Monday, December 27, 2010

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Beginners , Raymond Carver

First volume of the original versions of the great American novelist: 17 successes.

The news which gives its title to this collection features two couples seated before a bottle of gin. Inquiring about love, his reasons, his inconstancy, they tell stories, their past relationships, their divorces, their expectations, images of other couples who are a possibility of happiness. For all the characters CARVER try to be happy, to believe in something that could be likened to happiness. A cake that heralds the birthday of a child, three days of fishing with friends, a bingo game, a few dance steps outlined in a kitchen after a night without sleep. Moments of happiness, but mostly respites in a life always on the verge of collapse, where violence is ready to burst, where fate, whoever breaks the boys in the car or the one who is immersed in alcohol, transforms the human characters in little dramas of everyday life.
Alcoholism, madness, divorces, accidents, adultery, ... If this is not the most flattering part of the human being as portrayed in these new CARVER incredible power, the fact remains that his characters often try to project themselves to another place they would look to the future in a more happy. In vain.
This first volume of the complete works of American short story is, next to all literary qualities, a history of specific edition. The texts were, when they were first published in 1981, heavily modified by the editor, Gordon Lish. To read the moving letter that the author address (set out in Annex of the collection), it is understood that this was not mere corrections but a reworking, distorting a work that seems so yet capital, even vital, in the eyes of the writer. So here for the first time an edition based on the original manuscript. It would appear that the corrections have focused on Lish cut in the text, reading news, one wonders why this "castration". Nothing is ever too. Each story is a world in itself, a story in which a few lines, the reader is immersed. Through a detail, a phrase, a place, the author manages to create extremely realistic atmosphere where, through cigarette smoke, will play these little tragedies. The style is brilliant, but apparently built extremely simple, fair, and for me who am not generally a fan of short stories, which manages to never let the reader unsatisfied. Carver's talent is how to stand on that narrow line between the drama of the melo-drama, the tragedy of soap. Knowledge of the corners of the soul which enables him to capture his characters in a line, a scene, and remain always on the edge of emotion in restraint.
A first volume, which in my case, is a first step in the work of an author that I will continue to rapidly discover and I recommend you insist.

A big thank you to the Globe Sebastian -player who, by enticing ticket, made up the book on top of my PAL.
Reference:
Raymond Carver, a Complete Works, Beginners , translated from English (United States) by Jacqueline Huet and Jean-Pierre Carasso, Editions de l'Olivier, 2010.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

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Gifts


Help! Only two more days! What to do! In addition we work until Friday ... How do you think we can go shopping for Christmas? " No, but I swear! Fortunately, there is the miracle solution: go to a bookstore, a place where anything is possible (and why not on a time noon, there are even bookstores that do lunch ...). Because, well, it's not you it must be said, players and / or writers of blogs to read, a book is still the perfect gift: it is not (always) expensive it can be customized, it's rarely nasty and always very helpful. Yes, but hey, that's not all ... what to give and to whom? And this is once again vowels and consonants are split a little note full of ideas (as we did last year here ). No, no, do not thank us, quite naturally ... (And then we really wanted a small Best of 2010 without really wanting to admit it ...)

- For your dad who made May 68 (or your brother, no generational conflict ...), for your uncle or your cousin union activist: indignation you , Stéphane HESSEL (and plus it costs only 3 €: the gift of choice anti-crisis) or Indignation , the beautiful new novel by Philip Roth.

- For your mom, who did not forget (completely) his speech and his reading of feminist Simone de Beauvoir: Infrared , Nancy Huston, or the path of a free woman and Purge Sofi OKSANEN or unexpected encounter between two fates of women.

- For your aunt, amateur (Amat? Lover? Amateur?) Beautiful things, Shrines ardent Katherine Mosby, a moving story of rebellious wife (again!) And a beautiful writing.

- For your little cousin who loves horses The god of animals , Aryn Kyle. A history of horse and teen clichés like, subtle, touching and realistic. A fantastic first novel away from the world of Black Beauty and other nunucheries equestrian.

- For your brother who only reads novels: any book editions Sonatine (as here) with a preference for novels Ellory (two of them are also now pocket, including our favorite dark Vendetta ) also know that Henning Mankell which you have been told often much good has released a new (and final!) adventure of his detective Kurt Wallander, Man worried (we too are worried about what will happen to him). We did not read it yet, but we advise you eyes closed.

- For your cousin, in love with Japan, The weight of the secrets of SHIMAKAZI. A box (ah, the cabinet, a great friend of Christmas and New Year!), Five short novels, a story of family secrets and fine writing and valuable.

- For Italian girlfriend (or English or American or ... well you understand) your brother who came to spend Christmas in Belgium, Belgian a book of course! And why not a young bird of our country with original The Thirsty Bernard QUIRIGNY.

- To your grandfather, art lover, the beautiful Tell them about battles kings and elephants Mathias ENARD or the adventures of Michelangelo in Constantinople.

...

remains to wish you that your holidays are sweet, light the log and numerous books under the tree!

Merry Christmas.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Rc Helicopter Rockets

# 2 Everything is in the title

indignation you! Stéphane HESSEL

Some pages of contemporary humanism: salutary.

The success of this edition certainly unexpected year-end. At least 200,000 copies already sold and, seeing the little media buzz that starts, this could go higher. And yet here, no pre-pubescent sorcerer, no stranger to end displays or media-cultural figures. Just a reminder, a clear and simple message: you indignant.
Obviously, this cry is not run by anyone. Stéphane Hessel is a prominent figure: strong during the war, a survivor of the camps, one of the drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, former diplomat, a tireless activist, ... A man of 93 years' s address the younger by reminding them first principles from the Resistance who, after the war, were to lead humanity towards better days. Principles and values that are now missing. It gives an overview lucid and clear of the new millennium: the role of the state, ecology, economy, terrorism, wars, ... No need to look far to find reasons to be indignant.
Without falling into moralizing, Stéphane HESSEL reminds us that the world is ours and it is hoped, allow more of our policies and dare to express his indignation. Through Hegel and Sartre, he returns to the big end of the century utopias precedent by turning resolutely towards the future.
Twenty pages of contemporary humanism sobering and, hopefully, will drive more resigned in indignation.

PS
- Small precision literary author is the son of Franz Hessel, a great friend of the writer Pierre-Henri Roché, who made his the Jules Jules and Jim .

- Notice to colleagues as a perfect test to be given to teenagers to read.

Friday, December 17, 2010

How To Wear A Connected Circle Scarf

Death of a perfect basketball player

Without a farewell , Harlan Coben

The latest novel by the American star of the detective novel is actually his first. The novel origins, it is preferred the most successful ...

Useless, of course, present Harlan Coben. It is present, sometimes size, the shelves of every bookstore thriller. In recent years, he became the master of the genre, the virtuoso suspense, and especially the king of speed. For COBEN, which should make our Amelie Nothomb green with envy, published a novel a year, without fail, and publishing houses, leaving of course, never spend the golden egg of a hen talented, have emerged from the unpublished (in French) inundating us cobeniens thrillers, sometimes without regard to chronology. No bowl for the French-speaking reader who reads the adventures of the sympathetic Myron Bolitar, former basketball star turned into a sports agent and an investigator with the force of things, in the order in which translations come out and get lost, so, sometimes, in complicated love Myron said. But the author also writes novels "one shot", featuring characters we will never see again ... almost. Because, and all readers will agree, a book to another, the characters are strangely similar. Many doctors and (ex) champions sports charming, funny and having the repartee ; Many women feature a "sublime silhouette" and a "face irresistibly exotic charm" which prevents them from ever having a sacred character and a real intellect. In short, individuals to whom the smile but that usually falls on a terrible tile. As for style, it sometimes lacks a little finesse.
And yet ... ! Yet Harlan Coben has shown us, and several times, his undeniable talent. Some of his books are masterpieces of the genre. COBEN mastered the art of intrigue and suspense like nobody (or almost). His style, though rather flat, however, is dynamic and some of his dialogues especially pleasurable. And if his characters are a bit manufactured, they are so nice that we have enough desire to believe in them to cling to and hope they come out head up trouble where they are filled.
Thus, novels like Do not tell anyone (very well adapted for film by Guillaume Canet), Gone forever or Second Chance have to spend many sleepless nights even the most skeptical (I was part ...). Reading Harlan Coben can become a terrible addiction, more dangerous than the prolixity of the author is publishing novels sometimes well below its capacity.
But back to this last issue. Earlier Without a farewell (translations of the titles are unfortunately the least repetitive: Without a goodbye without a word, no forwarding address ,...) the author warns " OK, if you have not read anything from me, stop right away. Let this book. Take another one. It does not matter. I'll wait. If you're still here, know that I have not read without a farewell for a good twenty years. I did not want to rewrite it. It is a process that I hate. " says it all: this is the first novel by the author still "ingenuous young working in tourism "and since become the star we know. Hence to say that publishers have told their colt: " Harlan gives us anything, it takes " and went COBEN that old manuscript out dated, there is only one step.
Laura, a former supermodel, and David, superstar team of the Celtics, spent their honeymoon in Australia. But David and hand swim .. . does not return. It concludes that death by drowning. When Laura returns to the United States, unable to admit the drama, she investigates the disappearance of her man and resurrects old family secrets.
be found in this "origins of the novel" many features cobenniennes: rich and beautiful characters, a convoluted plot full of twists. Aficionados have fun even recognize some characters that will feature in his later works. Alas, the style here is very poor, the characters really artificial and above height of horeur, the plot is both predictable and implausible. It happened something that had never happened before (and I think I've read all his work): I almost included from the outset.
Harlan Coben is right: if you have never read anything by him, take something else ... For others, my faith, enjoy it (But you try it lends the novel ...).

Thanks anyway to editions Belfond for sending us this novel.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Harold And Kumar, Guantanamo Bay Bottomless

(Bad) Trip to Yiddish literary thriller

amazing Boys, Michael Chabon

A novel in the universe shifted and slightly foutraque that ends not tired.

A long and difficult day for Grady Tripp, Professor of Letters at an American university. Sentimental point of view, we've seen better: his wife leaves him, his mistress, also married to the president, tells him she is pregnant and the young and beautiful Hannah turns her around more than ever. Professionally, this is not simple: for years he struggled on his latest novel, Boys amazing, a colossal job that he fails to bring an end point and which, by its large size, may well never find the way of bookstores. Furthermore, he was still not shown his work at Teddy Crabtree, his oldest friend and publisher, whose career was flagging. It's also not counting on the presence strangely morbid one of his students, James Leer, an apprentice writer some talent but the Brink existential. Add to that the assassination of the President's dog, stealing a coat that belonged to Marilyn Monroe, a Passover meal that turns into a nightmare family, all under the influence of alcohol, seal, or both!
The novel starts with great breath and vitality, Chabon (which we just talk here ) engaged with communicative joy to play vaudeville and modern literature, focusing on his hero, loser sublime, when he manages to avoid the blows of fate, headed straight to new problems. Writing is Always tense, packed with irony. Dialogues and descriptions sting, entertain and create a world gradually a little crazy. But over the pages, while the characters seem to struggle against a hangover every moment, the pace of the narrative hard cake too, sometimes gets lost in the vicissitudes redundant, accessories and intrigue to lose interest. Although the digressions on writing and film in particular, are pleasant, they fail to keep the reader awake. Too bad, because all this was a good start. At the same time, the concern of the author is ultimately the same as that of his character: find a purpose, advancing the plot. The setting does not save however abyss reader boredom. It is unfortunate, for it was gone ...

A book read by a partnership organized by BOB (thank you once again for their amazing job) and published by Robert Laffont.

PS: This novel was adapted in 2000 into a film by Curtis Hanson. I saw this movie but I have no memory.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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Nathalie Daoust

Artist in Residence Artist in Residence
(Français FOLLOWS)

Photograph: The Mao Zedong impersonator

Nathalie Daoust was born in Montreal, where she studied photography Cegep du Vieux Montreal before moving to New York to begin to work on New York Hotel Story, his first solo book published. In 2001, she traveled to Japan for two years to document the red light district of Tokyo. Since then she has created several new projects including thematic Between Four Walls, Berlin Street Kiss, Brazil and Frozen in Time, Switzerland and participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Poland, Finland, Spain, England and Japan. His photographs have been widely published and won several awards. ************* Nathalie Daoust

Artist in Residence

Photograph: "The Mao Zedong impersonator"

Nathalie Daoust in Montreal Was Born Where She studied photography at the Cégep du Vieux-Montréal before moving to New York to start work on “New York Hotel Story”, her first solo book. In 2001, she traveled to Japan, spending two years documenting Tokyo`s red light district. Since then, she has completed several new thematic projects including “Entre Quatre Murs, Berlin”, “Street Kiss, Brazil” and “Frozen in Time, Switzerland” and she has been featured in various individual and collective exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Poland, Finland, Spain, England and Japan. Her photographs have appeared in numerous publications and have garnered several awards.

Ever since my first experiences in photography, I have been fascinated by human behaviour and the different realities it inhabits, and by the constant human desire to escape and live in a dream world. I explore the thin line that separates reality from fantasy, the places where people seek refuge from their everyday lives. My objective as an artist is to push the limits of photography by exploring experimental approaches, working in new mediums and discovering new techniques.



Friday, December 10, 2010

What Are Good Braces Colors?

Noémi McComber





Noémi McComber




Artiste en résidence / Artist in Residence
(English follows)
Dans son travail en dessin, vidéo, photographie, interventions urbaines and performative, Noemi McComber examines how the individual reacts to physical and social constraints that are presented. Taking into account the implicit rules that are appropriate in any social area, it attempts to reformulate the potential space that can hold an individual, group, entity. The public area becomes a playground for experimenting with the limits given to it and allow the emergence of new poetic spaces. With varying success, depending on the attempts, it tries to involve the viewer in a world that is his but that is both at once, a world he recognizes but is surprised by the resurgence of elements intruder. Noemi McComber earned a master's degree in visual and media arts at Chelsea College of Art and Design (University of the Arts London) in the United Kingdom in 2002. Since 2000 she has various art projects as an artist and curator, fostering a multidisciplinary approach (drawing, video, installation, performance, urban interventions) and collaborative. She has presented her work including the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) in London, Moscow Centre for the Arts (Russia), the Kunstverein in Kohlenhof Nürnberg (Germany), at the Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (UK), The Gallery Eye Fish Québec and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Sherbrooke. She is actively involved in La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse in recent years, where she is currently curator
Encircled in the series Women of the Arctic . She lives and works in Montreal.
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Noemi McComber
Artist in Residence

Noémi McComber's work deals With The weekends occupy space in relation to Physical and social boundaries. She Is Out interested in. The Element of place, which disturbs regular schemes of expectancy. She uses drawing, photography, performance and video to examine what is desired in relation to what is prescribed; the resurgence of the subjective within the collective. The process of social integration is of particular interest to her; the reaction to a set of rules, considering one's own background and experiences. Redefining the boundaries of what is permitted, allowed or acceptable, the space she works in is set as a serious playground, where constraints are considered and rules reinterpreted. Noémi McComber’s work explores the space from isolation to communication; how through projection and fabulation we come to resolve the continuous ruptures in every day experience.

Noémi McComber completed a Masters in visual and media arts at Chelsea College of Art and Design (University of the Arts London), in the UK in 2002. Since 2000, she has been actively involved in artistic and curatorial projects, focusing on multidisciplinary (drawing, video, installation, performative and urban interventions) and collaborative projects. Her work has been shown at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) in London, UK, at Moscow Centre for the Arts (Russia), at Kunstverein Kohlenhof in Nuremberg (Germany), at Castlefield Gallery in Manchester (UK), at L’Oeil de poisson in Québec city and at the Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts. She has been actively involved Central Gallery at The Powerhouse for SEVERAL Years, Where She Is Currently the curator of The Exhibition
encircle as Part of the Women of the Arctic series. She lives and works in Montreal.


Wednesday, December 8, 2010

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The Yiddish Policemen's Union Michael Chabon

A dense fleece, offbeat and exotic. Oy!

The discovery of the body of a young drug addict murdered in the hotel he has lived since her divorce plunges Inspector Landsman in a strange state. Is it the fault of the Exchequer found beside his body reminds him that his own father, a great chess player? Or would it simply cooked the day before that prevents to see clearly. No matter because it will quickly forget the case: police Sitka, Alaska tiny area of abandoned for a time the Jewish community, will have to hand over to U.S. police. Sign of the end of the refuge of Jews from the frozen North? Landsman but persists and continues the investigation, against the advice of his new boss is none other than his ex-wife ...

The first surprise of the novel lies in the invention of the Jewish community in Europe Eastern transplanted in Alaska. Self-sufficient microcosm, visible minority alongside the Indians, also parked not far away. The reader is immersed in another culture thanks to all the terms that dot the Yiddish text (with a small lexicon the end). Polar basic startup (murder cop alcohol + depression), the novel surprised then by the geo-political dimension that is needed as the investigation continues. We will not say more in order to spare the suspense.

The Yiddish Policemen's Union Chabon is my first and certainly not the last (I am also immersed in Boys amazing). Lots of humor and irony, style, a singular imagination, a kind of replay: What do you ask for? The fleece side is sometimes shifted a bit like the VARGAS more epic. In short: put on your jacket (and in my opinion, for now, it should not be far off ...), open the freezer door (ambient Alaska warranty) and enjoy!

Thank Françoise who gave me this writer that in mind I wanted to discover a long time.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Exact Place Of Overies

Have you Reached your verdict?

Verdict Justin PEACOCK

A novel justice that keeps its promises.

The traditional thrillers often stop where the culprit is arrested. But after coming lawyers and this is a different job starts. Victim or culprit, everyone has the right to be defended, and for defense lawyers, it should play fine.
Joel Deveraux had everything the young lion poised to move up a large box of business lawyers in New York. But a penchant for a bit addictive substance prohibited and death by overdose of one of his colleagues will put an abrupt end to his hopes; forced to resign, he finds himself at the bottom of the ladder of prestige men dress: court-appointed lawyer. Thus it is
led to second Myra, another lawyer for whom this position has meaning and significance in a murder case whose framework the middle of the small drug trafficking of a city left behind. The accused maintains his innocence and his lawyers will work to demonstrate to jurors that he is not guilty as appearances and testimony seem designate. For more than being the defender of truth, the lawyer must first be a champion of persuasion.
A very good suspense in this novel legal (not sure, as stated in the cover, one can speak of "Thriller") whose principal originality to be extremely well constructed in legal terms (U.S.). The author, himself a lawyer, discusses his novel almost as a documentary about the craft and, above all, on moral and ethical situations faced by its peers.
The plot is effective, believable characters and can not catch your breath once the book is closed.
Come on, hop under the tree!

A free circulation in the partnership held by Blog-o-Book (whom we thank, as usual!) And Sonatine .

notices Canel , To Manoa and Pikkendorff .

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"Two readings to illuminate the case: - the conversation I gave Livres-Hebdo in August 2007 my Departure Branch libraries Marseille
- the book of Michael Sanson and Michel Peraldi "Governing Marseille" , La Découverte, 2006 "






Friday, December 3, 2010

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Justin Bieber And Delbarton

Books of the flat country ... Once # 2

Our country is torn, we have no government since ... er ... can not even count the more months, it is only a question of communal conflict in TV news ... What this does not prevent us to develop, whenever we want, a small nationalist sentiment and defend well from our books for our readers to discover another country or our countrymen not always aware that we, Belgians, we writing, and sometimes very good. A bit of everything, not brol: a melting pot!


- Novels intimate
Who says intimate, "said Corinne Hoex. The novelist talks about herself, her childhood, of his injuries. In My dress is not wrinkled she approached adolescence through the character of a young girl caught between indifferent mother, a father and a manipulative abusive boyfriend. In his latest novel, I kill you Decidedly, the author recalls his mother. Or rather the last moments of her mother's life, how it will follow until his last breath, and above all it will handle the grief of this cold woman, often brittle, sometimes violent, which kept her daughter but was never far away.
Mama Jeanne , the last story of Daniel CHARNEUX, is also a small intimate novel finesse that tells the sad life of a woman of the people at the beginning of the century, always forced to rely on men to become good at quarry and will discuss the difficulty for a woman of her condition, only to get out and reach to become a real mother to children she can not eat. In
Forget Adam Weinberger , ENGEL Vincent tells the concentration camps ... or rather do not tell but speaks of Adam's life before and after Weinberger unrepeatable experience. Then difficult to forget. Intimate
always Those who walk in cities , Jean-François DAUVEN, novel about a handful of individuals lost in a big city, which cities will be, too, the characters. Paris, Rome, London, Brussels ... and, of course, as many cities as stories which eventually respond. If the walk takes us DAUVEN which is sometimes a bit long, description of cities and individuals do not lack charm.

- Some thrillers
is often compared to SIMENON Armel JOB. It is true that his thrillers are like the master of Liege, psychological novels before being thrillers. In The Fake innocence, already, the mood disorder JOB reconstituted after the war in the townships redeemed (part of Belgium near the German border) and made us interested in the strange personality of the narrator, his tyrannical mother and the woman he continues to love it despite the suspicion to have actually killed her husband. In his latest novel, You not judge, where he talks about the disappearance of a baby, the point of view is the judge who conducts the case, who suspects the mother and seeks to know the truth without prejudice trial. Breathless novel that subtly avoids falling into the murky, the flashy or melodramatic.
Another example is Jean-Baptiste Baronian, author of "specialized" in crime fiction and fantasy (it is not for nothing ... Belgian) who has published some forty novels (but also an excellent biography of Baudelaire) whose very Black Matricide in which a district policeman murdered on a bored whim a poor little old.
And since we are a united Belgium, recall that we had already talked here a large Flemish author of detective fiction, namely Pieter Aspe.

- Historical Novels

It is the story of Rabelais that Valerie was interested in his novel THE CHANGY Son of Rabelais. The novelist recounts an episode in the life of the great humanist writer through a hypothetical son adopted. We are at the end of the Renaissance, in full religious war, during which he is not as easy to say what one thinks, even laughter, and where Rabelais begins to worry about the reaction that could cause the release of his latest book, The Third Book .

- Novels anticipation
QUIRIGNY Bernard is a young author to monitor and greet for two obvious reasons: his novel The Thirsty (we talked about here ) is an excellent mix of utopia-cons and humor but also (especially?) he has allowed addicts literary season, which gave him a lot of attention to discover that, no, no Amelie Nothomb writes in Belgium ...
ENGEL Vincent , meanwhile, suggests in My neighbor is someone to be careful to conduct our neighbors. That of Otto, narrator of this story is already scary at first. Then when you realize the Machiavellian plan he has put in place to enforce their radical ideas and obnoxious and to revive a sad past, it was decided to intensify vigilance in relation to our neighborhood. ENGEL nothing in terms of inventing fiction novel but loves his dynamic style and caustic, and then there are memories he's always good to remember ... Read

drache that he or Snow, a packet of hot chips or a good Gauf 'hands, seated before a good pintje ... who knows if you will not have a sacred boentje for one of these authors!

PS
- Books of the flat country ... once # 1 is here.

- Because we are void of challenge, we have not participate in one organized by Reka on Belgian literature . Yet we would have easily won the title "big Belgian" !

- We take this ticket to add a title to the playlist of Leiloona , blessed creative radio bloggers. A Belgian, of course!





Monday, November 29, 2010

How To Clean Syphilis

Tanya St-Pierre



Tanya St-Pierre Artist in Residence Artist in Residence
Since 2001, I maintained a production facility visual and sound that combines my practice in digital imaging, sculpture, and more recently in painting and video. Having dedicated my long artistic practice to explore possible relationships between the facility and new visual art and narrative, I explore today the result of the gradual deterioration of the narrative. Getting the benefit of an approach rooted out of a total and deterministic fictitious proposal, which tends towards more poetic proposals, this latest offering spasms of fiction do not fully revealing. Found in my recent productions torn traces narratives, fiction, body and especially of figures - such as icons or symbols - more abstract and subtle at once, which survive and live, in rehearsal, the images in a constellation rawest elements and stripped. The body occupies an important place in my work. He is ill and failed, now or concealed, once placed in a context of reflection, it represents a powerful vehicle of cultural information. The body becomes a site of reflective practices around the concepts discussed. I am particularly interested in regard to the surf and the history of the human condition, especially on matters related to the cultural history of this body in institutional sovereign or diffuse: traces and sediments accumulated pathologies societal.
The importance of the body extends into my work performance in the duet Noïzefer CWU formed by Philippe-Aubert Gauthier and myself. CWU Noïzefer explores and exploits the action, sound and video. It uses an aesthetic language of both aggressive, corrosive and poetic. This language brings garbage, rickety buildings, speech and noise amplified to raise some questions about unbridled cultural alienation, the history of representation, illusion, in art, society and the media . Site and location of practices experimentation arising Tanya St-Pierre and Philippe-Aubert Gauthier.
visual artist originally from Ottawa (Quebec, Canada), Tanya St. Pierre currently lives and works in Sherbrooke. She obtained in 1998 a Bachelor of Fine Arts from UQTR. Since 2001, production and audio visual installation - dedicated to the study and exploration of possible relationships between the facility and new visual art (and art media), digital imaging and narration - addresses themes related to the human condition and social situation. Through this production, the artist offers a look at various social ills on the representation of the body, body sick and faulty, and that by questioning the modes of representation from two large and opposite archetypes of the apprehension of the world scientific thought (or rational) and mystical thought (or magic, sometimes called archaic).

Tanya St-Pierre was the recipient of three scholarships CALQ (research and creation in visual arts and media arts) and three grants to artists ambassadors for the city of Sherbrooke. His installation work and digital imaging has been presented since 2000 in group exhibitions and two solo exhibitions in Quebec. In 2009, she had the chance to do two artist residencies in Brooklyn, New York and Quebec Medusa complex. Member of duet performers NOÏZEFER CWU, she participated in various events, arising in various contexts: in Rouyn-Noranda, Sherbrooke, Chicoutimi, Quebec, Trois-Rivieres and Montreal.





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Tanya St-Pierre
Artist in Residence
Originally from the Gatineau (Quebec , Canada), Tanya St. Pierre Is A visual artist lives and works Who Presently in Sherbrooke. In 1998, she completed a Bachelor’s degree in plastic arts at UQTR. Since 2001, she has been producing visual and sound installations which study and investigate new and possible relationships between installation, digital imaging and narration, which explore themes associated with contemporary human and social conditions. Through these productions, the artist proposes an examination of various social problems and the representation of the human body, a weakened and diseased body, casting doubts on the modes of representation that have issued from the two archetypical and antipodal approaches to coming to terms with reality: scientific, or rational, thought and mystical, or magical, so-called archaic, thought.

Tanya St-Pierre has been the recipient of three CALQ grants (for research and creation in visual and media arts) and three grants awarded by the city of Sherbrooke. Since 2000, her installation and digital imaging work has been featured in various group exhibitions and two solo exhibitions in Quebec. In 2009, she completed two artistic residencies, one in Brooklyn, New York and the other at the Complexe Méduse in Quebec City.

As a member of the performance duo NOÏZEFER CWU, she has participated in collective events in various contexts in Rouyn-Noranda, Sherbrooke, Chicoutimi, Quebec City, Trois-Rivières and Montreal.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Can Herpes Come On Your Legs?

Cry, transmit and loves

Elegy to an American , Siri Hustvedt

Fathers, even fathers, fathers always. As one of the most beautiful voice in American literature.

A serious breach. Since our blog exists, we have not yet had the opportunity to talk about Siri Hustvedt. Yet What I Loved is certainly one of the books that has most marked. As in his essays on painting ( Mysteries of the rectangle) or on various topics ( Plea for Eros), writing that many too easily reduced to the status of "woman of "has a magnetic force and immerses you, the time to read, in a sensible world, familiar and strange. A fairly deep to see the contemporary world and human relationships, art, language, ...

In his last novel to date, as we find in What I Loved the weight of death and mourning. Erik Davidsen, divorced psychiatrist, has just lost his father in the business of emptying it, finds a letter suggesting the possibility of a disturbing secret. Erik tries to find clues in Memoirs left by his father and revisits the lives of his family, marked in particular by the Pacific war, including wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are the echo.
The father is the central figure in the story. Deceased father, absent father, father missing. All the characters of the novel trying to build or rebuild itself by rethinking and confronting their foundations. Inga, Erik's sister, the widow of a famous writer, discovers the dark sides of life of her husband and tries to protect his teenage daughter who keeps silent in her suffering since the attacks of 11 September. Miranda, the new neighbor with Erik immediately fell in love, raise her daughter alone in the shadow of an absent father and yet very disturbing. His stories are different cross those patients of Erik to form a community of characters but suffering, and that's obviously what comes to save the book, struggling. It is also much talk of transmission, a theme that seems to inhabit deep American writers today.
Needless to say, you will certainly understand, this novel carries a great sadness that I was particularly touched. Without playing on the identification easy Hustvedt manages to give his characters, yet all very brooklyniens sores, a profound dimension, human and almost universal. So of course this is very steeped in psychoanalysis (through the story of dreams, etc.) but without dogmatism. The pace is quite fragmented, sometimes rambling but very controlled. And like those other novels, the author takes us into an atmosphere and a special color that attracted me.

A beautiful portrait of our times.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Kingdom Hearts 2 The Four Medallions

Stefanie Tremblay / Book Launch



STEFANIE TREMBLAY

RINCEBOOK, 30 days never offline
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Published by the Centre SAGAMIE Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 17h
In National Exhibition Centre (NEC) Jonquière

4160, of Old Bridge, Jonquière, 418 546-2177 ext 4602

Rincebook is the result of an experiment demonstrating the loss of time to flirt on social networks like Facebook. Presented in the as 30 days, never offline, Stefanie Tremblay told through this book and the simple movements of everyday thoughts insignificant to the screen of a computer. Cloistered one month within four walls, she questioned some of his "addiction" strange voyeurism or interest in a new poetry ephemeral sculpture. Instead of displaying his feelings in public, the artist uses
Rincebook diary as setting a unique aesthetic language in which drawings, archives and photos displayed. A Brief History of lancing of blackheads, seeking lovers potential and / or speed drills language without punctuation ... Lies, reviews, publications, isolation and pathos solicitors reflect the Dark Side of Facebook.
Stefanie Tremblay lives and works in Saguenay. After undergraduate studies at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, she obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Cinema (2006). She also completed her Master of Arts, EDO (2009). In her research, she looks ridiculous self-reflections on their life, vowing to make his life a narrative of inspiring for its autonomous artistic creation projects, oriented to various digital processes and colored by writing and rock. Constantly staging, the artist retains the ambiguity about the nature of his character, not even knowing it-even if it is fiction or real news intimate.

His works have been presented in solo exhibitions at Toque Rouge and the lobe (Chicoutimi) in the context of the long summer residence (2007). His latest project Long games was presented Espace Virtuel (Chicoutimi) in winter 2009. His video work was shown in group exhibitions (The work of the Other, Chicoutimi) and during the festival Videographers Wanted (Quebec). Rincebook is her first film as a book artist.



To order: Stefanie Tremblay rincebook, 30 days never offline

68 pages, text in French only, 6 1 / 2 X 9 1 / 2 ". ISBN 978-2-923612-23-2 2010 Price: $ 20.00 + Shipping in Canada 3.00 + GST 1.15 + PST 0.24 = Total: $ 24.39


Friday, November 19, 2010

Jonas Brothers Bags 2010

Anonymous but not unknown

The Anonymous , RJ Ellory

Last novel of our favorite of the moment: yes, but ...

Ellory is an author who has most excited lately. In these two novels translated into French (we talked about including here), he revisited the thriller to give a deeper insight, one might almost say more literary, with a mixture of dark melancholy, cruelty and appalling In the case of Vendetta, an original rereading of the history of the United States. The dark side, from the shadow of human, horrible, cruel but literarily built. Suffice to say they looked forward to the release of a new novel. But our expectations are often very hard to please and same goes for books ...
The Anonymous appears more like a thriller. A series of murders linked by a violent and frightening procedure, a cop at the end of the roll, a race to the index, etc.. But besides the traditional ingredients of the genre, Ellory able to quickly add a political dimension and reconnect with one of its flagship themes: creating a monster. The investigation of chip advance by jumps, interspersed with the Confessions of fragments of a man, maybe the killer. This parallel story eventually join the investigation to bounce-like large-scale political scandal.
Both say right away, The Anonymous is an excellent thriller that works fully, are avidly devoured. And yet, I expected better. Less depth than in previous novels, a certain sense of déjà-lu (argued that CIA agents are not all choirboys, that's not very original ...), a first portion sometimes slightly laborious (with all twenty pages a sort of rehearsal useless to the inventory of the survey). John Robbey, the villain of the story, may well be a rather well built, it does not have the same size as the anti-hero "elloriens.
So a bit of disappointment but will not prevent me eagerly awaiting the next. Even in view

Emerald .

To end on a high note: an interview with the author directed by BOB .

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Substitute Material For Waxing Strips

Giorgia Volpe


Giorgia Volpe Artist in Residence Artist in Residence
(Français FOLLOWS)
Ma convenient feeds of gestures and objects from the domestic sphere. She led me to experiment polymorphic: in situ projects, video installation, photography and drawing. To accomplish my work, I regularly convenes traditional handicrafts such as weaving, embroidery, knitting, basketry, quilting, mapping, etc.. Through textile metaphor, I accumulate in the everyday gestures memory carriers to make a crossing point between real space and imaginary. Born in Sao Paulo (Brazil), Giorgia Volpe, visual artist and media, lives and works in Quebec since 1998. His work has been presented in Brazil, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Cuba and Europe. She participated in the exhibition It happened near you, Contemporary art in Quebec, the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec. She has made numerous solo and group exhibitions, residency projects and government interventions: among others the International Symposium of Engraving and Picture (Edmonton), Centre Vu, the White House, instead, to videotape, to Engramme at the AKI Art (Quebec) , Praxis (St. Teresa), 3rd Imperial (Granby), Dare-Dare to Instant Landscape, at the Darling Foundry (Montreal), Area F (Matane), at Broad and Vague (Carleton). His works are part of several collections of contemporary art in Brazil and Canada.
************* Artist in Residence My artistic approach " is inspired by the gestures and items that go to make up domestic, household reality. This leads me to engage in polymorphous experimentation through in situ installations, photography and drawing. To create my work, I regularly make use of techniques derived from traditional crafts such as weaving, embroidery, knitting, wickerwork, quilting, card making, etc. Using fabric as metaphor, I assemble those gestures from daily household life which are rich with memory, creating a passageway between a real and imaginary space .
Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Giorgia Volpe has been living and working in Quebec since 1998 as an artist in the visual and media arts. Her work has been presented in Brazil, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Cuba and Europe. She participated In The It happened near you, the current art exhibition at Quebec Presented at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec. She has-been featured in solo and group exhibitions Numerous and participated in residency projects and public debates in coming Such As The International Symposium on Printmaking and Images in Edmonton, the Centre Vu, The White House, The Place, The Band Video Engramme, The protest art (Quebec), Praxis (St. Teresa), The 3rd Imperial (Granby), Dare-Dare, Instant Landscape, The Darling Foundry (Montreal), Space F (Matane), Vast and Vague (Carleton). Her work has-been included in IS SEVERAL contemporary art collections in Brazil and Canada.



Monday, November 15, 2010

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published by the Centre SAGAMIE
In the Bookstore PORT HEAD

262 Mont-Royal Est, Montreal, 514 678-9566
This Friday, November 19, 2010 at 17h

Josée Pellerin,
Being there
Dgino CANTIN and Charles Guilbert, The Loggers of the impossible
Lucie Duval, Stories drawn by the ears

Josée Pellerin,
Being there
Authors: Jean-François Caron and Johanne Jarry
How many times have we experienced a real city through fiction and well in advance to be there? How film mediates Does the city and what kind is the actual experience that we are doing? Such stimulation of the imagination do not they end up altering our eyes focused on the surrounding world? The two photographic series and Parade If on a winter night presented in Being there focus on the exploration of real cities and fantasized.
holds an MA in visual arts and training in multimedia, works of Josée Pellerin were presented at events in Quebec, Canada, United States, France and Mexico. In 2005, she was doing an artist residency in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and following that visit, she published "I saw an artist's book entitled Fortunately he had the world around me. Being there builds on themes of this first issue. The artist thanked the Council for the Arts and Letters of Quebec for its financial support

Josée Pellerin , Being There / Being There

Authors: Jean-François Caron and Johanne Jarry 82 pages, full text in French and English, 9 X 6 3 / 4 inches.
82 pages, full text in French and Français, 9 X 6 3 / 4 in.
978-2-923612-18-8 2010
Price: $ 20.00 + Shipping in Canada 1.15 3.00 + gst + pst = 0.24 Total: $ 24.39

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Dgino CANTIN and Charles Guilbert,
The Loggers of the impossible
What do you see in secret? Do you like walking with a loose shoelace? Do you find yourself quite naked when you're naked? How do you watch the sea? Do you like drawing hands that draw? Who are you not? Here are some questions in The Lumberjack impossible. Above all, this project is a meeting fabricated using words, pencil, ink and pixels. Are largely unfamiliar with but who want to conduct a joint Dgino Cantin and Charles Guilbert had the idea of a book of potentially intrusive questions that both should respond with a text and a drawing. Here the knowledge of others is not so intrusive, but rather lopsided, in a metaphoric register. The confessions are made and identities are revealed in a must detour through the imaginary.
Charles Guilbert writes, draws, sings and films. Interested in the everyday and human relationships, he seeks to capture the strangeness of reality through language. He published The Anxious (story) Herb The beautiful red and educational trip (newspaper) published by Dazibao. In 2004, he received, for all of his video work with Serge Murphy, the Bell Canada Award awarded by the Arts Council of Canada. His works have been presented in several European countries, Japan, Mexico, Canada and Quebec, including the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal at the Biennale de Montréal and the AKI Art Quebec.

DGINO CANTIN draws, photographs, scans and assembling objects. It focuses on areas of uncertainty that may arise from poetic different associations. In its first exposure to what happens next, he was awarded the Videre Polling (awards in art and culture of Quebec City). He then participated in creative residencies in Canada and France. His installations have been presented at events collective and individual exhibitions, including at VU at Caravanserai, the biennial of contemporary art routes and the AKI Art Quebec.

The Loggers of the impossible

Artists and authors: Dgino Cantin and Charles Guilbert
Artist's book, text in French only 120 pages, 8 X 9.5 inches.
ISBN 978-2-923612-20-1 2010
Price: 25.00 + Freight + GST in Canada 3.25 1.41 + 0.26 = qst Total: $ 29.92


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Lucie Duval,
Stories learned by ear
This book project was developed around a common object given me different ideas. Gloves for workers' Made in China "found in packages in all hardware stores. Globalization forces, everything is produced at lower cost in China to the detriment of workers here. The object becomes contradictory workers gloves (made in China) versus unemployed here.
These one hundred and fifty were produced in rabbits rate of about one a day. In addition to what has been written about my motivation, something new has appeared. Unconsciously, the rabbit made such a day reveals something about my state at that time, my world view. Logbook.

This publication is not a catalog, but an object where the images and words will intersect, not without shock, where special care is given to how "give to see." Never forget that these rabbits are somewhat mutilated. First appearance in a candid, naive and bland, we had cut the fingers (those gloves), sewing, mending (which is not unlike some working conditions in factories).

LUCIE DUVAL is a visual artist. For many years, his work revolves around an interference between what is read and what is seen, one course where the words themselves are objects and images. She was born in Mont-Laurier, lives and works in Quebec. She studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse and obtained in 1983, the Higher National Diploma plastic expression (DNSEP). She has exhibited regularly in North America, Europe and Asia. His works are part of the collection of loans of works of art from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. She is represented by Galerie Isabelle Gounod in Paris. This is the first time she handles the books as an art object.

Lucie Duval, Stories drawn by the ears

170 pages, 6 3/4X 8 3/4in. Français Translation of the titles at The End of the book
ISBN 978-2-923612-19-5 2010
Price $ 30.00 + Shipping in Canada 5.00 + gst 1.75 + pst 0.39 = Total: $ 37.14

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Thunderbird Turbocoupe Sal

It's my turn

(Continued from the previous episode )

So without a second thought ...
1. John IRVING: Because this is my first literary love teenage ... The first author who made me want to devour all his work.
2. Jean Racine, okay, it's a bit pompous coming from a French teacher. But it happens that I'm seeing Berenice with my students and I was touched again by rereading his Alexandrian.
3. Siri Hustvedt: Xavier aka Consonant Auster has already cited. So as not to repeat, I chose his wife as much as I like. And as I am the female part of our duo, I chose the feminine side of them.
4. Jonathan Coe: What can I say but I love it, I expect each of his books with fervor, he never disappoints me.
5. Jean Cocteau: because I spent my graduate studies at the Orpheus and that of Anouilh. How could I forget ...
6. Henning Mankell: one who persuaded me that crime fiction was often of high quality. Since I read all (or most) of it, police or not. It seems he has done with the Inspector Wallander ... I dare not even think about it.
7. Nancy Huston: it made me cry hot tears in his last two novels. What writing! What a woman!
8. Philip Roth: an incredible mastery of writing and analysis extraordinarily fine in his country the United States. Voiced but you had already said that I loved her ... no?
9. Emile Zola: I love teaching the cycle of Rougon-Macquart. What literary enterprise!
10. Margaret Atwood: poignant stories of women and always fair, it undertakes to tell us the last century or she embarks on the science fiction novel.
11. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: I already loved Love in the Time of Cholera . But Hundred Years of Solitude gave me, a teenager, a passion for great family saga.
12. Harry Mulisch: I know that Xavier / Voiced already cited but The Discovery of Heaven is probably the novel that I would take on a desert island.
13. Rene GOSCINNY: because I love Le petit Nicolas. One of the books the most poetic and funny world. Especially illustrated by Sempé.
14. Haruki Murakami: for his dream and his poetry (yet).
15. Jonathan Safran Foer and his wife Nicole Krauss: both can make us laugh and cry almost at the same time.
I'm sure in an hour, I'll think of plenty of writers that I should absolutely put on this list. I'll try to remember it for next time?

Free Spoon Gerber 2010

Tag your mouth at recess

A tag received Lystig and quite simple: fifteen authors name and then fifteen blogolectrices tag / readers (see below).

Easy enough ... or not!

1. Marcel Proust: the first that comes to mind long as I caress the envy of immersing myself in research (but when I see the rhythm of my week, I tell myself that it will be for the board ...).

2. Marguerite Duras: a bit out of fashion but a writer who has marked the end of my adolescence and I relirais although one of these days (or one of my old cf 1) .

3. Jane Austen: because one of my students decided to focus on his heroines for his graduation and that it reminded me how much I had been surprised by the modernity of his female figures, especially in Pride and Prejudice (and as what, it is not just the bloggers!)

4. David Sedaris (which I mentioned here ): an American humorist and writer of great talent who makes me laugh a lot. I won a holiday for long journeys, his lyrics read by itself and, in addition to very good exercise to improve his English comprehension, I laughed a lot.

5. Michel de Montaigne: it an author that I love teaching and I am always struck by the incredible relevance of its tests.

6. RJ Ellory: I am currently reading his latest novel published in French, The Anonymous . The two previous Only silence and Vendetta, are among my best reads of recent years (it was said here ).

7. Michel Houellebecq: it seems he just won a prize ...

8. Christine de Pisan: great memory of my studies. A poet of the 15th century (remarkable in itself) to write sweet, simple and sensitive.

9. Anne-Marie Garat: his trilogy A crossing of the century (that was mentioned here ) has struck my heartstrings. And his writing full and lyrical, although almost anachronistic touches me.

10. Paul Auster: when will the Nobel?

11. Arthur Rimbaud: I really do my job forced me to get interested in poetry and the poetry of this young prodigy continues to intrigue me.

12. JK ROWLING: This blog day after HP and we have never had occasion to mention here the novels for which we found childish feelings.

13. Henry Bauchau: Belgian author (though his nationality does not really matter) of Oedipus on the road, another great read / revelation my adolescence.

14. Emmanuel Carrere: even if I'm still not sure whether I liked it or not (as I said here ) More lives than mine is a book which I look back very often.

15. Harry Mulisch: disappeared recently, he is the author of The Discovery of Heaven a masterpiece.

And without obligation, I pass the tag to Luke's Blog at Globe Player at Bookomaton at Art and Literature (and More) at Réka at Calyste at Zarline in the Pyrenean at Saleanndre at Tiphanie at Clara at Niki at Emerald and, of course, to aka Amanda Vowel .