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The Little Black Book
by Jean-Claude Carriere, Solvene Tiffou, Riverside Studios
Paperback, 86 Pages, Published 2003 by Aurora Metro Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-9542330-7-5, ISBN: 0-9542330-7-7

"One fatal morning, Jean-Jacques' door is left ajar. A strange woman slips through the crack in his orderly life. Is she a squatter, a wanderer or a woman from his past? As Jean-Jacques' tidy flat is rapidly invaded, his inner space is also besieged. What started as a comic encounter changes his life forever."






Mahabharata
A Play Based Upon the Indian Classic Epic (Modern Plays)
by Peter Etc Brook, Jean-Claud Carriere, Jean-Claude Carriere, Jean-Claude Carriã¨Re
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1988 by A&C Black Pod
ISBN-13: 978-0-413-18730-7, ISBN: 0-413-18730-6

"A unique dramatization of India's greatest epic poem, fifteen times longer than the Bible, The Mahabharata has played to enthralled audiences throughout Europe, the Far East and America. Regarded as the culmination of Peter Brook's extraordinary research into the possibilities of theatre, the production has been hailed as the 'theatrical event of this century' (Sunday Times). British audiences encountered The Mahabharata, on stage and t ..."






An Unspeakable Betrayal(1st Edition)
Selected Writings of Luis Buñuel
by Juan Luis Buñuel, Garrett White, Rafael Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carriere, Luis Bunuel, Robert Miller
Paperback, 278 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-23423-9, ISBN: 0-520-23423-5

"Although Luis Buñuel, one of the great filmmakers of the century, was notoriously reluctant to discuss his own work in public, he wrote--and wrote well--on many subjects over the years. This collection proceeds chronologically, from poetry and short stories written in Buñuel's youth in Spain to an essay written in 1980, not long before his death. Newly translated into English, the writings offer startling insights into the filmmaker's l ..."






The Conference of the Birds(1st Edition)
by Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carriere, Dramatic Pub Co, John Heilpern
Paperback, 79 Pages, Published 1982 by Dramatic Pub Co
ISBN-13: 978-0-87129-106-6, ISBN: 0-87129-106-1

"Like "Rumi" and "Hafiz", the name "Attar" conjures up images of passionate attraction to the divine. A Persian Sufi of the 12th century, Attar's masterpiece is the Conference of the Birds, an epic allegory of the seeker's journey to God. When all the birds of the world convene and determine that they lack a king, one bird stands forth and offers to lead them to a great and mighty monarch. Initially excited, each bird falters in turn, wh ..."






The Seal of Frankenestein
(Carriere's Frankenstein)
by Jean-Claude Carriere
Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2017 by Grey Tiger
ISBN-13: 978-1-912107-72-8, ISBN: 1-912107-72-4






Frankenstein's Tread(Updated)
(Carriere's Frankenstein)
by Jean-Claude Carriere
Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2016 by Grey Tiger
ISBN-13: 978-0-9564419-5-9, ISBN: 0-9564419-5-5






Circles of Silence(1st Edition)
(Sylph Editions - Cahiers)
by Jonathan Harvey, Jean-Claude Carriere
Paperback, 40 Pages, Published 2012 by Sylph Editions
ISBN-13: 978-0-9552963-3-8, ISBN: 0-9552963-3-1

"The opera Wagner Dream, by composer Jonathan Harvey, premiered in 2007. In this cahier, Harvey discusses with his librettist Jean-Claude Carrière the ideas underlying the opera and, in a detailed essay about the undecidability of music, reveals the opera’s Buddhist leitmotifs. With images from the opera and explanatory marginalia, this cahier offers a clear insight into the work of one of the foremost contemporary composers of ele ..."






This Is Not the End of the Book(Reprint)
by Umberto Eco, Jean-Claude Carriare, Jean-Claude Carriere
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2012 by Northwestern University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-2747-0, ISBN: 0-8101-2747-4

"A book lover today might sometimes feel like the fictional medieval friar William of Baskerville in Eco s "The Name of the Rose," watching the written word become lost to time. In "This Is Not the End of the Book," that book s author, Umberto Eco, and his fellow raconteur Jean-Claude Carriere sit down for a dazzling dialogue about memory and the pitfalls, blanks, omissions, and irredeemable losses of which it is made. Both men collect r ..."






Please, Mr. Einstein(1st Edition)
by Jean-Claude Carriere, John Brownjohn
Hardcover, 186 Pages, Published 2006 by Harcourt
ISBN-13: 978-0-15-101422-4, ISBN: 0-15-101422-1

"“You said that time doesn’t exist,” she says, “so I took the liberty of coming to see you.”“You did the right thing,” he replies without taking his eyes off her. She is a student with some questions about physics. And he is Albert Einstein, the man who redefined the true nature of reality in the twentieth century. More than sixty years after his death, she finds him in an office building in an indeterminate central European cit ..."






Please Mr. Einstein
by Jean-Claude Carriere, Harvill Secker
Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2006 by Harvill Secker
ISBN-13: 978-1-84655-004-1, ISBN: 1-84655-004-1

""You said that time doesn't exist, so I took the liberty of coming to see you," she says. "You did the right thing," he replies. Thus a conversation ensues that spans all the 176 pages of this book."






Violence and Compassion(1st Edition)
Dialogues on Life Today
by Jean-Claude Carriere, Dalai Lama Xiv, The Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama Vi, Tenzing Gyatso
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2001 by Image
ISBN-13: 978-0-385-50144-6, ISBN: 0-385-50144-7

"Timeless wisdom on life today from a leading French intellectual and one of the greatest of contemporary spiritual leaders that picks up where The Art of Happiness left off.French film writer Jean-Claude Carri're had the extraordinary opportunity to sit down for a series of conversations with one of today's most respected and popular spiritual leaders His Holiness, Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama. Those interviews, which make u ..."






The Secret Language of Film
by Jean-Claude Carriere
Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 1995 by Random House Value Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-517-15910-1, ISBN: 0-517-15910-4






Milou in May/May Fools(1st Edition)
by Louis Malle, Jean-Claude Carriere, W. Donohue, J. Pilling
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1990 by Faber & Faber
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-14497-6, ISBN: 0-571-14497-7

"From the director of "Au Revoir Les Enfants", this is the screenplay of a film to be released in the UK in May/June 1990. Set in Paris in 1968, the text follows Milou's attempts to save his home after his mother's death. Malle's other work includes "Atlantic City", and "Lacombe Lucien"."






The Mahabharata(Reprint)
A Play
by Jean-Claude Carriere, Peter Brook
Paperback, 238 Pages, Published 1989 by Harpercollins
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-039079-2, ISBN: 0-06-039079-4

"A unique dramatization of India's greatest epic poem, fifteen times longer than the Bible, The Mahabharata has played to enthralled audiences throughout Europe, the Far East and America. Regarded as the culmination of Peter Brook's extraordinary research into the possibilities of theatre, the production has been hailed as the 'theatrical event of this century' (Sunday Times). British audiences encountered The Mahabharata, on stage and t ..."






The Films of Louis Malle
A Critical Analysis
by Nathan C. Southern, Jacques Weissgerber, Jean-Claude Carriere, Heather Mcbrier
Hardcover, 422 Pages, Published 2005 by Mcfarland & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-7864-2300-2, ISBN: 0-7864-2300-5

"With films like Les Amants and Le Souffle au coeur, Atlantic City and Au Revoir les enfants, French writer-director Louis Malle compiled a remarkable 40-year career, creating thirty acclaimed features and documentaries. Despite this success, Malle's work has not received the critical attention it is due--largely because for nearly thirty years, several of his films remained unavailable to the public. This is the first book-length criti ..."






An Unspeakable Betrayal(1st Edition)
Selected Writings of Luis Buñuel
by Luis Bunuel, Juan Luis Buñuel, Garrett White, Rafæl Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carriere, Afterword-Rafael Bunuel, Luis Buâ€"Uel
Hardcover, 277 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20840-7, ISBN: 0-520-20840-4

"Although Luis Buñuel, one of the great filmmakers of the century, was notoriously reluctant to discuss his own work in public, he wrote--and wrote well--on many subjects over the years. This collection proceeds chronologically, from poetry and short stories written in Buñuel's youth in Spain to an essay written in 1980, not long before his death. Newly translated into English, the writings offer startling insights into the filmmaker's l ..."






Conversations About the End of Time
by Professor Stephen Jay Gould, Umberto Eco, Jean Delumeau, Jean-Claude Carriere, Cathernie David, Frederic Lenoir, Catherine David
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2000 by Fromm Intl
ISBN-13: 978-0-88064-217-0, ISBN: 0-88064-217-3

"A mind-expanding discussion of millenarianism by four brilliant thinkers -- now in paperback. There is nothing special about the year 2000, yet the start of the third millennium proved a focus for many deep anxieties and expectations. Four of the world's boldest and most celebrated thinkers offer a vast range of insights into how we make sense of time: paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould on dating the Creation, evolutionary "deep time," a ..."






Umberto Eco - S.J. Gould - J.-C. Carrière - Jean Delumeau. Produced and edited by C. David, et al. Tr. by Maclean & Pearson. Allen Lane-The Penguin Press. 1999.
by Stephen Jay Gould, Jean-Claude Carriere, Umberto Eco, Jean Delumeau, Ian Maclean, Roger Pearson, Catherine David, Frédéric Lenoir
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1999 by Penguin Putnam~Trade
ISBN-13: 978-0-7139-9363-9, ISBN: 0-7139-9363-4

"This discussion of some millennial themes consists of interviews with the principals followed by a certain amount of mutual comment and some final conclusions. Gould does his standard act about the arbitrariness of the millennium and the importance of the growth of awareness of deep time--a sense of the vast age of the world and the universe is important to that perspective which might help us behave decently to each other. Carriere, a ..."






"Chinese Box" and a Film-maker's Diary
by Jean-Claude Carriere
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published by Faber And Faber
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-19394-3, ISBN: 0-571-19394-3






The Secret Language of Film
by Jean-Claude Carriere
Paperback, Published by Faber And Faber Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-17430-0, ISBN: 0-571-17430-2

"Carriere, whose screenwriting credits include The Tin Drum, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Cyrano de Bergerac, explores the vocabulary of the visual language of film. Filled with anecdote and insight, this book provides readers with an illuminating new way to see and enjoy the movies."



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