Les chroniques de Esta

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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

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T 1 SHI

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‘‘“In the beginning, there was fury”. Shi is the Kanji symbol of death. It is also the signature of a criminal organisation, a nebula solely made up of women, a secret society of angry mothers and revenge-seeking petticoat vigilantes. In modern day London, Lionel Barrington, the CEO of a...‘‘ Lire la suite

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Big Black: Stand at Attica

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‘‘***** 9-13 September 1971. Did N.Y. State Governor Rockfeller feel threatened in his political ambitions? When he ordered the violent retaking of the Attica prison D-Ward - encouraged and approved by Richard Nixon whose paranoia made him drunkenly utter “you see, it’s the Black business”...‘‘ Lire la suite

T 2 The Summer of Irreverence

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‘‘Each of us has a unique conception of freedom. And it is not easy to be confronted with the other's”. After Edward Weston’s first departure, the time of doubt had arisen for Tina: “I put way too much art into my life to put life into my art”. When Edward came back in 1925, sales were low,...‘‘ Lire la suite

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Fragments of Femininity

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‘‘“Heaven on earth can be found between a woman’s breasts, on the back of a horse or between the pages of a book”. Fragments of feminity wonderfully depicts portraits of 7 women… No, let’s rewind this. Actually, it is about wonderful ordinary women and their relationships to their own...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 1 The Summer of Irreverence

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‘‘“We were living an enchanted parenthesis, a kind of endless summer, between two bloody revolutions”. Tina Modotti, “The Photographer whose life was as epic as her pictures”, has recently written María Isabel Carrasco Cara Chards in Culturacolectiva.com. Beautiful and advocating free love...‘‘ Lire la suite

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Elle s'appelait Sarah

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‘‘1942, Opération « Vent Printanier », le début de la politique industrielle d’extermination des Juifs parallèlement menée par les nazis dans plusieurs pays européens. Le Gouvernement de Vichy acquiesce à la demande allemande, et négocie ce qui sera par la suite connu comme la Rafle du Vél...‘‘ Lire la suite