Download or read book The Obstinate Snail written by Rachid Boudjedra and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Translated from the French by Leon Stephen. THE OBSTINATE SNAIL is the first translation into English of Boudjedra's diabolical satire of the bureaucratic mind, L'escargot entêté. Here are the notes of a civil servant in North Africa dedicated to ridding his fair city of a thriving population of rats, yet menaced by a solitary snail. Obsession, sexual repression and megalomania drive him on. Translator Leon Stephens provides a brief survey of Boudjedra's life and work at the end of the volume.
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Download or read book Harvest written by Clarke Wallace and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American writer Jake Bauer faces an ultimatum from his agent: stay in a Paris apartment and don't venture outside until he finishes his latest book. But Alice should have known better than to expect Bauer would follow orders. Instead, he stops in London and enjoys an evening of lighthearted debauchery before sobering up aboard a houseboat moored in the Thames. It's then he meets Tessa, a French woman who delights him with her charm, beauty, and wit. In a moment, she's gone, and it's up to Bauer to track her down. But at what cost? When he finds her, Bauer discovers Tessa is not all she appeared to be. She's also suspected of being involved in a murder. The best of Europe, wine, and romance make Harvest a thrilling mystery full of surprises.
Download or read book The Algerian New Novel written by Valérie K. Orlando and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disputing the claim that Algerian writing during the struggle against French colonial rule dealt almost exclusively with revolutionary themes, The Algerian New Novel shows how Algerian authors writing in French actively contributed to the experimental forms of the period, expressing a new age literarily as well as politically and culturally. Looking at canonical Algerian literature as part of the larger literary production in French during decolonization, Valérie K. Orlando considers how novels by Rachid Boudjedra, Mohammed Dib, Assia Djebar, Nabile Farès, Yamina Mechakra, and Kateb Yacine both influenced and were reflectors of the sociopolitical and cultural transformation that took place during this period in Algeria. Although their themes were rooted in Algeria, the avant-garde writing styles of these authors were influenced by early twentieth-century American modernists, the New Novelists of 1940s–50s France, and African American authors of the 1950s–60s. This complex mix of influences led Algerian writers to develop a unique modern literary aesthetic to express their world, a tradition of experimentation and fragmentation that still characterizes the work of contemporary Algerian francophone writers.
Download or read book Occidentalism written by Zahia Smail Salhi and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluates the East-West encounter portrayed in Maghrebi literature from colonial times to the post-9/11 period.
Download or read book Arabic Literature for the Classroom written by Mushin al-Musawi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents theoretical and methodical cultural concerns in teaching literatures from non-American cultures along with issues of cross-cultural communication, cultural competency and translation. Covering topics such as the 1001 Nights, Maqamat, Arabic poetry, women’s writing, classical poetics, issues of gender, race, and class, North African concerns, language acquisition through literature, Arab-spring writing, women’s correspondence, issues connected with the so called nahdah (revival) movement in the 19th century and many others, the book provides perspectives and topics that serve in both the planning of new courses and accommodation to already existing programs.
Download or read book The War and Its Shadow written by Helen Graham and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spain today, its civil war remains 'the past that will not pass away.' The long shadow of World War II also brings back to central focus its most disquieting aspects, revealing to a broader public the stark truth already known by specialist historians - that in Spain, as in the many other internecine wars that would soon convulse Europe, war was waged predominantly upon civilians: millions were killed, not by invaders and strangers, but by their own compatriots, including their own neighbors. Across the continent, Hitler's war of territorial expansion after 1938 would detonate a myriad 'irregular wars' of culture, as well as of politics, which took on a 'cleansing' intransigence, as those driving them sought to make 'homogeneous' communities, whether ethnic, political, or religious. So much of this was prefigured with primal intensity in Spain in 1936, where, on July 17-18, a group of army officers rebelled against the socially-reforming Republic. Saved from almost certain failure by Nazi and Fascist military intervention, and by a British inaction amounting to complicity, these army rebels unleashed a conflict in which civilians became the targets of mass killing. The new military authorities authorized and presided over an extermination of those sectors associated with Republican change, especially those who symbolized cultural change and thus posed a threat to old ways of being and thinking: progressive teachers, self-educated workers, 'new' women. In the Republican zone, resistance to the coup also led to the murder of civilians. This extrajudicial and communal killing in both zones would fundamentally make new political and cultural meanings that changed Spain's political landscape forever. The War and Its Shadow explores the origins, nature, and long-term consequences of this exterminatory war in Spain, charting the resonant forms of political, social, and cultural resistance to it and the memory/legacy these have left behind in Europe and beyond. Not least is our growing sense of the enormity of what, in greater European terms, the Republican war effort resisted: Nazi adventurism and the continent-wide wars of ethnic and political 'purification' it would unleash.
Download or read book Holme Lee s Fairy Tales written by Holme Lee and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the childhood, youth and great journey of the fairy Tuflongbo, from his beginning on a parsley leaf until, at the end of a long life and many adventures, he "puts off his shoes."
Download or read book Halting Steps written by Claribel Alegría and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-31 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halting Steps represents the most complete single-volume retrospective in English of Claribel Alegr a's seven-decade career. The volume collects all of Alegr a's poems from her fourteen previously published books and debuts several new poems under the title "Otherness." Alegr a was born in Nicaragua during the United States occupation of that country. Alegr a's family opposed the occupation and moved to El Salvador, where she grew up. Her poetry is not only lyrical and introspective but also po-litically engaged. Her verse has always spoken forcefully, specifically, and fearlessly to matters of social justice in her region. She strikes a universal theme, however, in giving a voice to individuals of all classes in their struggle against oppression, but especially women who must contend with a system in which men hold the power and women are ex-cluded. Alegr a demonstrates her remarkable range with deeply personal poems, perhaps most notably in the poem cycle "Sorrow," as she moves steadily through the waves of grief she experiences after her husband's death. In Halting Steps, both longtime admirers and those new to her work can appreciate the sustained creative power of Claribel Alegr a's poems.
Download or read book The Backwoodsmen written by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts and published by London : Ward, Lock. This book was released on 1909 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Fables and moral maxims in verse and prose selected by A Parker written by Anne Parker and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legends from Fairy Land written by Holme Lee and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Snail s Pace written by Susan McDonough-Wachtman and published by Water Dragon Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman in 1884 doesn’t have many options … But Susannah did not expect to be tutoring an alien snail child while aboard a ship sailing in space … Who will get the real education? Orphaned and penniless in Hong Kong in 1884 — what’s a young gentlewoman to do? Impulsive, adventurous, and self-confident, Susannah accepts an offer to become the governess to a young foreigner on a ship. She does not expect the ship to be in space, or the foreign child to be an alien who looks like a giant snail. Nevertheless, she throws herself into the job of bringing Victorian decorum to the natives. But when she is accused of spying and put on trial in an alien court, Susannah has to challenge the law of the aliens to save herself — and her young and slimy student.
Download or read book The Backwoodsmen written by Charles Roberts and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
