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Steve Almond
Steve Almond (born 1966)

journalist, literary critic

  • Wesleyan University

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Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life
My life in heavy metal
The Evil B.B. Chow and other stories
Candyfreak
Which brings me to you
God bless America
Candy Freak
(Not That You Asked)
Against football
The Best American Erotica 2005
Astoria to Zion
Best of the web 2008
Do Me
It's alive!
Notes from the underground
Bad stories
Rock and roll will save your life
Rock and roll will save your life
Mad Ducks and Bears
All the Secrets of the World
Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow
Körper in Extremsituationen
Pangyrus Five
Untitled Novel
John Williams' Stoner
My Life in Heavy Metal Proof
Untitled - Cancelled
Masterplans
Which Brings Me to You
John Williams' Stoner : William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life : Bookmarked
Michael Medved
Michael Medved (born 1948)

radio personality, journalist, film critic

  • Yale University, San Francisco State University

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Right Turns
Saving Childhood
The shadow Presidents
Hollywood vs. America
What really happened to the class of '65
The 5 big lies about American business
The 10 Big Lies About America
Hospital
Hospital, the hidden lives of a medical center staff
The American Miracle
Hollywood Vs. Religion
The 10 Big Lies About America
How to Protect Your Children from the National Assault on Innocence
This Favored Land
WHAT HAPPEND CLASS '65
Son of the Golden Turkey Award
Hollywood vs. America
Fifty Worst Films
The 10 big lies about America
10 Lzhivykh Faktov Ob Amerike
Son Golden Turkey Awards
What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
God's Hand on America
Riding High
Saving Childhood
Fifty Worst Movies
Chris Welch
Chris Welch (born 1941)

journalist, music critic

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The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin The Stories Behind Every Led Zeppelin Song
Winwood
Peter Grant
David Bowie Stories Behind The Songs 19701980
David Bowie: We Could Be Heroes
Led Zeppelin: Dazed and Confused
Hendrix
Take you higher
Bob Marley
Clapton
Close to the Edge
The Tina Turner Experience
Cream
Introduction to Chile
AC/DC, HM photo book
Hendrix; biography
Iron Maiden
Treasures Of Led Zeppelin
Paul McCartney
Power and Glory
Led Zeppelin
Eric Clapton Treasures
Black Sabbath
Ginger geezer
Bob Marley
Led Zeppelin
Steve Winwood--roll with it
Clapton
The Who
Ginger geezer
Eric Clapton
David Bowie
Deep Purple HM photo book
Pink Floyd
Genesis
John Bonham
Complete Guides to the Music of the Police & Sting (The complete guide to the music of...)
Led Zeppelin
One Hit Wonders
Secret Life of Peter Gabriel
Hendrix: a biography
Gary Moore
The Fire station
AC/DC, HM photo book
Def Leppard
Marc Bolan
David Bowie Changes
Cream
Treasures of The Who
The official Take That annual
Complete Guide to the Music of Genesis
Complete Guide to the Music of Genesis
Story of Yes
Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark (1918-2006)

poet, playwright, editor, literary critic, biographer

  • Heriot-Watt University

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Loitering with intent
Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition
The girls of slender means
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Abbess of Crewe
Prentice Hall Literature--The British Edition--Volume II
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
A far cry from Kensington
The driver's seat
Robinson
The Comforters
The Mandelbaum Gate
Classic Detective Stories
The hothouse by the East River
The takeover
Reality and dreams
Symposium
The finishing school
Not to disturb
John Masefield
Territorial rights
The ballad of Peckham Rye
Doctors of philosophy
Child of light
Memento Mori
The stories of Muriel Spark
The very fine clock
Collected stories
Open to the public
Public Image, the
Muriel Spark Ominibus 1
Collected poems
Only Problem, the
Emily Bronte
The informed air
The Bronte Letters
The complete short stories
El asiento del conductor
All the Poems
Voices at play
Mary Shelly (Biography & Memoirs)
Jung gesellen =
All the poems of Muriel Spark
All the stories of Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark Omnibus 2
Frau Dr. Wolfs Methode
Las voces
Collected stories
Complete Short Stories
A Muriel Spark trio
Muriel Spark omnibus
Complete Poems
Curriculum Vitae: a Volume of Autobiography
Collected Stories, the
The golden fleece
The Essence of the Brontës
The Go-away Bird and Other Stories
The ghost stories of Muriel Spark
Authors' ghosts
A good comb
Collected Stories I
Spark's Satire
Na publiku
A hundred and eleven years without a chauffeur
Voices at play
COLLECTED POEMS I
Banquete
Collected poems
Collected Stories I.
Hanging Judge
Collected stories of Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark Omnibus 4
2 By Muriel Spark
ALL THE POEMS
Ḥilufe mishmarot
Essence of the Brontës
Author's ghosts
Memento mori [and] The girls of slender means
Leaf-Sweeper
Essence of the Brontes
Tribute to Wordsworth
Child of Light
Observing Eye
Voices at play
Golden Fleece
ENCUBRIDORES, LOS
The snobs
Gong mou
The novels of Muriel Spark
The Novels of Muriel Spark
Voices at Play
Walking on air
Observing Eye
Collected Stories 1
The Folio Book of Comic Short Stories
Collected stories ...
Informed Air
Collected Poems
Collected Poems I
Spark's Europe
Las Voces / the Comforters
Ouvert au public
Omnibus 3
Going up to Sotheby's
Harper and Wilton
A bonne école
Mary Shelley. Die Schöpferin des Frankenstein.
Päng päng, du bist tot und andere Geschichten
Quest for Lavishes Ghast
Collected Stories 1
The Fanfarlo, and other verse
The Portobello road and other stories
Memento mori, and The ballad of Peckham Rye
Two by Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Selected stories
Bang-Bang You're Dead
The French window
L'image publique
Aiding and Abetting
Intentions suspectes
Novels of Muriel Spark
Collected poems I
Novels of Muriel Spark Vols. 1-2
L'unique problème
Collected stories I
Les Célibataires
Die Lehrerin
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008)

actor, film director, audiobook narrator, literary critic, essayist, agricultural engineer, director

  • Lycée Saint-Louis, Institut national agronomique

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Neuer Roman und Autobiographie
Le voyeur
Les gommes. English
La Jalousie
La maison de rendez-vous
Repetition
Dans le labyrinthe
Topology of a Phantom City
Project for a revolution in New York
Last year at Marienbad
Two novels
La belle captive
Souvenirs du triangle d'or
Djinn
Les gommes
Le Voyageur
Instantanés
Miroir qui revient
For a new novel: essays on fiction
Pour un nouveau roman
Repetition
Le Rendez Vous
La Jalousie (Twentieth Century French Texts)
Recollections of the Golden Triangle (Robbe-Grillet, Alain)
Las Gomas
A Sentimental Novel
Why I love Barthes
Djinn ; and, La maison de rendez-vous
Le miroir qui revient
Un roman sentimental
Topologie d'une cite fantome
Snapshots (European Classics)
Glissements progressifs du plaisir
L' immortelle
Immortal One
Alechinsky
Last year at Marienbad
Project for a revolution in New York
In The Labyrinth (Calderbooks)
Préface à une vie d'écrivain
Instantane s
Reanudacion
La forteresse
Projet Pour Une Revolution a New York
Angelica O El Encantamiento
Dans Le Labyrinthe
For a New Novel
Topologie d'une cité fantôme
La reprise
The immortal one
Two novels by Robbe-Grillet
Les derniers jours de Corinthe
La Maison de Rendez-Vous and Djinn
L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad
Der Augenzeuge
Topology of a Phantom City
Les Gommes
In the labyrinth
L' année dernière à Marienbad
Corinthes letzte Tage
Le voyeur
L'immortelle
Die Wiederholung
Snapshots
Pour Un Nouveau Roman
Por una novela nueva
Projet pour une révolution à New York
Un régicide
Topologie d'une cité fantôme
The Immortal One (Calderbooks)
La Jalousie
Jealousy (Jupiter Books)
Voyeur Roman
The voyeur
Topologie d'une Cite Fantome
La\Jalousie Roman
Projet pour une révolution à New York
The house of assignation
Snapshots
Projet pour une révolution a New York
A Regicide
La\Maison de Rendez­Vous Roman
L'\Immortelle Cine Roman
Souvenirs du Triangle D'Or
Pour un Nouveau Roman Critique Litteraire
For a new novel
Die Radiergummis
Projet pour une révolution a New York
Angelique
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Projet pour une revolution a New York
Angélique, ou, L'Enchantement
The Voyeur
Projet pour une révalution à New York
The Erasers
Un re gicide
Correspondance, 1951-1990
Dans le Labyrinthe
La maison de rendez-vous
Djinn
Temple Aux Miroirs
Jealousy and the Labyrinth
C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle
Annee Derniere a Marienbad Cine Roman
Maison de Rendez-Vous
UN Regicide
Topologie d'une cite fantome
The Erasers
Scénarios en rose et noir
Generative literature and generative art
Snapshots AND Towards a New Novel
L' année dernière a Marienbad
Gommes
Snapshots, and
El Espejo Que Vuelve/the Recurring Mirror
In the Temple of Dreams
Le rendez-vous
Hiroshima, Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad
Instantaneas
La jalousie
Les gommes
Recurring Mirror
Instantanees Roman
Djinn
La maison de rendez-vous
Projet pour une Revolution a New York
L'\Immortelle
Project for a revolution in New York
Last Year in Marienbad
Erasers, the
V labirinte
Kairaku no zenshinteki yokosuberi
Instantanés
L'annee derniere a Marienbad
Instantanés
Sogl︠i︡adatǎi
La jalousie
Last year at Marienbad
Dans le labyrinthe
La jalousie
The erasers
Jealousy
La jalousie
Pour un nouveau roman
Dans le labyrinthe
Two novels by Robbe-Grillet
L'Immortelle
Réinventer le roman
Jealousy
L'Immortelle
Last year at Marienbad
Topology of a phantom city
Les gommes
In the labyrinth, a novel
Moi, Armand, né sourd et muet
Dans le labyrinthe
La maison de rendez-vous
Instantané
L'année dernière à Marienbad
La belle captive
The voyeur
Entretiens complices
Maria Janion
Maria Janion (1926-2020)

literary historian, literary critic, activist, translator, literary theorist

  • University of Warsaw

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Tragizm, historia, prywatność
Kobiety i duch inności
Projekt krytyki fantazmatycznej
Życie pośmiertne Konrada Wallenroda
Zło i fantazmaty
Odnawianie znaczeń
Günther Grass i polski Pan Kichot
Bohater, spisek, śmierć
Zwierciadła północy
Wobec zła
Żyjąc tracimy życie
Biografie romantyczne
Niesamowita słowiańszczyzna
Płacz generała
Wampir
Polskie pytania o Grassa
Inny, inna, inne
Romantyzm, rewolucja, marksizm
Zygmunt Krasiński
Romantyzm
Gorączka romantyczna
Romantyzm, Janion, fantazmaty
Purpurowy Paszcz Mickiewicza
Honor - Bog - ojczyzna
Romantyzm i jego media
Do Europy
Romantyzm i egzystencja
Lucjan Siemieński, poeta romantyczny
"Czy będziesz wiedział, co przeżyłeʹs"
Romantyzm i historia
Czas formy otwartej
Purpurowy płaszcz Mickiewicza
Hero, Conspiracy, and Death : the Jewish Lectures
Rozmowy na nowy wiek
Style zachowań romantycznych
Polka
Romantyzm, rewolucja, marksizm
Literatura polska wobec rewolucji
Polish-Swedish literary contacts
Positionen polnischer Literaturwissenschaft der Gegenwart
Polskie pytania o Grassa
Humanistyka
Odyseja wychowania
Proces historyczny w literaturze i sztuce
Reduta
Maski
Sprawa Stawrogina
Dzieci
Literatura krajowa w okresie romantyzmu, 1831-1863
Hero, Conspiracy, and Death
Władysław Broniewski w poezji polskiej
Transe, traumy, transgresje
Wobec końca wieku
Lucjan Siemieński
The Jewish colonel
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (born 1950)

essayist, literary critic, genealogist, historian, journalist, philosopher

  • Potomac State College of West Virginia University, Yale University

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The Souls of Black Folk
Life upon these shores
The slave's narrative
The classic slave narratives
The Philadelphia Negro
Black reconstruction in America 1860-1880
Dusk of dawn
The signifying monkey
Loose Canons
Colored people
Gay rebel of the Harlem renaissance
In battle for peace
Wonders of the African world
Transition 75/76. Selections from Transition, 1961-1976
Figures in Black
The Suppression Of The Slave Trade To The United States Of America 1638-1870
The Greatest Taboo
Africa, its geography, people, and products
Africana
The future of the race
The African-American century
Finding Oprah's Roots
America Behind The Color Line
The dictionary of global culture
Reading black, reading feminist
The Classic slave narratives
Black folk
John Brown (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois)
Stony the Road
The trials of Phillis Wheatley
And Still I Rise
The Black Church
Unchained Memories
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
Gloria Naylor
In Search of Our Roots
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
Thirteen ways of looking at a Black man
The Image Of The Black In Western Art
Light of Truth
Tradition and the Black Atlantic
To Make Their Own Way in the World
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
African American Studies
The classic slave narratives
The Image Of The Black In Western Art
Black Lives 1900
Black in Latin America
The White Issue
Philadelphia Negro (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois)
The Classic Slave Narratives
Black cool
The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
The portable nineteenth-century African American women writers
Harlem
Making Futures
Zora Neale Hurston Essays
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
Called to be free
Fateful Triangle
The African American national biography
"Race," writing, and difference
Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography
Gordon Parks Collected Works, 1942-1998
Understanding Jim Crow
Wonders of the African world
The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reader
African American national biography
The annotated African American folktales
Portable Anna Julia Cooper
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
100 amazing facts about the Negro
The image of the Black in African and Asian art
Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex
The New Negro Aesthetic
Reconsidering Race
The African Americans
Teaching with the Norton Anthology of African American Literature
Finding Your Roots, Season 2
To Make a Poet Black
In search of Hannah Crafts
Black Literature and Literary Theory
Bearing Witness
The Oxford handbook of African American citizenship
Transition 97/98
Uncle Tom
Black literature, 1827-1940
John Brown (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois)
Soulfires
Transition 96
May Day at Yale,1970 : Recollections
In Search of Our Roots
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, Part 1: Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque
World and Africa and Color and Democracy (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois)
New Negro
Faces of America
Dark Sky Rising
Finding your roots
Finding Oprah's Roots
Bearing witness
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region (Revisiting New England: The New Regionalism)
Lincoln on Race and Slavery
Cosmopolitanism
African American Studies
Chinua Achebe
Black Church
From Slave to Statesman
Harriet Wilson's New England
The Norton anthology of African American literature
Bearing Witness
13 ways to look at a Black man
Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region (Revisting New England: the New Regionalism)
The bondwoman's narrative by Hannah Crafts
Ralph Ellison
In search of our roots
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
Who's Black and Why?
Philadelphia Negro (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois)
Stony the Road
Race, Writing and Difference
African American Lives
Colored People
Farbige Zeiten
African American lives
Microsoft Encarta africana
Finding your roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr
America Behind The Color Line
Signifying Monkey
America Behind The Color Line
Reading Black, Reading Feminist
What to Do about Race
Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art, Book 1
Signifying Monkey
LIFE Lincoln
The Third World of Theory (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature)
Black America since MLK
COLORED PEOPLE
Truth of Consequences
Image of the Black in Western Art Vol. V
Slave Narratives (college)
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
Africana
Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee
Harriet A. Jacobs
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
The Bondwoman's Narrative
A Chronology of African-American History from 1445-1980
'Race Is Everything'
Finding Your Roots
Four Classic Slave Narratives
Colored People
Signifying Monkey
Image of the Black in Western Art Vol. IV, Pt. 2
African American national biography
Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art, Book 2
Black literature and literary theory
The dictionary of global culture
Image of the Black in Western Art Vol. V, Pt. 1
Wole Soyinka
Ann Petry
Dictionary Global Culture
Annotated African American Folktales (the Annotated Books)
Faces of America
Now and Forever Windows by Kerry James Marshall at Washington National Cathedral
Literature, Language, and Politics
A Chronology of African-American History
Stony the Road
Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations
Anthology of African American Literature
Wonders of the African world
Civitas Anthology of African American Slave Narratives
Finding Your Roots
In Search of Hannah Crafts
America beyond the color line
Black Literature and Literary Theory
Our Gang
Modern Liberty
Harriet Jacobs
Balthazar
Dictionary of Global Culture
In Search Of Identity: African American Lives
Ann Petry
Microsoft Encarta africana 2000
Strange Fruit, Volume I
FROM RAGTIME TO RAP
Three Classic African American
In the house of Oshugbo
The Anniversary Issue
Figures in Black
The Norton anthology of African American literature
Gloria Naylor
The Norton Anthology African American Literature
Africana 2003 Engagement Calendar
Call and response
Africana
The Classic Slave Narratives
The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reader
Come Sunday
Black Is the Color of the Cosmos
The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
The Essential Soyinka
Afro-American Women Writers
Marcel Brion
Marcel Brion (1895-1984)

literary critic, art historian

  • Lycée Thiers, Collège Champittet

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Budda, ego zhizn', uchenie
Les labyrinthes du temps
The Medici: a great Florentine family
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne
Théodoric, roi des Ostrogoths, 454-526
Venice, the masque of Italy
Les Vaines montagnes
Les peintures de Dieu
Pompeii and Herculaneum
Art romantique
Michelangelo
Mémoires d'une vie incertaine
Algues
Villa des hasards
Les ailleurs du temps
Michel-Ange
German painting
La vie quotidienne à Vienne au temps de Mozart et de Schubert
Les escales de la haute nuit, et autres nouvelles fantastiques
The world of archaeology
L' Allemagne romantique
Giotto
Peinture romantique
Orplid, ou, une certaine idée de l'Allemagne
Les Vaines montagnes
Le château de la princesse Ilse
Meisterwerke der modernen Malerei
Modern painting
Bartolomé de las Casas, "Father of the Indians"
La alemania romántica
Bartholmé de las Casas
Se perdre dans Venise
La fête de la Tour des Ames
Mozart
Le siècle de Laurent le Magnifique
Kandinsky
Guardi
Le journal du visiteur
Charles le Téméraire
Lumière de la renaissance
Cézanne
Art since 1945
Art abstrait
L' ermite au masque de miroir
Lumière de la Renaissance
Romantic art
Art of the romantic era
Geschichte der abstrakten Kunst
La résurrection des villes mortes
Albrecht Dürer
Breughel
Le pré du grand songe
La Vie des Huns
Francis Bott
Le caprice espagnol
The Medici
Génie et destinée Goethe
Chagall
Les Miroirs et les gouffres, roman
La révolte des gladiateurs
La Provence
Daily life in the Vienna of Mozart and Schubert
L' ombre d'un arbre mort
Savonarole, le héraut de Dieu
De l'autre côté de la forêt
La rose de cire
L' enchanteur
Ces palais où Dieu habite
Catherine Cornaro
Lorenzo il Magnifico [di] Brion Marcello
Discours de réception de Marcel Brion a l'Académie française et reponse de René Huyghe
Château d'ombres; roman
La vie quotidienne à Vienne
Les Miroirs et les gouffres
Animals in art
L' art en Sicile
The Bible in art
Le pape et le prince
Bayard
Machiavel
Mozarts Meisteropern
Provence
Léonor Fini et son oeuvre
Schumann et l'âme romantique
Paris in color
Siècle des Medicis
La Musique et l'amour
Meloni
De César à Charlemagne
Léonard de Vinci
The Medici
Pierre Puget
Frédéric II de Hohenstaufen
Bartolomé de las Casas, padre de los indios
La ville de sable, roman
Vermeer
Suite fantastique
Botticelli
La Musique et lhamour
Les Borgia
Bartholomé de las Casas, "Father of the Indians"
Frédégonde et Brunehaut
Vermeer
La folie Céladon
Bartholomé de Las Casas
Alaric, the Goth
Le portrait de Bélinda
Charles le Téméraire, grand-duc d'Occident
Gœthe
Theoderich
Titien
Le portrait de Belinda
De Pompéi à l'île de Pâques
L' Ombrie
Venice
Discours--
Les escales de la haute nuit
Contes fantastiques
Fabrizio Clerici
L' œil, l'esprit et la main du peintre
Schumann & the romantic age
Art of the Romantic era: Romanticism, Classicism, Realism
Kunst der Romantik
L' art fantastique
Histoire de l'Égypte
La vie d'Attila
Nous avons traversé la montagne
La chanson de l'oiseau étranger et autres contes
Albrecht Dürer: his life and work
La vie quotidienne à Vienna à l'époque de Mozart et de Schubert
Les Amantes
La Grande aventure de la peinture religieuse, le sacré et sa représentation
Gobineau, avec un portrait par la Comtesse de la Tour
Art fantastique
Le théâtre des esprits
Laurent le Magnifique
The story of the Huns
Discours ... par M. Marcel Brion ..
L' art romantique
Tamerlan
Rembrandt
Le Siècle des Médicis
Ivre d'un rêve héroïque et brutal
Paris
Attila, the scourge of God
Michelangelo
La ville de sable
La Folie Céladon
Attila, the scourge of God
Art since 1945
Brion · Buzzati
La Provence
La Folie Céladon
Gobineau
La Grande aventure de la peinture religieuse
L'art en Sicile
Bartholmé de las Casas
La reine Jeanne
Romantic art
Algues
Les eaux mortes
Rembrandt
Animals in art
La vie quotidienne a Vienna a l'époque de Mozart et de Schubert
Fabrizio Clerici
Giotto, par Marcel Brion
HISTOIRE DE L'EGYPTE
Dürer
Charles le Téméraire
Art since 1945
Alaric, the Goth
Le caprice espagnol
Geschichte der abstrakten Kunst
Les peintres en leur temps
Blanche de Castille, femme de Louis VIII, mère de Saint-Louis, 1188-1252
Provence
Maiṉ hūṉ Taimūr
Pompeii and Herculaneum
Bartolomé de las Casas, "Father of the Indians"
Daily life in the Vienna of Mozart and Schubert
La résurrection des villes mortes
Franc̜ois Ximénès
La vie dA̓laric