A psychological thriller featuring Javier Falcon, the complex detective from "The Blind Man of Seville".

The Silent and the Damned

The Ignorance of Blood

Les années 1960, à Tanger. Peintre reconnu, Francisco Falcon laisse à la postérité quatre nus à la sensualité étourdissante avant de perdre son génie à la suite des décès successifs de ses deux épouses. A Séville, trente ans plus tard, deux cadavres sont retrouvés. Ligotées devant un poste de télévision, les paupières découpées, les victimes ont été contraintes de regarder un spectacle si terrible qu'elles en sont mortes. L'inspecteur Davier, fils du peintre, est chargé de l'enquête. Il entrevoit un lien entre l'une des personnes mortes et son père. Une seule piste s'offre à lui: le journal secret de l'artiste qui semble être à l'origine de l'inspiration macabre du tueur...

Meurtres à séville

This unprecedented angle on the oeuvre of Robert Wilson reveals the importance of chair design for his cross-medium art.

For American experimental theater stage director and playwright Robert Wilson (born 1941), theater is a totality of visual, textual and performative mediums. Wilson has incorporated furniture designs into his scenography since his earliest productions in the 1960s. "In almost all of my plays, there is a chair specially designed," he said. "Often, the chairs are much like an actor." Wilson's chairs, with their frequently referential names (the Kafka Chair, Queen Victoria Chairs, the Mondrian Chair), assume expanded significance as the surviving artifacts of each performance.
The works in this publication range from 1969 to 2011, from the stainless steel mesh Parzival Sofa (1987) to the painted wood Clementine Hunter Rocker (2011). Wilson's practice as a designer is illuminated by his practice as a collector, with pieces in materials ranging from wood, bronze and steel to taxidermied legs, tempered glass and neon. This publication includes several works never previously exhibited.

Robert wilson : chairs

Lisbonne, 1944. Les nazis seraient sur le point de fabriquer la bombe atomique. Les Alliés mobilisent tous leurs moyens pour les en empêcher : Andrea, dix-neuf ans, anglaise, est plongée dans la bataille. Mais lorsqu'elle tombe amoureuse de Karl Voss, attaché à la légation allemande, leur liaison déstabilise l'équilibre précaire du petit monde des espions et précipite les drames. Vingt-cinq ans plus tard, en pleine guerre froide, Andrea piste à Berlin le Léopard des neiges, agent secret convoité à la fois par les Russes et les Britanniques. Menteuse, tricheuse, manipulatrice, Andrea n'a été fidèle qu'à une seule vérité : son amour pour Karl. Dans ce climat hostile, elle va le retrouver. Mais pas du même côté de la barrière...

La danse des espions - Occasion

Colt. Une Legende Americaine

Winner of the prestigious Gold Dagger Award in the U.K. for the best mystery of 1999, this complex literary thriller may be one of the most satisfying suspense novels to come along in some time. Robert Wilson has written several political thrillers, most of which are set in West Africa, but they are, alas, largely unavailable in the U.S.In A Small Death in Lisbon, the narrative switches back and forth between 1941 and 1999, and Wilson's wide knowledge of history and keen sense of place make the eras equally vibrant. In 1941 Germany, Klaus Felsen, an industrialist, is approached by the SS high command in a none-too-friendly manner and is "persuaded" to go to Lisbon and oversee the sale--or smuggling--of wolfram (also known as tungsten, used in the manufacture of tanks and airplanes). World War II Portugal is neutral where business is concerned, and too much of the precious metal is being sold to Britain when Germany needs it to insure that Hitler's blitzkrieg is successful.Cut to 1999 Lisbon, where the daughter of a prominent lawyer has been found dead on a beach. Ze Coelho, a liberal police inspector who is a widower with a daughter of his own, must sift through the life of Catarina Oliveira and discover why she was so brutally murdered. Her father is enigmatic, her mother suicidal; her friends were rock musicians and drug addicts.The reader is treated to a wonderful portrait of Lisbon in the aftermath of the 1974 revolution that ousted Salazar from power, and the scars from that conflict are still close to the surface for the citizens of Lisbon, including Coehlo and his colleagues. We also see World War II in a slightly different manner from that to which we are accustomed--through the eyes of the Germans and the Portuguese. The pace of the book is leisurely but compelling as the events of 1941 and those in 1999 merge in an extraordinary climax

Une mort à Lisbonne

Einstein on the beach, reconnu comme l'une des plus importantes réalisations artistiques du XXe siècle, révolutionna les codes de l'opéra traditionnel. Cet ouvrage revient sur la genèse de l'opéra du compositeur Philip Glass et le metteur en scène Robert Wilson.

Einstein on the beach ; 1976

The final psychological thriller featuring Javier Falcon, the tortured detective from The Hidden Assassins and The Blind Man of Seville.
In the wake of a terrorist attack on Seville, Inspector Jefe Javier Falcon is determined to fulfil his promise to its citizens - that he'll bring the real perpetrators to justice. The violent death of a gangster provides evidence implicating the Russian mafia in the outrage but pitches Falcon into the heart of a turf war over prostitution and drugs.Now the target of vicious hoods, Falcon finds those closest to him are also coming under intolerable pressure. His best friend, who's spying for the Spanish government, reveals he is being blackmailed by Islamist extremists, and Falcon's own lover suffers a mother's worst nightmare.Confronted by such fanaticism and brutality, Falcon realizes that only the most ruthless retaliation will work.But there is a terrible price to pay…

The Silent and the Damned

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