« L’amour passionnel vous pousse à emmitoufler le moindre de vos gestes, à anticiper de manière excessive les réactions de l’autre, à vous perdre finalement dans le dédale de l’anarchie du coeur ». Du jour au lendemain, Etienne annonce à Mathilde qu’il la quitte. L’univers de la jeune femme s’effondre. Dévastée, elle est recueillie par sa soeur Agathe, qui l…
« L’amour passionnel vous pousse à emmitoufler le moindre de vos gestes, à anticiper de manière excessive les réactions de l’autre, à vous perdre finalement dans le dédale de l’anarchie du coeur ». Du jour au lendemain, Etienne annonce à Mathilde qu’il la quitte. L’univers de la jeune femme s’effondre. Dévastée, elle est recueillie par sa soeur Agathe, qui lui ouvre les portes du petit appartement qu’elle occupe avec son mari et leur fille.
Dans ce huis clos familial étouffant, Mathilde révèle peu à peu une nouvelle personnalité, inattendue et glaçante. Il suffirait d’un rien pour que tout bascule…
– Tu seras un héros, tu seras général, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Ambassadeur de France – tous ces voyous ne savent pas qui tu es ! Je crois que jamais un fils n’a haï sa mère autant que moi, à ce moment-là. Mais alors que j’essayais de lui expliquer dans un murmure rageur qu’elle me compromettait aux yeux de l’Armée de l’Air, et que je faisais un nouvel effort pour la pousser derrière le taxi, son visage prit une expression désemparée, ses lèvres se mirent à trembler, et j’entendis une fois de plus la formule intolérable, devenue depuis longtemps classique dans nos rapports : – Alors, tu as honte de ta vieille mère ?
Autrefois l’Empire était partagé entre les Erudits, gardiens du savoir, et les Martiaux, armée redoutable dévouée à l’empereur. Mais les soldats ont pris le dessus, et désormais quiconque est surpris en train de lire ou d’écrire s’expose aux pires châtiments. Dans ce monde sans merci, Laia, une esclave, et Elias, un soldat d’élite, vont tout tenter pour retrouver la liberté… et sauver ceux qu’ils aiment.
Casablanca, début des années 2000. Un peintre, au sommet de sa gloire, se retrouve du jour au lendemain cloué dans un fauteuil roulant, paralysé par une attaque cérébrale. Sa carrière est brisée et sa vie brillante, faite d’expositions, de voyages et de liberté, foudroyée. Muré dans la maladie, il rumine sa défaite, persuadé que son mariage est responsable de son effondrement. Aussi décide-t-il, pour échapper à la dépression qui le guette, d’écrire en secret un livre qui racontera l’enfer de son couple.
Un travail d’auto-analyse qui l’aidera à trouver le courage de se libérer de sa relation perverse et destructrice. Mais sa femme découvre le manuscrit caché dans un coffre de l’atelier et décide de livrer sa version des faits, répondant point par point aux accusations de son mari. Qu’est-ce que le bonheur conjugal dans une société où le mariage est une institution ? Souvent rien d’autre qu’une façade, une illusion entretenue par lâcheté ou respect des convenances.
C’est ce que raconte ce roman en confrontant deux versants d’une même histoire.
Grand insomniaque, un scénariste de Tanger découvre que pour enfin bien dormir il lui faut tuer quelqu’un. Sa mère sera sa première victime. Hélas, avec le temps, l’effet s’estompe… Il doit récidiver. Le scénariste se transforme en dormeur à gages. Incognito, il commet des crimes qu’il rêve aussi parfaits qu’au cinéma. Plus sa victime est importante, plus il dort. Et c’est l’escalade. Parviendra-t-il à vaincre définitivement l’insomnie ? Rien n’est moins sûr.
Une erreur de scénario, et tout peut basculer. Tahar Ben Jelloun nous entraîne dans une quête implacable et troublante, entre rêve et cauchemar éveillé, et livre en filigrane une critique de la société marocaine.
PrésentationBroché Poids0.184 kg Dimensions13,0 cm × 19,8 cm × 2,0 cm ISBN978-0-00-812320-8 EAN9780008123208 Date de parution03/12/2015 ÉditeurHarperCollins publishers
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward II Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into…
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward II Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth.
Now, Snowden reveals for the first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. Spanning the bucolic Beltway sublirbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online – a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.
« Take a break and read Rest: you’ll make smarter decisions, have better relationships, and be happier and more creative » James Wallman, author of Stuffocation
Do you regularly find yourself too tired after a long day at your desk to do anything other than binge TV, or scroll mindlessly through social media? Do you go on holiday and still compulsively check your email? Do you work through your lunch-break, often not even leaving your desk to get some fresh air?
For most of us, overwork is the new norm, and we never truly take the time to rest and recharge. But as Silicon Valley consultant Alex Soojung-Kim Pang explains in this groundbreaking book, rest needs to be taken seriously and to be done properly, because when you rest better you work better.
Drawing on emerging neuroscience, Rest is packed with easy practical tips for incorporating rest into our everyday:
– Go for a long walk to stimulate and sustain creativity
– Schedule deliberate active rest periods into your diary to try out new activities like painting or learning a language
– Stop working on a task when you know what the next step will be, this will make it easier to get started the next day
– Establish clear boundaries between work and rest time
– Take a nap during the day to increase alertness, boost your concentration and decrease fatigue
– Get good quality sleep at night to stay healthy, solidify memories and generate new ideas
When you rest better you’ll find that it won’t just be your work which improves – you’ll have more time for hobbies, stronger relationships and you’ll sleep better, too.
Since its initial publication, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold a total of 15 million copies. The book continues to sell briskly today, but Carnegie never anticipated the ways in which the digital age would provide new tools and challenges for winning friends and influencing people. The advent of social networking sites, the dominance of email, and the ways in which the Internet has supplanted face-to-face interactions have made Carnegie’s precepts all the more immediate and vital. Brent Cole, working in tandem with Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc., has reimagined the original book for the digital age, updating and reframing Carnegie’s insights about communication, self expression, and leadership.
Now in this much-anticipated sequel, Peterson goes further, showing that part of life’s meaning comes from reaching out into the domain beyond what we know, and adapting to an ever-transforming world. While an excess of chaos threatens us with uncertainty, an excess of order leads to a lack of curiosity and creative vitality. Beyond Order therefore calls on us to balance the two fundamental principles of reality order and chaos and reveals the profound meaning that can be found on the path that divides them. Drawing on the hard-won truths of ancient wisdom, as well as deeply personal lessons from his own life and clinical practice, Peterson offers twelve new principles to guide readers towards a more meaningful life.
Discover the love story that captured 21 million hearts . . . The No. 1 bestselling international phenomenon and major film adaptation.
‘A timeless love story’ Red.
« Will needed Lou as much as she needed him, but will her love be enough to save his life?
Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun teashop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick.
What Lou doesn’t know is she’s about to lose her job or that knowing what’s coming is what keeps her sane.
Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he’s going to put a stop to that.
What Will doesn’t know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they’re going to change the other for all time. »
If you fell in love with Lou Clark, find out what she does next in After You and Still Me – out now!
In I Know How She Does It, time management expert Laura Vanderkam offers powerful insights from the diaries of successful women to show you how to rethink the hours of your week – and build a life that works for you. Do you struggle to balance the demands of a successful career with quality time with family and friends, your hobbies, and even a decent night’s sleep? In I Know How She Does It, time management expert and bestselling author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast Laura Vanderkam reveals the surprising strategies you can use to spend more time on the things you enjoy. By following her advice, you will be able to work less, sleep more, enjoy date nights, go to the gym and socialise. Based on hour-by-hour time logs from 1,001 days in the lives of real women, Vanderkam proves that you don’t have to give up on the things you really want. I Know How She Does It offers specific strategies proven to help you build a life that works, one hour at a time
**SUNDAY TIMES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**
‘An epoch-defining book’ Matt Haig ‘If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this’ David Sexton, Evening Standard
It is worse, much worse, than you think.
The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn’t happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.
Over the past decades, the term « Anthropocene » has climbed into the popular imagination – a name given to the geologic era we live in now, one defined by human intervention in the life of the planet. But however sanguine you might be about the proposition that we have ravaged the natural world, which we surely have, it is another thing entirely to consider the possibility that we have only provoked it, engineering first in ignorance and then in denial a climate system that will now go to war with us for many centuries, perhaps until it destroys us. In the meantime, it will remake us, transforming every aspect of the way we live-the planet no longer nurturing a dream of abundance, but a living nightmare.
Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful.’ This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Théâtre de Babylone in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the most important premiere to be staged in Paris for forty years. Nobody acquainted with Beckett’s masterly black comedy would now question this prescient recognition of a classic of twentieth-century literature
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