Added by: sebestyenaniko | Karma: 20.02 | Fiction literature | 24 August 2008
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This novel (1995) is about Ryder, a famous pianist who arrives in a central European city to perform a concert. However, he appears to have lost most of his memory and finds his new environment surreal and dreamlike. He struggles to fulfill his commitments before Thursday night's performance.
The novel takes place over a period of three days.
Added by: LuckyLirik | Karma: 26.17 | Fiction literature | 24 August 2008
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The renowned psychoanalyst Erich Fromm has helped millions of men and women achieve rich, productive lives by developing their hidden capacities for love. In this astonishly frank and candid book, he explores the ways in which this extraordinary emotion can alter the whole course of your life.
Added by: englishcology | Karma: 4552.53 | Fiction literature | 23 August 2008
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With this play which was first produced in 1960 Pinter became a well- known and admired dramatist. It is still considered one of his finest plays. It is the story of three character, Davies, an elderly wanderer who has been saved by the middle- aged Aston and brought into the home he shares with his brother Mick. The three characters in the course of the play talk at length and reveal their own respective characters. There is a sense of menace and threat in the relationships- and there is much focusing on trivialities of everyday life. The play in short is Pinteresque though it static quality, absurdity and illogic make it somewhat difficult to get a hold on.
Added by: sebestyenaniko | Karma: 20.02 | Fiction literature | 23 August 2008
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The novel is built on the notion that very late at night, after the
lamps of logic have been snuffed and rationality has shut its eyes,
life on earth becomes boundariless and blurred. Individuals who were
separate during the day begin to lose uniqueness, to leak
distinctiveness, melting into a soft psychic collective. As the hands
of the clock slice deeper into the shadows, physics weakens, yielding
to metaphysics, and the rigid you and I of things breaks down. During
the wee hours, we’re all in this together, our spirits spooned like
lovers’ bodies.
This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers
of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of
antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war,
and politics, and composer of short hymns to the gods. Also included
are the principal testimonia, the ancients' reports on the lives and
work of the two poets.
BILINGUAL
Greek (some latin in Testimonia) on left page, English translation on the adjoining page.