Barbara Bray Livres

Au cours d'une de ses promenades en Haute-Provence, Jean Giono a un jour rencontré un personnage extraordinaire : un berger solitaire et paisible qui plantait des arbres, des milliers d'arbres. Ainsi, au fil des ans, un homme seul allait rendre vie à une contrée aride et désolée. Jean Giono nous fait découvrir une merveilleuse aventure pleine de tendresse et de générosité que Willi Glasauer illustre avec la même sensibilité.

Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time. She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust himself said to her, "You know everything about me." Her reminiscences of her employer present an intimate picture of the daily life of a great writer who was also a deeply peculiar man, while Madame Albaret herself proves to be a shrewd and engaging companion.

In the early 1970s Harold Pinter joined forces with director Joseph Losey and Proust scholar Barbara Bray to develop a screenplay of Proust's masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past. Pinter took more than a year to conceive and write the screenplay and called the experience "the best working year of my life." Although never produced, Harold Pinter's The Proust Screenplay is considered one of the greatest adaptations for the cinema ever written.With fidelity to Proust's text, the screenplay is an extraordinary re-creation by one of the leading playwrights of our time. It is, in its way, a unique collaboration between two extraordinary writers united across more than half a century and two different cultures by a special concern for time and memory.

Recounts the conflicts surrounding Lacan's break with the institutional framework of Freudian orthodoxy, the popularity of Lacanianism in the 1960s and 1970s, and its encounters with the women's movement

Presents an account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, this book shows the lives of a cast of village characters.

Selon A. Rinaldi, l'auteure fait preuve d'une "sentimentalité baignant dans le grotesque" et "pastiche sa propre grandiloquence émiettée jusqu'au délire". Pour M. Braudeau, dans ce "nouvel opuscule sur ses amours, l'amour", M. Duras fait preuve d'un "sens du paradoxe provocant" et propose des "trouvailles" dont la "fausse simplicité précieuse" plaît à certains lecteurs. Duras, "magicienne pythonisse"? La critique québécoise féminine est favorable, sensible au "blues" de Duras

Professor Ilya Zbarski mummified Lenin two months after his death to maintain the Soviet founder's body in perpetuity. Between 1924 and the fall of communism in 1991, hundreds of millions of visitors paid their respects to the embalmed bodies of Lenin and later, Stalin. This text reveals the story of Zbarski, his family and of those who worked in the mausoleum laboratory. Lenin's body was plunged into a secret solution based on glycerine and potassium acetate. This story, unthinkable except in a totalitarian regime, is also that of the burgeoning Soviet Union and those who, disregarding Stalin and his growing antisemitic paranoia, believed that working in the shadows of the mausoleum would protect them forever. Abandoned by the State since 1991, the laboratory can only survive through the patronage of the "nouveaux riches" and the Russian mafia dynasties. The text includes both archival and contemporary photographs.