Jean Pavans Libros

Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has had his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; Terry, the insomniac, spends his wakeful nights fuelling his obsession with movies; and the increasingly unstable Dr Gregory Dudden sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which must be eradicated . A group of students sharing a house. They fall in and out of love, they drift apart. Yet a decade later they are drawn back together by a series of coincidences involving their obsession with sleep - and each other ...

In 1914, Henry James began work on a major novel about the immense new fortunes of America’s Gilded Age. After an absence of more than twenty years, James had returned for a visit to his native country; what he found there filled him with profound dismay. In The Ivory Tower , his last book, the characteristic pattern underlying so much of his fiction—in which American “innocence” is transformed by its encounter with European “experience”—receives a new twist: raised abroad, the hero comes home to America to confront, as James puts it, “the black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.” James died in 1916 with the first three books of The Ivory Tower completed. He also left behind a “treatment,” in which he charted the further progress of his story. This fascinating scenario, one of only two to survive among James’s papers, is also published here together with a striking critical essay by Ezra Pound.

" Je n'ai jamais eu aucune ambition de devenir ou d'être une star de cinéma, mais la fascination que ce processus créatif opérait sur moi me donna l'envie de travailler et de travailler très dur pour plaire à Mr. von Sternberg. Ma légende m'a bien servie, et j'ose dire qu'elle a bien servi tous les autres cinéastes qui ont pris la suite après qu'il eut décidé que je devais continuer seule. " Parmi les stars de cinéma, Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) se singularise en ce qu'elle a intimement collaboré avec un metteur en scène de génie à l'élaboration de sa propre légende. Les sept chefs-d'œuvre qu'elle tourna en cinq ans avec Josef von Sternberg constituent le fondement de sa gloire et restent la raison essentielle de la fascination qu'elle continue d'exercer. Sa personnalité puissante et entière s'affirma cependant dans d'autres domaines cruciaux de l'histoire du XXe siècle, comme la lutte contre le nazisme ou la libération des mœurs.