Les chroniques de Esta

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T 1 Wild West

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‘‘Calamity Jane, the rowdy woman of the West. Famous for wearing men’s attire, an unafraid ability of whiskey-swilling, sharp-shooting, scouting for the Army and her friendship with Wild Bill Hickok. At least, that’s what her own written biography wanted people to remember the myth she had...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 1 Kabuki

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‘‘Kabuki, or a highly unusual and visual duality poetry in the world of crime and Japanese tradition. Kabuki is commonly known to be the epic form of traditional Japanese theatre. “The Kabuki plays are almost entirely about ghosts, ‘wronged or enraged women bent on exacting vengeance from...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 2 Metropolis

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‘‘Dans le monde uchronique de Metropolis, l’inspecteur Gabriel Faune et le commissaire Lohmann approfondissent leur enquête sur les femmes de la nécropole et sur le composant explosif utilisé dans l’attentat de la Réconciliation, du carburant de classe aéronautique et spatiale. Lohmann...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 6 Hedge Fund

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‘‘Short selling, short squeezes, subprime mortgage crisis, Ponzi pyramid schemes, credit default swaps, land, natural resources or commodities in African countries, virtual gold in offshore servers, financial meddling of foreign countries for political gain … So far, the Hedge Fund series...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 2 Shelley

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‘‘“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me Man, did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me”? (John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667), quotes Mary Shelley in her most famous work, written at the age of 18. Frankenstein is seen as an embodiment of the early 19th century romantic...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 1 Varsovie, Varsovie

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‘‘Dans Poètes de l’apocalypse, anthologie de poésie en polonais, hébreux et yiddish (1939-1945), les auteurs expliquent ceci : « Au plus fort de la catastrophe (c’est le sens du mot hébraïque “Shoah“), la résistance à la destruction s’est exprimée par les armes et par l’esprit. Le premier...‘‘ Lire la suite

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Miss Davis : La vie et les combats de Angela Davis

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‘‘Alors que des milliers de personnes manifestent dans les rues pour dénoncer la mort de George Floyd, ou encore celle d’Adama Traoré, dans un contexte actuel de « Black Lives Matter », Miss Davis est une piqure de rappel essentielle des luttes états-uniennes des années 1960 pour les...‘‘ Lire la suite

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Giant

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‘‘STOP RIGHT HERE: ABSOLUTE GEM! New York city, early 1930s, the New York of the Great Depression, the assent of Franklin Roosevelt to power and Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights. But also the unstoppable rise of the skyscraper: sometimes, development in a city is so quick and transformative...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 1 Metropolis

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‘‘De Metropolis, Fritz Lanz en 1927 en avait filmé une dystopie futuriste. Serge Lehman, lui, nous en offre une uchronie (le fameux principe de réécriture de l’histoire à partir de la modification du passé). S’il existe un lien direct entre les deux, le premier tome de la série ne nous...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 2 Ivory Pearl

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‘‘Unwittingly involved in a French counter-espionage operation, Ivory Pearl reconnects with her true self and with her war photographer instincts after identifying “Negra”- a young teenage girl living in the wild under the muscled care of an ex-con named Victor, - as the Black dynasty’s...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 1 Ivory Pearl

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‘‘1956: James Dean was starring on all the good screens in East of Eden, debating Good and Bad. The anti-maoist Kuomintang was growing opium in the Golden Triangle, financing the CIA’s undercover ops without clearance. Fidel Castro was making his way back from his Mexican short exile to...‘‘ Lire la suite

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The Colony The Colony

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‘‘Wage social revolution with bombs? or change the world with turnips, carrots and rutabagas? In times when viruses cause chaos in the world, when inequality keeps reaching new peaks, when personal freedoms seem more threatened by the day and when political discontent and disbelief lead to...‘‘ Lire la suite