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Titre: Le Silence de la mer

Auteur: Vercors

Narrateur: Jean-Claude Dauphin

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 4 hrs and 36 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 06-10-11

Éditeur: Audiolib

Evaluation: 4 sur 5 sur 1 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Résumé de l'éditeur:

1941 : un jeune officier allemand, cultivé et francophile, est l'hôte imposé d'un homme et de sa nièce. A cette intrusion de l'"ennemi", ils répondront par un inaltérable mutisme : pas une phrase ne sera échangée pendant leurs longs mois de cohabitation, en dépit des tentatives du jeune homme qui aimerait partager avec eux ses convictions humanistes. Mais sous la calme surface des eaux, c'est toute "la vie sous-marine des sentiments cachés, des désirs et des pensées qui se nient et qui luttent".

Publié en 1942, Le Silence de la mer est le premier titre des Editions de Minuit, alors clandestines. Ce recueil comprend d'autres nouvelles sur la France des années 1940, d'une très grande portée : Désespoir est mort, Ce jour-là, Le Songe, L'Impuissance, Le Cheval et la Mort, L'imprimerie de Verdun et La Marche à l'étoile.

Il fallait la grande maîtrise de Jean-Claude Dauphin pour restituer à ce texte exceptionnel toute son intensité d'émotion sans jamais céder à la tentation du pathétique.

Le Silence de la mer suivi de La Marche à l'étoile et autres nouvelles.

L'auteur

est né en 1902. Peintre et dessinateur, il s'enrôle dès 1941 dans la Résistance, où il prend le pseudonyme de Vercors. Il se lie d'amitié avec Pierre de Lescure et, en 1942, ils fondent une maison d'édition alors clandestine mais promise à un très bel avenir, Les Editions de Minuit, dont

est le premier titre. Cette nouvelle reste sans conteste l'oeuvre la plus connue de Vercors -tant pour son sujet que pour les conditions de sa publication. Après la guerre, il poursuit ses activités militantes mais aussi littéraires, en particulier avec

(1952), un texte aux préoccupations très comtemporaines et trop oublié. Vercors est mort à Paris en 1991.

Le narrateur

, issu d'une belle lignée de comédiens, est une des grandes figures du cinéma français. Des rôles de jeune premier de ses débuts dans les années 1970, il est passé aux personnages plus ambigus, d'une attachante humanité. Il a tourné avec Molinaro, Corneau, Dugowson, Jacquot, et mène également une carrière théâtrale. Familier de la télévision, on le retrouve en vedette dans la série "Avocats et associés".

© Minuit, 1942

© Albin Michel, 1951

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Title: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Author: James Joyce

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-08

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 270 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Through a series of brilliant epiphanies that parallel the development of his own aesthetic consciousness, Joyce evokes Stephen's youth, from his impressionable years as the youngest student at the Clongowed Wood school to the deep religious conflict he experiences at a day school in Dublin, and finally to his college studies, where he challenges the conventions of his upbringing and his understanding of faith and intellectual freedom.

Joyce's highly autobiographical novel was first published in the United States in 1916 to immediate acclaim. Ezra Pound accurately predicted that Joyce's book would "remain a permanent part of English literature", while H. G. Wells dubbed it "by far the most important living and convincing picture that exists of an Irish Catholic upbringing".

Editorial Reviews:

With a rough-hewn Irish accent, John Lee narrates this classic novel by Ireland's favorite son. Joyce's first novel, this bildungsroman is nothing like his more daunting Ulysses, but it still shows the wide range of style and tone he used in his writing. Narrating any Joyce text is a demanding task, but Lee pulls it off expertly, not trying to make unique voices for characters, but melding them into a coherent overall narration. Americans not accustomed to an Irish accent may need some time to get used to this narration, but it's worth the effort as Lee's delivery certainly provides the local color of this timeless novel.

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Title: Crime and Punishment

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrator: Alastair Cameron

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-16

Publisher: A.R.N. Publications

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 64 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

What makes someone ordinary or extraordinary? Can a poor, sickly boy be considered extraordinary? Can extraordinary people take the law into their own hands? Crime and Punishment follows the story of a boy named Raskolnikov who commits a heinous crime because he believes he is in fact extraordinary.

Through an internal battle of whether to confess or not, we follow him through his interactions with a drunk, a prostitute, the government, and his family. We see him do incredible acts of kindness, suffer the consequence of his crime on a physical level, and fall in love with an unlikely character, all while trying to reconcile his ability to be extraordinary and what that really means to society.

Crime and Punishment links families and foes through coincidences as each character impacts Raskolnikov's consciousness. As secrets start to come out, families are torn apart, bonds are broken, and lies are being told; everyone begins to question the intentions of everyone around them.

Raskolnikov must decide whether to confess his crime or to keep harboring the secret, with no one ever realizing how truly extraordinary he is. Will the punishment fit the crime if Raskolnikov's secret comes out?

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Title: Camille

Subtitle: The Lady of the Camellias

Author: Alexandre Dumas fils

Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan, John McDonough, Firdous Bamji

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-20-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 43 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

First published in 1848, Camille captivated Paris and has inspired countless adaptations. This classic story of love and loss is based on the authors real-life affair with courtesan Marie Duplessis. Also known as The Lady of the Camellias, the novel follows the courtesan Marguerite Gautier through her tumultuous love affair with handsomebut middle classArmand Duval. Before their passionate affair is over, one lover must give up everything.

Editorial Reviews:

John McDonough captures our interest immediately as he tells us hes about to recount a story in which "all of the participants are still alive." The energy with which he proclaims this fact snags the curious listener. McDonough is the perfect objective recorder as he lays out the tragic, doomed affair of Marguerite Gautier and her Armand. Firdous Bamji is sensitive and passionate as he tells Armands story, while Alyssa Bresnahan is a lovely Marguerite. Her understated performance turns moments of melodrama into poignant vignettes. An excellent audio reflecting the way conforming to a repressive societys norms can ruin lives.

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Title: Justine

Subtitle: Volume 1

Author: Marquis De Sade

Narrator: Susan Penhaligon

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-22-09

Publisher: The Copyright Group

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 84 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Sexual degradation, humiliation and erotic pain are eloquently and openly explored in a novel that was to become the most famous and infamous of all de Sade's work.

Despite six reprints the book's candor and sexual explicitness outraged the French establishment so much so that both de Sade and his publisher were arrested and instructed to relinquish any further copies and manuscripts in their possession. Today Justine Volume 1 remains a quintessential chronicle of unspeakable carnal desires.

This production is read by Susan Penhaligon who will be very familiar for her television work amongst which 'Casualty', 'Upstairs Downstairs', and 'Bergerac' take their place alongside her ground breaking role in 'Bouquet of Barbed Wire'.

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Title: Candide and Zadig

Author: Voltaire

Narrator: Neville Jason

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-28-08

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 104 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Voltaire's razor-sharp satire on philosophical optimism, Candide, is coupled here with another of the author's most celebrated works, Zadig. Both challenge the moral and philosophical orthodoxies of the day with humor and sly wit, while parodying the clichéd formulas of so many contemporary novels.

Candide traces the fortunes of its titular character, a staunch optimist who eventually becomes disillusioned by a series of hardships and misfortunes. Zadig likewise follows its main character Zadig, a Babylonian philosopher, as he is subjected to the whims of Fate and the machinations of those around him.

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Titre: Au bonheur des dames (Rougon-Macquart 11)

Auteur: Émile Zola

Narrateur: Évelyne Lecucq

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 15 hrs and 45 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 06-19-13

Éditeur: Brumes de mars

Evaluation: 4.5 sur 5 sur 6 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Résumé de l'éditeur:

La naissance du grand magasin, pieuvre commerciale écrasant le petit négoce traditionnel, conséquence inexorable du consumérisme inhérent au développement économique. Cette "Mécanique à manger les femmes" génère, pour fonctionner, une forme spécifique de communauté : une société hiérarchisée, avec son cortège d'arrivisme, de jalousie, de malveillance et de perfidie, mais aussi de progrès et de réussite.

Octave Mouret, précurseur inspiré, bouleverse sa corporation comme Haussmann bouleverse la ville. Il parie tout sur les femmes, sur leurs envies et sur leur incapacité à surmonter les tentations.

Une lui résiste : Denise, incarnation de la vertu et de la générosité. Elle devient une obsession pour cet ogre.

L'auteur

Né à Paris en 1840,

passe son enfance et son adolescence à Aix-en-Provence. Au collège Bourbon, il a pour meilleur camarade Paul Cézanne. A la mort de son père, Emile Zola qui a dix huit ans entre au lycée Saint-Louis en tant que boursier. Il passe les épreuves du bac à deux reprises, sans succès. En 1862 Zola entre aux éditions Hachette. Zola rêve de devenir écrivain, écrit des poèmes et en propose un à son patron. Ce dernier impressionné le fait passer au service de presse d'Hachette. En quelques mois, il devient chef de la publicité. À partir de 1863, Zola collabore à différents journaux. Il a l'idée d'écrire un nouveau roman basé sur les lois de l'hérédité de plusieurs générations d'une famille qui aura pour nom Rougon-Macquart. De 1871 à 1890 au rythme des parutions, se succèdent succès et scandales. De 1894 à 1898 il publie la série des Trois Villes, puis de 1899 à 1903 celle des Quatre Evangiles. Eclate alors l'affaire Dreyfus. Emile Zola étudie ce dossier de plus près et acquiert la certitude que le capitaine Alfred Dreyfus est innocent. Son premier article parait dans le Figaro le 25 novembre 1897. Clemenceau le publie dans son journal l'Aurore sous le titre "J'accuse" le 13 janvier 1898. Menacé d'arrestation, Émile Zola se réfugie en Angleterre où il restera onze mois. Il apprend à son retour que sa cause à triomphé: le capitaine Alfred Dreyfus est reconnu innocent. Le 29 septembre 1902 Émile Zola meurt asphyxié dans sa chambre.

La narratrice

: Comédienne, spécialiste du Théâtre de papier, journaliste spécialisée dans le spectacle vivant, commissaire d'exposition, animatrice principale de la compagnie Théâtre du Sylphe.

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Title: Beowulf

Author: Stephen Mitchell

Narrator: Stephen Mitchell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-17

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Stephen Mitchell's marvelously clear and vivid rendering recreates the robust masculine music of the original. It both hews closely to the Old English and captures its wild energy and vitality, not just as a deep "work of literature" but also as a rousing entertainment that can still stir our feelings and rivet our attention today, after more than a thousand years. This new translation - spare, sinuous, vigorous in its narration, and translucent in its poetry - makes a masterpiece accessible to everyone.

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Título: Análisis: Más allá del bien y el mal - Friedrich Nietzsche [Analysis: Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche]

Autor: Online Studio Productions

Narrador: uncredited

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 42 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 05-01-15

Editor: Online Studio Productions

Calificaciones: 3 de 5 de 2 votos

Categorías: Classics, European Literature

Resumen del editor:

Publicado en 1886 con su propio dinero, Nietzsche se convierte con el fragor de sus páginas en un hombre más frontal que nunca, atacando con fiereza lo que él consideraba la insipidez moral de los pensadores de su siglo, la falta de sentido crítico de los llamados -moralistas- y la pasiva aceptación de la moral heredada judeo-cristiana.

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Title: The Decameron

Author: Giovanni Boccaccio

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 30 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 05-22-06

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 76 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This collection of tales is set in 1348, the year of the Black Death. Florence is a dying, corrupt city, described plainly in all of its horrors. Seven ladies and three gentlemen meet in a church and decide to escape from the charnel house of reality by staying in the hills of Fiesole; there they pass the time telling stories for 10 days.

They set up a working arrangement whereby each would be king or queen for a day; each day the ruler commanded a story be told following certain stipulations. Their existence is that of the enchanted medieval dreamworld: a paradise of flowers, ever-flowing fountains, shade trees, soft breezes, where all luxuries of food and drink abound. Virtue reigns along with medieval gentilesse in its finest sense.

The stories they weave, however, differ from their own idyllic sojourn. They tell tales about ordinary people, tales marked by intense realism in a world where dreams and enchanted gardens have little place. Boccaccio draws on the actual geography of the region to bring the stories alive; different social classes are portrayed with their own language and clothing. Within the stories told by his 10 refugees from Florence, the satire often bites deep, Boccaccio's comic mood embracing evil and holiness alike with sympathy and tolerance. Like Chaucer, he is indulgent, exposing moral and social corruption but leaving guilty characters to condemn themselves. In its frank, open-minded treatment of flesh as flesh, its use of paradox, cynicism, and realistic handling of character, this work transcends the medieval period and, going beyond the Renaissance, takes its place as universal art.

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