"For someone damned to be forgettable, Addie LaRue is a most delightfully unforgettable character, and her story is the most joyous evocation of unlikely immortality." -Neil Gaiman
A Sunday Times-bestselling, award-nominated genre-defying tour-de-force of Faustian bargains, for fans of The Time Traveler's Wife and Life After Life, and The Sudden Appearance of Hope.
When Addie La Rue makes a pact with the devil, she is convinced she's found a loophole-immortality in exchange for her soul. But the devil takes away her place in the world, cursing her to be forgotten by everyone.
Addie flees her tiny home town in 18th-Century France, beginning a journey that takes her across the world, learning to live a life where no one remembers her and everything she owns is lost and broken. Existing only as a muse for artists throughout history, she learns to fall in love anew every single day.
Her only companion on this journey is her dark devil with hypnotic green eyes, who visits her each year on the anniversary of their deal. Alone in the world, Addie has no choice but to confront him, to understand him, maybe to beat him.
Until one day, in a second hand bookshop in Manhattan, Addie meets someone who remembers her. Suddenly thrust back into a real, normal life, Addie realises she can't escape her fate forever.
Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city, a grisly metropolis where the violence has begun to create real and deadly monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam free and makes the inhabitants pay for his protection. August just wants to be human, as good-hearted as his own father but his curse is to be what the humans fear. The thin truce that keeps the Harker and Flynn families at peace is crumbling, and an assassination attempt forces Kate and August into a tenuous alliance. But how long will they survive in a city where no one is safe and monsters are real.
Après des décennies douloureuses, le sourire semble revenu au Vietnam. Bien que le pays, désormais engagé dans la modernité, s'enrichisse de métissages divers et s'ouvre sur le monde, le respect des coutumes ancestrales assure la continuité de la riche culture vietnamienne.
New modes of epistemic relationships in artistic research
Research is a process thatleads to new insights rupturing the existent fabric of knowledge. To preventthis process from disintegrating, its coherence must be assured. Under theheading transposition, seventeenartists, musicians, and theorists explain how one thing may turn into anotherin a spatio-temporal play of identity and difference that has the power to expandinto the unknown.
While it does notattempt to define the still evolving field of artistic research, through theidea of transposition this book aims to grasp a quality increasingly importantto artistic practice because representational approaches have been losingtraction. Taking to heart the lessons of deconstruction, new modes of epistemicrelationships are being invented that include aesthetic dimensions. Workingwith materially concrete positions in a manner familiar to artists can ensurethat knowledge does not decay into relativism.
Contributors: Annette Arlander(University of the Arts Helsinki), Paulo de Assis (Orpheus Institute, Ghent),Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University), Leif Dahlberg (Royal Institute ofTechnology Stockholm), Lucia D'Errico (Orpheus Institute, Ghent), Mika Elo(University of the Arts Helsinki), Laura Gonzalez (Royal Conservatoire ofScotland), Esa Kirkkopelto (University of the Arts Helsinki), Yve Lomax (RoyalCollege of Art, London), Cecile Malaspina (CNRS-Université Paris 1/UniversitéParis 7), Tor-Finn Malum Fitje (independent artist, Oslo), Dieter Mersch(Zurich University of the Arts), David Pirrò (University of Music andPerforming Arts Graz), Hans-Jorg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for theHistory of Science, Berlin), Hanns Holger Rutz (University of Music andPerforming Arts Graz), Michael Schwab (Orpheus Institute, Ghent/University ofApplied Arts Vienna), Birk Weiberg (ZurichUniversity of the Arts)
