![]() ![]() Marguerite Duras died in Paris on 3rd March, 1996. A Vice Consul is a subordinate officer in a Consular Mission, generally called a Consulate General or a Consulate, authorized to exercise certain consular functions. Vice consul is a diplomatic rank, lower than that of a Consul and higher than that of a Consular Agent. She also wrote the film scripts for Hiroshima mon Amour (1960), India Song (1975) and The Ravishing of Lol Stein (1985). The Vice-Consul' is a book by Marguerite known as vice-consul Miscellanea. Her novels include The Sea Wall (1952), The Vice Consul(1966), Destroy (1969), The Lover (1985) and That's All (1995). However, her protests concerning the treatment of writers in the Soviet Union led to her being expelled in 1950. In 1944 Duras joined the Communist Party. Her husband, Robert Antelme, was also a member of the resistance and after his arrest by the Gestapo he was deported and imprisoned in Dachau. ![]() At the age of seventeen Duras moved to France where she studied law and politics at the University of Paris.Īfter Henri-Philippe Petain signed the armistice in 1940 she joined the French R esistance and during the occupation she worked for the Cercle de la Librairie, where she was in control of paper rationing. ![]() Marguerite Duras, the daughter of French schoolteachers, was born in Gia Dinh, Vietnam, on 4th April, 1914. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Examining modern society, Chollet concludes that these women continue to be harrassed and oppressed. ![]() ![]() But who were the women who were accused and often killed for witchcraft? What types of women have centuries of terror censored, eliminated, and repressed? Celebrated feminist writer Mona Chollet explores three types of women who were accused of witchcraft and persecuted: the independent woman, since widows and celibates were particularly targeted the childless woman, since the time of the hunts marked the end of tolerance for those who claimed to control their fertility and the elderly woman, who has always been an object of at best, pity, and at worst, horror. Witches are both the ultimate victim and the stubborn, elusive rebel. Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique fascination for many: as fairy tale villains, practitioners of pagan religion, as well as feminist icons. Mona Chollet’s In Defense of Witches is a “brilliant, well-documented” celebration ( Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() panoramic, illuminating and compassionate. Praise for The Testament of Gideon Mack: 'The story of a Presbyterian minister who comes back from a near-death experience claiming that he has met the devil, this is both a hugely gripping tale and a fascinating examination of the difference between faith and belief' FT Magazine 'A masterly piece of storytelling (and Scottish soul-reaching)' James Naughtie, Herald Praise for And the Land Lay Still: 'A wonderful novel. Alan decides that he must travel to Australia to confront this witness, whose evidence he has always disbelieved, in the hope that this might at last be the breakthrough for which he has waited so long. ![]() When an American intelligence officer, apparently terminally ill and determined to settle his own accounts before death, arrives on his doorstep with information about a key witness in the trial, a fateful sequence of events is set in motion. Obsessed by the details of what he has come to call The Case, he is sure that the man convicted of the atrocity was not responsible, and that he himself has thus been deprived not only of justice but also of any chance of escape from his enduring grief. Twenty-one years after his wife and daughter were murdered in the bombing of a plane over Scotland, Alan Tealing, a university lecturer, still does not know the truth of what really happened on that terrible night. The Professor of Truth is the newest novel by Saltire prizewinner James Robertson. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Andrews visualizes his concept with a tone and texture that produces an unassuming but profound strangeness: A telephone on top of a boulder in the middle of a stream? All the constellations in the sky interpreted by a talking bear? This embeds the fantasy in an earthy, handcrafted reality, apparent right up to its rough panel borders. ![]() Who ends up breaking the pact and who doesn’t is only one element of this richly imagined and complexly emotional story that would be spoiled by too thorough a plot summary, though the story’s power rests less in surprise than in the moment-to-moment unfolding of the journey. The titular pact: no turning back from their quest. A group of boys on bikes sets out to learn whether the lanterns cast down the river in their town’s annual ceremony actually turn into stars like the legends say. ![]() ![]() You don’t watch Christine to think hard about the forces of evil and the consequences of teen bullying. I find it refreshing when something is evil just because.Ĭhristine has a straightforward plot, but that works in its favour. She’s just evil for the sake of being evil, because why not. She isn’t possessed by a real woman named Christine, there’s no Satanist origin story or elaborate explanation for why she has supernatural powers. I love that Christine is inherently evil. After a bunch of psychopathic school bullies smash the hell out of his car, Arnie discovers Christine’s supernatural abilities, and the two of them seek revenge. Arnie falls in love with Christine (like, legit in love) and he gets cooler the more time he spends with her. His friend (yes, singular) and family don’t want him to buy and restore the car, but he does anyway. ![]() Arnie, a big pushover nerd, finds a rusted out 1958 Plymouth Fury. ![]() ![]() ![]() For Duncker, the very fact that these ‘celebrations of erotic desire’ are written within the ‘straight-jacket’ of the fairy tale form means that the messages they deliver are inherently patriarchal. ![]() ![]() Although Carter’s stories overtly depict female sexuality and pleasure, Duncker disputes that this alone does not justify feminist interpretations of Carter’s fiction. Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber (See note 1) has long been subject to criticism from writers such as Patricia Duncker for the ways in which its short stories, which are ‘often described as a group of traditional fairy tales given a subversive feminist twist’, (See note 2) present male and female heterosexual dynamics. ![]() ![]() ![]() Back in 1992, Ridley and I became founding members of the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band of authors that included Stephen King, Amy Tan, Matt Groening, Barbara Kingsolver and others. How did a thriller writer and a newspaper columnist known for booger jokes come to write a prequel to Peter Pan? ![]() The masterminds behind the novel are Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, who were interviewed to talk about their inspiration behind the book! Read the short interview below! Molly and Peter fight to keep the world safe from evil, which eventually leads to the discovery of Neverland, and Peter becoming the infamous boy who never grows up. ![]() Peter begins as an orphan who quickly meets a new friend named Molly, who helps him overcome pirates and even thieves, with the goal of keeping a magical secret safe. Barrie's novel, Peter and Wendy. This book tells the backstory of the main character Peter, which originates in his childhood. The idea for the musical play Peter and the Starcatcher comes from a best-selling children's novel entitled similarly, Peter and the Starcatchers. The novel was published by Hyperion Books in 2004, and is a prequel to J. ![]() Peter (Bryan Welnicki) and Molly (Aisling Halpin). PETER AND THE STARCATCHER is based off of a best-selling children's novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Elmer Elevator," she said to my father, "if you think I'm going to give that cat a saucer of milk, you're very wrong. She hatedĬats, particularly ugly old alley cats. My father and the cat became good friends but my father's mother was very upset about the cat. "We have a very nice furnace to sit by," said my father, "and I'm sure my mother has an extra saucer of milk." This surprised the cat – she had never before met anyone who cared about old alley cats – but she said, "I'd be very much obliged if I could sit by a warm furnace, and perhaps have a saucer of milk." The cat was very drippy and uncomfortable so my father said, "Wouldn't you like to come home with me?" One cold rainy day when my father was a little boy, he met an old alley cat on his street. TORONTO, CANADA BY RANDOM HOUSE OF CANADA, PUBLISHED IN NEW YORKīY RANDOM HOUSE, INC. RESERVED UNDER INTERNATIONAL AND PAN AMERICANĬOPYRIGHT CONVENTIONS. A Celebration of Women Writers My Father's DragonĬOPYRIGHT 1948 BY RANDOM HOUSE, INC. ![]() ![]() ![]() What's wrong with this movie? I have no idea. I was also very impressed by the seamless shrinking of the vertically challenged characters. It may come as a surprise to you, as it did to me, that we are being gifted an edition of the Lord of the Rings trilogy that contains J.R.R. The special effects were incredible, the cave troll, the balrog, Gollum, and Sauron's Eye all looked amazing. Oh, and Andy Serkis does a PERFECT Gollum voice. My hat's off to Sean Bean who delivers an excellent performance as Boromir, a character who's intentions are good but wrestles with the corrupting power of the Ring. The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), The Return of the King (2003) is the series based on the novel. Wood, Mortensen, Holm, Astin, everyone was fantastic. As I've read many many times in other reviews, McKellen doesn't play Gandalf, he IS Gandalf. Despite these minor changes, the screenplay stays extremely close to the book and flows very very well (and the prologue was a nice touch). ![]() I didn't mind Arwen's inflation and I'm actually glad Tom Bombadil was scrubbed (I felt Tom Bombadil was an unnecessary addition to the book). ![]() I'm not a crazed fanatic who gets worked up over every little detail. I read the Lord of the Rings very recently and I was surprised at how similar Peter Jackson's vision was to my own. Never before have I seen a 3 hour movie that didn't seem like 3 hours. ![]() ![]() Occasionally Galen reminisces about his time in the war, but he doesn’t go into graphic detail. Of the two bishop characters, one is evil and manipulative while the other is a good and strong man. The story seems to be set in a vaguely Catholic society, though that aspect of the setting doesn’t play a huge part in the plot. ![]() One character makes an ambiguous decision that is left to the reader to judge. The hero, heroine, and those on their side are all good people with the right motives, and their enemies are undeniably evil. ![]() The morality in this story is, for the most part, well-defined. The twelve royal sisters of Westfalin want for nothing that their father can provide - so why, then, are their lives overshadowed by a nameless curse that no amount of determined princes can break? Worse, why does each prince meet death shortly after his failure.and will the same fate befall the curious and goodhearted ex-soldier Galen? It seems simple enough, the life of a princess: dancing, strolling, being courted by handsome princes. Winsome retelling of a favorite fairytale. ![]() ![]() Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George ![]() |