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Author : Dixie Browning
Publisher : Harlequin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780373051885
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Tender Barbarian written by Dixie Browning and published by Harlequin Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bohumil Hrabal
Publisher : Image to Word
ISBN 13 : 9788086264523
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (645 download)
Download or read book The Tender Barbarian written by Bohumil Hrabal and published by Image to Word. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tender Barbarian is a series of texts Hrabal compiled on the one hand pays homage to his deceased friend, experimental graphic artist Vladimír Boudník, and on the other as a somewhat fictionalized account of their life during the 1950s in Prague-Libe?, avant-garde poet/philosopher Egon Bondy acting as Boudník's foil and dialectical antithesis. By the end of the 1940s all three were trying to move beyond Surrealism: Bondy and Hrabal with Total Realism and Boudník with Explosionalism, an associative method of graphically interpreting random blotches. Boudník here plays the naif, a proletarian artist, a tender barbarian to whom a state of grace comes naturally, spontaneously, while for Bondy, who is poring over philosophical tomes to learn how to achieve such a state, this becomes a never-ending source of frustration and admiration, to which he reacts with streams of invective. Hrabal once mentioned that when he sat down in 1973 to write something about Boudník for an exhibition and samizdat publication to commemorate the fifth anniversary of his death, he just kept writing and writing, and the book does read almost like an automatic text as one episode spills into another, the interplay between the two protagonists forming the dialectic that Hrabal indicates he has borrowed from Boudník's mode of being and creating.Whether the book is rightly called a novel, fiction or non-fiction, or both at once, it is a compelling testament to an era and a group of friends who lived for and in art and managed to find beauty and the marvelous even in the dungheap that was Stalinist Czechoslovakia. As Hrabal put it: "I saw two people with the thumbprint of God on their brows: Vladimír and Egon Bondy." This edition is complemented by a selection of Boudník's Explosionalist texts and prints.
Author : Derek Sayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691239517
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Postcards from Absurdistan written by Derek Sayer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy—with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorship Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural and political history of Prague from 1938, when the Nazis destroyed Czechoslovakia’s artistically vibrant liberal democracy, to 1989, when the country’s socialist regime collapsed after more than four decades of communist dictatorship. Derek Sayer shows that Prague’s twentieth century, far from being a story of inexorable progress toward some “end of history,” whether fascist, communist, or democratic, was a tragicomedy of recurring nightmares played out in a land Czech dissidents dubbed Absurdistan. Situated in the eye of the storms that shaped the modern world, Prague holds up an unsettling mirror to the absurdities and dangers of our own times. In a brilliant narrative, Sayer weaves a vivid montage of the lives of individual Praguers—poets and politicians, architects and athletes, journalists and filmmakers, artists, musicians, and comedians—caught up in the crosscurrents of the turbulent half century following the Nazi invasion. This is the territory of the ideologist, the collaborator, the informer, the apparatchik, the dissident, the outsider, the torturer, and the refugee—not to mention the innocent bystander who is always looking the other way and Václav Havel’s greengrocer whose knowing complicity allows the show to go on. Over and over, Prague exposes modernity’s dreamworlds of progress as confections of kitsch. In a time when democracy is once again under global assault, Postcards from Absurdistan is an unforgettable portrait of a city that illuminates the predicaments of the modern world.
Author : Martin Machovec
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
ISBN 13 : 8024641259
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Writing Underground written by Martin Machovec and published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Výbor ze studií literárního historika a editora Martina Machovce, které vznikaly v posledních dvou dekádách (2000–2018), představuje celou řadu faset uvažování o fenoménu undergroundu. V jednotlivých studiích se zabývá zejména undergroundovou literaturou z okruhu I. M. Jirouse a rockové skupiny The Plastic People of the Universe, ale věnuje pozornost i širším souvislostem této literatury – jejím předchůdcům z 50. let (okruh Egona Bondyho a Ivo Vodseďálka), roli ve společenství Charty 77, vazbám na angloamerické prostředí nebo hudebním a scénickým realizacím a způsobu, jakým byly tyto texty v samizdatu šířeny. In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machovec, examines the multifarious nature of the underground phenomenon. After devoting considerable attention to the circle surrounding the band The Plastic People of the Universe and their manager, the poet Ivan M. Jirous, Machovec turns outward to examine the broader concept of the underground, comparing the Czech incarnation not only with the movements of its Central and Eastern European neighbors, but also with those in the world at large. In one essay, he reflects on the so-called Půlnoc Editions, which published illegal texts in the darkest days of the late forties and early fifties. In other essays, Machovec examines the relationship between illegal texts published at home (samizdat) and those smuggled out to be published abroad (tamizdat), as well as the range of literature that can be classified as samizdat, drawing attention to movements frequently overlooked by literary critics. In his final, previously unpublished essay, Machovec examines Jirous’s “Report on the Third Czech Musical Revival” not as a merely historical document, but as literature itself.
Author : Jiří Pelán
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
ISBN 13 : 8024639092
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Bohumil Hrabal. A Full-length Portrait written by Jiří Pelán and published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described as “one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century,” Bohumil Hrabal ranks among the most important and widely translated Czech authors. Jiří Pelán, a respected scholar of Czech, French and Italian literature, approaches Hrabal as a comparatist, expertly situating him within the context of European and world literature, as he explores the entirety of Hrabal’s oeuvre and its development over sixty years. Praised for its concise, clear and readable style, Bohumil Hrabal: A Full-length Portrait offers international readers an important Czech perspective on the world-class author. Contains 32 photographs of Bohumil Hrabal, a list of his works’ English translations to date, and a bibliography of international scholarship.
Author : Ruby Dixon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593548973
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)
Download or read book Barbarian Mine written by Ruby Dixon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth novel in the international publishing phenomenon the Ice Planet Barbarians series, now in a special print edition with bonus materials and an exclusive epilogue! Harlow receives the shock of her life when she wakes up to see Rukh, a stranger who has clearly been on his own his whole life, but she soon learns that there is much more to this gruff, barbaric alien than the savage he appears to be. The ice planet has given me a second lease on life, so I'm thrilled to be here. Sure, there are no cheeseburgers, but I'm healthy and ready to be a productive member of the small tribe. What I didn't anticipate? That there'd be a savage stranger waiting nearby, watching me. And when he takes me captive, the unthinkable happens...I resonate to him. Resonance means mating, and children...but I don't know if this guy's ever been around anyone before. Rukh is utterly wild. He's completely uncivilized, can't speak more than a few words and doesn't know what clothes are. A human—a human woman—is mystifying to him. He's truly a barbarian in all ways, and like Tarzan in the stories, he's kidnapped me and claimed me for his own. Being with him means I'm going to have to teach him to speak, how to kiss, and how to be human. Or even alien. It should be a terrifying prospect...so why is it that I crave his touch and hunger for more?
Author : Dixie Browning
Publisher : Silhouette
ISBN 13 : 1426882939
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Social Graces written by Dixie Browning and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John MacBride would do anything to keep his stepbrother from being thrown into jail for a crime he didn't commit. Which is how he ended up in the Outer Banks, posing as a handyman for the young socialite who could clear his stepbrother's name. As a marine archaeologist, Mac was used to digging deep for clues, but nothing had prepared him for the gorgeous woman he suspected of wrongdoing. Only Val Bonnard wasn't the spoiled heiress he'd been expecting. She seemed gentle and caring--and one look at the dazzling beauty had Mac regretting his promise to play detective, especially when it involved being her live-in Mr. Fix It! Because one way or another he'd get what he wanted--until he realized that what he wanted more than anything was the woman herself....
Author : Dixie Browning
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1459258517
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (592 download)
Download or read book THE BRIDE-IN-LAW written by Dixie Browning and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LAST-CHANCE BRIDE… Single father and marriage cynic Tucker Dennis was sure his too-romantic dad had been roped into saying "I do." So he hightailed it down to the Blue Flamingo Motel to halt the honeymoon and talk some sense into the elderly groom. And that's where he found the bride's riled relative… Annie Summer's heart melted with happiness when she saw the blissful newlyweds—or was it at the sight of the groom's son? But sexy Tucker didn't seem to have a heart of his own underneath that muscular chest! He'd stopped believing in love and marriage long ago, yet Annie believed in him…and years of inexperience were telling her to take a chance on Tucker….
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Publisher : Ministerstvo zahraničních věcí České republiky
ISBN 13 : 8086345556
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Report on the Foreign Policy of the Czech Republic written by and published by Ministerstvo zahraničních věcí České republiky. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Hook
Publisher : The Experiment
ISBN 13 : 1615198679
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)
Download or read book Modern written by Philip Hook and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exploration of the revolutionary birth of Modern art in the tumultuous decade brought to a shattering close by WWI"--
Author : Jiřina Šmejkalová
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900419357X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Cold War Books in the ‘Other’ Europe and What Came After written by Jiřina Šmejkalová and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on analyses of the socio-cultural context of East and Central Europe, with a special focus on the Czech cultural dynamics of the Cold War and its aftermath, this book offers a study of the making and breaking of the centrally-controlled system of book production and reception. It explores the social, material and symbolic reproduction of the printed text, in both official and alternative spheres, and patterns of dissemination and reading. Building on archival research, statistical data, media analyses, and in-depth interviews with the participants of the post-1989 de-centralization and privatization of the book world, it revisits the established notions of ‘censorship’ and ‘revolution’ in order to uncover people’s performances that contributed to both the reproduction and erosion of the ‘old regime’.
Author : Dixie Browning
Publisher : Silhouette
ISBN 13 : 1459210778
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (592 download)
Download or read book The Virgin and the Vengeful Groom written by Dixie Browning and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hell-bent on revenge, navy SEAL Curt Powers set out to find the person who had stolen his heritage. But when innocent beauty Lily O’Malley turned out to be the object of his search, Curt disregarded his careful strategy and took the biggest chance of his life... Sweet Lily had never met anyone quite like Curt Powers. Rough, tough—and sexy as all get-out—he stirred desire deep in her soul. But Lily had never given her heart—or her body—to any man. Could Curt convince her that some risks were worth taking...?
Author : Richard Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838718494
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)
Download or read book The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema written by Richard Taylor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work maps the rich, varied cinema of Eastern Europe, Russia and the former USSR. Over 200 entries cover a variety of topics spanning a century of endeavour and turbulent history from Czech animation to Soviet montage, from the silent cinemas dating back to World War I through to the varied responses to the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. It includes entries on actors and actresses, film festivals, studios, genres, directors, film movements, critics, producers and technicians, taking the coverage up to the late 1990s. In addition to the historical material of key figures like Eisenstein and Wadja, the editors provide separate accounts of the trajectory of the cinemas of Eastern Europe and of Russia in the wake of the collapse of communism.
Author : Ruby Dixon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593639472
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Barbarian's Touch written by Ruby Dixon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The next novel in the Ice Planet Barbarians series, an international publishing phenomenon—now in a special print edition with a bonus new epilogue! Lila has never been more frightened in her life, but when Rokan appears, everything changes. When I wake up on the ice planet, I’m scared of everything: This place is cold, silent, and the locals look more like blue devils than aliens. To make matters worse, one of the strangers decides I’m going to be his girlfriend and kidnaps me away from my sister. I’m completely and utterly alone. What’s a girl to do? Well, this girl escapes. Of course, that means I go from the frying pan into the fire, and my situation gets even more dangerous. Just when I have no hope left, a new hero shows up. Sure, he’s blue, horned, and has a tail. He’s also fierce, protective, makes me purr...and thinks I'm perfect. But is what we have real or just a mating instinct?
Author : Dixie Browning
Publisher : Silhouette
ISBN 13 : 1459204298
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (592 download)
Download or read book More to Love written by Dixie Browning and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diet was a four-letter word. But then again, so was Rafe, as in Rafe Webber, the hard-edged playboy—and culinary wizard—who’d suddenly invaded Molly’s week in paradise. A week in which this small-town girl had vowed to reinvent herself. But with every sexually charged minute of their acquaintance, Molly’s hunger turned into something else altogether.... From the boardroom to the kitchen, Rafe was always in control. But when he found himself stranded with the delectable Molly Dewhurst, his self-control disappeared. Molly refused to believe that his intentions were true, and Rafe was determined to show her that she was every inch the woman for him!
Author : Dixie Browning
Publisher : Silhouette
ISBN 13 : 142688303X
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Driven to Distraction written by Dixie Browning and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In-the-know columnist Maggie Riley had a mission in mind: to write a scathing exposé about a scam artist at an overpriced retreat. Seducing a woman out of house and home was a crime! But fate, and a pair of ill-fitting shoes, landed her against the hard chest of lawman Ben Hunter, who had his own ulterior motives. In such a confined space, their previous agendas were long forgotten as they flashed hot, sultry gazes at each other. Maggie couldn't resist Ben's brooding eyes--not to mention how he filled a pair of jeans. Keeping their hands to themselves was pure torture! Would stubborn pride stand in the way of their blossoming love...and a lifetime of wicked fun?
Author : Goran Gocić
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781903364147
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Notes from the Underground written by Goran Gocić and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cinema of Emir Kusturica: Notes from the Underground is the first book on the Sarajevan film-maker to be published in English. With seven highly acclaimed films to his credit, Kusturica is already established as one of the most important of contemporary filmmakers, with each of his films winning prizes at major festivals around the world. In covering films such as Underground, Arizona Dream, and Black Cat, White Cat, this timely new study delves into diverse facets of Kusturica's work, much of which is passionately dedicated to the marginal and the outcast, as well as discourses of national and cultural identity.
