Selection by Un livre un jour (march 2013) By Olivier Barrot

Selection by Un livre un jour (march 2013)
By Olivier Barrot
Heureux les heureux
Yasmina Reza
Flammarion
Release date : 02/01/2013
Category : Novel
Format : 21 X 14 cm
Price : 18 €
ISBN : 978-2-08-129445-5
Pages : 185 pages
“Happy are the loved and the lovers and those who can do without love. Happy are the happy.”
The characters of Yasmina Reza’s novel would be more than happy to embrace this quote from Jorge Luis
Borges.Yet in this score of chapters, they are doing exactly the opposite. Marital and extra-marital
relationships, sexual and platonic relationships – the author deals first of all with the difficulties related to
intimate relationships, the fear of loneliness, and the desire to be loved and understood once in our lives.
This masterful novel offers a great variety of tone and feeling, from cruelty and desperation to wit and
fantasy. Its narrative monologues, both dense and inventive, are absolutely stunning.
Yasmina Reza undoubtedly delivers her most accomplished work with this stellar novel.
Yasmina Reza has published L'Aube le soir ou la nuit with Flammarion as well as Comment vous racontez la
partie, which was showed at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in October 2012.
Contact detail for copyrights
Contact name : Florence Giry
Address : 87, quai Panhard-et-Levassor 75647 Paris Cedex 13
Email : [email protected]
Website : http://editions.flammarion.com/
Sombre dimanche
Alice Zeniter
Albin Michel
Release date : 03/01/2013
Category : Novel
Format : 21 X 14 cm
Price : 19 €
ISBN : 978-2-226-24517-5
Pages : 283 pages
Contact detail for copyrights
Contact name : Solène Chabanais
Function : Foreign Rights Director
Address : 22 rue Huyghens 75014 Paris
Email : [email protected]
Website : http://www.albin-michel.fr
En ville
Christian Oster
Editions de l'Olivier
Release date : 03/01/2013
Category : Novel
Format : 21 X 14 cm
Price : 18 €
ISBN : 978-2-87929-778-1
Pages : 173 pages
Bleus horizons
Jérôme Garcin
Gallimard
Release date : 07/02/2013
Category : Novel
Format : 21 X 14 cm
Price : 16.90 €
ISBN : 978-2-07-013061-0
Pages : 212 pages
Contact detail for copyrights
Contact name : Anne-Solange Noble
Function : Foreign Rights Director
Address : 5 rue Gaston Gallimard 75007 Paris
Email : [email protected]
Website : http://www.gallimard.fr
Exercice d'abandon
Catherine Guillebaud
Le Seuil
Release date : 03/01/2013
Category : Novel
Format : 21 X 14 cm
Price : 17 €
ISBN : 978-2-02-109737-5
Pages : 164 pages
A cruise boat travels up the Mekongriver, from Vietnam to Cambodia. Two tourists - a man and a woman run off thesly, leaving their respective partners behind. Without any explanation. Thus begins for the
two
"survivors" the most shattering journey. Abandoned, they sink into each other's arms. Utter dejection, tooshameful-to-mention admiration for those who "dared" to leave, almost euphoric, solidarity, attraction...
Catherine Guillebaud excels in probing this delicate colour chart of feelings outlining the encounter of two
distraught and strikinly lucid souls.
Contact detail for copyrights
Contact name : Martine Heissat
Function : Foreign Rights Director
Address : 25, boulevard Romain Rolland CS 21418 75993 Paris Cedex 14
Email : [email protected]
Website : http://www.seuil.com/
Dictionnaire amoureux de la musique
André Tubeuf
Plon
Release date : 13/09/2012
Category : Essay
Format : 21 x 14 cm
Price : 24 €
ISBN : 978-2-259-21597-8
Pages : 704 pages
This dictionary for lovers constitutes the experience of a lifetime of a music lover, the impressive
guided tour of an author serving the greatest number possible of curious souls.
How many beautiful books are available so that all can better observe paintings! But we can’t do
that with music, it offers no images. The memory has difficultly fixing what happens at the very
instant, even if it is pleasure. Which is why a guide is so extremely useful, when it comes to
music, and this is the very best. With this dictionary for lovers, André Tubeuf sponsors and
promotes our future hours of listening. As an attentive lover who has taken the time to listen for
his own pleasure and knows now how to share it, he can lead one to appreciate Mozart,
Schubert, and Bach, but Verdi and Wagner as well. He has the genius to make them seem
closer, the keys to let us know them in all their musical mystery and in their individuality as
men. One must know how to listen to him, that is to say to be open to receive his reflections.
He can make so many of what seemed to us the household words of music suddenly mysterious
and fascinating: melody, rhythm, tonality, timbre, even silence! And we discover the meaning
ofit all, a meaning one can understand. And so we do more than adore music, we love it, taste it
as a mystery that is accessible.
Author: Born in Smyrna in 1930, graduate of the Ecole normale supérieure d’Ulm, André Tubeuf
holds an agrégation in philosophy, which he has taught for thirty-five years at Khâgne. The rest
of the time he has spent learning, by listening, to the music that, first, exile and war, then other
studies, had prevented him from learning like everyone else.
Contact detail for copyrights
Contact name : Florence Maletrez
Function : Foreign rights & rights sales manager
Address : 76, rue Bonaparte 75284 Paris
Email : [email protected]
Website : http://www.presses-renaissance.fr
Jours de pouvoir
Bruno Le Maire
Gallimard
Release date : 31/01/2013
Category : Essay
Format : 23 X 16 cm
Price : 22.50 €
ISBN : 978-2-07-013903-3
Pages : 427 pages
Contact detail for copyrights
Contact name : Anne-Solange Noble
Function : Foreign Rights Director
Address : 5 rue Gaston Gallimard 75007 Paris
Email : [email protected]
Website : http://www.gallimard.fr
Remonter la Marne
Jean-Paul Kauffmann
Fayard
Release date : 13/02/2013
Category : Novel
Format : 22 X 14 cm
Price : 19,50 €
ISBN : 978-2-213-65471-3
Pages : 261 pages
To go by foot along the Marne, from its confluence with the Seine until its very source,is to journey through
the scents and the untouched landscapes of a region penetrated by that strange light the French call la
rambleur.
A sensitive olfactory and visual account, shot through with subtle philosophical, theological, botanical,
grammatical, oenological and ethnological digressions... Because to walk along the Marne is to go back in
time. And Jean-Paul Kauffmann lives and breathes his passion for history. As he follows the river's
meanders, he will encounter the phantoms of both Louis XVI, with his ebbing and surging fortunes, and
Napoleon, shrouded in the pungent scents of the Great French Empire. Then there are the telling traces of
World War I, of the bitterly fought strategic battles which took place along the Marne.
Walking alone can allow us to fully experience the deep resonance of time, silences and chance events.
Journalist and special correspondent Jean-Paul Kauffmann was a hostage in Lebanon for three years. Upon
his release, he published a number of novels, including La Chambre noire de Longwood (La Table Ronde,
1997) winner of the Prix Fémina Essay, the Prix Roger Nimier, the Grand Prix Lire-RTL, the Prix Jules Verne
and the Prix Joseph Kessel. In 2002, Jean-Paul Kauffmann was awarded the Grand Prix Paul Morand of the
Académie Française.
Contact detail for copyrights
Contact name : Carole Saudejaud
Function : Foreign rights
Address : 13, rue du Montparnasse 75006 Paris
Email : [email protected]
Website : http://www.editions-fayard.fr
Aurais-je été résistant ou bourreau ?
Pierre Bayard
Les Editions de Minuit
Release date : 17/01/2013
Category : Essay
Format : 22 X 14 cm
Price : 15 €
ISBN : 978-2-7073-2277-7
Pages : 158 pages
Contact detail for copyrights
Contact name : Irène Lindon
Function : Chairman & CEO
Address : 7, rue Bernard Palissy 75006 Paris
Email : [email protected]
Website : http://www.leseditionsdeminuit.fr