Christine Le Boeuf Book order (chronological)

Comment pense le corps ? Qu'est-ce que l'esprit ? En quoi se distingue-t-il du corps ? L'esprit peut-il être réduit à des neurones dans le cerveau ou non ? Dans son essai, Siri Hustvedt aborde le vieux problème non résolu de l'esprit et du corps et souligne à quel point les différentes réponses à cette question ont une signification profonde pour notre compréhension de nous-mêmes. Avec son approche multidisciplinaire, Hustvedt montre à quel point des hypothèses injustifiées sur le corps et l'esprit ont déformé et confondu la pensée des neuroscientifiques, généticiens, psychiatres, psychologues évolutionnistes et chercheurs en intelligence artificielle. Dans cet essai érudit, Hustvedt introduit le lecteur à diverses théories intégratives du corps concernant la conscience, qui modifient le débat actuel sur l'esprit et le corps. Elle souligne également qu'aucune idée n'est intouchable. "Le doute", écrit-elle, "n'est pas seulement une expression de l'intelligence ; c'est une nécessité."

Out of the blue, your husband of thirty years asks you for a pause in your marriage to indulge his infatuation with a young Frenchwoman. Do you: a) assume it's a passing affair and play along b) angrily declare the marriage over c) crack up d) retreat to a safe haven and regroup? Mia Fredricksen cracks up first, then decamps for the summer to the prairie town of her childhood, where she rages, fumes, and bemoans her sorry fate as abandoned spouse. But little by little, she is drawn into the lives of those around her: her mother and her circle of feisty widows; her young neighbour, with two small children and a loud, angry husband; and the diabolical pubescent girls in her poetry class. By the end of the summer without men, wiser though definitely not sadder, Mia knows what she wants to fight for and on whose terms.

The dazzling new novel by the author of the international bestseller, WHAT I LOVED, about the secrets and ghosts that haunt families from one generation to the next

Poet and student Adam Walker meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent, seductive girlfriend, Margot, sending Adam into a perverse triangle that leads to a shocking act of violence that will alter his life.

En première lecture, ce livre est un essai sur le film de James Whale (1935), ses origines (le célèbre roman de Mary Shelley), l'écriture de son scénario, le choix de ses acteurs, la relation avec la censure, etc. Mais, plus profondément, c'est un essai sur la création, sur les relations du créateur avec sa création, sur la prédominance de l'acte de création sur tout autres considérations philosophiques, religieuses ou morales. C'est aussi un essai sur le mal, sur la tentation de puissance, sur le vertige des interdits. A sa première apparition, le visage du monstre est présenté par Manguel comme l'une des icônes de notre temps, au même titre que le visage de Greta Garbo... Cela fait partie des nombreuses réussites de ce livre provoquées par ces rapprochements inattendus où nous entraînent l'intelligence et la culture de Manguel. La comparaison, du point de vue de la création pure, entre la Fiancée créée par Frankenstein et la Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires créée par Duchamp est un grand moment d'analyse et de jubilation ! Enfin, et d'une façon assez classique dans la littérature et le cinéma fantastiques, la monstruosité n'est peut-être pas là où on le penserait. Le monstre n'aspire qu'à une harmonie que la société des hommes " normaux " lui refuse. L'instant de bonheur que connaît le monstre en compagnie d'un vieillard aveugle est une scène magnifiquement décrite...

From a "literary original" (The Wall Street Journal) comes a book that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence. Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident at his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget: his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill's story grows increasingly intense, and what he is desperately trying to avoid insists on being told.

Série d'éloges qui sont autant de variations sur les sujets les plus variés : la Bible, la librairie, l'horreur, le plaisir, les animaux, le blasphème ou la France.

An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written, labels and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white photgraphs and four piles of paper. Then a middle-aged woman called Anna enters and talks of pills and treatment, but also of love and promises. Who is he? What is he doing here? When did he arrive and how long will he remain? With any luck, time will tell us all.

Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and bewildering events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality. Paul Auster's mesmerizing eleventh novel reads like an old-fashioned ghost story. But there are no ghosts in this book - only flesh-and-blood human beings, wandering through the haunted realms of everyday life. Oracle Night is a narrative tour de force that confirms Auster's reputation as one of the boldest, most original writers at work in America today.

From the author of "The Enchantment of Lily Dahl" comes a powerful and heartbreaking novel that chronicles the epic story of two families, two sons, and two marriages.

Mr Bones is the canine sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant but troubled poet-saint from Brooklyn. Together they sally forth in search of Willy's beloved high-school teacher, who years ago knew him in his previous incarnation as William Gurevitch, son of Polish war refugees.

A small town's response to the inexplicable loss of its children in a school bus accident.

Iris Vegan, a graduate student living alone and impoverished in New York, encounters four strong characters who fascinate and in different ways subordinate her: an inscrutable urban recluse who employs her to record the possessions of a murdered woman; a photographer whose eerie portrait of Iris takes on a life of its own; an old woman in hospital who tries to claim a remnant of the ailing Iris; and a professor she has an affair with. An exploration of female identity in an age when the old definitions - as some man's daughter/wife/mother - no longer apply, fuelled with eroticism and a sense of menace.

«E se le cose fossero andate in un altro modo?». Domande che chiunque si pone quando riflette sulla Storia. Roy Lewis esplora questa tematica in un romanzo, utilizzando lo stesso approccio vivace e illuminante che ha caratterizzato il suo lavoro sulla preistoria. Immagina un supercomputer che elabora la vittoria del socialismo anziché del capitalismo nella rivoluzione del 1848 in Europa. Il risultato è un racconto in cui la regina Vittoria abdica nel 1849 a causa della rivolta dei cartisti. Si instaura un regime socialista che, pur mantenendo la monarchia, si concentra su lavoro e uguaglianza. Tuttavia, questo socialismo bucolico si rivela un lento disastro, poiché non riesce a gestire l'impatto della tecnologia, che altera continuamente i rapporti sociali. I socialisti, incapaci di adattarsi, preparano così il terreno per una nuova rivoluzione. Ma cosa accade quando l'«ultimo re socialista» diventa complice di questa rivolta? La sua storia, narrata da lui stesso, è indimenticabile: un sovrano gentile e amabile, che avrebbe preferito insegnare matematica, si trova a guidare una controrivoluzione per rovesciare il proprio regime, esautorando se stesso. La vera storia dell'ultimo re socialista è stata pubblicata in Inghilterra nel 1990.

Offers the author's personal meditation on fatherhood. This title reveals his memories and feelings after the death of his father.