The man who gave second chances
Anna Politkovskaya on the Chechen warlord Buvadi Dakhiev, at Sign and Sight (12.10.2006).
Two faces of Arab intellectuals
By Khalid al-Maaly at Sign and Sight (11.10.2006) :
During the 1980s, a friend of mine – a left-wing, secular-minded Syrian writer living in Paris at that time – surprised me by his open admiration for the newly organised Hizbullah. At first I thought his admiration was merely a passing fancy. But when Iraq occupied Kuwait in 1990, he and I finally collided. He could not disguise his delight at the "annexation" of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein's troops, which made me regard his secular, leftist views as a joke. Yet his career led him ever deeper into the arena of the struggle for human rights. With European financial support, he issued a periodic newsletter on human rights, which for years had not a word to say about Saddam's crimes, nor about women's rights. Meanwhile his relations with Arab Islamist groups, especially the Muslim Brotherhood, deepened steadily.
"We paid a fair price"
Interview with Philipp Schindler at Spiegel International (11.10.2006) :
SPIEGEL ONLINE: What do you have in mind as far as that is concerned? Is YouTube not expected to bring in any money?
Schindler: I can't yet concretely say, but of course, as I said earlier, we have a revenue model. One idea, for example, is sponsoring specific content. Another possibility is that certain content might be offered for a fee, just as we already do with Google Video. Another one would be to show an ad before the video. Right now we can't say, "This will be our strategy." We need to work on it so our targeting system, which works well for text-based content, also carries over into the audio-visual world.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Several videos on YouTube consist of pieced-together stolen material. How will you prevent copyright infringement?
Schindler: For us protecting content providers' copyright is of highest priority. For one thing, we advise our users that no copyright-protected material may be posted on our platform. For another, both Google Video and YouTube have a system that enables copyright holders to inform us if their copyright has been breached, and we react as quickly as possible.
While Susan Sontag lay dying
By Angela McRobbie at Open Democracy (11.10.2006).
Also see Anni Leibovitz, "My time with Susan" (interviewed by Emma Brookes) at The Guardian (07.10.2006).
5 Scandals that Could Put Republicans in Jail
By James Ridgeway at Mother Jones/Alter Net (12.10.2006).
Le chœur dans nos têtes
Par John Berger au Monde Diplomatique (Août 2006). Sur La Rabbia de Piero Paolo Pasolini.
On fulmine souvent en découvrant comment les journaux télévisés présentent (ou occultent) les événements. On se dit que, si on pouvait, on exposerait cela tout autrement. De manière à rendre plus parlante la réalité. Comme le fit, en 1963, le réalisateur italien Pier Paolo Pasolini dans son film La Rabbia (« La Rage »), un documentaire politique d’une force telle qu’il fut censuré. On peut enfin le voir aujourd’hui.
Études sur l'énigme Lautréamont
Par Nathalie Fortin à Fabula Acta (10.10.2006). Sur Pierssens, Michel, Ducasse et Lautréamont : L'envers et l'endroit, Du Lérot & Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2005, 208 p. :
Dans Ducasse et Lautréamont : L’envers et l’endroit, Michel Pierssens nous livre les résultats de plusieurs années de recherches sur ce qu’il nomme le « singulier moteur à deux temps de l’imagination ducassienne »1. Car ce qui frappe surtout, explique Pierssens, dans cette œuvre faite de rebondissements, de retournements et de paradoxes, c’est que l’on ne peut saisir la « vraie » posture de l’auteur, que l’on arrive difficilement à saisir chez Lautréamont l’envers de l’endroit.
Mais c’est précisément le mystère de l’œuvre, peut-être entretenu volontairement par Ducasse, qui fascine le lecteur, en l’invitant à poser sans cesse de nouvelles questions. Par conséquent, propose Pierssens, il convient de traiter « l’énigme Lautréamont » non pas comme quelque chose qu’il faudrait comprendre, mais comme « un outil qui nous permet (nous demande) de comprendre ce qui l’a produit ». C’est ce qu’entreprend ici l’auteur, dans ces études qui se veulent une exploration de certaines pistes parmi d’autres, en vue, non pas de trouver la « vérité » Lautréamont, mais de poser de nouvelles questions. Comme celle de l’ancien et du nouveau, par exemple, centrale chez Lautréamont, et dont Pierssens tente de percer les mystères.
De la décadence
Par Lisa Marie Jaillant à La Revue des Ressources (11.10.2006). Sur A Rebours d'Huysmans.
The real Lady Chatterley: society hostess loved and parodied by Bloomsbury group
By Maev Kennedy at The Guardian (10.10.2006) :
A cache of unpublished letters from the novelist Virginia Woolf and scores of first editions inscribed by leading writers and poets of the early 20th century has emerged in the contents of the library of Lady Ottoline Morrell, the society hostess who became one of the most flamboyant, loved and mocked associates of the Bloomsbury group.
Lady Ottoline was extremely well connected - her first cousin was Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, the future Queen Mother - and her friendships and affairs were legendary in her day and since. Her unmistakable figure, six foot tall with flaming red hair and usually dressed as flamboyantly as a parrot, stalks through books and works of art of the period.
Foucault 2.0
By Nader N. Chokr at Metapsychology (10.10.2006). Reviews Eric Paras, Foucault 2.0 : Beyond Power and Knowledge, Other Press, 2006 :
In a new and groundbreaking book titled, interestingly enough, Foucault 2.0: Beyond Power and Knowledge, as if to suggest that we are now moving to another level of interpretation of Foucault's work, and another version altogether in the assessment of his legacy, 22 years after his untimely death, Eric Paras takes up the following question --which has preoccupied many contemporary readers, sympathizers and critics alike: "How and why does Foucault go from being a philosopher of the disappearance of the subject to one wholly preoccupied with the subject?"
The Religious Right's Crusade for 'Decency'
Celina R. De Leon interviews Frederick S. Lane at Alter Net (11.10.2006).
Gaza sliding into civil war
Rory McCarthy's report from Gaza City at The Guardian (11.10.2006) :
When they buried Rafiq Siam, the traffic stopped and hundreds of armed men, some firing into the air, gathered at the Gaza mosque. Eight men wearing red berets and black combat uniforms lifted his body wrapped in a white shroud and Palestinian flag and carried it inside with as much ceremony as the pressing crowd would allow.
Mr Siam, 40, a father of seven, was the victim of a single bullet to the base of his skull. He died on Sunday a week after he was shot, the latest victim in the worst outbreak of factional violence in Gaza for more than 10 years. Years of rivalry between the Islamic Hamas movement, which now dominates the government, and the more secular Fatah, which was ousted from power in January elections, is spilling over into a struggle for power.
Orhan Pamuk Nobel Laureate
The Guardian and Le Monde.
Here is his interview at Le Monde (03.11.2005).
Establishing shots
By Glen David Gold at The LA Times (08.10.2006). Reviews John Bengtson, Silent Traces Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Charlie Chaplin, Santa Monica Press :
Bengtson has gone through 43 of Charlie Chaplin's movies made between 1914 and 1940 and figured out where he shot nearly every exterior location. Where possible, he has found contemporary photographs to show what the locations looked like when put to their daily use and current photographs to show how they look now. There are also maps, diagrams, stills and images from various archives to flesh things out. His text walks you through Chaplin's career, Hollywood geography and architecture and city planning, and Bengtson's own 2005-era detective work.
Adorno-Benjamin Correspondance 1928-1940
De Fabula (05.10.2006) :
Cette correspondance éclaire les rapports entre deux des plus importantes figures de la vie intellectuelle du XXe siècle. Elle comprend plus de cent lettres, qui vont de quelques lignes sur des questions matérielles à de grands échanges théoriques, auxquels la forme épistolaire donne une liberté et une immédiateté uniques. Avec en toile de fond la montée du nazisme et les difficultés de l'exil, on voit passer dans ces lettres quantité de figures marquantes de l'époque, de Brecht à Scholem, de Bloch à Kracauer. Les travaux d'Adorno sur la musique et sur Kierkegaard, les notions centrales chez Benjamin - l'aura, le messianisme, la relation entre l'ancien et le nouveau -, la lente élaboration de son grand ouvrage sur les Passages, toute cette activité intellectuelle se trouve ici exposée avec le charme qu'apportent les notations sur la vie quotidienne et l'amitié entre les êtres.
Theodor W. Adorno & Walter Benjamin, Correspondance 1928-1940, Traducteurs: Henri Lonitz, Philippe Ivernel, Guy Petitdemange, Gallimard, collection "folio essais", 412 pages, 8 euros.
Wow! Adorno-Benjamin Correspondance is lined up in "Folio".
China Unblocks Wikipedia
From E&P (11.10.2006) :
The online interactive reference site Wikipedia announced Tuesday that the site had apparently been made accessible in China, after being blocked for just over a year by the country's government
Mr Writer Man
By Deborah Friedell at TLS (11.10.2006). Reviews Paul Auster, Travels in the Scriptorium, Faber :
Travels in the Scriptorium, Paul Auster’s most recent work of fiction, is a slim homage to the novels of Paul Auster. A writer, Mr Blank, imprisoned in a bedroom, his memory gone, is visited by his own fictional creations – all of them characters who have appeared in Auster’s novels. They are tortured by the kind of metaphysical crisis that will be familiar to readers of 1960s metafiction, about whether, if they exist only on the page, they can “really” exist. (No.) Some of them hate Mr Blank, blaming him for their suffering (for it is the novelist’s job to get characters into trouble). But Mr Blank is also visited by other Auster characters – clearly the more sagacious – who come to express their gratitude to the novelist who gave them life: “You do what you have to do, and then things happen. Good things and bad things both. That’s the way it is”. This is the writer as God, life-giver and life-destroyer; and also as the Christ. One of Auster’s most lamentable heroines, from his apocalyptic In the Country of Last Things (1988), here tells the novelist who she says ruined her life – who starved her, killed her baby, pushed her through a window: “You’re not like other men. You’ve sacrificed your life to something bigger than yourself, and whatever you’ve done or haven’t done, it’s never been for selfish reasons”.
Army specialist's take on Japanese studies
By Paul McCarthy at The Japan Times (08.10.2006). Reviews Grant K. Goodman, America's Japan : The First Year 1945-1946, Fordham Univ. Press :
Grant K. Goodman is a professional historian of Japan, specializing in the relations between the Dutch and the Japanese in the Edo Period, and the development of Dutch Studies (Rangaku) in Japan. But here he writes on the basis of his personal experiences as a translator/ interpreter/interrogator in the U.S. Army in the last stages of the war and the first year of the Occupation.
Gustave Flaubert : Un monde de livres
De Fabula (05.10.2006) :
"Il est 1 heure du matin. Je ne sais pas comment je n'ai pas la poitrine défoncée, depuis 4 heures que je hurle sans interruption ", écrit Flaubert à son ami Louis Bouilhet en 1852. Enfermé dans son cabinet de travail de Croisset qui donne sur la Seine. Flaubert reste très tard la nuit à écrire, à travailler son style, à " gueuler " ses phrases, comme il dit, en quête du bon rythme, du " mot juste ", chassant les assonances et les répétitions. Comment ce fils de médecin, élevé à l'Hôtel-Dieu de Rouen, jeune rentier destiné au droit, apprendra-t-il à mener le scalpel dans une tout autre discipline, la littérature ? Comment cet ours retiré du monde et de ses turpitudes deviendra-t-il l'auteur des chefs-d'œuvre que l'on sait ? Ce livre, à travers quelque cinq cents documents réunis (manuscrits de jeunesse, brouillons surchargés des romans, extraits de la correspondance, des carnets de voyage, photographies d'époque, articles de presse, gravures, objets, etc.), donne à voir l'élaboration d'un destin littéraire sans égal. La vie de Gustave Flaubert, qui s'est si souvent élevée contre son temps et son milieu (la médiocre bourgeoisie), est intimement mêlée à la compagnie des livres : ouvrages, albums, recueils, traités, récits, chroniques... Il y a les livres que Flaubert a lus et relus toute sa vie et qui ont forgé son amour pour la prose, et ceux qu'il a abondamment utilisés pour l'écriture de ses œuvres. Cet ouvrage met ainsi l'accent sur l'écrivain au travail, sur sa méthode, compilant, annotant, composant, corrigeant sans cesse jusqu'à atteindre la Beauté et le Style.
Eric Le Calvez, Gustave Flaubert. Un monde de livres, Editeur: Textuel, collection "Passion", 192 pages, 49 euros.
Enghien-les-Bains honore «sa» Mistinguett
Florent Pétoin's report at Le Figaro (10.10.2006). "À l'occasion du cinquantième anniversaire de sa disparition, sa ville natale lui rend hommage." Who cares about Mistinguett these days? (not ironically) Did you know her? Was she like Shizuko Kasagi in Japan?
World Bank Shuts Out Dissident Voices
By Peter Bosshard at FPIC (06.10.2006) :
To the bankers and government officials who descended on the city state for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meetings in September, Singapore may have looked like the perfect model of a globalized consumer society. Tellingly, for the first time, the annual meetings took place inside a giant shopping mall. Corporate logos dominated the venue, shoppers went happily about fulfilling their consumer duties, and the delegates were shrouded in a constant cloud of Muzak.
The Stalker State: North Korean Proliferation and the End of American Nuclear Hegemony
By Peter Hayes at Japan Focus (04.10.2006) :
Three US administrations have failed to avoid North Korean breakout from the Non-Proliferation Treaty and a gaping hole in the IAEA safeguards system. Nuclear war is once again conceivable in Korea after a brief interlude in the early 1990s when this prospect all but disappeared. The North’s announcement on October 4, 2006 that it intends to test a nuclear weapon underscores this failure.
Beware a 'beauty' that would deceive the nation
By Roger Pulvers at The Japan Times (08.10.2006) :
"Japan lost the war, and Bushido [the samurai spirit] perished. But then the human being was born for the first time in the womb of truth called decadence."
That is what radical novelist and essayist Ango Sakaguchi wrote in his famous essay in Shincho magazine in April 1946, titled "On Decadence." This month marks the centenary of his birth in northerly Niigata Prefecture, and it affords a good opportunity to crosscheck the wisdom of his words with today's Japanese reality.
"On Decadence" ("Daraku-ron") at Aozora Bunko (Japanese). Will anyone translate Ango in English or French?
Ideas whose time has come
By Danny Postel at Eurozine (06.10.2006) :
"For me as an Iranian philosopher, thinking differently is a form of going beyond the challenges of my daily life in Iran. It's an opening up to the world which goes hand in hand with the act of being free." Until his arrest in Tehran in April 2006 on charges of spying, Ramin Jahanbegloo was active in bringing numerous prominent Western thinkers to Iran. On his release in August, Jahanbegloo made a public statement in which he admitted playing into the hands of Western bodies seeking to prepare the ground for a "velvet revolution" in Iran and announced his withdrawal from the international intellectual stage. His admission is widely understood to have been the result of pressure from the authorities incuding the bail condition of family property. In an interview conducted via email in January and February 2006, he talks about some of the thinkers whose work has been influential to the liberal movement in Iran, including Jürgen Habemas, Hannah Arendt, Noam Chomsky, and Antonio Negri; about the failure of Iranian Marxism; and about the different strands in Iranian political philosophy today.
Opacité de la peinture
De Fabula (06.10.2006) :
Publié en 1989 et devenu introuvable, Opacité de la peinture est un jalon essentiel dans le croisement des parcours « artistique » et « religieux » de Louis Marin.
Cette réédition permet d’avoir à nouveau accès à cet ouvrage fondamental dont le modèle d’analyse reste novateur. Elle valorise les minutieuses analyses des images accomplies par Louis Marin grâce à une présentation en couleur des fresques, tableaux et dessins. Procédant à rebours, Louis Marin projette sur les oeuvres italiennes du Quattrocento la théorie du signe et de la représentation élaborée à Port-Royal au dix-septième siècle. Il dévoile les ruses par lesquelles l’image parvient à s’imposer comme vraie du point de vue de la perception, mais aussi et surtout du point de vue de la légitimité politique et religieuse qui l’autorise. Comment la peinture d’histoire parvient-elle à se présenter comme objective et vraie ? Comment la peinture religieuse peut-elle figurer des mystères ? Comment l’auteur, le peintre, parvient-il à trouver une place dans sa peinture ?
Opacité de la peinture. Essais sur la
représentation au Quattrocento. Editions de l'EHESS
Collection « L’histoire et
ses représentations », 6, 33 €.
Impeachment Anyone?
"The Case for Taking the Tape Off Our Mouths" by Davis Swanson at TomDispatch (05.10.2006).
The Human Blog
By Emily Nussbaum at New York Magazine (09.10.2006). — Serial charmer and conservative turncoat Arianna Huffington reinvents herself yet again—as self-help guru and queen of connectedness.
Residents protest likely arrival of U.S. Patriot missiles on Okinawa
From IHT (09.10.2006) :
TOKYO About 100 protesters lined up outside a port in Okinawa hoping to prevent advanced Patriot missiles that may have arrived by ship Monday from being deployed at a U.S. military base on the southern Japanese island, a news report said.
A U.S. military cargo ship believed to be carrying Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles arrived at the U.S. military facility at Tengan Harbor on Monday, Kyodo News agency reported.
Maj. Dani Johnson, a public affairs officer at Kadena Air Base's 18th air wing, confirmed that a ship arrived Monday, but she declined to tell the Associated Press what it was carrying, citing security concerns.
Le mystère de l'intervalle
Par Olivier Cena à Télérama (07.10.2006). Robert Rauschenberg, “Combines (1953-1964)”, du 11 octobre 2006 au 15 janvier 2007, centre Pompidou, 75001 Paris.
Lacan
By Paula Satne Jones at Metapsychology (03.10.2006). On Slavoj Žižek (ed.), Lacan : The Silent Partners, Verso :
It is often said that Lacanian psychoanalysis in the English-speaking world has been more influential in the fields of cultural studies, literary criticism and film than it has in those of clinical psychology or analytical philosophy. This book proves once more that this is in fact the case. As a general rule, most of the contributions do not address practical aspects of psychoanalytic theory. However, as with every general rule, an exception can always be found. One such exception is Joan Copjec's article entitled 'May '68, The Emotional Month'. In this article, Copjec examines Lacan's surprising response to the student revolts of May '68. Such a response can be found in the seminar delivered by Lacan that very same year: Seminar XVII: The Underside (or Reverse) of Psychoanalysis. In his seminar, Lacan not only accused the students of not being radical enough, but also, and more interestingly, he ended the seminar by abruptly announcing that the final aim of psychoanalysis is the production of shame. Why invoke shame as the final aim of analysis in the context of 1968?
Two Regimes of Madness
By John Sellars at Metapsychology (03.10.2006). On Gilles Deleuze, Two Regimes of Madness : Texts and Interviews 1975-1995, Semiotext(e) :
Although these may only be minor pieces within Deleuze's oeuvre, they will nevertheless be of great interest to his existing readers. It is a great pity, then, that this volume suffers from some major flaws. I shall focus on two. The first of these is simply the quality of the translation. One hardly need know French at all in order to be able to see the deficiencies. Here are a few examples. In replying to an interview question about what he thought he was doing in A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze replies 'Philosophie, rien que de la philosophie, au sens traditionnel du mot' (Deux régimes de fous (hereafter DRF) 163). When quoting this text in the introduction to his own translation of Deleuze's Essays Critical and Clinical (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), Daniel Smith translates this as 'philosophy, nothing but philosophy, in the traditional sense of the word' (p. xii). Indeed, how else could he have translated it? In our volume we get instead 'It's just plain old philosophy' (Two Regimes of Madness (hereafter TRM) 176). This is not a translation; it is paraphrase.
Death of a Courageous Journalist
Anna Politkovskaya was found dead on Friday, reports The NY Times :
She was a strident critic of Mr. Putin, whom she accused of stifling civil society and allowing a climate of official corruption and brutality.
She was found dead by a neighbor shortly after 5 p.m. A Makarov 9-millimeter pistol had been dropped at her side, the signature of a contract killing, Vitaly Yaroshevsky, the deputy editor of Novaya Gazeta, said in a telephone interview.
“We are certain that this is the horrible outcome of her journalistic activity,” he said. “No other versions are assumed.”
Pierre Assouline bien écrit:
Nul journaliste ne connaissait mieux qu'elle cette guerre de l'intérieur. Innombrables furent ses séjours sur le terrain en dépit des menaces officielles à peine voilées, de l'intimidation et de la violence exercées à son endroit. Parfaitement consciente des risques qu'elle encourrait, elle disait n'agir que par "devoir". Un modèle de courage, d'obstination, de résistance, de perspicacité et d'écriture. Quand on la rencontrait, elle faisait moins penser à une passionnaria attirée par le baroud qu'à une institutrice un peu coincée : dès qu'on dépassait le voile des apparences, on découvrait alors une femme dotée d'une détermination au service d'une force de conviction peu commune. Plutôt que journalisme d'investigation, appelons cela "journalisme dans le motif" car elle n'a jamais hésité à abolir la sacro-sainte distance entre l'observateur et l'observé, à entrer dans le cadre et à mettre les deux pieds dans la boue, quitte à devenir acteur du drame pour mieux raconter cet innommable dont l'Occident s'est au fond bien accommodé. Ni concession ni compromis. D'un texte à l'autre, c'est une seule et même dénonciation radicale du Kremlin et de son bras armé, appuyée sur des témoignages accablants et des observations personnelles.
I met Politkovskaya a few times--in Moscow and in New York, including at a Committee to Protect Journalist's dinner in New York where she received one of the many honors that came her way in these last years.. she spoke with fierce intensity about the horror of the war--and the injustice and corruption she believed was strangling Russia. There was a bluntness to her personal style--as there was to her investigative reporting. A mother of two, Politkovskaya spoke of her fear, and the risks she knew she faced in taking on the most powerful forces in Russia. But she never let that interfere with what she believed passionately was her duty as a journalist. In an interview two years ago with the BBC, Politkovskaya said "I am absolutely sure that risk is [a] usual part of my job; job of [a] Russian journalist, and I cannot stop because it's my duty. I think the duty of doctors is to give health to their patients, the duty of the singer is to sing. The duty of [the] journalist [is] to write what this journalist sees is the reality. It's my one duty."
Eurozine re-publishes Ms. Politkovskaya's 2002 reportage "Cleaing Up" on its frontpage. "Poison in the Air" is the last article that I read in March. Open Democracy also publishes "Chechnya : Russia's Shame".
A Russian newspaper offered a reward of nearly one million dollars for information on the murder of its award-winning investigative reporter, as the Kremlin remained silent despite worldwide outrage over the killing, AFP reports.
Novaya Gazeta opened Sunday its own investigation into the murder the day before of Anna Politkovskaya, with a major shareholder announcing a 25 million rubles (930,000 dollars, 738,000 euros) reward.
“As long as there is a Novaya Gazeta, her killers will not sleep soundly,” the paper said in a front page editorial Monday, its first issue since the killing.
The Kremlin remains silent... Are you sleeping, Mr. Putin?
Ms. Politkovskaya is highly respected by the Western journalists, it seems. Japanese newspapers read "A Russian journalist was killed" and that's all. They keep pursuing the new PM Abe's flirtation with China and South Korea, and North Korea's nuclear test, almost ignoring her death.
Amy Goodman talks about Ms. Politkovskaya's work with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Richard Behar at Democracy Now! (RM file).
Intellectuels : l'ère du doute
Par Jean Birnbaum au Monde (05.10.2006).
BOURDIEU/RANCIERE. La politique entre sociologie et philosophie de
Charlotte Nordmann. Ed. Amsterdam, 198 p., 17 €.
Le Pentagone précipite les Européens dans le chaos afghan
From Voltaire Net (06.10.2006) :
Présentée comme une simple réorganisation technique, l’extension du mandat de l’OTAN en Afghanistan modifie la mission des troupes européennes : elles suspendent leur assistance à la reconstruction pour poursuivre la guerre coloniale des Anglo-États-uniens, tandis que la rebellion s’étend. Sur place, les services secrets britanniques tentent de substituer le Hizb-ut-Tahrir aux Talibans pour encadrer la population, révèle Thierry Meyssan.
"Moonie" May End Up Running Major Program At The UN
By Rick Ross at The Post Chronicle (06.10.2006) :
The would-be UN official and long-time fan of Rev. Moon is Josette Sheeran (Shiner), currently a US trade ambassador appointed by President Bush and confirmed by the Senate.
Sheeran was once the managing editor of the Moon-controlled Washington Times before she left that newspaper and experienced something like a religious epiphany.
Suddenly in 1996 Sheeran went from two decades of devotion to the self-proclaimed "messiah" and membership in his controversial Unification Church, to an Episcopalian.
How Demon Wife Became a Media Star And Other Tales of the 'Blook' in Japan
By Yukari Iwatani Kane at WSJ (05.10.2006) :
Six years ago, a Japanese businessman went online to vent about his domineering wife. Blogging daily under the pen name "Kazuma," he detailed how she grabbed food from his plate, sent him shopping in a typhoon, and made him sleep in the living room when he caught a cold.
Now, his terrifying spouse is famous as Oni-yome, or "demon wife," the star of a book, a television drama, a comic-book serialization, a videogame and, coming soon, a movie.
Duras, les grands fonds
L'amant, la mère, la guerre : une mine d'inédits durassiens. L'auteur de «la Douleur» est morte il y a dix ans.
Par Claire Devarrieux à Libération (05.10.2006).
Marguerite Duras
Cahiers de la guerre et autres textes
Edition établie par
Sophie Bogaert et Olivier Corpet.
POL/Imec, 448 pp., 22 €.
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