Les arpenteurs du monde

Name: Les arpenteurs du monde
Brand: Woolf, Virginia
SKU: GD-9780141184272
Price: 3.91 EUR
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Le Pitch

Dans « Les Arpenteurs du Monde », Daniel Kehlmann imagine la rencontre entre deux figures majeures de l'histoire : l'explorateur Alexander von Humboldt et le mathématicien Carl Friedrich Gauss. Ces deux hommes, aux passions et aux modes de vie opposés, se retrouvent à Berlin et partagent des discussions sur la science, la nature et l'existence. Entre réalité et fiction, l'auteur dresse le portrait de ces génies en proie à leurs doutes et à leur solitude, dans un récit mêlant humour et profondeur. Afficher moinsAfficher plus

Contenu

4ème de couverture

Once described as the 'longest and most charming love-letter in literature', the Virginia Woolf's Orlando is edited by Brenda Lyons with an introduction and notes by Sandra M. Gilbert in Penguin Classics.Written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend, the charismatic writer Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, immortal and ageless, who changes sex and identity on a whim. First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through three centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. A wry commentary on gender roles and modes of history, Orlando is also, in Woolf's own words, a light-hearted 'writer's holiday' which delights in ambiguity and capriciousness.Biographie de l'auteurVirginia Woolf (1882-1941) is recognized as a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. Her first novel, The Voyage Out, appeared in 1915, and she then worked through the transitional Night and Day (1919) to the highly experimental and impressionistic Jacob's Room (1922). Her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), the historical fantasy Orlando (1928), written for Vita Sackville-West, the extraordinarily poetic vision of The Waves (1931), the family saga of The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941).

Les arpenteurs du monde

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Le Pitch

Dans « Les Arpenteurs du Monde », Daniel Kehlmann imagine la rencontre entre deux figures majeures de l'histoire : l'explorateur Alexander von Humboldt et le mathématicien Carl Friedrich Gauss. Ces deux hommes, aux passions et aux modes de vie opposés, se retrouvent à Berlin et partagent des discussions sur la science, la nature et l'existence. Entre réalité et fiction, l'auteur dresse le portrait de ces génies en proie à leurs doutes et à leur solitude, dans un récit mêlant humour et profondeur. Afficher moinsAfficher plus

Détails du livre

Titre complet

Orlando

Editeur

Format

Broché

Publication

28 septembre 2000

Pages

336

Taille

19.7 x 13 x 2 cm

Poids

225

ISBN-13

9780141184272

Contenu

4ème de couverture

Once described as the 'longest and most charming love-letter in literature', the Virginia Woolf's Orlando is edited by Brenda Lyons with an introduction and notes by Sandra M. Gilbert in Penguin Classics.Written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend, the charismatic writer Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, immortal and ageless, who changes sex and identity on a whim. First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through three centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. A wry commentary on gender roles and modes of history, Orlando is also, in Woolf's own words, a light-hearted 'writer's holiday' which delights in ambiguity and capriciousness.Biographie de l'auteurVirginia Woolf (1882-1941) is recognized as a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. Her first novel, The Voyage Out, appeared in 1915, and she then worked through the transitional Night and Day (1919) to the highly experimental and impressionistic Jacob's Room (1922). Her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), the historical fantasy Orlando (1928), written for Vita Sackville-West, the extraordinarily poetic vision of The Waves (1931), the family saga of The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941).

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