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La maison où vit Piranèse n'est pas un bâtiment ordinaire : ses pièces sont infinies, ses couloirs interminables et ses salles ornées de milliers de statues. Piranèse tient un journal rigoureux de ses errances dans ce labyrinthe. Deux fois par semaine, il rend visite à L'Autre, qui habite lui aussi cette cité enfouie, et l'assiste dans sa recherche du Grand Savoir. Mais, au cours de ces explorations, Piranèse découvre un jour des preuves de l'existence d'un troisième être. Une terrible vérité commence alors à se dévoiler, révélant un monde complètement différent de celui qu'il connaît. Envoûtant, Piranèse nous plonge dans un univers parallèle onirique à la beauté irréelle, rempli d'images surprenantes, tourmenté par les flots et les nuages.
Une lumineuse prouesse littéraire, à la fois mystère captivant, aventure à travers un monde fantastique exceptionnel et méditation sur la condition humaine... Madeline Miller.
Brillamment singulier. The Guardian.
Women's Prize for Fiction 2021.
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
- Le Livre de Poche
- Le Livre De Poche Imaginaire
- 27 Février 2008
- 9782253112839
1806. Dans une Angleterre usée par les guerres napoléoniennes, un magicien à l'ancienne mode, Mr Norrell, offre ses services afin d'empêcher l'avancée de la flotte française. En quelques jours, les Anglais ont repris l'avantage. Norrell devient la coqueluche du pays. C'est alors qu'il fait la connaissance d'un jeune et brillant magicien, Jonathan Strange. Ensemble, les deux hommes vont éblouir l'Angleterre par leurs prouesses. Jusqu'à ce que l'audacieux Strange, attiré par les aspects les plus sombres de la magie, provoque la colère de Mr Norrell...
Entre roman fantastique et roman d'aventures, entre féerie et romantisme, ce premier roman de Susanna Clarke a été élu meilleur livre de l'année par Time Magazine et a reçu le prix Hugo. -
From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an enchanting and haunting Christmas short story
**Named a book to look out for in 2024 by the Sunday Times, Guardian and BBC**
**A small hardback edition featuring an afterword by the author**
''A church is a sort of wood. A wood is a sort of church. They''re the same thing really.''
Nineteen-year-old Merowdis Scott is an unusual girl. She can talk to animals and trees - and she is only ever happy when she is walking in the woods.
One snowy afternoon, out with her dogs and Apple the pig, Merowdis encounters a blackbird and a fox. As darkness falls, a strange figure enters in their midst - and the path of her life is changed forever.
''Like Hilary Mantel, Clarke has made the very notion of genre seem quaint'' Guardian
''A miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling'' Madeline Miller
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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL, ''one of our greatest living authors'' New York Magazine Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.
In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.
Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims?
Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous.
The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.
***** ''What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being . Piranesi is an exquisite puzzle-box'' DAVID MITCHELL ''It subverts expectations throughout . Utterly otherworldly'' Guardian ''Piranesi astonished me. It is a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling'' MADELINE MILLER ''Brilliantly singular'' Sunday Times ''A gorgeous, spellbinding mystery . This book is a treasure, washed up upon a forgotten shore, waiting to be discovered'' ERIN MORGENSTERN ''Head-spinning . Fully imagined and richly evoked'' Telegraph
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Un recueil exquis L'Express Ne vous laissez pas prendre au charme paisible de la campagne anglaise. Un pont ancien ou une trouée dans un bosquet peuvent être autant de passages pour l'Autre Pays, où vivent les fées. De nombreux mortels s'y sont égarés, parfois sans espoir de retour. À cheval entre notre monde et l'Autre Pays vivent les magiciens. Et les magiciennes. Malicieuses, cachottières et impertinentes sous leur apparente modestie, elles s'opposent à la magie masculine, qui combine l'arrogance à la violence. Elles créent sous la surface du réel des ondes d'émotions, troublent délicatement l'ordre des choses, modifient imperceptiblement le sens commun et, pour protéger leur relative liberté, jouent avec délices de maléfices interdits.
Dans les huit contes qui composent Les Dames de Grâce Adieu, Susanna Clarke prolonge les thèmes de son best-seller Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell en empruntant au roman victorien et à la fantasy pour arpenter un monde onirique, revisité à la lumière des préoccupations contemporaines. -
JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR NORRELL ; 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Susanna Clarke
- Bloomsbury
- 7 Novembre 2024
- 9781526679055
OVER 4 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE
Shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award; longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
''Unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last seventy years ... Funny, moving, scary, otherworldly, practical and magical'' NEIL GAIMAN
The year is 1806. centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation''s past. But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell, whose displays of magic send a thrill through the country.
Proceeding to London, he raises a beautiful woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet the cautious, fussy Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician: the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange. Young, handsome and daring, Strange is the very antithesis of Norrell.
So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men which overwhelms that between England and France. And their own obsessions and secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine.> -
JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL ; 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Susanna Clarke
- Bloomsbury
- 12 Septembre 2024
- 9781526681553
The 20th anniversary edition of the fantasy classic, with an introduction by V E Schwab
Over 4 million copies sold
''Susanna Clarke writes with an intelligence and beauty that seems at times miraculous'' Katherine Rundell
''Unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last seventy years'' Neil Gaiman
1806. England is beleaguered by the long war, and centuries have passed since magicians faded from view. But one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell. Proceeding to London, he raises a woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French.
Yet the cautious Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician. Young, handsome and daring, Jonathan Strange is his very antithesis. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men - which overwhelms that between England and France. And soon their own secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine.
''Like Hilary Mantel, Clarke has made the very notion of genre seem quaint'' Guardian
