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20 reviews
Pascal

Nathan, 1999

Religion of the Heart and of the Head
Before actually reading "Pensees," I knew Blaise Pascal and his "Pensees" only from snippets of quotes such as, "The heart has its reason of which reason knows nothing" and from "Pascal's Wager": better to risk believing in God and living with Him for all eternity and being wrong, then risk not believing in God and living apart from Him in all eternity and because you were wrong. Having read ...

Huis Clos

11 reviews
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nathan, 1991

L'ENFER C'EST LES AUTRES ...
Dans L'HUIS CLOS l'auteur nous raconte l'histoire de 3 personnages condamnés "pour l'éternité" à partager l'intimité d'un sordide chambre d'hôtel. Fusillés dans des mystérieuses circonstances, une femme de monde infanticide, une lesbienne meurtrière et un intellectuel révolutionnaire découvrent qu'ils sont en enfer par le seul pouvoir que chacun d'entre eux jette sur l'autre... (= L'ENFER C'EST ...

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

3 reviews
Molière

Nathan, 1995

Wonderful
I read this in my French class... the play is hilarious, well worth reading, and if you can't read French, you should read a translation or go see the play! It's funny, and although it is like many of Molière's other plays, it's a nice deviation from the normal play.

La Peste

5 reviews
Albert Camus

Nathan, 1995

THE NOVEL "POR EXCELENCIA" FROM CAMUS
Having submitted this review in spanish and not having it posted, I'll try again in english....... Camus reached fame with his elaborations about the concept of the absurd (the purposeless search of the meaning of existence in a universe void of any)in three works: The Stranger, a novel; Caligula, a teathrical opus; and The Myth of Sisyphus, a recopilation of philosophical essays. In his second ...

Litterature: Textes Et Documents
H Mitterand

Nathan, 1988

Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean-François Braunstein

Nathan, 1999

Le Misanthrope

11 reviews
Moliere

Jeux Nathan, 1991

Hysterical
You might not think a play in verse written in the 17th century would be accessible and entertaining today, but this one's hilarious. Somehow the formal rhyming couplets make everything funnier. Get the Donald Frame translation - I've seen some others that weren't nearly as good.

Tartuffe

1 review
Moliere

Jeux Nathan, 1991

Moliere takes aim at the hypocrisy of neoclassical France
I often taught Moliere's "Tartuffe" as an example of the neoclassical form of comedy in contrast to the romantic comedy represented by Shakespeare. We would read "Twelfth Night," a play set in a faraway exotic land where the point was simply romance, and then turn to "Tartuffe," where the contemporary society becomes one of the primary concerns of the comic dramatist. During the neoclassical ...

Pratiques de la communication écrite: Principes généraux ; Ecrits professionnels ; Outils d'expression avec ...
Luc Pinhas

Nathan, 1998

Balises
Corneille

Nathan, 1992

Edited and translated by John C. Lapp, this edition of Le Cid for performance and study includes an introduction, which interprets the contemporary political, social, and romantic themes that give this tragedy its complex, interwoven structure. Also included are a selected bibliography and a list of the principal dates in the life of Corneille.

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