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An Afghanistan Picture Show
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Author : William T. Vollmann
language : en
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Release Date : 1992
An Afghanistan Picture Show written by William T. Vollmann and has been published by Farrar Straus & Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Travel categories.
Recounting his journey through war-torn Afghanistan, the author describes the orphans, refugees, guerrilla leaders, bureaucrats, corrupt officials, and has-been politicians in the region
Afghanistan Picture Show
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Author : William T. Vollmann
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Afghanistan Picture Show written by William T. Vollmann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Fiction categories.
An Afghanistan Picture Show
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Author : William T. Vollmann
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2013-07-09
An Afghanistan Picture Show written by William T. Vollmann and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Never before available in paperback and all but invisible for twenty years, a personal account of the origins of America's longest war. In 1982, the young William Vollmann worked odd jobs, including as a secretary at an insurance company, until he'd saved up enough money to go to Afghanistan, where he wanted to join the mujahedeen to fight the Soviets. The resulting book wasn't published until 1992, and Library Journal wrote: "The wrong book written at the wrong time. . . . With the situation in Afghanistan rapidly heading toward resolution . . . libraries may safely skip this." Thirty years later--and with the United States still mired in the longest war of its history--it's time for a reassessment of Vollmann's heartfelt tale of idealism and its terrifying betrayals. An alloy of documentary and autobiographical elements characteristic of Vollmann's later nonfiction, An Afghanistan Picture Show is not a work of conventional reportage; instead, it's an account of a subtle and stubborn consciousness grappling with the limits of will and idealism imposed by violence and chaos.
Afghanistan Picture Show
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Author : William T. Vollmann
language : it
Publisher: Minimum Fax
Release Date : 2020-02-13
Afghanistan Picture Show written by William T. Vollmann and has been published by Minimum Fax this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-13 with Fiction categories.
Nel 1979, ventenne, William Vollmann si appassiona alle sorti dell’Afghanistan invaso dalle truppe sovietiche e comincia a passare da un lavoro all’altro, cercando di accumulare il denaro sufficiente per partire e affiancare i mujaheddin nella loro lotta di liberazione contro i russi. Nel 1982 parte alla volta del Pakistan, dove trascorrerà buona parte del suo soggiorno in casa di un generale afgano in esilio, parlando con i capi della resistenza, con funzionari pakistani e internazionali che gestiscono gli aiuti per i profughi, e con i profughi stessi, sia quelli più fortunati che si possono pagare la permanenza in città sia i moltissimi costretti a vivere in condizioni pietose nei campi.Un’esperienza in larga parte fallimentare, che Afghanistan Picture Show racconta a posteriori attraverso lo sguardo di un Vollmann più adulto e consapevole, capace di guardare con ironia e affetto il proprio io più giovane e ingenuo, che riesce sempre a porre le domande più sbagliate alle persone sbagliate, mentre si contorce tra i dolori della dissenteria. Tra conversazioni piene di equivoci ed estenuanti camminate nell'impervio territorio afgano, trascinato e talvolta trasportato pietosamente dai mujaheddin, Vollmann mette in scena l’idealismo ingenuo e il colonialismo dello sguardo americano sul mondo, in un’opera ibrida che si muove tra romanzo e diario, saggio storico e reportage.
Afghanistan Picture Show Oder Wie Ich Lernte Die Welt Zu Retten
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Author : William T. Vollmann
language : de
Publisher: mareverlag
Release Date : 2003
Afghanistan Picture Show Oder Wie Ich Lernte Die Welt Zu Retten written by William T. Vollmann and has been published by mareverlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Afghanistan categories.
1979: Die Rote Armee marschiert nach Afghanistan. Das Land taumelt ins Chaos. Partisanen leisten den um ein Vielfaches überlegenen Besatzern schier unüberwindbaren Widerstand. Als die Bilder von ausgebrannten Sowjet-Panzern um die Welt gehen, fühlt sich ein junger Amerikaner aufgerufen zum Handeln. Seine kleine Schwester ertrank, weil er unachtsam war. Ihr konnte er nicht helfen; jetzt zieht er los, um die Welt zu retten. In Afghanistan will er Brücken bauen und hängt am Ende erschöpft und orientierungslos über der Schulter eines Mudschahed, der ihn durch Gebirgsflüsse tragen muss. Während er allmählich begreift, dass er angesichts dieses Krieges machtlos ist, sehen die kämpfenden Afghanen in dem jungen Amerikaner einen Superhelden. Jeden Tag ging er durch Saddar und führte Interviews mit Mudschaheddin-Kommandeuren, die in ihren Hotelzimmern ihre Gewehre putzten, sich mit allerlei Afghanen und Pakistanis unterhielten, Cola und Sprite kauften und sich in Rikschas zu den politischen Büros fahren ließen. Im Hotel gab es einen Typen aus Chitral, der sich sehr für den Jungen Mann interessierte. Sein Bruder sei der Polizeichef von Peschawar, sagte er, und die Polizei würde kommen und den Jungen Mann verhaften. Und was geschieht dann?, fragte der Junge Mann besorgt. Man wird Sie schlagen, Sie CIA! Jussuf Ali kicherte und schlug dem Jungen Mann auf die Schulter.
Afghanistan Picture Show Oder Wie Ich Die Welt Rettete
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Author : William T. Vollmann
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Afghanistan Picture Show Oder Wie Ich Die Welt Rettete written by William T. Vollmann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Afghanistan categories.
William T Vollmann
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Author : Michael Hemmingson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
William T Vollmann written by Michael Hemmingson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Performing Arts categories.
Talking bugs, electricity, the founding of empires, hobos, Nazis, whores, violence, drugs, murder, secret cabals, Heaven, Hell--William T. Vollmann is a writer of enormous novels that are stuffed with entire worlds of creation and destruction. This first ever book-length critical study traces his career to date with chapters devoted to each of his novels, as well as his short stories and major nonfiction. Vollmann is a writer of obsessions, and this study concentrates on three of them--freedom, redemption, and prostitution--while arguing that the author that dwells on them is worthy of being called one of our greatest living American writers. Also included are seven interviews spanning the years 1991-2007 that reinforce the persistence of Vollmann's attraction to these themes.
An Afghanistan Picture Show Or How I Saved The World
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Author : William T. Vollmann
language : en
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Release Date : 2013
An Afghanistan Picture Show Or How I Saved The World written by William T. Vollmann and has been published by Melville House Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1982, a 23-year-old William T. Vollmann took his camera and tape recorder and headed off to help the Afghanis in their war against Soviet invaders. Originally published in 1992, a decade later, his unique record of his fight with the mujahdeen as they fought against Soviet troops was held as a bold and original' achievement. Now re-released in 2013, this new edition of An Afghanistan Picture Show features a new introduction by the author and includes a number of Vollmann's photos and drawings from his trip to one of the most dangerous places on the planet.'
Afghanistan
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Author : Carole Marsh
language : en
Publisher: Gallopade International
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Afghanistan written by Carole Marsh and has been published by Gallopade International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Where is Afghanistan? A the crossroads of ancient trade routes, once a place of peace, beauty, and prosperity, and today, ground zero of the war against terrorism. Afghanistan is a nation worth knowing more about. The facts in Afghanistan--A Country at the Crossroads of War and Peace are presented in a tactful and clear manner, the kind of reading which will help all kids understand such a misunderstood nation. 48 pp, Ages 9 and up.
William T Vollmann
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Author : Christopher K. Coffman
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2014-12-18
William T Vollmann written by Christopher K. Coffman and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
"This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully justified." —Larry McCaffery, from the preface of William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion The essays in this collection make a case for regarding William T. Vollmann as the most ambitious, productive, and important living author in the US. His oeuvre includes not only outstanding work in numerous literary genres, but also global reportage, ethical treatises, paintings, photographs, and many other productions. His reputation as a daring traveler and his fascination with life on the margins have earned him an extra-literary renown unequaled in our time. Perhaps most importantly, his work is exceptional in relation to the literary moment. Vollmann is a member of a group of authors who are responding to the skeptical ironies of postmodernism with a reinvigoration of fiction’s affective possibilities and moral sensibilities, but he stands out even among this cohort for his prioritization of moral engagement, historical awareness, and geopolitical scope. Included in this book in addition to twelve scholarly critical essays are reflections on Vollmann by many of his peers, confidantes, and collaborators, including Jonathan Franzen, James Franco, and Michael Glawogger. With a preface by Larry McCaffery and an afterword by Michael Hemmingson, this book offers readings of most of Vollmann’s works, includes the first critical engagements with several key titles, and introduces a range of voices from international Vollmann scholarship.