Author: Borislav Pekić
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810111417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Bernard Johnson translation of Pekic's prize-winning novel. Originally published by Harcourt in 1978. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Houses of Belgrade
Author: Borislav Pekić
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810111417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Bernard Johnson translation of Pekic's prize-winning novel. Originally published by Harcourt in 1978. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810111417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Bernard Johnson translation of Pekic's prize-winning novel. Originally published by Harcourt in 1978. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
How to Quiet a Vampire
Author: Borislav Pekić
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Serbian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
A study of terror and intellect in the tradition of Joseph Heller and George Steiner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Serbian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
A study of terror and intellect in the tradition of Joseph Heller and George Steiner
The Time of Miracles
Author: Borislav Pekić
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810111172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Borislav Pekic spent six years in jail as a political prisoner, his only reading material the Bible. In 1965, ten years after his pardon, his first novel, The Time of Miracles, was published and became an overnight sensation. A set of parables based on the miracles of the New Testament, the book rewrites the story of Jesus from the perspective of Judas (who is obsessed with the idea prophecy must be fulfilled) and from that of the individuals upon whom miracles were performed--without their consent and, in most cases, to their eventual dissatisfaction. Filled with humor and poignancy, The Time of Miracles is a trenchant commentary on the power of ideology in one's life, upon what it means to hold beliefs, and upon the nature of faith.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810111172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Borislav Pekic spent six years in jail as a political prisoner, his only reading material the Bible. In 1965, ten years after his pardon, his first novel, The Time of Miracles, was published and became an overnight sensation. A set of parables based on the miracles of the New Testament, the book rewrites the story of Jesus from the perspective of Judas (who is obsessed with the idea prophecy must be fulfilled) and from that of the individuals upon whom miracles were performed--without their consent and, in most cases, to their eventual dissatisfaction. Filled with humor and poignancy, The Time of Miracles is a trenchant commentary on the power of ideology in one's life, upon what it means to hold beliefs, and upon the nature of faith.
The Apology and the Last Days
Author: Borislav Pekic
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810128233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Originally published in 1975, The Apology and the Last Days is the final volume in a trilogy of novels—also including The Rise and Fall of Icarus Gubelkian and How to Quiet a Vampire—about the aftermath of World War II, by Borislav Pekić, one of the former !--?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /--Yugoslavia’s most important postwar writers. The narrator tells his story from prison, where he is serving time for the murder of a former Nazi official. As the novel unfolds, we learn that the victim was the same person whom the narrator, while a lifeguard during the war, saved from drowning, thus making him vulnerable to charges of collaboration. In this tragicomic tale, Pekić explores eternal questions of fate and individual responsibility.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810128233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Originally published in 1975, The Apology and the Last Days is the final volume in a trilogy of novels—also including The Rise and Fall of Icarus Gubelkian and How to Quiet a Vampire—about the aftermath of World War II, by Borislav Pekić, one of the former !--?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /--Yugoslavia’s most important postwar writers. The narrator tells his story from prison, where he is serving time for the murder of a former Nazi official. As the novel unfolds, we learn that the victim was the same person whom the narrator, while a lifeguard during the war, saved from drowning, thus making him vulnerable to charges of collaboration. In this tragicomic tale, Pekić explores eternal questions of fate and individual responsibility.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1356
Book Description
Departments of State, and Justice, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1962
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1898
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1898
Book Description
The Way of the World
Author: Nicolas Bouvier
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590173228
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
In 1953, twenty-four-year old Nicolas Bouvier and his artist friend Thierry Vernet set out to make their way overland from their native Geneva to the Khyber Pass. They had a rattletrap Fiat and a little money, but above all they were equipped with the certainty that by hook or by crook they would reach their destination, and that there would be unanticipated adventures, curious companionship, and sudden illumination along the way. The Way of the World, which Bouvier fashioned over the course of many years from his journals, is an entrancing story of adventure, an extraordinary work of art, and a voyage of self-discovery on the order of Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. As Bouvier writes, “You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making—or unmaking—you.”
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590173228
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
In 1953, twenty-four-year old Nicolas Bouvier and his artist friend Thierry Vernet set out to make their way overland from their native Geneva to the Khyber Pass. They had a rattletrap Fiat and a little money, but above all they were equipped with the certainty that by hook or by crook they would reach their destination, and that there would be unanticipated adventures, curious companionship, and sudden illumination along the way. The Way of the World, which Bouvier fashioned over the course of many years from his journals, is an entrancing story of adventure, an extraordinary work of art, and a voyage of self-discovery on the order of Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. As Bouvier writes, “You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making—or unmaking—you.”
Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The Past in Exile
Author: Birgit Bock-Luna
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825897529
Category : National characteristics, Serbian
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
In this study of identity politics, memory and long-distance nationalism among Serbian migrants in California, the author examines the complicated ways in which visions of the past are used to form Diaspora subjects and make claims to the homeland in the present. Drawing on extended fieldwork in the San Francisco Bay Area community, she shows how the Yugoslav wars generated a revaluation Serbian history and personal life stories, resulting in the strengthening of ethnic identity. Nevertheless, strategies for dealing with rupture and change also included contestation of exile nationalism.
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825897529
Category : National characteristics, Serbian
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
In this study of identity politics, memory and long-distance nationalism among Serbian migrants in California, the author examines the complicated ways in which visions of the past are used to form Diaspora subjects and make claims to the homeland in the present. Drawing on extended fieldwork in the San Francisco Bay Area community, she shows how the Yugoslav wars generated a revaluation Serbian history and personal life stories, resulting in the strengthening of ethnic identity. Nevertheless, strategies for dealing with rupture and change also included contestation of exile nationalism.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2224
Book Description