French & Italian

Francesco Rosi is one of the great realist artists of post-war Italian, indeed post-war world cinema. In this book, author Gaetana Marrone explores the rich visual language in which the Neapolitan filmmaker expresses the cultural icons that constitute his style and images. Over the years, Rosi has offered us films that trace an intricate path...

Caribbean Critique seeks to define and analyze the distinctive contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to perimetric Critical Theory. The book argues that their singular project has been to forge a brand of critique that, while borrowing from North Atlantic predecessors such as Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Sartre, was from the start...

A new strain of realism has emerged in France. The novels that embody it represent diverse fears—immigration and demographic change, radical Islam, feminism, new technologies, globalization, American capitalism, and the European Union—but these books, often best-sellers, share crucial affinities. In their dystopian visions, the collapse of...

Translated and with an Introduction by David Bellos

144 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2015

Puckish and playful, Georges Perec infused avant-garde and experimental fiction with a wit and wonder that belied the serious concerns and concepts that underpinned...

Viviamo oggi la grande transizione dal secolo delle Masse, il XX, al secolo Personal, il XXI, dove domina l’Individuo: siamo noi, padri e madri e figli e figlie, l’umanità decisiva perché online il Buio non prevalga sulla Luce. A patto di alimentare nei nuovi media digitali valori classici, tolleranza, ragione, equanimità, curiosità, allegria,...

Al centro c’è Pompei. Intorno, ventotto piccoli occhi studiano incuriositi le pietruzze colorate. Una manina si posa sulla spalla della restauratrice china a pulire i tasselli. «Tata, che fai?»
È la più piccola bambina del gruppo a parlare. Lei non esita mai a fare domande.

«Pensa come doveva essere prima che scoppiasse», dice...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award, 2017

Les Misérables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written. Like Inspector Javert’s dogged pursuit of Jean Valjean, its appeal has never waned, but only grown broader in its one-hundred-and-fifty-year life....

People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbors' languages―as did many ordinary Europeans in times past (Christopher Columbus knew Italian, Portuguese, and Castilian Spanish as well as...

Ce livre examine les liens entre romans utopiques et libertins au 18e siècle en France, en particulier les cas de "Thérèse philosophe" du marquis Boyer d'Argens, "Candide" de Voltaire et "Aline et Valcour" du marquis de Sade. Bien qu'antithétiques au premier abord, ces deux genres présentent d'importantes similarités. À travers l'analyse...

Virtual library visit for the students of ECS 326 / FRE 326 (Prof. Volker Schröder). 

Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University. 

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- Plans, vues et ornements de Versailles + Description de la grotte de Versailles: ...