Résumé : "In books that look forward to astonishing futures and backward to evanescent realms of memory, Ray Bradbury elevated speculative fiction from the pages of the pulps to the vital center of American literary culture. This definitive Library of America edition gathers his novels and story cycles of the 1950s and 1960s for the first time. Published at the hopeful dawn of the space age, and presented here in the complete, twenty-eight story-chapter form that Bradbury came to prefer, the linked tales of The Martian Chronicles (1950) envision an extraterrestrial future for humankind. Bradbury's saga of the discovery, exploitation, and abandonment of Mars is not at all triumphal, until a second wave of settlers--free at last from earthly oppression and saved from atomic annihilation--pose a fateful question: will human beings be able to make the best of their second chance, as Martians? In the dystopian future of Fahrenheit 451 (1953), the Firemen have one job: to incinerate books and all they contain, while mindless, big-screen entertainments distract the masses. But one of these Firemen, Guy Montag, asks why. Sneaking forbidden volumes home and meeting other clandestine readers, Montag becomes the unlikely hero of this now-classic novel, at once literary thriller and perennially relevant political fable. Dandelion Wine (1957) is a fond, backward glance, recollecting the adventures of the summer of 1928 through the eyes of twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding, a boy much like Bradbury himself, as he comes of age in Green Town, Illinois. Full of gentle humor and a sense of wonder, this nostalgic novel pays homage to life's ephemeral joys. Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) is set in pleasant Green Town too--but with a chilling difference. When a traveling carnival arrives mysteriously one autumn night, the lives of the novel's two young protagonists are altered forever. In what R. L. Stine called "the scariest book I ever read," Will and Jim must join an ultimate-stakes battle against evil, as Bradbury imagines supernatural terror with stunning inventiveness. Rounding out the volume are a half-dozen shorter pieces--taken from rare pamphlets, fanzines, and other hard-to-find sources, some never-before reprinted--in which Bradbury reflects on his writing and on the sources of his creativity."

Résumé : Le 29 février 1960, un tremblement de terre catastrophique a dévasté la ville côtière marocaine d'Agadir, l'effaçant presque entièrement et tuant un tiers de sa population. Le monde a été choqué, et très rapidement de grandes quantités d'aide internationale sont arrivées. Suite à un discours émouvant du Roi Mohammed V, la reconstruction d'Agadir s'est également muée en une entreprise de solidarité nationale et internationale. Un nouveau processus de construction urbaine sans précédent a été développé qui a permis à de nombreux architectes - nationaux et internationaux - de concevoir simultanément la nouvelle ville. Le résultat de cet effort commun a été étonnant. En très peu de temps, le nouvel Agadir renaît de ses cendres. Les meilleurs architectes marocains et internationaux ont expérimenté de nouvelles typologies de logement, qui faisaient la médiation entre les modes d'habitation ultramodernes et vernaculaires, complétées par des structures publiques innovantes, telles que des écoles, des dispensaires et des cinémas. Tout cela combiné dans une réalité urbaine originale : une Afropolis moderne. Ce livre explore pour la première fois en profondeur l'histoire oubliée de la reconstruction d'Agadir. Il présente des documents d'archives inédits et des photographies d'époque saisissantes, ainsi que de nouveaux plans et images contemporaines du photographe et universitaire londonien David Grandorge, ainsi que des essais savants d'architectes et d'historiens de l'architecture. Un entretien en trois parties avec Lahsen Roussafi, qui a été témoin du tremblement de terre de 1960 en tant qu'étudiant, complète cette narration alléchante de l'aventure architecturale internationale de la reconstruction d'Agadir en tant qu'Afropolis moderne. "On February 29, 1960, a catastrophic earthquake devastated the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir, erasing it almost entirely and killing a third of its population. The world was shocked, and very quickly large amounts of international aid arrived. Following an emotional speech by King Mohammed V, the reconstruction of Agadir also turned into an undertaking of national and international solidarity. A new and unprecedented process of urban construction was developed that allowed many architects?national and international?to simultaneously design the new city.00The result of this joint effort was astounding. In a very short time, the new Agadir rose from the ashes. The best Moroccan and international architects experimented with novel housing typologies, which mediated between ultramodern and vernacular ways of dwelling, complemented by innovative public structures, such as schools, dispensaries, and cinemas. All of these combined into an original urban reality: a modern Afropolis.00This book for the first time thoroughly explores the forgotten tale of Agadir?s reconstruction. It features previously unpublished archival documents and striking period photographs, as well as new plans and contemporary images by London-based photographer and academic David Grandorge, alongside scholarly essays by architects and architecture historians. A three-part interview with Lahsen Roussafi, who witnessed the 1960 earthquake as a student, rounds out this tantalizing narration of the international architectural adventure of rebuilding Agadir as the modern Afropolis."