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Deux personnages se rencontrent à trois reprises. Un homme commence à parler avec une femme dans le hall de son hôtel et, quand celle-ci a un malaise, il l’héberge dans sa chambre. Leur conversation se poursuit, l’homme s’ouvre à elle mais mal lui en prend. Un portier d’hôtel aide une jeune cliente à s’enfuir afin d’échapper à son compagnon, un individu violent et dangereux. Plus âgé qu’elle, il lui révèle qu’il a passé treize ans en prison à la suite d’un meurtre. Malcolm, le personnage de la première rencontre, est encore enfant quand ses parents meurent dans l’incendie de leur maison. Pour le soustraire aux suites de ce drame et l’emmener dans un endroit sûr, une inspectrice de police le conduit chez un de ses amis. Trois histoires nocturnes qui se concluent à l’aube et qui marquent, chacune à sa façon, un nouveau départ. Trois facettes qu’Alessandro Baricco rassemble en un récit hypnotique et puissant, non dépourvu d’élégance et même de sensualité.

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Fathers and sons --- Midlife crisis --- Runaway husbands

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Teacher-student relationships --- College teachers --- Middle-aged men --- Midlife crisis

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Where does 'art' come from, and what is the 'meaning' of creativity? What inspires an artist in the middle phase of life and what value is placed on the pursuit of originality? Where do innovative ideas come from and how do they transmogrify into songs, art and stories? These are some of the questions posed in this ethnographic study, undertaken over three years and involving male and female musicians, artists and literary authors in the UK, some amateur and some professional but all dedicated to the invention of artistic legacy. This book sets out to understand the influences, spaces and routines of creative people experiencing midlife via an evocative exploration of biography, self-identity, inspiration, sociality, beliefs, emotion, career trajectory and life choices, and considered via in-situ observations of rehearsal, performance, exhibition, environment and working philosophy that contribute to the meaningful creation of novelty. While life experiences influence both the chosen and developed techniques of creating art and the art itself, artistic virtuosity is also arguably a conscious resistance to the banal securities of midlife in an age of inherent, perceived insecurity. Processes of creation, spaces of inspiration and the individualised value placed on artistic endeavour in uncertain times and at an uncertain time in life are understood via an original theory of the 'mezzanine', a sought-after in-between zone that abandons the ordinary and embraces an almost anarchic uncertainty where the promise of possibility and the pursuit of the delight of innovation provide an antidote to the banal 'everyday' and the routine expectancies of middle age.

Creative ability. --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Midlife crisis.

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Pornography --- Midlife crisis --- Middle-aged men --- New York (N.Y.)