...Michael Lucey Playing with Variables: Leduc au village Michael Lucey Playing with Variables: Leduc au village Violette Leduc is known for books, fictional and autobiographical to varying degrees (Ravages, Thérèse et Isabelle, La Bâtarde), that include scenes recounting in detail sexual relations...

...Carlos Varón González Abstract After her father’s death, the poetic subject in Luz Pichel’s Galician-language Casa pechada ( Closed Home , 2006) returns from the city to clear the things in her house in a small Galician village. However, these things do not conform to any sense of social, emotional...

... the search for identity grounding much of Caribbean literature. The death of its main protagonist, Francis Sancher, and his subsequent wake, provide the villagers of Riviere au Sel with an opportunity to reflect on their past and current plights and to ponder their future. Neither Sancher, who sought...

... the term cultural transvestism as an analytic term to represent 4. Much of the scholarship has focused on the utopian overtones of MIle du Clos's Huron village. See Assaf, "Utopian Beginnings, Dystopian End"; Marouby; Runte; Cazenobe. 5. For examples of global approaches to the work see Assaf, "Structure...

... to the southern village of Ille. His host is M. de Peyrehorade, a fellow antiquarian who has recently unearthed a superb bronze statue of Venus. As it happens, Peyrehorade's only son, Alphonse, is about to marry. On the morning of the big day, Alphonse challenges a group of Spanish mule drivers to a match of jeu...

..., of what was]" (5). In Shoah, Lanzmann asks perhaps his most memorable subject, Simon Srebnik, one of only two people out of 400,000 to survive Chelmno, to return there with him. He does, and the reaction of the many villagers who remember him-as a boy of 13 on "Jewish work detail" who would routinely...

.... There are, however, two exceptions among those publics when it comes to the issue of anonymity: King Stanislaw of Poland is the most prominent audience member of the print audience of his first discourse, and King Louis XV of the live audience of his opera Le Devin du village. Both kings become crucial reference...

... de village en village annoncer Ie regne futur de la trinite: "Liberte, egalite, fraternite". Dans chaque village, ils improvisent une musique qui est une musique populaire. Abandon de la musique savante, exaltation de la musique populaire et de l'improvisation, refus de s'installer dans un lieu, dans...

.... It is no longer the same place in many ways, but the echoes are still there-the rivers are still icy, and if patois is no longer heard in the villages, where the stone fences have crumbled, there are still the fireplaces, the lizards on the grey walls, the gorse and the heather. One day in the early eighties, I...

...: Errances, 1988); Christian Amalvi, De L'art et La maniere d'accompagner les heros de !'histoire de France (Paris: Albin Michel, 1988); H. Peres, "Identite communale, republique et communalisation:a propos des monuments aux morts de villages," Revue Fran~aise de Sciences Politiques, octobre 1989, 665-682...

... pose en contradiction ab- asolue Voulet et Chanoine qui apparaissent sous la plume de Mamani conlme des sauvages. Des Nassarous armes jusqu'aux dents marchent vers l'est. Ils brisent, saccagent tout sur leur passage. Ils sement la mort et la desolation dans tous les villages qu'ils traversent. Des...

... childhood is a story of rage and anger. I don t recall a single day when my mother wasn t standing in front of the television screaming at the politicians, They re all the same not a single day in which my father wasn t complaining about the village doctor, or the mayor, saying that they were always...

..., of which it presents a brilliant parody. Moreover, a large part of his work can be read in this manner. Solitary figures, strangers, writers, masters, and all those who live on the margins of the village communities featured in his novels are all systematically suspected of homosexuality. It is never...

..., it was a table invented by Mabille where he would show how to correctly dispose all the components of a model village. 14. Onziemes Assises, op.cit., p. 115. JULIEN GRACQ IN ENGLISH 225 Which Gracq? For Hornig, this question raises the problem of a difference in literary generations;15 but it could also...

... concocts in PT p. 26 has Hagetmau, Montfort, Ombres-aux-Bois, Coudures, Pontens-IesForges, Mugron, CEyreluy, La Chapelle and Saint-Cricq. It proves just as "realist" as the original villages figuring in Zola's text and, we may assume, on the map of France: Donchery, Briancourt, Marancourt, Vrignes-aux-Bois...

... family. As Jefferson comments: “It was an act of despair on the part of someone who had once been a spokesman for ideals that no longer had a place in occupied France” (154). To avoid the worst, Nathalie and her children moved to a village southwest of Paris, where they had the courage never to wear...

... of the otherworldly: the fantastic genre (« The Cult of the Unreal: Nodier and the Romantic movement », 62-81). If, however, the Nodier of La Fee aux miettes wants to write for "les honnetes paysans de mon village, les aimables et sages enfants qui n'ont pas profite de l'enseignement mutuel, et les poetes de pensee...

... monomania in a way that leads the writer's quest for the idee fixe into the realm of the otherworldly: the fantastic genre (« The Cult of the Unreal: Nodier and the Romantic movement », 62-81). If, however, the Nodier of La Fee aux miettes wants to write for "les honnetes paysans de mon village, les...

..., without putting that text into the context of Nemirovsky's life and previous writings. Nemirovsky wrote Suite franr;aise in Issy L'Eveque, where her husband Michel was interpreting for German officers stationed in the village. Irene and Michel became friendly with two German soldiers and wrote to one...

... of the Marais nowadays, "but not at the same time and preferably not in that order." Or again: "Think of Greenwich Village, New Orleans's French Quarter, or Miami's South Beach for other examples of what I would call urban camp: the appropriation of neighborhoods whose glory has long faded and whose beauty...