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    Wind From the East

    1970 · Drama · 1h 40m

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  1. Feb 1, 2007 · THE WIND FROM THE EAST. by Almudena Grandes & translated by Sonia Soto ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 1, 2007. A sinuous saga by Spanish novelist Grandes ( The Ages of Lulu, 1994, etc.) pursues a tangle of apartment-house relationships in an Andalusian seaside town. The arrival of the ill-fated Olmedo family from Madrid arouses the interest of ...

  2. Jan 1, 2002 · 1,999 ratings183 reviews. Internationally celebrated author Almudena Grandes has produced her finest work yet with The Wind from the East, a blend of two narratives set alternately in Madrid and an Andalusian town by the sea.

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  3. Oct 1, 2008 · 79 ratings12 reviews. How Maoism captured the imagination of French intellectuals during the 1960s. Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who's who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China's Cultural Revolution, were seized with a fascination for Maoism.

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    • Richard Wolin
  4. Jul 23, 2010 · Given the countless books written about the tumultuous events of the late 1960s and early 1970s in France—and about similar eruptions elsewhere in the West—it would seem that there are no new...

  5. As such, it is an important book, both within the field of French history and beyond."—Michael C. Behrent, H-France Review "The Wind from the East will be a rewarding and exciting reading for all those with an interest in French studies, politics, and intellectual history."—Viola Brisolin, European Legacy

  6. 156 ★★★★★ ratings (9%) ★★★★★. Popular reviews. Recent reviews. A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debate on the nature and possibility of revolutionary cinema.

  7. Nov 14, 2017 · Recounting the cultural and political odyssey of French students and intellectuals in the 1960s, The Wind from the East illustrates how the Maoist phenomenon unexpectedly sparked a...

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