Un roman fantastique. Un thriller urbain captivant. Ce roman est la fois po tique, dr le, absurde, terrifiant. Tout autour de la tour tournent des hommes et des femmes. Fascin s, obs d s par ce lieu mythique, hors du temps, incapables de savoir s'ils sont chasseurs ou proies. La tour est-elle la r v lation de la mort de la ville ou l'annonce de sa r surrection. Cet tonnant roman de Joseph Bunkoczy, la limite du fantastique, ne peut laisser indiff rent tant il se pr te des lectures multiples, de significations infinies.
Qu'arriverait-il si tous vos d sirs taient satisfaits ? Que deviendraient vos r ves ? Vos motivations ? Notre existence n'a un sens que dans la mesure o nous produisons un effet sur le monde qui nous entoure. C'est ce qu'Antoine va d couvrir tout au long de ce roman gr ce une machine con ue pour modifier son environnement et le cours de sa vie selon ses d sirs. Le toit faisait le dos rond et exhibait l'harmonieux arrangement de ses tuiles, ajust es comme des cailles d'armadillo, et qui s'effor aient de s'adapter la forme si contraire leur g om trie rigide. Dans les murs renfl s vers l'ext rieur, des ouvertures ovales rappelant les fen tres s'ouvraient comme des yeux opaques derri re lesquels on sentait somnoler des douceurs tranquilles et envo tantes. Aucune duret dans cette silhouette qui esquissait l'allure famili re et compl te d'un oeuf. Il se sentait voluptueusement bien. Son regard se fixa sur le vide; il se mit contempler l'obscurit . Entre lui et l'ext rieur, un espace capitonn s' tait install , une distance souple qui absorbait tout. La maison se referma sur lui avec un petit bruit de succion comme une substance molle.
Dans ce recueil, sept nouvelles voquent des facettes de l'aventure humaine menant le lecteur de la vie souterraine des usagers du m tro, en passant par les voyages interplan taires, jusqu' une Terre o les civilisations humaines disparues ont t remplac es par des civilisations de fourmis.
Si la ville est le lieu de rencontre des hommes, elle est aussi l'objet de leur convoitise. Ainsi, un promoteur ambitieux et sans scrupules tente de se l'approprier en achetant des immeubles dans tous les quartiers, sauf dans le plus vieux o les habitants s'organisent pour contrecarrer ses plans. De cette lutte pour l'espace et le pouvoir, la ville et ses habitants resteront marqu s car, tels des organismes vivant en symbiose, ils se d veloppent et se fa onnent mutuellement en partageant la m me histoire. Ils se d tach rent du groupe de gens pr s d'eux qui s'affairait d blayer une fa ade effondr e. Ils long rent le mur en ruine et se coul rent dans la br che pour dispara tre dans l'ombre l'int rieur du b timent ventr . Des hommes en costumes sombres, post s et l , surveillaient le site. Ils promenaient leurs regards ac r s sur la population besogneuse, debout comme des sentinelles au-dessus des ruines. Gardiens ou pr dateurs, ils observaient le troupeau r sign , absorb dans une inutile agitation.
vingt-huit ans, en plein succ s professionnel, Victoria Nunc apprend qu'elle est le clone f minin d'un homme qu'elle consid rait comme son grand-p re, Victor Nunc, chercheur scientifique et pionnier de la g n tique. Il est mort vingt ans auparavant dans un lieu inconnu o il vivait en ermite. Victoria est charg e de retrouver sa trace avec pour seul indice le r ve r current d'une maison au bord d'une rivi re dans une for t bor ale; la m moire fragment e de Victor Nunc.
Au vingt deuxi me si cle, une partie de l'humanit est devenue amphibienne et vit dans des villes sous-marines. La pression d mographique venant des continents d vast s pousse le reste de l'humanit rechercher de nouveaux espaces o la vie est possible. Les villes sous-marines deviennent des territoires conqu rir. Les amphibiens sont d port s vers des les ne convenant pas la vie humaine o ils doivent s'adapter pour survivre. Ils s'organisent pour reconqu rir leurs villes. Il ouvrit les yeux. Pench sur lui, un homme l'examinait m ticuleusement. Finn, surpris, se redressa d'un coup, l'homme tenait la main un rameau et en voyant Finn s' veiller, il sourit.Moi, c'est Vizou. Je nage vizou vizou. Toi, a va bien ? dit-il aimablement.-Je vais bien, merci, r pondit Finn. Je nage pas mal non plus. Il constata qu'il tait sur une plage; derri re l'homme, quelque distance, s' levait une lign e de cocotiers. Il se mit debout et se tourna vers l'homme qui disait s'appeler Vizou.Je m'appelle Finn. O sommes-nous ?-Finn, r p ta Vizou en tendant la main vers le v tement collant qui recouvrait le corps de Finn. Toi viens de la ville sur la c te ?-Oui, r pondit Finn en se demandant quelle ville il faisait r f rence. Ici, ce n'est pas la c te ?-Ici, c'est ici. a a un nom: Hispalion.
Au vingt-deuxi me si cle, une portion de l'Humanit est devenue amphibie et vit rejet e des continents sur les mers du globe. En sillonnant l'oc an Pacifique la recherche d' les habitables, un couple d'Aquas, Finn et Shelly, trouve une petite fille sur un lot; ils la secourent et l'appellent Crest. Il se d gage d'elle une impression trange, elle ne semble pas tout fait humaine; ils doivent la faire examiner dans une clinique m dicale. Les c tes des continents sont surveill es par la Garde c ti re devenue une marine redoutable dont certains membres soup onnent l'existence de Crest et tentent de la retrouver. Finn et Shelly, pour prot ger Crest, prendront la fuite ce qui les am nera sillonner l'oc an Pacifique des c tes de l'Am rique du Nord aux les Phoenix et les les Fidji. Ils rencontreront une race extraterrestre, rescap e d'un monde mourant, dont le vaisseau attend en orbite qu'un premier contact soit tabli pour s'installer sur la Terre. Ces tres sont rapidement confront s la Garde c ti re, n anmoins ils tentent de s' tablir dans une le de l'archipel des Phoenix. D'o viennent ces tres ? Sont-ils des envahisseurs ou des r fugi s? Quel est le rapport entre leur arriv e et Crest ? Comment vont-ils influencer le d veloppement de l'Humanit ? Que produira la rencontre de ces deux mondes ?
Krillion City Having witnessed a militia gutting his underwater city of its inhabitants, Finn Dolp embarks upon an adventure to reclaim his former way of life, one which opens new horizons and a new existence for him and his amphibian race. Synopsis In the twenty-second century, a portion of humanity has become amphibian. With webbed hands and feet, exceptional capacity and endurance for undersea living, these amphibians, called aquas, are the inhabitants of underwater cities that they built on the edges of the continents which have been redefined by the rising sea levels. The underwater cities have been constructed under pressurized domes where sunlight can penetrate and plants can grow. The demographic pressure on the ravaged continents pushes the rest of humanity to seek new living space. The underwater cities become prime territories to conquer. The aquas are deported to uninhabited islands, deemed unfit for human settlement. The young aqua Finn meets and befriends the people who live on the island, learning their way of life. He makes an adventurous voyage of exploration to find the other shore of the island, and there he finds other deportees from his underwater home, including his lover, Shelly. Together they decide to retake their lost cities, and embark on a journey of reconquest. They form alliances with all who have been victims of the same injustice, and with the island-dweller Vizu. Led by Finn, they launch an assault, starting with his own lost underwater city. They will have to fight against the militia of the new owner of the city, Pulvock, an unscrupulous businessman and real-estate developer. In the course of the battle, the city is flooded. The new inhabitants, humans from the continent, have fled to the surface and remain stranded at the access ports. But the aquas don't have the means to rebuild the city. Finally, they retreat to return to the island where they had been living since their deportation. Life in the open air is different, but there they find security and a new way of life. New challenges await them. They will have to attempt to build a new society with all those living on the island, reconciling their differences and their beliefs.
A poetic portrait of Joseph Smith's early life and career A quintessentially American saga, the life of Joseph Smith offers believers and non-believers alike an epic narrative that inhabits both grounded history and a heavenly sphere of action. Zachary McLeod Hutchins renders Smith's early life as a poetic narrative in two parts. The first introduces a very human Joseph and his youthful encounter with demonic powers seeking to prevent any communication with heaven. Following his First Vision, the teenaged prophet is charged by the angel Moroni to retrieve and translate a sacred record inscribed on gold plates. The second part picks up the story four years later, as Joseph marries Emma Hale and undertakes the plates' translation. Hutchins supplies a fictionalized excerpt from that translation, The Book of Lehi, and details Joseph's efforts to organize his growing band of followers, concluding on a note of contentment at odds with the tumultuous times to come in Smith's final years. An innovative perspective on Smith's early exploits, Joseph: An Epic reinterprets the origin story of a religious seeker and the faith he created.
A poetic portrait of Joseph Smith's early life and career A quintessentially American saga, the life of Joseph Smith offers believers and non-believers alike an epic narrative that inhabits both grounded history and a heavenly sphere of action. Zachary McLeod Hutchins renders Smith's early life as a poetic narrative in two parts. The first introduces a very human Joseph and his youthful encounter with demonic powers seeking to prevent any communication with heaven. Following his First Vision, the teenaged prophet is charged by the angel Moroni to retrieve and translate a sacred record inscribed on gold plates. The second part picks up the story four years later, as Joseph marries Emma Hale and undertakes the plates' translation. Hutchins supplies a fictionalized excerpt from that translation, The Book of Lehi, and details Joseph's efforts to organize his growing band of followers, concluding on a note of contentment at odds with the tumultuous times to come in Smith's final years. An innovative perspective on Smith's early exploits, Joseph: An Epic reinterprets the origin story of a religious seeker and the faith he created.
This book provides insights for the spiritual journey through a profound psychological engagement with the story of Joseph in the book of Genesis. Like Joseph, every human being faces problems in life - whether threats to identity, relationship breakdown, depression, bereavement, stress, personal failure or other forms of suffering. How we negotiate these crises, and what resources we find to cope with them, can shape the way we grow as Christians. In line with the story of Joseph, the chapters in this book are ultimately about personal transformation - how we can make something out of the life that has been given us. Over time, we may find that we have been co-creators within a larger story.
'This book is electric. Meg Warner has that rare knack of using personal story to bring the biblical story to life... It makes for compulsive reading.' Nicholas Holtam, Bishop of Salisbury You may think you know the story of Joseph, but this book will make you think again! It invites you to think deeply about Joseph’s character and how he responds to the traumatic events that threaten to overwhelm him. Lacing her commentary with telling anecdotes from her own life story, Meg Warner shows how a deeper understanding of Joseph's story can help you develop the vital quality of resilience: the will and the strength to endure life's hardships and rise above the effects of trauma whenever it may strike. 'With characteristic deftness, disarming honesty and exegetical skill, Meg Warner makes the story of Joseph a parable for our lives and times.' Sam Wells, Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London 'A great read for individuals, this book is also an invaluable resource for groups.' Liz Boase, University of Divinity, Australia
Spain - 1808 to 1813 - where Revolution collides with Reaction, a British Army with a French; the Spain of Goya, where ignorant armies clash and from under them all comes the voice of Joseph: by birth European, by education enlightened, and living in Salamanca which suffered a new invasion every six months and saw one of Wellington's greatest battles. From the moment in early childhood when Joseph hurls a stone at a playmate and makes an evil enemy for life, to the last page when he climbs a hill in North Spain accompanied by a donkey, a giantess, and a new-born babe, and blunders into a battle, he takes the reader by the elbow and hurries him 'will he or will he not' across the terrible years that saw the birth of our own times.Racy, picaresque, but with an underlying seriousness, JOSEPH is a panoramic novel of the Spanish Penisular War, revealing as Goya did its grotesqueries and ironies as well as its horrifying waste of life. Rathbone's wit, sensitivity and confident grasp of the subject are superbly matched to this brilliant historical scene.JOSEPH has never before been published in paperback.
Westermann's unique gift of linking biblical study with basic human experience is clearly evident in each of the eleven studies in this book. This simple wisdom will be invaluable to students and general readers alike.
As Almighty God chose the immaculate Virgin Mary to be the mother of the Lord Jesus Christ, so with the same great care he chose that chaste man of God, a descendant of King David, St. Joseph, to be the perfect reflection of the Eternal Father in the best of human ways to raise God’s Son and Mary’s boy as God’s perfect reflection of what fatherhood should be. Jesus loved Joseph. Jesus respected him and honored him throughout his life. This book will reflect on how this was done.
The complex and dramatic story of Joseph is the most sustained narrative in Genesis. Many call it a literary masterpiece and a story of great depth that can be read on many levels. In a lucid and engaging style, Alan T. Levenson brings the voices of Philo, Josephus, Midrash, and medieval commentators, as well as a wide range of modern scholars, into dialogue about this complex biblical figure. Levenson explores such questions as: Why did Joseph’s brothers hate him so? What is achieved by Joseph’s ups and downs on the path to extraordinary success? Why didn’t Joseph tell his father he was alive and ruling Egypt? What was Joseph like as a husband and father? Was Joseph just or cruel in testing his brothers’ characters? Levenson deftly shows how an unbroken chain of interpretive traditions, mainly literary but also artistic, have added to the depth of this fascinating and unique character.
Beautiful color pictures of nineteen scenes from the life of Joseph, who was sold into slavery but rose to become the ruler of Egypt because God was with him. Suitable for Sunday School and home Bible study use for children. Each scene is identified, complete with Biblical reference. Can be used independently or in conjunction with Joseph: A Man of Integrity lessons for ages 3-18. For more information, visit www.newchurch.org/youth-journey-programs.
