Author: Ladislav Klíma
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788090125773
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Klíma's intense inner life and complex mental state are reflected in his peculiar writings. His eccentricity of style and often volatile prose were intended to convey the deep conflicts attending his thought processes, and this is perhaps best exemplified in the novella Glorious Nemesis. Set in the Tyrol, it is a balladic ghost story that explores the metaphysics of love and death, crime and reincarnation. Sider, a man of twenty-eight, is confronted by a giant mountain named Stag's Head and an ancient hovel standing under a high, black cliff. Out one day on a hike, he encounters two women who will mark his fate: the elder Errata, dressed in red, and the younger Orea, dressed in blue (the two colors of the Virgin Mary). From this point on Sider is on a quest for the All, the Absolute, and to achieve eternity by atoning for the misdeeds of a past life. Willing to risk his entire fortune and sanity, he succumbs to his dreams and hallucinations as Orea, or her doppelgänger, becomes for him a representation of the goddess Nemesis who initiates him into the mysteries of divine retribution.
Glorious Nemesis
Author: Ladislav Klíma
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788090125773
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Klíma's intense inner life and complex mental state are reflected in his peculiar writings. His eccentricity of style and often volatile prose were intended to convey the deep conflicts attending his thought processes, and this is perhaps best exemplified in the novella Glorious Nemesis. Set in the Tyrol, it is a balladic ghost story that explores the metaphysics of love and death, crime and reincarnation. Sider, a man of twenty-eight, is confronted by a giant mountain named Stag's Head and an ancient hovel standing under a high, black cliff. Out one day on a hike, he encounters two women who will mark his fate: the elder Errata, dressed in red, and the younger Orea, dressed in blue (the two colors of the Virgin Mary). From this point on Sider is on a quest for the All, the Absolute, and to achieve eternity by atoning for the misdeeds of a past life. Willing to risk his entire fortune and sanity, he succumbs to his dreams and hallucinations as Orea, or her doppelgänger, becomes for him a representation of the goddess Nemesis who initiates him into the mysteries of divine retribution.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788090125773
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Klíma's intense inner life and complex mental state are reflected in his peculiar writings. His eccentricity of style and often volatile prose were intended to convey the deep conflicts attending his thought processes, and this is perhaps best exemplified in the novella Glorious Nemesis. Set in the Tyrol, it is a balladic ghost story that explores the metaphysics of love and death, crime and reincarnation. Sider, a man of twenty-eight, is confronted by a giant mountain named Stag's Head and an ancient hovel standing under a high, black cliff. Out one day on a hike, he encounters two women who will mark his fate: the elder Errata, dressed in red, and the younger Orea, dressed in blue (the two colors of the Virgin Mary). From this point on Sider is on a quest for the All, the Absolute, and to achieve eternity by atoning for the misdeeds of a past life. Willing to risk his entire fortune and sanity, he succumbs to his dreams and hallucinations as Orea, or her doppelgänger, becomes for him a representation of the goddess Nemesis who initiates him into the mysteries of divine retribution.
SACER
Author: Nicola Masciandaro
Publisher: Nicola Masciandaro
ISBN: 1543166237
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
From Schism[2] Press "Taking advantage of the ‘closet screenplay’ format to emphasize the cinematic ritualistic structure of contemporary imaginaries, Nicola Masciandaro’s SACER is an extraordinary techno-mystical, meta-cult fiction about the recurrently sacrificial nature of life and art. Following a set of characters linked to the cult horror movie FORSAKEN—including members of an enigmatic secret society, actors, filmakers and scholars, some of them suffering the hallucinatory effects of a neuro-hacking, virtual-reality Baphomet—, SACER is an audacious narrative investigation of, as Bataille would say, the sacred as sacrifice and the genuine ecstasy as violently negative. Under the explicit influence of E. Elias Merighe’s Begotten and Dario Argento’s Suspiria, Masciandaro invokes Augustine, Ignatius of Loyola, Cioran, Bataille, Klossowski, and the Hindu mahavidya Chinnamasta to explore the links between ecstasy, sacrifice, death, re-birth, and the neuro-alchemy of demonic possession deeply embedded in our technologies of perception." Germán Sierra
Publisher: Nicola Masciandaro
ISBN: 1543166237
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
From Schism[2] Press "Taking advantage of the ‘closet screenplay’ format to emphasize the cinematic ritualistic structure of contemporary imaginaries, Nicola Masciandaro’s SACER is an extraordinary techno-mystical, meta-cult fiction about the recurrently sacrificial nature of life and art. Following a set of characters linked to the cult horror movie FORSAKEN—including members of an enigmatic secret society, actors, filmakers and scholars, some of them suffering the hallucinatory effects of a neuro-hacking, virtual-reality Baphomet—, SACER is an audacious narrative investigation of, as Bataille would say, the sacred as sacrifice and the genuine ecstasy as violently negative. Under the explicit influence of E. Elias Merighe’s Begotten and Dario Argento’s Suspiria, Masciandaro invokes Augustine, Ignatius of Loyola, Cioran, Bataille, Klossowski, and the Hindu mahavidya Chinnamasta to explore the links between ecstasy, sacrifice, death, re-birth, and the neuro-alchemy of demonic possession deeply embedded in our technologies of perception." Germán Sierra
Nightwork
Author: Jáchym Topol
Publisher: Portobello Books
ISBN: 1846275415
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
One night in 1968, on the eve of the Soviet invasion, 13 year-old Ondra and his younger brother Kamil are bundled into a coach bound for their father's birthplace, a mountainous, forested village in northern Bohemia. But when they arrive it becomes clear that this escape promises its own perils, and the boys find themselves stranded in a rural community riven with petty suspicion and stained by prejudice, a borderland over which fleeing peoples, victims of genocide, and trigger-happy armies regularly tramp. Growing up in this dark, chaotic landscape, the two boys struggle to make a home for themselves, until a series of unexplained deaths push them to make bold decisions to ensure their survival.
Publisher: Portobello Books
ISBN: 1846275415
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
One night in 1968, on the eve of the Soviet invasion, 13 year-old Ondra and his younger brother Kamil are bundled into a coach bound for their father's birthplace, a mountainous, forested village in northern Bohemia. But when they arrive it becomes clear that this escape promises its own perils, and the boys find themselves stranded in a rural community riven with petty suspicion and stained by prejudice, a borderland over which fleeing peoples, victims of genocide, and trigger-happy armies regularly tramp. Growing up in this dark, chaotic landscape, the two boys struggle to make a home for themselves, until a series of unexplained deaths push them to make bold decisions to ensure their survival.
Shadowdance
Author: Kristen Callihan
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 1455520829
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Once a heart is lost in shadow . . . Life has been anything but kind to Mary Chase. But the Society for the Suppression of Supernaturals has given her purpose. Now she's been tasked with catching a vicious murderer dubbed the Bishop of Charing Cross. But someone is already on the case-and the last thing he relishes is a partner. Only someone who lives in darkness can find it. Jack Talent has been alone with his demons for many years. He never expected to have the willful Mary Chase assist him on the Bishop case. Their age-old rivalry reaches new heights-even as their desire for one another reaches a fever pitch. Though he aches to bring her close, Jack's dark secrets are a chasm between them. With dangerous enemies closing in, Jack must find the strength to face the past . . . or risk losing Mary forever.
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 1455520829
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Once a heart is lost in shadow . . . Life has been anything but kind to Mary Chase. But the Society for the Suppression of Supernaturals has given her purpose. Now she's been tasked with catching a vicious murderer dubbed the Bishop of Charing Cross. But someone is already on the case-and the last thing he relishes is a partner. Only someone who lives in darkness can find it. Jack Talent has been alone with his demons for many years. He never expected to have the willful Mary Chase assist him on the Bishop case. Their age-old rivalry reaches new heights-even as their desire for one another reaches a fever pitch. Though he aches to bring her close, Jack's dark secrets are a chasm between them. With dangerous enemies closing in, Jack must find the strength to face the past . . . or risk losing Mary forever.
Voice, Text, Hypertext
Author: Raimonda Modiano
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295983059
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This collection of essays explores the materials, lacunae, methods, and goals of oral texts. It confronts the implications of the instability, unexpectedness, and complexity of material texts. It raises questions about the subversive and subverted texts, and devotes considerable space to the problems and opportunities of electronic texts.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295983059
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This collection of essays explores the materials, lacunae, methods, and goals of oral texts. It confronts the implications of the instability, unexpectedness, and complexity of material texts. It raises questions about the subversive and subverted texts, and devotes considerable space to the problems and opportunities of electronic texts.
Dealbreakers
Author: Lauren Forsythe
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593422538
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
One woman’s trash is another woman’s treasure. A woman with high standards. A rival coworker. And the promotion that stands between them . . . Coder Marina Spicer has no time to waste when it comes to love, hence her long list of dealbreakers. Frustrated by the online dating world, she created Dealbreakers, an anonymous app where women review how men stack up to their internet profiles. Her high standards have served her well at work, so why not in love? Enter Lucas Kennedy. A charming Irish content writer, he’s the only one standing between Marina and her long-deserved promotion. Much to Marina’s chagrin, the two are paired on a project to test out date ideas, ultimately determining which of them will run the department. Taking a peek at Dealbreakers hoping to learn some dirt about her rival, she finds he’s the worst-rated man on the entire app. As Lucas and Marina argue their way through mixing cocktails, salsa dancing, and throwing axes, Marina finds herself having more fun than she’s had in years. So when temptation becomes too strong to resist, Marina allows herself to break some of her own rules. After all, if the Dealbreakers say he’s Mr. Wrong, he can’t possibly be Mr. Right . . . can he?
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593422538
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
One woman’s trash is another woman’s treasure. A woman with high standards. A rival coworker. And the promotion that stands between them . . . Coder Marina Spicer has no time to waste when it comes to love, hence her long list of dealbreakers. Frustrated by the online dating world, she created Dealbreakers, an anonymous app where women review how men stack up to their internet profiles. Her high standards have served her well at work, so why not in love? Enter Lucas Kennedy. A charming Irish content writer, he’s the only one standing between Marina and her long-deserved promotion. Much to Marina’s chagrin, the two are paired on a project to test out date ideas, ultimately determining which of them will run the department. Taking a peek at Dealbreakers hoping to learn some dirt about her rival, she finds he’s the worst-rated man on the entire app. As Lucas and Marina argue their way through mixing cocktails, salsa dancing, and throwing axes, Marina finds herself having more fun than she’s had in years. So when temptation becomes too strong to resist, Marina allows herself to break some of her own rules. After all, if the Dealbreakers say he’s Mr. Wrong, he can’t possibly be Mr. Right . . . can he?
Harlequin Presents June 2023 - Box Set 1 of 2
Author: Sharon Kendrick
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369727215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 739
Book Description
Harlequin Presents brings you four full-length stories in one collection! Experience the glamorous lives of royals and billionaires, where passion knows no bounds. Be swept into a world of luxury, wealth and exotic locations. This box set includes: ITALIAN NIGHTS TO CLAIM THE VIRGIN by USA TODAY bestselling author Sharon Kendrick Billionaire Alessio can think of nothing worse than attending another fraught family event alone. So, upon finding Nicola moonlighting as a waitress to make ends meet, they strike a bargain. He’ll pay the innocent to accompany him to Italy…as his girlfriend! KIDNAPPED FOR THE ACOSTA HEIR (A The Acostas! novel) by USA TODAY bestselling author Susan Stephens One unforgettable night with Alejandro leaves Sienna carrying a nine-month secret! But before she has the chance to confess, he discovers the truth and steals her away on his superyacht. Now, Sienna is about to realize how intent Alejandro is on claiming his child… SECRETLY PREGNANT BY THE TYCOON by Bella Mason Hannah flies across the globe to reveal her pregnancy to Matt. But his guarded reaction leaves her questioning how he’s the same man who fulfilled her greatest desires! If she’s to uproot her world he’ll have to let her in! RIVALS AT THE ROYAL ALTAR by Julieanne Howells When the off-limits chemistry that Prince Sebastian and Queen Agnesse have long ignored explodes...the consequences are legally binding! They have faced heartbreak apart. But if they can finally believe that love exists…it could help them face their biggest trial together. For more stories filled with passion and drama, look for Harlequin Presents June 2023 Box Set – 2 of 2
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369727215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 739
Book Description
Harlequin Presents brings you four full-length stories in one collection! Experience the glamorous lives of royals and billionaires, where passion knows no bounds. Be swept into a world of luxury, wealth and exotic locations. This box set includes: ITALIAN NIGHTS TO CLAIM THE VIRGIN by USA TODAY bestselling author Sharon Kendrick Billionaire Alessio can think of nothing worse than attending another fraught family event alone. So, upon finding Nicola moonlighting as a waitress to make ends meet, they strike a bargain. He’ll pay the innocent to accompany him to Italy…as his girlfriend! KIDNAPPED FOR THE ACOSTA HEIR (A The Acostas! novel) by USA TODAY bestselling author Susan Stephens One unforgettable night with Alejandro leaves Sienna carrying a nine-month secret! But before she has the chance to confess, he discovers the truth and steals her away on his superyacht. Now, Sienna is about to realize how intent Alejandro is on claiming his child… SECRETLY PREGNANT BY THE TYCOON by Bella Mason Hannah flies across the globe to reveal her pregnancy to Matt. But his guarded reaction leaves her questioning how he’s the same man who fulfilled her greatest desires! If she’s to uproot her world he’ll have to let her in! RIVALS AT THE ROYAL ALTAR by Julieanne Howells When the off-limits chemistry that Prince Sebastian and Queen Agnesse have long ignored explodes...the consequences are legally binding! They have faced heartbreak apart. But if they can finally believe that love exists…it could help them face their biggest trial together. For more stories filled with passion and drama, look for Harlequin Presents June 2023 Box Set – 2 of 2
The Glorious Qurán
Author: Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Publisher: eduright4all
ISBN:
Category : Qurʼan
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher: eduright4all
ISBN:
Category : Qurʼan
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Glorious Causes
Author: Yale R. Magrass
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000186385
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Drawing on historical cases of the American South before and after the Civil War, Europe – especially Germany – between the world wars, and the United States in Vietnam and its aftermath, this book takes a historical approach to explain the problems of capitalism and democratic leadership in western democracies today. Capitalist democracies proclaim equality, material prosperity and comfort but produce extreme differences in wealth and power. They promise security and peace, but deliver frequent wars. The promises broken, elites often turn to other visions- partially borrowed from feudalism- to win public support. Nations turn to honor, nobility and war as a way of winning over workers and legitimating the capitalist system itself. Capitalism’s contradictions often have produced a cultural divide. One side, "cosmopolitans" – urban, see themselves as citizens of the world, not one region or country – identify as secular, preach multi-culturalism, entertain state welfare systems, and are cautious about going to war. Their opponents, "traditionalists," breed among people who feel left behind, anxiousness and insecurity, often embracing community, tradition, God and family. The devastation of the world wars and the Third Reich led Europe to forgo visions of empire, militarism and glory and focus upon improving the quality of life for their own citizens. Although the United States does not need to experience comparable trauma, they should follow Europe’s example- forget glory and instead build a better life for the American people. The last chapter will consider how such a change could emerge in the US and who might help fight for it.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000186385
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Drawing on historical cases of the American South before and after the Civil War, Europe – especially Germany – between the world wars, and the United States in Vietnam and its aftermath, this book takes a historical approach to explain the problems of capitalism and democratic leadership in western democracies today. Capitalist democracies proclaim equality, material prosperity and comfort but produce extreme differences in wealth and power. They promise security and peace, but deliver frequent wars. The promises broken, elites often turn to other visions- partially borrowed from feudalism- to win public support. Nations turn to honor, nobility and war as a way of winning over workers and legitimating the capitalist system itself. Capitalism’s contradictions often have produced a cultural divide. One side, "cosmopolitans" – urban, see themselves as citizens of the world, not one region or country – identify as secular, preach multi-culturalism, entertain state welfare systems, and are cautious about going to war. Their opponents, "traditionalists," breed among people who feel left behind, anxiousness and insecurity, often embracing community, tradition, God and family. The devastation of the world wars and the Third Reich led Europe to forgo visions of empire, militarism and glory and focus upon improving the quality of life for their own citizens. Although the United States does not need to experience comparable trauma, they should follow Europe’s example- forget glory and instead build a better life for the American people. The last chapter will consider how such a change could emerge in the US and who might help fight for it.