In free-spirited Paris, Jules and Jim live a carefree, bohemian existence. They write in cafes, travel when the mood takes them, and share the women they love without jealousy. Women like Lucie, flawless, an abbess, and Odile, impulsive, mischievous, almost feral. But it is Kate - with a smile the two friends had determined to always follow before they even met her, but capricious enough to jump in the Seine from spite - who steals their hearts most thoroughly. Henri-Pierre Roche was in his mid-seventies when he wrote this, his autobiographical debut novel. The inspiration for the legendary film, it captures perfectly with excitement and great humour the tenderness of three people in love with each other and with life.

Henri-Pierre Roche Jules and Jim (Penguin Modern Classics) /anglais

Literature & Fiction

Roché, Henri-Pierre

Genre Fiction

Penguin Uk

Jules and Jim

Pan Books, Ltd.

Jules et Jim

French & European Pubns

Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of its protagonists; and also reprints in facsimile the Dadaist magazine they produced together in New York in 1917: The Blind Man. The principal text is the first English translation of Roché’s novel Victor, an account of his friendship with Duchamp (nicknamed Victor by his close friends in those days). Although unfinished, Roché’s text offers a unique account of New York Dada, all of whose principal characters and events make an appearance: Francis Picabia, Arthur Cravan, the Arensbergs and their soirées, the Blind Man’s Ball and the scandal of Duchamp’s "Fountain" at the Independents exhibition, a pivotal moment in modern art. The novel offers interesting insights into the sexual politics of the period, when a woman could be arrested or blackmailed for spending the night with a man to whom she was not married. Roché, a lifelong friend of Duchamp, appears to have been something of a devotee of triangular relationships, and went on to write a more famous novel on the topic (also autobiographical), Jules et Jim--later made into a film by François Truffaut. Beatrice Wood’s account of these events is taken from her memoirs; she went on to become a celebrated ceramicist, dying in 1998 aged 105. The introduction and commentary is by Dawn Ades, the well-known scholar of Dada and Surrealism.

Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood

Arts & Photography

DUCHAMP, MARCEL

Wood, Beatrice

History & Criticism

Atlas Press

Deux Anglaises et le Continent

Gallimard]

Contemporary

Фоліо

Jules und Jim

Schoeffling + Co.

Patrick Evans (translator)

John Calder

In the beginning of the twentieth century in England, a young French man and two British sisters make up a surprisingly honest and friendly trio. But when both sisters fall in love with the same man, everything changes. Passion, doubt, guilt, and betrayal are all portrayed earnestly in the correspondence and diaries these three characters share throughout the years. Page after page, the different stages these relationships go through showcase the ups and downs of falling in love with skillful precision, subtlety, and honesty.
A comienzos del siglo XX en Inglaterra, un joven francés y dos hermanas inglesas forman un amistoso trío de sorprendente franqueza y camaradería. Pero cuando ambas hermanas se enamoran del mismo hombre, todo sufrirá un vuelco. En la correspondencia y los diarios que estos tres personajes se intercambian a lo largo de los años aflorarán con sinceridad la pasión, la duda, la culpa y la traición. Página a página, las distintas fases por las que pasan las relaciones entre los tres jóvenes terminan por componer un brillante cuadro en el que se retratan de manera precisa, sutil y veraz las múltiples variantes del sentimiento amoroso.

Dos inglesas y el amor (Spanish Edition)

Literary

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