In times past, the Occident enlightened the world when confusion reigned; the crepuscular reason of some righteous nations used to restore order, but this lighthouse is diseased: it seems that it is unable to show societies the ways to reality and goodness. Unfortunately, if the Statue of Liberty drowns in the port of New York, there will be no future, for the rest of the world is not able to exert a civilizing influence on mankind. Hence, the aim of this book is to unde...

Societies, by their very nature, are dysfunctional because they are formed by individuals who, most of the time, have difficulty perceiving reality. If 30% of people have personalities that are organized at the psychotic level, 50% of people are immature, which determines the characteristics of our unbalanced societies. Hence, this book aims to identify this problem so that humanity may be enlightened and may establish viable social organizations by means of individual c...

Sandy is a Californian girl who does not want to conform to the democratic nonsense that induces women to remain social inferiors. Hence, she decides to change the world and starts a coup d'état. Unfortunately, the Chinese capture her and sentence her to a thousand years in prison! However, her adventure shows that women can decide their fates and build a better society.

Alexandre fuit Paris, sa vie de veuf esseulé, ses mensonges de psychiatre nanti pour une retraite prématurée à Sète. Il profite de ce voyage initiatique pour se débarrasser de ses fausses certitudes et atteindre un niveau de conscience qui le ramène dans le cadre de l'humanité la plus pure, mais à une certaine distance de la raison. Observant néanmoins avec lucidité un monde qui s'enfonce dans la sauvagerie, il hésite sans cesse entre la nécessité de le fuir en s'imagina...

La Terre se meurt: le magma des vices de l'espèce humaine la submerge pour la faire succomber. Cinq individus réussissent à échapper au désastre et partent dans une direction qui devrait les mener vers des planètes habitables par l'homme. Cependant, le destin, mais surtout l'implacable volonté du Néant, les fait errer dans l'univers pendant des milliards d'années. Ne sont-ils pas tous morts au bout de tant de temps? Non, le Créateur et l'Eternité ne l'ont pas voulu. D'ai...

In the immensity of the universe, there is the Earth: a blue crystal turning black. In the vastness of the Creation, there is Empycrist II: the illusion of paradise on Earth. Between them, man, a strange creature, is about to destroy the former, which compels him to go to the latter in order to survive. Five brilliant scientists go to this planet and, at the same time, realize during a journey into their souls that the survival of mankind is not a geographical issue. If ...

The roof of Notre Dame is burning. All the onlookers but one are appalled. I stare at him. There is something strange in his eyes: a kind of amethyst precipice that frightens and kills all the people who look at him. It seems that he is a kind of pillar of salt that turns vice into eternal sorrow. Our eyes meet. I am mesmerized by his purplish gaze. I decide to follow him throughout the sinful city…

Kevin is an adolescent who lives in a world that is collapsing. The climate change has led up to war and famine. Adults have been unable to establish civilization. Drought threatens the survival of mankind. So the lad decides to head for the north of Europe in order to find water and survivors with whom he will certainly create a better society.

Under the omnipresent moon, Gypsies and Andalusians live and suffer. Women die because of the absence of men, and men shed their blood along the banks of the Guadalquivir. Everybody devours everybody! This human precipice is observed by petrified angels. When God appears, he is not the peaceful Christ in Majesty but an unborn child who is already waiting for his crucifixion. Man, the image of God, is doomed, but why? Lorca does not reply, since the answer lies within us.

All humans do not become humane human beings automatically. As a matter of fact, humanity is a quality which one brings forth if one decides to do so. Hence, free will enables barbaric children to become intelligent adults who should build a civilized society based on reason. Jean Valjean, the protagonist of that novel, is a brute who decides to rid himself of social pressure in order to become a righteous man. His history is remarkable because it proves that people of...

Dans les contes de Charles Perrault, la vie n'est pas facile, spécialement pour les jolies filles: elles sont souvent dévorées par des loups ou maltraitées par leurs sœurs, mères, pères et maris. En ce qui concerne les garçons, quand ils sont laids ou faibles, ils sont également malmenés. En fait, il y a toujours un ogre cruel qui cherche de la chair fraîche! Il est inutile de dire que les fées, ces créatures fantasques, peuvent intervenir et changer le cours des choses,...

Charles Marlow is a young man who is looking for a position. Thanks to his aunt, he becomes the captain of a steamboat which belongs to a company that trades in ivory. Hence, he goes to Africa and soon discovers a barbaric world where black people are mistreated by lazy white men. Thanks to his work, he penetrates the heart of the jungle, where he meets Kurtz, a strange individual worshiped by the natives. This man is a kind of monster manipulating other monsters in a pl...

Quelle frontière ténue que celle qui sépare le rêve de la réalité. C’est d’ailleurs ce qu’expérimente Alice lorsque, par un bel après-midi d’été, elle s’assoupit et glisse alors, lentement, dans le royaume des songes. Un lapin pressé attise sa curiosité. Elle le suit dans sa course folle et rencontre des situations, et des personnages, plus loufoques les uns que les autres, mais qui décrivent, néanmoins, ces comportements humains situés entre la raison et la folie. Alice...

Don Juan est une jeune gentilhomme inconstant. Sa vie est une fuite en avant dans l'illusion des plaisirs charnels. Faussement sûr de lui-même, ses multiples conquêtes féminines lui donnent l'impression d'être un homme considéré. Mais il n'est pas un homme, car il ne consomme jamais le fruit dérobé; considéré, il ne l'est pas, car il s'attire la haine de la famille des femmes qu'il a trompées. Don Juan, être incomplet, vieux petit garçon monstrueux, tu cours à ta perte. ...

L’homme n’accède pas automatiquement à sa nature. En somme, l’individu qui porte en lui la possibilité de la sauvagerie, ainsi que l’éventualité de l’humanité, se doit de choisir, par le libre exercice de sa conscience, entre les délires de l’instinct et les hauteurs irisées de son intelligence. C’est là le but de chaque vie. Laissant les oripeaux de son enfance monstrueuse derrière lui, sans jamais en oublier l’existence, il peut, dès lors, construire une société civil...

Prince Hamlet is an immature young man who tries to manipulate people, faking madness. At the beginning of the play, the ghost of his father tells him that he was murdered by Claudius: Hamlet's uncle. At first, he does not believe the specter, which compels him to discover the truth by himself. He persuades actors to enact the murder scene in front of Claudius, who reacts suspiciously, which enables the young prince to realize that his uncle is the murderer. Hamlet’s att...

Publié en deux volumes, en 1605 et 1615, Don Quichotte est le livre le plus important de la littérature mondiale. Des millions de personnes ont essayé de le lire et de le comprendre, mais rares sont ceux qui ont réussi à le faire. En fait l’espagnol de Cervantès est… étrange et très peu espagnol! Il utilise beaucoup de pronoms; la syntaxe est absurde; il y a beaucoup trop de conjonctions (et, que); les phrases sont trop longues; il n’arrête pas de rajouter des adjectif...

Female characters in fairy tales are not lucky: they are often devoured by wolves or ill-treated by their sisters, mothers, fathers and husbands. As for boys, when they are ugly, they can also be tormented. Actually, there is always a cruel ogre looking for fresh flesh! Needless to say, fairies, who are unpredictable creatures, can interfere and change the course of history, but it is rarely helpful, for magic is not as efficient as intelligence and humanity.

Published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature of all time. Millions of people have tried to read and understand it, but very few have succeeded. Actually, Cervantes’ Spanish is… weird and not that Spanish! He uses a lot of pronouns; the syntax is absurd; there are far too many conjunctions (y/and, que/that); the sentences are too long; he keeps repeating the adjectives; he is extraordinarily verbose, which prevents reade...

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