Un coeur simple. Flaubert Project by Coralie Besse and Marie Laffont

“A Simple Heart” (“Un Coeur Simple”), by French writer Gustave Flaubert, is one of the stories in his Three Tales (Trois Contes), published in 1877. It received admiring reviews at the time and has continued to be second only to his novel Madame Bovary (1857) in recognition and acclaim.

Originally entitled “Le Perroquet” (“The Parrot”), “A Simple Heart” is the story of one woman’s apparently fruitless existence. The protagonist, a hardworking, good-hearted, poor and uneducated woman named Félicité, is said to have been modeled after a maid employed by Flaubert’s family during his childhood, a much beloved woman of tremendous character. The story is unusual among the author’s writings because it is about goodness. In this story of a simple housemaid’s life and death, the reader is invited to view a world of boundless, if not reciprocated, love and spirit. Félicité, a woman of simple mind and devoted heart, suffers tremendous loss but continues to her last breath to love unconditionally. Some critics have suggested that Félicité’s apparently meaningless life and misplaced worship of the parrot, Loulou—whom she adores and whom she imagines, in her dying moment, to be an incarnation of the Holy Ghost—reflect Flaubert’s melancholy and disillusionment with life and with organized religion, particularly the Roman Catholic Church. Most critics agree that this is a poignant account of a sweet, simple, and unrewarded life, one which may have been happy precisely because it was unexamined. It does not matter that Félicité may have misinterpreted or simply not interpreted many of the events in her life: she dies smiling, and thus lives up to her name to the last.

(from http://www.enotes.com/simple-heart )

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Flaubert Project is supervised by Coralie Besse, Marie Laffont and Francesca Mazzucato.

A version of “A simple heart” is being translated into Italian and English.

Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf.

“Jacob’s Room was published in 1922, Woolf’s third novel.  Jacob is usually thought to represent Woolf’s brother, Thoby, who died at the age of 25 in 1906.  The story follows Jacob from his childhood in Cornwall through his education at Cambridge, his life in London, a trip to Greece, and finally his death in World War I. Betty Flanders, his mother, is a widow. Jacob’s brother, Archer, will also fight in the war. Other characters are the Reverend Andrew Floyd, who proposes to Betty and is turned down. Captain Barfoot, a man with a disabled wife, is a friend and frequent visitor of Betty’s. At Cambridge, Timothy Durrant is a friend; his sister, Clara, is an ongoing character who is attracted to Jacob, but the relationship never develops. Richard Bonamy is a Cambridge friend who becomes a closer friend in London. Florinda is a loose and sexy interlude. Nick Branham is an artist who introduces Jacob to his model, Fanny Elmer, who falls in love with him. Jacob visits friends in Paris, then goes on to Greece where he falls in love with a married woman, Sandra Wentworth Williams. In the last chapter, Richard and Betty are in Jacob’s room, going through his things; thus we know that Jacob is dead.  Many critics have noted that Jacob seems to move like a ghost through the book, that the emphasis is on the impossibility of knowing anyone. At the last, we may feel that even though we know the sequence and some moment by moment events of Jacob’s life, we never know him — we see his life as if the moments had already evaporated — as if he were already dead.” ( From this site )

Special editions with appendix of vintage covers and images. Edited by Paul Hessel and Francesca Mazzucato+

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CANTO. Video-trailer. Giuseppe Martella

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Giuseppe Martella

CANTO

VIDEO-TRAILER.  QUI

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Nunoe K.Girl Sinkokraul . Filippo Loro-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fifteen poems written by an eighteen year old in love with a woman distant in a language not his own, laced with remnants of the spam that picks up pieces of hard disk redistributing them randomly in who knows how many mailboxes. Here is what are the poems of Nunoe Kei, the pursuit of nonsense to find a meaning, a sense of indecency in remoteness
But what it is the feeling if the protagonist of a novel (which the author works, writing and rewriting, for over two years) finds a publisher and the novel doesn’t find? A little ‘discomfort, but not much. Because the object of love Nunoe, which gives the title to the collection, is also the object of that author. And vice versa. So the fiction stops immediately, and becomes a fake of the fake.

 

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Quindici poesie scritte da una diciottenne innamorata di una donna lontana in una lingua non sua, cucite con scampoli di quella spam che preleva pezzi di hard disk ridistribuendoli a caso in chissà quante caselle di posta. Ecco cosa sono le poesie di Nunoe Kei, l’inseguimento del non sense per trovare un senso, un senso nell’indecenza della lontananza.
Ma cosa si prova se la protagonista di un romanzo (a cui l’autore lavora, scrivendo e riscrivendo, da oltre due anni) trova un editore e il romanzo no? Un po’ di fastidio, ma non più di tanto. Perché l’oggetto dell’amore di Nunoe, che dà il titolo alla raccolta, è anche l’oggetto dell’amore di quell’autore. E viceversa. Così la finzione si ferma subito, e il fake diventa un falso fake.

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Sull’autore.

Attualmente copywriter e direttore creativo, è stato insegnante, pubblicista e sceneggiatore di documentari storici (trasmessi da RAI e canali satellitari italiani e stranieri); ha pubblicato racconti on line (fra cui Sacripante!, Anonima Scrittori, Malicuvata Casa Lettrice) e off line, su antologie (fra cui minimum fax, Freaks Edizioni, Comma 22) e riviste (fra cui Pythagoras, Toilet, Sud). Ama i bonsai.
Mah. Forse si potrebbe ridurre a: “ Copywriter e direttore creativo, ama i bonsai”.

 

Il testo è un pirotecnico, incredibile mash-up poetico. Sperimentale, labirintico, richiede attenzione, dedizione e anche la  voglia di lasciarsi ipnotizzare. Abbadono e lettura. Con musica adatta.  Come questa, giusto un suggerimento

 

 

 

 

Der Tod in Venedig. Original version with pictures and video links

One of the masterpieces of Thomas Mann in the original German version, with the addition of images and video links. Editor Paul Hessel. First ebook of  Errant Editions   in German .

Paul Hessel is  starting  a Thomas Mann Project. The project will include various branches, with a a reportage from the places where the great writer lived and the place where it is buried

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Promotion. Digital exploration. Pathfinder.Angelo Ricci

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pathfinder, this is the key. Fragments, digital exploration, pouring  in various digital media errant  projects, ideas and dreams. Listening, creating, networking. Some more, may be. Welcome, in any case

 

Rendez-vous mancato. Strappare la pelle. Di Francesca Mazzucato. Versione illustrata 2012

Un tassello parte di una narrazione amorosa. O di desiderio. O dove, amore e  desiderio si confondono, si mischiano. Una narrazione dove il linguaggio dell’erotismo si spinge a farsi linguaggio della dialettica dei corpi e del desiderio. Un mosaico. Ogni ebook, ogni storia, una parte, un punto  di vista eccitante, esagerato, osceno, amoroso, mistico. Questo è il Passion Project di Errant Editions. Questo è il nuovo libro, presto in inglese.

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The Waste Land. Images. Videos. Notes. First Errant ebook 2012

The Waste Land in its complete version with original notes, images, videocontributions. Edited by G.A, Francesca Mazzucato and Coralie Besse this is an original way of proposing this masterpiece and an important fragment of our Eliot Project. Other critical contributions, new translations, mash-up, new ebooks will appear soon. This is also our first ebook of 2012 and it is, for us and we hope for you too, a good way to start. You can download The Waste Land “errant version”   here

La versione integrale di The Waste Land di Eliot, presentata insieme alle note originali, a immagini interessanti, notizie biografiche e a link a contributi video. L’editng dell’ebook è a cura di G.A, Francesca Mazzucato e Coralie Bess. Errant Editions ha iniziato da tempo un “EliotProject” di cui questo ebook costituisce un tassello importante. Seguiranno, mash-up, contributi critici, nuove traduzioni che sono già in lavorazione, e altro. Questo testo che vi proponiamo è anche la nostra prima uscita del 2012. Ci sembra un ottimo modo per cominciare l’anno, e speriamo che sia gradito anche da voi

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Michele Sottile 2010 La terra destolata -The waste land

The Dead. From Dubliners. James Joyce Project.

From Joyce’s first major work, written when he was only 25, Dubliners, the last and well known novel, The Dead, in this ebook edited by Paul Hessel.  All the sories contained in Dubliners are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, oftent defeated lives with realism. We find social decline, sexual desire, exploitation, personal failure, in a brillantly compelling unique vision of the world and of human experience. Errant Editions is preparing an essay about James Joyce’s work and many translations. Download her

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rendez-vous mancato. Strappare la pelle. extended editions. Di Francesca Mazzucato.

“Perle. Perle di luce tutt’attorno al mio collo, voglio che tu mi strozzi..io ti scrivo qui nel mio letto aspettando la notte nel mezzo della nostra vita” Alina Reyes
Le parole della scrittrice francese definiscono con eccitante e sconvolgente precisione la nota dominante di questo  prezioso “brandello di storia”, di questa goccia di desiderio. Leggendo, attraverso la carne si arriva all’anima, ma l’anima la si può anche danneggiare, è facile da rovinare o crepare se si mettono insieme assenze, bugie, appuntamenti mancati, caotici bisogni malgestiti, dolori di natura complessa. Mai prima un ascrittrice, capace già di rendere il confine fra vero e verosimile, di vetro brillante o di cristallo, da sempre impegnata in una coraggiosa autonarrazione si era messa tanto in gioco, con tale esplicito coraggio.
Testo da leggere d’un fiato, ideale tassello di mosaico da aggiungere ad Hotel Gregory e Rapsodia. Lo trovate nel Kindle store, download qui