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Dossier K
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Author : Imre Kertész
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2013-05-07
Dossier K written by Imre Kertész and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The first and only memoir from the Nobel Prize–winning author, in the form of an illuminating, often funny, and often combative interview—with himself Dossier K. is Imre Kertész’s response to the hasty biographies and profiles that followed his 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature—an attempt to set the record straight. The result is an extraordinary self-portrait, in which Kertész interrogates himself about the course of his own remarkable life, moving from memories of his childhood in Budapest, his imprisonment in Nazi death camps and the forged record that saved his life, his experiences as a censored journalist in postwar Hungary under successive totalitarian communist regimes, and his eventual turn to fiction, culminating in the novels—such as Fatelessness, Fiasco, and Kaddish for an Unborn Child—that have established him as one of the most powerful, unsentimental, and imaginatively daring writers of our time. In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kertész continues to delve into the questions that have long occupied him: the legacy of the Holocaust, the distinctions drawn between fiction and reality, and what he calls “that wonderful burden of being responsible for oneself.”
Dossier K
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Author : Jef Geeraerts
language : nl
Publisher: Prometheus
Release Date : 2011-04-28
Dossier K written by Jef Geeraerts and has been published by Prometheus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-28 with Fiction categories.
Tijdens een afrekening in het criminele milieu worden in een Antwerps restaurant twee Albanezen doodgeschoten. Bij een huiszoeking vindt de moordbrigade van de Antwerpse recherche het pistool waarmee drie jaar eerder procureur-generaal Savelkoul werd vermoord, over wie Jef Geeraerts zijn meesterlijke roman De PG schreef. Commissaris Verstuyft zoekt het verband tussen de Albanese afrekening en de moord op de PG. Zijn goede vriend en ex-commissaris Vincke helpt hem daarbij, maar vooralsnog tevergeefs. Als ze op het spoor van de wraaknemer komen, krijgen ze te maken met verschillende mysterieuze interventies, onder meer van het Opus Dei, hetgeen leidt tot grote spanningen en gewelddadigheden. Van de Antwerpse recherche kreeg Jef Geeraerts voor Dossier K. alle mogelijke informatie om de authenticiteit te creëren waar de lezers van de Vincke & Verstuyft-politieromans al vijfentwintig jaar aan gewend zijn. Dossier K. staat bovendien in het teken van de mythische sfeer van de Kanun, het middeleeuwse Albanese gewoonterecht. Deze speciale filmeditie verschijnt ter gelegenheid van de verfilming van Dossier K. door Jan Verheyen. De zaak Alzheimer, een eerdere boekverfilming van Geeraerts, is een van de succesvolste Vlaamse films aller tijden. Jef Geeraerts (1930) is de grootmeester van de crime in de Lage Landen. In zijn misdaadromans weet hij harde actie, een explosieve stijl en een kritische maatschappijvisie te combineren met een meeslepende verteltechniek. Een paar typische ingrediënten van Geeraerts: de duistere bedoelingen van de Opus Dei, de corruptie in België, de fascinatie voor bloedmooie jonge vrouwen. Genoeg stof dus voor een spannend misdaadverhaal. knack
The Holocaust In The Central European Literatures And Cultures Since 1989
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Author : Reinhard Ibler
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2014-09-01
The Holocaust In The Central European Literatures And Cultures Since 1989 written by Reinhard Ibler and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Historical Dictionary Of Crime Films
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Author : Geoff Mayer
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2012-09-13
Historical Dictionary Of Crime Films written by Geoff Mayer and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-13 with Performing Arts categories.
The Historical Dictionary of Crime Films covers the history of this genre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on key films, directors, performers, and studios. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about crime cinema.
The Hidden Life Of Otto Frank
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Author : Carol Ann Lee
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2003-07-03
The Hidden Life Of Otto Frank written by Carol Ann Lee and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Otto Frank was the father of the most famous girl of the 20th Century. It was he who found her diaries after her death and his determination to see them published around the world. This is the first time his story has been told. Born into a prosperous Jewish family in Berlin, his life was a portrait in miniature of the century: decorated after the Battle of the Somme, forced to flee Germany in the 1930s, betrayed and imprisoned by the Nazis in the Holocaust and finally gaining recognition bybearing witness to the century's horrors though the writings of his young daughter. Carol Ann Lee has written a powerful biography of an extraordinary man's life caught up in history.
Punctuations
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Author : Michael J. Shapiro
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-22
Punctuations written by Michael J. Shapiro and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-22 with Political Science categories.
In Punctuations Michael J. Shapiro examines how punctuation—conceived not as a series of marks but as a metaphor for the ways in which artists engage with intelligibility—opens pathways for thinking through the possibilities for oppositional politics. Drawing on Theodor Adorno, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Roland Barthes, Shapiro demonstrates how punctuation's capacity to create unexpected rhythmic pacing makes it an ideal tool for writers, musicians, filmmakers, and artists to challenge structures of power. In works ranging from film scores and jazz compositions to literature, architecture, and photography, Shapiro shows how the use of punctuation reveals the contestability of dominant narratives in ways that prompt readers, viewers, and listeners to reflect on their acceptance of those narratives. Such uses of punctuation, he theorizes, offer models for disrupting structures of authority, thereby fostering the creation of alternative communities of sense from which to base political mobilization.
Temporalities Of Modernism
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Author : Carmen Borbély
language : en
Publisher: Ledizioni
Release Date : 2023-03-22
Temporalities Of Modernism written by Carmen Borbély and has been published by Ledizioni this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Temporalities of Modernism gathers fourteen scholars whose contributions readdress the very tenets of modernism by approaching its multifaceted relationship with time in a series of fresh and original essays. The contemporary energies behind the collection are rooted in the turbulence of the modernist age: relativity, irreversibility, duration, fragmentation, contingency, and the looming threat of the apocalyptic future. The collection includes geographical areas often neglected by the habitual reduction of modernist studies to English-speaking literary high modernism, or to the concentration of famous figures in the traditional capital of modernism—Paris. Thus it offers detailed presentations of Italian pre-WWI modernism, Czech Dadaism, or of Polish, Romanian, and Hungarian writers and artists. The borders also open in terms of genres and mediums, as the contributions are not limited to fiction, but examine the multi-faceted productions of modernist artists: poetry, theatre, painting, music, cinema, photography, etc. In addition, the limits are temporally stretched out as some contributions focus on more recent writers (such as Sylvia Plath) and their reactivation of modernist discoveries.
Wives Of The Leopard
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Author : Edna G. Bay
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2012-06-29
Wives Of The Leopard written by Edna G. Bay and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-29 with History categories.
Wives of the Leopard explores power and culture in a pre-colonial West African state whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteenth-century Europe and America. Tracing two hundred years of the history of Dahomey up to the French colonial conquest in 1894, the book follows change in two central institutions. One was the monarchy, the coalitions of men and women who seized and wielded power in the name of the king. The second was the palace, a household of several thousand wives of the king who supported and managed state functions. Looking at Dahomey against the backdrop of the Atlantic slave trade and the growth of European imperialism, Edan G. Bay reaches for a distinctly Dahomean perspective as she weaves together evidence drawn from travelers' memoirs and local oral accounts, from the religious practices of vodun, and from ethnographic studies of the twentieth century. Wives of the Leopard thoroughly integrates gender into the political analysis of state systems, effectively creating a social history of power. More broadly, it argues that women as a whole and men of the lower classes were gradually squeezed out of access to power as economic resources contracted with the decline of the slave trade in the nineteenth century. In these and other ways, the book provides an accessible portrait of Dahomey's complex and fascinating culture without exoticizing it.
Textual Silence
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Author : Jessica Lang
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-24
Textual Silence written by Jessica Lang and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
There are thousands of books that represent the Holocaust, but can, and should, the act of reading these works convey the events of genocide to those who did not experience it? In Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language itself is a barrier between the author and the reader in Holocaust texts—and that this barrier is not a lack of substance, but a defining characteristic of the genre. Holocaust texts, which encompass works as diverse as memoirs, novels, poems, and diaries, are traditionally characterized by silences the authors place throughout the text, both deliberately and unconsciously. While a reader may have the desire and will to comprehend the Holocaust, the presence of “textual silence” is a force that removes the experience of genocide from the reader’s analysis and imaginative recourse. Lang defines silences as omissions that take many forms, including the use of italics and quotation marks, ellipses and blank pages in poetry, and the presence of unreliable narrators in fiction. While this limits the reader’s ability to read in any conventional sense, these silences are not flaws. They are instead a critical presence that forces readers to acknowledge how words and meaning can diverge in the face of events as unimaginable as those of the Holocaust.
Diversity In Narration And Writing
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Author : Kornélia Horváth
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2022-01-10
Diversity In Narration And Writing written by Kornélia Horváth and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
The essays in this volume focus on different prose and audiovisual narratives and their academic and cultural significance as seen in the twenty-first century. Their diverse interpretations of the novel as a genre provide a current academic overview on the variety of interpretive cultures and traditions. Divided into three sections, the book consciously takes an international perspective in both narrative theory and novel studies in order to deepen the reader’s understanding of classic American and European authors including Gustave Flaubert, Lewis Carroll, James Joyce, Doris Lessing, Jack London, J. M. Coetzee, and David Lodge. In addition, it also offers a profound contribution to international scholarship as it covers works of classic and contemporary Hungarian and Central European writers that have not been discussed in English before. With its unprecedented insights into the depth and diversity of narrative prose traditions, the book will inspire innovative approaches to the concept of the novel in European academic criticism today.