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.

Bel-Ami enriched editions.

His rise testifies to the decline of a whole society.’ Jean-Paul Sartre Maupassant’s second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened ‘Bel-Ami’ by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-siècle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. It explores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably close to our own and is a devastating satire of the sleaziness of contemporary journalism. Bel-Ami enjoys the status of an authentic record of the apotheosis of bourgeois capitalism under the Third Republic. But the creative tension between its analysis of modern behaviour and its identifiably late nineteenth-century fabric is one of the reasons why Bel-Ami remains one of the finest French novels of its time, as well as being recognized as Maupassant’s greatest achievement as a novelist.

(from http://ukcatalogue.oup.com). Enriched editions

Edited by Coralie Besse and Marie Laffont. Download here

Lecture publique d’une adaptation de Bel-Ami de Guy de Maupassant par les élèves de Jean-Paul Carminati, Atelier de formation continue « VOIX AU CHAPITRE » de l’Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV).

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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Poems by Thomas Eliot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some of the most important poems of Eliot in an edition enriched by links. Edited by Paul Hessel who is responsible of Eliot Project and  is working on an important essay on the poet’s whole work, which will soon be published by Errant Editions. ( translated in three languages)

With a videoreading of Eliot from Four Quartets

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Night and day . Virginia Woolf

Night and Day is the second novel by Virginia Woolf and was published in 1919. A great exploration of human emotions – the daily lives of two friends, Katharine and Mary. Written with incredible talent, skill, it is about love, relationships, loneliness. This ebook is edited by Paul Hessel, with an appendix of vintage covers of the novel.

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“The only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf’s voice. It is part of a BBC radio broadcast from April 29th, 1937. The talk was called “Craftsmanship” and was part of a series entitled “Words Fail Me”.
The audio is accompanied by a slideshow of photographs of Virginia Woolf.”

( from this  channel)

With this ebook begins Woolf Porject, directed by Paul Hessel, connected with Criticism Project

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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Prufrock. T.S Eliot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, commonly known as Prufrock, is a poem by T. S. Eliot, begun in February 1910 and published in June 1915. Considered a sort of a “drama of literary anguish,” very actual and interesting,  it is written in the form of a stream of consciousness and is the beginning of Eliot’s career as an influential poet. Here,is presented  with original images and video link. Another fragment of our  Eliot Project, edited by Paul Hessel.

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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joyce Project. Chamber music with a selection of photos

A true classic. Offered by Errant Editions with an appendix of selected photos, it is the second piece of the mosaic that will become, at the end, the JoyceProject. Edited by Paul Hessel (co-founder of Errant Editions Small digital publisher, preparing an essay on James Joyce and his year in Zurich)

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James Joyce in Paris, 1920. From Footagefile