In this stunning collection, an acclaimed Magnum photographer captures the essence of Belgium through his unique perspective. The work showcases the country's diverse landscapes, culture, and people, blending artistry with a deep sense of place. Each photograph tells a story, reflecting the photographer's personal connection to his homeland while highlighting its beauty and complexity. This visual journey invites readers to explore Belgium beyond the surface, revealing its rich heritage and vibrant life.
Wright Morris (1910-1998) wrote thirty-three books, including The Home Place, also available in a Bison Books edition, and Field of Vision, which won the National Book Award. Charles Baxter is a professor of English at the University of Michigan and the author of numerous works, including The Feast of Love.
In his universally-praised book, Harrison has delivered a masterpiece--a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and the possibility of finding redemption in unlikely places.
In 1941, Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer, was commissioned by a Los Angeles bookseller to write an erotic novel for a dollar a page. Under the Roofs of Paris (originally published as Opus Pistorum) is that book. Here one finds Miller’s characteristic candor, wit, self-mockery, and celebration of the good life. From Marcelle to Tania, to Alexandra, to Anna, and from the Left Bank to Pigalle, Miller sweeps us up in his odyssey in search of the perfect job, the perfect woman, and the perfect experience.
Quatrième de couverture : Je suis Zenzontli, Gardien de la Maison Obscure des Aztex. Durant des siècles, ces stupides Europiens ont kru en la destruction de nos bibliothèques sakrées, en la disparition totale de notre civilisation au profit de leurs anciennes diktatures théocratiques. Mais moi, je sais qu'en vérité nos dieux malfaisants ont eu raison des Espagnols, un peuple aujourd'hui asservi, et dans les abattoirs des usines Farmer John - où je trucide des porcs huit heures par nuit au dézingueur électrique - j'ai reçu mes ordres de l'Aîné du Clan en personne : « Zenzón, au nom de l'Imperium Socialiste Aztex, tu partiras demain avec ton unité Jaguar et reprendras Stalingrad. » Alors, dans l'avion qui survole le Caucase, assis à côté de Maxtla, Gardien de la Maison Brumeuse, je pense à ma femme que j'ai oublié d'embrasser. « Avec Atomik Aztex, Sesshu Foster est à l'histoire ce que Hunter Thompson fut au journalisme : un punk survitaminé qui se contrefout de la réalité, a fortiori historique, pour délivrer un message sans concession sur notre société consumériste, impérialiste et sanglante. » David Foster Wallace
The Sunday Times of London has called Jim Harrison -a writer with immortality in him- and The Washington Times has written that -Jim Harrison ought to be considered a national treasure.- In The Beast God Forgot to Invent , this American master gives us three novellas that sparkle with the generous humanity and seasoned wisdom of his vision. These are stories of humans and beasts, of culture and wildness, of men driven crazy by longing and of men who dream they are becoming bears. In -The Beast God Forgot to Invent,- a man near the end of his life becomes part of an odd band of caretakers for a younger man whose brain has been damaged in a motorcycle accident, the civilization shaken out of him. Watching over this unmanned man, the hero becomes mindful of his own mortality and excess of civility. In -Westward Ho,- Brown Dog, a Michigan Indian, wanders the wilds of Los Angeles, tracking the ersatz Native activist with whom he fled the police in Michigan and who-s now disappeared with his bearskin. Ogling girls, sleeping in the botanic garden, and working as a driver to a drunk screenwriter, he eventually comes face-to-face with his ex-friend and with the difference between the world he-s been visiting and the world to which he-s going home. And in -I Forgot to Go to Spain,- an aging -alpha canine,- author of three dozen Bioprobes-hundred page disposable biographies-takes dinner with a woman to whom he was married for nine days in his overheated youth. Reminding him of his youthful dream of living in Spain as a poet, she forces him to examine who he-s become, whether he owns his life or it him. Infused with Jim Harrison-s sly humor and quiet wisdom, these are stories with the expansive grace of the American landscape, urban and rural. This book is a resonant journey through the geography of masculinity from a writer in his prime.
New in the Photofile series, a mini-monograph on Belgian photographer Harry
Gruyaert. Born in Antwerp in 1941, Harry Gruyaert was a pioneer of European
colour photography in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1972, he created TV Shots, a
series of images created by turning the dial on a television set at random and
photographing the screen. Later he travelled the world, seeking out different
kinds of light and exhibiting a particular fascination with borders,
interfaces and incongruous juxtapositions. A member of Magnum Photos since
1982, he describes colour as ‘a means of sculpting what I see ... it’s the
emotion of photography.’ Most recently he has begun to explore the
experimental freedom offered by digital photography. Autonomous, non-narrative
and often witty, Gruyaert’s images are complex encounters with colour and
light. About the Author Brice Matthieussent is an award-winning translator of
over 200 novels from English into French, including the writings of Jim
Harrison, for which he was awarded the 2013 Prix Jules Janin from the Académie
française. He currently teaches the history of contemporary art and aesthetics
at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Marseille.
