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Mountain R

By: Jacques Jouet

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In an unnamed country, the President of the Republican Council, wanting to "do something big," strikes upon the idea of building a 1,500-meter high mountain as an inspirational monument to national greatness. Construction of the mountain will reduce unemployment, attract hordes of tourists, and the idea can even be exported for sale to other countries. Mountain R relates the rise and fall of this insane project through the eyes of those involved over several decades: the President whose double-talk sets the plan in motion, a worker who, years later, tells his daughter about the disastrous consequences of the never-completed mountain, and an author commissioned to write a novel about the project. An incisive satire about the dangers of half-witted government officials who use political rhetoric to manipulate the patriotism of their constituents, Mountain R is a humorous yet disturbing allegory quite appropriate to our times.

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1564783308

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My Beautiful Bus

By: Jacques Jouet

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My Beautiful Bus

By: Jacques Jouet

Poetic, comic, obsessed with minutiae, My Beautiful Bus is a welcome dose of serious frivolity at the expense of the contemporary novel. Based on an actual bus trip across France taken by Oulipo-member Jacques Jouet in the late '80s, his fictional reconstruction of the experience twenty years later focuses not so much on the scenery as on the possibilities offered an author by the eponymous vehicle and its occupants. With detours through everything from Puss in Boots to Pascal's maxims, we are introduced to each eccentric passenger as they climb aboard (one, for example, claims to have a corpse in his luggage), every character bringing us one step further into Jouet's imaginative universe: their conversations, preoccupations, reactions, and possibilities taking their places as elements of a fiction in the narrator's mind. In the final pages it becomes clear that the book itself is a sort of bus, boarded impulsively and with no fixed destination in mind, and that it has carried its readers to places they could not have imagined.

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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1564788326

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9781564788320

Upstaged (French Literature Series)

By: Jacques Jouet

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Upstaged (French Literature Series)

By: Jacques Jouet

A stranger takes over a role in a play, leaving the rest of the cast to ponder his motives. Two minutes into the second act, there is a knock on Nicolas Boehlmer’s dressing-room door, just as he’s smoking his last cigarette before having to go back on stage . . . and, without thinking, he says,“Come in,” still in character. He quickly finds himself bound, gagged, and stripped by a man who appears to be his mirror image: costumed in the same wig, make-up, and clothes. Nicolas is powerless to prevent his usurper from going out and playing his role—with increasingly ridiculous consequences. Is this “upstaging” the act of a depraved amateur? Sabotage by a rival? A piece of guerrilla theater? A political statement? Whatever the cause, Nicolas and his fellow actors soon find their play—and their lives—making less and less sense, as the parts they play come under assault by this irrational intruder.

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1564786579

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Mountain R

By: Jacques Jouet

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Savage

By: Jacques Jouet

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Savage

By: Jacques Jouet

Alluding to Jean-Paul Sartre's famous study of Gustave Flaubert, Jouet's recent book asks, "What, at this point in time, can we make of a man?" As a member of the Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littrature Potentielle), a group of French writers and mathematicians who use constrained writing techniques for inspiration, Jouet's literary output is often characterized as avant-garde. This is a work of fiction based upon the life of painter Paul Gauguin. The prose is a first-person stream of consciousness that follows Paul, a clothing designer, in search of inspiration. Traveling among the people of France's colonies, Paul adopts a radical approach to design and, in the process, unravels his own sense of civility among the "savages." While his ideas expand artistically, his body and mind deteriorate physically from disease. In the end, the reader wonders whether Paul gained insight at the expense of sanity or vice versa. Often fascinating and brilliant, this book contains much of value for the patient reader, but it is not for everyone. Recommended for those interested in subversive and experimental fiction.Joshua Finnell, McNeese State Univ. Lib., Lake Charles, LA Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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1564785351

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My Beautiful Bus

By: Jacques Jouet

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Savage

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Essential Pépin

More Than 700 All-Time Favorites from My Life in Food

By: Jacques Pépin

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Essential Pépin

More Than 700 All-Time Favorites from My Life in Food

By: Jacques Pépin

For the first time ever, the legendary chef collects and updates the best recipes from his six-decade career. Featuring DVD clips demonstrating every technique a cook will ever need. In his more than sixty years as a chef, Jacques Pépin has earned a reputation as a champion of simplicity. His recipes are classics. They find the shortest, surest route to flavor, avoiding complicated techniques. Now, in a book that celebrates his life in food, the world’s most famous cooking teacher winnows his favorite recipes from the thousands he has created, streamlining them even further. They include Onion Soup Lyonnaise-Style, which Jacques enjoyed as a young chef while bar-crawling in Paris; Linguine with Clam Sauce and Vegetables, a frequent dinner chez Jacques; Grilled Chicken with Tarragon Butter, which he makes indoors in winter and outdoors in summer; Five-Peppercorn Steak, his spin on a bistro classic; Mémé’s Apple Tart, which his mother made every day in her Lyon restaurant; and Warm Chocolate Fondue Soufflé, part cake, part pudding, part soufflé, and pure bliss. Essential Pépin spans the many styles of Jacques’s cooking: homey country French, haute cuisine, fast food Jacques-style, and fresh contemporary American dishes. Many of the recipes are globally inspired, from Mexico, across Europe, or the Far East. In the DVD clips included in the ebook, Jacques shines as a teacher, as he demonstrates all the techniques a cook needs to know. This truly is the essential Pépin.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0547607385

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9780547607382

L'adieu au reg

By: Jacques DISSLER

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L'adieu au reg

By: Jacques DISSLER

Ce roman fait suite à Aurore du soir, dont le personnage principal personnage est Félix Cholet, un chirurgien de renom qui a dû renoncer à son métier pour cause de maladie. Les lecteurs l'ont vu changer d'existence, l'ont retrouvé dans le sud marocain à la tête d'un terrain de camping né de ses mains loin dans les pistes, au pied d'un vieux fort abandonné: Fort Bouj'Akrif. C'est dans ce site aux bornes de l'impossible qu'est née sa fille Zahra, l'héroïne de Adieu au reg. Elle va y passer une enfance en marge, à quatre heures d'Agadir. Les études en collège vont l'éloigner de ses parents, de son désert, lui faire découvrir une autre vie.Comment va-t-elle réagir ? C'est tout l'objet de ce roman riche en rebondissements.

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Lulu.com

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1291543848

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9781291543841

Routledge Revivals: The Violence of Language (1990)

By: Jean-Jacques Lecercle

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Routledge Revivals: The Violence of Language (1990)

By: Jean-Jacques Lecercle

First published in 1990, this book argues that any theory of language constructs its ‘object’ by separating ‘relevant’ from ‘irrelevant’ phenomena — excluding the latter. This leaves a ‘remainder’ which consists of the untidy, creative part of how language is used — the essence of poetry and metaphor. Although this remainder can never be completely formalised, it must be fully recognised by any true account of language and thus this book attempts the first ‘theory of the remainder’. As such, whether it is language or the speaker who speaks is dealt with, leading to an analysis of how all speakers are ‘violently’ constrained in their use of language by social and psychological realties.

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1315514672

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Aurore du soir

By: Jacques DISSLER

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Aurore du soir

By: Jacques DISSLER

Félix Cholet a toujours été un homme de challenge, et le resterajusqu'à son dernier jour. Grand chirurgien, et passionné de moto,dans son travail comme dans son loisir il ne saurait connaître delimite. Armé de son bistouri, il a l'audace de la nouveauté, tenteavec succès l'impossible. Sa moto l'entraîne dans des randonnéeséchevelées où le risque ne compte pas. La découverte du grand Sudmarocain est pour lui une révélation, le point de départ denouveaux défis, et quelques années plus tard le début d'unenouvelle existence.

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1291543783

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Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry

By: Jacques Maritain

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Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry

By: Jacques Maritain

The classic work on the sublime interplay between the arts and poetics This book explores the rich and complex relationship between art and poetry, shedding invaluable light on what makes each art form unique yet wholly interdependent. Jacques Maritain insists on the part played by the intellect as well as the imagination, showing how poetry has its source in the preconceptual activity of the rational mind. As Maritain argues, intellect is not merely logical and conceptual reason. Rather, it carries on an exceedingly more profound and obscure life, one that is revealed to us as we seek to penetrate the hidden recesses of poetic and artistic activity. Incisive and authoritative, this illuminating book is the product of a lifelong reflection on the meaning of artistic expression in all its varied forms.

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Princeton University Press

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0691251835

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The Survival of the Jews in France, 1940-44

By: Jacques Semelin

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The Survival of the Jews in France, 1940-44

By: Jacques Semelin

Between the French defeat in 1940 and liberation in 1944, the Nazis killed almost 80,000 of France's Jews, both French and foreign. Since that time, this tragedy has been well-documented. But there are other stories hidden within it-ones neglected by historians. In fact, 75% of France's Jews escaped the extermination, while 45% of the Jews of Belgium perished, and in the Netherlands only 20% survived. The Nazis were determined to destroy the Jews across Europe, and the Vichy regime collaborated in their deportation from France. So what is the meaning of this French exception? Jacques Semelin sheds light on this 'French enigma', painting a radically unfamiliar view of occupied France. His is a rich, even-handed portrait of a complex and changing society, one where helping and informing on one's neighbours went hand in hand; and where small gestures of solidarity sat comfortably with anti-Semitism. Without shying away from the horror of the Holocaust's crimes, this seminal work adds a fresh perspective to our history of the Second World War.

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Oxford University Press

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0190057998

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9780190057992

Notebooks

By: Jacques Maritain

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Notebooks

By: Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain (18 November 1882 - 28 April 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher. Raised as a Protestant, he converted to Catholicism in 1906. An author of more than 60 books, he helped to revive St. Thomas Aquinas for modern times and is a prominent drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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St Bede's Publications

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0873430506

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9780873430500

L'amnésique

By: Jacques SIMON

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L'amnésique

By: Jacques SIMON

Libanais, il devient amnésique de manière violente et tragique sur fond de guerre israélo-libanaise de 2006. Sans le savoir il va alors prendre la place de son sosie, un lieutenant israélien, epoux de la très belle Myriam et père de deux enfants. Il vivra une expérience incroyable qui va transformer sa vie, surtout à compter du jour où un évènement fortuit, inopiné lui fera très brutalement retrouver sa mémoire.La force de tous les sentiments, respect, amour, tendresse, vont-ils parvenir à s'exprimer dans ces deux camps antagonistes et pourtant issus d'un même père d'après la Bible ?

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1445797046

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9781445797045

Fast Food My Way

By: Jacques Pépin

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Fast Food My Way

By: Jacques Pépin

Easy, everyday dishes with a French twist from the multiple James Beard Award-winning chef, “a great teacher and truly a master technician” (Julia Child). In this companion volume to the PBS series, Jacques Pépin shows you how to create great-tasting dishes ranging from stunning salads such as Tomato and Mozzarella Fans to Supreme of Chicken with Balsamic Vinegar and Shallot Sauce to his breathtaking Almond Cake with Berries, all special enough for company, yet easy enough for those weekday evenings when you have no time. Fast food Jacques’s way involves no compromises in taste but saves you hours in the kitchen. His Instant Beef Tenderloin Stew, for instance, not only is far faster to make than traditional versions, but tastes brighter and fresher. With concise, clear directions, Jacques shares the secrets of his kitchen. He teaches you how to season a salmon fillet perfectly and cook it in a low oven, right on the serving platter. You’ll learn how to make a satisfying homemade vegetable soup in seconds, a baked potato in half the usual time, and a succulent roast that takes minutes, not hours, to prepare. He also shows you how to create elegant meals from convenience foods: a bean dip that will keep guests coming back for more, silky soups, and caramelized peaches made from canned peaches. With Jacques Pépin Fast Food My Way at your side, the best food is always the simplest. “French cooking, Pépin reminds us, is not just a matter of technique; it’s a matter of chic.”—Publishers Weekly

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0547347529

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9780547347523

Un bouquets de bleuets et de coquelicots

By: Jacques DISSLER

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Un bouquets de bleuets et de coquelicots

By: Jacques DISSLER

Au lendemain de la première guerre mondiale, la France, conformément au traité de Versailles, occupe la rive gauche du Rhin. Une humiliation d'autant plus forte pour les vaincus que les troupes envoyées sur le terrain sont constituées essentiellement de régiments de tirailleurs sénégalais que les Allemands dans leur grande majorité considèrent comme des sous-hommes et presque des bêtes.Le roman embrasse une période allant de 1880 à 1945, situe son intrigue essentiellement au Sénégal et en Allemagne. Un parcours semé d'embûches pour Simon Bobo dont le destin est lié à sa peau noire.

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1471779920

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La Nouvelle HŽlo•se

Julie, Or the New Eloise

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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La Nouvelle HŽlo•se

Julie, Or the New Eloise

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An epistolary novel. The novel's subtitle points to the history of Héloïse d'Argenteuil and Peter Abelard, a medieval story of passion and Christian renunciation. The novel was put on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.

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Penn State Press

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0271044942

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9780271044941

The Language of the Self

The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis

By: Jacques Lacan

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The Language of the Self

The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis

By: Jacques Lacan

Lacan's commentaries on Freud had revolutionary implications for philosophy and literary criticism. He held that if the unconscious exists, it functions linguistically rather than symbolically. Includes a study that explains his work and relates it to the context of contemporary thought.

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JHU Press

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0801858178

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9780801858178

La vengeance de Mehdi Baadi

By: Jacques DISSLER

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La vengeance de Mehdi Baadi

By: Jacques DISSLER

La guerre d'Algérie, une guerre qui s'est longtemps refusée à dire son nom, demeure trois générations plus tard un sujet hautement polémique. Le sort réservé aux supplétifs, qu'ils soient harkis, mokhaznis, ou policiers ruraux, a fait couler beaucoup d'encre. Le harki Mehdi Baadi, personnage de fiction, a été le héros malheureux d'une Algérie à feu et à sang. En dépit des événements il a continué de croire en la France. Il l'a rejointe en soixante-deux dans des conditions tragiques, connu la vie des camps où il s'est retrouvé entassé avec des milliers de coreligionnaires en attente d'un toit, d'un emploi, d'un retour à la dignité...

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129128169X

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9781291281699

The Great Fire of London

A Story with Interpolations and Bifurcations

By: Jacques Roubaud

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The Great Fire of London

A Story with Interpolations and Bifurcations

By: Jacques Roubaud

Part novel and part autobiography, The Great Fire of London originates in the author's determination to come to terms with the sudden death of his young wife Alix, whose absence haunts every page. Paralyzed by grief, and having failed to complete the novel he had wanted to write, Jacques Roubaud begins a book about that very failure. He submerges his love and his sorrow in meditations that range from despair to playfulness, taking slow and painful steps toward surviving his great loss."--BOOK JACKET.

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1564783960

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