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Denis Diderot
Also known as: Diderot
Paris Diderot University (French: Université Paris Diderot), also known as Paris 7 (or Paris VII), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 1970. Paris Diderot merged with Paris Descartes University in 2019 to form the University of Paris, which was later renamed Paris Cité University. With two Nobel Prize laureates, two Fields Medal winners and two former French Ministers of Education among its faculty or former faculty, the university was famous for its teaching in science, especially in mathematics. Many fundamental results of the theory of probability were discovered at one of its research centres, the Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires (Laboratory of Probability and Random Models).
Maria Concepcion walked carefully, keeping to the middle of the white dusty road, where the maguey thorns and the treacherous curved spines of organ cactus had not gathered so profusely.
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Most acclaimed
Short stories
For over three decades, Reynolds Price has been one of America's most distinguished writers, in a career that has been remarkable both for its virtuosity and for the variety of literary forms he has embraced. Now he shows himself as much a master of the story as he is of the novel, in a volume that presents fifty stories, including two early collections - The Names and Faces of Heroes and Permanent Errors - as well as more than two dozen new stories that have never been gathered together before. In his introduction, Mr. Price explains how, after the publication of his first two collections, he wrote no new stories for almost twenty years. "But once I needed - for unknown reasons in a new and radically altered life - to return to the story, it opened before me like a new chance...A collection like this then," he adds, "...will show a writer's pre-occupations in ways the novel severely rations (novels are partly made for that purpose - the release from self, long flights through the Other). John Keats's assertion that 'the excellence of every Art is its intensity' has served as a license and standard for me. From the start my stories were driven by heat - passion and mystery, often passion for the mystery I've found in particular rooms and spaces and the people they threaten or shelter - and my general aim is the transfer of a spell of keen witness, perceived by the reader as warranted in character and act.". There is, indeed, much for the reader to "witness" here of passion and mystery, of character and act. And the variety of stories - many of them set in Reynolds Price's native North Carolina, but a surprising number set in distant parts: Jerusalem in "An Early Christmas," the American Southwest in "Walking Lessons," and a number in Europe - will astonish even his most devoted readers. In short, The Collected Stories of Reynolds Price is as deeply rewarding a book as any he has yet published.
Correspondance
1994
How to reconcile the necessary loneliness of the creator and the need to build a community of spirits that are close to the neighboring requirements? For Yves Bonnefoy, sharing is the meaning of the poetic experience, in his eyes different from mere literature. One of the moments is that of writing a letter. The edition of his Correspondence associates the letters he has written with those he has received. It brings out the fabric of a life of man and poet, with its network of friendships, constant or mobile, according to alliances, chances and crumples. This first volume, begun with the collaboration of Yves Bonnefoy, brings together more than nine hundred letters exchanged in the second half of the twentieth century, to which are added some e-mails.^ The dialogues, with forty-nine correspondents, are organized around two axes: on the one hand, links from surrealism - André Breton, Pierre Alechinsky, Gilbert Lely, Christian Dotremont, George Henein, Raoul Ubac, Jacqueline Lamba, André Pieyre of Mandiargues, Hans Bellmer, Jean Brun; on the other hand, the friendships which after fifteen years led to the creation of L'Éphémère (1967-1972), the magnificent magazine published by the Maeght editions: André du Bouchet, Jacques Dupin and Gaëtan Picon , Louis-René des Forêts and Paul Celan.^ The other authors of the letters are in no way secondary characters, neither in themselves, nor by the place they occupied in the world of Bonnefoy: Gaston Bachelard, Jean Wahl and Andre Chastel, his masters; then Gilbert Lely, Salah Stétié, Pierre Jean Jouve, Gabriel Bounoure, Christiane Martin du Gard, Philippe Jaccottet, Boris Schloezer, André Frenaud, Michel Butor, Emil Cioran, Monique Wittig, Paul Benichou, Jean-Pierre Richard or Henry Corbin, for to name only them. Here you will find a wealth of information about the poet's work and the sensibility of an era, with notes enriched with excerpts from the writer's Chronology by himself, also unpublished.--Translation of page 4 of cover by Fabula.