1599 results for '"Jean-Jacques Nattiez'

In 1961, the prolific French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre was invited to give a talk at the Gramsci Institute in Rome. In attendance were some of Italy’s leading Marxist thinkers, such as Enzo Paci,...

Reuniting eight key Basquiat works that mark the graffiti artist’s transition to painterly autonomyThis catalog focuses on eight paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat made in the summer of 1982, when he...

“A breakthrough in prose and poetical writing. . . . This book should be on all readers’ and writers’ desks and in their minds.”—Maya Angelou First published in 1923, Jean Toomer’s Cane is an...

Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys's return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women...

An NYRB Classics Original Deep in Provence, a century ago, four stone houses perch on a hillside. Wildness presses in from all sides. Beyond a patchwork of fields, a mass of green threatens to...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • The definitive portrait of the Gilded Age icon J. Pierpont Morgan, presenting his tumultuous life both in and out of the public...

Language Notes Text: French About the Author Né en 1942, Jean-Noël Jeanneney est historien. Ancien élève de l'École normale supérieure de la rue d'Ulm et diplômé de l'Institut d'études...

An existential detective story by one of France's most popular modern writers, set in a mid-nineteenth century mountain village, available in English for the first time A King Alone is set in a...

A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conceptual history of the changing meanings and metaphors of “action” and “reaction” What is meant by reactionary politics? What do biologists mean when they speak...

La Shoah a laissé l'Église catholique et les chrétiens sans voix. De ce silence naîtront les interrogations de la conscience chrétienne et, à travers un long cheminement, à partir de Vatican II, un...

Once upon a time, economists saw capital account liberalization--the free and unrestricted flow of capital in and out of countries--as unambiguously good. Good for debtor states, good for the world...

The two plays collected in this volume represent Genet's first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. In The Maids, two domestic...

Prize-winning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells the “rousing” (Jay Winik, author of 1944) story of the liberation of Paris during World War II—a triumph achieved only through the...

A two-part essay on the "myth" of revolution and the figure of the artist. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important...

“Sequels are notoriously tricky. Even the characters in The Sequel acknowledge it. “They’re never as good as the first book, are they?”... Well, this one is. By shifting the focus to Anna, Korelitz...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A model presidential biography... Now, at last, we have a biography that is right for the man" - Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book WorldOne of today’s premier...

"When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant...

Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and...

A nomad and a swindler embark on an eccentric road trip in this picaresque, philosophical novel by the author of The Man Who Planted Trees.The south of France, 1950: A solitary vagabond walks through...