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Downhill (C'est la vie..., ou Le Chant du Danube), 1927 Isabel Jeans (1891-1985)

... le 29 avril 1980 Quelques années plus tôt, il concluait une de ses dernières interventions publiques sur une allusion de fin lettré à Thomas de Quincey et De l'assassinat considéré comme un des beaux-arts : Finally, I think I can best describe the insidious effect of murder on one's character by reading a paragraph from Thomas De Quincey's delightful essay Murder as One of the Fine Arts. He said: "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes... [Lire la suite]

The Pleasure Garden (Le Jardin du plaisir), 1925 Virginia Valli (1898-1968)

Juno and the peacock (Junon et le paon), 1930 Kathleen O'Regan (1903- )

J.G. Ballard Before the success of Empire of the Sun Ballard was known principally for darkly surreal novels such as The Crystal World (1966), which described a West African country undergoing an inexplicable process of petrifaction, and Crash (1973), in which he put forward the idea that modern society finds traffic accidents erotic. Despising the term science fiction, Ballard never used it, preferring to describe his work as "apocalyptic". Despite Ballard's avuncular appearance and booming voice, his air of bonhomie... [Lire la suite]

Quand le génie de la Jim Henson Company télescope celui de Lewis Carroll. C'est ce qu'on appelle un mélange des genres (The Muppet Show, extrait de l'épisode 506, avec Brooke Shields) Jabberwocky 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. 'Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!' He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe... [Lire la suite]

Rich and Strange (À l'est de Shanghaï), 1931 Joan Barry, 1903-1989

Facile.

Londres, 2 avril, pendant le sommet des boursicoteurs

Anna Boyd