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EAN : 9782714474988
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 204
Size : 140 x 225 mm
The (First) Nine Lives of Pandora

Release date : 03/11/2016
Les neuf (premières) vies de Pandora is a collection of ten stories with a common thread: the very same cat makes an appearance from one text to the next.
~~From Augustin and Clara's Paris in Le Cœur en berne – which remains the author's best-known work – to the figure of the Japanese kamikaze, who has a peculiar resonance in our current age, and Basquiat's New York, Renaud Santa Maria offers up the broad spectrum of his universe, characterised... ~~From Augustin and Clara's Paris in Le Cœur en berne – which remains the author's best-known work – to the figure of the Japanese kamikaze, who has a peculiar resonance in our current age, and Basquiat's New York, Renaud Santa Maria offers up the broad spectrum of his universe, characterised by yearning and the quest for the absolute.

Deeply troubled by that which inevitably awaits us all, the author attempts to identify, through what he calls 'temporary oblivions', what it is that sustains men afflicted by a lucid apprehension of their own destinies. Dreams, beauty, art, love, inebriation, poetry, ideals, humour…  And God? And so he seeks that which is capable of keeping men going – and he finds it, with his characteristic humanity and his ability to grasp the universal in human experience.
 
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EAN : 9782714474988
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 204
Size : 140 x 225 mm
Belfond