Paul Binding Ordre des livres (chronologique)

The dramatic and moving reimagination of the characters from Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea, set in a 19th-century town that harbors many secrets After a ferocious storm shipwrecks young Norwegian sailor Hans Lyngstrand in the English Channel near Dengate, aspiring journalist Martin Bridges takes a job at the local newspaper. When Hans moves into Martin's boardinghouse to convalesce and Martin interviews the young sailor for the paper, it upends Martin's otherwise uneventful world. Hans tells him of the shipwreck--and of his encounter with a vicious sailor vowing to seek revenge, who Hans believes may still be alive. So begins a complex friendship between the two young men that will cause Martin to reexamine his relationships with everyone around him. In The Stranger from the Sea, the backstories Paul Binding creates for the characters of Ibsen's classic The Lady from the Sea unfold in tandem with the secret romances, rivalries, and heartaches of a seemingly unremarkable town. The result is a lyrical and quietly captivating novel that will mesmerize readers from its opening pages.

Dulcie Mainwearing is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her friend Viola is besotted by the alluring Dr Aylwin Forbes, so surely it isn't prying if Dulcie helps things along? Aylwin, however, is smitten by Dulcie's pretty young niece. And perhaps Dulcie herself, however ridiculous it may be, is falling, just a little, for Aylwin. Once life's little humiliations are played out, maybe love will be returned, and fondly, after all.

Yukio Mishima naît en tant qu'écrivain à partir de l'éclatant succès que reçut Confession d'un masque. Raconté à la première personne, le roman est indéniablement d'inspiration autobiographique. Le jeune garçon qui s'y livre souffre de se sentir différent des autres. Chétif, il est en outre issu d'un milieu moins favorisé que ses condisciples. Plus tard, fasciné par les représentations morbides et cruelles, il découvre qu'il en tire un plaisir allant jusqu'à la jouissance. Mais sa différence fondamentale et douloureuse réside dans son penchant homosexuel. Au Japon, sans doute plus que nulle part ailleurs, le besoin de se conformer à la normalité tourne parfois à l'obsession. Craignant le regard des autres, il feint de se sentir attiré comme eux par les jeunes filles de son école, la honte qui l'étreint est telle qu'il veut y croire lui-même. Esclave des conventions, il s'éprend de Sonoko la soeur d'un de ses amis, et fait naître un amour artificiel pour satisfaire son besoin de conformisme, mais ce jeu de dupes ne sera que vaines souffrances. --Lenaïc Gravis et Jocelyn Blériot