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Paul Michel è unanimemente riconosciuto come l'enfant terrible della letteratura francese: cinque romanzi, un Goncourt, molotov contro i poliziotti nel '68, arresto come presunto terrorista nel 1970. Il fascino di Paul, bello, omosessuale, ha superato le frontiere e un giovane inglese, ricercatore di letteratura francese a Londra, nutre una vera e propria passione per la sua opera, tanto da recarsi in Francia per andare a trovare il suo eroe, ...

Berlin, September 1872. The Duncker brothers, Max and Wolfgang, own a thriving publishing business in the city. Clever, irresponsible Max is as fond of gambling and brothels as the older, wiser, Wolfgang is of making a profit. When Max's bad habits get out of hand, Wolfgang sends him to the Spa town of Homburg, to dance attendance upon a celebrity author - the enigmatic Sibyl, also known as George Eliot. As enthralling and intelligent as her b...

Seven chilling and provocative stories exploring the dark side of the human psyche, from the prize-winning, acclaimed author of Hallucinating Foucault and Sophie and the Sibyl.

In Berlin, Max Duncker and his brother, Wolfgang, own a thriving publishing business, which owes its success to one woman: the Sibyl, or Mary Ann Evans, better known as George Eliot, who is writing the final installment of her bestselling serial Middlemarch. Max is as fond of gambling and brothels as Wolfgang is of making a profit and berating his spendthrift brother, but Max is given a chance to prove his worth by visiting the Sibyl and her n...

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A Victorian novel and a playful meditation on the creation of literature, balancing a tale of courtship and seduction with a lively imagining of the writer George Eliot at the end of her boldly unconventional life, and the height of her fame.

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Verführerisch, doppelbödig, von großer literarischer Entschiedenheit Ein Sektenselbstmord, ein uraltes ägyptisches Totengebet, ein Komponist mit beunruhigender Strahlkraft, eine Richterin, die ihn nicht aus den Augen lässt: Patricia Duncker entspinnt ein Netz vielschichtiger Beziehungen, in dem sie den Hörer genussvoll zappeln lässt. Sie hören einen Roman von ungeheurer Sogkraft, der Sie quer durch Europa führt und in dem sich die Grenzen ...

In this ravishing tale of sexual and textual obsession, the young unnamed narrator sets forth from Cambridge on a quest. He is to rescue the subject of his doctoral research, Paul Michel, the brilliant but mad writer, from incarceration in a mental institution in France. What ensues is a drama of terrible intimacy and tenderness played out one hot and humid summer in Paris and in the south of France. Hallucinating Foucault is a literary thrill...

On a frozen New Year's Day a half-circle of dead bodies lies on freshly fallen snow in the French Jura. A nearby chalet contains the debris of a seemingly ordinary Christmas: champagne, presents for the dead children, and a strange leather-bound book, written in mysterious code, containing maps of the stars. The Judge sent to investigate is lead to a Composer who is connected to every one of the dead. As she is drawn into a world of complex fa...