" Celle qu'on aime, on la voit s'avancer toute nue. Elle est dans une robe claire, semblable à celles qui fleurissaient autrefois le dimanche sous le porche des églises, sur le parquet des bals. Et pourtant elle est nue - comme une étoile au point du jour. A vous voir, une clairière s'ouvrait dans mes yeux. A voir cette robe blanche, toute blanche comme du ciel bleu. Avec le regard simple, revient la force pure. "

They control your memories…

They tell you how to live…

In the bombed-out streets of New York, the corrupt bosses of Memoria Corporation make billions by erasing people’s traumatic memories. But their bubble bursts when a humble citizen Frank Shelby becomes a murder suspect on the run. Betrayed by his friends and hunted down by mysterious killers, Frank has to penetrate Memoria and find evidence of their real plans before it’s too late for all of us.

El ”vidrio lento” es un cristal que absorbe poco a poco la luz de los sucesos que ocurren delante de él, los cuales resultan visibles meses o años después.A partir de esta idea, Bob Shaw construye una excelente y a la vez original novela. La profética visión de lo que podría ser un invento de estas características y la problemática social de su uso, desde el crimen casi perfecto hasta la verificación por parte de la justicia al cabo de cinco años- hacen de esta novela una obra maestra de ciencia ficción en el mas puro sentido de la palabra.Contiene los relatos:- Otros Días, Otros Ojos (Other Days, Other Eyes, 1972)- Primera Luz Secundaria: Luz de Otros Días (Light of Other Days, 1966)- Segunda Luz Secundaria: El Peso de la Prueba (Burden of Proof, 1967)- Tercera Luz Secundaria: Una Cúpula de Vidrio Multicolor (A Dome of Many-Colored Glass, 1972)

EDITORIAL REVIEW: As violence in Iraq reaches unnerving levels in 2006, a second front in the war rages at the highest levels of the Bush administration. In his fourth book on President George W. Bush, Bob Woodward takes readers deep inside the tensions, secret debates, unofficial backchannels, distrust and determination within the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, the intelligence agencies and the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq. With unparalleled intimacy and detail, this gripping account of a president at war describes a period of distress and uncertainty within the U.S. government from 2006 through mid-2008. The White House launches a secret strategy review that excludes the military. General George Casey, the commander in Iraq, believes that President Bush does not understand the war and eventually concludes he has lost the president's confidence. The Joint Chiefs of Staff also conduct a secret strategy review that goes nowhere. On the verge of revolt, they worry that the military will be blamed for a failure in Iraq. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice strongly opposes a surge of additional U.S. forces and confronts the president, who replies that her suggestions would lead to failure. The president keeps his decision to fire Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld from Vice President Dick Cheney until two days before he announces it. A retired Army general uses his high-level contacts to shape decisions about the war, as Bush and Cheney use him to deliver sensitive messages outside the chain of command. For months, the administration's strategy reviews continue in secret, with no deadline and no hurry, in part because public disclosure would harm Republicans in the November 2006 elections. National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley tells Rice, "We've got to do it under the radar screen because the electoral season is so hot." *The War Within* provides an exhaustive account of the struggles of General David Petraeus, who takes over in Iraq during one of the bleakest and most violent periods of the war. It reveals how breakthroughs in military operations and surveillance account for much of the progress as violence in Iraq plummets in the middle of 2007. Woodward interviewed key players, obtained dozens of never-before-published documents, and had nearly three hours of exclusive interviews with President Bush. The result is a stunning, firsthand history of the years from mid-2006, when the White House realizes the Iraq strategy is not working, through the decision to surge another 30,000 U.S. troops in 2007, and into mid-2008, when the war becomes a fault line in the presidential election. *The War Within* addresses head-on questions of leadership, not just in war but in how we are governed and the dangers of unwarranted secrecy.

'L'enfant partit avec l'ange et le chien suivit derrière. Cette phrase convient merveilleusement à François d'Assise. On sait de lui peu de choses et c'est tant mieux. Ce qu'on sait de quelqu'un empêche de le connaître. Ce qu'on en dit, en croyant savoir ce qu'on dit, rend difficile de le voir. On dit par exemple : Saint-François-d'Assise. On le dit en somnambule, sans sortir du sommeil de la langue. On ne dit pas, on laisse dire. On laisse les mots venir, ils viennent dans un ordre qui n'est pas le nôtre, qui est l'ordre du mensonge, de la mort, de la vie en société. Très peu de vraies paroles s'échangent chaque jour, vraiment très peu. Peut-être ne tombe-t-on amoureux que pour enfin commencer à parler. Peut-être n'ouvre-t-on un livre que pour enfin commencer à entendre. L'enfant partit avec l'ange et le chien suivit derrière.' Christian Bobin.