Download or read book The Torch in my Ear written by Elias Canetti and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in the Nobel Prize winning author Elias Canetti's trilogy of memoirs, The Torch in My Ear This book presents an account of Canetti's young manhood, of his arrival in Vienna in the early 1920s, of his schooling, and of the beginning of his life as a writer.
Download or read book The Memoirs of Elias Canetti written by Elias Canetti and published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling account of the development of a great artist, and a portrait of the tragic character of an entire era The uncompromising achievement of Elias Canetti has been matched by few writers this century. Canetti worked brilliantly in many forms, but the three volumes that comprise his autobiography are where his genius is perhaps most evident. The first volume, The Tongue Set Free, presents the events, personalities, and intellectual forces that fed Canetti's early creative development. The Torch in My Ear explores his admiration for the first great mentor of his adulthood, Karl Krauss, and also describes his first marriage. The final volume, The Play of the Eyes, is set in Vienna between 1931 and 1937, with the European catastrophe imminent; here he vividly portrays relationships with Hermann Broch and Robert Musil, among others.
Download or read book The Play of the Eyes written by Elias Canetti and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Play of the Eyes is the third volume in Nobel Prize winning author Elias Canetti's trilogy of memoirs. Here, Canetti describes his young adult life as he tries to make it as a writer in Vienna during the 1930s, and provides vivid accounts of the remarkable figures he meets along the way, usually in cafes, from Robert Musil, Thomas Mann, and Herman Broch, among others. "Canetti uses a dramatist's gifts here to achieve emotional depth; his mother's death, sketched simply against the backdrop of a crumbling Europe, takes on a tragic dignity." - Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 2 written by John Docker and published by Kerr Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elsie Levy was born in the Jewish East End of London, came to Sydney with her family when she was 14, and joined the Communist Party of Australia when she was a young woman. In this book, her son explores her disaporic Jewish identity, both English and Australian, and in the process journeys into Jewish cultural histories. We meet important cultural figures such as Leonard Woolf, Freud, Schnitzler, Veza Canetti and Ida Rubinstein. This journey leads also to English anti-Semitism, including, shockingly, Bloomsbury. In turning to Communism and marrying out, Elsie Levy became one of history's undutiful daughters.
Download or read book The Elsewhere written by Adam Zachary Newton and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2005-08-03 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Elsewhere." Or, midbar-biblical Hebrew for both "wilderness" and "speech." A place of possession and dispossession, loss and nostalgia. But also a place that speaks. Ingeniously using a Talmudic interpretive formula about the disposition of boundaries, Newton explores narratives of "place, flight, border, and beyond." The writers of The Elsewhere are a disparate company of twentieth-century memoirists and fabulists from the Levant (Palestine/Israel, Egypt) and East Central Europe. Together, their texts-cunningly paired so as to speak to one another in mutually revelatory ways-narrate the paradox of the "near distance."
Download or read book The Loop written by Ben Oliver and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luka Kane has been inside hi-tech prison the Loop for over two years. A death sentence is hanging over his head but his day-to-day routine is mind-numbingly repetitive. Then everything changes. Soon, Luka has to face a new reality: breaking out of the Loop might be his only chance to save himself - and the world ...
Download or read book Revolution written by Enzo Traverso and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brilliant and beautiful. Now this book exists, it’s hard to know how we did without it." –China Miéville, author of October A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century's age of revolutions This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of "dialectical images": Marx's "locomotives of history," Alexandra Kollontai's sexually liberated bodies, Lenin's mummified body, Auguste Blanqui's barricades and red flags, the Paris Commune's demolition of the Vendome Column, among several others. It connects theories with the existential trajectories of the thinkers who elaborated them, by sketching the diverse profiles of revolutionary intellectuals--from Marx and Bakunin to Luxemburg and the Bolsheviks, from Mao and Ho Chi Minh to José Carlos Mariátegui, C.L.R. James, and other rebellious spirits from the South--as outcasts and pariahs. And finally, it analyzes the entanglement between revolution and communism that so deeply shaped the history of the twentieth century. This book thus merges ideas and representations by devoting an equal importance to theoretical and iconographic sources, offering for our troubled present a new intellectual history of the revolutionary past.
Download or read book Crowds and Power written by Elias Canetti and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do crowds work? What is the nature of their unique creation - the demagogue? This is the renowned and original analysis of one of the 20th century's most threatening and influential phenomena by the Nobel Prize-winning thinker Elias Canetti.
Download or read book Irish Literature written by Justin McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Witching Hour written by Morgana Best and published by Best Cosy Books. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Australian journalist, Misty Friday, receives a mysterious letter summoning her to England, she expects to find her elderly relative. Instead, she has a witch of a time, stumbling across danger, a cat, bad coffee, and the enigmatic John Smith, who might have his own reasons for being in Britain. The murder of her relative brings more questions. Can Misty solve the murder before she becomes the next victim? Will she survive her new cat's attitude? And, more importantly, will she find good coffee before it is too late? Or is that simply witchful thinking? Book 2 in this charming paranormal cozy mystery series from USA Today Bestselling Author, Morgana Best.
Download or read book The Argonaut written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Representing the Passions written by Richard Evan Meyer and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an interlocking series of texts and images, this work explores how extreme sensations such as wonder, misery, ecstasy and rage have been portrayed at different moments in Western culture. Moving across multiple fields of creative endeavour and intellectual inquiry - from classical artefacts to Chicano art, political protest to operatic performance, Rene Descartes's writings on the soul to the Internet's digitised flesh - it reveals how the passions have elicited, eluded and transformed the act of representation.
Download or read book His Ghoul Friday Three Book Box Set written by Morgana Best and published by Best Cosy Books. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder She Wrote with a touch of Bewitched! Join Aussie journalist Misty Friday and her Aunty June in three fun cozy mystery adventures. Books in this Box Set Collection: BOOK 1: A TALE OF MER-DER Misty's mean boss sends her to an island resort in the Great Barrier Reef to investigate a paranormal event, but mermaid sightings and murder throw her off the track. When Misty makes waves, she attracts the attention of the murderer and one mysterious stranger. Will Misty get to the bottom of this, or are there too many red herrings? BOOK 2: THE WITCHING HOUR When Misty receives a mysterious letter summoning her to England, she expects to find her elderly relative. Instead, she has a witch of a time, stumbling across danger, a cat, bad coffee, and the enigmatic John Smith, who might have his own reasons for being in Britain. BOOK 3: ARTS AND WITCHCRAFTS With Aunty June in tow, Misty arrives in a touristy Aussie town to write about the ghost tours. But when she stumbles upon a centuries' old murder mystery, she will need to crack the cold case before those keen to bury the town's secrets end up burying her. His Ghoul Friday Box Set Books 1-3 contains the first 3 books in the paranormal cozy series from USA Today Bestselling author, Morgana Best.
Download or read book The Mighty Miss Malone written by Christopher Paul Curtis and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful" is the motto of Deza Malone's family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, singled out by teachers for a special path in life. But it's 1936 and the Great Depression has hit Gary hard, and there are no jobs for black men. When her beloved father leaves to find work, Deza, Mother, and her older brother, Jimmie, go in search of him, and end up in a Hooverville outside Flint, Michigan. Jimmie's beautiful voice inspires him to leave the camp to be a performer, while Deza and Mother find a new home, and cling to the hope that they will find Father. The twists and turns of their story reveal the devastation of the Depression and prove that Deza truly is the Mighty Miss Malone.
Download or read book The Tongue Set Free written by Elias Canetti and published by Granta Books (Uk). This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: LITERARY. The Tongue Set Free is so beautifully written. It begins wtih an extraordinary image, Canetti's earliest memory. He comes out of a room. A man makes him stick out his tongue; if he talks he will cut it off. Years later Canetti realises that this was his nursemaid's lover, frightening him into silence about their rendezvous. The idea of speaking as the entry into forbidden grown-up life dominates this book. When he is seven his father dies. He is propelled from childhood into adulthood, from his father to his mother, through language. In an extraordinary, cruel episode his mother forces him to learn perfect adult German in three months, to replace her husband as quickly as possible. His tongue is set free: he has won his mother, against brothers , against all lovers. It is the most intense Oedipal relationhsip I have ever seen described and Canetti describes it brilliantly. But it's all extraordinary, and all masterfully written.
Download or read book SaltWater written by Lane Ashfeldt and published by Liberties Press. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SaltWater is a book of short fiction inspired by the sea, by award-winning fiction writer Lane Ashfeldt. The diverse stories gathered here include tales that unfold now or in the past, along rural or urban coasts, and are set in a range of countries from Ireland to as far away as New Zealand. Some of them are fast-paced while others beat to gentler rhythms - but what they share in common, besides their link with the sea, is that they are original new narratives vibrantly brought to life. Like the sea itself, SaltWater is by turns dark and foreboding, at other times life affirming and hopeful. A powerful, arresting collection from a voice we can expect to hear more from in the future.
