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Il Dizionario delle cose impossibili
Viaggiare nel futuro, modificare il passato, comunicare telepaticamente con un cane, un gatto, un uccello, un albero sembra qualcosa di impossibile. Eppure... Dai misteri dell’intelligenza animale alle ultime scoperte sul nostro cervello, dalle inspiegabili guarigioni di Lourdes ai mutamenti artificiali del clima a scopo militare, Didier van Cauwelaert, brillante romanziere francese di origine belga noto anche in Italia, esplora con passione e humour decine e decine di situazioni impensabili che sono però state oggetto di pubblicazioni scientifiche, inchieste poliziesche, pronunciamenti giudiziari, basando tutto il suo lavoro su documenti inoppugnabili. E si disegna così, in modo del tutto straordinario, una nuova mappa del reale che confina e spesso oltrepassa l’irreale, per aiutarci a capire ciò che rimane al di fuori del nostro controllo razionale.
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320 pages, Paperback
First published October 17, 2013
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About the author
Didier van Cauwelaert
112 books105 followersDidier van Cauwelaert est un romancier et dramaturge français, né d'une famille d'origine belge.
Didier van Cauwelaert is a French novelist and playwright with Belgian roots.
Well-known French writer Didier van CAUWELAERT has some very big literary successes in his portfolio.
From the age of 8 he dreamed of taking up a pen to become independent and feed his family.
After devoting several years to theatre, to playing Sartre and directing Beckett, Anouilh, Ionesco, and after a brief career as a children's book critic, a chance meeting with a certain Greta GARBO got his foot in the door.
In 1982 he published (at last) his first book “Vingt ans et des poussières” with Editions du Seuil, just after his 22nd birthday. He would reach an ever wider public with every new book.
Awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1994 for “Un aller simple” (One way) this voracious writer let his imagination run rife and arrived at the pinnacle of his career.
An extraordinary author, Didier van CAUWELAERT has sold over 5 million copies and been translated into 30 different languages.
Films have been made of several of his books: “Un aller simple”, “Hors de moi” adapted for film as “Sans identité” and “J’ai perdu Albert” taken from his novel of the same name.
His latest work “La bienveillance est une arme absolue” (goodwill is the ultimate weapon) takes the mind to new horizons.
The ultimate weapon, a weapon to shock, to create joy, goodwill is the only answer to the moral crisis in which society finds itself.
Source : https://wtca-brussels.org/en/classes/...
Didier van Cauwelaert is a French novelist and playwright with Belgian roots.
Well-known French writer Didier van CAUWELAERT has some very big literary successes in his portfolio.
From the age of 8 he dreamed of taking up a pen to become independent and feed his family.
After devoting several years to theatre, to playing Sartre and directing Beckett, Anouilh, Ionesco, and after a brief career as a children's book critic, a chance meeting with a certain Greta GARBO got his foot in the door.
In 1982 he published (at last) his first book “Vingt ans et des poussières” with Editions du Seuil, just after his 22nd birthday. He would reach an ever wider public with every new book.
Awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1994 for “Un aller simple” (One way) this voracious writer let his imagination run rife and arrived at the pinnacle of his career.
An extraordinary author, Didier van CAUWELAERT has sold over 5 million copies and been translated into 30 different languages.
Films have been made of several of his books: “Un aller simple”, “Hors de moi” adapted for film as “Sans identité” and “J’ai perdu Albert” taken from his novel of the same name.
His latest work “La bienveillance est une arme absolue” (goodwill is the ultimate weapon) takes the mind to new horizons.
The ultimate weapon, a weapon to shock, to create joy, goodwill is the only answer to the moral crisis in which society finds itself.
Source : https://wtca-brussels.org/en/classes/...
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December 22, 2017
Telecinesi, miracoli, Padre Pio, le madonne al Cairo, gli esperimenti segreti della CIA, l'intelligenza animale e via discorrendo con tutta una serie di fregnacce ben documentate.
... ma c'è un qualche biocentrismo e il mistero diciamo dell'Indiviso dietro quindi insomma, alla fine, un po' di stupore e niente, spunta uno strano saggio simpatico e a tratti davvero bello.
... ma c'è un qualche biocentrismo e il mistero diciamo dell'Indiviso dietro quindi insomma, alla fine, un po' di stupore e niente, spunta uno strano saggio simpatico e a tratti davvero bello.
September 29, 2014
A la limite d'être déçue...
December 29, 2014
despre Dorian Grey cel adevarat, zombi de origine controlata, scufundarea repetata a Titanicului inainte de a pleca din port si alte levitatii usor de verificat
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