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Tout parle dans une maison d’écrivain pour peu qu’on sache entendre, voir, imaginer. Évelyne Bloch-Dano nous invite à découvrir une centaine de lieux en France et à l’étranger : la tour-bibliothèque de Montaigne, le Key West de Hemingway, la maison d’enfance de Colette et sa glycine, le Guernesey de Hugo et son « look-out », le Nohant romantique de George Sand, le Paris enfui de Sartre et Beauvoir, le Cabourg de Proust et ses jeunes filles en fleurs ou la ferme africaine de Karen Blixen. Et tant d’autres, résidences permanentes ou séjours éphémères...
Mettre en relation une maison et l’univers littéraire d’un écrivain, les relier à sa vie, tel est le magnifique projet de cet ouvrage érudit, éclairé mais aussi distrayant. Ces pages sont autant une invitation à la lecture qu’au voyage. C’est un peu de cette liberté, entre vagabondage et ancrage, qu’elles nous offrent.

Quando si mangia la verdura è la storia del mondo che si inghiotte, in un unico ortaggio si incontrano la grande storia e la storia dei ricordi di ognuno di noi: le conquiste, la via delle spezie, l’apertura di passaggi marittimi, il commercio tra gli Imperi, l’economia, la diplomazia e la politica mescolati a storie di madri e padri, di nonne e nonni, cucine e dispense piene di sapori.

Qui n’a jamais entendu parler du questionnaire de Proust ?
Les réponses de l’écrivain ont traversé le temps et fait le tour du monde. On a oublié qu’elles provenaient d’un album intitulé Confessions, appartenant à Antoinette Faure, la fille du futur président de la République.
En participant à ce jeu de société à la mode, Marcel Proust ne se doutait pas qu’il livrerait des indices sur l’adolescent qu’il était. Ses réponses ont été commentées. Mais jamais contextualisées ou comparées. Jamais datées avec exactitude.
De Gilberte aux Champs-Élysées à la petite bande d’Albertine et des jeunes filles en fleurs, quelles traces ont-elles laissées dans son oeuvre ?
Évelyne Bloch-Dano a mené l’enquête. Elle est parvenue à identifier les autres amis de l’album d’Antoinette. C’est alors tout un monde qui a surgi, celui des jeunes filles de la bourgeoisie de la Belle Époque. Quelques garçons aussi. À
travers leurs goûts, leurs rêves, s’est dégagé le portrait d’une génération. Celle de Marcel Proust.

George Sand is one the most celebrated writers and controversial personalities of nineteenth-century France; she is as famous for her bohemian lifestyle as for her written work. The Last Love of George Sand portrays the writer, political activist, and cultural figure as she starts a new chapter in her ever-surprising life: the mature years with her last lover, the young and talented engraver Alexandre Manceau.A turning point came for George Sand in 1849. After her political involvement in the revolution of 1848, Sand retreated to her country property, Nohant, with her son Maurice and started writing new plays. One day, Maurice introduced her to Alexandre Manceau, a young and shy artist thirteen years her junior. At forty-five, she was at the pinnacle of her career. She had a long history of tumultuous love affairs with famous artists such as Musset, Chopin, and M rim e, but she had never experienced a peaceful and balanced relationship. With Manceau, Sand discovered that she could be loved, and fall in love herself, without drama. Their relationship would last fifteen years, and prove to be the most prolific period of Sand's life, with fifty books published including the novels Elle et lui, inspired by her relationship with Musset, and Le dernier amour, written just ten days after Manceau died of tuberculosis.Although much has been written about George Sand, most of the previous biographies are focused on her more turbulent times. In The Last Love of George Sand, Evelyne Bloch-Dano looks back on Sand's life from the vantage point of her years with Manceau.

From Michael Pollan to locavores, Whole Foods to farmer’s markets, today cooks and foodies alike are paying more attention than ever before to the history of the food they bring into their kitchens—and especially to vegetables. Whether it’s an heirloom tomato, curled cabbage, or succulent squash, from a farmer’s market or a backyard plot, the humble vegetable offers more than just nutrition—it also represents a link with long tradition of farming and gardening, nurturing and breeding. .


In this charming new book, those veggies finally get their due. In capsule biographies of eleven different vegetables—artichokes, beans, chard, cabbage, cardoons, carrots, chili peppers, Jerusalem artichokes, peas, pumpkins, and tomatoes—Evelyne Bloch-Dano explores the world of vegetables in all its facets, from science and agriculture to history, culture, and, of course, cooking. From the importance of peppers in early international trade to the most recent findings in genetics, from the cultural cachet of cabbage to Proust’s devotion to beef-and-carrot stew, to the surprising array of vegetables that preceded the pumpkin as the avatar of All Hallow’s Eve, Bloch-Dano takes readers on a dazzling tour of the fascinating stories behind our daily repasts.

Spicing her cornucopia with an eye for anecdote and a ready wit, Bloch-Dano has created a feast that’s sure to satisfy gardeners, chefs, and eaters alike.

Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time opens with one of the most famous scenes in literature, as young Marcel, unable to fall asleep, waits anxiously for his mother to come to his bedroom and kiss him good night. Proust's own mother is central to the meaning of his masterpiece, and she has always held a special role in literary history, both as a character and as a decisive influence on the great writer’s career. Without knowing much about her, we think of her as the quintessential writer's mother.

Now Evelyne Bloch-Dano’s touching biography acquaints Proust fans with the real Jeanne Weil Proust. Written with the imaginative force of a novel, but firmly grounded in Jeanne and Marcel Proust’s writings, Madame Proust skillfully captures the life and times of Proust’s mother, from her German-Jewish background and her marriage to a Catholic grocer’s son to her lifelong worries about her son’s sexuality, health problems, and talent. As well as offering intimate glimpses of the Prousts’ daily life, Madame Proust also uses the family as a way to explore the larger culture of fin-de-siècle France, including high society, spa culture, Jewish assimilation, and the Dreyfus affair. Throughout, Bloch-Dano offers sensitive readings of Proust’s work, drawing out the countless interconnections between his mother, his life, and his magnum opus.

Those coming to In Search of Lost Time for the first time will find in Madame Proust a delightful primer on Marcel Proust’s life and times. For those already steeped in the pleasures of Proust, this gem of a biography will give them a fresh understanding of the rich, fascinating background of the writer and his art.

Le destin d'Alexandrine-Gabrielle Meley (1839-1925), epouse d'Emile Zola, sort de l'ordinaire. Nee dans la pauvrete, fleuriste a treize ans, elle abandonna sa fille a l'Hopital des Enfants Trouves. L'enfant mourut peu apres. De ce traumatisme initial et jusqu'ici inconnu viendront toutes les hantises du couple Zola: obsession de la fertilite, peur de ne plus enfanter, puis vie parallele de Zola avec Jeanne Rozerot. Alexandrine, cette femme en rondeurs qui symbolisa le succes bourgeois, epousant l'auteur de "Germinal," a eu l'esprit assez large pour toujours tromper ceux qui l'attendaient du cote des conventions. L'affaire Dreyfus ? Elle…