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In addition to this, there is the history of the book itself, and its connection with one of the most important personages in French history — Louis XI. Indeed, in many older French and English works of reference, the authorship of the Nouvelles has been attributed to him, and though in recent years, the writer is now believed — and no ...
Tristes Tropiques (the French title translates literally as "Sad Tropics") is a memoir, first published in France in 1955, by the anthropologist and structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss. [1] It documents his travels and anthropological work, focusing principally on Brazil , though it refers to many other places, such as the Caribbean and India.
German-American filmmaker Otto Preminger produced and directed a film adaptation of the book through his film production company Wheel Productions. Bonjour Tristesse was released in 1958 and stars Jean Seberg, Deborah Kerr and David Niven. [5] Canadian dark ambient band Soufferance based and themed their 2011 concept extended play on the book.
The book consists of aphorisms and brief remarks on subjects such as religion, suicide, and literature. All Gall is Divided was the second book to be written in French by the Romanian-born Cioran, after 1949's A Short History of Decay, and the first to contain aphorisms. Cioran claimed he adopted the aphorism because "explaining bores me terribly".
The "Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne" (English title: Poem on the Lisbon Disaster) is a poem in French composed by Voltaire as a response to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. It is widely regarded as an introduction to Voltaire's 1759 acclaimed novel Candide and his view on the problem of evil .
The Universality of the French Language (French: Discours sur l'universalité de la langue française) is a 1784 essay by Antoine de Rivarol.He began his discourse by tracing a brief history of the origins of French language, claiming that the Roman conquest and the invasion of the Franks in Gaul contributed to the emergence of a linguistic hierarchy, at the top of which stood Latin.
A Short History of Decay was awarded the Rivarol Prize, a French literary prize; the prize committee included André Gide. [3] Although Cioran refused most literary prizes awarded him, [4] he accepted the Rivarol as recognition of his first French work, the language he would write in for the rest of his life. A Short History of Decay was ...
English-language version. Histoire de la violence . Le Seuil. 2016. ISBN 978-2021177787. French-language version. History of Violence. Translated by Stein, Lorin. Harvill Secker. 2018. ISBN 978-1787300392. English-language version. Qui a tué mon père . Le Seuil. 2018. ISBN 978-2021399431. French-language version. Who Killed My Father ...