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La petite mort (French pronunciation: [la pətit mɔʁ]; lit. ' the little death ') is an expression that refers to a brief loss or weakening of consciousness, and in modern usage refers specifically to a post-orgasm sensation as likened to death. [1] The first attested use of the expression in English was in 1572 with the meaning of "fainting ...
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.
Death Is My Trade is the British title of a biographical novel by Robert Merle (French: La mort est mon métier). The protagonist, Rudolf Lang, was closely based on the real Rudolf Höß, commandant of the concentration camp of Auschwitz.
Two of Camus's works were published posthumously. The first entitled La mort heureuse (A Happy Death) (1971) is a novel that was written between 1936 and 1938. It features a character named Patrice Mersault, comparable to The Stranger ' s Meursault. There is scholarly debate about the relationship between the two books.
The Death of the Author" (French: La mort de l'auteur) is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915–1980). Barthes' essay argues against traditional literary criticism's practice of relying on the intentions and biography of an author to definitively explain the "ultimate meaning" of a text. Instead, the ...
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.
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Pache, mayor of the Paris Commune, painted the formula "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, ou la mort" on the walls of the commune. It was under the Third Republic that the motto was made official. It was then not dissociated with insurrection and revolutionary ardours, Opportunist Republicans such as Jules Ferry or Gambetta adapting it to the ...