Author: Boris Poplavsky
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231553048
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Homeward from Heaven is Boris Poplavsky’s masterpiece, written just before his life was cut short by a drug overdose at the age of thirty-two. Set in Paris and on the French Riviera, this final novel by the literary enfant terrible of the interwar Russian diaspora in France recounts the escapades, malaise, and love affairs of a bohemian group of Russian expatriates. The novel’s protagonist and sometime narrator is Oleg, whose intense love for two women leads him along a journey of spiritual transfiguration. He follows Tania to a seaside resort, but after a passionate dalliance she jilts him. In the cafés of Montparnasse, Oleg meets Katia, with whom he finds physical intimacy and emotional candor, yet is unable to banish a lingering sense of existential disquiet and destitution. When he encounters Tania again in Paris, his quest to comprehend the laws of spiritual and physical love begins anew, with results that are both profound and tragic. Taken by Poplavsky’s contemporaries to be semiautobiographical, Homeward from Heaven stands out for its uncompromising depictions of sexuality and deprivation. Richly allusive and symbolic, the novel mixes psychological confession, philosophical reflection, and social critique in prose that is by turns poetic, mystical, and erotic. It is at once a work of daring literary modernism and an immersive meditation on the émigré condition.
Homeward from Heaven
Author: Boris Poplavsky
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231553048
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Homeward from Heaven is Boris Poplavsky’s masterpiece, written just before his life was cut short by a drug overdose at the age of thirty-two. Set in Paris and on the French Riviera, this final novel by the literary enfant terrible of the interwar Russian diaspora in France recounts the escapades, malaise, and love affairs of a bohemian group of Russian expatriates. The novel’s protagonist and sometime narrator is Oleg, whose intense love for two women leads him along a journey of spiritual transfiguration. He follows Tania to a seaside resort, but after a passionate dalliance she jilts him. In the cafés of Montparnasse, Oleg meets Katia, with whom he finds physical intimacy and emotional candor, yet is unable to banish a lingering sense of existential disquiet and destitution. When he encounters Tania again in Paris, his quest to comprehend the laws of spiritual and physical love begins anew, with results that are both profound and tragic. Taken by Poplavsky’s contemporaries to be semiautobiographical, Homeward from Heaven stands out for its uncompromising depictions of sexuality and deprivation. Richly allusive and symbolic, the novel mixes psychological confession, philosophical reflection, and social critique in prose that is by turns poetic, mystical, and erotic. It is at once a work of daring literary modernism and an immersive meditation on the émigré condition.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231553048
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Homeward from Heaven is Boris Poplavsky’s masterpiece, written just before his life was cut short by a drug overdose at the age of thirty-two. Set in Paris and on the French Riviera, this final novel by the literary enfant terrible of the interwar Russian diaspora in France recounts the escapades, malaise, and love affairs of a bohemian group of Russian expatriates. The novel’s protagonist and sometime narrator is Oleg, whose intense love for two women leads him along a journey of spiritual transfiguration. He follows Tania to a seaside resort, but after a passionate dalliance she jilts him. In the cafés of Montparnasse, Oleg meets Katia, with whom he finds physical intimacy and emotional candor, yet is unable to banish a lingering sense of existential disquiet and destitution. When he encounters Tania again in Paris, his quest to comprehend the laws of spiritual and physical love begins anew, with results that are both profound and tragic. Taken by Poplavsky’s contemporaries to be semiautobiographical, Homeward from Heaven stands out for its uncompromising depictions of sexuality and deprivation. Richly allusive and symbolic, the novel mixes psychological confession, philosophical reflection, and social critique in prose that is by turns poetic, mystical, and erotic. It is at once a work of daring literary modernism and an immersive meditation on the émigré condition.
Heaven
Author: Grant R. Jeffrey
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0307509400
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Learn the Answers to All Your Questions about God What role do angels play in our lives? Where and how will we live? What will we be doing in heaven? Will I know my family and friends? What happens to departed children? What will our new bodies be like? Explore the Bible’s heavenly promises where all your hopes and dreams will be fulfilled. If you have lost a loved one, you need this book to help you understand the truth about Heaven–the greatest promise ever made. Many who have read through these pages have forever lost their fear of death.
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0307509400
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Learn the Answers to All Your Questions about God What role do angels play in our lives? Where and how will we live? What will we be doing in heaven? Will I know my family and friends? What happens to departed children? What will our new bodies be like? Explore the Bible’s heavenly promises where all your hopes and dreams will be fulfilled. If you have lost a loved one, you need this book to help you understand the truth about Heaven–the greatest promise ever made. Many who have read through these pages have forever lost their fear of death.
Homeward Bound
Author: Ellen G. White
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816357376
Category : Devotional calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816357376
Category : Devotional calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Homeward Path
Author: Charlotte Maria Haven
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meditations
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meditations
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Tribute of Praise
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368855344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368855344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Godfaring
Author: Francis Clark
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 9780813209593
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The author offers a searching discussion of the importance, for Christian faith and life, of the relation between the natural religion of humanity -- as reflected in different ways by all religions of the world -- and the revealed religion of Jesus Christ. Francis Clark makes a significant contribution to the ongoing debate on the theology of religious pluralism.
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 9780813209593
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The author offers a searching discussion of the importance, for Christian faith and life, of the relation between the natural religion of humanity -- as reflected in different ways by all religions of the world -- and the revealed religion of Jesus Christ. Francis Clark makes a significant contribution to the ongoing debate on the theology of religious pluralism.
The Homeward Journey; Or, Five “one Things”. A Book for the Young. By A. T. S. [i.e. Alfred Taylor Schofield].
Author: Alfred Taylor SCHOFIELD
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Sunday Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
The Tribute of Praise
Author: Eben Tourjée
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Songs that Never Die
Author: Dudley Buck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Piano music
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Piano music
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description