Literatura europeană modernă

In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Mo Yan, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, an...

DescriptionMost of us are aware that the words for some of our most important concepts stem from ancient Greek roots--words such as geometry, democ...

Reducere. Early European visitors placed Ayutthaya alongside China and India as the great powers of Asia. Yet in 1767 the city was destroyed and its history ...

DescriptionEgypt, Greece, and Rome is regarded as one of the best general histories of the ancient world. It is written for the general reader and ...

Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our mod...

DescriptionBorn in Slutzk, Russia, in 1805, Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik is a largely forgotten member of the prestigious Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty....

Laughing Shall I Die explores the Viking fascination with scenes of heroic death. The literature of the Vikings is dominated by famous last stands,...

Reducere. Translation can be seen as producing a text in one language that will count as equivalent to a text in another. It can also be seen as a release of...

Reducere. In this Anglo-Saxon epic, the hero Beowulf fights horrifying, ghastly monsters in his bid to save the hall of Hrothgar, King of the Danes. Composed...

Reducere. C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. N...

Reducere. Premiul European pentru Literatura 2014Ar fi putut pleca odata cu toti colegii lui, dar a vrut sa-i ramana fidel sefului care-l exploata, pana cand...

Reducere. * Finalist for the Headmistress Press Charlotte Mew Prize Ren e Vivien (n e Pauline Mary Tarn, 1877-1909) was an English expatriate who made her ho...

Reducere. Gladly the boatman turns home to the river's calm From his harvest on faraway isles; If only I too were homeward bound; Yet what harvest have I but...

Reducere. Marta l-a cunoscut recent pe Víctor când îl invită la cină în apartamentul ei din Madrid, în timp ce soțul este plecat cu afaceri. După ce fiul ei ...