The week selection by Rue 89

The week selection by Rue 89
Face au mur
Cesare Battisti
Flammarion
Release date : 07/03/2012
Category : Essay
Format : 21 x 14 cm
Price : 19,50 €
ISBN : 978-2-08-127998-8
Pages : 264
Cesare Battisti is not ‘a man without a past’, unlike the narrator of his latest book, whose
reasons for flight shall remain unknown forever. And he is also a great writer.
Here two narratives intermingle: one of a man on the run, who relates several months
spent in Rio in the shadow of a woman and another, delivered by the same man from the
prison where he is incarcerated, a narrative fuelled by the confessions of his fellow
inmates.
This book reads like a great romance coupled with suspense. Since his arrival in Brazil,
the narrator knows that he is being spied on.
He even guesses that it is the police who placed in his path the young and beautiful
Janaïna, with whom he develops a relationship that becomes physical from its very start.
Then love insinuates itself between them like a foreign body. And deliberately, the
narrator decides to continue, to live this story until the end, even if it puts his life at risk.
This love, its dark and melancholic beauty, resonates in each of us : aren’t there
moments in one’s life when choosing to succumb to seduction is a question of life and
death, when only wilful blindness can enable to feel “alive” at last? These were probably
the thoughts that crossed Truffaut’s mind when he was filming Mississippi Mermaid…
Cesare Battisti was born in 1954. He was just over twenty when he joined the armed
struggle with the PAC (Armed Proletarians for Communism). Sentenced to life
imprisonment in his country, he found refuge in France and then, threatened with
extradition to Italy, he flew to Brazil, where he was arrested in 2007, jailed and then
liberated last June. He has published countless detective novels including Avenida
Revolucion, Les Dernières Cartouches (Rivages/Noir), Buena Onda and Les Habits
d'ombre (Gallimard/Série Noire), drawn partly on his personal itinerary, between political
activist and fugitive.
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Flammarion
Contact name : Florence Giry
Fonction : Responsable des Cessions étrangères
Address : 87, quai Panhard-et-Levassor - 75647 Paris Cedex 13
Email : [email protected]
Tel : +33 (0)1 40 51 31 00
Website: http://editions.flammarion.com/
Guerres intimes : 2001-2011
Sara Daniel
Flammarion
Release date : 10/03/2012
Category : Essay
Format : 22 x 14 cm
Price : 19,00€
ISBN : 978-2-08-122279-3
From Afghanistan to Libya as well as Iraq, Lebanon and Pakistan, Sara Daniel sheds light
on the complex geopolitical challenges of this part of the world, through a series of
portraits and glimpses of other lives.
Sara Daniel also relates the moments of excitement and despondency of her job as war
correspondent; the dangers, amazing encounters and heartbreaks in the face of civilian
populations struggling with an increasingly cruel daily reality.
A remarkable writing style serves this deeply-moving witness account from beginning to
end…
Sara Daniel has reported from the frontlines of most countries at war in the Middle East.
Since 2009, she has been the deputy chief editor of the “foreign” service at Nouvel
Observateur and has also covered the recent revolutions of the Arab world.
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Flammarion
Contact name : Florence Giry
Fonction : Responsable des Cessions étrangères
Address : 87, quai Panhard-et-Levassor - 75647 Paris Cedex 13
Email : [email protected]
Tel : +33 (0)1 40 51 31 00
Website: http://editions.flammarion.com/
Une collection très particulière
Bernard Quiriny
Seuil
Release date : 01/03/2012
Category : Essay
Format : 21 x 14 cm
Price : 17,00€
ISBN : 978-2-02-104695-3
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Editions du Seuil
Contact name : Martine Heissat
Fonction : Responsable droits étrangers
Address : 25, boulevard Romain Rolland CS 21418 - 75993 Paris Cedex 14
Email : [email protected]
Tel : + 33 (0)1 41 48 82 67
Website : http://www.seuil.com/
Poésie et médias
Céline Pardo, Anne Reverseau, Nadja Cohen, Anneliese Depoux
Nouveau Monde
Release date : 21/04/2012
Category : Essay
Format : 23 x 14 cm
Price : 34€
ISBN : 978-2-84736-527-6
This work is the product of a encounter of several cultural fields. When literary studies
meet comunication and information sciences, it produces a whole questioning and works
linked to the mediation of literary texts. The case of poetry is particularly rich because
this genre has always paid a special attention to its supports and to its communicational
and informational modes. Furthermore, technological innovations have multiplied
(pictures and sound recording technics, telecomunications) and thus have given birth to
new forms of art (photography, cinema, radio creations, digital art) –sometimes related
to poetical creations – but have also produced new communicational models and
apparatus, and new experimental and transmission spaces for poetry.
Throughout a wide spectrum of investigation – from Guillaume Apollinaire to the most
contemporaries practices – this collective study looks at and sheds its light on those
bridges between poetry and medias.
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Nouveau Monde Éditions
Contact name : Yannick Dehée
Fonction : Président Directeur Général
Specialities : Dictionnaires / Ouvrages de référence, Jeunesse, Littérature, Sciences
humaines et sociales
Address : 21 Square Saint-Charles - 75012 Paris
Email : [email protected]
Tel : +33 (0)1 43 54 67 43
Website : http://www.nouveau-monde.net
Rêveur de confins
Michel Le Bris
A. Versaille éditeur
Release date : 14/09/2011
Category : Essay
Format : 22 x 13 cm
Price : 19,90€
ISBN : 978-2-87495-154-1
Pages : 301
Michel Le Bris talks about the avant-garde and melodrama ; about his native Brittany but
also Conrad ; adventure books and Be-bop ; Martine Carol as well as Bruce Chatwin,
fairies and Moby Dick ; the Boulevard of crime and operetta ; Sartre juxtaposed with a
recipe for chump chops “à l'angevine” ; jazz nostalgia but also the Irish renaissance ; the
American West and La Cause du peuple…
The writer Michel Le Bris was born in 1944. He is an authority on Robert Louis Stevenson
and he is director of the Saint-Malo literary festival “Étonnants Voyageurs”, one of the
most significant and original literary events in France.
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Actes Sud
Contact name : Claire Teeuwissen
Fonction : Droits étrangers et dérivés
Address : Le Méjan - Place Nina Berberova - B.P 38 - 13633 Arles cedex
Email : [email protected]
Tel : +33 (0)4 88 65 90 09
Website : http://www.actes-sud.fr
Le dernier Français
Abd al Malik
le Cherche Midi
Release date : 16/02/2012
Category : Essay
Format : 20 x 12 cm
Price : 12,00€
ISBN : 978-2-7491-2237-3
Pages : 238 pages
Abd Al Malik cries out loud to his generation and to the whole world : « Long live our
rainbow-like country, united and freed of all fears! " His cry is universal and his plea is
for France as it was in 1789, a country of Human Rights. His mothercountry is a France
where « we all live together ». « Life is a battle, at all ages ». Abd al Malik's only
weapons are his words, which open up for him the road to poetry and spirituality. He
invents his poetry line after line, thus embracing the past, the present, the future and the
whole world : " I daydream so that they could understand me. " His quest is our unique
common hope: « I am looking for something bigger than myself. »
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Le Cherche-Midi Éditeur
Contact name : Cristina Prepelita Chiarasini
Fonction : Responsable droits étrangers
Address : 23, rue du Cherche-Midi - 75006 Paris
Email : [email protected]
Tel : +33 (0)1 42 22 71 20
Website : http://www.cherche-midi.com
American spleen
Olivier Guez
Flammarion
Release date: 01/02/2012
Category : Essay
Format : 24 x 16 cm
Price : 22,00€
ISBN : 978-2-08-126952-1
Pages : 270
In an age when Captain America has rocketed to become a box-office hit, America is
clearly suffering from spleen. Nostalgic for an era when it was sure about what it wanted
and what it was fighting for, America is looking for a new patriarch, one with the means
to show it the way and tore-boost its confidence. For not only is it experiencing an
economic and financial crisis today, but also a more profound malaise related to identity
and morals, that Obama’s rise to presidency has not sufficed to eliminate.
To better grasp the reasons and effects of this melancholy, Olivier Guez, foreign
correspondent and author of three acclaimed books, has embarked on an ambitious
investigative voyage to America of the Great Recession. Who makes up the new US Right
and the notorious «Tea Parties» whose startling ascension has completely overturned the
landscape of American politics? What does the libertarian doctrine driving them advocate
? How can we account for the success of the American Right when the solutions they
advance are responsible for the current doldrums? Why do major regulatory reforms
seem impossible today? Why have the people most affected by the crisis and by
unemployment not taken greater action? Why does it seem impossible to reform Wall
Street? What errors have been committed by Obama? Why does the US Left remain
elusive?
All these questions are tackled on the ground by Olivier Guez who has crisscrossed the
country, from the metropolises to the heart of America, accumulating encounters,
interviews and experiences, tirelessly observing people, their way of life and their vision
of society. He dialogues with great figures from the intellectual world as well as
anonymous activists; he takes part in Rolling Thunder, the big rally for motorbike fans
from the US Army; he takes a detour to the Mormons; he pays a visit to writer Jim
Harrison in Montana…The diagnostic: Americais divided, concerned, tense and profoundly
melancholic. Will it be able to regenerate itself once again? Is it out of control,
ungovernable? Will it be able to exit this state of latency and anxiety? Or will it tip over
to the anger and riots seen in Greece and the Arab world today? The question remains
open.
Contact detail for copyrights
Flammarion
Contact name : Florence Giry
Fonction : Responsable des Cessions étrangères
Address : 87, quai Panhard-et-Levassor - 75647 Paris Cedex 13
Email : [email protected]
Tel : +33 (0)1 40 51 31 00
Website: http://editions.flammarion.com/