School

Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary! " Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society—a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their passions run wild. As Keating turns the boys on to the great words of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, they discover not only the beauty of language, but the importance of making each moment count. But the Dead Poets pledges soon realize that their newfound freedom can have tragic consequences. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams?

LE TAMBOUR - Quand j'ai dîné, il y a des fois que je sens une espèce de démangeaison ici. Ça me chatouille, ou plutôt ça me gratouille. KNOCK - Attention. Ne confondons pas. Est-ce que ça vous chatouille, ou est-ce que ça vous. gratouille LE TAMBOUR - Ça me gratouille. Mais ça me chatouille bien un peu aussi... KNOCK - Est-ce que ça ne vous gratouille pas davantage quand vous avec mangé de la tête de veau à la vinaigrette ? LE TAMBOUR - Je n'en mange jamais. Mais il me semble que si j'en mangeais, effectivement, çà me gratouillerait plus.

Something is happening to me that I don't understand. I see things, feel things in a new way. I can do things normal people can't do. Powerful things. Magical things. It scares me. I never chose to learn witchcraft. But I'm starting to wonder if witchcraft is choosing me.

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, and with his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his arms to safety. The other refugees in the detention centre are unsure how to help the old man; his caseworkers are compassionate, but overworked. Monsieur Linh struggles beneath the weight of his sorrow, and becomes increasingly bewildered and isolated in this strange, fast-moving town. And then he encounters Monsieur Bark. Neither speaks the other's language, but Monsieur Bark is sympathetic to the foreigner's need to care for the child. Recently widowed and equally alone, he is eager to talk, and Monsieur Linh knows how to listen. The two men share their solitude, and find friendship in an unlikely dialogue between two very different cultures. Delicate and restrained, but with an extraordinary twist, Monsieur Linh and His Child is another limpid, immensely moving novel of perfect simplicity, by the author of Brodeck's Report.

Dominic, un Québécois, se retrouve en Inde lors d'un échange linguistique. Ce beau voyage se change vite en cauchemar lorsque sa famille d'accueil le laisse seul quelques jours. Perdu dans Bénarès, réfugié parmi des enfants de la rue, il plonge dans un univers irréel. Une rencontre avec une intouchable, Ravinya, illuminera ses tourments.

The plot of Exercises in Style is quite simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger on a bus. However, this anecdote is told ninety-nine more times, each in a radically different style, as a sonnet, an opera, in slang, and with many more permutations. This virtuoso set of variations is a linguistic rust-remover, and a guide to literary forms.