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On sait tout de Candide, sauf une chose : quel rapport l'auteur avait-il avec ses personnages ? Les a-t-il imaginés ou connus ? A-t-il partagé certaines de leurs aventures ? Est-il caché dans un coin du roman pour les observer ? Ce regard que Voltaire pouvait porter de l'intérieur sur sa création, c'est justement celui qu'au-delà des connaissances acquises, on a eu l'audace de tenter de porter sur Candide. Cette édition change l'interprétation du plus étudié, mais aussi de plus secret des contes voltairiens. Il s'y présente de façon nouvelle.

Set at the fag-end of the 60s at the moment when Swinging London is starting to take on a darker hue in the wake of Charles Manson's murders, and framed as a novel within a novel published by a seedy Piccadilly-based publisher of pulp fiction, Man-Eating Typewriter is a homage to the great oulipo experiments in fiction. It is the story of a psychopath called Raymond Novak and his untimely demise told entirely in 'polari' - a language developed and used mainly amongst the metropolitan homosexual community in the time when being gay was still a criminal offence.

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Lookaway, Lookaway, Wilton Barnhardt’s Western Alliances is a vivid portrait of a wealthy family set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis. This laugh-out-loud, darkly funny novel follows the Costa family—whose members are every bit as richly absurd as the characters in HBO’s Succession. Part travelogue, part epic family drama, the novel follows Roberto and Rachel across Europe as the two dilettantes come to terms with their father’s choices and the repercussions of his actions.

Mehr als 10.000 Religionen tummeln sich auf dem Glaubensmarkt und wetteifern um sechs Milliarden Gläubige... Woher kommen wir, wohin gehen wir? Wer hat den Masterplan für das Leben? Viele Menschen suchen nach Antworten auf diese großen Fragen und haben die Qual der Wahl. Mit dem neuen System der Glaubenspyramiden den Sie Ihren Weg zwischen hilfreichen Glaubensansätzen, sturer Dogmatik, Aberglauben und modernen Hexenjagden.

Mike Bittini ist ein Spieler und Streuner, er war es schon immer. Nach siebzehn Jahren on the road kehrt er in seinem alten Ford Escort und den weißen Lederboots zurück nach Wien. Sein Bruder, der erfolgreiche Immobilienanwalt, ist ins Koma gefallen. Nun schleicht sich Mike in Sandros Villa wie der Habicht in den Hühnerstall. Sandros Frau Gloria ist alles andere als erfreut, Mike wiederzusehen. Sie kennt ihn nur zu gut.

Die unübertroffene Parodie auf Der Herr der Ringe in einer neuen, modernen, politisch einigermaßen korrekten Übersetzung. Der Millionenbestseller endlich wieder auf Deutsch lieferbar! Eine fluchtartige Abreise, ein dräuender Krieg, ein verwunschener Ring – alles gute Vorwände, um eine Hochzeit zu canceln. Doch ein kleiner, pelziger Halbheld namens Froyo macht sich auf den Weg, um sein heimeliges Gauland und am Ende sogar ganz Untererde vor dem Untergang zu retten, vielleicht aber auch nicht, denn hier wird nicht gespoilert.

The hilarious BBC Radio comedy show where every sketch has been written by the public. The complete series of the ground-breaking comedy series, which called for submissions from members of the public. With over 12,000 sketches sent in from 1,500 different people, The Show What You Wrote spans such diverse comedy topics as Crime & Thriller, Kitchen Sink, Body & Soul, and "Geography", and features sketches about heaven's unexpectedly strict dress code, the Shopping Forecast, the grammar police, and some very literal highwaymen.

A desperate young publicist tries to save her career by turning the charismatic leader of a grungy retreat center into the hot new self-care brand in this “wryly funny [and] fabulous debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review). “A satire both cutting and careful in its approach, The Glow...

Evoking such classics as Elmer Gantry and The Day of the Locust, William Giraldi's About Face boldly transfers the perennial literary themes of celebrity, ambition, and obsession to twenty-first-century Boston. There we meet Val Face, a charismatic self-help guru who captivates multitudes with his uncanny ability to heal adherents using only the power of his words, the mysterious touch of his hands, and the transcendent beauty of his face.

The latest from author George S. Corey is a hilarious homage to Marilyn Monroe—with a decidedly political twist. This satirical story reimagines the classic comedy Some Like It Hot.

When he first meets Najwa at a lecture by Siri Hustvedt—whom he’s never read—our hero discovers a whole new world of feminist thought. Determined to impress her, he sets out sincerely on his journey to allyship. His mother confides in him about the dreams she had to sacrifice because of the patriarchy, and he laments the violence and oppression women face. But he can’t help but notice that they’re going about their activism the wrong way.

Getting our hands on this source material was dangerous, legally questionable, and career-threatening, but I felt it was worth the risk–these aren’t just Hollywood outtakes, folks, these are far-out-takes. Did Duke and JFK have a reckoning in the Oval Office? Did Yoda have anger issues? Did Sean Connery struggle with crappy dentures? The answers to these–and many more unanswered questions–lay within the treasure trove of The Lost Recordings, Vol. 1: Hollywood.

Mo Riverlake always dreamed of the limelight. And now that he's the dazzling host of America's favorite game show, he's certain he has it made for life. But when a fat-fingered tweet accidentally triggers the wrath of cancel culture...nothing he does can stop his perfect world from turning into a brutally vindictive social nightmare.

An independent research facility, with no particular disciplinary focus and no public sector grant money or foundation funding, is doing its best to "sound kosher", trying to keep the operations flowing. An overworked lab sciences foundation director has been working tirelessly to keep funding coming in for the aging, if not otherwise obsolete somewhat mediocre research facility, procuring the oddest of scientific studies.

After a long, adventurous and exhausting spring break, Kallie's almost ready to go back to school just so she can forget about her mother, trouble with Azure, and especially everything that happened with Zeus. But trouble never takes a break, especially when Kallie's certain AB's enemy is targeting her friends and turning them into Alterants—and when Amory reaches out to Fatgirl over her website, Kallie fears the worst. But her worst fears are nothing compared to Amory's.

Ein hochkomisches Hörbuch von Twitter-Star Lorenz Meyer – in vielen Stimmen interpretiert von Stefan Kaminski. Auf Twitter entwirft Lorenz Meyer (@shengfui) entwirft auf Zuruf Texte und Statements diverser Personen des Zeitgeschehens: von Christian Lindner über Harald Martenstein und Heidi Klum bis hin zu Richard David Precht. Seine Beiträge werden von Hunderttausenden geliket und geteilt und legen offen, wie stanzenhaft moderne Kommunikation in Zeiten von Social Media funktioniert.

It's about a little dole bludging bogun loser from the Hawkesbury in Sydney Australia. As our story begins, he discovers he has two brothers whom he never knew he had, is heir to a multi-million dollar fortune and that the pheromone wipes in the new machine at the Imperial Hotel really do drive women wild. He gathers around him an unlikely retinue of odd characters, goes to Japan, is chased by the Yakuza and becomes part of a punk band called Ferret and the Pheromones.

An all-star cast attend a mysterious private club in this hilarious parody of classic horror tales. Membership of the exclusive Mausoleum Club isn't for the faint of heart. The Honorable Clarence Green wants in, but to join he must first hear the spine-chilling stories of the existing members, before enthralling them with one of his own. But are their stories fact or fiction? And will Green still want to join after hearing the horrors they have to tell?

Moriae encomium, zu Deutsch: Lob der Torheit (oder Lob der Narrheit), ist der Titel eines der bekanntesten Werke des niederländischen Humanisten Erasmus von Rotterdam. Das Werk, ein herausragendes, zu seiner Zeit wirkmächtiges Beispiel der Narrenliteratur, ist auch als Laus stultitiae bekannt. Es wurde eines der meistgelesenen Bücher der Weltliteratur und wurde schon zu Lebzeiten des Erasmus in viele europäische Sprachen übersetzt, denn Satiren waren in der Renaissance die bevorzugte Literatur der Gebildeten.

Martin Kreutzer will nach oben. Als Volontär einer überregionalen Berliner Tageszeitung muss er sich jedoch beweisen, denn Ruhm und Reichtum kriegt man nicht einfach geschenkt. Lukas Moretti war sein Kommilitone und schon damals in München ein Star unter den Studenten, doch inzwischen ist ihm mit seinem Mix aus performativer Kunst und euphorischen Elektropartys der internationale Durchbruch gelungen. Martin verspricht seiner Redaktion ein Exklusivinterview mit Moretti. So richtig kennt er ihn zwar nicht, aber was ist schon eine kleine Lüge zur Rettung der Karriere.