Author: Mircea Cartarescu
Publisher: Humanitas SA
ISBN: 9735046903
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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„Unele dintre micile istorii adunate aici sunt basme, altele povestiri, altele, până la urmă, fragmente de jurnal. Toate sunt în definitiv amintiri, reale sau inventate. Nu imagini ale realităţii, ci ale minţii care o decupează din hiperrealitatea noastră de toate zilele. Au fost presărate până acum în multe dintre cărţile mele, în alte contexte şi cerând o altă lectură. M-am gândit să le strâng, pentru plăcerea cititorului, între coperţile unui singur volum, nu pentru că aş crede foarte mult – deşi cred – în calităţile prozei scurte, ci mai ales pentru că am o credinţă de neclintit în poezie. N-am prea avut de ales în alcătuirea acestei culegeri de «povestiri alese». Am lăsat doar să intre texte de o lungime rezonabilă, pe care m-am amuzat să le aşez într-o ordine oarecare, dar altfel le-am lăsat să colaboreze, să se alieze, să se înfrunte, să se submineze-ntre ele ca orice grup de necunoscuţi adunat între zidurile unei odăi. Sperând ca până la urmă să iasă de-aici mallarméanul «beau livre».“ (Mircea CĂRTĂRESCU)
Author: Mădălina Alexandru
Publisher: Quantum Publishers
ISBN: 6068862771
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Mădălina nu încântă numai prin povestea inedită, ci și prin stilul de o eleganță aparte. „Nostalgia pianului fără clape” este o carte cum nu am mai întâlnit, o poveste de dragoste care se desfășoară într-un ritm alert, năucitor, stârnind în tine o furtună de sentimente contradictorii. Ethan și Charlotte te înnebunesc, te omoară și te învie, te aruncă în mijlocul războiului dintre ei. Un cititor inocent nu ar putea să le țină piept niciodată și nici să-i înțeleagă. Se iubesc prin ura pe care și-o poartă, se descoperă unul pe altul în timpul răzbunării și se distrug inconștient atunci când încearcă să devină un cuplu normal. Vera Maxfield Un salt brusc, abrupt, de la o prăpastie la alta, durerea aceea raw a inimii care bate-n gol, fără sprijinul dragostei, dar şi dorința de netăgăduit de a o trăi: toate acestea se simt profund în „Nostalgia pianului fără clape”, unde muzica se transformă suav într-o limbă străină pe care numai cei doi, Ethan şi Charlotte, o înțeleg. Nu este o lectură pentru cei slabi de înger, este pentru cei care nu se feresc de slăbiciunile omeneşti, de tot ceea ce descoperă iubirea sub măştile oamenilor, de „chipurile” greu de suportat ale sufletelor rănite. Chiar şi atunci când ultimul rând va fi citit, cititorul va rămâne cu demonii celor doi. Şi va trebui să îi înfrunte. Books are my drug Doi protagonişti cu spirit de luptător, dar cu sufletul neantrenat în ale iubirii, o arenă formată dintr-un portativ şi un întreg set de note muzicale, pe post de arme: asta este pe scurt „Nostalgia pianului fără clape”. În plan profund avem tiparul femeii puternice demonstrând că poate lupta în ringul dragostei cu aceeaşi ferocitate cu care o face partenerul său, că la finalul zilei nimeni nu trebuie să deţină supremaţia, amândoi obţinând aceleaşi răni şi fiind leacul unul celuilalt. Diana Macovei
Author: Akira Yoshimura
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156008358
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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"A thrilling tale of murder and retribution set on the wild seacoast of medieval Japan"--Cover.
Author: Mircea Cartarescu
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 164605203X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 653
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Financial Times, Words Without Borders A highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Mircea Cărtărescu, author of Blinding, Solenoid is an existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths. Based on Cărtărescu's own experience as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. The novel is grounded in the reality of Romania in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including frightening health care, the absurdities of the education system, and the misery of family life, while on a broad scale Solenoid's investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines attempt to reconcile the realms of life and art. The text includes sequences in a tuberculosis preventorium, encounters with an anti-death protest movement, a society of dream investigators, and an extended visit to the miniscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide. One character asks another: When you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? Combining fiction with autobiography and history—Nikola Tesla and Charles Hinton, for example, appear alongside the Voynich manuscript—Solenoid searches for escape routes through the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various monstrous realities erupt within the present.
Author: Mircea Cărtărescu
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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A stunning translation of one of Romania's foremost authors.
Author: Mircea Cartarescu
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1935744852
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Part visceral dream-memoir, part fictive journey through a hallucinatory Bucharest, Mircea Cărtărescu’s Blinding was one of the most widely heralded literary sensations in contemporary Romania, and a bestseller from the day of its release. Riddled with hidden passageways, mesmerizing tapestries, and whispering butterflies, Blinding takes us on a mystical trip into the protagonist’s childhood, his memories of hospitalization as a teenager, the prehistory of his family, a traveling circus, Secret police, zombie armies, American fighter pilots, the underground jazz scene of New Orleans, and the installation of the communist regime. This kaleidoscopic world is both eerily familiar and profoundly new. Readers of Blinding will emerge from this strange pilgrimage shaken, and entirely transformed. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author: Stefan Berger
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633861993
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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This book is the first attempt to bridge the current divide between studies addressing "economic nationalism" as a deliberate ideology and movement of economic 'nation-building', and the literature concerned with more diffuse expressions of economic "nationness"—from national economic symbols and memories, to the "banal" world of product communication. The editors seeks to highlight the importance of economic issues for the study of nations and nationalism, and its findings point to the need to give economic phenomena a more prominent place in the field of nationalism studies. The authors of the essays come from disciplines as diverse as economic and cultural history, political science, business studies, as well as sociology and anthropology. Their chapters address the nationalism-economy nexus in a variety of realms, including trade, foreign investment, and national control over resources, as well as consumption, migration, and welfare state policies. Some of the case studies have a historical focus on nation-building in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, while others are concerned with contemporary developments. Several contributions provide in-depth analyses of single cases while others employ a comparative method. The geographical focus of the contributions vary widely, although, on balance, the majority of our authors deal with European countries.
Author: Adrian Cutinov
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781072315360
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Life starts with a woman.They are our mothers, sisters, friends and lovers......but sometimes they don't see their valueDeep in the thoughts of the women who make our lives wonderful often lies doubt and criticism. These sensitive and powerful people have questions that need answering, if only to put their minds at ease. What can the words of a man do to help the women we love see their true value?Adrian Cutinov has always felt close to the feminine soul, and in this book poured out his heart and beliefs in a hope that a different perspective would help.Women have questions.Do men feel emotions?Are men able to love?Can men really grow? Do they even want to? Has society just become too superficial for deep meaningful relationships to ever exist again? Is the age of true love, dead?Adrian sets out to remind women how special they are and to dig into these questions.You'll love his perspective, because maybe it will help you find the love you desire.Get it now.
Author: Betha Gutsche
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556534706
Category : Core competencies
Languages : en
Pages : 77
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WebJunction has just completed an update of the Competency Index for the Library Field. The original 2009 edition has been a valuable resource for libraries, helping staff identify and obtain the knowledge, skills and support needed to power relevant and vibrant libraries. However, it was time for an update. With ever-increasing economic, social, and educational demands, libraries have experienced dramatic changes in community needs and the tools available to serve those needs. Three elements in particular have been emphasized throughout: 21st century skills, accountability, and community engagement. WebJunction intends for the Index to be widely shared and adapted by a variety of libraries to meet their individual needs. -- Publisher description.
Author: R. Po-chia Hsia
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300047462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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From the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth, German Jews were persecuted and tried for the alleged ritual murders of Christian children, whose blood purportedly played a crucial part in Jewish magical rites. In this engrossing book R. Po-Chia Hsia traces the rise and decline of ritual murder trials during that period. Using sources ranging from Christian and Kabbalistic treatises to judicial records and popular pamphlets, Hsia examines the religious sources of the idea of child sacrifice and blood symbolism and reconstructs the political context of ritual murder trials against the Jews. "This volume combines clarity of thinking, elegance of style, and exemplary scholarly attention to detail with intellectual sobriety and human compassion."--Jerome Friedman, Sixteenth Century Journal "Hsia has... succeeded in turning established knowledge to illuminatingly new purposes."--G.R. Elton, New York Review of Books "This meticulously researched and unusually perceptive book is social and intellectual history at its best."--Library Journal "A fresh perspective on an old problem by a major new talent."--Steven Ozment, Harvard University R. Po-chia Hsia, professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is also the author of Society and Religion in Münster, 1535-1618
