Author: Jan van Ruusbroec
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004063686
Category : Mysticism
Languages : nl
Pages : 210
Book Description
Opera omnia
Author: Jan van Ruusbroec
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004063686
Category : Mysticism
Languages : nl
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004063686
Category : Mysticism
Languages : nl
Pages : 210
Book Description
Splithead
Author: Julya Rabinowich
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1846273404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
'My father and I head towards a nervous breakdown as he attempts to erase three years of Communist indoctrination in the course of a single evening. I simply cannot comprehend that Lenin, the friend of all children, is now allegedly an arsehole.' When seven-year-old Mischka and her family flee the oppressive USSR for the freedom of Vienna, her world seems to divide neatly in two: there's life as she knew it before, and life as she must relearn it now. But even as she's busy dressing her new Barbie, perfecting her German and gorging on fresh fruit, Mischka is aware that there's part of her that can never escape her homeland, with its terrifying folktales, its insidious anti-Semitism and its old family secrets. As her parents' marriage splinters and her sister retreats into silence, Mischka has to find her own way of living when her head and her heart are in two places at once. There is darkness galore in this novel. But there is also much comedy to be had in its twisted enchanted tales. It is as seductive and unsettling as similar work by Angela Carter or Margaret Atwood, while it shares a geography with Everything Is Illuminated and If I Told You Once.
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1846273404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
'My father and I head towards a nervous breakdown as he attempts to erase three years of Communist indoctrination in the course of a single evening. I simply cannot comprehend that Lenin, the friend of all children, is now allegedly an arsehole.' When seven-year-old Mischka and her family flee the oppressive USSR for the freedom of Vienna, her world seems to divide neatly in two: there's life as she knew it before, and life as she must relearn it now. But even as she's busy dressing her new Barbie, perfecting her German and gorging on fresh fruit, Mischka is aware that there's part of her that can never escape her homeland, with its terrifying folktales, its insidious anti-Semitism and its old family secrets. As her parents' marriage splinters and her sister retreats into silence, Mischka has to find her own way of living when her head and her heart are in two places at once. There is darkness galore in this novel. But there is also much comedy to be had in its twisted enchanted tales. It is as seductive and unsettling as similar work by Angela Carter or Margaret Atwood, while it shares a geography with Everything Is Illuminated and If I Told You Once.
Major Poetry
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Europe, Europe
Author: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307772500
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
In this highly acclaimed and entertaining book, already "among the touchstones of the new travel writing" (Newsweek), one of West Germany's leading authors takes us on an insider's tour of Europe in the recent past. Focusing on Italy, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Spain, and Portugal, he describes how Europe has been moving toward a new identity. Enzensberger makes a witty and knowledgeable traveling companion, delving into surprising corners and byways—from the back alleys of Budapest to the halls of the Italian mint—and striking up conversations with everyone from bankers to revolutionaries, astrologers to apparatchiks. In the process, he suggests that Europe's strength lies increasingly in embracing diversity and improvisation, not bigness and regimentation. He enables us to see with fresh eyes one of the most exciting parts of the world today.
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307772500
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
In this highly acclaimed and entertaining book, already "among the touchstones of the new travel writing" (Newsweek), one of West Germany's leading authors takes us on an insider's tour of Europe in the recent past. Focusing on Italy, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Spain, and Portugal, he describes how Europe has been moving toward a new identity. Enzensberger makes a witty and knowledgeable traveling companion, delving into surprising corners and byways—from the back alleys of Budapest to the halls of the Italian mint—and striking up conversations with everyone from bankers to revolutionaries, astrologers to apparatchiks. In the process, he suggests that Europe's strength lies increasingly in embracing diversity and improvisation, not bigness and regimentation. He enables us to see with fresh eyes one of the most exciting parts of the world today.
Vilnius Poker
Author: Ričardas Gavelis
Publisher: Open Letter Books
ISBN: 1934824054
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
four different perspectives, and it captures the surreal horror of life under the Soviet yoke." --Book Jacket.
Publisher: Open Letter Books
ISBN: 1934824054
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
four different perspectives, and it captures the surreal horror of life under the Soviet yoke." --Book Jacket.
The House in Haarlem
Author: Arthur Van Schendel
Publisher: Obscure Press
ISBN: 1846647762
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Originally published in 1936. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Publisher: Obscure Press
ISBN: 1846647762
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Originally published in 1936. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Oxford Companion to Art
Author: Harold Osborne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1277
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1277
Book Description
Border State
Author: Emil Tode
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810117800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
At home in neither his native land nor his adopted contry, the unnamed narrator writes from a border state that transcends national boundaries. his letter, this novel, is a precise description of that state, of a consciousness forged by poverty and oppression. Driven by the need to confess, the narrator recounts the circumstances surrounding his murder of his wealth lover. His confession serves as a painfully sharp rendering of what it means to straddle the lines between East and West, rich and poor, and light and dark. --From publisher description.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810117800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
At home in neither his native land nor his adopted contry, the unnamed narrator writes from a border state that transcends national boundaries. his letter, this novel, is a precise description of that state, of a consciousness forged by poverty and oppression. Driven by the need to confess, the narrator recounts the circumstances surrounding his murder of his wealth lover. His confession serves as a painfully sharp rendering of what it means to straddle the lines between East and West, rich and poor, and light and dark. --From publisher description.
The Romantic School
Author: Heinrich Heine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Golden Ophelia
Author: Ward Ruyslinck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description