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Et si l'amour durait
Paperback
Series: Litterature Francaise
Letters & EssaysLiterary Criticism
ISBN13: 9782234071094
Publisher: Stock
Published: Mar 5 2024
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
WHAT IF LOVE LASTED
Rights sold to: Spain
In the same vein as Un coeur intelligent, which was translated into 11 languages, Alain Finkielkraut now turns his attention to the theme of love as it is portrayed in four great novels from very different styles, eras and authors:
Madame de La Fayette's The Princess of Cleves
Ingmar Bergman's The Best Intentions
Philip Roth's The Professor of Desire
Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being
With his usual gift, he gives those who have not read the books the keys to understanding the plot while illuminating each book with his great knowledge, both literary and philosophical; under his pen, the characters of these four novels become the stakes in an existential understanding, given all the weight that, in a half-hearted or conventional reading, would go unnoticed.
Everyone has read or heard of The Princess of Cleves or The Unbearable Lightness of Being, but no one has given these books the resonance that Alain Finkielkraut gives them.
Once again he strives to show all that literature can do: to grant us a better reading of our own lives.
Alain Finkielkraut teaches general knowledge at the prestigious École polytechnique; he also hosts the show Répliques for France Culture.
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