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The first major biography of the pathbreaking, perpetually influential surrealist artist and iconoclast whose inspiration can be seen in everyone from Jasper Johns to Beyoncé—by the celebrated biographer of Cézanne and BraqueIn this thought-provoking life of René Magritte (1898-1967), Alex Danchev makes a compelling case for Magritte as the single most significant purveyor of images to the modern world. Magritte's surreal sensibility, deadpan melodrama, and fine-tuned outrageousness have become an inescapable part of our visual landscape, through such legendary works as The Treachery of Images (Ceci n'est pas une pipe) and his celebrated iterations of Man in a Bowler Hat. Danchev explores the path of this highly unconventional artist from his middle-class Belgian beginnings to the years during which he led a small, brilliant band of surrealists (and famously clashed with André Breton) to his first major retrospective, which traveled to the United States in 1965 and gave rise to his international reputation. Using 50 color images and more than 160 black-and-white illustrations, Danchev delves deeply into Magritte's artistic development and the profound questions he raised in his work about the very nature of authenticity. This is a vital biography for our time that plumbs the mystery of an iconoclast whose influence can be seen in everyone from Jasper Johns to Beyoncé.

The Interpreter follows on from New Finnish Grammar and The Last of the Vostyachs and forms a trilogy of novels on the theme of language and identity. The Interpreter is both a quest and a thriller, and at times a comic picaresque caper around Europe but also deals with with the profound issues of existence. An Interpreter at the UN in Geneva seems to be suffering from a mysterious illness when his translations become unintelligible and resemble no known language. He insists he is not ill and that he is on the verge of discovering the primordial language once spoken by all living creatures. His predicament is soon forgotten when he disappears and things can return to normal. The interpreter's boss starts to have problems in talking and seems to be speaking the same gibberish as the missing interpreter. He seeks help in a Sanatorium in Munich but reaches the conclusion he must talk to his missing colleague to understand what has happened to him and to have any hope of a cure. He follows the trail of the missing interpreter around Europe as his life undergoes profound changes and he is forced to confront the darker side of life. Essential reading for fans of Diego Marani.

Andre Leblanc's book was originally conceived to help in even more importance to this remarkable production. the radiologic location of the orifices at the skull base trans­ The final outcome of this long research is the work now mitting the cranial nerves. With the passage of time it has completed after so much persistent exertion, and also after become a true atlas of anatomy, radiology, computed to­ so many transient hold-ups that Andre Leblanc has been mography and magnetic resonance imaging, whose final able to overcome, thanks to an unwavering faith in the range far exceeds the initial aims. utility of his work. Having followed the conception of this book from the out­ Thus it is that collected here, for each cranial nerve, will be set, I am well able to assess thc stringency with which this found its anatomic description, its course and distribution, study has been pursued. Based on everyday radiologic prac­ its radiologic identification in the different regions it travers­ tice, Andre Leblanc has perfected a series of methods allow­ es, a review of its pathology and the computed tomographic ing very precise visualization of even the smallest orifices of aspects of its relations. All this is clear, precise and profusely the skull base, using a relatively simple technique and con­ illustrated.

Andre Leblanc's book was originally conceived to help in even more importance to this remarkable production. the radiologic location of the orifices at the skull base trans­ The final outcome of this long research is the work now mitting the cranial nerves. With the passage of time it has completed after so much persistent exertion, and also after become a true atlas of anatomy, radiology, computed to­ so many transient hold-ups that Andre Leblanc has been mography and magnetic resonance imaging, whose final able to overcome, thanks to an unwavering faith in the range far exceeds the initial aims. utility of his work. Having followed the conception of this book from the out­ Thus it is that collected here, for each cranial nerve, will be set, I am well able to assess the stringency with which this found its anatomic description, its course and distribution, study has been pursued. Based on everyday radiologic prac­ its radiologic identification in the different regions it travers­ tice, Andre Leblanc has perfected a series of methods allow­ es, a review of its pathology and the computed tomographic ing very precise visualization of even the smallest orifices of aspects of its relations. All this is clear, precise and profusely the skull base, using a relatively simple technique and con­ illustrated.

At the nexus of advances in molecular genetics and findings in redox biology, this volume elaborates on the dynamics governing cellular redox states and aggregates the body of evidence linking oxidative stress and redox modulation with a host of monogenetic and polygenetic diseases.

Madame de Pompadour's famous quip,'Apr_s nous, le deluge,'serves as fitting inspiration for this lively discussion of postwar French intellectual and cultural life. Over the past thirty years, North American and European scholarship has been significantly transformed by the absorption of poststructuralist and postmodernist theories from French thinkers. But Julian Bourg's seamlessly edited volume proves that, historically speaking, French intellecutal and cultural life since World War Two has involved much more than a few infamous figures and concepts. Motivated by a desire to narrate and contextualize the deluge of'French theory,'After the Deluge showcases recent work by today's brightest scholars of French intellectual history that historicizes key debates, figures, and turning points in the postwar era of French thought. Relying on primary and archival sources, contributors examine, among other themes: left-wing critiques of the Left, the internationalizing of thought, the institutional and affective conditions of cultural life, and the religious imagination. They revive neglected debates and figures, and they explore the larger impact of political quarrels. In an afterword, preeminent French historian Fran_ois Dosse heralds the arrival of a new generation, a historiographical sensibility that brings fresh, original perspectives and a passion for French history to the contemporary French intellectual arena. After the Deluge adds significant depth and breadth to our understanding of postwar French intellectual and cultural history.