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Kubrick 10 reviews
Michel Ciment
Calmann-Levy, 1980
DEFINITIVE, INDEED!
I am glad Mr. Ciment waited until Kubrick's oeuvre was completed before updating what is, indeed, the very last word on this very unique artist's films. Everything is here from the first edition which was out-of-print for quite awhile plus the films that were made after. With Stanley Kubrick's death we now have the very best study of the themes, techniques and recurring visions of a very ...
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Papa Hemingway21 reviews
A. E. (Aaron Edward) Hotchner
Calmann-Lévy, 1999
A prized possession.
For those new to Hemingway, I would recommend reading a wiki review of Ernest Hemingway, and then "A Moveable Feast" to hear in his own words his thoughts on the myriad cast of characters he met around the world. If possible (but highly unlikely, due to its rarity) I would follow that with Charles Fenton's "The Apprenticeship of Ernest Hemingway." I would then read "The Hemingway Women" ...
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Massacre à la chaîne
Willy Voet
Calmann-Lévy, 1999
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Babel 17 22 reviews
Samuel R. Delany, M. Perrin
Calmann-Lévy, 1973
6 stars out of 5
This is THE work of genius. As far as I am concerned, there is no other masterpiece that surpasses the ingenuity of this book.
How could the author have possibly written this in the 60s? His vision of the multi-lingual future of the humanity and its effect on the human (and machine) behaviours is almost psychic. I would not have understood any of this, had I read it in the 60s.
The book is ...
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Flashman92 reviews
Fraser, Georges McDonald, ...
Calmann-Lévy, 1971
Excellent read
Only recently discovered GMF. Flashman is a great read. Hard to put down. I look forward to reading more Flashman adventures.
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Pour l'amour de Judith
Meir Shalev
Calmann-Lévy, 1996
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Vendetta9 reviews
Michael Dibdin
Calmann-Lévy, 1994
Vendetta
A very gripping, somewhat dark, mystery. Thankfully, Aurelio Zen has a cat's nine lives. It's a very atmospheric novel, and I plan to read all the Michael Dibdin books I can get my hands on.
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Fiasco 22 reviews
Stanislas Lem
Calmann-Lévy, 1994
What if alien life doesn't want to be contacted?
Almost all of Lem's science fiction centers around one or two variations of one theme. The theme is "What is intelligence?" and the two variations are "What would robotic life be like?" and "What would a truly alien intelligence be like?" "Fiasco" is in the latter category. An expedition from Earth approaches and attempts to contact an alien race that does everything it can to avoid being ...
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Bone Collector289 reviews
J. Deaver
Calmann-Lévy, 2000
The One That Started It All
Warning: Once you read this novel, you will be hooked. I devoured every other Lincoln Rhyme novel after reading the Bone Collector. The only problem I have discovered is that Mr. Deaver cannot write fast enough.
To anyone who enjoys a deliciously complicated character base along with amazing plot twists, you have found yourself a winner. I find myself wishing I could meet the people in this ...
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Spider22 reviews
Patrick Mc Grath
Calmann-Lévy, 2002
A harrowing novel
In "Spider", Mr McGrath tells the harrowing story of a schizophrenic character called Dennis Cleg. He suffers from hallucinations - visual, auditory and olfactory - and from body delusions, he is physically regressed and has ideas of persecution. At the beginning of the novel, set in 1957, he lives in a shabby house along with other tenants, a "cargo of dead souls" as he calls the place, the ...
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Thais
Anatole France
Calmann-Levy, 1923
Hardcover French edition 1923 with marbled boards and half-calf dark green leather at spine - marbled endsheet
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Ode a l'homme qui fut la France: Sur Charles de Gaulle ; suivi de, Malraux, conquerant de l'impossible
Romain Gary
Calmann-Levy, 1997
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Lettres sur la nature humaine à l'usage des survivants
Dany-Robert Dufour
Calmann-Lévy, 1999
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Viva! Zappa: Un alchimiste delirant : mode d'emploi
Dominique Chevalier
Calmann-Levy, 1985
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Nelida: Roman
Daniel Stern
Calmann-Levy, 1987
A scandalous bestseller of mid-nineteenth-century France, translated here for the first time into English.
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Archimondain jolipunk : Confession d'un jeune homme à contretemps, du cynisme à l'innocence
Camille de Toledo
Calmann-Lévy, 2002
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Adjani aux pieds nus, journal de "La Repentie"
Michèle Halberstadt
Calmann-Lévy, 2002
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Des amis haut placés
Donna Leon
Calmann-Lévy, 2003
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