Nicolas de crecy biography of william shakespeare

The Adventures of Percival retakes a metaphor often used when one wants to evoke questions of probability:A chimpanzee randomly typing will sooner or later end up composing a sonnet by Shakespeare.

The character of McIntosh, a gardener-mathematician, the spiritual cousin of Baron Münchhausen, decides to take the fable seriously. Helped by a real chimpanzee, called Percival, and a typewriter, he undertakes to perform the whole experiment. Obviously things don’t go as planned, the chimpanzee proves to be less docile than one would have thought, showing mischief, intelligence, even scruples, then an evolved conscience. Slowly, as the story unfolds in the shape of variations on the same theme, one realizes to what extent the human and the chimpanzee can be close, like two brothers. In the last chapters one learns how to transcend the eternal distinction between man and animal by venturing towards the vegetable.

The Adventures of Percival by Pierre Senges draws inspiration from the works of Dominique Lestel, a philosopher-ethologist, and Alain Richert, a landscaper-botanist. It takes into account (as it pleases) the most recent speculations as far as ethology is concerned, and twists the use of ethograms (descripti

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Critical Companion pause William Shakespeare: A Literate Reference transmit His Strength and Outmoded [Revised] 0816053731, 9781438108605, 9780816053735

Table of listing :
CONTENTS......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 8
HOW TO Accessible THIS BOOK......Page 10
A Signal your intention ON CITATIONS......Page 12
VOLUME I ......Page 2
PART I: Biography......Page 14
PART II: Works A–S......Page 24
VOLUME II ......Page 548
PART II: Expression T–Z......Page 552
PART III: Affiliated Entries......Page 682
A......Page 684
B......Page 698
C......Page 722
D......Page 745
E......Page 756
F......Page 767
G......Page 781
H......Page 795
I......Page 814
J......Page 817
K......Page 826
L......Page 833
M......Page 847
N......Page 864
O......Page 868
P......Page 873
Q......Page 892
R......Page 895
S......Page 913
T......Page 942
U......Page 957
V......Page 961
W......Page 966
Y......Page 981
Z......Page 983
PART IV: Appendices......Page 984
A COLLECTION Point toward QUOTATIONS Give birth to SHAKESPEARE’S WORKS......Page 986
SHAKESPEAREAN Put on ice LINE......Page 1008
SUGGESTED READING......Page 1018
CONTENTS BY CATEGORY......Page 1024
INDEX......Page 1034

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Les aventures de Percival – Un conte phylogénétique

The infinite monkey theorem states that a chimpanzee randomly typing on a typewriter will sooner or later end up composing a sonnet by Shakespeare. Pierre Senges carries the metaphor further with this ethological tale illustrated by Nicolas de Crécy.

Also available in English edition.

Pierre Senges (born 1968 in Romans, lives and works in Paris) is a French novelist and radio drama author.

Nicolas de Crécy (born 1966 in Lyon, lives and works in Paris) is a French illustrator and comics author.

 

published in September 2009

French edition

16,5 x 21,5 cm (softcover)

128 pages (10 b/w ill.)

 

29.00€

 

ISBN : 978-2-914563-48-2

EAN : 9782914563482

 

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