O MON GEORGE, MA BELLE MAITRES - SAND GEORGE - Sodis

'Sand's [play], with its probing of masculinity and femininity, its reflection on male and female education, love and friendship, women and the law...[is] an excellent addition to the MLA's Texts and Translations series.'---Annabelle Rea, Occidental College

The handsome, heroic heir to a vast estate, raised as man to follow a man's pursuits and to despise women, is devastated to learn at the age of seventeen that he is in fact a she. ('An admirable ruse, indeed! To inspire in me the horror of women, only to throw it in my face and say: But this is what you are.') Gabriel courageously refuses to give up her male privileges, and her tragic struggle to work and fight and love in all the ways she knows how offers a window into the obstacles faced by George Sand, the prolific intellectual woman whom the popular press portrayed as a promiscuous, cigar-smoking oddity in trousers. 'Strange that the most virile talent of our time should be a woman's!' exclaimed a reviewer in 1838.

Kathleen Robin Hart's introduction contextualizes the play, discussing its relation to the theater of Sand's day, the sentimental tradition, the subversive workings of carnival and masquerade, and the vein of literary androgyny in Romantic works.

The first translation of The Countess von Rudolstadt in more than a century brings to contemporary readers one of George Sand's most ambitious and engaging novels, hailed by many scholars of French literature as her masterpiece. Consuelo, or the Countess von Rudolstadt, born the penniless daughter of a Spanish gypsy, is transformed into an opera star by the great maestro Porpora. Her peregrinations throughout Europe (especially Vienna, Berlin, and the Bohemian forest), become a quest undertaken on a number of levels: as a singer, as a woman, and as an unwilling subject of alienation and oppression.

Sand's heroine moves through a mid-eighteenth-century Europe where absolute rulers mingle with Enlightenment philosophers and gender-bending members of secret societies plot moral and political revolution. As the old order breaks down, she undergoes a series of grueling initiations into radically redefined notions of marriage and social organization. In a novel by equal measures philosophical and lurid, nothing is what it seems. Written some fifty years after the French Revolution, the book taps into many of the political and religious currents that contributed to that social upheaval—and aims to channel their potential for future change.

Fed by Sand's rich imagination and bold aspirations for social reform, The Countess von Rudolstadt is a sinuous novel of initiation, continuing the coming of age tale of the titular heroine of Sand's earlier Consuelo and drawing on such diverse models as Ann Radcliffe's Gothic tales and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister.

Dopo i vari problemi di censura e di condanna che George Sand dovette subire dopo la pubblicazione dei suoi primi romanzi, 'La piccola Fadette' avrebbe dovuto essere a qualsiasi costo una storia tranquillizzante. Ma il risultato fu un altro, e alla fine questo straordinario romanzo rivela un turbamento e un'inquietudine che la stessa autrice non riuscì a controllare. Il 17 novembre 1848 George Sand scriveva: 'Smussare il mio pensiero per piacere ai borghesi è una cosa che non mi è mai riuscita e che certo non imparerò a fare a quarantacinque anni'.

Pubblicato nel 1850, 'Frangois le Champi' divenne in seguito un libro di culto per gli amanti della 'Recherche' proustiana, dove viene definito 'straordinario'. La storia del trovatello Francois, allevato amorevolmente dalla moglie di un mugnaio, è solo all'apparenza una favola di buoni sentimenti. Nella forma di un romanzo di formazione nasconde infatti in ogni piega il motivo scabroso dell'incesto, che vede una madre adottiva trasformarsi dapprima in amica e poi in moglie. 'Frangois le Champi' è da sempre, a pieno merito, uno dei romanzi più celebri di George Sand, scrittrice francese impegnata e anticonformista, di cui Gustave Flaubert ebbe a dire: 'Bisognava conoscerla come l'ho conosciuta io, per sapere quanta femminilità c'era in quel grand'uomo'.

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Anewly translated novel from the great rediscovered Hungarian writer: a tautly suspenseful story of unrequited love and its still vivid consequences twenty years later.

What is it to be in love with a pathological liar and fantasist? Esther is, and has been for the more than two decades since Lajos disappeared from her life. Now all these years later, Lajos is returning, and the news brings both panic and excitement. While no longer young and thoroughly skeptical about Lajos, Esther still remembers how incredibly alive she felt when he was around. His presence bewitches everyone, and the greatest part of his charm—and his danger—lies in the deftness with which he wields that delicate power. Friends rally round protectively, but Lajos's arrival begins a day of high theater that will leave Esther's life dramatically changed again.

Zilia è una fata che vive in una valle fuori dal tempo, insieme ad altre fate che come lei un tempo erano donne. Tutte quante hanno bevuto dal calice dell'immortalità allontanandosi dal mondo degli uomini e dimenticandosene. La sua monotona vita cambia quando un bambino, il figlio del Principe, cade nel crepaccio di un ghiacciaio insieme al suo cane, e lei decide di salvarlo portandolo nel suo mondo. Qui dovrà fare i conti con l'invidia delle altre fate e reimparare, un poco alla volta, ad abbandonarsi a tutte quelle debolezze umane che ormai erano un ricordo lontano: prima fra tutte, l'amore...

Indiana è nata nell'isola di Bourbon, al largo del Madagascar, nel mezzo dell'Oceano Indiano. Ma il lettore la incontra in una ricca dimora della campagna francese nei panni di madame Delmare, sposa infelice di un matrimonio combinatele dalla zia, che ha voluto così riscattarla da una vita da schiava, all'altro capo del mondo. Rassegnata a un'esistenza priva di gioie, Indiana si lascia andare a uno struggimento che sconfina nella consunzione, al fianco di un marito vecchio e collerico, e sotto l'ala protettiva del taciturno sir Ralph, fedele ma troppo compassato amico d'infanzia. Ed ecco che una notte irrompe nella villa l'affascinante Raymon, un aristocratico di belle speranze, da poco trasferitesi in campagna, che tutto sovverte. Raymon l'affabulatore dapprima seduce Noun, la bella domestica creola, e poi rapisce il cuore della stessa Indiana. L'incostanza delle passioni e l'ingannevole personalità di Raymon spingeranno Noun a gettarsi nel fiume in piena, e Indiana a oscillare senza tregua tra lo sdegno e l'attrazione irresistibile. Nell'andirivieni di quel pendolo sentimentale, è tutto un incalzare di eventi: la fuga disperata a Parigi, la morte cercata sulle rive della Senna, la bancarotta del marito, il forzoso trasferimento nell'isola al largo dell'Africa, il precipitoso rientro in Francia a bordo di un mercantile, la messa a repentaglio dell'onorabilità. Sullo sfondo, l'evolversi del personaggio di sir Ralph, sempre avvolto in un alone di inquietante opacità. Con un commento di Henry James.

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An early novel from the great rediscovered Hungarian writer Sándor Márai, The Rebels is a haunting story of a group of alienated boys on the cusp of adult life—and possibly death—during World War I.

It is the summer of 1918, and four boys approaching graduation are living in a ghost town bereft of fathers, uncles, and older brothers, who are off fighting at the front. The boys know they will very soon be sent to join their elders, and in their final weeks of freedom they begin acting out their frustrations and fears in a series of subversive games and petty thefts. But when they attract the attention of a stranger in town—an actor with a traveling theater company—their games, and their lives, begin to move in a direction they could not have predicted and cannot control, and one that reveals them to be strangers to one another. Resisting and defying adulthood, they find themselves still subject to its baffling power even in their attempted rebellion.

Riflessione di straordinaria coscienza ecologica, il breve scritto di George Sand (1804-1876) illustra i rischi per l'ambiente con largo anticipo sui tempi. La foresta di Fontainebleau è stata nel corso dell'Ottocento un laboratorio a cielo aperto di pittori e fotografi che hanno saputo rivolgere al motivo naturale uno sguardo di sensibile modernità. Il temperamento romantico e appassionato di George Sand, femminista impegnata di slancio umanitario, in queste pagine si concede una riflessione poetica e attuale sul destino della natura, dipinta ma anche minacciata dall'uomo, amata e insieme ferita, curata e inquinata, rispettata e violata. Questo libretto compie un rilievo critico dei sintorni che toccano il corpo della natura: non ama le pratiche legate alla visione settaria del verde ideologico né l'arroganza di architetti senza etica. L'amore per la natura passa attraverso la forte azione trasversale esercitata da figure come Al Gore e Nicolas Hulot, ma anche attraverso la relazione sensibile con le arti: immagini, versi e prose nel vento.

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This abridged edition by scholar and historian Scott A. Sandage includes a new introduction and editorial notes, and offers students and the general reader alike easy access to the preeminent translation by George Lawrence, widely recognized as the best translation based on the second revised and corrected text of the 1961 French edition, edited by J. P. Mayer.

An architect in an unnamed city considers his life, his work, and the many-layered history of the city he and his family—architects all—have contributed to building. In the days after World War II—during which American bombers destroyed much of what his father built—he becomes a Stalinist planner and realizes that the power of the nobility, the wealthy and the bourgeois has been usurped by technocrats. Vanished by those technocrats into the communist underworld of torture and imprisonment, he is eventually released into a post-Stalinist world and becomes the chief builder in a provincial town. Told with wit and elegance by one of Hungary's greatest novelists, The City Builder is one of the most important and impassioned books about the indignities of living in—and contributing to—a cruelly depersonalized society.

'Konrád is an extraordinary writer, possessedin Ivan Sanders's excellent translation--of an acrid eloquence that can rise to a pitch of ecstasy. Surreal juxtapositions and lightning shifts of thought show the hand of a highly sophisticated artist.'--Newsweek

'Striking . . . Konrád's metaphors can go off like depth charges.'--Time

'The City Builder is another bravura performance . . . Konrád has evidently learned a great deal from Joyce and the French nouveau roman.'--Nation

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Another rediscovered masterpiece from the Hungarian novelist whose Embers became an international bestseller—a sensuous, suspenseful, aphoristic novel about the world's most notorious seducer and the encounter that changes him forever. In 1756 Giacomo Casanova escapes from a Venetian prison and resurfaces in the Italian village of Bolzano. Here he receives an unwelcome visitor: the aging but still fearsome Duke of Parma, who years before had defeated Casanova in a duel over a ravishing girl named Francesca and spared his life on condition that he never see her again. Now the duke has taken Francesca as his wife—and intercepted a love letter from her to his old rival. Rather than kill Casanova on the spot, he makes him a startling offer, one that is logical, perverse, and irresistible. Turning an historical episode into a dazzling fictional exploration of the clasp of desire and death, Casanova in Bolzano is further proof that Sándor Márai is one of the most distinctive voices of the twentieth century.

The first American Olympics, held in 1904 in St. Louis, were a vigorous spectacle suited to an energetic and confident nation. The games were wrested away from rival city Chicago and appended to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair. Athletes came from eleven countries and four continents to compete in state-of-the-art facilities, which included a 10,000-seat stadium with gymnasium equipment donated by sporting goods magnate Albert Spalding. St. Louis Olympics, 1904 corrects common misperceptions and presents a fresh view of the games that featured first-time African American Olympians, an eccentric marathon, and documentation by pioneering photojournalist Jessie Tarbox Beals.

The 'discovery' of superconductivity happened in 1911, but it wasn't until the mid-1980s that serious work began into applications. Matricon and Waysand (both formerly affiliated with the U. Denis Diderot, France) explain the theoretical and empirical developments of the field. They balance discussions of the science and scientists with examinations of the social and political context within which the field was developing. Originally published as La gueere du froid: Une histoire de la supraconductivité (1994, Editions du Seuil). Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

I percorsi da La Spezia al Golfo, dalle Isole a Porto Venere, sulle orme della scrittrice francese George Sand che soggiornò nel golfo e qui ambientò la bellissima storia d'amore tra Thérèse e Laurent... Illustrato dalle fotografie suggestive di Davide Marcesini

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Le leggende raccolte in questo libretto costituiscono una galleria del 'fantastico' francese. Pietre che camminano, uomini senza testa né braccia, animali fantasma, fuochi fatui, spiriti senza pace, demoni travestiti da fanciulle, stagni incantati, creature leggendarie: questi e altri sono i protagonisti del poema senza nome della favolosità o della meravigliosità universale, di cui il contadino è cantore e custode sin dalla notte dei tempi. George Sand, straordinaria ed eclettica protagonista del XIX secolo, le ha riunite con grande affetto e attenzione, sottolineandone costantemente la poesia e l'ironia.