Requiem For A Lost Empire
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Requiem For A Lost Empire A Novel
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Author : Andreï Makine
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Release Date : 2001
Requiem For A Lost Empire A Novel written by Andreï Makine and has been published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Russia (Federation) categories.
An ambitious complex epic that spans three generations of a family from Czarist times in Russia to the fall of Communism. A Graham Green-style thriller that opens up like a sinister Russian doll.
Requiem For A Lost Empire
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Author : Andreï Makine
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2011-11-07
Requiem For A Lost Empire written by Andreï Makine and has been published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-07 with Fiction categories.
In this remarkable novel, which spans eighty years of the twentieth century, Andreï Makine describes, beautifully but unsparingly, the almost uninterrupted succession of violence, misery, and horror that has been visited on the Russian people since the October Revolution of 1917. For those quick to forget, or too young to remember, he paints a graphic portrait of those years in a three-generational novel that is as moving as it is revealing. A young Russian army doctor is sent to distant shores to bind the wounds of those in Africa, the Near East, and South America that are pawns in the global political chess game during the Cold War. Recruited by an intelligence agent, he experiences the bloody reality of revolution on the ground. The book casts its eye back toward his grandfather Nikolai, a Red cavalry soldier fighting the Whites in 1920, and his father, whose story of World War II is invoked with a passion and force that bear comparison to the best writing on the subject. From the battlefields of the 1920s to the harsh African heat and dust of the desert in the 1980s, from the orphanage where the narrator spent his youth to the art galleries and chic salons of the glittering new West, Requiem for a Lost Empire has all the sweep and depth, all the beauty and insight of the great Russian novels. It is, as the eminent French critic Edmonde Charles-Roux noted, "an astonishing novel, one that will surely stand the test of time."
Requiem For A Lost City
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Author : Sarah Conley Clayton
language : en
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Release Date : 1999
Requiem For A Lost City written by Sarah Conley Clayton and has been published by Mercer University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Requiem for a Lost City shows us the reality of Civil War Atlanta from the eve of secession to the memorials for the fallen, through the memories of a participant. Sallie Clayton would have been the same age as the fictional Scarlett O'Hara during the Civil War. Sallie Clayton's memoirs, however, are not a work of fiction but bittersweet reminiscences of growing up in a doomed city in the midst of losing a war. Although her memoirs provide invaluable detail on Civil War Atlanta, they also tell of her personal experiences on a plantation in Montgomery, Alabama, and in postwar Augusta and Athens. Sallie Clayton belonged to one of Georgia's wealthiest and most prominent families. Her memoirs are colored by the losses suffered by her family. Robert Davis's introduction to this work illustrates the background of the Claytons, Sallie's writings, and Civil War Atlanta, providing a balanced account of life at "the crossroads of the Confederacy." The introduction also provides a corrective to the popular, Gone With the Wind view of Civil War Atlanta.
World War Ii In Andre Makine S Historiographic Metafiction
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Author : Helena Duffy
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-04-17
World War Ii In Andre Makine S Historiographic Metafiction written by Helena Duffy and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
In World War II in Andreï Makine’s Historiographic Metafiction Helena Duffy probes the tension between the Franco-Russian novelist’s commitment to postmodern aesthetics and philosophy of history, and his narrative of Soviet involvement in the struggle against Hitler.
Lost Adventures
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Author : Edward Marshall Perdue
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2005
Lost Adventures written by Edward Marshall Perdue and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
If one wants to begin to understand the GULAG, he would read anyone of at least 131 books such as; - My twenty-two prisons and My Escape from Solovetski, 1929, by Bezonov, Eliuriai Dimitrevich - Red Gaols, a Woman's Experiences in Russian Prisons, 1935, by author did not want to be identified. - Prisoner of the OGPU, 1935, by Kitechin, George. - An Account of the Construction of the New Canal between the White Sea and the Baltic Sea, 1935, by Maxim Gorky, and 30 writers. Many people refer to the book The Gulag Archipelago, 1974, by Solzenitsyn, I., as "the" book on the GULAG partly from his experience and research thereof. The author started with a simple expression written about John W. Adkins: "He left home at an early age, and never returned home age". There was literally no information about him. Most people, familiar with my work, have been totally amazed at the amount of the information, documents, obtained by the author from the archives on one individual. After many years of work, the author did not want to leave this material to just a research project sitting on the bookshelf.
The Empire State Of The South
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Author : Christopher C. Meyers
language : en
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Release Date : 2008
The Empire State Of The South written by Christopher C. Meyers and has been published by Mercer University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays offers teachers of Georgia history an alternative to the traditional narrative textbook. In this volume, students have the opportunity to read Georgia history rather than reading about Georgia history. Encompassing the entirety of Georgia history into the twenty-first century, The Empire State of the South is suitable for all courses on Georgia history. The text is divided into sixteen chapters comprising 129 documents and thirty-three essays on various topics of Georgia history. Each chapter consists of several parts. First is a short narrative introduction. The second part contains the documents themselves. Following the documents are two essays written by historians regarding some topic relevant to the chapter. At the end of each chapter is a short list of suggested readings. The documents themselves range from the usual: state constitutions, laws, and speeches, to the inordinate: plans for constructing what is regarded as the state's first concrete home, a corny campaign song for Eugene Talmadge, an attempt by the General Assembly in 1897 to ban the playing of football, and a 1962 letter Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote from an Albany prison that preceded his better-known Birmingham letter. Georgia has indeed had a colorful history and The Empire State of the South tells that story. Book jacket.
Literature Language And The Classroom
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Author : Sonali Jain
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2021-09-07
Literature Language And The Classroom written by Sonali Jain and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is a Festschrift dedicated to Promodini Varma, a meticulous scholar, teacher, and administrator of extraordinary rigour, grit, and perception. It presents reflections on researching and teaching English literatures and languages in India. It concerns itself broadly with literary modernism and English language teaching and classroom pedagogy, some of the core concerns of the literary fraternity today. The volume examines how the literary and cultural manifestations of modernity have pervasively informed not just much of our disciplinary framework but many of the key issues—decolonisation, globalisation, development—our society grapples with. With essays on William Butler Yeats, Arthur Conan Doyle, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, and Rudyard Kipling, the volume presents fresh insights on familiar canonical ground. It discusses ELT and classroom pedagogy and provides grounded appraisals of teaching and translating for multilingual classroom audiences given the demands of employability and the hierarchical dynamics of educational institutions. An interview on feminist pedagogy and theatre and an essay on urban nostalgia and redevelopment act as pertinent outliers, reflecting the ongoing transition to more multi-sited and interdisciplinary research and praxis. An engaging read on some of the most pressing concerns in the field, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature and literary criticism, English language studies, and education.
Translingual Francophonie And The Limits Of Translation
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Author : Ioanna Chatzidimitriou
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-09-02
Translingual Francophonie And The Limits Of Translation written by Ioanna Chatzidimitriou and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Translingual Francophonie and the Limits of Translation proposes a novel theoretical lens for the study of translation as theme and practice in works by four translingual, francophone authors: Vassilis Alexakis, Chahdortt Djavann, Nancy Huston, and Andreï Makine. In particular, it argues that translation allows for the most productive encounter with otherness when it is practiced in its "estuarine" dimension. When two foreign bodies of water come into contact in an estuary, often a new environment is created at their shared border that does not, however, invalidate the distinctiveness (chemical, biological, geological etc.) of either fresh or sea water. Similarly, texts translated from one language to another, should ideally not transform into but rather relate to their new host’s linguistic and cultural codes in ways that account both for their undiluted strangeness and the missteps, gaps, and discontinuities, the challenging yet novel and productive articulations of relationality that proliferate at the border of the encounter.
3012 A D
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Author : Timothy D. Eckert
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2011-12
3012 A D written by Timothy D. Eckert and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12 with Fiction categories.
One thousand years into the future of the great epic of man's history and he is still repeating and enduring the same choices, mistakes and sins he has commited in the past. The only difference is that they are all of a different flavor. As Man treks forward into the endless loop, the population of a new continent out in the pacific attempts to break this loop civilization and stand out as a new Eden for the world to follow in example. With smaller nations of the international community beginning to be swallowed up by more malevolent superpowers, this new continent's royal governance stands at the crossroads of deciding to either get involved in anti imperialism or sit idly and risk their own their own demise...
Time No Longer
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Author : Patrick Smith
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2013-05-21
Time No Longer written by Patrick Smith and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-21 with History categories.
DIV Americans cherish their national myths, some of which predate the country’s founding. But the time for illusions, nostalgia, and grand ambition abroad has gone by, Patrick Smith observes in this original book. Americans are now faced with a choice between a mythical idea of themselves, their nation, and their global “mission,” on the one hand, and on the other an idea of America that is rooted in historical consciousness. To cling to old myths will ensure America’s decline, Smith warns. He demonstrates with deep historical insight why a fundamentally new perspective and self-image are essential if the United States is to find its place in the twenty-first century. In four illuminating essays, Smith discusses America’s unusual (and dysfunctional) relation with history; the Spanish-American War and the roots of American imperial ambition; the Cold War years and the effects of fear and power on the American psyche; and the uneasy years from 9/11 to the present. Providing a new perspective on our nation’s current dilemmas, Smith also offers hope for change through an embrace of authentic history. /div