Thierry Laget Books
October 2, 1959
Thierry Laget is a novelist whose works delve into the depths of memory and literary history. His writing is characterized by a profound engagement with cities, art, and the very act of writing, often leading to meditative reflections on literature and life. Laget's novels and essays explore the interplay between reality and fiction, seeking out beauty in everyday observations and artistic creations.
Le guide de l'abcdaire.Il explique comment comprendre Proust en regroupant les notices de l'abcdaire selon trois perspectives. Un code de couleurs indique le genre de chaque notice :- L'uvre : les romans, leurs personnages, les essais.- La biographie : la famille, les lieux, les amis et relations.- Le contexte : les arts, la situation historique.A partir de la lecture de ces notices, et grce aux renvois signals par les astrisques, le lecteur voyage comme il lui plat dans l'abcdaire.L'abcdaire.Par ordre alphabtique, on trouvera dans ces notices tout ce qu'il faut savoir pour entrer dans l'univers de Proust. L'information est complte par les clairages suivants :- le commentaire dtaill des diffrentes parties d'A la recherche du temps perdu ;- des encadrs qui expliquent les choix thmatiques ou stylistiques du romancier.Proust racont.En tte d'ouvrage, le rcit de la vie et le sens de l'uvre sont restitus dans leur dveloppement historique. Cette synthse reprend l'articulation du guide de l'abcdaire en dveloppant chacun de ses thmes.
At convent school, a girl acquires romantic notions of a lover who will live for her alone. She marries a kind but dull country doctor and discovers that "This life of hers was as cold as an attic that looks north; and boredom, quiet as the spider, was spinning its web in the shadowy places of her heart." Emma Bovary's quest for escape from the emptiness of her bourgeois existence leads to infidelity and financial extravagance, and Gustave Flaubert's powerful and deeply moving examination of her moral degeneration is universally regarded as a landmark of nineteenth-century fiction. Flaubert was brought to trial by the French government on the grounds of this novel's alleged immorality but narrowly escaped conviction. Madame Bovary remains a touchstone for literary discussions of provincial life and adultery as well as a summit of prose art, a pioneering work of realism that forever changed the way novels are written. This complete and unabridged edition features the classic translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling.
