Gérard de Nerval recurrió a los sueños y fantasías para mostrar los nexos entre la realidad y lo sobrenatural, que de alguna manera reflejaban el estado mental que lo condujo al suicidio. Florence Delay nos cuenta esta vida mediante un texto que entrevera el ensayo y la novela, basado en manuscritos, cartas, discursos psiquiátricos, literarios y biográficos dedicados al autor de Las quimeras.

Florence Delay nous entraîne dans une délicieuse promenade au château de Fontainebleau, au temps de la cour de France de François 1er à celle d’Henri IV, pour donner vie et parole aux déesses, Diane chasseresses, nymphes et dames qui l’habitent, peintes et sculptées par les artistes italiens Rosso et Primatice. Empruntant l’art et la manière de Marguerite de Navarre, dont elle a lu et relu « L’Heptaméron », Florence Delay nous fait revivre, de tableau en tableau, toute la beauté de la Rena...

Grand entretien avec BHL : « Dans la zone grise des idéologues, rien n’est lumineux »Bernard-Henri Lévy pose un regard sur le monde contemporain et sur sa complexité géopolitique. Le philosophe croit en un islam des Lumières sans nier la montée de l’islamisme et d’un antisémitisme d’origine arabo-musulmane.Dossier : Quoi de neuf ? Le diable !→ Les mille visages du diable par Robert KoppQu’il soit réel ou symbolique, le diable hante les arts du ...

Have you met the Mantonis? This eccentric Italian family has a fatal tendency to fall over dead bodies, and their unique reactions to murder will keep you giggling all through the night.In this first book of the series, the sudden death of the grandfather, Nico, threatens to put a stop to Emma's opulent wedding. Unacceptable, says the bride, and in true Mantoni style, she hides the body until the festivities are over.But when it turns out Nico was poisoned, the attractive c...

Au cours d’une traversée transatlantique sur un paquebot une femme tombe accidentellement à la mer. Tandis qu’elle flotte à la dérive elle s’en remet à sainte Rita, avocate des causes désespérées, et lui fait une promesse. Si elle réchappe à la noyade, elle écrira l’histoire de sa vie. Au milieu d’un océan tour à tour prodigieux et menaçant, des personnes, des lieux commencent alors à affluer erratiquement dans la mémoire de la naufragée. Peu à peu, l’imagination et la po...

This edited volume explores the intersection of spirituality with childbirth from 1800 to the present day from a comparative perspective. It illustrates how over this time period in much of the world, traditional practices, home births, and midwives have been overshadowed and undermined by male dominated obstetrics, hospitalization, and ultimately the medicalization of the birthing process itself.

De Christine de Pizan aux Femen, en passant par Olympe de Gouges, Virginia Woolf ou Antoinette Fouque, ce livre audio réunit des textes historiques et fondateurs des luttes des femmes lus par des comédiennes et des chanteuses. Il célèbre, à l’occasion des cinquante ans de la naissance du Mouvement de libération des femmes (MLF) et du 8 mars 2019, journée internationale des femmes, les infatigables combats des femmes et dénonce les injustices qui leurs sont faites. De grandes voix d’aujourd...

Everybody knows the Mantoni girls are attractive, and theoretically, that's a good thing, right? Only this time, a charming but older millionaire desires the most beautiful Mantoni, Annalisa, as his lover for the Christmas season. Her cousin, Carlina, is disgusted by the liaison and says she'd rather see him dead than at Annalisa's side.The next day, her wish is fulfilled. The charmer is dead, strangled with a pair of pantyhose which comes straight from her own luxurious lingerie st...

Valentino, Carlina's cousin and a banker, is hands-down the most unpopular member of the wide-spread Mantoni clan. However, a true Mantoni never accepts an intolerable situation, so one evening, they sit down to plot his death.When Valentino is indeed found stabbed, commissario Stefano Garini, now officially Carlina's boyfriend, only wants to turn and run. While he tries to sort through the clues and his feelings with grim determination, the family, in inimitable Mantoni style, mana...

Falling in love on his eightieth birthday was not one of the planned party surprises, but Cupid's arrow hits Uncle Teo hard. The rest of the Mantoni family, however, is in an uproar because the new girlfriend, Olga, has an astonishing talent for making enemies.Before long, the family is ripe for murder, and when Olga is indeed found dead at the foot of the historical San Niccolò Tower, the Mantonis all cheer . . . until commissario Stefano Garini is forced to arrest a Mantoni family...

From New York Times bestselling author Angie FoxVerity Long doesn't want to see ghosts, and she'd rather not let anyone know her little secret, either. But when a restless spirit stirs up trouble in her friend's resale shop, Verity and her very new, very dead gangster friend team up to learn what is really happening.They discover an age-old secret, and must learn the truth behind a mysterious disappearance…before it's too late.*A fabulously fun short st...

As whale-watchers gather in the Pacific Northwest, a B&B manager gets a glimpse of a killer in this mystery novel by the USA Today bestselling author.It’s whale-watching season in the California town of Redwood Cove, and Kelly Jackson is preparing for the tourist rush at Redwood Heights—a Victorian-style estate owned by her boss. With a string of recent jewelry thefts in the area, she’s also busy keeping tabs on the many dust-covered artifacts displayed th...