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Deconstructing Gurdjieff

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Beyond Meetings with Remarkable Men into the truth behind the self-crafted mythology of Gurdjieff’s life • Reveals evidence that Gurdjieff was a secret Freemason, relying on hypnotism, psychic research and spiritualism• Explores the profound influence of the Yezidis, esoteric Christianity, and the “gnostics” of Islam, the Sufis, on Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way teachings and the “Work”• Uncovers the truth behind Gurdjieff’s relations with Aleister Crowley• Accurately dates Gurdjieff’s real activities, particularly his enigmatic early lifeIn November 1949, architect Frank Lloyd Wright announced the death of “the greatest man in the world,” yet few knew who he was talking about. Enigmatic, misunderstood, declared a charlatan, and recently dubbed “the Rasputin who inspired Mary Poppins,” Gurdjieff’s life has become a legend. But who really was George Ivanovich Gurdjieff?Employing the latest research and discoveries, including previously unpublished reminiscences of the real man, Tobias Churton investigates the truth beneath the self-crafted mythology of Gurdjieff’s life recounted in Meetings with Remarkable Men. He examines his controversial birthdate, his father’s background, and his relationship with his private tutor Dean Borshch, revealing a perilous childhood in a Pontic Greek family, persecuted by Turks, forced to migrate to Georgia and Armenia, only to grow up amid more war, persecution, genocide, and revolt. Placing Gurdjieff in the true context of his times, Churton explores Gurdjieff’s roles in esoteric movements taking root in the Russian Empire and in epic imperial construction projects in the Kars Oblast, Transcaucasia, and central Asia. He reveals Gurdjieff’s sources for his transformative philosophy, his early interest in hypnosis, magic, Theosophy, and spiritualism, and the profound influence of the Yezidis and the Sufis, the “gnostics” of Islam, on Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way teachings and the “Work.” Churton also explores Gurdjieff’s ties to Freemasonry and his relationships with other spiritual teachers and philosophers of the age, such as Madame Blavatsky, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Aleister Crowley, dispelling the myth that Gurdjieff forcibly expelled the “Great Beast” from his Institute.Showing how Gurdjieff deliberately re-shaped elements of his life as parables of his system, Churton explains how he didn’t want people to follow his footsteps but to find their own, to wake up from the hypnosis that drives us blindly through life. Offering a vital understanding of the man who asked “How many of you are really alive?” the author reveals the continuing importance of Gurdjieff’s philosophy for the awakening of man.

Marlene Dietrich

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Dieses Buch enthält die Biographie von Marlene Dietrich, eine deutsch-amerikanische Schauspielerin und Sängerin. Dietrich gilt als Hollywood- und Stilikone und ist eine der wenigen deutschsprachigen Künstlerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts, die auch international Ruhm erlangten. Das American Film Institute wählte sie 1999 unter die 25 größten weiblichen Leinwandlegenden aller Zeiten.

Pequeño&Grande Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Jean-Michel Basquiat está considerado una de las figuras más reconocidas del arte contemporáneo del siglo pasado. Nació en el barrio neoyorquino de Brooklyn, su madre fue clave para estimular su talento. Con su amigo Al Díaz, pintaba grafitis en paredes y edificios de la parte sur de Manhattan como expresión de protesta. Sus obras denunciaban el racismo y la desigualdad y adquirieron un enorme valor. Basquiat se ha convertido en un icono cultural.

Sono un ottimista globale

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Ottimista globale, utopista impaziente, riluttante imperatore contemporaneo – per censo e per influenza –, Bill Gates dedica ormai da anni le sue risorse, economiche e intellettuali, a cercare di risolvere i problemi del mondo. Il padre di Microsoft Corporation si racconta in questa conversazione con Massimo Franco, ripercorrendo le tappe significative della sua vita e tratteggiando la sua filosofia di intellettuale organico della globalizazzione. Gates è il figlio naturale di quella Silicon Valley estesa fino a Seattle, vera costola della nostra modernità e della ricchezza americana: una realtà che ostenta una posa minimalista ma che è in grado di forgiare lo stile di vita, i modelli di lavoro e il modo di pensare di miliardi di persone.Durante la lunga intervista Bill Gates non smette mai di dondolarsi sulla sedia in velluto del Four Seasons di Parigi: è il suo modo personalissimo di concentrarsi, da quando era bambino. E con la sua voce nasale, quasi metallica, analizza le sfide dirimenti dei prossimi anni: dalle migrazioni alle crisi finanziarie, dalle guerre alle grandi emergenze umanitarie. Delinea le ragioni profonde delle sue numerose imprese, come la creazione della Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation e poi del Global Fund, una rete di miliardari mossi dalla determinazione a migliorare le sorti delle zone più svantaggiate del pianeta. Con le loro generose e a volte anche controverse iniziative vantano di aver salvato venti milioni di vite in quindici anni, scongiurando centinaia di migliaia di nuove infezioni e coinvolgendo governi e istituzioni sovranazionali.Sono un ottimista globale tocca questioni di assoluta rilevanza. Affronta problemi ineludibili. Interpreta i segni della contemporaneità e tenta di delineare le sfide strategiche dell’Occidente attraverso le riflessioni di uno dei personaggi più influenti del nostro tempo: un visionario dell’era digitale e un fuoriclasse del software che, con sforzi anche economici straordinari, sta provando a riprogrammare il destino del mondo.

Deliver Me From Evil

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Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything . . . and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe. On Waller's trail is Shaw, the mysterious operative from The Whole Truth, who must prevent Waller from closing his latest deal. Shaw's one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence. But Waller's depravity and ruthlessness go deeper than Shaw knows. And now, there is someone else pursuing Waller in Provence – Reggie Campion, an agent for a secret vigilante group headquartered in a musty old English estate – and she has an agenda of her own. Hunting the same man and unaware of each other's mission, Shaw and Reggie will be caught in a deadly duel of nerve and wits.Deliver Us From Evil is Hitchcockian in its intimate build-up of suspense and filled with the remarkable characters, breathtaking plot turns, and blockbuster finale that are David Baldacci's hallmarks.

The Mysteries of John the Baptist

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The search for the real historical person known as John the Baptist and the traditions that began with him • Explores why John the Baptist is so crucially important to the Freemasons, who were originally known as “St. John’s Men” • Reveals how John and Jesus were equal partners and shared a common spiritual vision to rebuild Israel and overcome corruption in the Temple of Jerusalem • Explains the connections between John as lord of the summer solstice, his mysterious severed head, fertility rites, and ancient Jewish harvest festivals Few Freemasons today understand why the most significant date in the Masonic calendar is June 24th--the Feast of the Birth of St. John the Baptist and the traditional date for appointing Grand Masters. Nor do many of them know that Masons used to be known as “St. John’s Men” or that John the Baptist was fundamental to the original Masonic philosophy of personal transformation. Starting with the mystery of John in Freemasonry, Tobias Churton searches out the historical Baptist through the gospels and ancient histories, unearthing the real story behind the figure lauded by Jesus’s words “no greater man was ever born of woman.” He investigates John’s links with the Essenes and the Gnostics, links that flourish to this day. Exposing how the apostle Paul challenged John’s following, twisting his message and creating the image of John as “merely” a herald of Jesus, the author shows how Paul may have been behind the executions of both John and Jesus and reveals a precise date for the crucifixion and the astonishing meaning of the phrase “the third day.” He examines the significance of John’s severed head to holy knights, such as the Knights Templar, and of Leonardo’s famous painting of John. Churton also explains connections between John, the summer solstice, fertility rites, and ancient Jewish harvest festivals. Revealing John as a courageous, revolutionary figure as vital to the origins of Christianity as his cousin Jesus himself, Churton shows how John and Jesus, as equal partners, launched a covert spiritual operation to overcome corruption in the Temple of Jerusalem, re-initiate Israel, and resurrect Creation.

Passejades per Berlín

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El llibre d'una ciutat escrit per un nadiu estarà sempre emparentat amb les memòries; no en va l'autor va passar la infància en aquell lloc, tal com Franz Hessel la seva a Berlín. I si ara es posa en camí i passeja per la ciutat, no coneix l'impressionisme exaltat amb què el descriptor aborda sovint el seu objecte. Hessel no descriu, explica. Encara més, torna a explicar el que ha sentit. Passejades per Berlín és un eco del que la ciutat va explicar a l'infant d'altres temps. Un llibre èpic de cap a cap, una manera de memoritzar tot vagarejant, un llibre per al qual el record no va ser la font, sinó la musa, que als carrers es posa al capdavant. Als seus ulls cada carrer fa baixada, i davalla, si no cap a les mares, sí cap a un passat que encara pot ser més fascinant per tal com no és tan sols el propi de l'autor, el privat. En l'asfalt per on camina els seus passos desperten una ressonància sorprenent. (Walter Benjamin)

Cristóbal Colón - Diario de a Bordo

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Diario de a bordo de Cristóbal Colón" fue una de las varias obras escritas por Cristóbal Colón en su vida y fue publicada en 1492. Esta obra es un poderoso y revelador diario en el que Colón narra su viaje hacia el Nuevo Mundo, ofreciendo una visión íntima y profunda de su vida y de las condiciones enfrentadas durante su expedición. A lo largo del tiempo, se han escrito y continúan escribiéndose varias biografías sobre este icónico explorador y navegante, con una calidad y amplitud cada vez mayores. Sin embargo, para conocer el pensamiento y el modo de ser de una persona real, no hay nada mejor que escuchar la historia con todas sus circunstancias, errores y aciertos contada por quien las vivió en primera persona. Este es el propósito del diario de Cristóbal Colón: llevar al público al hombre determinado y visionario que, a través de su perseverancia y liderazgo, se convirtió en una de las figuras más influyentes en la historia de la exploración. Esta obra forma parte de la colección "Voces hispánicas", que tiene como objetivo destacar las historias de vida de figuras importantes en la historia hispanoamericana, contadas por ellos mismos.

Mémoires d’outre-tombe

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Mémoires d’outre-tombe François-René de Chateaubriand, écrivain romantique et homme politique français (1768-1848) 1848 Ce livre numérique présente "Mémoires d’outre-tombe", de Chateaubriand, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement aux différentes sections. "Mémoires d'outre-tombe" est une autobiographie de François-René de Chateaubriand. Chateaubriand n'avait premièrement pas l'intention d'écrire ses mémoires, mais c'est lors d'une promenade au parc de Montboissier en 1817 qu'il entend le chant d'une grive, ce qui lui rappellera toute son enfance et le poussera à se mettre à l'ouvrage. Liste des sections: - 1. Présentation - 2. Introduction - 3. Préface testamentaire - 4. Avant-propos - 5. Tome I - 6. Tome II - 7. Tome III

Lettre à ma fille

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Dédié à celle qu’elle n’a jamais eue, Lettre à ma fille est une succession de courts textes décrivant les souvenirs qui ont façonné la vie exceptionnelle de Maya Angelou. Féministe avant l’heure, et après une enfance et une adolescence marquée par la violence, elle écrit avec le cœur de millions de femmes qu’elle considère comme ses sœurs de combat. La littérature la sauvera et l’amènera à être la première étudiante noire d’une école privée. Puis elle fréquentera le milieu intellectuel noir-américain et deviendra une grande militante de la condition des femmes noires. C’est grâce à l’écrivain James Baldwin qu’elle se mettra à écrire après la mort de Martin Luther King et deviendra l’auteure que l’on connaît aujourd’hui. Dans ce captivant récit, l’auteure nous fait partager ses combats et les épreuves qui ont forgé son caractère dans la compassion et le courage. Maya Angelou fut poète, écrivaine, actrice, enseignante et réalisatrice. En 2013, en tant que militante des droits civiques américains, elle a reçu le National Book Award pour « service exceptionnel rendu à la communauté littéraire américaine ». Elle est décédée le 28 mai 2014 à l’âge de 86 ans.

Pedigree

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In this rare glimpse into the life of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, the author takes up his pen to tell his personal story. He addresses his early years—shadowy times in postwar Paris that haunt his memory and have inspired his world-cherished body of fiction. In the spare, absorbing, and sometimes dreamlike prose that translator Mark Polizzotti captures unerringly, Modiano offers a memoir of his first twenty-one years. Termed one of his “finest books” by the Guardian, Pedigree is both a personal exploration and a luminous portrait of a world gone by. Pedigree sheds light on the childhood and adolescence that Modiano explores in Suspended Sentences, Dora Bruder, and other novels. In this work he re-creates the louche, unstable, colorful world of his parents under the German Occupation; his childhood in a household of circus performers and gangsters; and his formative friendship with the writer Raymond Queneau. While acknowledging that memory is never assured, Modiano recalls with painful clarity the most haunting moments of his early life, such as the death of his ten-year-old brother. Pedigree, Modiano’s only memoir, is a gift to his readers and a master key to the themes that have inspired his writing life.

Years of Renewal

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Perhaps the best-known American diplomatist of the twentieth century, Henry Kissinger is a major figure in world history, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and arguably one of the most brilliant minds ever placed at the service of American foreign policy, as well as one of the shrewdest, best-informed, and most articulate men ever to occupy a position of power in Washington.The eagerly awaited third and final volume of his memoirs completes a major work of contemporary history. It is at once an important historical document and a brilliantly told narrative of almost Shakespearean intensity, full of startling insights, unusual (and often unsparing) candor, and a sweeping sense of history. Years of Renewal is the triumphant conclusion of a major achievement and a book that will stand the test of time as a historical document of the first rank.

Sharon Tate

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Ed Sanders gave readers their clearest insight yet into the disturbing world of Charles Manson and his followers when he published The Family in 1971. Continuing that journalistic tradition, Sanders presents the most thorough look ever into the heartbreaking story of Sharon Tate, the iconic actress who found love, fame, and ultimately tragedy during her all-too-brief life.Sharon Tate: A Life traces Sharon's path from beauty queen to budding young actress: her early love affairs, her romance with and marriage to director Roman Polanski, and the excitement of the glamorous life she had always sought -- all set against the background of the turbulent 1960s. This sympathetic account tells the powerful story of her determined rise through the ranks of Hollywood and to the brink of stardom before her name became forever linked with the shocking murder spree that took her life. In 1969, the Polanski house was targeted by the followers of cultist Charles Manson. Why the Manson clan focused its gaze on Sharon remains unclear, but the world was soon shocked to its core as it learned of the brutal murders of a pregnant Sharon Tate and her friends at her idyllic home in Los Angeles. Sanders once again examines this horrific crime and its aftermath, expounding on what may have led the killers to that particular house on that particular evening.Sharon Tate takes readers on a sometimes joyous yet inevitably heart-wrenching tour of the '60s as seen through the eyes of someone who lived it, survived it, and remembers it all too well. Brilliant illustrations by noted artist Rick Veitch lend character to this riveting narrative of the life and times of a beloved actress whose image and whose fate still haunt us to this day.

David Crockett

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A little more than a hundred years ago, a poor man, by the name of Crockett, embarked on board an emigrant-ship, in Ireland, for the New World. He was in the humblest station in life. But very little is known respecting his uneventful career excepting its tragical close. His family consisted of a wife and three or four children. Just before he sailed, or on the Atlantic passage, a son was born, to whom he gave the name of John. The family probably landed in Philadelphia, and dwelt somewhere in Pennsylvania, for a year or two, in one of those slab shanties, with which all are familiar as the abodes of the poorest class of Irish emigrants.After a year or two, Crockett, with his little family, crossed the almost pathless Alleghanies. Father, mother, and children trudged along through the rugged defiles and over the rocky cliffs, on foot. Probably a single pack-horse conveyed their few household goods. The hatchet and the rifle were the only means of obtaining food, shelter, and even clothing. With the hatchet, in an hour or two, a comfortable camp could be constructed, which would protect them from wind and rain. The camp-fire, cheering the darkness of the night, drying their often wet garments, and warming their chilled limbs with its genial glow, enabled them to enjoy that almost greatest of earthly luxuries, peaceful sleep.

Where I Was From

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From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline” (The Baltimore Sun), Didion—a native Californian—reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours.Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to California's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and this book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.

La tierra de la gran promesa

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«Los relatos de Juan Villloro tienen ese raro poder no para asomarse al abismo sino para permanecer en el borde del abismo, durante mucho rato, balanceándose y por lo tanto haciéndonos balancear a nosotros sus lectores con movimientos que surgen de la duermevela o tal vez de una lucidez extrema». Roberto BolañoDiego González es un documentalista que habla dormido. Está casado con una sonidista que trata de descifrar lo que dice en sueños. Se muda a Barcelona, pero el pasado lo alcanza como una pesadilla. La visita de un viejo conocido, el periodista Adalberto Anaya, trastoca su reciente tranquilidad. Anaya –quien ha vigilado a Diego durante años con la atención casi desmedida de un admirador– lo culpa de haber hecho un documental para entregar a un narco. Diego se ve obligado a lidiar con este enemigo que es, al mismo tiempo, su único aliado. La tierra de la gran promesa es una metáfora del México contemporáneo. Una lectura amplia sobre las entretelas de la corrupción y la vida íntima donde las verdades se pronuncian al dormir. Una reflexión sobre la forma en que el arte influye en la realidad y en que la realidad distorsiona al arte. Una novela tan política como personal que mantiene a Juan Villoro como un testigo excepcional de nuestro tiempo.La crítica ha dicho:«Villoro es uno de los escritores latinoamericanos que mejor piensan la literatura en este momento». Patricio Pron«Cuando ya a nadie se le ocurría ni preguntar si es posible escribir la gran novela mexicana, Villoro puso una en la mesa». Álvaro Enrigue, sobre El testigo«Villoro se identifica tan estrechamente con la Ciudad de México que es imposible imaginar cómo se puede conocer uno sin el otro, razón por la cual sus escritos emplean consistentemente el “nosotros” comunal». Los Angeles Times«Por esa combinación de cotidianidad y rareza, melancolía y humor, leemos a Villoro con avidez». Hugo Hiriart«Sé que a la hora de los fantasmas Villoro juraría como cuentista, pero lo tengo entre nuestros mejores críticos». Christopher Domínguez Michael«Un excepcional ensayista. Los ensayos de Villoro permiten volver a las obras discutidas con una mirada más amplia y renovada. De eso se trata». Edmundo Paz Soldán«Villoro cuenta sus aventuras con una mezcla de ironía y empatía, con sentido del humor y del absurdo. Está exquisitamente sintonizado con las contradicciones y matices de la capital y sabe escuchar a sus habitantes». The New York Times, sobre El vértigo horizontal

Behind the Scenes

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This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventually worked for Mary Lincoln. It is a fascinating book.

Broken Landscapes

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Ernie O’Malley was a revolutionary republican and writer. One of the leading figures in the Irish independence and civil wars, he survived wounds, imprisonment and hunger strike, before going to the USA in 1928 to fundraise on de Valera’s behalf. Broken Landscapes tells of his subsequent journeys, through Europe and the Americas, where O’Malley moved in wide social circles that included Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Hart Crane and Jack B. Yeats. Back in Mayo he took up farming. In 1935 he married Helen Hooker, an American heiress, with whom he had three children, Cathal, Etain and Cormac, before a bitter separation. His literary reputation was established with a magnificent memoir, On Another Man’s Wound (1936). In later years he was close to John Ford, and worked on The Quiet Man (1952). This vibrant new collection of letters, diaries and fragments opens up the broad panorama of his life to readers. It enriches the history of Ireland’s troubled independence with reflections on loss and reconciliation. It links the old world to the new – O’Malley perched on the edge of the Atlantic, a folklore collector, art critic and radio broadcaster; autodidact, modernist and intellectual. It conducts a unique conversation with the past. In Broken Landscapes, we travel with O’Malley through Italy, the American Southwest, Mexico and points inbetween. In Taos, he mingled wiht the artistic set around D. H. Lawrence. In Ireland, he drank with Patrick Kavanagh, Liam O’Flaherty and Louis MacNiece. The young painter Louis le Brocquy was his guest on his farm in Burrishoole, Co. Mayo. These places and people remained with O’Malley in his private writing, assembled for the first time from family and institutional archives. Reading these letters, dairies and fragments is to see Ireland in the tumultuous world of the twentieth century, as if for the first time, allowing us to view the intellectual foundations of the State through the eyes of its leading chronicler.

Ero Bergoglio, sono Francesco

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Un reportage da Buenos Aires, tra immagini e parole, nelle stesse ore in cui il nuovo papa Francesco sale al soglio pontificio. L’autore parte verso quella “fine del mondo”, evocata proprio dal Santo Padre il giorno della sua elezione, per constatare quanto sapore di frontiera si respiri realmente in quella terra. E scopre una realtà sociale alquanto inquieta. L’Argentina è un paese che potrebbe sfamare oltre trecento milioni di individui ma che al suo interno contiene sacche di povertà assoluta. Un paese dove la delinquenza di strada è fenomeno comune anche nei quartieri più rinomati e dove il paco (la droga) miete giovani vittime. Nel libro vengono intervistati due parroci di periferia che, anche attraverso il contributo personale di papa Francesco, oggi si dedicano al recupero e al reinserimento sociale di questi ragazzi. Jorge Mario Bergoglio nel suo percorso, prima di provinciale dei gesuiti, poi come vescovo ausiliare di Buenos Aires e quindi come cardinale, è sempre stato vicino agli emarginati. Ha fatto della predicazione del Vangelo il cuore stesso del suo stile di vita. Uno stile sobrio, semplice, umile. Molti degli aneddoti riferiti confermano questa immagine arricchendola di nuove storie e curiosità. Numerose sono le conversazioni che l’autore ha avuto con moltissima gente comune e con i tanti amici del Santo Padre: i compagni di studio negli anni del seminario a Villa Devoto e quelli della Facoltà di filosofia e teologia a San Miguel. Quello che emerge è il ritratto di un uomo che comunica più con le azioni che con le parole, rifugge dalle teorizzazioni, e quando parla utilizza spesso esperienze personali, storie realmente accadute, perché è solo attraverso la testimonianza di vita vissuta che si può trasmettere la vera esperienza del Vangelo.

Profils perdus

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Nasser, C. Alliot-Lugaz, F. Ardant, R. Aron, E. Avice, Ben Barka, H. Beuve-Méry, P. Boulez, G. Bounoure, H. Bourguiba, C. Bretécher, G. Buis, M. Callas, G. Catroux, Chaval, Chou En-Lai, G. Duby E. Labonne, M. Foucault, Giap, J. Gachassin, J.K. Galbraith, G. Garbo, De Gaulle, Hô Chi Minh, R. Kennedy, H. Kissinger, K. et M. Labèque, P. Lamour, R. Leenhardt, W. Lippman, A. Malraux, C. Malraux ; Mao Tsé-Toung, L. Massignon, P. Mendès-France, M. Hadj, H. Michaux, P. Milliez, A. Minkowski, A. Mnouchkine, P. Mus, Mme Nhu, A. Ordonez, G. Picon, G. Pompidou, A. Prucnal, J.-P. Rives, Sadate, A. Savary, G. Schéhadé, N. Sihanouk, H. Tazieff, G. Tillion. Hommes d’État, artistes, sportifs, intellectuels ; en un tiers de siècle, Jean Lacouture les a approchés, connus, appréciés. Voici une cinquantaine de portraits qui, dans leur provocante diversité, révèlent une curiosité rare et bigarrée. Un défilé de têtes bien faites ou bien pleines, mis en scène par une plume acérée et tendre. Un travelling arrière passionné et sinueux, a l’image de notre époque.

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