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L'écrivain et la villeSéries

Cette série plonge au cœur vibrant des métropoles, explorant les liens complexes entre les âmes créatives et leurs décors urbains. Suivez les parcours d'écrivains, d'artistes et de rêveurs alors que leurs vies s'entremêlent avec le pouls et le calme de la ville. Chaque récit capture l'atmosphère unique et les défis auxquels sont confrontés ceux qui recherchent l'inspiration et le sens au milieu des paysages de béton.

Gebrauchsanweisung für Florenz
Ghost town
The Flaneur
Prague Pictures
30 Days in Sydney
Florence

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  • Florence

    • 192pages
    • 7 heures de lecture
    3,3(12)Évaluer

    Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American visitors? (At the turn of the century, the Anglo-American population numbered more than thirty thousand.) Why have men and women fleeing sex scandals traditionally settled here? What is it about Florence that has made it so fascinating--and so repellent--to artists and writers over the years? Moving fleetly between present and past and exploring characters both real and fictional, Leavitt's narrative limns the history of the foreign colony from its origins in the middle of the nineteenth century until its demise under Mussolini, and considers the appeal of Florence to figures as diverse as Tchaikovsky, E.M. Forster, Ronald Firbank, and Mary McCarthy. Lesser-known episodes in Florentine history--the moving of Michelangelo's David, and the construction of temporary bridges by black American soldiers in the wake of the Second World War--are contrasted with images of Florence today (its vast pizza parlors and tourist culture). Leavitt also examines the city's portrayal in such novels and films as A Room with a View, The Portrait of a Lady and Tea with Mussolini.

    Florence

  • 30 Days in Sydney

    A Wildly Distorted Account

    3,7(29)Évaluer

    Forget the limpid, dreamlike views we saw on the television during the Olympics, the paradise of hedonism represented by Bondi Beach and the rest; Sydney is a savage city, as violent in its setting and its weather as it is in its history. This is a brief and heartfelt account of an expatriate writer revisiting his past, examining as he does so the paradox of a blessed country with a bloody, accursed past. Above all, this book is about Australian mateship, and it is the biographies, jokes and stories of Peter's friends and contemporaries that provide the backbone.

    30 Days in Sydney

  • Prague Pictures

    • 256pages
    • 9 heures de lecture
    3,5(8)Évaluer

    Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, "devotee of the stars and cultivator of the spagyric art", who in the late 1500s summoned alchemists and magicians from all over the world to his castle on Hradèany hill, it has been a place of mystery and intrigue. Wars, revolutions, floods, the imposition of Soviet communism, and even the depredations of the tourist boom after the Velvet Revolution of 1989 could not destroy the unique atmosphere of this beautiful, proud, and melancholy city on the Vltava. John Banville traces Prague's often tragic history and portrays the people who made it: the emperors and princes, geniuses and charlatans, heroes and scoundrels. He also paints a portrait of the Prague of today, reveling in its newfound freedoms, eager to join the European Community and at the same time suspicious of what many Praguers see as yet another totalitarian takeover. He writes of his first visit to the city, in the depths of the Cold War, and of subsequent trips there, of the people he met, the friends he made, the places he came to know.

    Prague Pictures

  • The Flaneur

    • 224pages
    • 8 heures de lecture
    3,8(37)Évaluer

    A flaneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles through city streets in search of adventure and fulfillment. Edmund White, who lived in Paris for sixteen years, wanders through the streets and avenues and along the quays, into parts of Paris virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many Parisians. In the hands of the learned White, a walk through Paris is both a tour of its lush, sometimes prurient history, and an evocation of the city's spirit. The Flaneur leads us to bookshops and boutiques, monuments and palaces, giving us a glimpse the inner human drama. Along the way we learn everything from the latest debates among French lawmakers to the juicy details of Colette's life.

    The Flaneur

  • Ghost town

    • 256pages
    • 9 heures de lecture
    3,6(236)Évaluer

    From the war of Independence, via the turbulence of the nineteenth century to the aftermath of 9/11: three startling visions of New York combine in a book of extraordinary scope.

    Ghost town

  • Gebrauchsanweisung für Florenz

    • 192pages
    • 7 heures de lecture
    2,0(1)Évaluer

    Hier schuf Michelangelo seinen David, hier schrieb Dante die »Göttliche Komödie«, hier regierte das berühmte Fürstengeschlecht der Medici. Und hierher zieht es Künstler und Schriftsteller seit Jahrhunderten: D.H. Lawrence wandelte mit Frieda durch die Boboli-Gärten, Henry James blickte von San Miniato auf die Stadt hinab, und in E.M. Forsters Roman mietete Lucy ihr »Zimmer mit Aussicht« im Schatten von Giottos Campanile. Stendhal war von den Kunstschätzen so überwältigt, daß man noch heute vom »Stendhal-Syndrom« spricht, wenn in den überfüllten Uffizien Touristen reihenweise umkippen. David Leavitt ist als Student nach Florenz gekommen und geblieben. Dies ist eine Liebeserklärung an seine Wahlheimat.

    Gebrauchsanweisung für Florenz

  • Prague pictures. Portraits of a city

    4,3(12)Évaluer

    Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, 'devotee of the stars and cultivator of the spagyric art', who in the late 1500s summoned alchemists and magicians from all over the world to his castle on Hradcany hill, it has been a place of mystery and intrigue. Wars, revolutions, floods, the imposition of Soviet communism, or even the depredations of the tourist boom after the 'Velvet Revolution' of 1989, could not destroy the unique atmosphere of this beautiful, proud and melancholy city on the Vltava. John Banville traces Prague's often tragic history and portrays the people who made it, the emperors and princes, geniuses and charlatans, heroes and scoundrels, and paints a portrait of the Prague of today, revelling in its newfound freedoms, eager to join the European Community and at the same time suspicious of what many Praguers see as yet another totalitarian takeover. He writes of his first visit to the city, in the depths of the Cold War, when he engaged in a spot of art smuggling, and of subsequent trips there, of the people he met, the friends he made, the places he came to know.

    Prague pictures. Portraits of a city