Author: Peter Handke
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429936347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers a wry and entertaining take on history's most famous seducer as he takes a respite from his stressful existence Don Juan's story—"his own version"—is filtered through the consciousness of an anonymous narrator, a failed innkeeper and chef, into whose solitude Don Juan bursts one day. On each day of the week that follows, Don Juan describes the adventures he experienced on that same day a week earlier. The adventures are erotic, but Handke's Don Juan is more pursued than pursuer. What makes his accounts riveting are the remarkable evocations of places and people, and the nature of his narration. Don Juan: His Own Version is, above all, a book about storytelling and its ability to burst the ordinary boundaries of time and space. In this brief and wry volume, Peter Handke conjures images and depicts the subtleties of human interaction with an unforgettable vividness. Along the way, he offers a sharp commentary on many features of contemporary life.
Don Juan: His Own Version
Author: Peter Handke
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429936347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers a wry and entertaining take on history's most famous seducer as he takes a respite from his stressful existence Don Juan's story—"his own version"—is filtered through the consciousness of an anonymous narrator, a failed innkeeper and chef, into whose solitude Don Juan bursts one day. On each day of the week that follows, Don Juan describes the adventures he experienced on that same day a week earlier. The adventures are erotic, but Handke's Don Juan is more pursued than pursuer. What makes his accounts riveting are the remarkable evocations of places and people, and the nature of his narration. Don Juan: His Own Version is, above all, a book about storytelling and its ability to burst the ordinary boundaries of time and space. In this brief and wry volume, Peter Handke conjures images and depicts the subtleties of human interaction with an unforgettable vividness. Along the way, he offers a sharp commentary on many features of contemporary life.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429936347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers a wry and entertaining take on history's most famous seducer as he takes a respite from his stressful existence Don Juan's story—"his own version"—is filtered through the consciousness of an anonymous narrator, a failed innkeeper and chef, into whose solitude Don Juan bursts one day. On each day of the week that follows, Don Juan describes the adventures he experienced on that same day a week earlier. The adventures are erotic, but Handke's Don Juan is more pursued than pursuer. What makes his accounts riveting are the remarkable evocations of places and people, and the nature of his narration. Don Juan: His Own Version is, above all, a book about storytelling and its ability to burst the ordinary boundaries of time and space. In this brief and wry volume, Peter Handke conjures images and depicts the subtleties of human interaction with an unforgettable vividness. Along the way, he offers a sharp commentary on many features of contemporary life.
Shabono
Author: Florinda Donner
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062502425
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
'Shabono' – the name of the hamlets of palm-thatched dwellings where the Yanomama Indians of Venezuela and southern Brazil live – recounts the vivid and unforgettable experience of anthropologist Florinda Donner's time with an indigenous tr
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062502425
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
'Shabono' – the name of the hamlets of palm-thatched dwellings where the Yanomama Indians of Venezuela and southern Brazil live – recounts the vivid and unforgettable experience of anthropologist Florinda Donner's time with an indigenous tr
The Real Don Juan
Author: José Zorrilla
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783192577
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Don Juan Tenorio is an important and influential Spanish classic which gives a softened, romanticised version of the infamous hero and ends, uniquely, in his repentance and salvation. First seen in 1844, it is Zorrilla's best-known play and is still performed every year in Spain on All Souls' Day. The play, in Ranjit Bolt's stunning rhyming verse translations, was given an extensive tour by the Oxford Stage Company in late 1990.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783192577
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Don Juan Tenorio is an important and influential Spanish classic which gives a softened, romanticised version of the infamous hero and ends, uniquely, in his repentance and salvation. First seen in 1844, it is Zorrilla's best-known play and is still performed every year in Spain on All Souls' Day. The play, in Ranjit Bolt's stunning rhyming verse translations, was given an extensive tour by the Oxford Stage Company in late 1990.
The Lost Diary of Don Juan
Author: Douglas Carlton Abrams
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416532528
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Capturing the decadent and dangerous world of the Spanish Golden Age, this historical novel explores universal questions about the nature of love and desire--brought to life through Don Juan's secret childhood in a convent to his inescapable fall into the madness of love.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416532528
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Capturing the decadent and dangerous world of the Spanish Golden Age, this historical novel explores universal questions about the nature of love and desire--brought to life through Don Juan's secret childhood in a convent to his inescapable fall into the madness of love.
Man and Superman
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 1531277225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Mr. Whitefield has recently died, and his will indicates that his daughter Ann should be left in the care of two men, Roebuck Ramsden and Jack Tanner. Ramsden, a venerable old man, distrusts John Tanner, an eloquent youth with revolutionary ideas, saying "He is prodigiously fluent of speech, restless, excitable (mark the snorting nostril and the restless blue eye, just the thirty-secondth of an inch too wide open), possibly a little mad". In spite of what Ramsden says, Ann accepts Tanner as her guardian, though Tanner doesn't want the position at all. She also challenges Tanner's revolutionary beliefs with her own ideas. Despite Tanner's professed dedication to anarchy, he is unable to disarm Ann's charm, and she ultimately persuades him to marry her, choosing him over her more persistent suitor, a young man named Octavius Robinson.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1531277225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Mr. Whitefield has recently died, and his will indicates that his daughter Ann should be left in the care of two men, Roebuck Ramsden and Jack Tanner. Ramsden, a venerable old man, distrusts John Tanner, an eloquent youth with revolutionary ideas, saying "He is prodigiously fluent of speech, restless, excitable (mark the snorting nostril and the restless blue eye, just the thirty-secondth of an inch too wide open), possibly a little mad". In spite of what Ramsden says, Ann accepts Tanner as her guardian, though Tanner doesn't want the position at all. She also challenges Tanner's revolutionary beliefs with her own ideas. Despite Tanner's professed dedication to anarchy, he is unable to disarm Ann's charm, and she ultimately persuades him to marry her, choosing him over her more persistent suitor, a young man named Octavius Robinson.
The Teachings of Don Juan
Author: Carlos Castaneda
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520290763
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
In 1968 University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda.ÊThe Teachings of Don Juan enthralled a generation of seekers dissatisfied with the limitations of the Western worldview. Castaneda's now classic book remains controversial for the alternative way of seeing that it presents and the revolution in cognition it demands. Whether read as ethnographic fact or creative fiction, it is the story of a remarkable journey that has left an indelible impression on the life of more than a million readers around the world.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520290763
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
In 1968 University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda.ÊThe Teachings of Don Juan enthralled a generation of seekers dissatisfied with the limitations of the Western worldview. Castaneda's now classic book remains controversial for the alternative way of seeing that it presents and the revolution in cognition it demands. Whether read as ethnographic fact or creative fiction, it is the story of a remarkable journey that has left an indelible impression on the life of more than a million readers around the world.
The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641
Author: Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Don Juan in Hell
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486159515
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
This dream episode from Man and Superman forms a play within the play, consisting of a dramatic reading in which the Devil himself comments on heaven and hell, good and evil, and human purpose.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486159515
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
This dream episode from Man and Superman forms a play within the play, consisting of a dramatic reading in which the Devil himself comments on heaven and hell, good and evil, and human purpose.
The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England begun in the year 1641, re-ed. by W.D. Macray
Author: Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641: Books XV and XVI, and index
Author: Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description