JOHN FANTE Fante, inlassablement, à travers tous ses livres qui constituent une oeuvre attachante et forte, raconte la même histoire : la sienne, où il mêle vérité et mensonge. Dans ses romans le personnage principal Arturo Bandini est toujours le reflet, le double de l'écrivain. Comme son personnage, Fante est un fils d'immigrés italiens d'origine très modeste. Son obsession est de ne plus être, dans l'Amérique fière et conquérante, le "sale petit rital" catholique immigré, mais un véritable Amerloque admis et respecté. Toute l'oeuvre de John Fante raconte avec simplicité et humour, l'itinéraire de Bandini, gamin, râleur, révolté, désolé d'être le fils d'une mère bigote et soumise, et d'un pére maçon, violent et cavaleur. Après les années d'enfance, viendra la jeunesse bohême (Demande à la poussière) passée entre les petits boulots et les amours impossibles... A force d'obstination, Arturo Bandini pourra vivre de sa plume.
25 Banned Books That You Should Read Today Almost since the dawn of publishing, books have been banned for one reason or another. Many notable banned books are also compelling reads from classic or contemporary literature. This list summarizes 25 of the most controversial banned books from throughout history. #1 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Harper Lee's only novel is considered by many to be among the greatest works of fiction in American literature. Yet the story of young Scout Finch and her father, Atticus, has often been banned. #2 American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis Ellis is a frequent target for protests due to the nature of his writing, but none has faced the level of opposition of American Psycho. #3 And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson This picture book tells the true story of Roy and Silo, two male penguins in New York City's Central Park Zoo. #4 The Awakening by Kate Chopin #5 The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. #6 Candide by Voltaire #7 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut #9 Forever by Judy Blume D.
Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More Ebooks libres et gratuits Bibliothèque électronique du QuébecJean-Yves, qui a créé cette bibliothèque en 1998, à une époque où personne ne pensait à proposer des livres électroniques qui soient aussi agréables à lire que les livres papier (le format texte régnait alors en maître...), nous propose plus de 1000 livres aux formats ePub et PDF. Il travaille également, au moment où j'écris ces lignes (novembre 2009) à proposer, en plus des versions au format PDF classiques, des versions spécialement adaptées aux liseuses. Son site est maintenant hébergé par notre groupe. Cette bibliothèque nous propose des livres de grande qualité, et j'avoue que je n'ai jamais compris comment un seul homme avait réussi à faire tout ça. Chapeau bas...Bibliothèque numérique romandeNous aimons beaucoup ce site de nos amis suisses romands, que nous considérons un peu comme notre petit frère.
Top 10 Best Novels of the Last 20 Years Books The ten novels on this list all substantiate the belief that books are the most elastic, introspective, human and entertaining form of media that exist. Not movies, not music, not art, not the theatre. Music for Torching by A.M. First Sentence: ”It is after midnight on one of those Friday nights when the guests have all gone home and the host and hostess are left in their drunkenness to try and put things right again.” As the only woman on the list, A. Homes makes this common enough theme of suburban ennui feel real with her shining prose, a secondary cast of interesting plots and characters, and lack of a fairy-tale ending. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (1996) First Sentence: “Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler’s pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.” Of course, Palahniuk had to be on this list. House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski (2000) The house is alive. We Don’t Live Here Anymore by Andre Dubus (2004) The Road
E. E. Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings was born at home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 1894. He began writing poems as early as 1904 and studied Latin and Greek at the Cambridge Latin High School. He received his BA in 1915 and his MA in 1916, both from Harvard. His studies there introduced him to avant garde writers, such as Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. In 1917, Cummings published an early selection of poems in the anthology Eight Harvard Poets. After the war, he settled into a life divided between houses in rural Connecticut and Greenwich Village, with frequent visits to Paris. In 1920, In his work, Cummings experimented radically with form, punctuation, spelling and syntax, abandoning traditional techniques and structures to create a new, highly idiosyncratic means of poetic expression. At the time of his death, September 3, 1962, he was the second most widely read poet in the United States, after Robert Frost. A Selected Bibliography Poetry Prose
team alexandriz Page 2 Goodreads | Recent Updates Robert Bly Robert Bly was born on December 23, 1926, in Madison, Minnesota. He attended Harvard University and received his M.A. from the University of Iowa in 1956. As a poet, editor, and translator, Bly has had a profound impact on the shape of American poetry. He is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, including Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected Poems (W. W. As the editor of the magazine The Sixties (begun as The Fifties), Bly introduced many unknown European and South American poets to an American audience. Bly is also the author of a number of nonfiction books, including The Sibling Society (Addison-Wesley, 1996); The Spirit Boy and the Insatiable Soul (1994); Iron John: A Book about Men (1990); and Talking All Morning: Collected Conversations and Interviews (1980). His honors include Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships as well as The Robert Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America.
One Story’ Names the Top 10 Short Stories of All Time As a fitting finale to National Short Story Month, we asked the talented crew over at One Story to name their ten favorite epigrammatic tales. Tanya Rey, the managing editor, explained via e-mail that their choices are in no particular order, so anti-Salingerists are advised to not get all huffy just because JD leads the list. Tanya writes, “Certain authors (e.g., Cheever, Moore, Johnson, Barthleme) were nominated more than once, for different stories, so we tried to choose the most ‘classic’ of those stories. This was not exactly a scientific or objective process.” “For Esmé – with Love and Squalor” by JD Salinger “For Esmé – with Love and Squalor” was originally published in 1950 in the New Yorker to great acclaim; it was later included in the collection Nine Stories.
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