Jérôme Ferrari
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Language
Español
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Un contexto que durante mucho tiempo ha sido un tabú en la historia de Francia: la guerra de Argelia, y sus horrores.
Con Donde dejé mi alma, Jérme Ferrari (Premio Goncourt 2012) tiene la valentía de construir una novela en un contexto que durante mucho tiempo ha sido un tabú en la historia de Francia: la guerra de Argelia, donde la institucionalización de la tortura o de las ejecuciones sumarias fue un hecho. Lejos de ser una ficción meramente...
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English
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Born in a small town in Corsican countryside, Antonia grows up in a place of deeply-rooted traditions and strong family ties. When she's fourteen, her uncle, a priest, gives her a camera, changing the way she sees the world and igniting a passion for photojournalism. Two decades later, after a tragic accident, Antonia's uncle is forced to reflect on her life and legacy, and on the profound questions both beg about ambition and doubt, passion and guilt,...
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Series
Publisher
Actes Sud
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
On an evening in August, Antonia, strolling on the port of Calvi after a Saturday to immortalize the festivities of a wedding under the lens of her camera, meets a group of legionaries among whom she recognizes Dragan, formerly met during the war in former Yugoslavia. After hours of fiery conversation, the young woman, although exhausted, decides to reach the south of the island, where she lives. A lurch rushes her car into a ravine: she is killed...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Beguiled by the figure of German physicist Werner Heisenberg, who disrupted the assumptions of quantum mechanics with his notorious Uncertainty Principle, earning him the Nobel Prize in physics in 1932, a young, disenchanted philosopher attempts to right his own intellectual and emotional course and take the measure of the evil at work in the contemporary world. In this critically acclaimed novel, Jerome Ferrari takes stock of European culture's failings...
