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Les Caves Du Majestic
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Author : Georges Simenon
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
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Author : Georges Simenon
language : fr
Publisher: Gallimard Education
Release Date : 2010-06-01
Les Caves Du Majestic written by Georges Simenon and has been published by Gallimard Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-01 with Fiction categories.
Il y a le Paris de l'opulence et des raffinements délicats. Il y a celui des petits matins blêmes et des couples éreintés. Prosper Donge, employé d'un palace situé sur les Champs-Elysées, trouve de bon matin le cadavre d'une cliente tassé dans l'une des quatre-vingt-douze armoires métalliques du vestiaire. Cette jeune Américaine aurait été étranglée alors que le mari était absent pour affaires. Que faisait-elle là ? Maigret découvre alors pour les besoins de l'enquête un monde à part fait de coulisses et de pièces cachées; un monde avec ses codes et ses drames où s'affairent des anonymes et où la richesse extrême côtoie la précarité, la fatigue et le travail de ceux qui, dans l'ombre, servent, regardent, ressentent et n'en pensent pas moins...
The Cellars Of The Majestic
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Author : Georges Simenon
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2016-01-26
The Cellars Of The Majestic written by Georges Simenon and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-26 with Fiction categories.
“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré An Inspector Maigret mystery that brings the dark side of glamorous expat life in Paris to life In this riveting mystery from Georges Simenon, Maigret must investigate the murder of Mrs. Clark, the wife of a wealthy American industrialist, whose strangled body is found in the basement of an upscale hotel near the Champs-Élysées. Maigret’s inquiries take him from the endless corridors of the Hotel Majestic to the countryside of the Bois de Boulogne and sun-drenched Cannes, into a world of illicit sex work, drug addiction, and blackmail.
Maigret S World
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Author : Murielle Wenger
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-08-07
Maigret S World written by Murielle Wenger and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Georges Simenon's 75 novels and 28 short stories that feature Chief Inspector Jules Maigret provide us with a great deal of information about the French police detective--but only in small, episodic doses. As readers become acquainted with Maigret one detail at a time, he slowly takes on a flesh-and-bone realism--not merely a character in a story, but someone we would like to meet in real life. This book presents all the canonical facts and details about the detective and his world in one place, presented with tabulations and analyses that enable a better understanding of the works and of Maigret himself.
Continental Films
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Author : Christine Leteux
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2022-11-29
Continental Films written by Christine Leteux and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-29 with History categories.
From 1940 to 1944, the German-owned Continental Films dominated the French film landscape, producing thirty features throughout the Nazi occupation. Charged with producing entertaining and profitable films rather than propaganda, producer Alfred Greven employed some of the greatest French actors and most prestigious directors of the time, including Maurice Tourneur, Henri Decoin, Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Marcel Carné. Using recently opened archival documents, including reams of testimony from the épuration (purification) hearings conducted shortly after the war, Christine Leteux has produced the most authoritative and complete history of the company and its impact on the French film industry—both during the war and after. She captures the wide range of responses to the firm from those who were eager to work for a company whose ideology matched their own, to others who reluctantly accepted contracts out of necessity, to those who abhorred the company but felt compelled to participate in order to protect family members from Nazi reprisals. She examines not only the formation and management of Continental Films but also the personalities involved, the fraught and often deadly political circumstances of the period, the critical reception of the films, and many of the more notorious and controversial events. As Bertrand Tavernier explains in his foreword, Leteux overturns many of the preconceptions and clichés that have come to be associated with Continental Films. Published to rave reviews in French and translated by the author into English, this work shatters expectations and will reinvigorate study of a lesser-known but significant period of French film history.
The Battle Of The Sexes In French Cinema 1930 1956
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Author : Noël Burch
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-25
The Battle Of The Sexes In French Cinema 1930 1956 written by Noël Burch and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-25 with Performing Arts categories.
In The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930–1956, Noël Burch and Geneviève Sellier adopt a sociocultural approach to films made in France before, during, and after World War II, paying particular attention to the Occupation years (1940–44). The authors contend that the films produced from the 1930s until 1956—when the state began to subsidize the movie industry, facilitating the emergence of an "auteur cinema"—are important, both as historical texts and as sources of entertainment. Citing more than 300 films and providing many in-depth interpretations, Burch and Sellier argue that films made in France between 1930 and 1956 created a national imaginary that equated masculinity with French identity. They track the changing representations of masculinity, explaining how the strong patriarch who saved fallen or troubled women from themselves in prewar films gave way to the impotent, unworthy, or incapable father figure of the Occupation. After the Liberation, the patriarch reemerged as protector and provider alongside assertive women who figured as threats not only to themselves but to society as a whole.
French Cinema A Critical Filmography
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Author : Colin Crisp
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2015-08-10
French Cinema A Critical Filmography written by Colin Crisp and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-10 with Performing Arts categories.
This invaluable resource by one of the world's leading experts in French cinema presents a coherent overview of French cinema in the 20th century and its place and function in French society. Each filmography includes 101 films listed chronologically (Volume 1: 1929–1939 and Volume 2: 1940–1958) and provides accessible points of entry into the remarkable world of 20th-century French cinema. All entries contain a list of cast members and characters, production details, an overview of the film's cultural and historical significance, and a critical summary of the film's plot and narrative structure. Each volume includes an appendix listing rewards earned and an extensive reference list for further reading and research. A third volume, covering the period 1958–1974, is forthcoming.
How Was It Possible
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Author : Peter Hayes
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2015-04
How Was It Possible written by Peter Hayes and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04 with History categories.
As the Holocaust passes out of living memory, future generations will no longer come face-to-face with Holocaust survivors. But the lessons of that terrible period in history are too important to let slip past. How Was It Possible?, edited and introduced by Peter Hayes, provides teachers and students with a comprehensive resource about the Nazi persecution of Jews. Deliberately resisting the reflexive urge to dismiss the topic as too horrible to be understood intellectually or emotionally, the anthology sets out to provide answers to questions that may otherwise defy comprehension. This anthology is organized around key issues of the Holocaust, from the historical context for antisemitism to the impediments to escaping Nazi Germany, and from the logistics of the death camps and the carrying out of genocide to the subsequent struggles of the displaced survivors in the aftermath. Prepared in cooperation with the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, this anthology includes contributions from such luminaries as Jean Ancel, Saul Friedlander, Tony Judt, Alan Kraut, Primo Levi, Robert Proctor, Richard Rhodes, Timothy Snyder, and Susan Zuccotti. Taken together, the selections make the ineffable fathomable and demystify the barbarism underlying the tragedy, inviting readers to learn precisely how the Holocaust was, in fact, possible.
Vichy France And The Resistance
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Author : Roderick Kedward
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-21
Vichy France And The Resistance written by Roderick Kedward and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-21 with History categories.
This book, first published in 1985, examines various aspects of the intellectual achievements of writers and artists in the Vichy period; a strong emphasis on the ambiguity of much of their work emerges from the research. It goes a long way in answering the question of what it was like living under the fascist Vichy regime, and what the collaborators and resistance thought about their purpose and patriotism.
Investigating Simenon
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Author : Russell Campbell
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-09-21
Investigating Simenon written by Russell Campbell and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
For nearly a century, the work of Belgian crime writer and psychological novelist Georges Simenon, creator of Chief Inspector Maigret, has captivated readers worldwide. This investigation situates Simenon's work in its historical context and interprets it as a reaction to shifting gender relations in Western society. Simenon's compelling narratives capture the anxieties of men whose patriarchal position was under threat in an era of insurgent feminist movements. These concerns are also evident in Simenon's pervasive preoccupation with sexuality, as well as his political stance that stems from his petit-bourgeois upbringing. This groundbreaking study includes interwoven commentary on all 191 novels Simenon published under his own name, including several that have never been translated into English, as well as a number of short stories and several pseudonymous works.