Looking for the young woman who hit him at night, a young man wanders through the streets of 1960s Paris, while his disoriented mind offers only patches of memories of the incident.
Four narrators, a student from a cafe, a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers, construct a portrait of Jacqueline Delanque, otherwise known as Louki. The daughter of a single mother who works in the Moulin Rouge, Louki grows …
Pour quelques damnés heureux ou malheureux, la littérature décide de tout. Chaque chose sera vue à travers son prisme et rien ne sera vraiment vécu avant d'être formulé. Ce livre est-il un récit humoristique délirant, une confession autobiographique désarmante, un essai polémiqu…
"This book presents and describes Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela and Henry Fielding's An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews. Anti-Pamela comments on Richardson's representations of work, virtue, and gender, while also questioning the generic expectations of the novel that…