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Sweet Days of Discipline

Author	: Fleur Jaeggy
Publisher	: New Directions Publishing
Release Date	: 2019-10-29
ISBN 10	: 9780811229043
Pages	: 112 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (29 users)

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Download or read book Sweet Days of Discipline written by Fleur Jaeggy and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the apparently perfect new girl. In Tim Parks’ consummate translation (with its “spare, haunting quality of a prose poem,” TLS), Sweet Days of Discipline is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.

Understanding Tim Parks

Author	: Gillian Fenwick
Publisher	: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date	: 2003
ISBN 10	: 1570034567
Pages	: 248 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (67 users)

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Download or read book Understanding Tim Parks written by Gillian Fenwick and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fenwick reckons with Parks's full literary range, from his novels and nonfiction books to his translations and journalism, and sheds light on the work of a versatile English writer whose international recognition is steadily growing."--BOOK JACKET.

The Dictator's Dictation

Author	: Robert Boyers
Publisher	: Columbia University Press
Release Date	: 2005-10-26
ISBN 10	: 0231510071
Pages	: 244 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (71 users)

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Download or read book The Dictator's Dictation written by Robert Boyers and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these elegant essays, many of them originally written for The New Republic and Harper's, Robert Boyers examines the role of the political imagination in shaping the works of such important contemporary writers as W. G. Sebald and Philip Roth, Nadine Gordimer and Mario Vargas Llosa, Natalia Ginzburg and Pat Barker, J. M. Coetzee and John Updike, V. S. Naipaul and Anita Desai. Occasionally he finds that politics actually figures very little in works that only pretend to be interested in politics. Elsewhere he discovers that certain writers are not equal to the political issues they take on or that their work is fatally compromised by complacency or wishful thinking. In the main, though, Boyers writes as a lover of great literature who wishes to understand how the best writers do justice to their own political obsessions without suggesting that everything is reducible to politics. Resisting the notion that novels can be effectively translated into ideas or positions, he resists as well the notion that art and politics must be held apart, lest works of fiction somehow be contaminated by their association with "real life" or public issues. The essays offer a combination of close reading, argument, and assessment. What, Boyers asks, is the relationship between form and substance in a work whose formal properties are particularly striking? Is it reasonable to think of a particular writer as "reactionary" merely because he presents an unflattering portrait of revolutionary activists or because he is less than optimistic about the future of newly independent societies? What is the status of private life in works set in politically tumultuous times? Can the novelist be "responsible" if he consistently refuses to engage the conditions that affect even the intimate lives of his characters? Such questions inform these essays, which strive to be true to the essential spirit of the works they discuss and to interrogate, as sympathetically as possible, the imagination of writers who negotiate the unstable relationships between society and the individual, art and ideas.

The Fighter

Author	: Tim Parks
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2008-11-21
ISBN 10	: 9781407020020
Pages	: 304 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (2 users)

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Download or read book The Fighter written by Tim Parks and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-11-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Britain's outstanding novelists, Tim Parks is also a provocative, entertaining and accomplished essayist. This new collection's title is drawn from D. H. Lawrence's fundamental belligerence, and how all the significant relationships in his life, including those with his readers and critics, were characterised by intense intimacy and ferocious conflict. Elsewhere there are literary essays on tension and conflict in the work of Beckett or Hardy, Bernhard and Dostoevsky, amongs others. Parks is also known for his acerbic chronicles of Italian life and here are essays on Mussolini, Machiavelli and the Medici. Besides discussing questions of history, politics and literature, The Fighter also takes on that most serious tussle: World Cup football.

Last Vanities

Author	: Fleur Jaeggy
Publisher	: New Directions Publishing
Release Date	: 1998
ISBN 10	: 0811213749
Pages	: 116 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (49 users)

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Download or read book Last Vanities written by Fleur Jaeggy and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dementedly prim wife spies on her husband and is hammered to death by his paramour of the moment; a seemingly kind maid who mothers a wealthy orphan sets the house on fire; a retired couple are about to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary when the husband throws himself out the window, or does his wife give him a little help? Set in mundane, repressed middle-class environments, these tales pivot on terrible slips off the leash.

The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction

Author	: M.A. Orthofer
Publisher	: Columbia University Press
Release Date	: 2016-04-19
ISBN 10	: 9780231518505
Pages	: 498 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (185 users)

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Download or read book The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction written by M.A. Orthofer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A user-friendly reference for English-language readers who are eager to explore contemporary fiction from around the world. Profiling hundreds of titles and authors from 1945 to today, with an emphasis on fiction published in the past two decades, this guide introduces the styles, trends, and genres of the world's literatures, from Scandinavian crime thrillers and cutting-edge Chinese works to Latin American narco-fiction and award-winning French novels. The book's critical selection of titles defines the arc of a country's literary development. Entries illuminate the fiction of individual nations, cultures, and peoples, while concise biographies sketch the careers of noteworthy authors. Compiled by M. A. Orthofer, an avid book reviewer and the founder of the literary review site the Complete Review, this reference is perfect for readers who wish to expand their reading choices and knowledge of contemporary world fiction. “A bird's-eye view of titles and authors from everywhere―a book overfull with reminders of why we love to read international fiction. Keep it close by.”—Robert Con Davis-Udiano, executive director, World Literature Today “M. A. Orthofer has done more to bring literature in translation to America than perhaps any other individual. [This book] will introduce more new worlds to you than any other book on the market.”—Tyler Cowen, George Mason University “A relaxed, riverine guide through the main currents of international writing, with sections for more than a hundred countries on six continents.”—Karan Mahajan, Page-Turner blog, The New Yorker

Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing

Author	: Jane Eldridge Miller
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2019-07-23
ISBN 10	: 9781136214301
Pages	: 416 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (143 users)

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Download or read book Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing written by Jane Eldridge Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique in its breadth of coverage, Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing is a comprehensive, authoritative and enjoyable guide to women's fiction, prose, poetry and drama from around the world in the second half of the twentieth century. Over the course of 1000 entries by over 150 international contributors, a picture emerges of the incredible range of women's writing in our time, from Toni Morrison to Fleur Adcock- all are here. This book includes the established and well-loved but also opens up new worlds of modern literature which may be unfamiliar but are never less than fascinating.

Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation 1929-2016

Author	: Robin Healey
Publisher	: University of Toronto Press
Release Date	: 2019-03-07
ISBN 10	: 9781487502928
Pages	: 1104 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (29 users)

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Download or read book Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation 1929-2016 written by Robin Healey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey's Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.

I Didn't Do the Thing Today

Author	: Madeleine Dore
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2022-01-11
ISBN 10	: 9780593419144
Pages	: 305 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (191 users)

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Download or read book I Didn't Do the Thing Today written by Madeleine Dore and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to release productivity guilt and embrace the hidden values in our daily lives. Any given day brings a never-ending list of things to do. There’s the work thing, the catch-up thing, the laundry thing, the creative thing, the exercise thing, the family thing, the thing we don’t want to do, and the thing we’ve been putting off, despite it being the most important thing. Even on days when we get a lot done, the thing left undone can leave us feeling guilty, anxious, or disappointed. After five years of searching for the secret to productivity, Madeleine Dore discovered there isn’t one. Instead, we’re being set up to fail. I Didn’t Do the Thing Today is the inspiring call to take productivity off its pedestal—by dismantling our comparison to others, aspirational routines, and the unrealistic notions of what can be done in a day, we can finally embrace the joyful messiness and unpredictability of life. For anyone who has ever felt the pressure to do more, be more, achieve more, this antidote to our doing-obsession is the permission slip we all need to find our own way.

Against the Forgetting

Author	: Hans Faverey
Publisher	: New Directions Publishing
Release Date	: 2004
ISBN 10	: 0811215555
Pages	: 214 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (55 users)

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Download or read book Against the Forgetting written by Hans Faverey and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning selection of poems from the great twentieth-century Dutch poet.

Memoirs

Author	: Tennessee Williams
Publisher	: New Directions Publishing
Release Date	: 2006-10-15
ISBN 10	: 9780811220828
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (28 users)

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Download or read book Memoirs written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the "old crocodile," as Williams called himself late in life, the past was always present, and so it is with his continual shifting and intermingling of times, places, and memories as he weaves this story. When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the mediathough long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candor about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and such revelations by America's greatest living playwright were called "a raw display of private life" by The New York Times Book Review. As it turns out, thirty years later, Williams' look back at his life is not quite so scandalous as it once seemed; he recalls his childhood in Mississippi and St. Louis, his prolonged struggle as a "starving artist," the "overnight" success of The Glass Menagerie in 1945, the death of his long-time companion Frank Merlo in 1962, and his confinement to a psychiatric ward in 1969 and subsequent recovery from alcohol and drug addiction, all with the same directness, compassion, and insight that epitomize his plays. And, of course, Memoirs is filled with Williams' amazing friends from the worlds of stage, screen, and literature as heoften hilariously, sometimes fondly, sometimes notremembers them: Laurette Taylor, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, Vivian Leigh, Carson McCullers, Anna Magnani, Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, and Tallulah Bankhead to name a few. And now film director John Waters, well acquainted with shocking the American public, has written an introduction that gives some perspective on the various reactions to Tennessee's Memoirs, while also paying tribute to a fellow artist who inspired many with his integrity and endurance.

Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies

Author	: Gaetana Marrone
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2006-12-26
ISBN 10	: 9781135455293
Pages	: 2258 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (552 users)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies written by Gaetana Marrone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 2258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies is a two-volume reference book containing some 600 entries on all aspects of Italian literary culture. It includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the most important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential to the field. The Encyclopedia is distinguished by substantial articles on critics, themes, genres, schools, historical surveys, and other topics related to the overall subject of Italian literary studies. The Encyclopedia also includes writers and subjects of contemporary interest, such as those relating to journalism, film, media, children's literature, food and vernacular literatures. Entries consist of an essay on the topic and a bibliographic portion listing works for further reading, and, in the case of entries on individuals, a brief biographical paragraph and list of works by the person. It will be useful to people without specialized knowledge of Italian literature as well as to scholars.

Earth House Hold

Author	: Gary Snyder
Publisher	: New Directions Publishing
Release Date	: 1969-06-17
ISBN 10	: 9780811222686
Pages	: 144 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (226 users)

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Download or read book Earth House Hold written by Gary Snyder and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1969-06-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both Pound and Williams have shown a good poet can revitalize prose style. Earth House Hold (a play on the root meaning of "ecology"), drawn from Gary Snyder's essays and journals, may prove a landmark for the new generation. "As a poet," Snyder tells us, "I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic; the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying intuition and rebirth; the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe." He develops, as replacement for shattered social structures. a concept of tribal tradition which could lead to "growth and enlightenment in self-disciplined freedom. Whatever it is or ever was in any other culture can be reconstructed from the unconscious through meditation...the coming revolution will close the circle and link us in many ways with the most creative aspects of our archaic past."

Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J

Author	: Gaetana Marrone
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Release Date	: 2007
ISBN 10	: 9781579583903
Pages	: 2258 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (839 users)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J written by Gaetana Marrone and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 2258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Review of Contemporary Fiction

Author	:
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1993
ISBN 10	: UCSC:32106011039903
Pages	: 938 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (6 users)

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Contemporary Authors

Author	: Scot Peacock
Publisher	: Contemporary Authors
Release Date	: 1998-10
ISBN 10	: 0787626678
Pages	: 486 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (78 users)

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Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Scot Peacock and published by Contemporary Authors. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors(R). Authors in this volume include: Diane Arbus Nina Kiriki Hoffman Michael Moore

Contemporary Authors

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1998
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015064381976
Pages	: 488 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (56 users)

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