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A Happy Death (original title La mort heureuse) is a novel by absurdist French writer-philosopher Albert Camus.The absurdist topic of the book is the "will to happiness", the conscious creation of one's happiness, and the need of time (and money) to do so.
François Toledo, a married businessman and father, falls head-over-heels in love with Janine, a colleague. However, after three dates, he feels dishonoured when he suffers from impotence.
Alt., MDR. Abbreviation in SMS, akin to LOL; for mort de rire (mort, adj. or verb, past tense), or mourir de rire (mourir, verb, infinitive). Lit., as adjective or past tense, dead or died of laughing, so "died laughing" or "dying of laughter"; compare mort de faim for starve. mélange a mixture. mêlée a confused fight; a struggling crowd ...
The story's appearance in La Fontaine's Fables contributed to the fable's growing popularity in Europe. In fact, La Fontaine wrote two and placed them side by side. La Mort et le malheureux (Death and man in misfortune, I.15) is a rewriting of the story in which the main emphasis is placed on the moral to be drawn from the situation.
Death Watch (French: La Mort en direct) is a 1980 science fiction film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. It is based on the 1973 novel The Unsleeping Eye by David G. Compton. The film was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. [2] The film had 1,013,842 admissions in France and was the 35th most attended film of the year. [3]
Troubled Sleep (French: La mort dans l'âme, [1] published in the United Kingdom as Iron in the Soul is a 1949 novel by Jean-Paul Sartre.It is the third part in the trilogy Les chemins de la liberté (The Roads to Freedom).
"La Morte amoureuse" (in English: "The Dead Woman in Love") is a short story written by Théophile Gautier and published in La Chronique de Paris in 1836. It tells the story of a priest named Romuald who falls in love with Clarimonde, a beautiful woman who turns out to be a vampire. In English translations the story has been titled "Clarimonde ...
Feminism or death (French: Le Féminisme ou la mort) is a book of essays about ecofeminism by Françoise d´Eaubonne. [1] In it, d'Eaubonne first coined the term ecofeminism (l'eco-féminisme), [2] which conceptualizes the apparent linkage between the treatment of women and the environment.