The Invisible Collection

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Publisher : Pushkin Press
ISBN 13 : 1782271503
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)

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Book Synopsis The Invisible Collection by : Stefan Zweig

Download or read book The Invisible Collection written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of about the strangest thing that I've ever encountered, old art dealer that I am.' It is perhaps the finest art collection of its kind, acquired through a lifetime of sacrifice - but when a dealer comes to see it, he finds something quite unexpected, and is drawn into a peculiar deception of the collector himself... Stefan Zweig was a wildly popular writer of compelling short fiction: in this collection there are peaks of extraordinary emotion, stories of all that is human crushed by the movements of history, of letters that fill a young heart or drive a person towards death, of obsession and desire. They will stay with the reader for ever.

Germany

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101875674
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Germany by : Neil MacGregor

Download or read book Germany written by Neil MacGregor and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people understand themselves? Neil MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European country, no coherent, overarching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany both geography and history have always been unstable. Its frontiers have constantly shifted. Königsberg, home to the greatest German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, is now Kaliningrad, Russia; Strasbourg, in whose cathedral Wolfgang von Geothe, Germany's greatest writer, discovered the distinctiveness of his country's art and history, now lies within the borders of France. For most of the five hundred years covered by this book Germany has been composed of many separate political units, each with a distinct history. And any comfortable national story Germans might have told themselves before 1914 was destroyed by the events of the following thirty years. German history may be inherently fragmented, but it contains a large number of widely shared memories, awarenesses, and experiences; examining some of these is the purpose of this book. MacGregor chooses objects and ideas, people and places that still resonate in the new Germany—porcelain from Dresden and rubble from its ruins, Bauhaus design and the German sausage, the crown of Charlemagne and the gates of Buchenwald—to show us something of its collective imagination. There has never been a book about Germany quite like it.

Rereading Russian Poetry

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300071498
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (714 download)

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Book Synopsis Rereading Russian Poetry by : Stephanie Sandler

Download or read book Rereading Russian Poetry written by Stephanie Sandler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia's poets hold a special place in Russian culture, perhaps revealing more about their country than poets within any other nation. In this unique and wide-ranging collection of writings on poets and poetic trends in Russia, contributors from the United States, Britain, and Russia examine the place of poetry in Russian culture. Through a variety of critical approaches, these scholars, translators, and poets consider a broad cross section of Russian poets, from Pushkin to Brodsky, Shvarts, and Kibirov.

Larenopfer

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
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Book Synopsis Larenopfer by : Rainer Maria Rilke

Download or read book Larenopfer written by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation of the Larenopfer, or offerings to the household god Lar, are songs that Rilke sings to his hometown Prague and to his beloved Bohemia, short poems on the parks, fountains, churches, bridges and palaces of Prague, not forgetting Rabbi Löw's legends, the Jewish cemetery, the Thirty Years War and, of course, young love. This cycle of 90 poems offers the reader a unique view into Rilke's fascinating world, the turn-of-the-century atmosphere of Prague, then the third largest city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Here a young German of the ruling bourgeoisie shows great appreciation of contemporary Czech literary works and enthusiasm for the cause of Czech cultural identity. The book therefore possesses not only literary merit but is also of considerable sociological and historical interest. --Red Hen Press.

The Freedom of the Migrant

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252028175
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (281 download)

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Book Synopsis The Freedom of the Migrant by : Vilem Flusser

Download or read book The Freedom of the Migrant written by Vilem Flusser and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003-04-02 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Freedom of the Migrant presents a series of reflections on national, ethnic, and cultural identity, offering a unique perspective on such topics as communication, nomadism, housing, nationalism, migrant cultures, and Jewish identity."--BOOK JACKET.

Contemporary Russian Poetry

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Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 1564784878
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary Russian Poetry by : Evgeniĭ Bunimovich

Download or read book Contemporary Russian Poetry written by Evgeniĭ Bunimovich and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prominent Moscow poet Evgeny Bunimovich selected representative work from forty-four living Russian poets born after 1945 to be translated and published in this bilingual edition. The collection ranges from the mordant post-Soviet irony of Igor Irteniev to the fresh voices of poets like Marianna Geide and Anna Russ -- young women just beginning to make themselves heard. The book includes the work of Booker Prize winner Sergey Gandlevsky and several winners of the Andrey Bely Prize and Brodsky Fellowships. Most of these poems, and many of the poets, have previously been unpublished in the West.

The Preparation of the Novel

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231136153
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Book Synopsis The Preparation of the Novel by : Roland Barthes

Download or read book The Preparation of the Novel written by Roland Barthes and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completed just weeks before his death, the lectures in this volume mark a critical juncture in the career of Roland Barthes, in which he declared the intention, deeply felt, to write a novel. Unfolding over the course of two years, Barthes engaged in a unique pedagogical experiment: he combined teaching and writing to "simulate" the trial of novel-writing, exploring every step of the creative process along the way. Barthes's lectures move from the desire to write to the actual decision making, planning, and material act of producing a novel. He meets the difficulty of transitioning from short, concise notations (exemplified by his favorite literary form, haiku) to longer, uninterrupted flows of narrative, and he encounters a number of setbacks. Barthes takes solace in a diverse group of writers, including Dante, whose La Vita Nuova was similarly inspired by the death of a loved one, and he turns to classical philosophy, Taoism, and the works of François-René Chateaubriand, Gustave Flaubert, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust. This book uniquely includes eight elliptical plans for Barthes's unwritten novel, which he titled Vita Nova, and lecture notes that sketch the critic's views on photography. Following on The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France (1977-1978) and a third forthcoming collection of Barthes lectures, this volume provides an intensely personal account of the labor and love of writing.

Crossing Centuries

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Publisher : Talisman House, Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781883689919
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (899 download)

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Book Synopsis Crossing Centuries by : John Alexander High

Download or read book Crossing Centuries written by John Alexander High and published by Talisman House, Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonfiction. Literary History & Criticism. Poetics. This long-awaited history of contemporary American poetry, Talisman Nos. 23-26, is more than 700 pages long. This special volume surveys major developments in avant-garde American poetry from 1970 to the present. THE WORLD IN TIME AND SPACE includes contributions by major critics and poets including Bruce Andrews, Daniel Barbiero, Christopher Beach, Michael Boughn, Peter Bushyeager, David Clippinger, Michel Delville, Brent Edwards, Steve Evans, Dan Featherston, Thomas Fink, Norman Finkelstein, Alan Golding, Jeanne Heuving, W. Scott Howard, Andrew Joron, Burt Kimmelman, David Landrey, Kathryne V. Lindberg, Stephen-Paul Martin, Stephen Paul Miller, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Alice Notley, Peter O'Leary, Marjorie Perloff, Linda Russo, Standard Schaefer, Julie Schmid, Susan M. Schultz, Leonard Schwartz, Mark Scroggins, Mary Margaret Sloan, Gustaf Sobin, Brian Kim Stefans, Susan Vanderborg, and the editors, Joseph Donahue and Edward Foster.

Phenomenology of the Alien

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Publisher : Studies in Phenomenology and E
ISBN 13 : 9780810127579
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Phenomenology of the Alien by : Bernhard Waldenfels

Download or read book Phenomenology of the Alien written by Bernhard Waldenfels and published by Studies in Phenomenology and E. This book was released on 2011 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of Waldenfels' work on the human experience of the alien, or the "other".

Imagining the Balkans

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199728380
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Book Synopsis Imagining the Balkans by : Maria Todorova

Download or read book Imagining the Balkans written by Maria Todorova and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imagining the Balkans explored the ontology of the Balkans from the sixteenth century to the present day, uncovering the ways in which an insidious intellectual tradition was constructed, became mythologized, and is still being transmitted as discourse. Maria Todorova, who was raised in the Balkans, is in a unique position to bring both scholarship and sympathy to her subject, and in a new afterword she reflects on recent developments in the study of the Balkans and political developments on the ground since the publication of Imagining the Balkans. The afterword explores the controversy over Todorova's coining of the term Balkanism. With this work, Todorova offers a timely, updated, accessible study of how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into one of the most powerful and widespread pejorative designations in modern history.

The Evil Saint

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ISBN 13 : 9780816493623
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis The Evil Saint by : Karl May

Download or read book The Evil Saint written by Karl May and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blue Angel

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061864900
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Book Synopsis Blue Angel by : Francine Prose

Download or read book Blue Angel written by Francine Prose and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose—now the major motion picture Submission “Screamingly funny … Blue Angel culminates in a sexual harassment hearing that rivals the Salem witch trials.” —USA Today It's been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel. It's been even longer since any of his students have shown promise. Enter Angela Argo, a pierced, tattooed student with a rare talent for writing. Angela is just the thing Swenson needs. And, better yet, she wants his help. But, as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Deliciously risque, Blue Angel is a withering take on today's academic mores and a scathing tale that vividly shows what can happen when academic politics collides with political correctness.

Contemporary Russian Poetry

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary Russian Poetry by : Gerald Stanton Smith

Download or read book Contemporary Russian Poetry written by Gerald Stanton Smith and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of the work of twenty-three poets, living in Russia and abroad and writing during the period since 1975. It is the first dual-language anthology in many years.

The Invented Reality

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Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393333473
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (334 download)

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Book Synopsis The Invented Reality by : Paul Watzlawick

Download or read book The Invented Reality written by Paul Watzlawick and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1984-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common sense suggests that reality can be discovered. In contrast, constructivism postulates that what we call reality is a personal interpretation, a particular way of looking at the world acquired through communication. Reality is, therefore, not discovered, but literally invented.

Potentialities

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804732787
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Potentialities by : Giorgio Agamben

Download or read book Potentialities written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes the largest collection of writings by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben hitherto published in any language. The essays consider several figures in the history of philosophy; the relation of linguistic and metaphysical categories; messianism in Islamic, Jewish, and Christian theology; and the state and future of contemporary politics.

Ghost Image

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022613248X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis Ghost Image by : Hervé Guibert

Download or read book Ghost Image written by Hervé Guibert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays—meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems—and not a single image. Hervé Guibert’s brief, literary rumination on photography was written in response to Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida, but its deeply personal contents go far beyond that canonical text. Some essays talk of Guibert’s parents and friends, some describe old family photographs and films, and spinning through them all are reflections on remembrance, narcissism, seduction, deception, death, and the phantom images that have been missed. Both a memoir and an exploration of the artistic process, Ghost Image not only reveals Guibert’s particular experience as a gay artist captivated by the transience and physicality of his media and his life, but also his thoughts on the more technical aspects of his vocation. In one essay, Guibert searches through a cardboard box of family portraits for clues—answers, or even questions—about the lives of his parents and more distant relatives. Rifling through vacation snapshots and the autographed images of long-forgotten film stars, Guibert muses, “I don’t even recognize the faces, except occasionally that of an aunt or great-aunt, or the thin, fair face of my mother as a young girl.” In other essays, he explains how he composes his photographs, and how—in writing—he seeks to escape and correct the inherent limits of his technique, to preserve those images lost to his technical failings as a photographer. With strains of Jean Genet and recurring themes that speak to the work of contemporary artists across a range of media, Guibert’s Ghost Image is a beautifully written, melancholic ode to existence and art forms both fleeting and powerful—a unique memoir at the nexus of family, memory, desire, and photography.

I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors by : Bernice Eisenstein

Download or read book I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors written by Bernice Eisenstein and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a truly innovative memoir, the author combines her skills as a writer and illustrator to recount her early childhood in the 1950s and fragmented stories of family members lost in the war.