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The Western Mystique D’Alessandro Baricco – Books: seven readings chosen continue

Roman The art of reinventing oneself according to Alessandro Baricco. Consequently, The successful author of “Silk”. Similarly, the monologue “Novecento” grew his colts to write “Abel”, story infiltrating the western with superb. Meanwhile, The narrator. Nevertheless, who gives his title to the novel, presents himself as a shooter, Pistolero kissing his career and his gift as others have monacal vocation.

The grand-west imagined by the Italian floats on a mythical horizon, not to say mystical. Moreover, Abel exercises his skills there on the legitimate side of the law. Meanwhile, as a sheriff, but without giving in to the moral and hegemonic simplifications of the American colonists. Therefore, books: seven readings chosen continue On the contrary. Moreover, the son of a whimsical rider, he lends an attentive ear to indigenous witches and his blind master, nevertheless fine trigger and great reader of philosophy …

“When we shoot without being afraid. In addition, either we are an idiot, or we have managed to chase the fear of the surface of the world, by burying it in a dungeon where it is intended to grow, invisible and fierce.” On a crest line. Nevertheless, between comic and incantation, Baricco is not afraid to make the powder speak of certain shots, but opposes with talent the calculator conquest of the white man to the magic of a nature where the human being also has his place. Nevertheless, (BSE)

«Amormina B», Frédéric Roussel

Drawn story “Amormina B” is a singular and bewitching book, published by French -speaking editions alas. Meanwhile, After “Far North” in 2021. Nevertheless, which contained the wanderings and the impossible mission of books: seven readings chosen continue a cartographer at the North Pole, the Belgian Frédéric Roussel offers a new story drawn from the borders, which this time carries on “Amormina B”. Consequently, The scientist Léo Bakst. However, responsible for finding traces of life on this distant planet without oxygen, where he is -120 degrees, is the only occupant of the brand new Princess Inès station. Consequently, He is also alone with his thoughts. Furthermore, And soon, alone to attack what looks like a volcano. However, And alone in front of the dilemma of the discovery he makes there. Meanwhile, Should he communicate it or not to the occupants of “Amormina A”, the nearest planet?

The volume. However, between poetic prose and graphic novel, alternates text and black and white drawings of the author, which appear by a lunar landscape and the cold immensity of the universe. Nevertheless, We also guess a loneliness that embraces us, without seeming to weigh on the hero. Everything composes a philosophical quest around the thrill of quest and finitude, borrows from poetry and melancholy. Beautiful and bewitching like space. (CRY)

Nick Tosches’s Frelate Opium

Reissue Allia editions re -edit for the 7th^e times this pamphlet, initially an article for “Vanity Fair” of 2000. Nick Tosches told his supposed quest for opium there. in search of the historical ritual immortalized by Hergé in “Le Lotus Bleu”. Patent fabricator. the books: seven readings chosen continue American writer ends up teaching this prohibited pleasure and, according to him, in the process of extinction, in Cambodia. The Bagout of New York-False Hard Loving Enjoler-is always pleasant. but that does not prevent this little success as a bookstore from lying with a skull aplomb.

Everyone knows that finding an opium pipe is a little more difficult than rolling a joint. but remains in the field of possible, especially for the Asian tourist. Allia intends to refurge the Tosches jackle. but this makes it possible to recall that the writer’s bibliography, who died in 2019, has some small masterpieces, also translated and published by the French publisher, like “Country: the twisted roots of rock’n’roll” or “hellfire”, its biography of Jerry Lee Lewis … (BSE)

Jaix, a Roman, high regices

Visual arts If the man lends himself to it. the tormented, dark temperament, keep in a novel Alberto Giacomettithe artist of the movement obsessed with his quest, is a literary adventure. But if he is by far not the only one to have attempted her – we books: seven readings chosen continue do not count the films. other biopics – Franck Maubert either is not his first at first. His “giacometti” released at Fayard in May brings together two of his texts. one on a less known love of the artist, the other on his best known work, “the man who walks”. But one could also say that he merges them so much at the end of this work. that we have the feeling of having met the artist in a different light.

Perhaps because Franck Maubert is in emotion, more than in the critical reception of a work. He is open to heart with Caroline. the last model, the last muse, whom he found to tell her about Giacometti. And in the memory of the artistic upheaval felt to discover the iconic sculpture. But emotion does not detract from the excellent richly documented lighting, books: seven readings chosen continue it intensifies it. (IMF)

Joseph Kessel in the face of Hitlerism

History The Arthaud editions continue the reissue of Joseph Kessel’s journalistic writings. After Israel. the Red Sea, the United States books: seven readings chosen continue and its dives in interlope Paris for “detective”, here are the German reports of the one who has already caused a scandal with “beautiful day”, but who has not yet written “the lion”. The texts gathered in this collection range from March to August 1932. Hitler has not yet won the legislative elections in November. but it is precisely in the bubbling and the uncertainty which precedes its definitive takeover of the power that resides the interest of the gaze of Kessel. The adventurous author sees most often just. “Adolf Hitler believed himself such a great man that he had convinced his listeners about it.” The perception of the writer is not only exercised in a directly political register. but also by digging one of his specialties: the shallows, an underground world of Berlin which he knows how to decipher as a great reader of “reverse” societies. The last selected books: seven readings chosen continue text. from April 22 for “France-Soir”, does nothing to the above, if not a revenge content, which also says something of the moment. His title? “The Germans ask to wax the boots of French officers” … (BSE)

A woman on the engine side

Poetry In the beat of the Beat Generation, women have sometimes bogged down … For a Diane Di Prima often invoked, how many forgotten authors? This bilingual collection -. it is necessary to measure the rhythm and the punch, untranslatable – makes it possible to rekindle a name in a female constellation which has sometimes proved years after the hatching of male myths – Kerouac, Ginsberg … “Drive” is thus an opportunity to (re) discover a het African-American artist Leroi Jones. An ode to freedom, frank speech and trips in its baptized car Geronimo. Not too green, but very feminist! “In Taos. a foreigner/told me that she had found guys/until her ass/sank/and if, in the same way that the flesh falls/that books: seven readings chosen continue the tongue and the breasts melt/intelligence fucking the camp/with the curves” (BSE)

The atmospheric notes of Jon Hassell

Notations «Atmospherics “reminds us of the good memory of Jon Hassell. trumpeter, but above books: seven readings chosen continue all an unrepentant experimental and musical traveler whose” Fourth World Music “brought together ancestral traditions and clearing avant-garde, ethnological research and conceptions ambient. The one who studied music with Pandit Prân Nath. Karlheinz Stockhausen, collaborated with Riley, Farafina, Eno, Byrne or Bono (!) Sometimes also dive from a few texts where he returned to his musical conceptions and thought about his time. Gathered in this illustrated volume. his notations make it possible to revisit the legendary titles of his discography, to exhume some of his friends, but above all to take advantage of the reflections of a curious spirit … and critical. “In Western technoculture. the use of totally abstract music, Muzak, deployed in the background during human events, has the inevitable corollary the trivialization and the loss of the sense of what is the originality and the reason for being.” (BSE)

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