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Michel Houellebecq wrote a pretty funny novel called Submission about how France becomes a Muslim controlled country in 2022. Parts of it seem incredibly likely, such as the Islamic party partnering with the Socialist to seize political power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submission_(novel)
>Ben-Abbes wins the election, and becomes President of France. He pacifies the country and enacts sweeping changes to French laws, privatizing the Sorbonne, thereby making François redundant with full pension as only Muslims are now allowed to teach there. He also ends gender equality, allowing polygamy. Several of François' intellectually-inferior colleagues, having converted to Islam, get good jobs and make arranged marriages with attractive young wives. The new president campaigns to enlarge the European Union to include North Africa, with the aim of making it a new Roman Empire, with France at its lead.
https://www.amazon.com/Submission-Novel-Michel-Houellebecq/dp/0374271577
A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous living literary figure
It's 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century Decadent author. But François's own decadence is considerably smaller in scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, rereads Huysmans, queues up YouPorn.
Meanwhile, it's election season. And although Francois feels "about as political as a bath towel," things are getting pretty interesting. In an alliance with the Socialists, France's new Islamic party sweeps to power. Islamic law comes into force. Women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged, and François is offered an irresistible academic advancement--on the condition that he convert to Islam.
Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker has said of Submission that "Houellebecq is not merely a satirist but--more unusually--a sincere satirist, genuinely saddened by the absurdities of history and the madnesses of mankind." Michel Houellebecq's new book may be satirical and melancholic, but it is also hilarious, a comic masterpiece by one of France's great novelists.
Existentialism and Human Emotions, by Sartre, is only 96 pages and quite an easy read. {ISBN-13: 978-0806509020} Existentialism and the Philosophical Tradition, [Raymond], gives a broad selection of thinkers throughout history, but it is pricey. {ISBN-13: 978-0132957755} Another approach would be texts that are not strictly philosophical yet present some existential points such as: The Plague, The Stranger, and The Rebel, all by Camus, Nausea by Sartre, Notes From Underground, by Dostoevsky, or Waiting For Godot by Beckett
People should read this book, by a French author. I can actually see this story line playing out now.
It's a novel about the total Islamic takeover of France. Pretty good book, in a sad, sardonic kind of way.
https://www.amazon.com/Submission-Novel-Michel-Houellebecq/dp/0374271577
So these books go into letters and documents that have just surfaced that illustrate the communications between Le Corbusier, Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini.
Book 1 - Le Corbusier, un fascisme français
Book 2 - Un Corbusier
Corb's decades long involvement with fascist ideology deeply affected his urban and architectural tendencies. His ideas of the Spirit of a New Age involved, in his words, "the human animal is like the bee, a builder of geometric cells."
In a letter to his mother he supports the ideas of "cleansing" the population and that "Money, Jews (partly responsible), Freemasonry, all suffer the righteous law. These shameful fortresses will be dismantled. They dominated everything."
He continues, "We are in the hands of a winner and his attitude could be overwhelming. If the market is sincere, Hitler can crown his life with a great work: the development of Europe. "
I can't wait to get my hands on these books at it really underscores his inhuman architecture. His totalitarian urban ideals have been seen as such (by most), but this is just further demonstrates this point.
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Pocket https://www.pocket.fr/livres/langues-langues-pour-tous/
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But these are more likely english works with a french translation.
For french original works translated into english:
Dover publications http://store.doverpublications.com/by-subject-languages-and-linguistics-dual-language--dictionaries--other.html
http://www.doppeltext.com/en/bilingual-books/french-english
Oxford University Press https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/o/oxford-worlds-classics-owc/?type=listing&subjectcode1=1793239%7CAHU00010&lang=en&cc=us
https://2languagebooks.blogspot.fr/
http://www.europeanbookshop.com/languagebooks/subject/FRE/m10/c97
http://bilinguis.com/book/verne20k/
https://www.thoughtco.com/french-english-bilingual-books-1368597
http://www.blackwidowpress.com/TranslationFrames.htm
http://www.fluentu.com/french/blog/bilingual-books-french-english/
look up "bilingual french" in Amazon Books https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_n_19?fst=as%3Aoff&rh=n%3A283155%2Cn%3A17%2Ck%3Abilingual+french&keywords=bilingual+french&ie=UTF8
Non-fiction too:
Democracy in America: In Four Volumes Bilingual edition Edition
https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-America-Volumes-Alexis-Tocqueville/dp/0865977194/ref=pd_sbs_14_4?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0865977194&pd_rd_r=NZTRF1GTBGGXG2AM0P0M&pd_rd_w=lvNPn&pd_rd_wg=0tCpB&psc=1&refRID=NZTRF1GTBGGXG2AM0P0M
https://www.amazon.com/DISCOURSE-VOLUNTARY-SERVITUDE-VOLONTAIRE-FRENCH-ENGLISH-ebook/dp/B01LWKVZT0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1492023757&sr=8-2&keywords=Discourse+on+Voluntary+Servitude
Key words are "english french edition" or "french bilingual" or "french parallel text" you get the idea.
That was basically the plot of Submission.
C'est toujours compliqué de vouloir s'exclamer fièrement "Vous voyez ? J'ai raison. Je suis pas défoncé. Ca marche".
Parceque déjà, ça dépend du produit et de l'auditoire. On parle de médicaments ? De drogue ? D'alcool ? Et qu'est ce qui marche exactement ? Est-ce que t'es vraiment sûr que ça marche ? Qu'est ce qu'on en pense vraiment ? Et tu ne pourrais pas faire sans ? T'es sûr ? T'as l'air d'aller bien là. Parfois, tu réagis un peu bizarre mais sinon, ça va. Tu devrais arrêter. Parceque bon, quand même, on m'a dit que ...
En attendant, ca a bien marché. En tout cas, cette partie là.
Demain, on retourne s'occuper du reste.
J'en étais à m'intéresser à la drogue. Y a une nana qui a tenu un blog et écrit un roman inspiré de son expérience apparemment. Sur la cocaïne.
https://www.amazon.fr/face-noire-blanche-Lolita-SENE/dp/2221156668
https://moijuliettef.wordpress.com/
Du coup, tant qu'à écrire, faudrait que je vois. Faudrait que je lise son machin déjà. Le titre du blog est inspiré de Moi, Christiane F, 13 ans, droguée, prostituée. C'était une autre époque. L''heroine à Berlin dans les années 70. Youhou. Les temps ont bien changé. Les produits aussi. Les idéologies aussi. On écoutait David Bowie. C'était qui le Jul de l'époque ?
Edit: J'étais en train de regarder les videos de mediapart que j'ai posté y a deux jours. Forcément, le député LR hostile à la "drogue" confond deux choses: Drogue et addiction. En addictologie, ce qui fait l'addiction, ce n'est pas la drogue mais la réunion de trois facteurs à savoir: une drogue, une personnalité et un contexte. Ca me rend tellement dingue que des gens légifèrent sans maîtriser des concepts de base de ce sur quoi ils légifèrent, en utilisant pour justifier leur prise de parole: "Ma conviction ...". C'est la première phrase de Rachida Dati opposée à tout assouplissement des textes actuels. Mais putain. Vous êtes pas là pour avoir une conviction. Vous êtes là pour traiter sérieusement les sujets. Et ça implique quand même à un moment de les maîtriser un mimimum. Moi aussi j'ai des convictions, ça ne coûte rien. "On devrait tous être heureux". "On ne devrait pas être méchant". Bordel.
I know you said choose two, but I'm gonna go ahead and do three ;)
1 - It's a children's book but my favorite book ever is Mandy by Julie Andrews. It's about a little girl who finds a cottage in a field behind the orphanage where she lives and makes it her own. When I was little I read that book over and over wishing I could find an abandoned cottage somewhere near my house.
2 - Least favorite is hands down, Bleak House, by Charles Dickens. I had to read it my first year of college and while the other books we read were great, that one was just painful to get through. I didn't even get close to finishing it.
3 - Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist was my favorite book to movie just because the book was so bad but the movie was excellent.
e-books:
Divergent
And then all kinds of French readers
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Bonjour Tristesse (translates to Hello Sadness) by Francoise Sagan is quite an enjoyable read and was written in French. It's not too long either (a little more than 48,000 words).
Si tu veux allier auto-motivation et lecture, le premier livre de Laurent Gounelle est sympa, un vocabulaire assez simple et une histoire assez courte (167 pages).
This book is quite applicable to the current situation.
Je ne pense pas que ça soit ça mais ça me rappelle lejournaldemax, un truc vieux de dix ans maintenant, à l'époque où tout le monde commençait à se palucher sur des termes tels que blogosphère, buzz, web 2.0 et Loïc Le Meur.
Perhaps it's not a very bluntly atheistic text, but Existentialism and Human Emotions by Jean-Paul Sartre is one that I thoroughly enjoyed and found to be a good stepping stone in terms of agreeableness.
http://www.amazon.com/Existentialism-Human-Emotion-Philosophical-Library/dp/0806509023
Also, this might be helpful: http://www.amazon.com/Voyage-France-Beginners-Edition-ebook/dp/B00DNWZEC6/ref=pd_typ_k_sp_1_4_p?ie=UTF8&refRID=1RDETWBY5D3JQ7PDA2X3
Could it be The Song of Synth by Seb Doubinsky? The plot and cover sort of matches your description.
>Synth is the latest and greatest—a drug that creates hallucinations indistinguishable from the actual world. It’s brand new, highly addictive, and dangerous. Even the dealers don’t know what the long-term effects are.
>But for ex-hacker Markus Olsen, Synth is a savior. An escape from his misery. Because when he and his fellow phreaks got caught, he turned traitor while his friends were sent away. Now, he’s just a corporate stooge to Viborg City’s secret service, aiding the oppressive state power he’d been fighting in exchange for relative free will.
For anyone interested this is the book he is reffering to.
Here's a worthwhile read: https://www.amazon.com/Submission-Novel-Michel-Houellebecq/dp/0374271577
It's about a French literature professor as he confronts a rapidly Islamifying France. The main character, Francois, drinks heavily, sleeps with his students and focuses on the writing of the now obscure French writer, J.K. Huysmans. Detached from politics, he watches as his native country divides between Muslims and the traditional French right led by the National Front’s Marine Le Pen.
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This isn't anime, but I thought I'd suggest it anyway since this theme is so specific. If you like the idea of an immortal MC, you should check out the novel "All Men Are Mortal" by Simone De Beauvoir. It's about a man who is cursed to live forever and an actress who becomes obsessed with him for a variety of reasons.
A good deal of the book explains his history (he's been around since the late 13th century), but the first 70 pages or so, where you meet this guy, and you see how he handles eternity and how this actress reacts to him, I can't explain why but there's just something magical about it. I wish I could read it for the first time again.
You can read some snippets of the first part of the book in the link, and if you're interested in reading the whole thing you can pick up a used copy on amazon for dirt cheap. Also your local library will probably have a copy.
All Men Are Mortal - Simone de Beauvoir is what you're looking for.
I found a translation on amazon
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/0374271577/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1450128708&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=submission&dpPl=1&dpID=41YjMnlq0CL&ref=plSrch
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Hmm, Street of Thieves?
https://www.amazon.com/Street-Thieves-Mathias-%C3%89nard/dp/1940953014
Ah yeah. I would continue research the neuroscience stuff for the layperson. Really fascinating stuff that can be of great help. Especially the stuff relating to stroke victims and their before/afters. Really helps to put the brain into perspective.
And the existential/nihilistic stuff... It seems that there are two separate mindsets when it comes to being an existentialist, and they are almost polar opposites in their effect upon the individual. I think the difference stems from a misinterpretation of existentialism's heavily nuanced response to the root question of all philosophy: "What is the point?"/"What does it all mean?".
Existentialism is not, in practice at least, nihilistic. When asked, what is the point, an existentialist will respond in this manner, "The point is what you decide it to be. Meaning is derived from what you decide to find meaning in." The nihilism comes from the notion that, yes, an existentialist does not believe there is any intrinsic or knowable 'meaning' within the workings of the universe, or even a man's place within it. BUT, the fact that you exist, coupled with the ability to make conscious decisions, means that you can insert meaning into a void that previously had none. Once this is understood, this is an extremely empowering notion. So in this sense, there is intrinsic meaning within the universe, as man is indeed an intrinsic part of the universe, and it is the individual that creates meaning. Outside of man, yes, nihilistic tendencies should reign supreme. But there is no outside of man, for you, me, or anyone else for that matter.
Sartre for example, thought of Che Guevera as the epitome of mankind. Here was a man who was leading a revolution, not because he was forced to, and not because he was brought up to do so. He made the conscious and willing decision to take responsibility for something which he did not need to. He inserted his own meaning into the void - through his actions he stated clearly his existence and intention to carry it out to its greatest extent. Needlessly to say, suicide was the furthest thing from his mind. *Just a note here - whether or not you agree with Guevera's actions is irrelevant. The point here is that he did act, and the he lived for the causes of his own choosing, and affected his environment in a large way.
You should read Sartre's Existentialism and Human Emotions: http://www.amazon.com/Existentialism-Human-Emotions-Philosophical-Library/dp/0806509023
It is not a difficult book to read, and I think it would be well worth it.
All this being said, I don't necessarily consider myself an existentialist. I'm still working on it, give me a few more hours to let it settle, haha. Hopefully this might give you something to chew on in the meantime though.
And btw, your 'friends' sound like assholes based your account. Not everyone is like that.
edit: I realize you are probably aware of most of this... I am just making sure...Would love to hear your perspective on it regardless.
Hey, don't forget that free action still requires justification. Actually, your freedom comes with immense responsibility. I know tons of people have commented already, but I'm taking a semester of existentialism right now and you're channeling Sartre and de Beauvoir - at least these two books of theirs which I read over the weekend. I'd recommend de Beauvoir's more, but Sartre's is very clear and concise.
By the way, in my opinion, this is something which all people need to realize, so big kudos to you my friend. Now, go out in the worlds and do something positive with it! Teach someone else about their freedom!
There is a French novelist which explores France becoming a Muslim country, which is a more constructive medium on my mind to engage with this issue than what I gather is fake news.
Check out: Submission by Michel Houellebecq
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Get a bilingual book maybe? Like Alice in Wonderland or something.
> What Europeans dont realize yet is that this is dangerous because with democratic institutions demographics matter a lot. Different religious and ethnic groups do have different values to some degree and I think a lot of Europeans don't recognize that. Most know that if you imported 500k rural Poles to your city they'll start to vote for banning abortion, but for some reason people are afraid to extrapolate that to other groups such as say North Africans. They prefer to live a fantasy where you will 'enlighten' these groups to give up previous in-group values en masse and integrate but if their demographics don't pressure it because they are a plurality or even a majority they will have more in-group pressure to retain than out-group pressure to change.
We don't realise it because we never really experienced true multiculturalism before, and many are still in denial about its effect. Now that demographics are rapidly changing, my point of view is Europe is going to start experiencing something similar to the 60s-70s in USA where there were massive civil rights protest movements. Tough with major differences due to the ethnic populations being different than what the US experienced (no hispanics, mostly Arabs/Muslims in France for instance).
USA being pretty much the blueprint for a nation becoming multicultural. We will see this play out in Europe over the next decades. Here is an interesting bestseller fiction book for what might happen to France over the next years: https://www.amazon.com/Submission-Novel-Michel-Houellebecq/dp/0374271577
Submission: A Novel Hardcover – October 20, 2015 by Michel Houellebecq (Author), Lorin Stein (Translator)
>It's 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century Decadent author. But François's own decadence is considerably smaller in scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, rereads Huysmans, queues up YouPorn.
>Meanwhile, it's election season. And although Francois feels "about as political as a bath towel," things are getting pretty interesting. In an alliance with the Socialists, France's new Islamic party sweeps to power. Islamic law comes into force. Women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged, and François is offered an irresistible academic advancement--on the condition that he convert to Islam.
>Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker has said of Submission that "Houellebecq is not merely a satirist but--more unusually--a sincere satirist, genuinely saddened by the absurdities of history and the madnesses of mankind." Michel Houellebecq's new book may be satirical and melancholic, but it is also hilarious, a comic masterpiece by one of France's great novelists.
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Amazon. I'm guessing i missunderstood what you wanted as it took me 5s to find this.