Iván Repila Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

In this unexpectedly hilarious social novel, a misguided thirty-something tries to beat his girlfriend at her own game: becoming the ultimate feminist. When he first meets Najwa at a lecture by Siri Hustvedt—whom he’s never read—our hero discovers a whole new world of feminist thought. Determined to impress her, he sets out sincerely on his journey to allyship. His mother confides in him about the dreams she had to sacrifice because of the patriarchy, and he laments the violence and oppression women face. But he can’t help but notice that they’re going about their activism the wrong way… So our hero does what any good ally should: he gathers the worst of the macho men in town and begins a campaign to provoke the feminists. By “putting them in their place” with this phallic club—pelting demonstrators with raw eggs, posting obscene, threatening manifestos—he’s convinced he can make women understand, and get them to fight harder for the cause. Following him as his plan spectacularly fails, The Ally mixes humor, clever storytelling, and hard-core feminist theory to lampoon the macho superiority complex and our modern gender wars.

Deux frères, le Grand et le Petit, sont prisonniers au fond d’un puits de terre, au milieu d’une forêt. Ils tentent de s’échapper, sans succès. Les loups, la soif, les pluies torrentielles : ils survivent à tous les dangers. À leurs côtés, un sac de victuailles donné par la mère, mais ils ont interdiction d’y toucher. Jour après jour, le Petit s’affaiblit. S’il doit sauver son frère, le Grand doit risquer sa vie. Le Petit sortira-t-il? Le Grand survivra-t-il? Comment surtout se sont-ils retrouvés là? Le Puits est un conte brutal à la fin cruelle et pleine d’espoir. Une fable sur l’amour fraternel, la survie et la vengeance, un roman «qui a mérité sa place au panthéon des Jules Verne, Alain-Fournier et autres Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, selon Zoé Valdés. Un roman indispensable, alors que beaucoup d’entre nous avions déjà annoncé la défaite de l’imagination contre la quotidienneté médiocre et étriquée.»