De beauvoir simone biography of albertine sarrazin
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So many articles have been published in recent years decrying of the end of the bookstore, the end of printed books. It’s true, thousands of bookshops have shut their doors, but in Paris the independent bookstore is very much alive. You can’t cross the street in the 5th and 6th arrondissements without passing a bookstore. And unlike the Anglophone market, which is dominated by big chains, in France there is a healthy balance of large publishers and smaller specialist presses which have their own bookshops and loyal clientele. For decades, Le Nouvel Athanor, a publisher specialising in poetry, has operated out of the Galerie Librarie Racine. I sat down with editor Jean-Luc Maxence to discuss gender, Jung, Simone de Beauvoir, and why he feels we can celebrate the differences between the sexes, but not entirely eliminate them.
Litro: It’s amazing that gender studies and feminism are still such charged topics.
Jean-Luc Maxence: That’s a subject we’ll be treating in my new maga
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Reading from Albertine Sarrazin's "The Outbreak"
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- "Freedom really is the worst of all vices" - Camilla Renschke reads from Albertine Sarrazin's novel "The Breakout"
"Freedom really is the worst of all vices" - Camilla Renschke reads from Albertine Sarrazin's novel "The Breakout"
Reading via live stream from the special exhibition "In Prison": Camilla Renschke reads from Albertine Sarrazin's novel "The Breakout" - YouTube
A cooperation between the Centrum Frankreich | Frankophonie of TU Dresden (CFF) and the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden (DHMD)
Albertine Sarrazin processed her own prison experiences in her autobiographical texts. Sarrazin spent a large part of her youth in prisons, fled repeatedly and finally made her breakthrough as a writer - thanks in part to the support of Simone dem Beauvoir. Sarrazin's turbulent life and her authentic descriptions made the author a literary sensation in France in the s, before she died in at the age of j
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Albertine Sarrazin // "I would like to stay like this, lazy, warm, in the silence where only our regular breathing can be heard, without ever having to make gestures, speak words which sell us out and betray us; this moment fryst vatten real and alive, I stretch it into eternity."
Joni Mitchell // "If you're smart or rik or lucky, maybe you'll beat the laws of man. But the inner laws of spirit and the outer laws of nature, no man can."
Albert Einstein // "Although I am typically a loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those whose strive for truth, beauty and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated."
Bob Dylan // "I get letters from peopleyoung peopleall the time. I wonder if they write letters like those to other people they don’t know. They just want to tell me things, and sometimes they go into their personal hangups. Some send poetry. I like getting themread them all and answer some.