https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Joys-and-Miseries-of-Marriage https://booksandideas.net/The-Joys-and-Miseries-of-Marriage 2025-07-15T12:34:39Z text/html en Céline Surprenant Arts Philosophy women literature marriage biography novel divorce United Kingdom <p>The “double life” of the great English novelist George Eliot combines the literary field with the experience of marriage. Her works form the crucible for reflections on love, social norms and freedom.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Apocalypse-Is-Now https://booksandideas.net/The-Apocalypse-Is-Now 2020-11-23T08:00:00Z text/html en Stéphanie Posthumus Arts cinema novel Institut français catastrophe world <p>Literature and cinema have long played with the idea of the end of the world. As Jean-Paul Engélibert explains, these narratives, which imagine the forms of life or society that will emerge from the apocalypse, must be seen primarily as a critique of the present.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Are-Novels-Part-of-Our-DNA https://booksandideas.net/Are-Novels-Part-of-Our-DNA 2014-05-29T07:30:00Z text/html en Alvaro Santana Acuña Arts Carousel culture popular culture novel <p>What turns a literary work into a classic? Something critical is “lived experience,” that is, people read the literary work to make sense of current events. The fact that Orwell's <i>1984</i> is selling hundreds of copies after Trump's inauguration is telling as Alvaro Santana-Acuña explained in his analysis of <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i> and current affairs such as the <span class="caps">BP</span> oil spill in 2010. [updated introduction following Donald Trump's election to the White House]</p>