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Adventures In Immediate Irreality

Author : Max Blecher
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811224724
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Adventures In Immediate Irreality written by Max Blecher and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often called “the Kafka of Romania,” Max Blecher died young but not before creating this incandescent novel. Adventures in Immediate Irreality, the masterwork of the Romanian writer Max Blecher, vividly paints the crises of "irreality" that plagued him in his youth: eerie and unsettling mirages wherein he would glimpse future events. In gliding chapters that move with a peculiar dream logic of their own, this memoiristic novel sketches the tremulous, frightening, and exhilarating awakenings of a young man.

Adventures in Immediate Irreality

Author : Max Blecher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780811217606
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Immediate Irreality written by Max Blecher and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often called "the Kafka of Romania," Max Blecher died young but not before creating this incandescent novel.

Scarred Hearts

Author : Max Blecher
Publisher : Old Street Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scarred Hearts written by Max Blecher and published by Old Street Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emmanuel, a young man with spinal tuberculosis and confined to a sanatorium outside Paris, narrates his and his fellow patients' attempts to live life to the fullest as their bodies slowly atrophy and die. Blending dark humor and pathos, Scarred Hearts was hailed as a masterpiece on publication in Romanian in 1939, and was more recently compared to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain and the fiction of Franz Kafka. Like Emmanuel, Max Blecher suffered from tuberculosis of the spine, and spent the last year of his life in a full body cast and wheelchair, before dying at age twenty-nine with two novels completed.

Day In Day Out

Author : Terezia Mora
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061976873
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Day In Day Out written by Terezia Mora and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a scruffy park of a West European metropolis, a man in an ill-fitting trench coat is found hanging by the feet, half-dead. This is Abel Nema, the enigmatic yet fascinating protagonist of Terézia Mora’s internationally acclaimed novel, a linguistic phenomenon who can speak ten languages flawlessly but whose grip on reality is slowly slipping away. Since his self-imposed exile from his Balkan homeland ten years earlier, he has been making a life among fellow refugees: a group of bohemian jazz musicians, an eccentric student of ancient history, and a gang of young Gypsies. His acquaintances among the locals include a neighbor who claims to have visited heaven (and introduces Abel to hallucinogens), the sordid characters who frequent the neighborhood sex bar, and a wonderfully zany family he joins when, desperate to extend his residency permit, he enters into a fictive marriage. Yet through it all he remains strangely hollow: for all his languages he has little humanity to put into words. Day In Day Out, Terézia Mora’s fierce and beautiful debut novel, is at once an evocation of the newly multicultural Europe and an exploration of a deeply disturbed individual. It is a prose labyrinth of rare poetic force that marks its author as a major new voice in contemporary fiction.

For Two Thousand Years

Author : Mihail Sebastian
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241189624
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book For Two Thousand Years written by Mihail Sebastian and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Absolutely, definitively alone', a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't belong. Spending his days walking the streets and his nights drinking and gambling, meeting revolutionaries, zealots, lovers and libertines, he adjusts his eyes to the darkness that falls over Europe, and threatens to destroy him. Mihail Sebastian's 1934 masterpiece, now translated into English for the first time, was written amid the anti-Semitism which would, by the end of the decade, force him out of his career and turn his friends and colleagues against him. For Two Thousand Years is a prescient, heart-wrenching chronicle of resilience and despair, broken layers of memory and the terrible forces of history.

The Catholic School

Author : Edoardo Albinati
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374717451
Total Pages : 1356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Catholic School written by Edoardo Albinati and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 1356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre Edoardo Albinati’s The Catholic School, the winner of Italy’s most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy. Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and captivated the country, exposing the violence and dark underbelly of the upper middle class at a moment when the traditional structures of family and religion were seen as under threat. It is this environment, the halls of San Leone Magno in the late 1960s and the 1970s, that Edoardo Albinati takes as his subject. His experience at the school, reflections on his adolescence, and thoughts on the forces that produced contemporary Italy are painstakingly and thoughtfully rendered, producing a remarkable blend of memoir, coming-of-age novel, and true-crime story. Along with indelible portraits of his teachers and fellow classmates—the charming Arbus, the literature teacher Cosmos, and his only Fascist friend, Max—Albinati also gives us his nuanced reflections on the legacy of abuse, the Italian bourgeoisie, and the relationship between sex, violence, and masculinity.

Talks with T.G. Masaryk

Author : Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Publisher : Catbird Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945774266
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Talks with T.G. Masaryk written by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and published by Catbird Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by Dora Round Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937) was a philosophy professor who became the founder and first president of Czechoslovakia (1918-1935) and was a leading figure in world affairs between the wars. Capek, author of 'War with the Newts', and Czechoslovakia's most prominent writer during these years, interviewed Masaryk at great length and produced this volume that tells Masaryk's unique story.

Studs

Author : Emanuel Xavier
Publisher : Cleis Press
ISBN 13 : 162778070X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book Studs written by Emanuel Xavier and published by Cleis Press. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rough and surly, smooth and sultry, or quick and raw -- however you like it, you’ll find it in Studs, 20 of the hottest and best-written man-to-man sex stories to appear in print this year. In "Underground Operator” two men on a nearly empty subway platform indulge in rough, anonymous sex that lets them momentarily forget the stifling summer heat. "Donuts to Demons” finds a self-described "rock-n-roll artfag” searching for a lover "as patient and gifted and generous as he advertised on Craigslist.”

Parables for the Virtual

Author : Brian Massumi
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822383578
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Parables for the Virtual written by Brian Massumi and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the body has been the focus of much contemporary cultural theory, the models that are typically applied neglect the most salient characteristics of embodied existence—movement, affect, and sensation—in favor of concepts derived from linguistic theory. In Parables for the Virtual Brian Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the Internet, as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation beyond the reach of the reading techniques founded on the standard rhetorical and semiotic models. Renewing and assessing William James's radical empiricism and Henri Bergson's philosophy of perception through the filter of the post-war French philosophy of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, Massumi links a cultural logic of variation to questions of movement, affect, and sensation. If such concepts are as fundamental as signs and significations, he argues, then a new set of theoretical issues appear, and with them potential new paths for the wedding of scientific and cultural theory. Replacing the traditional opposition of literal and figural with new distinctions between stasis and motion and between actual and virtual, Parables for the Virtual tackles related theoretical issues by applying them to cultural mediums as diverse as architecture, body art, the digital art of Stelarc, and Ronald Reagan's acting career. The result is an intriguing combination of cultural theory, science, and philosophy that asserts itself in a crystalline and multi-faceted argument.

Excession

Author : Iain M. Banks
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0748110003
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Excession written by Iain M. Banks and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre. 'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson Two and a half millennia ago in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe, the artifact appeared. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back. Diplomat Genar-Hofoen of Special Circumstances is sent to investigate but, sidetracked by an old flame and the spoiled-brat operative Ulver Seich, and faced with the systematic depravities of a race who call themselves the Affront, it's anyone's guess whether he'll succeed . . . Praise for the Culture series: 'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday 'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian 'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman 'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph The Culture series: Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata The State of the Art Other books by Iain M. Banks: Against a Dark Background Feersum Endjinn The Algebraist Also now available: The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.

Logique Du Sens

Author : Gilles Deleuze
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231059831
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Logique Du Sens written by Gilles Deleuze and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered one of the most important works of one of France's foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English, "The Logic Of Sense" is an essay in literary and psychoanalytic theory, and philosophy, and helps to illuminate such works as "Anti-Oedipus".

The Origins of Self

Author : Martin P. J. Edwardes
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787356302
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Self written by Martin P. J. Edwardes and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Origins of Self explores the role that selfhood plays in defining human society, and each human individual in that society. It considers the genetic and cultural origins of self, the role that self plays in socialisation and language, and the types of self we generate in our individual journeys to and through adulthood. Edwardes argues that other awareness is a relatively early evolutionary development, present throughout the primate clade and perhaps beyond, but self-awareness is a product of the sharing of social models, something only humans appear to do. The self of which we are aware is not something innate within us, it is a model of our self produced as a response to the models of us offered to us by other people. Edwardes proposes that human construction of selfhood involves seven different types of self. All but one of them are internally generated models, and the only non-model, the actual self, is completely hidden from conscious awareness. We rely on others to tell us about our self, and even to let us know we are a self.

The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter

Author : Matei Calinescu
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681371952
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter written by Matei Calinescu and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of the only novel by lauded Romanian literary critic Matei Călinescu An NYRB Classics Original Ugly, unkempt, a haunter of low dives who begs for a living and lives on the street, Zacharias Lichter exists for all that in a state of unlikely rapture. After being engulfed by a divine flame as a teenager, Zacharias has devoted his days to doing nothing at all—apart, that is, from composing the odd poem he immediately throws away and consorting with a handful of stray friends: Poldy, for example, the catatonic alcoholic whom Zacharias considers a brilliant philosopher, or another more vigorous barfly whose prolific output of pornographic verses has won him the nickname of the Poet. Zacharias is a kind of holy fool, but one whose foolery calls in question both social convention and conventional wisdom. He is as much skeptic as ecstatic, affirming above all the truth of perplexity. This of course is what makes him a permanent outrage to the powers that be, be they reactionary or revolutionary, and to all other self-appointed champions of morality who are blind to their own absurdity. The only thing that scares Zacharias is that all-purpose servant of conformity, the psychiatrist. This Romanian classic, originally published under the brutally dictatorial Ceauşescu regime, whose censors initially let it pass because they couldn’t make head or tail of it, is as delicious and telling an assault on the modern world order as ever.

Baudrillard's Bestiary

Author : Mike Gane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134923899
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Baudrillard's Bestiary written by Mike Gane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Gane provides an introduction to Baudrillard's cultural theory: the conception of modernity and the complex process of simulation. He examines Baudrillard's literary essays: his confrontation with Calvino, Styron, Ballard and Borges. Gane offers a coherent account of Baudrillard's theory of cultural ambience, and the culture of consumer society. And it provides an introduction to Baudrillard's fiction theory, and the analysis of transpolitical figures. The book also includes an interesting and provocative comparison of Baudrillard's powerful essay against the modernist Pompidou Centre in Paris and Frederic Jameson's analysis of the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. An interpretation of this encounter leads to the presentation of a very different Baudrillard from that which figures in contemporary debates on postmodernism.

Astrophobia

Author : Sasha Sokolov
Publisher : New York : Grove Weidenfeld
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Astrophobia written by Sasha Sokolov and published by New York : Grove Weidenfeld. This book was released on 1989 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Man Between

Author : Esther Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940953007
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Man Between written by Esther Allen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the life and works of a respected translator and benefactor, which includes a biography and insight into his teaching and translation. When Michael Henry Heim, one of the most respected translators of his generation, passed away in Autumn 2012, he left behind an astounding legacy. Over his career, he translated two-dozen works from eight different languages, including books by Milan Kundera, Dubravka Ugresic, Hugo Claus and Anton Chekov. He was also a much loved lecturer and the anonymous donor responsible for the PEN translation fund.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Author : Carl G. Jung
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307772713
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Memories, Dreams, Reflections written by Carl G. Jung and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern age, drawing from his lectures, conversations, and own writings. "An important, firsthand document for readers who wish to understand this seminal writer and thinker." —Booklist In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, Carl Gustav Jung undertook the telling of his life story. Memories, Dreams, Reflections is that book, composed of conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, as well as chapters written in his own hand, and other materials. Jung continued to work on the final stages of the manuscript until shortly before his death on June 6, 1961, making this a uniquely comprehensive reflection on a remarkable life. Fully corrected, this edition also includes Jung's VII Sermones ad Mortuos.