Winner of the 1996 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize, Catherine Cusset's No Tomorrow traces the moral meaning of pleasure in several libertine works of the eighteenth-century--Watteau's Pelerinage a l'ile de Cythere, Prevost's Manon Lescaut, Crebillon's Les egarements du coeur et de l'esprit, the anonymous pornographic novel Therese philosophe, Diderot's La religieuse, and Vivant Denon's short story -Point de lendemain.-
In this ambitious book, Cusset reframes the often misunderstood genre that celebrates what Casanova calls -the present enjoyment of the senses.- She contends libertine...
Winner of the 1996 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize, Catherine Cusset's No Tomorrow traces the moral meaning of pleasure in several libertine works of t...
Winner of the 1996 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize, Catherine Cusset's No Tomorrow traces the moral meaning of pleasure in several libertine works of the eighteenth-century--Watteau's Pelerinage a l'ile de Cythere, Prevost's Manon Lescaut, Crebillon's Les egarements du coeur et de l'esprit, the anonymous pornographic novel Therese philosophe, Diderot's La religieuse, and Vivant Denon's short story -Point de lendemain.-
In this ambitious book, Cusset reframes the often misunderstood genre that celebrates what Casanova calls -the present enjoyment of the senses.- She contends libertine...
Winner of the 1996 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize, Catherine Cusset's No Tomorrow traces the moral meaning of pleasure in several libertine works of t...
Jane reçoit un manuscrit qui lui dévoile sa propre vie dans ses aspects les plus intimes. Elle tente de découvrir qui se cache derrière cet écrit anonyme. Un thriller psychologique et une radiographie des rapports amoureux et sociaux dans l'Amérique contemporaine
Jane reçoit un manuscrit qui lui dévoile sa propre vie dans ses aspects les plus intimes. Elle tente de découvrir qui se cache derrière cet écrit...
