thelonious indiscrets chroniques billancourt

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1 review
Enis Batur, Fidan Ferda

Actes Sud, 2002

Gorgeous texts !
I've read this book more than once, both in Turkish and French, and wouldn't hesitate a second to recommend it to anyone who belives in words, as legacy from Babel!

Siegfried. Coédition Opéra de Marseille

2 reviews
Richard Wagner

Actes Sud, 1999

Another great gift from Sabor
I've read much of Rudolph Sabor's Wagner material, and I want to be sure he knows, from and ardent student of the composer, just how much I love and appreciate all his work. But these four books from Phaidon on the Ring cycle are masterpieces. The extraordinarily elegant presentation not only invites you into another world, but Sabor's clarification and mythic understanding of Wagner goes far ...

Beltenebros

1 review
Antonio Munoz Molina, Claude Bleton

Actes Sud, 1993

Una gran novela de intriga, estilo film noir.
Esta novela, que se desarrolla en varias ciudades Europeas, nos relata la historia Andrade, un hombre comlejo y atormentado que debe cumplir una dificil mision.... Magnificamente escrita, esta novela demuestra que Antonio Munoz Molina es indiscutiblemente uno de los maximos representantes de la narrativa moderna espanola.

Daido Moriyama

4 reviews
Araki Nobuyoshi

Actes Sud, 2004

Daido Moriyma's Stray Dog
As someone who saw Moriyama's fantastic show at the SF MOMA I had to buy this book. Great gritty black and white photos examining post WWII Japanese Culture. Includes a fairly extensive intro detailing his influences and his career.

Loxandra

2 reviews
Maria Iordanidou

Actes Sud, 1999

modern greek gems
There are not enough stars for this absolutely lovely book and its sequel, "Vacations in the Caucasus". I fear, however, that no translation can do justice to the original, since much of its charm is in the vocabulary, dialect and the phraseology of the period. In "Loxandra", Maria Iordanidou, then in her sixties, wrote a brilliant, loving portrait of her grandmother and ordinary life of a well ...

Le prophète

2 reviews
Khalil Gibran

Actes Sud, 2001

Tres inspiré ce monsieur
Le passage sur les enfants m'a particulierement bouleversé. A l'instar de son personnage, cet auteur a dû faire énormment de méditation tout au long de sa vie, pour livrer un message, à la fois aussi simple et aussi bouleversant. Une inspiration divine qui lui a certainement permis de transcender sa condition humaine. A lire un mot à la fois.

Without warning

3 reviews
Seton Smith

Actes Sud, 1998

At last, a well-printed, definitive book of the work of FW.
As a long time admirer of Francesca Woodman's photography, I was thrilled that this long-overdue retrospective monograph was printed. There have been a few other books on her work, but the work shown in them seemed limited and edited to support the critical essays that were also part of those books. This new book is printed very well, and gives the viewer a more well-rounded view of what the ...

Kafka

3 reviews
David Zane Mairowitz, Robert Crumb

Actes Sud, 1996

Crumb meets Kafka...meets Crumb
Kafka was a complex man whose genius is inseparable from his huge neuroses. So is Robert Crumb. Put the two together, as this book does, and the upshot is a book in which the distinction between author Crumb and subject Kafka tends to dissolve. The book is just as much about the one as the other. It's no mistake that Crumb is drawn (sorry for the bad pun) to Kafka. At one level, the book ...

Millenium: Vol 1

2 reviews
Stieg Larsson

Actes Sud, 2006

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
This book started its life with the Swedish title "Men who hate women" but was published in English as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - available from Amazon in July. The title Millenium is for a trilogy by Stieg Larsson, which was published in Sweden after he died of a massive heartattack in 2004 (according to Wikipedia.) The series is about one journalist/owner of a magazine called ...

Cimabue

1 review
Luciano Bellosi

Actes Sud, 1998

Bellosi on Cimabue
Bellosi's review of Cimabue's works is both informative and intresting. He clearly identifies the arguments surrounding many of the attribution problems associated with Cimabue's work as well as providing a detailed and accurate analysis of both the iconographical and narrative content of Cimabue's various paintings. At no time does Bellosi's analysis seem trivial and it is indeed supplemented ...

Blue Monk: Un portrait de Thelonious : essai (Serie "Musique")

1 review
Jacques Ponzio

Actes sud, 1995

Availability
Yes, I'm the author, so I'm not the right guy to post a review. That was just to let you know the book has been reprinted and is now fully available Thanks

Chroniques de Billancourt

1 review
Nina Berberova

Actes Sud, 1994

written by a tough woman
This remarkable book written by a Russian woman who escaped Bolshevik Russia is imbued with the feel of what it's like to live as an immigrant who has lost everything except their inner strength that allows them to survive anything that life throws at them, sometimes. But in many cases, as this series of interlinked short stories set in a working class neighboorhood of Paris where the immigrants ...

Les Malheurs de Sophie - Les Petites Filles modèles - Les Vacances

1 review
Comtesse de Ségur, Marie-Antoinette de La Torre

Actes Sud, 1997

Les malheurs de Sophie - by la Comtesse de Segur
This book, and all others by the same author, is a must for little girls between the ages of 6 and 11. I enjoyed them when I was a youngster , as did my own mother ! I have three little nieces who are being taught French and we introduced them to this book and others by La Comtesse de Segur..they fell in love too! Written hundreds of years ago, they have lost none of their charm or appeal. ...

Diotime et les lions

1 review
Henry Bauchau

Actes Sud, 1997

A beautiful gem
It is a pity that this small book does not have (at least in Amazon) an English translation. It is really a small masterpiece of imaginative writing, rooted in Classical Greek literature. It is a tale of the initiation of a small girl who lives in one of the very Ancient tribes of pre-classical Greece. In the savage ritual of her tribe, in order to advance to womanhood, Diotime has to have her ...

Les bijoux indiscrets

1 review
Denis Diderot, Colas Duflo

Actes Sud, 1995

a great book
This is of the first book you need to read to understand Diderot's Philosophy. Like the Nun, Jacques le fataliste and others "tales" this give an account of his philosophy in the world. The style ( a oriental tale ) and the look over persian culture, resemble the Persian Letters, by Montesquieu, and, is at the same time, a great critic of the French culture of his time. You will need that, if ...

Falstaff

1 review
Giuseppe Verdi

Actes Sud, 1999

Verdi isn't all that funny
Verdi's two Comedies philosophically, and emotionally, frame his long career. While writing Il Giorno di Regno, his first comedy, and only his second opera, the rather naive young Verdi lost his first wife and their children in a fire. Needless to say, the opera wasn't very funny, and the audience booed it off the stage. Verdi quit Opera...he thought for good. However, his self-imposed exile ...

Festen

1 review
Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov

Actes Sud, 2003

You must own this!
I am waiting at the gate for this script to be made available. I want to read it so so badly! I saw this on London's West End two nights before it was taken down. I have never seen a better piece of theatre! This director of the show REALLY new what they were doing but an amazing cast and story also helped. Please, check this thing out as soon as you can.

J'apprends l'allemand

1 review
Denis Lachaud

Actes Sud, 2000

Un roman sur les relations franco-allemandes
Dans ce roman, l'auteur fait le portrait d'Ernst Wommel, jeune garçon de 13 ans, qui habite à Paris avec son frère Max et ses parents d'origine allemande. Le lecteur suit le cours de son existence jusqu'à ce qu'il atteigne 30 ans. On apprend ainsi avec quel mépris Ernst est traité par ses camarades de classe, on le suit pendant son premier voyage en Allemagne lors d'un échange scolaire où il se ...

Le Médecin personnel du roi

1 review
Per Olov Enquist, Lena Grumbach, ...

Actes Sud, 2002

SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK...
Having read "Lost Queen" by Norah Lofts, which book was a work of historical fiction that covered much of the same story told by this author, there could not be two books more different, though both are riveting. The major difference is in the writing style. The book by Ms. Lofts is superlative and tells an interesting, intriguing, though somewhat superficial story about the love triangle ...

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