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My Fighting Life

My Fighting Life

Georges Carpentier

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven ...

The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven ...

Thomas Morris

Alain Carpentier, David H. Adams and Farzan Filsoufi, Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery (Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier, 2010), v 110 . A. Carpentier et al., 'A new reconstructive operation for correction of mitral and tricuspid ...
Aujourd'hui L'Egypte

Aujourd'hui L'Egypte

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2nd Georges Sabbagh Publication of the Association of Friends of the Art of the Painter Sabbagh A.F.O.S.A. GEORGES SABBAGH In the format of a pocket-book, the AFOSA published its analysis of Georges Sabbagh 's production, with a ...
The Kingdom of This World: A Novel

The Kingdom of This World: A Novel

Alejo Carpentier

In this orgy of voodoo, race hatred, madness, and erotomania, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of King Henri Christophe's black regime, which was built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down French rule ...
L'Oeil

L'Oeil

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Georges Sabbagh: PARIS Georges Sabbagh Une très belle exposition en prélude au centenaire du peintre Georges Sabbagh va contribuer à faire redécouvrir un artiste de tout premier plan. Né à Alexandrie en 1 887, mort à Paris en 1 951 ...
The Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition

The Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition

James J. Pancrazio

"Through a logic of fetishism, Carpentier's characters and narrators are always at the crossroads: they are self and other, Latin American and European, African and American, contrite and unrepentant, masculine and feminine.
Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home

Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home

Roberto González Echevarría

Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home, first published in 1977 and updated for this edition, covers the life and works of the great Cuban novelist, offering a new perspective on the relationship between the two.
Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery E-Book

Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery E-Book

Alain Carpentier

Jean-Noël Fabiani, Sylvain Chauvaud, John Relland, Patrick Perier, Didier Loulmet, and Gilles Dreyfus for providing support in periodsof doubt;Jean-Pierre Marino, Serban Mihaileanu, and AlainBerrebi forsharing with me the secrets of ...
Chirurgia Ricostruttiva Della Valvola: Dall'analisi della ...

Chirurgia Ricostruttiva Della Valvola: Dall'analisi della ...

Alain Carpentier

Questo libro di Alain Carpentier rappresenta una guida autorevole sulle tecniche ricostruttive della valvola mitrale.
Georges Sabbagh

Georges Sabbagh

Georges Sabbagh

L'Art des uitnées 30, Paris, éditions d an Somogy. 1997. — Bréon (Emmanuel). Cassou (Jean) et Dorival (Bernard). Georges Sabbagh et ses amis peintres de lu Bretagne, catalogue d'exposition, Perros-Guirec, 1088. — Bréon (Emmanuel).
Georges

Georges

Alexandre Dumas

Long out of print in America, Georges can now be appreciated as never before and added to the greatest works of this immortal author. From the Hardcover edition.
Three Authors of Alienation: Bombal, Onetti, Carpentier

Three Authors of Alienation: Bombal, Onetti, Carpentier

M. Ian Adams

Bombal, Onetti, Carpentier M. Ian Adams. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following sources for permission to use quotations and selectionsinthis volume: Juan CarlosOnetti,for quotations from El pozo,Tan triste como ella,La vida ...
World Authors Series: Georges Bataille

World Authors Series: Georges Bataille

Roland A. Champagne

This book presents a brief biography of Georges Bataille's life and critical interpretation and discussion of his works.
Georges Franju

Georges Franju

Kate Ince

Georges Franju' is the fullest study to date of this little-known French director, the co-founder of the Cinematheque francaise, and the first book on him in English since 1967.
Things: A Story of the Sixties

Things: A Story of the Sixties

Georges Perec

Two trailblazing novels by Georges Perec, Things: Jerome and Sylvie, the young upwardly mobile couple, lust for the good life.
Dictionnaire des pseudonymes

Dictionnaire des pseudonymes

Georges d' Heylli

Linois (Georges). Diverses publications parues sous ce nom ont pour auteur le littérateur et journaliste Charles de Batz-Trenquelléon, né en 1835. Ce même écrivain, qui appartient à la presse monarchique de la Gironde, a fait représenter à ...
La Boutique Obscure: 124 Dreams

La Boutique Obscure: 124 Dreams

Georges Perec

afterword by Daniel Levin Becker Georges Perec's bibliography is a wonderland of invention and a sterling model of creative discipline. His facility with language and mastery of structure—see, respectively, A Void, a 311-page whodunit written  ...
Victimhood and Vulnerability in 21st Century Fiction

Victimhood and Vulnerability in 21st Century Fiction

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Taking my lead from two previous articles to which I am deeply indebted, written by Georges Letissier and Susana Onega, who herself replies to Georges Letissier, I would like to pursue and develop Onega's interpretation of “the little stranger,” ...
Lettre ouverte à Christiane Taubira, Garde des Sceaux

Lettre ouverte à Christiane Taubira, Garde des Sceaux

Georges FENECH

" Georges Fenech, ancien magistrat, interpelle d'emblée Christiane Taubira, sur un ton direct et combatif.
Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the Arts

Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the Arts

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Eds. Véronique Léonard-Roques and Jean-Cristophe Valtal. Clermont-Ferrand: PUF Blaise Pascal. Chapter 12 Acéphale/Parsifal Georges Bataille contra Wagner Claudine Frank Street Apophasis in Representation: Georges Bataille 257.
Premier citoyen du cinéma

Premier citoyen du cinéma

Georges Patrick Langlois

Photographer Hugues Langlois, Georges's son, devoted entire days to tracking down some 100 photographs and helped to shape the French edition, which was published in September 1986. Without Hugues Langlois's dedication, ...
Les Cahiers de la nouvelle

Les Cahiers de la nouvelle

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Georges Letissier and Catherine Man explicate implicit or missing subtexts - what Bertuccelli would call the "inexplicit" - which bring meaning to the works studied, allowing them to be more significantly "decoded". Georges Letissier argues that ...
Surrealism in Egypt: Modernism and the Art and Liberty Group

Surrealism in Egypt: Modernism and the Art and Liberty Group

Sam Bardaouil

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993. Assawi. “Ma qalla wa dall.” AlAhrām. March 29, 1934. Association pour la fidélité à l'œuvre de Georges Sabbagh. Georges Sabbagh: les secrets d'un faceàface avec la peinture. Paris: AFOSA ...
Criminels récidivistes : peut-on les laisser sortir ?

Criminels récidivistes : peut-on les laisser sortir ?

Georges Fenech

Rapporteur de cette loi sur la rétention de sûreté, Georges Fenech décrit les nouveaux dispositifs aujourd'hui en vigueur pour identifier plus précocement ces psychopathes, mieux évaluer leur capacité de nuire et tout mettre en ...

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