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An exploration into how copyright has become a tool of unprecedented power and wealth for the few, widening the gap between the richest and poorest in society.

Jacques Tatis Monsieur Hulot, unverkennbar mit seiner Pfeife, seinem Regenschirm und seinen gestreiften Socken, war eine geniale Slapstick-Kreation, die das Publikum auf der ganzen Welt über die Absurdität des Lebens lachen ließ. David Bello's Biografie zeichnet Tatis Aufstieg und Fall nach, von seinen Anfängen als Varieté-Mime während der Depression über den Erfolg von "Jour de Fête" und "Mon Oncle" bis hin zu "Playtime", dem grandiosen Meist...

An exploration into how copyright has become a tool of unprecedented power and wealth for the few, widening the gap between the richest and poorest in society.

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In seiner fesselnden Biographie gelingt David ­Bellos ein immer wieder erstaunliches Porträt des Menschen und Autors Georges Perec wie auch ein facettenreiches Gesellschaftstableau. Neben den zentralen Wegmarken von Perecs Leben - seine jüdische Herkunft und das damit verbundene Kindheitsschicksal, die Pariser Szene um die Gruppe Oulipo, Freund- und Liebschaften, der große Erfolg von Das Leben Gebrauchsanweisung, der frühe Tod nach kurzer Kran...

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Putting a century of scholarship on one of the world's most enduring popular novels into accessible, narrative form, this new approach to a classic of world literature is written for a wide general readership. Packed full of information about the book's origins and later career on stage and screen, The Novel of the Century brings to life the extraordinary story of how Victor Hugo managed to write his novel of the downtrodden despite a revoluti...

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Paperback edition exploring the creation and influence of Victor Hugo's great novel 19th century novel "Les Miserables".

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award, 2017Les Misérables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written. Like Inspector Javert's dogged pursuit of Jean Valjean, its appeal has never waned, but only grown broader in its one-hundred-and-fifty-year life. Whether we encounter Victor Hugo's story on the page, onstage, or on-screen, Les Misérables continues to captivate while als...

David Bellos is Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature at Princeton University, where he also teaches Comparative Literature. He is the author of many books and articles on nineteenth-century fiction, alongside biographies of three icons of French culture in the twentieth century: Georges Perec, Jacques Tati and Romain Gary. He is also a well-known translator and the author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear? The Amazing Adventure of ...

An NBCC Award and Los Angeles Times Book Award finalistA New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek, the Romans made everyone speak Latin, and in India, people learned their neighbors' languages-as did many ordinary Europeans in times past (Christopher Columbus knew Italian, Portug...

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This translation brings together for the first time in any language all of Spitzer's work on the literature of seventeenth-century France

A Frenchman of Russian origins, Jacques Tati worked as a picture-framer and a music-hall mime before being drawn into the world of the French cinema and making the films that rank him with the most popular comedy actor/directors in any country. He brought to his films--"Jour de Fete, Monsieur Hulot's Holidays, Mon Oncle, Playtime" and others--a healthy openness to new technology in movie-making and a rigorous precision, the hallmark of many gr...