French Lover

Author : Taslima Nasrin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789351180043

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French Lover by Taslima Nasrin Pdf

French Lover is the story of Nilanjana, a young Bengali woman from Kolkata who moves to Paris after getting married to Kishanlal, a restaurant owner. Kishanlal's luxurious apartment seems to be a gilded cage for Nilanjana, and she feels stifled within its friendless confines. Her marriage, where she functions as little more than a housekeeper and sex object, is far from fulfilling and Nilanjana desperately looks for a way out of the boredom and depression that threaten to engulf her. It is at this point that she meets Benoir Dupont, a blond, blue-eyed handsome Frenchman, and is swept off her feet. Benoir introduces Nilanjana to the streets, cafes and art galleries of Paris. In her passionate, sexually liberating relationship with Benoir, she finally begins to have an inkling of her own desires. The relationship ends when Nilanjana realises that Benoir's first priority is himself and not the woman he loves, and that her need for him has ended. But her road to self-discovery has only just begun. Bold in concept and powerful in execution, French Lover is a fascinating glimpse into the workings of a woman's mind as she struggles to come to terms with her identity in a hostile world.

Author : Janet Garber
Publisher : SparkPress
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781684631827

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The French Lover's Wife by Janet Garber Pdf

When Lucie, a smart and sassy girl from NYC, meets Pierre, a dashing Frenchman, at a grad school party in 1973, she abandons her PhD program to run off with him. It’s the start of the sexual revolution, and she doesn’t intend to miss a thing. They first land in Mexico, then marry and settle in Paris to live the dream. But not long into their marriage, Pierre becomes an intolerant critic of her wifely imperfections; Lucie just can’t seem to measure up to French standards. Instead of settling into her new life, she balks at French customs. As planned, she has their baby son in 1976, but far from succeeding in settling her down, the baby highlights her inability to depend on Pierre and precipitates a meltdown. Finally, she makes two friends, young mothers she’s met at the playground. When one of them tries to commit suicide, Lucie panics and considers returning to the U.S. but fears the impact on her young son. An English-speaking women’s writing group sets her on the right path. Ultimately, those women help her realize what she truly needs and wants out of life: to be a mother, a career woman, and a writer.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015084572190

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The American Catalogue by Anonim Pdf

American national trade bibliography.

Author : Marguerite Duras
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307801203

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The Lover by Marguerite Duras Pdf

An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984. Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and its representation in the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts. Long unavailable in hardcover, this edition of The Lover includes a new introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective--that of a visitor to Vietnam today.

Author : Susan Vandiver Nicassio
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0226579719

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Tosca's Rome by Susan Vandiver Nicassio Pdf

In the first section, the author reviews Roman life in the late 18th and 19th centuries, paying considerable attention to how Puccini's own prejudices shaped his story and how Sardou (the French playwright) reinterpreted the historical realities that the opera treats. In the second section, she looks at how Rome circa 1800 was viewed through the eyes of a painter, a singer, and a policeman (the occupations of the opera's three main characters). The third section gives a scene-by-scene analysis of the opera. An appendix shows the parallels (and discrepancies) between the play and the opera.

Author : Tyler Edward Stovall,Georges Van den Abbeele
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0739106473

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French Civilization and Its Discontents by Tyler Edward Stovall,Georges Van den Abbeele Pdf

What happens when the study of French is no longer coterminous with the study of France? French Civilization and Its Discontents explores the ways in which considerations of difference, especially colonialism, postcolonialism, and race, have shaped French culture and French studies in the modern era. Rejecting traditional assimilationist notions of French national identity, contributors to this groundbreaking volume demonstrate how literature, history, and other aspects of what is considered French civilization have been shaped by global processes of creolization and differentiation. This book ably demonstrates the necessity of studying France and the Francophone world together, and of recognizing not only the presence of France in the Francophone world but also the central place occupied by the Francophone world in world literature and history.

Author : Joseph Barry
Publisher : Arbor House Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X001211702

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French Lovers by Joseph Barry Pdf

A bestseller in France, this book traces a wholly original path through Western attitudes towards love from medieval times to our own. The story of liberated Heloise and the ill-fated Abelard begins the journey, and the seemingly modern Sartre and his feminist lover Simone Beauvoir end it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1504 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015030035565

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Littell's Living Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Amar Nath Prasad
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Indic fiction (English)
ISBN : 8176256048

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New Lights on Indian Women Novelists in English by Amar Nath Prasad Pdf

Author : S. P. Sree
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Feminism in literature
ISBN : 8176258458

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Psycho Dynamics Of Women In The Post Modern Liter. by S. P. Sree Pdf

Papers presented at the International Seminar on Psycho Dynamics of Women in the Postmodern Literature of the East and West, held at Visakhapatnam during 25-26 February 2006.

Author : Juliana de Nooy
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781760463649

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What’s France got to do with it? by Juliana de Nooy Pdf

While only one book-length memoir recounting the sojourn of an Australian in France was published in the 1990s, well over 40 have been published since 2000, overwhelmingly written by women. Although we might expect a focus on travel, intercultural adjustment and communication in these texts, this is the case only in a minority of accounts. More frequently, France serves as a backdrop to a project of self-renovation in which transplantation to another country is incidental, hence the question ‘What’s France got to do with it?’ The book delves into what France represents in the various narratives, its role in the self-transformation, and the reasons for the seemingly insatiable demand among readers and publishers for these stories. It asks why these memoirs have gained such traction among Australian women at the dawn of the twenty-first century and what is at stake in the fascination with France.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858045578899

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The Panorama of Life and Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081686374

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Household Words by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : English literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HX16L4

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Household Words by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Dr. Muralikrishnan T.R.,Dr. Amitha P Mani
Publisher : Co-Text Publishers
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788195225378

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Cultural Congruence: Contemporaneity and Confluence by Dr. Muralikrishnan T.R.,Dr. Amitha P Mani Pdf

We are happy to publish this book Cultural Congruence: Contemporaneity and Confluence for the academic community interested in Cultural Studies. This book is an outcome of the discussions and deliberations based on the National seminar held on 28th and 29th January 2020 conducted by the Post Graduate Department of English, MES Asmabi College, P. Vemballur, Kodungallur, Thrissur, Kerala. The editors do admit to the fact that a dynamic phenomenon such Cultural Studies cannot be compressed in a few papers but the concepts and applications illustrated by the research scholars and participants should not go unnoticed and unrecognised. That is the very reason for the publication of this seminar volume. We are aware that topics in Cultural Studies are constantly evolving and constantly challenged. The concepts are always renewed and reinvigorated through negation and negotiation. But they present a paradigm which is surely valuable in the real academic sense. The ideas proposed by the writers are their own and the editors do not subscribe to or endorse them. The editors would like to express the sincere support and goodwill shown by the publisher in this regard. We do acknowledge the moral support by the department colleagues and the academic fraternity at large. We would surely welcome comments and criticism from the readers.