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Fictional memoir of Dr. Max Aue, a former Nazi officer who survived the war and has reinvented himself, many years later, as a middle-class entrepreneur and family man in northern France. Max is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the eyes of this cultivated yet monstrous man, we experience the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi...
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"Deux voix entrelacées. Celle, révoltée, de Bernanos, témoin direct de la guerre civile espagnole, qui dénonce la terreur exercée par les Nationaux avec la bénédiction de l'Église contre "les mauvais pauvres." Celle, roborative, de Montse, mère de la narratrice et "mauvaise pauvre," qui a tout gommé de sa mémoire, hormis les jours enchantés de l'insurrection libertaire par laquelle s'ouvrit la guerre de 36 dans certaines régions d'Espagne,...
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"Lorsque Myriam, mère de deux jeunes enfants, décide malgré les réticences de son mari de reprendre son activité au sein d'un cabinet d'avocats, le couple se met à la recherche d'une nounou. Après un casting sévère, ils engagent Louise, qui conquiert très vite l'affection des enfants et occupe progressivement une place centrale dans le foyer. Peu à peu le piège de la dépendance mutuelle va se refermer, jusqu'au drame. A travers la description...
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In Persian mythology, Syngué Sabour is the name of a magic black stone, representing patience that welcomes and absorbs all the troubles and worries of the people talking to it. It is epitomized by a soldier who has been shot in the neck but who miraculously survives. He is now lying in his bed, in a coma, his wife by his side, nursing him while caring for their two daughters. In the early stages of his coma, she speaks gently to him, but as the...