Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gerard DepardieuTranslator: Rainer J. HansheIn his proto-memoir Innocent, world-renowned actor G rard Depardieu reflects on...
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Reducere. In the 1850s, ancien and Haussmannian Paris clash, giving birth to a violent disjunction. At that moment in time, an other present is born, a new h...
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Reducere. DescriptionIn April of 1864, Baudelaire departed Paris for Brussels with something of a massive shipwreck in his wake: his major work, Les fleurs d...
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Reducere. Considered an eerie attack on realism, when first published in 1934, Mikl s Szentkuthy's debut novel Prae so astonished Hungarian critics that many...
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Reducere. THE DARKROOM contains the script for Duras' 1977 radically experimental film Le camion (The Truck), as well as four manifesto-like propositions in ...
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Reducere. In 1979, Josef Winkler appeared on the literary horizon as if from nowhere, collecting numerous honors and the praise of the most prominent critica...
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Reducere. Trumpspeak is a witty, no-holds-barred assessment of Trump's mastery - or otherwise - of English and a thoughtful consideration of the ethical issu...
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Reducere. Robert Musil's Thought Flights vividly evokes the secrets, challenges, and mundanities of interwar life in cosmopolitan Vienna and Berlin. The text...
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Reducere. Unique in Hungarian literature, at the time of its first appearance in 1935, Towards the One & Only Metaphor was greeted with plaudits by such lead...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joseph KesselTranslator: Rainer J. HansheIntroduction by: Stuart KendallOriginally published in Algiers in 1943, Joseph Kes...
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Reducere. DescriptionIn 1911, following his 1906 debut, The Confusions of Young T rless, Robert Musil published the two experimental stories that make up Uni...
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Reducere. Phrases presents the spoken language from six films by Jean-Luc Godard: Germany Nine Zero, The Kids Play Russian, JLG / JLG, 2 x 50 Years of French...
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Reducere. There is something of the seventeenth century methodology present in The Oyster, as multiple disciplines (philosophy, literature, visual art, biolo...
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Reducere. Memoirs of celebrated criminals purvey vivid personal stories while spawning sharp questions about the cultures that produced them. In Outlaw: Auth...
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Reducere. The reader will find here the true aftermath of the adventures of Ahab, self-described captain, survivor of his last fight against a giant fish. We...
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Reducere. DescriptionOtto Dix (1891-1969) is considered one of the true lions of 20th-C art, a man who established himself as an uncompromising artist that r...
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Reducere. Written between Szentkuthy's first major work, Prae (1934), and the first book of the St. Orpheus Breviary (1939), Chapter on Love (publ. 1936) exe...
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Reducere. Although known principally for his modernist masterpiece, The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil (1880-1942) was also a playwright and drama criti...
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Reducere. Walter Jackson Bate's canonical 1939 study of Keats's concept of negative capability is a genealogical treatise that unearths the socio-political, ...
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Reducere. Set against the impending riptide of the French Revolution and composed while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille, Aline and Valcour embodies the m...
Reducere. Set against the impending riptide of the French Revolution and composed while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille, Aline and Valcour embodies the m...
Reducere. DescriptionBlack Renaissance, the second volume of the St. Orpheus Breviary, is the continuation of Miklos Szentkuthy's synthesis of 2, 000 years o...
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Reducere. The crosscurrents between the classic Hollywood cinema and France's postwar cinema are rich in producing iconic imagery with philosophical resonanc...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Pierre SengesAuthor: Antonio de GuevaraTranslator: Jacob Siefring"Few or none of them heard of a book entitled Refutatio ma...
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Reducere. Composed over 2, 500 years, lost in the deserts of Iraq for 2, 000 more, Gilgamesh presents a palimpsest of ancient Middle Eastern cultic and court...
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Reducere. In the years before the Second World War, a man throws a statue of the crucified Christ over a waterfall. Later, in Hitler's trenches, he loses his...
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Reducere. Description1980s Los Angeles. The crack epidemic has hit hard. Innocent and damned alike fall victim to the artificial allure of the drug -- a teen...
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Reducere. Fernando Pessoa claimed to be inhabited by "thousands of philosophies, " all of which he intended to develop in his unfinished project of English-l...
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Reducere. In a century replete with radical politics, final liberations, historical codas, and dreams of eternity, the shadowy figure of Louis-Auguste Blanqu...
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Reducere. In My Heart Laid Bare, an apodictic work of aphorism, maxim, note, and extended reflection, we encounter a fierce dandy who revolts against utilita...
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