Dictionary of Foreign Quotations

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349048984
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Book Synopsis Dictionary of Foreign Quotations by : Robert Collison

Download or read book Dictionary of Foreign Quotations written by Robert Collison and published by Springer. This book was released on 1980-06-18 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Flanders Road

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Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681375958
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Book Synopsis The Flanders Road by : Claude Simon

Download or read book The Flanders Road written by Claude Simon and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature, a riveting, stylistically audacious modernist epic about the French cavalry's bloody face-off against German Panzer tanks during WWII. On a sunny day in May 1940, the French army sent out the cavalry against the invading German army’s panzer tanks. Unsurprisingly, the French were routed. Twenty-six-year-old Claude Simon was among the French forces. As they retreated, he saw his captain shot off his horse by a German sniper. This is the primal scene to which Simon returns repeatedly in his fiction and nowhere so powerfully as in his most famous novel The Flanders Road. Here Simon’s own memories overlap with those of his central character, Georges, whose captain, a distant relative, dies a similar death. Georges reviews the circumstances and sense—or senselessness—of that death, first in the company of a fellow prisoner in a POW camp and then some years later in the course of an ever more erotically charged visit to the captain’s widow, Corinne. As he does, other stories emerge: Corinne’s prewar affair with the jockey Iglésia, who would become the captain’s orderly; the possible suicide of an eighteenth-century ancestor, whose grim portrait loomed large in Georges’s childhood home; Georges’s learned father, whose books are no help against barbarism. The great question throughout, the question that must be urgently asked even as it remains unanswerable, is whether fiction can confront and respond to the trauma of history.

Translation in Russian Contexts

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131530533X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Book Synopsis Translation in Russian Contexts by : Brian James Baer

Download or read book Translation in Russian Contexts written by Brian James Baer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents the first large-scale effort to address topics of translation in Russian contexts across the disciplinary boundaries of Slavic Studies and Translation Studies, thus opening up new perspectives for both fields. Leading scholars from Eastern and Western Europe offer a comprehensive overview of Russian translation history examining a variety of domains, including literature, philosophy and religion. Divided into three parts, this book highlights Russian contributions to translation theory and demonstrates how theoretical perspectives developed within the field help conceptualize relevant problems in cultural context in pre-Soviet, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia. This transdisciplinary volume is a valuable addition to an under-researched area of translation studies and will appeal to a broad audience of scholars and students across the fields of Translation Studies, Slavic Studies, and Russian and Soviet history. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315305356.

Aleksandr Bestuz̆ev-Marlinskij

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
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The Invitation

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Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9780916583903
Total Pages : 84 pages
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Book Synopsis The Invitation by : Claude Simon

Download or read book The Invitation written by Claude Simon and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1987 novel by Nobel Prize-winner Claude Simon is a sardonic look at glasnost Russia, where recent reforms and improvements carry all the conviction of rouge on a corpse. The narrator is one of fifteen international guests who have been invited on a goodwill tour of the new Soviet Union. Whisked from one staged event to another, from Moscow to Central Asia, enduring hours of rigid Soviet hospitality, the guests react with varying degrees of stupefaction and disgust to a society whose recent renovations ill-disguise a bloody and repressive past. The Invitation is a reminder that although the Cold War may be over, the past cannot and should not be forgotten; the Soviets have a new game to play--diplomacy rather than military force--but Simon voices skepticism in our current era of pro-Soviet sentiment. The chief attraction of The Invitation is Simon's celebrated style: long, convoluted sentences register the narrator's impressions, sometimes dragging with fatigue, but always sharpened with sensuous details and spiked with mordant satire. No one is named, but the reader will see through their identities as easily as the narrator sees through the sham of perestroika. This compact masterpiece of political satire concludes with an afterword by Lois Oppenheim, a noted authority on Simon's work.

Molière

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Molière written by Molière and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Delicate Markers

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Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
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Book Synopsis Delicate Markers by : Gavriel Shapiro

Download or read book Delicate Markers written by Gavriel Shapiro and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study that focuses on diverse subtexts, the implicit meanings or, in Nabokov's words, the delicate markers which pervade his work and occur widely through the European heritage of the arts. Five chapters discuss Nabokov's pen name, Sirin; his interaction between the visual and verbal; Christian

Identity and Translation Trouble

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527500802
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Identity and Translation Trouble by : Ivana Hostová

Download or read book Identity and Translation Trouble written by Ivana Hostová and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides providing a thorough overview of advances in the concept of identity in Translation Studies, the book brings together a variety of approaches to identity as seen through the prism of translation. Individual chapters are united by the topic and their predominantly cultural approach, but they also supply dynamic impulses for the reader, since their methodologies, level of abstraction, and subject matter differ. The theoretical impulses brought together here include a call for the ecology of translational attention, a proposal of transcultural and farcical translation and a rethinking of Bourdieu’s habitus in terms of František Miko’s experiential complex. The book also offers first-hand insights into such topics as post-communist translation practices, provides sociological insights into the role politics played during state socialism in the creation of fields of translated fiction and the way imported fiction was able to subvert the intentions of the state, gives evidence of the struggles of small locales trying to be recognised though their literature, and draws links between local theory and more widely-known concepts.

The Einstein File

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312316099
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis The Einstein File by : Fred Jerome

Download or read book The Einstein File written by Fred Jerome and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-06-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at how the FBI, with the help of other government agencies, set out to collect information to use against Einstein.

My Life in Stalinist Russia

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253214423
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book My Life in Stalinist Russia written by Mary M. Leder and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-13 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The thoughtful memoirs of a disillusioned daughter of the Russian Revolution. . . . A sometimes astonishing, worm's-eye view of life under totalitarianism, and a valuable contribution to Soviet and Jewish studies." —Kirkus Reviews "In this engrossing memoir, Leder recounts the 34 years she lived in the U.S.S.R. . . . [She] has a marvelous memory for the details of everyday life. . . . This plainly written account will particularly appeal to readers with a general interest in women's memoirs, Russian culture and history, and leftist politics." —Publishers Weekly In 1931, Mary M. Leder, an American teenager, was attending high school in Santa Monica, California. By year's end, she was living in a Moscow commune and working in a factory, thousands of miles from her family, with whom she had emigrated to Birobidzhan, the area designated by the USSR as a Jewish socialist homeland. Although her parents soon returned to America, Mary, who was not permitted to leave, would spend the next 34 years in the Soviet Union. My Life in Stalinist Russia chronicles Leder's experiences from the extraordinary perspective of both an insider and an outsider. Readers will be drawn into the life of this independent-minded young woman, coming of age in a society that she believed was on the verge of achieving justice for all but which ultimately led her to disappointment and disillusionment. Leder's absorbing memoir presents a microcosm of Soviet history and an extraordinary window into everyday life and culture in the Stalin era.

The Russians and the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902

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Publisher : Human & Rosseau
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
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Book Synopsis The Russians and the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 by : Apollon Borisovich Davidson

Download or read book The Russians and the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 written by Apollon Borisovich Davidson and published by Human & Rosseau. This book was released on 1998 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using previously unavailable unique archival materials the authors present an absorbing history of a little known, but very significant aspect of the Anglo-Boer War.

Secrets and Spies

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Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742747434
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (427 download)

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Book Synopsis Secrets and Spies by : Mara Moustafine

Download or read book Secrets and Spies written by Mara Moustafine and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From secret police files retrieved from the archives in post-Soviet Russia to the horror of Stalin's purges, Secrets and Spies unravels the complex historical forces which shaped a family's destiny. Harbin in north China was once the heart of a vibrant Russian community of diverse cultural and political origins. But by the mid-1930s, the Japanese occupation of Manchuria drove many Russians to seek refuge elsewhere. For the thousands who returned to their motherland in the Soviet Union, it was a bitter homecoming. At the height of Stalin's purges, they were arrested as Japanese spies. Some were shot, others sent to labour camp, few survived. Among them were members of the author's family. Driven by curiosity and armed with chutzpah, Mara Moustafine fronted up at the headquarters of the former KGB in post-Soviet Moscow and asked for help to discover what had happened. She got more than she bargained for. The family's secret police files, retrieved from archives at opposite ends of Russia, revealed the horror of the purges as well as startling secrets about their lives in turbulent years in China and the Soviet Union. What was fact? What was fiction? Written with sensitivity and humour, Secrets and Spies skilfully weaves personal and political, past and present to give an insider's perspective on the life of ordinary people in extraordinary times.

A Covert Life

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307805662
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis A Covert Life by : Ted Morgan

Download or read book A Covert Life written by Ted Morgan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary life of Jay Lovestone is one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century. A Lithuanian immigrant who came to the United States in 1897, Lovestone rose to leadership in the Communist Party of America, only to fall out with Moscow and join the anti-Communist establishment after the Second World War. He became one of the leading strategists of the Cold War, and was once described as "one of the five most important men in the hidden power structure of America." Lovestone was obsessively secretive, and it is only with the opening of his papers at the Hoover Institution, the freeing of access to Comintern files in Moscow, and the release of his 5,700-page FBI file that biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ted Morgan has been able to construct a full account of the remarkable events of Jay Lovestone's life. The life Morgan describes is full of drama and intrigue. He recounts Lovestone's career in the faction-riven world of American Communism until he was spirited out of Moscow in 1929 after Stalin publicly attacked him for doctrinal unorthodoxy. As Lovestone veered away from Moscow, he came to work for the American Federation of Labor, managing a separate union foreign policy as well as maintaining his own intelligence operations for the CIA, many under the command of the legendary counterintelligence chief James Angleton. Lovestone also associated with Louise Page Morris, a spy known as "the American Mata Hari," who helped him undermine Communist advances in the developing world and whose own significant espionage career is detailed here. Lovestone's influence, always exercised from behind the scenes, survived to the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Union. A Covert Life has all the elements of a classic spy thriller: surveillance operations and stings, love affairs and bungled acts of sabotage, many thoroughly illegal. It is written with the easy hand of a fine biographer (The Washington Post Book World called Ted Morgan "a master storyteller") and provides a history of the Cold War and a glimpse into the machinery of the CIA while also revealing many hitherto hidden details of the superpower confrontation that dominated postwar global politics.

Claude Simon

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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853238577
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Claude Simon written by Jean H. Duffy and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays celebrates the work of the French Nobel prize-winning novelist Claude Simon. Scholars reconsider the fifty years of Simon's fiction in the light of his large-scale autobiographical novel, 'Le Jardin des Plantes' (1997). From a variety of perspectives - postmodernist, psychoanalytic, aesthetic - chapters reflect on the central paradox of Simon's work: his writing and rewriting of an experience of war so disruptive and traumatic that words can never be adequate to communicate it.

Amazons of the Avant-garde

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ISBN 13 : 9780810969247
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (692 download)

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Dangerous Diplomacy

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Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Book Synopsis Dangerous Diplomacy by : Theo Tschuy

Download or read book Dangerous Diplomacy written by Theo Tschuy and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Carl Lutz, a Swiss diplomat who led the rescues of 62,000 Jews from Nazi concentration camps, a move now recognized as the most successful rescue effort ever undertaken in Nazi dominated Europe. The book, suitable for scholarly or general reading, includes twenty-four bandw photographs of Lutz and World War II and is written in a readable, personable style. The text covers Lutz's life from his youth to the end of the war. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Translation and Public Policy

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315521768
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Book Synopsis Translation and Public Policy by : Gabriel González Núñez

Download or read book Translation and Public Policy written by Gabriel González Núñez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together an ensemble of leading voices from the fields of economics, language policy, law, political philosophy, and translation studies. They come together to provide theoretical perspectives and practical case studies regarding a shared concern: translation policy. Their timely perspectives and case studies allow for the problematizing and exploration of translation policy, an area that is beginning to come to the attention of scholars. This book offers the first truly interdisciplinary approach to an area of study that is still in its infancy. It thus makes a timely and necessary contribution. As the 21st century marches on, authorities are more and more confronted with the reality of multilingual societies, and the monolingual state polices of yesteryear seem unable to satisfy increasing demands for more just societies. Precisely because of that, language policies of necessity must include choices about the use or non-use of translation at different levels. Thus, translation policy plays a prominent yet often unseen role in multilingual societies. This role is shaped by tensions and compromises that bear on the distribution of resources, choices about language, legal imperatives, and notions of justice. This book aims to inform scholars and policy makers alike regarding these issues.