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Author: Julian Barnes Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 110194725X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 170
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From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending comes an extraordinary fictional portrait of the relentlessly fascinating Russian musician and composer Dmitri Shostakovich and a stunning meditation on the meaning of art and its place in society. • “Brilliant…. As elegantly constructed as a concerto.” —NPR 1936: Dmitri Shostakovich, just thirty years old, reckons with the first of three conversations with power that will irrevocably shape his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has suddenly denounced the young composer’s latest opera. Certain he will be exiled to Siberia (or, more likely, shot dead on the spot), Shostakovich reflects on his predicament, his personal history, his parents, his daughter—all of those hanging in the balance of his fate. And though a stroke of luck prevents him from becoming yet another casualty of the Great Terror, he will twice more be swept up by the forces of despotism: coerced into praising the Soviet state at a cultural conference in New York in 1948, and finally bullied into joining the Party in 1960. All the while, he is compelled to constantly weigh the specter of power against the integrity of his music.
Author: Julian Barnes Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 110194725X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 170
Book Description
From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending comes an extraordinary fictional portrait of the relentlessly fascinating Russian musician and composer Dmitri Shostakovich and a stunning meditation on the meaning of art and its place in society. • “Brilliant…. As elegantly constructed as a concerto.” —NPR 1936: Dmitri Shostakovich, just thirty years old, reckons with the first of three conversations with power that will irrevocably shape his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has suddenly denounced the young composer’s latest opera. Certain he will be exiled to Siberia (or, more likely, shot dead on the spot), Shostakovich reflects on his predicament, his personal history, his parents, his daughter—all of those hanging in the balance of his fate. And though a stroke of luck prevents him from becoming yet another casualty of the Great Terror, he will twice more be swept up by the forces of despotism: coerced into praising the Soviet state at a cultural conference in New York in 1948, and finally bullied into joining the Party in 1960. All the while, he is compelled to constantly weigh the specter of power against the integrity of his music.
Author: Giorgio Vecchi Publisher: Aletti Editore ISBN: 8859187567 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 83
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Giorgio Vecchi è stato, per oltre trentacinque anni, Professore Associato di Lingua Spagnola all'Università di Pavia. Sue poesie sono state premiate in concorsi locali e nazionali. Piacentino di nascita e di formazione, vive da anni in Oltrepò pavese. Nel 2021 ha pubblicato “Albergo Roma e dintorni”, un volume di racconti sulla Piacenza degli anni '50. È da poco uscito un suo volume di liriche dal titolo “I palpiti del tempo”. Le liriche presenti in questa raccolta parlano soprattutto dell'amore, del difficile rapporto con l'altra, una compagna reale o, spesso, inventata con cui il dialogo è in definitiva impossibile. Il poeta sembra interessato più che al contenuto alla forma/musica del verso in un approccio diretto al lettore che dovrebbe percepire il testo come un giuoco virtuoso tendente a creare una sorta di comunicazione con l'autore. Giorgio Vecchi has been Associate Professor of Spanish Language at the University of Pavia for over thirty-five years. His poems have won prizes in local and national competitions. He is a native of Piacenza by birth and education and has lived in Oltrepò Pavese for many years. In 2021 he published 'Albergo Roma e dintorni', a volume of short stories about Piacenza in the 1950s. A volume of his poems entitled 'I palpiti del tempo' has recently been published. The poems in this collection speak above all of love, of the difficult relationship with the other person, a real or, often, invented companion with whom dialogue is ultimately impossible. The poet seems more interested in the form/music of the verse than in the content, in a direct approach to the reader, who should perceive the text as a virtuous game intending to create a kind of communication with the author.
Author: Elvin Karana Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann ISBN: 0080993761 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 411
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There currently exists an abundance of materials selection advice for designers suited to solving technical product requirements. In contrast, a stark gap can be found in current literature that articulates the very real personal, social, cultural and economic connections between materials and the design of the material world. In Materials Experience: Fundamentals of Materials and Design, thirty-four of the leading academicians and experts, alongside 8 professional designers, have come together for the first time to offer their expertise and insights on a number of topics common to materials and product design. The result is a very readable and varied panorama on the world of materials and product design as it currently stands. Contributions by many of the most prominent materials experts and designers in the field today, with a foreword by Mike Ashby The book is organized into 4 main themes: sustainability, user interaction, technology and selection Between chapters, you will find the results of interviews conducted with internationally known designers These ‘designer perspectives’ will provide a ‘time out’ from the academic articles, with emphasis placed on fascinating insights, product examples and visuals
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