Un Caf I Altres Narracions
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Stone In A Landslide
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Author : Maria Barbal
language : en
Publisher: Peirene Press
Release Date : 2011-11-01
Stone In A Landslide written by Maria Barbal and has been published by Peirene Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with Fiction categories.
The Catalan modern classic, first published in 1985, now in its 50th edition, for the first time in English. The beginning of the 20th century: 13-year-old Conxa leaves her home village in the Pyrenees to work for her childless aunt. After years of hardship she finds love with Jaume - a love that will be thwarted by the Spanish Civil War. Approaching her own death, Conxa looks back on a life in which she has lost everything except her own indomitable spirit. Why Peirene chose to publish this book: 'I fell in love with Conxa's narrative voice, its stoic calmness and the complete lack of anger and bitterness. It's a timeless voice, down to earth and full of human contradictory nuances. It's the expression of someone who searches for understanding in a changing world but senses that ultimately there may be no such thing.' Meike Ziervogel 'Sparse and haunting.' Katy Guest, Independent 'The compression is so deft, the young narrator's voice so strong, so particular, her straightforward evocation of the hard labour and rare pleasures of mountain life . . . so vibrant, that it makes me want to take scissors to everything else I read.' Richard Lea, Guardian 'A Pyrenean life told in a quietly effective voice.' Daniel Hahn, Independent 'There is an understated power in Barbal's depiction of how the forces of history can shape the life of the powerless.' Adrian Turpin, Financial Times 'A masterpiece of world literature and a shining example of the virtuosity of elegant and concise prose.' Pam Norfolk, Lancashire Evening Post 'Air-tight believability.' Matthew Tree, Times Literary Supplement INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2010 FOYLES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2010
Walking With Comrades
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Author : Arundhati Roy
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-05-15
Walking With Comrades written by Arundhati Roy and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-15 with Literary Collections categories.
‘The terse, typewritten note slipped under my door in a sealed envelope confirmed my appointment with “India’s single biggest internal security challenge”. I’d been waiting for months to hear from them...’ In early 2010, Arundhati Roy travelled into the forests of Central India, homeland to millions of indigenous people, dreamland to some of the world’s biggest mining corporations. The result is this powerful and unprecedented report from the heart of an unfolding revolution.
Comparative Literature In An Age Of Globalization
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Author : Haun Saussy
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2006-05-19
Comparative Literature In An Age Of Globalization written by Haun Saussy and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Focuses on the influence of multiculturalism as a concept transforming literary and cultural studies. This book offers a comprehensive survey of comparative criticism in the 1990s. It demonstrates that comparative critical strategies can provide insights into the world's changing, and increasingly colliding, cultures.
National Union Catalog
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
National Union Catalog written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Union catalogs categories.
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Private Life
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Author : Josep Maria de Sagarra
language : en
Publisher: Archipelago
Release Date : 2015-11-24
Private Life written by Josep Maria de Sagarra and has been published by Archipelago this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-24 with Fiction categories.
Private Life holds up a mirror to the moral corruption in the interstices of the Barcelona high society Sagarra was born into. Boudoirs of demimonde tramps, card games dilapidating the fortunes of milquetoast aristocrats - and how they scheme to conceal them - fading manors of selfish scions, and back rooms provided by social-climbing seamstresses are portrayed in vivid, sordid, and literary detail. The novel, practically a roman-à-clef for its contemporaries, was a scandal in 1932. The 1960's edition was bowdlerized by Franco's censors. Part Lampedusa, part Genet, this translation will bring an essential piece of 20th-century European literature to the English-speaking public.
Fortuny
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1909
Fortuny written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1909 with categories.
Against The Double Blackmail
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Author : Slavoj Žižek
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2016-04-21
Against The Double Blackmail written by Slavoj Žižek and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-21 with Philosophy categories.
Today, hundreds of thousands of people, desperate to escape war, violence and poverty, are crossing the Mediterranean to seek refuge in Europe. Our response from our protected European standpoint, argues Slavoj Zizek, offers two versions of ideological blackmail: either we open our doors as widely as possible; or we try to pull up the drawbridge. Both solutions are bad, states Zizek. They merely prolong the problem, rather than tackling it. The refugee crisis also presents an opportunity, a unique chance for Europe to redefine itself: but, if we are to do so, we have to start raising unpleasant and difficult questions. We must also acknowledge that large migrations are our future: only then can we commit to a carefully prepared process of change, one founded not on a community that see the excluded as a threat, but one that takes as its basis the shared substance of our social being. The only way, in other words, to get to the heart of one of the greatest issues confronting Europe today is to insist on the global solidarity of the exploited and oppressed. Maybe such solidarity is a utopia. But, warns Zizek, if we don't engage in it, then we are really lost. And we will deserve to be lost.
In The World Interior Of Capital
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Author : Peter Sloterdijk
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2013-10-07
In The World Interior Of Capital written by Peter Sloterdijk and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-07 with Philosophy categories.
Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radically new account of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The author takes seriously the historical and philosophical consequences of the notion of the earth as a globe, arriving at the thesis that what is praised or decried as globalization is actually the end phase in a process that began with the first circumnavigation of the earth Ð and that one can already discern elements of a new era beyond globalization. In the end phase of globalization, the world system completed its development and, as a capitalist system, came to determine all conditions of life. Sloterdijk takes the Crystal Palace in London, the site of the first world exhibition in 1851, as the most expressive metaphor for this situation. The palace demonstrates the inevitable exclusivity of globalization as the construction of a comfort structure Ð that is, the establishment and expansion of a world interior whose boundaries are invisible, yet virtually insurmountable from without, and which is inhabited by one and a half billion winners of globalization; three times this number are left standing outside the door.
Churning The Earth
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Author : Aseem Shrivastava
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-05-24
Churning The Earth written by Aseem Shrivastava and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-24 with Literary Collections categories.
The world stands so dazzled by India’s meteoric economic rise that we hesitate to acknowledge its consequences to the people and the environment. In Churning the Earth, Aseem Shrivastava and Ashish Kothari engage in a timely enquiry of this impressive growth story. They present incontrovertible evidence on how the nature of this recent growth has been predatory and question its sustainability. Unfettered development has damaged the ecological basis that makes life possible for hundreds of millions resulting in conflicts over water, land and natural resources, and increasing the chasm between the rich and the poor, threatening the future of India as a civilization. Rich with data and stories, this eye-opening critique of India’s development strategy argues for a radical ecological democracy based on the principles of environmental sustainability, social equity and livelihood security. Shrivastava and Kothari urge a fundamental shift towards such alternatives—already emerging from a range of grassroots movements—if we are to forestall the descent into socio-ecological chaos. Churning the Earth is unique in presenting not only what is going wrong in India, but also the ways out of the crises that globalised growth has precipitated.
Ariadne In The Grotesque Labyrinth
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Author : Salvador Espriu
language : en
Publisher: Catalan Literature
Release Date : 2012
Ariadne In The Grotesque Labyrinth written by Salvador Espriu and has been published by Catalan Literature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Fiction categories.
One of the foundational texts of Catalan fiction, Salvador Espriu s Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth is a collection of short stories in which action, character, and place are as winding and sumptuous as mythical maze of its title.