Florence Noiville

« Certains revoient leur vie défiler à l'approche de la mort. D'autres dans un cabinet d'analyste. Brusquement, c'est dans une étude de notaire que j'ai cru tout comprendre. » Ce roman est l'histoire d'une donation entre vifs — entre écorchés vifs, même —, qui ne se termine pas du tout comme prévu. Car cette transmission ne concerne pas seulement des biens matériels. Elle met en jeu un patrimoine intérieur. Un secret de famille, enfoui, douloureux. Les maladies héréditaires de l'âme ne sont pas exonérées de droits de succession...

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La donation

A Cage in Search of a Bird

"This moving fictional memoir begins as a woman heads home after a meeting about her inheritance. Once on the train, she jots down a few notes, intended as a letter to her parents, which prompt the lyrical burst of memory and emotion that consitute this arresting novel. The narrator's mother had always loomed large in her life. Labeled "eccentric" or "Italian," her mother actually suffered from bipolar disorder. Without understanding the disease, the family treated the unpredictable ups and downs of her condition as best they could. During periods of paralyzing depression she was hospitalized, and the family felt abandoned. During periods of manic productivity, she was a dedicated pharmacist, an exemplary homemaker, and an exceptionally knowledgeable gardener."--P. [4] of cover.

A Novel

The Gift

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) is widely recognized as the most popular Yiddish writer of the twentieth century. His translated body of work, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, is beloved around the world. But although Singer was a very public and outgoing figure, much about his personal life remains unknown. In Isaac Bashevis Singer, Florence Noiville offers a glimpse into the world of this much-beloved but persistently elusive figure. An astonishingly prolific writer, Singer was able to recreate the lost world of Jewish Eastern Europe and also to describe the immigrant experience in America. Drawing heavily upon folklore, Singer's work is noted for its mystical strain. But he was also heavily concerned with the problems of his own day, and through his novels and stories runs a strong undercurrent of social consciousness. Unafraid to celebrate peasant life, Singer was often accused of being vulgar, yet he was also recognized for a deeply moral sensibility. And much like his work, Singer's personal life was marked by contradiction: the son of a Rabbi, he struggled with warring currents of devotion and doubt. Solicitous of affection, he was also known for his philandering. Devoted to the notion of family, he abandoned his own son before the Second World War. Drawing on letters, personal recollections, and interviews with Singer's friends, family, and publishing contemporaries, Florence Noiville speaks to these paradoxes. More appreciation than comprehensive biography, her narrative is rich in detail about the people, places, and ideas that shaped Singer's world. A remarkably vivid portrait of the man and his work emerges—a compassionate, vivid, and insightful vision of one of the twentieth century's greatest storytellers.

A Life

Isaac B. Singer

Now in paperback, A Cage in Search of a Bird is the gripping story of two women caught in the vise of a terrible delusion. Laura Wilmote is a television journalist living in Paris. Her life couldn't be better--a stimulating job, a loving boyfriend, interesting friends--until her phone rings in the middle of one night. It is C., an old school friend whom Laura recently helped find a job at the same television station: "My phone rang. I knew right away it was you." Thus begins the story of C.'s unrelenting, obsessive, incurable love/hatred of Laura. She is convinced that Laura shares her love, but cannot--or will not--admit it. C. begins to dress as Laura, to make her friends and family her own, and even succeeds in working alongside Laura on the unique program that is Laura's signature achievement. The obsession escalates, yet is artfully hidden. It is Laura who is perceived as the aggressor at work, Laura who appears unwell, Laura who is losing it. Even Laura's adoring boyfriend begins to question her. Laura seeks the counsel of a psychiatrist who diagnoses C. with De Clérambault syndrome--she is convinced that Laura is in love with her. And worse, the syndrome can only end in one of two ways: the death of the patient, or that of the object of the obsession. A Cage in Search of a Bird is the gripping story of two women caught in the vise of a terrible delusion. Florence Noiville brilliantly narrates this story of obsession and one woman's attempts to escape the irrational love of another--an inescapable, never-ending love, a love that can only end badly.

Du sommet de l'Olympe aux profondeurs de la mer Egée, dieux, demi-dieux, titans et monstres marins se trompent et se déchirent, édifiant dans la tragédie les fondements de la civilisation occidentale.

La mythologie grecque

Mathilde Hirsch

Caroline du Nord, 1936. À 3 ans, Eunice Waymon, petite fille noire infiniment douée, donne son premier concert dans une église. Elle a su jouer du piano avant même de marcher. À 10 ans, elle lutte déjà contre la ségrégation : lors d’un récital, elle refuse de jouer si ses parents ne sont pas assis au premier rang, comme les Blancs. À 18 ans, elle veut devenir la plus grande concertiste classique noire, mais – à cause de la couleur de sa peau ? – son rêve se brise. Alors elle se rebaptise Nina Simone et, des bars crasseux jusqu’au Carnegie Hall, elle va connaître la gloire. De sa voix puissante, chaude et mystique, elle invente un langage unique, entre jazz, classique, soul et gospel. Amie de James Baldwin, elle chante pour défendre les droits des Noirs aux côtés de Martin Luther King. Mais la vie est violente avec cette écorchée vive : déboires sentimentaux, cupidité de l’industrie du disque, mort de ses frères de combat, difficulté à être une bonne mère... Nina flambe son argent et sombre dans les troubles psychiques. Des États-Unis jusqu’au Sud de la France, en passant par Londres, l’Afrique et les Pays-Bas, les auteures, mère et fille à la vie, sont parties sur ses traces. Elles nous offrent le portrait inédit d’une artiste magistrale en quête d’absolu et de liberté.

Love me or leave me

Nina Simone

Draws on personal recollections, letters, and inteviews with friends, family, and associates to present a portrait of the popular Yiddish writer.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Ilaria Tuti

Massimo Gramellini

Marco Vichi

Donato Carrisi

Cristina Caboni

Enrico Galiano

Marco Buticchi

Gianni Biondillo

Caterina Bonvicini

Ritanna Armeni

Clara Sanchez

Alessia Gazzola

Giuseppe Festa

Antonella Frontani

Silvia Truzzi

Elisabetta Gnone

Barbara Bellomo

Federica Bosco

Giada Sundas

Alice Basso

Anna Dalton

Stefania Auci

Hans Tuzzi

Andrea Vitali

TUTTI I PROVENTI DELLA VENDITA DI QUESTO E-BOOK SARANNO DEVOLUTI IN BENEFICENZA ALL’OSPEDALE PAPA GIOVANNI XXIII DI BERGAMO Oggi la paura ha un nuovo nome. Per sconfiggerlo l’unica strada è rimanere a casa. Tra le quattro mura che ci hanno sempre protetto e che ora, però, sono diventate confini invalicabili. Sono diventate quasi un nemico. E invece, giorno dopo giorno, chi da sempre lavora con le parole ha scoperto che le stanze, le finestre, anche gli angoli più remoti di casa sono ali verso il mondo. Ognuno di loro ha così scelto il modo per dare vita a questa magia. Dalle loro case, ventisei scrittori tra i più importanti del panorama italiano hanno dato un senso a questi giorni scegliendo di fronteggiare l’emergenza anche con le armi della letteratura. Per portare la loro quotidianità ai lettori che li amano. E hanno deciso di farlo insieme alla casa editrice Garzanti, devolvendo tutto il ricavato all’ospedale Papa Giovanni XXIII di Bergamo. C’è chi ha voluto parlare delle sue giornate, delle routine consolidate, delle novità che strappano un sorriso. Delle lacrime che non si riescono a fermare, ma anche della forza della natura che scioglie il nodo in gola. Di convivenze forzate, come di distanze dalle persone care che sembrano insormontabili. C’è chi racconta di vicini sconosciuti che non lo sono più e del lavoro che cambia nei suoi strumenti ma non nella sua sostanza. Alcuni ammettono l’errore di aver pensato che non poteva essere tutto vero o danno voce agli animali che, invece, sono felici che sia tutto vero. Altri affidano le riflessioni su questi strani giorni alla voce dei personaggi amatissimi che hanno creato. Tutti sono sicuri che usciremo più consapevoli di quello che è davvero importante e che ci incontreremo, ci abbracceremo e passeggeremo presto tutti insieme. Sono sicuri che la solidarietà sarà il valore che porteremo con noi senza poterne più fare a meno. Tutti loro sono convinti che le parole, i libri, le storie, uniscono. Creano vincoli invisibili che spezzano ogni barriera. Mentre leggiamo non siamo mai soli. E siamo forti. E tutto appare come sarà. Perché andrà tutto bene. Ritanna Armeni, Stefania Auci, Alice Basso, Barbara Bellomo, Gianni Biondillo, Caterina Bonvicini, Federica Bosco, Marco Buticchi, Cristina Caboni, Donato Carrisi, Anna Dalton, Giuseppe Festa, Antonella Frontani, Enrico Galiano, Alessia Gazzola, Elisabetta Gnone, Massimo Gramellini, Jhumpa Lahiri, Florence Noiville, Clara Sánchez, Giada Sundas, Silvia Truzzi, Ilaria Tuti, Hans Tuzzi, Marco Vichi, Andrea Vitali.

Gli scrittori al tempo della quarantena

Andrà tutto bene

When Anna discovers the long letter that her mother, Marie, wrote, Marie has been dead for some time; she disappeared with her secret. The letter is addressed to her first great love, a teacher who was much older than she, an old 'dinosaur'. Did Marie ever send the letter? Did the man ever receive it? Anna decides to question her family and her mother's former friends, in an attempt to understand how her mother became attached to that man. Who was the man whom she loved? Is he still alive? Will finding him help Anna know a mother who left her when she was 14? From this relationship of obsessive love observed under the magnifying glass from various points of view, both the mother and daughter try to answer the same question: What is there inside us that makes us become attached to someone whom we should never even have approached? Attachment also questions the link between love and writing, the stories that love inspires, and the way in which we construct and own the story of our lives.

Attachment

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