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13 produkter
Dreaming in French
Av Alice Kaplan
Häftad, 2013
190 kr
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"A year in Paris"...Countless American students have been lured by that vision - and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. "Dreaming in French" tells three stories of that experience and how it changed the lives of three extraordinary American women. All three women would go on to …
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The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
Av Alice Kaplan
E-bok, 2014
644 kr
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On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinction—a prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He was also a dedicated anti-Semite, an acerbic opponent of French democracy, and editor in chief of the fascist weekly Je …
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The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
Av Alice Kaplan
Häftad, 2001
299 kr
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On February 6, 1945, a 35-year-old French writer and newspaper editor named Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was the only writer of any distinction to be put to death by the French Liberation government during the violent days of score-settling known as the …
Interpreter
Av Alice Kaplan
Häftad, 2007
167 kr
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"No story of World War II" is more triumphant than the liberation of France, made famous in countless photos of Parisians waving American flags and kissing GIs as columns of troops paraded down the Champs-Elysees. But one of the least-known stories from that era is also one of the ugliest chapters …
French Lessons
A Memoir
Av Alice Kaplan
Häftad, 2018
226 kr
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Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of learning. Kaplan begins with a distinctly American …
Looking for the Stranger
Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
Av Alice Kaplan
Häftad, 2018
208 kr
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The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as at likely to be found in a teen's backpack as in a graduate philosophy …
Travels in the Americas
Notes and Impressions of a New World
Inbunden, 2023
212 kr
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Albert Camus’s lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation.In March 1946, the young Albert Camus crossed from Le Havre to New York. Though he was virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, all that was …
States of Plague
Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic
Inbunden, 2022
190 kr
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States of Plague examines Albert Camus’s novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis.As one of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert Camus’s classic novel The Plague has become a new kind of …
States of Plague
Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic
Häftad, 2024
153 kr
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States of Plague examines Albert Camus’s novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis.As one of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert Camus’s classic novel The Plague has become a new kind of …
Seeing Baya
Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris
Av Alice Kaplan
Inbunden, 2024
325 kr
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The first biography of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, celebrated in mid-twentieth-century Paris, her life shrouded in myth. On a flower farm in colonial Algeria, a servant and field worker known as Baya escaped the drudgery of her labor by coloring the skirts in fashion magazines. Three years …
Travels in the Americas
Notes and Impressions of a New World
Häftad, 2025
172 kr
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Albert Camus’s lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation.In March 1946, the young Albert Camus crossed from Le Havre to New York. Though he was virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, all that was …
Interpreter
Av Alice Kaplan
E-bok, 2005
226 kr
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No story of World War II is more triumphant than the liberation of France, made famous in countless photos of Parisians waving American flags and kissing GIs, as columns of troops paraded down the Champs Élysées. Yet liberation is a messy, complex affair, in which cultural understanding can be as …
Looking for The Stranger
Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
Av Alice Kaplan
Inbunden, 2016
263 kr
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