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Veronique observes everything, though--"I'm observing you," she tells her godparents as they set out for a summer vacation; she, on loan from her parents; they, on the lam from modernity. Veronique also keeps a diary. (You visualize the schema: 11-year-old girls draw horses, 12-year-old...
The life of art nouveau was short, about two decades; its climax was the turn of the century, in 1900. But in that brief time the look of Western capitals-and especially their bourgeois interiors-was utterly transformed by architects led by Victor Horta and Hector Guimard, designer of the...
Meanwhile, the family is in some distress: Ludovic's wife threatens suicide; Marthe's husband, jealous, even desists from his own love affairs to bring her to heel. Although Director Jean-Charles Tacchella manages some telling glimpses of family life, Cousin, Cousine becomes a sort of bourgeois anti...
Food production is still a national preoccupation under the Communists, as China's huge agricultural communes obviously indicate. Solomon points out that food images still dominate the way the Chinese formulate their political concerns. In Chinese the verb to suffer literally means to eat bitterness. The Chinese customarily talk...
The facts of Celine's life can be read more or less surrealistically in Journey and in his second masterpiece Mort a Credit (translated as Death on the Installment Plan), which is, among other things, a merciless recollection of boyhood and family life. "I was born in a shop...