Les chroniques de Esta

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Man in Furs

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‘‘From Divine Punishment to Punishment Divine, indeed. “You consider love – and above all, woman – to be something hostile, something you struggle against in vain, but whose power is a sweet torture to you, a rousing cruelty”. …. Gaz, Austria, 1872.. In front of the intrigued audience of a...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 1 Anastasia

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‘‘A dark childhood, a dream face, a rising star, a life from hell. In 1926, a mother from rural Kansas views cinema through Rudolf Valentino’s fiery gaze and romantic eyes, and dreams of fame for her young daughter. Hollywood roles would get both of them out of misery. Talking of which they...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 4 Metropolis

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‘‘Loulou est morte. Tuée par le Syndrome M. Le Dr. Fromm avait déjà repoussé les limites de la notion de pulsion de mort du Dr F., décrivant la nécrophilie – l’attirance sexuelle pour les cadavres - comme manifestation extrême. Mais pour expliquer les hallucinations de mécanismes perçues...‘‘ Lire la suite

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British Ice

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‘‘1984. Harrison Fleet has been given the job from hell, and not just because it freezes over. He has been appointed commissioner to the British Artic Territory. “Its exact location cannot be disclosed due to an ongoing political dispute, but it is part of the Queen Elizabeth Islands. Since...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 4 Stern

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‘‘« - Le macabre. Les ténèbres. L’envers du décor. Là est notre quête. ». « - Oh, par pitié .. ». Elijah Stern est un croque-mort bien peu ordinaire, même pour une Nouvelle-Orléans de 1883 si haute en couleurs que seule la distinction sauve d’une disparition honteuse dans la masse...‘‘ Lire la suite

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Guardians of the Louvre

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‘‘Jirō Taniguchi was probably the most Western-orientated of all the Japanese mangaka. His field of predilection was intimate accounts of beauty and inner feelings. “If my manga have something Asian, it is perhaps because I try to render as close as possible to the daily reality of the...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 3 Metropolis

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‘‘Tu vis, tu aimes. Tu es un être humain, je l’ai su dès que je t’ai vu ». Gabriel ne comprit pas immédiatement la révélation de Loulou, la croyant folle. A chaque fois qu’il posait les yeux sur elle, n’avait-il pas lui-même l’impression de mourir ? Il savait qu’elle était faite pour lui...‘‘ Lire la suite

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Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

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‘‘« The true heroes of Tiananmen will forever remain the student hunger strikers as well as all the nameless people of Beijing who stood up to the rifles and the tanks, to protect the students and defend a great cause. As the story of one who survived, this book is first and foremost a...‘‘ Lire la suite

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After the Spring: A Story of Tunisian Youth

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‘‘When one day a people desire to live, then their night will begin to fade away, their chains break and fail”, Aboul-Qacem Echebbi’s poem The Will to Live. Chokri Belaid was a Tunisian lawyer and an opposition leader whose assassination in February 2013 sparked violent demonstrations and...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 4 SHI

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‘‘« They say the sun never sets on the same sorrow twice. What does the sun know about sorrow? I loved your mother. And no one can take that love away from me. For in the end, we are nothing but this, the embers of the great loves that have consumed us.”. Kita and Jay are bound by true love...‘‘ Lire la suite

T 2 Kabuki

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‘‘We wrote Femme Fatale about somebody who was once and has since been committed to an institution for being one”, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground. This perplexing sentence could have been written for Kabuki, saved in extremis from the Noh but kept alive for sensitive information purposes....‘‘ Lire la suite

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Django: Hand on Fire

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‘‘Rarely has an artist been as worshipped as Django Reinhardt. He is said to have influenced every major popular-music guitarist in the world. Extraordinary role model of resilience, he was able to recapture and then surpass his mastery on the guitar after the fire accident that nearly...‘‘ Lire la suite