The Stone World
- 240pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Depicts an American boy's childhood in Mexico, ensconced in a world comprised of communist European exiles, local union activists, street children and avant-garde artists like Frida Kahlo




Depicts an American boy's childhood in Mexico, ensconced in a world comprised of communist European exiles, local union activists, street children and avant-garde artists like Frida Kahlo
Autopsie d'un meurtre. La Promesse fait l'anatomie d'une idée fixe. Tout en perpétuant la tradition du roman policier en tant que genre intellectuel, où la vie ressemble à un problème arithmétique, et où la solution de l'énigme s'obtient par un raisonnement logique, Durrenmatt place sur l'échiquier une pièce lunatique, double et trouble : son détective a résolu le crime par l'intelligence ; pour mettre la main sur le coupable, il choisit la folie comme méthode et son raisonnement est simple : " Je ne sais rien de l'assassin. Il m'est impossible de le rechercher. Ce que je peux chercher par contre, c'est sa prochaine victime. " Le détective mettra toute son énergie au service de son idée fixe, faisant de sa vie entière le décor d'une pièce - d'un piège ? - qui n'attend plus que le principal acteur, le criminel recherché. Linda Lê.
A new translation of Prometheus bound with extant fragments of the lost Prometheus plays.
Joel Agee, the son of James Agee, was raised for twelve years in East Germany, where his stepfather, the novelist Bodo Uhse, was a member of the privileged communist intelligentsia. This is the story of how young Joel failed to become a good communist, becoming instead a fine writer. "A wonderfully evocative memoir. . . . Agee evoked for me the atmosphere of postwar Berlin more vividly than the actual experience of it—and I was there." —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times "One of those rare personal memoirs that brings to life a whole country and an epoch." —Christopher Isherwood "Twelve Years consists of a series of finely honed anecdotes written in a precise, supple prose rich with sensual detail." —David Ghitelman, Newsday "By turns poetic and picturesque, Agee energetically catalogues his expatriate passage to manhood with a pinpoint eye and a healthy American distaste for pretension. . . . Huckleberry Finn would have . . . welcomed [him] as a soulmate on the raft." —J. D. Reed, Time "A triumph. . . . Unfettered by petty analysis or quick explanations, a story that is timeless and ageless and vital." —Robert Michael Green, Baltimore Sun