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."

From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved and The Summer Without Men, a dazzling collection of essays written with Siri Hustvedt's customary intelligence, wit and ability to convey complex ideas in a clear and lively way. Divided into three sections - Living, which draws on Siri's own life; Thinking, on memory, emotion and the imagination; and Looking, on art and artists - the essays range across the humanities and science as Siri explores how we see, remember, feel and interact with others, what it means to sleep, dream and speak, and what we mean by 'self'. The combination offers a profound and fascinating insight into ourselves as thinking, feeling beings.

Mia is forced to reexamine her life when her husband puts their marriage on "pause" after thirty years. She returns to the prairie town of her childhood, and is drawn into the lives of those around her.

"When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note from an unknown woman among their late father's papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. The Sorrows of an American tells the story of the Davidsen family as brother and sister uncover its secrets and unbandage its wounds in the year following their father's funeral." "Returning to New York from Minnesota, the grieving siblings continue to pursue the mystery behind the note. While Erik's fascination with his new tenants and emotional vulnerability to his psychiatric patients threaten to overwhelm him, Inga is confronted by a hostile journalist who seems to know a secret connected to her dead husband, a famous novelist. As each new mystery unfolds, Erik begins to inhabit his emotionally hidden father's history and to glimpse how his impoverished childhood, the Depression, and the war shaped his relationship with his children, while Inga must confront the reality of her husband's double life."--BOOK JACKET.

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.Three different narrators tell the story, as it travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from New York to Paris and to a remote Caribbean island in a story of unbridled sexual hunger and a relentless quest for justice.With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us to the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, authorship and identity to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.

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.

Each day an old man awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. A middle-aged woman called Anna enters and talks of pills and treatment, but also of love and promises. Who is this Mr Blank, and what is his fate? What does Anna represent from his past - and will he ever make sense of the clues that arise?

Recovering from a near-fatal illness, Sidney Orr, a thirty-four-year-old novelist, purchases a mysterious blue notebook from a Brooklyn stationery shop and is drawn into a bizarre world of eerie premonitions and baffling events.

This is the story of two men who first become friends in 1970s New York, of the women in their lives, and of their sons, born the same year. Both Leo Hertzberg, an art historian, and Bill Weschler, a painter, are cultured, decent men, but neither is equipped to deal with what happens to their children - Leo's son drowns when he's 12, while Bill's son Mark grows up to be a delinquent, and the acolyte of a sinister, guru-like artist who spawns murder in his wake. Spanning the hedonism of the eighties and the chill-out nineties, this multi-layered novel combines a plot of mounting menace with a deeply moving account of familial relationships and a superbly observed portrait of an artist, set against the backdrop of a society reaching new depths of depravity in its frenetic quest for the next fashion, drug and thrill.

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 young, impoverished graduate student from the Midwest, finds herself entangled with four powerful but threatening characters as she tries to adjust to life in New York City. Mr. Morning, an inscrutable urban recluse, employs Iris to tape-record verbal descriptions of objects that belonged to a murder victim. George, a photographer, takes an eerie portrait of Iris, which then acquires a strange life of its own, appearing and disappearing without warning around the city. After a series of blinding migraines, Iris ends up in a hospital room with Mrs. O., a woman who has lost her mind and memory to a stroke, but who nevertheless retains both the strength and energy to torment her fellow patient. And finally, there is Professor Rose, Iris's teacher and eventually her lover. While working with him on the translation of a German novella called The Brutal Boy, she discovers in its protagonist, Klaus, a vehicle for her own transformation and ventures out into the city again--this time dressed as a man. Siri Hustvedt's The Blindfold is "...a work of dizzying intensity. . .eloquent and vivid." - Don DeLillo.

«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.