Pascal Bruckner
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"Finalist for the 25th Annual Translation Prize (Nonfiction), French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundation" Pascal Bruckner is the award-winning author of many books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel Bitter Moon, which was made into a film by Roman Polanski. Bruckner's nonfiction books include The Tyranny of Guilt (Princeton), The Temptation of Innocence, and The Tears of the White Man.
How happiness became mandatory-and why...
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English
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"Fascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, imperialism - the West has on shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have been consumed by remorse. But Pascal Bruckner argues that guilt has now gone too far. It has become a pathology, and even an obstacle to fighting today's atrocities. Bruckner, one of France's leading writers and public intellectuals, argues that obsessive...
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English
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Pascal Bruckner is the award-winning author of many books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel Bitter Moon, which was made into a film by Roman Polanski. Bruckner's nonfiction books include Perpetual Euphoria (Princeton) and The Tyranny of Guilt.
A provocative reflection on the dilemmas of modern love
The sexual revolution is justly celebrated for the freedoms it brought-birth control, the decriminalization of abortion, the liberalization...
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Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Money is an evil that does good, and a good that does evil. It inspires hymns to the prosperity it enables, manifestos about the poor it leaves behind, and diatribes for its corrosion of morality. In The Wisdom of Money, one of the world's great essayists guides us through the rich commentary that money has generated since ancient times--both the passions and the resentments--as he builds an unfashionable defense of the worldly wisdom of the bourgeoisie....
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1994
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English
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After being force-fed with taped data to make him a genius, a child refuses to leave his mother's womb. He has decided life is not worth living. When the mother tries starving him out, he responds by attacking her internal organs. By the author of Evil Angels.
8) Bitter moon
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New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, c1994
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English
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"A mild-mannered man attempts to rekindle the sexual fire in his marriage while on a vacation cruise. The only problem is he falls in love with another woman."--Container.
