Mario Biondi Livres

La 4e de couverture indique : "Venise, 1882. La belle et impétueuse Lou Salomé aborde le Dr Breuer, ancêtre de la psychanalyse et mentor du jeune Sigmund Freud. Elle vient solliciter son aide pour son ami, Friedrich Nietzsche. Le philosophe, malgré la parution du Gai Savoir et de Humain, trop humain, est encore méconnu du grand public. Après l'échec de son ménage à trois avec Lou Salomé et Paul Rée, Nietzsche est plongé dans le plus profond désespoir. Irvin Yalom imagine la rencontre fictive entre Breuer et Nietzsche, véritable partie d'échecs entre les deux hommes, qui concluent alors un pacte pour tenter de se guérir l'un l'autre. Et c'est à une nouvelle naissance de la psychanalyse, dense, ludique et originale, que nous convie Irvin Yalom."

These richly hypnotic tales enfold the reader into Isaac Bashevis Singer's special world of imps, demons, lovers, and other mischievous creatures. His world is a world of feelings, driven by lust, lechery, greed, madness, and love. All of his creatures are seen with a clear but loving eye; all seem and are in fact possessed by good and evil, caught in fascinating dilemmas, now terrible, now wryly comic. Here is a dazzling new collection of stories from the fertile genius of Isaac Bashevis Singer, one of today's most entertaining and original writers. (from back cover)

"Sean Courtney was raised in cattle country, and accidently maimed his twin brother Garry as a boy. In inflicting weakness, Sean came to despise weakness in all. This, plus his own strength, was to dictate Sean's iron resolve to win, no matter how much the gamble cost. After a stint fighting the Zulu tribes, Sean trys his luck in the gold fields. Venturing an impossible claim which miraculously proves out, Sean gains wealth beyond counting and power. Power that was unmanageable without cunning. But cunning was an art he was to learn the hard way."

Italian

In 1860 Robyn Ballantyne and her brother return to Africa to search for their missing father and face the terrors of near certain death and the uncertainties of love in the heart of the Dark Continent

Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric—a masterpiece of suspense San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo's wife; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched.

La guerre civile espagnole a inspiré à Ernest Hemingway un de ses plus dramatiques et célèbres romans : Pour qui sonne le glas. Le film qui en a été tiré, et dont Ingrid Bergman et Gary Cooper étaient les héros, étendit encore sa très grande popularité. Un pont, dans la montagne de Castille, doit sauter : il faut couper la route à l'armée franquiste. Pour cette mission précise, Robert Jordan, jeune Américain enrôlé volontaire dans les rangs républicains, rejoint un groupe de maquisards espagnols parmi lesquels se trouvent deux femmes : la terrible Pilar et la tendre Maria pour laquelle Jordan va immédiatement éprouver une vive passion. L'amour suspendra le temps, éloignera la solitude et fera oublier la mort.

Rebecca Navarro, Best-Selling Authoress Of Regency Romances, Suffers A Paralysing Stroke. Assisted By Her Nurse, Rebecca Plans Her Revenge On Her Unfaithful Husband. But Will Freddy Royle, Hospital Trustee, Celebrity And Necrophiliac, Thwart Those Plans? Dave Thornton, Soccer Thug, Has Lost His Heart To Flawed Beauty Samantha Worthington. Together They Go In Search Of The Man Who Marketed The Drug That Crippled Her - In Order To Cripple Him. Lloyd From Leith Has A Transfiguring Passion For The Unhappily Married Heather. Together They Explore The True Nature Of House Music And Chemical Romance. Will Their Ardour Fizzle And Die In The Grim Backstreets Of Edinburgh, Or Will It Ignite And Blaze Like A Thousand Suns?

. 8vo pp. 352 Rilegato tela, sovracoperta (cloth, dust jacket) Ottimo (Fine)