Le Testament Francais

Author : Andreï Makine,Andrei Makine
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781848947825

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Le Testament Francais by Andreï Makine,Andrei Makine Pdf

Locked behind the Iron Curtain, a young boy grows up bewitched by his French grandmother’s memories of Paris before the Great War. On her balcony overlooking the Siberian steppes, Charlotte Lemonnier fires her grandson’s imagination with tales of the great flood in 1910, of Proust playing tennis in Neuilly and the President dying in the arms of his mistress, of avenues lined with chestnut trees and elegant cafes. Charlotte’s vision of a paradise lost, though, is overlaid by her subsequent experience. As her grandson grows older, he learns how this remarkable woman survived the Russian revolution’s aftermath, Stalin’s purges and the horrors of the Second World War, gaining from her a portrait of the country drawn with an outsider’s eye. Yet for all the monstrosities of his native land, he realises he is proud to be Russian. Torn between two cultures, as an adolescent he turns his back on all things French. Then in his twenties he abandons the Soviet Union and eventually reaches Paris – where a startling revelation awaits him. This luminous, haunting novel traces a sentimental and intellectual journey that embraces the dramatic history of this century.

Author : Andrei Makine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780684852683

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Dreams Of My Russian Summers by Andrei Makine Pdf

This international bestseller has been translated into 26 languages and is the first work to win both of France's top literary honors. "A masterpiece. . . . Makine belongs on the shelf of world literature--between Lermontov and Nabokov, a few volumes down from Proust".--"The Atlanta Journal".

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Sceptre
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-28
Category : Grandchildren
ISBN : 034093641X

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Le Testament Francais - Sceptre 21S by Andreï Makine Pdf

On the edge of the Siberian steppes, a young boy grows up listening to his French grandmother's stories of France just before the Great War - a nostalgic portrait of a vanished world, but a bewitching one during the Soviet regime. Torn between two cultures, he eventually leaves after the fall of the Berlin Wall for Paris.

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2810509557

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Le testament français by Andreï Makine Pdf

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628723632

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The Woman Who Waited by Andreï Makine Pdf

A moving, utterly captivating love story: Romeo and Juliet as if told by Chekhov or Dostoevsky. In a remote Russian village a woman waits, as she has waited for almost three decades, for the man she loves to return. Near the end of World War II, nineteen-year-old Boris Koptek left the village to join the Russian army, swearing to the sixteen-year-old love of his life, Vera, that as soon as he returned they would marry. Young Boris, who with his engineering battalion fought his way almost to Berlin, was reported killed in action crossing the Spree River. But Vera refuses to believe he is dead, and each day, all these years later, faithfully awaits his return. Then one day the narrator arrives in the village, a twenty-six-year-old native of Leningrad, who is fascinated both by the still-beautiful woman and her exemplary story, and little by little he falls madly in love with her. But how can he compete with a ghost that will not die? Beautifully, delicately, but always powerfully, Andreï Makine delineates in masterly prose the movements and madness that constitute the dance of pure love. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author : William J. Thompson
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1575911043

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French XX Bibliography by William J. Thompson Pdf

Provides a listing available of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. This work is a reference source in the study of modern French literature and culture. The bibliography is divided into three major divisions: general studies, author subjects (arranged alphabetically), and cinema.

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628722314

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Requiem for a Lost Empire by Andreï Makine Pdf

In this remarkable novel, which spans eighty years of the twentieth century, Andreï Makine describes, beautifully but unsparingly, the almost uninterrupted succession of violence, misery, and horror that has been visited on the Russian people since the October Revolution of 1917. For those quick to forget, or too young to remember, he paints a graphic portrait of those years in a three-generational novel that is as moving as it is revealing. A young Russian army doctor is sent to distant shores to bind the wounds of those in Africa, the Near East, and South America that are pawns in the global political chess game during the Cold War. Recruited by an intelligence agent, he experiences the bloody reality of revolution on the ground. The book casts its eye back toward his grandfather Nikolai, a Red cavalry soldier fighting the Whites in 1920, and his father, whose story of World War II is invoked with a passion and force that bear comparison to the best writing on the subject. From the battlefields of the 1920s to the harsh African heat and dust of the desert in the 1980s, from the orphanage where the narrator spent his youth to the art galleries and chic salons of the glittering new West, Requiem for a Lost Empire has all the sweep and depth, all the beauty and insight of the great Russian novels. It is, as the eminent French critic Edmonde Charles-Roux noted, "an astonishing novel, one that will surely stand the test of time."

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628721164

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Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andreï Makine Pdf

Every summer, young Andrei visits his grandmother, Charlotte Lemmonier, whom he loves dearly. In a dusty village overlooking the vast Russian steppes, she captivates her grandson and the other children of the village with wondrous tales—watching Proust play tennis in Neuilly, Tsar Nicholas II’s visit to Paris, French president Felix Faure dying in the arms of his mistress. But from his mysterious grandmother, Andrei also learns of a Russia he has never known: a country of famine and misery, brutal injustice, and the hopeless chaos of war. Enthralled, he weaves her stories into his own secret universe of memory and dream. She creates for him a vivid portrait of the France of her childhood, a distant Atlantis far more elegant, carefree, and stimulating than Russia in the 1970s and ‘80s. Her warm, artful memories of her homeland and of books captivate Andrei. Absorbed in this vision, he becomes an outsider in his own country, and eventually a restless traveler around Europe. Dreams of My Russian Summers is an epic full of passion and tenderness, pain and heartbreak, mesmerizing in every way.

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555970543

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The Life of an Unknown Man by Andreï Makine Pdf

A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers In The Life of an Unknown Man, Andreï Makine explores what truly matters in life through the prism of Russia's past and present. Shutov, a disenchanted writer, revisits St. Petersburg after twenty years of exile in Paris, hoping to recapture his youth. Instead, he meets Volsky, an old man who tells him his extraordinary story: of surviving the siege of Leningrad, the march on Berlin, and Stalin's purges, and of a transcendent love affair. Volsky's life is an inspiration to Shutov -- because for all that he suffered, he knew great happiness. This depth of feeling stands in sharp contrast to the empty lives Shutov encounters in the new Russia, and to his own life, that of just another unknown man . . .

Author : François Villon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:462558075

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Le Testament by François Villon Pdf

Author : Daniel Syrovy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110641875

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Discourses on Nations and Identities by Daniel Syrovy Pdf

The third volume of the collected papers of the ICLA congress "The Many Languages of Comparative Literature" includes contributions that focus on the interplay between concepts of nation, national languages, and individual as well as collective identities. Because all literary communication happens within different kinds of power structures - linguistic, economic, political -, it often results in fascinating forms of hybridity. In the first of four thematic chapters, the papers investigate some of the ways in which discourses can establish modes of thinking, or how discourses are in turn controlled by active linguistic interventions, whether in the context of the patriarchy, war, colonialism, or political factions. The second thematic block is predominantly concerned with hybridity as an aspect of modern cultural identity, and the cultural and linguistic dimensions of domestic life and in society at large. Closely related, a third series of papers focuses on writers and texts analysed from the vantage points of exile and exophony, as well as theoretical contributions to issues of terminology and what it means to talk about transcultural phenomena. Finally, a group of papers sheds light on more overtly violent power structures, mechanisms of exclusion, Totalitarianism, torture, and censorship, but also resistance to these forms of oppression. In addition to these chapters, the volume also collects a number of thematically related group sections from the ICLA congress, preserving their original context.

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628722109

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Music of a Life by Andreï Makine Pdf

A brief but extraordinarily powerful novel by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers and Requiem for a Lost Empire, Music of a Life is set in the period just before, and two decades after, World War II. Alexeï Berg’s father is a well-known dramatist, his mother a famous opera singer. But during Stalin’s reign of terror in the 1930s they, like millions of other Russians, come under attack for their presumed lack of political purity. Harassed and proscribed, they have nonetheless, on the eve of Hitler’s war, not yet been arrested. And young Alexeï himself, a budding classical pianist, has been allowed to continue his musical studies. His first solo concert is scheduled for May 24, 1941. Two days before the concert, on his way home from his final rehearsal, he sees his parents being arrested, taken from their Moscow apartment. Knowing his own arrest will not be far behind, Alexeï flees to the country house of his fiancée, where again betrayal awaits him. He flees, one step ahead of the dreaded secret police until, taking on the identity of a dead soldier, he enlists in the Soviet army. Thus begins his seemingly endless journey, through war and peace, until he lands, two decades later, in a snowbound train station in the Urals, where he relates his harrowing saga to the novel’s narrator. An international bestseller, Music of a Life is, in the words of Le Monde, “extremely powerful . . . a gem.”

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555973421

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A Woman Loved by Andreï Makine Pdf

The fascinating story of a young Russian filmmaker's attempts to portray Catherine the Great, before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union Catherine the Great's life seems to have been made for the cinema—her rise to power; her reportedly countless love affairs and wild sexual escapades; the episodes of betrayal, revenge, and even murder—there's no shortage of historical drama. But Oleg Erdmann, a young Russian filmmaker, seeks to discover and portray Catherine's essential, emotional truth, her real life beyond the rumors and façade. His first screenplay just barely makes it past the Soviet film board and is assigned to a talented director, but the resulting film fails to avoid the usual clichés. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, as he struggles to find a place for himself in the new order, Oleg agrees to work with an old friend on a television series that becomes a quick success—as well as increasingly lurid, a far cry from his original vision. He continues to seek the real Catherine elsewhere. With A Woman Loved, Andreï Makine delivers a sweeping novel about the uses of art, the absurdity of history, and the overriding power of human love, if only it can be uncovered and allowed to flourish.

Author : Pierre Larousse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1134 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French
ISBN : WISC:89015582182

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Grand Dictionnaire Universel [du XIXe Siecle] Francais: A-Z 1805-76 by Pierre Larousse Pdf

Author : Andreï Makine,Blagoja Velkovski-Kraš,Mitko Hadži-Pulja,Minas Bakalčev
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : 9989420386

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Francuskiot testament by Andreï Makine,Blagoja Velkovski-Kraš,Mitko Hadži-Pulja,Minas Bakalčev Pdf