Le Renard (Reineke Fuchs) (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Le Renard (Reineke Fuchs)

Forcé de suivre le duc de Weimar dans la croisade des princes allemands contre la France, Goethe, dans cette vie de camp et de cour ambulante, ne pouvait guère se livrer à ses créations ni même à. Ses études favorites; il fut donc heu reux de trouver dans la lecture du Renard, puis dans le remaniement auquel il le soumit, une distraction forcée qui occupât son esprit, et lui entretînt, pour ainsi dire, la main. Car, il ne faut pas l'oublier', l'artiste était chez lui à la hauteur du poète, si même il ne le dépassait; et, quand l'un ne pouvait se livrer aux joies de la création, il voulait que l'autre utilisât pour son art ces entr'actes obligés qui se rencontrent dans la vie de l'homme le plus indépendant et le plus laborieux. Il se mit donc aussitôt à l'oeuvre dans l'hiver de 93, au milieu des travaux de recon struction et d'ameublement de sa maison de Weimar, qu'il devait quitter encore au printemps pour assister au srege et a la reddition _de Mayence, enchanté, à ce.

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About the author

Lori Marie Carlson was born in Jamestown, New York. She holds an M.A. in Hispanic Literature from Indiana University and has taught at several universities. Carlson is also the author of seven books for young adults, including the acclaimed Cool Salsa. The Sunday Tertulia is her first novel. She lives in New York City.

Summary

Tertulia:

a gathering of confidants who share
poetic musings, secret sorrows, and savory treats.
Cherished Latin traditions and fragmented American dreams
come together in this novel that celebrates in a symphony
of seven voices, women's wisdom, sensuality, and spirituality.This is a story about Caire, a young, struggling New Yorker whose understanding of life changes after a group of older and wiser Latina women bring her into a close-knit circle: their Upper West Side tertulia. Every third Sunday of the month they come together for an afternoon of revelry, at which delicious food and strong opinions are served up in equal measure. At the tertulia no subject goes unexplored, from health and nutrition to romance and heartbreak; from motherhood and beauty to work, Old World traditions, and urban anxieties. Through the recollections and counsel of these intelligent, independent women--among them a retired pharmacist from Puerto Rico, a Mexican doctor, a Peruvian chef, and an Argentine professor of literature--Claire comes to know their diverse, exotic, and sometimes contradictory attitudes about the female experience.
As the conversation glides along with the spontaneity of an improvised song, Claire slowly begins to see the trials in her own personal and professional life through a prism more poetic and worldly. And, as the tertulia sizzles with anecdotes, gossip, and lore, Claire also becomes aware of the nuances that shade and distinguish Latin American history and tradition, from Mexico and the Andean plateau to the Southern Cone and Caribbean islands.
Wholesome, humorous, and bittgersweet, The Sunday Tertulia illuminates the intersection of diverse Latin American cultures in the melting pot of the United States. With an elegant flair it captures the romance and challenges of El Norte while celebrating the mystery and lyricism of women's universal hopes and dreams.

Product details

• Authors: Johann Wolfgang von Goëthe, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Languages: French
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 231 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 327 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore