Daniel Karlin Bücher

'The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.' In the 'rub--aacute--;iy--aacute--;t' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayy--aacute--;m, Edward FitzGerald saw an unflinching challenge to the illusions and consolations of mankind in every age. His version of Omar is neither a translation nor an independent poem; sceptical of divine providence and insistent on the pleasure of the passing moment, its 'Orientalism' offers FitzGerald a powerful and distinctive voice, in whose accents a whole Victorian generation comes to life. Although the poem's vision is bleak, it is conveyed in some of the most beautiful and haunting images in English poetry - and some of the sharpest-edged. The poem sold no copies at all on its appearance in 1859, yet when it was 'discovered' two years later its first readers and admirers included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne, and Ruskin. By the end of the century it was one of the best-known poems in the English language. Daniel Karlin's richly annotated edition does justice to the scope and complexity of FitzGerald's lyrical meditation on 'human death and fate'.

This is the first scholarly edition to bring together the best short stories and poems of Rudyard Kipling. Covering the full range of Kipling's career from the 1880s to the 1930s it includes selections from Plain Tales from the Hills, Traffics and Discoveries, Just So Stories, Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, and many more. A hugely inventive writer, Kipling displayed comic mastery as well as bleak insights into human behavior in his work.

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Trois ans durant, Daniel Karlin et Tony Lainé ont filmé des hommes et des femmes, des enfants, des hétérosexuels, des homosexuels, des gens qui s'aiment. Ainsi sont nés, tout ensemble, une monumentale série télévisuelle de dix heures trente minutes diffusée par la Sept et Antenne 2 - et aussi ce livre, narration de tout ce qu'aucune caméra ne pourra jamais montrer : toutes les subjectivités, invisibles et silencieuses, l'évocation des scènes jamais tournées ou de celles qui, tournées, ne seront finalement pas montrées à l'écran. {L'Amour en France} est une formidable collection de portraits qui, tous réunis, constituent la radiographie du coeur et du sexe des Français. Au fil des pages, c'est le vrai roman des cinquante dernières années qui s'écrit, où chacun de nous, pris individuellement, devient héros, nu et tremblant, impudique et touchant.