Povídka prostoupená fascinací prostým člověkem a jeho dokonalým splynutím s přírodou. Obraz provensálského pastýře je oslavou neokázalé vytrvalé činnosti, která si nedělá nárok na odměnu, a přece se svým výsledkem blíží aktu stvoření. Jean Giono vzbudil touto povídkou zájem o zalesňovací program. Stala se pro ochránce přírody inspirací k zalesňování celých oblastí.
Barbara Bray Knihy






Monsieur Proust
- 456 stránek
- 16 hodin čtení
Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time. She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust himself said to her, "You know everything about me." Her reminiscences of her employer present an intimate picture of the daily life of a great writer who was also a deeply peculiar man, while Madame Albaret herself proves to be a shrewd and engaging companion.
In the early 1970s Harold Pinter joined forces with director Joseph Losey and Proust scholar Barbara Bray to develop a screenplay of Proust's masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past. Pinter took more than a year to conceive and write the screenplay and called the experience "the best working year of my life." Although never produced, Harold Pinter's The Proust Screenplay is considered one of the greatest adaptations for the cinema ever written.With fidelity to Proust's text, the screenplay is an extraordinary re-creation by one of the leading playwrights of our time. It is, in its way, a unique collaboration between two extraordinary writers united across more than half a century and two different cultures by a special concern for time and memory.
Jacques Lacan. An Outline of a Life and a History of a System of Thought
- 596 stránek
- 21 hodin čtení
Recounts the conflicts surrounding Lacan's break with the institutional framework of Freudian orthodoxy, the popularity of Lacanianism in the 1960s and 1970s, and its encounters with the women's movement
Presents an account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, this book shows the lives of a cast of village characters.
Yann Andréa Steiner
- 115 stránek
- 5 hodin čtení
A semi-autobiographical novel exploring the anarchic nature of passion, the traumas of childhood and the legacy of the Holocaust. Threatened with allusions to her life's work, this melancholic and dreamlike novel is typical of the novelist.