third title of our "Those who walk against the wind"
THE ART OF LIVING WITH THE MAXIMUM MINIMUM JR Geyer (32 pages, 3 €). A wonderful little handbook, a great literary quality, the ability to live a very lightweight material consciousness optimal.
"It's been years, more precisely, for decades, almost a life that I practice the art of living up to the minimum these days, I intensified it. This means that when I am between my thumb and index finger a one euro coin, with the hemmed piece of copper hit the emblem of the country, I double the value or I will multiply by three or five or even ten; depending on the circumstances. I never buy at the price it costs the object, never. "
This book is a sort of Walden, or Life in the woods, the magnificent ode to Henry David Thoreau implemented in our urban forest, contemporary, its supermarket shelves, its markets for thrift, flea: in other words, how being poor and gourmet all at once, how to live in "a gilded misery, be satisfied without losing his zest for life, or how to win on the life that we want us to swallow, be richer by being poorer. "The unfriendly satiety," wrote the author, when we know the living conscience. "
JR Geyer: under this name hides a writer and a confirmed anti-social intending to stay.
Details on our collection "Those who walk against the wind", each volume includes a 24 or 32 pages and costs 3 €.
These are texts of direct intervention, written in consciousness, outside the dictates of any bias or ideological consensus, and under the auspices of Albert Camus who wrote, in spring 1954: "Governments, by definition, have no conscience. "Shots in heart reactions to hot small clinical records, very informed on hot topics (like I am a teacher and I disobey). Testimonies shifted, on literary topics of current (as The Lifestyle maximum with the minimum). Or, selected pages from texts unsung great authors (like, forthcoming, the money in for you to Marx) who seem to think contemporary.
And when we can, unreleased: the text by Jim Harrison from a debate with readers in Montpellier in 2005: Indian, my brother (April 2010).
Titles already published in this collection:
In the meantime, Reflections on the economic fascism, by John Berger (March 2009)
I am teacher and I disobeyed, by Bastien Cazals, school teacher (May 2009). This title remained for five weeks in the bestseller list;
Forthcoming: In February
:
Albert Camus and his libertarian critique of violence, by Lou Marino
Sartre and violence of the poor, by Yves K.
March:
Gypsies, Roma, Travellers, Eternity and after? by Claire Auzias (April 8 is International Day of Roma)
In preparation:
The crime of obedience, by François Roux, defense official at the International Court at The Hague.
I've seen people snort, by Patrick Chamoiseau, Prix Goncourt 1992.
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