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Author: Javier Marías Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 1101972106 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 274
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An exhilarating collection of critical and personal writings—spanning more than twenty years of work—from the internationally renowned author of The Infatuations and A Heart So White. • "The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature." —The Boston Globe Javier Marías is a tireless examiner of the world around us: essayist, novelist, translator, voracious reader, enthusiastic debunker of pretension, and vigorous polymath. He is able to discover what many of us fail to notice or have never put into words, and he keeps looking long after most of us have turned away. This new collection of essays--by turns literary, philosophical, and autobiographical--journeys from the crumbling canals of Venice to the wide horizons of the Wild West, and Marías captures each new vista with razor-sharp acuity and wit. He explores, with characteristic relish, subjects ranging from soccer to classic cinema, from comic books and toy soldiers to mortality and memory, from "The Most Conceited of Cities" to "Why Almost No One Can Be Trusted," making each brilliantly and inimitably his own. Trenchant and wry, subversive and penetrating, Between Eternities is a collection of dazzling intellectual curiosity, offering a window into the expansive mind of the man so often said to be Spain's greatest living writer.
Author: Javier Marías Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 1101972106 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 274
Book Description
An exhilarating collection of critical and personal writings—spanning more than twenty years of work—from the internationally renowned author of The Infatuations and A Heart So White. • "The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature." —The Boston Globe Javier Marías is a tireless examiner of the world around us: essayist, novelist, translator, voracious reader, enthusiastic debunker of pretension, and vigorous polymath. He is able to discover what many of us fail to notice or have never put into words, and he keeps looking long after most of us have turned away. This new collection of essays--by turns literary, philosophical, and autobiographical--journeys from the crumbling canals of Venice to the wide horizons of the Wild West, and Marías captures each new vista with razor-sharp acuity and wit. He explores, with characteristic relish, subjects ranging from soccer to classic cinema, from comic books and toy soldiers to mortality and memory, from "The Most Conceited of Cities" to "Why Almost No One Can Be Trusted," making each brilliantly and inimitably his own. Trenchant and wry, subversive and penetrating, Between Eternities is a collection of dazzling intellectual curiosity, offering a window into the expansive mind of the man so often said to be Spain's greatest living writer.
Author: Gregory Bruce Smith Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 1461632994 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 665
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Between Eternities reflects on the possibility of political philosophy as an ongoing, architectonic activity that is necessarily linked to both the past and future. Almost all contemporary work in political philosophy either studies the subject with an eye to past tradition—choosing a winner from that tradition and then deducing what follows from the posited premises in a thoroughly modern, constructivist fashion—or else limits itself to drawing out what follows from already accepted premises and principles. There is almost no effort to reflect upon the prerequisites for the tradition being an ongoing undertaking that can have a unique future. Between Eternities attempts to set loose that thinking toward the future.
Author: Gummbah Publisher: de Harmonie ISBN: 9789061698678 Category : Caricatures and cartoons Languages : en Pages : 200
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Now that Gummbah is (in his own words) `world-famous and notorious in almost the entire Netherlands and Flanders as well', it is time for the rest of the world to be introduced to his revolting creations. A collection of single-panel, individual cartoons, at once dark and hilarious, the one thing they all have in common is that they make a lifestyle out of non-conformist behaviour and seem only to exist at the filthy edges of humanity.
Author: A. Parthasarathy Publisher: A. Parthasarathy ISBN: 9381094101 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 215
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For those seeking answers on the purpose and ultimate goal of human life, this is an intensive answer. Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities is the seminal work by A. Parthasarathy, and forms the core of the findings of over 60 years of research and study into the ancient wisdom of the Himalayas. The book expounds the ancient philosophy of Vedanta. It presents the eternal principles of life and living. Living is a technique that needs to be learnt and practised by one and all. The technique provides the formula for remaining active all through life while maintaining inner peace. It helps one develop a powerful intellect to meet the challenges of the world. Above all, the Treatise helps one evolve spiritually. It provides the knowledge and guidance to reach the ultimate in human perfection. The goal of Self-realisation.
Author: Joseph R. Carvalko Jr. Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030264076 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 378
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This volume examines the latest scientific and technological developments likely to shape our post-human future. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the author argues that we stand at the precipice of an evolutionary change caused by genetic engineering and anatomically embedded digital and informational technologies. The author delves into current scientific initiatives that will lead to the emergence of super smart individuals with unique creative capacities. He draws on technology, psychology and philosophy to consider humans-as-they-are relative to autonomy, creativity, and their place in a future shared with ‘post humans.’ The author discusses the current state of bioethics and technology law, both which policymakers, beset by a torrent of revolutionary advances in bioengineering, are attempting to steer. Significantly, Carvalko addresses why we must both preserve the narratives that brought us to this moment and continue to express our humanity through, music, art, and literature, to ensure that, as a uniquely creative species, we don’t simply vanish in the ether of an evolution brought about by our own technology.
Author: Javier Marías Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307960730 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 353
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FINALIST • From the award-winning, internationally bestselling Spanish author of A Heart So White comes an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder. "Sometimes startling, sometimes hilarious, and always intelligent ... Marías [has] a penetrating empathy."—The New York Times Book Review Each day before work María Dolz stops at the same café. There she finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning. Observing their seemingly perfect life helps her escape the listlessness of her own. But when the man is brutally murdered and María approaches the widow to offer her condolences, what began as mere observation turns into an increasingly complicated entanglement. Invited into the widow's home, she meets—and falls in love with—a man who sheds disturbing new light on the crime. As María recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly encased in a metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, chance and coincidence, and above all, with the slippery essence of the truth and how it is told.
Author: Michael Lawrence Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 006072479X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 356
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Sixteen-year-old Alaric discovers how to travel to an alternate reality, where his mother is alive and his place in the family is held by a girl named Naia.
Author: Javier Marías Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 0811216632 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 145
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Presents a collection of short stories, including "While the women are sleeping," in which a man lying on the beach spectulates on the lives of another pair of beach goers, and "The Resignation Letter of Señor de Santiesteban," in which a ghost jeopardizes the job of a new teacher.
Author: Publisher: Distanz ISBN: 9783954762279 Category : Portrait photography Languages : en Pages : 0
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The artists Sylwana Zybura and Tomas C. Toth have teamed up under the moniker crosslucid. Their shared undertaking is to develop "a prototype of the new world they long for." Yet this objective requires a variety of tests and experiments. What they envision is a trans-real identity, one that fuses multiple realities and modes of expression. It is often perceived as rapid change or as a reflection, almost a mirage. Many people's identities and their grasp of multiple levels of reality are increasingly equivocal today, eliciting contradictory interpretations. Zybura and Toth seek to deconstruct the strong personalities of the characters they depict, subjecting them to a fresh assessment and construing their bodies as landscapes. They are to be prepared to become part of an evolution that adapts to novel circumstances and technological progress and transcends gender, race, and norms. The fruits of two years of research, the portraits and still lifes included in this book are complemented by an essay by the curator and philosopher Simona Squadrito.
Author: Rosemary Kay Publisher: ISBN: 9780747274896 Category : Infants (Newborn) Languages : en Pages : 310
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When Rosemary Kay's baby, Saul, was born, he was nearly four months premature and weighed only 1 lb 4 oz. The doctors said he only had a 25% chance of survival. In fact, he did survive for five harrowing months, before eventually dying of meningitis, just days before he was due to go home. This is Saul's story. Written from Saul's perspective, from when he was in the womb through his stay in hospital to after he eventually gave up the fight, we see the adult world through his eyes, interwoven with a deep stream of consciousness which links Saul to the history of earlier generations of his family. This is a remarkable and original insight into the tragedy of losing a baby, written with immense courage. Far from bleak or morbid, by contrast it is a moving celebration of life. BETWEEN TWO ETERNITIES marks the stunning debut of a hugely talented writer.
Author: Javier Marías
Author: Javier Marías
Author: Gregory Bruce Smith
Author: Gummbah
Author: A. Parthasarathy
Author: Joseph R. Carvalko Jr.
Author: Javier Marías
Author: Michael Lawrence
Author: Javier Marías
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Author: Rosemary Kay