''Passionate and moving and provides further evidence of the universality of football'' Jonathan Wilson, FourFourTwo The definitive story of the Middle East''s unstoppable rise to football superpower, and the road to the Qatar World Cup When James Montague first began covering football in the Middle East two decades ago, people asked him what future there could possibly be for the beautiful game in one of the most volatile regions in the world. In the years that followed, it would become one of the biggest stories in global sport, from the from revolutionary ultras of the Arab Spring and the takeover of some of the world''s biggest clubs by the Emirati super rich, to Qatar''s controversial journey towards hosting the 2022 World Cup finals. The only Western journalist covering the story on the ground from the very beginning, James Montague tells the definitive tale of the region''s rise to ultimate power player in the global game in a fully revised and updated edition. Travelling to every country in the Middle East and meeting fans, players, workers and campaigners, he paints an unforgettable picture of football in a controversial, vibrant and surprising new world.
You can see them, but you don''t know them. Ultras are football fans like no others. A hugely visible and controversial part of the global game, their credo and aesthetic replicated in almost every league everywhere on earth, a global movement of extreme fandom and politics is also one of the largest youth movements in the world. Yet they remain unknown: an anti-establishment force that is transforming both football and politics. In this book, James Montague goes underground to uncover the true face of this dissident force for the first time. 1312: Among the Ultras tells the story of how the movement began and how it grew to become the global phenomenon that now dominates the stadiums from the Balkans and Buenos Aires. With unprecedented insider access, the book investigates how ultras have grown into a fiercely political movement, embracing extremes on both the left and right; fighting against the commercialisation of football and society - and against the attempts to control them by the authorities, who both covet and fear their power.
Once upon a time football was run by modest local businessmen. Today it is the plaything of billionaire oligarchs, staggeringly wealthy from oil and gas, from royalty, or from murkier sources. But who are these new masters of the universe? Where did all their money come from? And what do they want with our beautiful game?
In The Billionaires Club James Montague delves deeper than anyone else has dared, to tell this story for the first time. It is part history of club ownership, part in-depth investigation into the money and influence that connects the super-rich around the globe, and part travel book as he crosses national boundaries in an attempt to reveal the real force behind modern-day football.
Whilst almost always cloaked in secrecy, the billionaire owner has to raise his head above the bunker when it comes to football ownership - a rare Achilles heel that allows access to worlds normally off limits for journalists and outsiders. And so Montague criss-crosses the world - from Dhaka to Doha, from China to Crewe, from St Louis to London, from Bangkok to Belgium - to profile this new elite, their network of money and their influence that defies geographic boundaries.
At its heart The Billionaires Club is a football book, about some of the biggest clubs in the world. But it is also about something bigger: the world around us, the global economy, where the world is headed and how football has become an essential cog in this machine
Il s'agit du 3eme tome de la collection horreur cosmique, Maitre du fantastique à l'art inégalé et a qui le Maitre de Providence doit énormément
Comme Lovecraft l'écrit l'écrit lui même dans une lettre de 1934 relevée par ST Joshi,
Je ne prétends pas appartenir au premier rang des écrivains bizarres - un rang représenté par Poe parmi les morts, et par Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Walter de la Mare, Lord Dunsany, & Montague Rhodes James parmi les vivants.
Concrètement, on retrouve sur le fond chez HPL les mêmes personnages que chez James, des « scholars » bibiophiles, qui d'ailleurs vont creuser dans un passé (ou des ouvrages) qu'il vaudrait mieux laisser tranquilles. Sur la forme, l'influence est plus grande encore puisque HPL essaie (s'en jamais, estime-t-il, y parvenir) à retranscrire le climat glaçant de piège et de descente réaliste dans l'horreur; avec cette accélération si particulière qui nous précipite face à « l'obscénité ». Tout cela en ne fournissant aucune explication rationalisation finale, tour de force sur lequel HPL insiste, avec raison, tout particulièrement, comme condition du maintien du malaise. Comme l'explique HPL en 1935:
M. R. James joint l'éclat, la lumière et le banal à l'étrange aussi bien qu'on peut le faire - mais si un autre essayait la même méthode, les chances seraient de dix à un contre lui. L'élément le plus précieux en lui - en tant que modèle - est sa façon de tisser une horreur dans le tissu quotidien de la vie et de l'histoire - en la faisant grandir naturellement hors de la myriade de conditions d'un environnement ordinaire.
Bref, un Maître consommé de l'horreur cosmique, plongeant par reliques interposées dans les abîmes du temps et de l'a-humain. Vous m'en direz des nouvelles.
A noter que nous ne nous sommes pas contentés de les republier : les nouvelles ont été complètement révisées par leur traducteur (celui de la majorité d'entre elles), Xavier Perret, et j'ai voulu aller au delà faisant traduire des histoires inachevées inédites issues des archives de l'auteur, que Jacques Fuentealba a prises en charge, le tout accompagné d'une article de l'auteur sur son art, assez édifiant.
L'Éveilleur vous propose un premier tome de l'intégralité des nouvelles souvent brèves qui mettent en scène des créatures fantomatiques et peu conciliantes qu'on ne dérange jamais sans risque. Avec lui, on se réjouit de cette manière anglaise de raconter l'horrifique et de cet art d'en dire peu pour laisser faire l'imagination.
Dosage génial d'effets et d'images, art de la suggestion, ellipse : un maître absolu !
'The lower jaw was thin - what can I call it? - shallow, like a beast's; teeth showed behind the black lips.' M. R. James is the master of the English ghost story, whose tales are inhabited not by ethereal spirits, but by terrifying, palpable forces of evil. In these four stories figures appear in paintings, demonic voices are heard, books awaken ancient horrors - and ordinary objects and situations are transformed into inescapable nightmares.
This book includes Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book, The Mezzotint, The Rose Garden and The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral.
The only annotated edition of M. R. Jamess writings currently available, Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories contains the entire first two volumes of Jamess ghost stories, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. These volumes are both the culmination of the nineteenth-century ghost story tradition and the inspiration for much of the best twentieth-century work in this genre. Included in this collection are such landmark tales as Count Magnus, set in the wilds of Sweden; Number 13, a distinctive tale about a haunted hotel room; Casting the Runes, a richly complex tale of sorcery that served as the basis for the classic horror film Curse of the Demon; and Oh, Whistle, and Ill Come to You, My Lad, one of the most frightening tales in literature. The appendix includes several rare texts, including A Night in Kings College Chapel, Jamess first known ghost story.
First time in Penguin Classics
