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The Seven Madmen

Author : Roberto Arlt
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590179145
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Seven Madmen written by Roberto Arlt and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weird wonder of Argentine and modern literature and a crucial work for Julio Cortázar, The Seven Madmen begins when its hapless and hopeless hero, Erdosain, is dismissed from his job as a bill collector for embezzlement. Then his wife leaves him and things only go downhill after that. Erdosain wanders the crowded, confusing streets of Buenos Aires, thronging with immigrants almost as displaced and alienated as he is, and finds himself among a group of conspirators who are in thrall to a man known simply as the Astrologer. The Astrologer has the cure for everything that ails civilization. Unemployment will be cured by mass enslavement. (Mountains will be hollowed out and turned into factories.) Mass enslavement will be funded by industrial-scale prostitution. That scheme will be kicked off with murder. “D’you know you look like Lenin?” Erdosain asks the Astrologer. Meanwhile Erdosain struggles to determine the physical location and dimensions of the soul, this thing that is causing him so much pain. Brutal, uncouth, caustic, and brilliantly colored, The Seven Madmen takes its bearings from Dostoyevsky while looking forward to Thomas Pynchon and Marvel Comics.

Mad Toy

Author : Roberto Arlt
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822383330
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Mad Toy written by Roberto Arlt and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roberto Arlt, celebrated in Argentina for his tragicomic, punch-in-the-jaw writing during the 1920s and 1930s, was a forerunner of Latin American “boom” and “postboom” novelists such as Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende. Mad Toy, acclaimed by many as Arlt’s best novel, is set against the chaotic background of Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Set in the badlands of adolescence, where acts of theft and betrayal become metaphors for creativity, Mad Toy is equal parts pulp fiction, realism, detective story, expressionist drama, and creative memoir. An immigrant son of a German father and an Italian mother, Arlt as a youth was a school dropout, poor and often hungry. In Mad Toy, he incorporates his personal experience into the lives of his characters. Published in 1926 as El juguete rabioso, the novel follows the adventures of Silvio Astier, a poverty-stricken and frustrated youth who is drawn to gangs and a life of petty crime. As Silvio struggles to bridge the gap between exuberant imagination and the sordid reality around him, he becomes fascinated with weapons, explosives, vandalism, and thievery, despite a desperate desire to rise above his origins. Flavored with a dash of romance, a hint of allegory, and a healthy dose of irony, the novel’s language varies from the cultured idiom of the narrator to the dialects and street slang of the novel’s many colorful characters. Mad Toy has appeared in numerous Spanish editions and has been adapted for the stage and for film. It is the second of Arlt’s novels to be translated into English.

Mad Men Carousel

Author : Matt Zoller Seitz
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 161312936X
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Mad Men Carousel written by Matt Zoller Seitz and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mad Men Carousel is an episode-by-episode guide to all seven seasons of AMC's Mad Men. This book collects TV and movie critic Matt Zoller Seitz’s celebrated Mad Men recaps—as featured on New York magazine's Vulture blog—for the first time, including never-before-published essays on the show’s first three seasons. Seitz’s writing digs deep into the show’s themes, performances, and filmmaking, examining complex and sometimes confounding aspects of the series. The complete series—all seven seasons and ninety-two episodes—is covered. Each episode review also includes brief explanations of locations, events, consumer products, and scientific advancements that are important to the characters, such as P.J. Clarke’s restaurant and the old Penn Station; the inventions of the birth control pill, the Xerox machine, and the Apollo Lunar Module; the release of the Beatles’ Revolver and the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds; and all the wars, protests, assassinations, and murders that cast a bloody pall over a chaotic decade. Mad Men Carousel is named after an iconic moment from the show’s first-season finale, “The Wheel,â€? wherein Don delivers an unforgettable pitch for a new slide projector that’s centered on the idea of nostalgia: “the pain from an old wound.â€? This book will soothe the most ardent Mad Men fan’s nostalgia for the show. New viewers, who will want to binge-watch their way through one of the most popular TV shows in recent memory, will discover a spoiler-friendly companion to one of the most multilayered and mercurial TV shows of all time. It's the perfect gift for Mad Men fans and obsessives. Also available from Matt Zoller Seitz: The Oliver Stone Experience, The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads, The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The Wes Anderson Collection.

The Legacy of Mad Men

Author : Karen McNally
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030310914
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of Mad Men written by Karen McNally and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For seven seasons, viewers worldwide watched as ad man Don Draper moved from adultery to self-discovery, secretary Peggy Olson became a take-no-prisoners businesswoman, object-of-the-gaze Joan Holloway developed a feminist consciousness, executive Roger Sterling tripped on LSD, and smarmy Pete Campbell became a surprisingly nice guy. Mad Men defined a pivotal moment for television, earning an enduring place in the medium’s history. This edited collection examines the enduringly popular television series as Mad Men still captivates audiences and scholars in its nuanced depiction of a complex decade. This is the first book to offer an analysis of Mad Men in its entirety, exploring the cyclical and episodic structure of the long form series and investigating issues of representation, power and social change. The collection establishes the show’s legacy in televisual terms, and brings it up to date through an examination of its cultural importance in the Trump era. Aimed at scholars and interested general readers, the book illustrates the ways in which Mad Men has become a cultural marker for reflecting upon contemporary television and politics.

All the Madmen

Author : Clinton Heylin
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780330782
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book All the Madmen written by Clinton Heylin and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of 1968 The Beatles were far too busy squabbling with each other, while The Stones had simply stopped making music; English Rock was coming to an end. All the Mad Men tells the story of six stars that travelled to edge of sanity in the years following the summer of love: Pete Townshend, Ray Davies, Peter Green, Syd Barrett, Nick Drake, and David Bowie. The book charts how they made some of the most seminal rock music ever recorded: Pink Moon; Ziggy Stardust; Quadrophenia; Dark Side of the Moon; Muswell Hillbillies - and how some of them could not make it back from the brink. The extraordinary story of how English Rock went mad and found itself

The Seven Madmen

Author : Roberto Arlt
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590179153
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429961228
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine written by Tom Wolfe and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1988-04-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When are the 1970s going to begin?" ran the joke during the Presidential campaign of 1976. With his own patented combination of serious journalism and dazzling comedy, Tom Wolfe met the question head-on in these rollicking essays in Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine -- and even provided the 1970s with its name: "The Me Decade."

Warning to the Crocodiles

Author : Antonio Lobo Antunes
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628973676
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Warning to the Crocodiles written by Antonio Lobo Antunes and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the aftermath of the “Carnation Revolution” of April 25, 1974, Antonio Lobo Antunes’s Warning to the Crocodiles is a fragmented narrative of the violent tensions resulting from major political changes in Portugal. Told through the memories of four women who spend their days fashioning homemade explosives and participating in the kidnap and torture of communists, the novel details the clandestine activities of an extreme right-wing Salazarist faction resisting the country’s new embrace of democracy. Warning to the Crocodiles (Exortação aos Crocodilos) has won: - Best Novel by the Portuguese Writers Association (Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores) (1999) - The D. Dinis Prize of the Casa de Mateus Foundation (Prémio D. Dinis da Fundação Casa de Mateus) (1999) - The Austrian State Literature Prize (Prémio de Literatura Europeia do Estado Austríaco) (2000)

The Catcher in the Rye and Philosophy

Author : Keith Dromm
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0812698002
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book The Catcher in the Rye and Philosophy written by Keith Dromm and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The puzzling, frustrating world of Holden Caulfield never loosens its grip on our imagination. Somehow, the growing pains of a privileged, alienated teenager lock onto deeper issues that continue to haunt us all. The Catcher in the Rye and Philosophy exposes these deeper issues by looking at Salinger's masterpiece through a philosophic lens."--Publisher's website.

Madmen in Revolt

Author : Roberto Arlt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781955823111
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Madmen in Revolt written by Roberto Arlt and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Madmen of Benghazi

Author : Gérard de Villiers
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0804169322
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Madmen of Benghazi written by Gérard de Villiers and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MADMEN OF BENGHAZI, available for the first time in the U.S., is a gripping, racy, ripped-from-the-headlines espionage thriller set in volatile post-Qaddafi Libya. Gérard de Villiers (1929–2013) spent his five-decade career cultivating connections in the world of international intelligence, which allowed him to anticipate geopolitical events before they occurred—and to masterfully blend fiction with an insider’s knowledge of international affairs. Published from 1964 until his death in 2013, his bestselling SAS series of 200 spy novels, starring Malko Linge, was long considered France’s answer to Ian Fleming, with Malko as his James Bond. Its hero, Malko Linge, an Austrian aristocrat, spends his time freelancing for the CIA in order to support his playboy lifestyle. When terrorists try to shoot down a plane carrying Libyan prince Ibrahim al-Senussi, it is clear that someone wants him dead. But the CIA has its own plot for the prince: Now that Qaddafi has been overthrown, al-Senussi is their best bet to set up a constitutional monarchy and stem the Islamist tide in Libya. The CIA, which needs Malko as much as he needs them, sends the Austrian aristocrat to Cairo to learn more about al-Senussi’s plans by seducing his companion, a ravishing British model. This mission is enormously appealing, but also proves enormously dangerous, as the same madman of God who is trying to kill al-Senussi also takes aim at Malko.

Madmen's Ball

Author : Mark Heisler
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1600781985
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Madmen's Ball written by Mark Heisler and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised and expanded edition, Los Angeles Times writer Mark Heisler investigates the 45-year history of the Los Angeles Lakers and unveils a pattern of pampered and/or misguided players, megalomaniacal executives, and owners whose obsessive drives for championships and attention combined to create an atmosphere of conflict for decades Throughout the entire 2003–04 season, fans and the media called the L.A. Lakers the biggest reality show in the country. But the laundry list of conflicts—the ongoing Kobe-Shaq bickering, Kobe's sexual assault trial, Phil Jackson's final season, Gary Payton's refusal to admit his physical decline, and the loss to Detroit in the championship—was just another year in the history of the Lakers. Madmen's Ball goes back to the Lakers' unceremonious arrival in Los Angeles in 1960 to show that the franchise has been embroiled in controversy, in-house battles and personality clashes for generations.

Monsters & Madmen: A Death Row Experiment

Author : Nick Yarris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734675009
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Monsters & Madmen: A Death Row Experiment written by Nick Yarris and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: January 1995. The first prison ever condemned by the United Nations for "Active Practices of Torture" was shut down by a civil lawsuit. Huntingdon Prison in Pennsylvania had a dilemma following this ruling against its holding men on Death Row any longer: What to do with the worst men among 225 Death Row prisoners ordered out of their cells more than one hour a day?The answer: Create a special unit where 48 of the most violent and dangerous men would be kept away from the rest of the Death Row inmates. From 1995 to 1998, Nick Yarris was one of those 48 men who were described as "Monsters & Madmen." What he endured over the course of this one, three-year long segment of his 23 years spent on Death Row was so brutal that he has kept it hidden until now. Be prepared for a ride like no other as Nick takes you inside a special experiment that left four people dead, and left him scarred forever from it all . . .

The House of Ulysses

Author : Julián Ríos
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 1564785971
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book The House of Ulysses written by Julián Ríos and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juli'n R'os's latest comic extravaganza is at once a serious literary excavation and a lecture as delivered by Groucho Marx on the subject of that great (and often imposing) cornerstone of world literature: James Joyce's "Ulysses." Every book is born out of an earlier book (or books), and much as Joyce's novel unraveled Homer scene by scene, R'os's "The House of Ulysses" returns the favor, giving us the story of several bickering characters hoping to get to the bottom of Joyce's masterpiece (by force, if necessary), their conversation walking the line between a slapstick parody of the Joyce industry and a legitimate "guide for the perplexed." Focusing on each of Ulysses' characters, ideas, and references in turn, "The House of Ulysses" provides a playful, punning, ideal companion for the experienced Joycean and cautious Ulysses-procrastinator alike: one novel dreaming its way through another.

Gould's Book of Fish

Author : Richard Flanagan
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802191991
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Gould's Book of Fish written by Richard Flanagan and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Commonwealth Prize New York Times Book Review—Notable Fiction 2002 Entertainment Weekly—Best Fiction of 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Review—Best of the Best 2002 Washington Post Book World—Raves 2002 Chicago Tribune—Favorite Books of 2002 Christian Science Monitor—Best Books 2002 Publishers Weekly—Best Books of 2002 The Cleveland Plain Dealer—Year’s Best Books Minneapolis Star Tribune—Standout Books of 2002 Once upon a time, when the earth was still young, before the fish in the sea and all the living things on land began to be destroyed, a man named William Buelow Gould was sentenced to life imprisonment at the most feared penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish. He fell in love with the black mistress of the warder and discovered too late that to love is not safe; he attempted to keep a record of the strange reality he saw in prison, only to realize that history is not written by those who are ruled. Acclaimed as a masterpiece around the world, Gould’s Book of Fish is at once a marvelously imagined epic of nineteenth-century Australia and a contemporary fable, a tale of horror, and a celebration of love, all transformed by a convict painter into pictures of fish.

Little Bunch of Madmen

Author : Mort Rosenblum
Publisher : de.Mo Design Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780982590829
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Little Bunch of Madmen written by Mort Rosenblum and published by de.Mo Design Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest groups, whether noble or not, prepackage faux-news from skewed points of view. Governments bypass reporters to go straight to the public. Guesswork and lies stand unchecked and unchallenged. This is cheaper than sending reporters to where real news happens. In an invaluable, succinct and compulsively readable primer, legendary foreign correspondent informs and inspires journalists and readers on reporting beyond borders and how to keep track of what's really going on in the world.

Mad Men, Death and the American Dream

Author : Elisabeth Bronfen
Publisher : Diaphanes
ISBN 13 : 9783037345504
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Mad Men, Death and the American Dream written by Elisabeth Bronfen and published by Diaphanes. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Weiner s series "Mad Men," garnering awards, fandom and critical acclaim, has come to be viewed as a powerful time capsule. Given the precision with which the show invokes the visual culture as well as the political scene of the 1960s, it has been prasied for bringing back to the T.V. screen this watershed moment in American history. In her sophisticated study, Elisabeth Bronfen treats Lionsgate s serial drama, that aired from 2007-2015, as a signficant DVD novel of the early 21st century. Her claim is that it not only thrives on a significant double voicing, reviving the literature, film, music and fashion of the past "within" and "for" the cultural concerns of the present, and as such speaking both about the past and about the present. With Don Draper an embodiment of the prototypical con man, his precarious journey from poverty to fame and prosperity can also be seen as a continuation of the moral perfectionism so key to the American literary tradition. His fall and spiritual recovery is as much an individual story as a comment on the state of the nation. The notions of family and home he works (and fights) for are necessary symbolic fictions, with advertisement disclosing them as such. At the same time, the pitches Don Draper is such a creative genius at, tap into collective desires that are as much about fantasies of personal happiness as they are about buying into the America project. If we need myths to offer imaginary solutions for conflicts that can not be resolved in political reality, "Mad Men" self-consciously reflects on the role television has come to play in this work of the cultural imaginary, both fragile and fruitful. We identify and sympathize with the people in this series not despite but because they are fictional representations, different yet also a mirror of ourselves. "