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Insignificance
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Author : James Clammer
language : en
Publisher: Galley Beggar Press
Release Date : 2021-05-19
Insignificance written by James Clammer and has been published by Galley Beggar Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-19 with Fiction categories.
JOSEPH is trying to focus on a plumbing job, but is too distracted by the terrible things that have been happening in his family. JOSEPH believes that his son has tried to murder his wife. JOSEPH is afraid that his wife is going to leave him. JOSEPH is terrified that his son will try to kill again. Insignificance – the debut novel for adults from Carnegie Medal-nominee James Clammer – unfurls over the course of twenty-four hours, placing the reader right inside the head of its struggling narrator. A tender act of empathy for the uncertainty and awkwardness of a vulnerable man, Insignificance is also a masterclass in burning tension – as we start to fear not just for the safety of Joseph's family, but that Joseph himself may not even make it through the day....
On Insignificance
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Author : Massimo Leone
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-10-28
On Insignificance written by Massimo Leone and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-28 with Social Science categories.
Focusing on the anthropological consequences of the disappearing of materiality and sensory embodiment, On Insignificance highlights some of the most perturbing patterns of insignificance that have seeped into our everyday lives. Seeking to explain the semiotic causes of feelings of meaninglessness, Leone posits that caring for the singularities of the world is the most viable way to resist the alienating effects of the digital bureaucratization of meaning. The book will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, cultural studies, semiotics, aesthetics, communication studies, and social theory.
Insignificance
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Author : James Clammer
language : en
Publisher: Coach House Books
Release Date : 2021-09-07
Insignificance written by James Clammer and has been published by Coach House Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-07 with Fiction categories.
For fans of Ducks, Newburyport and Rivka Galchen’s Atmospheric Disturbances, a day-in-the-life of a plumber whose troubles are all coming to a head. In an addictive, interior-monologue lyric novel, we meet Joseph. Back on the job after a long leave, he’s not at all sure he’ll make it through the day. Bad thoughts keep creeping in. He believes that his son, suffering from a condition in which he believes someone close to him has been replaced by an imposter, has tried to kill his wife. And that he’ll try again. And that his wife is planning to leave him. Meanwhile, he’s fixing a sink for his wife’s friend. Insignificance unfurls over the course of a single day. Placing the reader inside the head of the struggling Joseph, it works double time, as a portrait of the uncertainty and awkwardness of one vulnerable man and his relationship with the world, and also as a tense, emotional, and gripping drama. In this deeply human and highly inventive story, we have a novel that portrays the thoughts of one working man on his own terms, without artifice or condescension. James Clammer pries open the head of a plumber to reveal the portrait of a fracturing mind taking us closer and closer to the edge. "Hands down the best novel about a plumber changing a water tank – and, incidentally, dealing with matters of grave and threatening existential weight – I have ever read." —Stephen Sparks, Point Reyes Books "In this short and powerful novel author James Clammer places readers inside the mind of Joe Forbes, a delightfully perceptive, middle-aged plumber who is trying to recover from a mental breakdown precipitated by his son’s criminal conviction. Joe is very much an 'everyman,' yet his way of looking at the world and his circumstances is far from ordinary. With writing full of wit and sensitivity, Clammer’s blue-collar hero goes back to work, longing to once again be strong, healthy, and confident – fully engaged within a society that stigmatizes weakness and mental illness. Insignificance is an absolute marvel, and one of the best books that I’ve read in quite some time." —Lori Feathers, Interabang Books “A brilliant look at family, mental health, and mid-life, Insignificance is a marvel. Tender, moving, and written with subtle humour, Clammer's novel takes the reader through a single day in the life of Joe Forbes, reluctant plumber and anguished father. A superb novel that hits all the right notes. I couldn't put it down.” —Mark Haber, bookseller at Brazos Bookstore and author of Reinhardt’s Garden
The Fear Of Insignificance
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Author : Carlo Strenger
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-01-15
The Fear Of Insignificance written by Carlo Strenger and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-15 with Philosophy categories.
In The Fear of Insignificance Carlo Strenger diagnoses the wide-spread fear of the global educated class of leading insignificant lives. Making use of cutting-edge psychological, philosophical, sociological, and economic theory, he shows how these fears are generated by infotainment’s craze for rating human beings. The book is a unique blend of an interpretation of the historical present and a poignant description of contemporary individual experience, anxiety, and hopes, in which Strenger makes use of his decades of clinical experience in existential psychotherapy. Without falling into the trap of simplistic self-help advice, Strenger shows how a process he calls active self-acceptance, together with serious intellectual investment in our worldviews, can provide us with stable identity and meaning.
A Man Of Insignificance
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Author : K.C. Dowling
language : en
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
Release Date : 2018-06-29
A Man Of Insignificance written by K.C. Dowling and has been published by Grosvenor House Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-29 with Fiction categories.
When disgraced small time politician Danny Senetti and local GP Maxine Wells become implicated in the ritualistic murder of a reclusive spinster they form an unlikely alliance. Drawn inexorably back almost two hundred years to historic, famine-blighted Ireland they discover more unsolved killings as the trail leads them into the lives of two families across four generations. Their discoveries unravel the source of the terrible mysterious curse of..... ..... A Man of Insignificance.
The Kingdom Of Insignificance
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Author : Joanna Nizynska
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-31
The Kingdom Of Insignificance written by Joanna Nizynska and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
In one of the first scholarly book in English on Miron Białoszewski (1922–1983), Joanna Niżyńska illuminates the elusive prose of one of the most compelling and challenging postwar Polish writers. Niżyńska’s study, exemplary in its use of theoretical concepts, introduces English-language readers to a preeminent voice of Polish literature. Niżyńska explores how a fusion of seemingly irreconcilable qualities, such as the traumatic and the everyday, imbues Białoszewski’s writing with its idiosyncratic appeal. Białoszewski’s A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising (1977, revised 1991) describes the Poles’ heroic struggle to liberate Warsaw from Nazi occupation in 1944 as harrowing yet ordinary. His later prose represents everyday life permeated by traces of the traumatic. Niżyńska closely examines the topic of autobiography and homosexuality, showing how Białoszewski discloses his homosexuality but, paradoxically, renders it inconspicuous by hiding it in plain sight.
The Fear Of Insignificance
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Author : C. Strenger
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-02-14
The Fear Of Insignificance written by C. Strenger and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-14 with Political Science categories.
This book shows how, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Gospel of the free market became the only world-religion of universal validity. The belief that all value needs to be quantifiable was extended to human beings, whose value became dependent on their rating on the various ranking-scales in the global infotainment system.
Insignificance
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Author : Neil Norman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985-01-01
Insignificance written by Neil Norman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-01-01 with Insignificance (Motion picture) categories.
The Festival Of Insignificance
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Author : Milan Kundera
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2020-10-09
The Festival Of Insignificance written by Milan Kundera and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-09 with Fiction categories.
Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism-that's The Festival of Insignificance. Readers who know Kundera's earlier books know that the wish to incorporate an element of the "unserious" in a novel is not at all unexpected of him. In Immortality, Goethe and Hemingway stroll through several chapters together talking and laughing. And in Slowness, Vera, the author's wife, says to her husband: "you've often told me you meant to write a book one day that would have not a single serious word in it... I warn you: watch out. Your enemies are lying in wait."Now, far from watching out, Kundera is finally and fully realizing his old aesthetic dream in this novel that we could easily view as a summation of his whole work. A strange sort of summation. Strange sort of epilogue. Strange sort of laughter, inspired by our time, which is comical because it has lost all sense of humor. What more can we say? Nothing. Just read.
Atmospheric Disturbances
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Author : Rivka Galchen
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2008-05-27
Atmospheric Disturbances written by Rivka Galchen and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-27 with Fiction categories.
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Salon.com Top Ten Book of the Year A Plain Dealer (Cleveland) Best Book of the Year A Slate Best Book of the Year Rivka Galchen's Atmospheric Disturbances is a "witty, tender, and conceptually dazzling" (Booklist) novel about the mysterious nature of human relationships. When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves exactly like her. A simulatcrum. But Leo is not fooled, and he knows better than to trust his senses in matters of the heart. Certain that the real Rema is alive and in hiding, he embarks on a quixotic journey to reclaim her. With the help of his psychiatric patient Harvey--who believes himself to be a secret agent able to control the weather--his investigation leads him from the streets of New York City to the southernmost reaches of Patagonia, in search of the woman he loves.