused a sensation with the publication of her novel Incest. Reaching back into a world before she was born, Christine Angot describes the inevitable encounter of two young people at a dance in the early 1950s: Rachel and Pierre, her mother and father. Their love is acute. It twists around Pierre's decisive judgments about class, nationalism, and beauty, and winds its way towards dissolution and Christine's own birth. Though it's Pierre whose ideas are most often voiced, it's Rachel who slowly comes into view, her determination and patience forming a radiant, enigmatic disposition. Equal parts subtle and suspenseful, An Impossible Love is an unwavering advance toward a brutal sequence of events that mars both Christine's and Rachel's lives. Angot the author carves Angot the narrator out of this corrosive element, exposing an unmendable rupture, and at the same time offering a portrait of a striking, ineradicable bond between mother and daughter.

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Archipelago

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1953861040

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9781953861047

An Impossible Love

By: Christine Angot

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Incest

By: Christine Angot

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Incest

By: Christine Angot

A daring novel that made Christine Angot one of the most controversial figures in contemporary France recounts the narrator's incestuous relationship with her father. Tess Lewis's forceful translation brings into English this audacious novel of taboo. The narrator is falling out from a torrential relationship with another woman. Delirious with love and yearning, her thoughts grow increasingly cyclical and wild, until exposing the trauma lying behind her pain. With the intimacy offered by a confession, the narrator embarks on a psychoanalysis of herself, giving the reader entry into her tangled experiences with homosexuality, paranoia, and, at the core of it all, incest. In a masterful translation from the French by Tess Lewis, Christine Angot's Incest audaciously confronts its readers with one of our greatest taboos.

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Archipelago

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0914671871

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9780914671879

Incest

By: Christine Angot

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The Traditional Teaching of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahedo Church

Faith and Spirituality

By: Christine Chaillot

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The Traditional Teaching of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahedo Church

Faith and Spirituality

By: Christine Chaillot

Christine Chaillots new book, The Traditional Teaching of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahedo Church: Faith and Spirituality, presents a topic that is little if at all known outside Ethiopia, even in Christian circles. Moreover, it is a much neglected field in the wider study of African education. It is a teaching based on ancient texts and books, taught orally to the students who will become the future clergy and who will then share their knowledge with the faithful in Church life. The studies of the different disciplines are pursued at different schools and at different levels, in liturgy, theology with commentaries of books (Old and New Testaments, books of the Church fathers and monks) as well as composition of poems (qenes) and iconography. All this teaching presented in the present volume is deeply related to the faith and spirituality of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. This teaching is a unique intangible cultural heritage. One wonders, however, what its future will be in the context of the modern educational methods and social attitudes that have evolved in Ethiopia over the last half-century.

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250

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LIT Verlag

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3643853432

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9783643853431

Stepping-Stones

A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne

By: Christine Desdemaines-Hugon

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A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne

By: Christine Desdemaines-Hugon

“The next best thing to actually seeing the prehistoric cave art of southern Franc[e] . . . A rapturous guide through five major Ice Age sites” (Archaeology). The cave art of France’s Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as well as symbols of all kinds, are fascinating touchstones in the development of human culture, demonstrating how far humankind has come and reminding us of the ties that bind us across the ages. Over more than twenty-five years of teaching and research, Christine Desdemaines-Hugon has become an unrivaled expert in the cave art and artists of the Dordogne region. In Stepping-Stones she combines her expertise in both art and archaeology to convey an intimate understanding of the “cave experience.” Her keen insights communicate not only the incomparable artistic value of these works but also the near-spiritual impact of viewing them for oneself. Focusing on five fascinating sites, including the famed Font de Gaume and others that still remain open to the public, this book reveals striking similarities between art forms of the Paleolithic and works of modern artists and gives us a unique pathway toward understanding the culture of the Dordogne Paleolithic peoples and how it still touches our lives today. “Her vivid descriptions help readers visualize the Cro-Magnon man or woman painting the beautiful bison, horses, mammoths, and other symbols. [A] fine reading experience.” —Library Journal

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389

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Yale University Press

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0300159064

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9780300159066

L'inceste

By: Christine Angot

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L'inceste

By: Christine Angot

Toujours m'appuyer sur des choses annexes, faire des rapprochements, depuis que j'écris, il y a toujours eu d'autres voix, d'autres textes, d'autres choses, un autre angle sous lequel j'essaie de me montrer. Moi et autre chose, toujours. Il faut que je compte sur moi maintenant, le plus proche, le plus réel, pas grand choses, avec l'inceste je ne peux pas me sentir grand chose, le corps, la vie, le lieu où je vis, la comédie que je me joue, dans mes angoisses mes crises de larmes, mes coups de fil, mon intelligence, etc., toutes mes limites, être juste sur ma limite, m'appuyer dessus, comme à la rampe qui monte chez l'avocat. Que tout le monde la voie, ma nullité, mon rien, mon minimum d'être humain, le tout petit écrivain que je suis.

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123

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J'ai Lu

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2290200360

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9782290200360

Divine Albertine

By: Christine Davenier

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Divine Albertine

By: Christine Davenier

Albertine est amoureuse et elle n'a plus qu'une idée en tête, plaire, plaire à Léon, par tous les moyens !

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2877675297

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An Impossible Love

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Incest

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The Traditional Teaching of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahedo Church

The Traditional Teaching of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahedo Church

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Stepping-Stones

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L'inceste

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Divine Albertine

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