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Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2007
ISBN 10: 1590172523ISBN 13: 9781590172520
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Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2004
ISBN 10: 1590170857ISBN 13: 9781590170854
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Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 1999
ISBN 10: 0940322110ISBN 13: 9780940322110
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, 2021
ISBN 10: 1681372800ISBN 13: 9781681372808
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Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2011
ISBN 10: 1590173759ISBN 13: 9781590173756
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Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2014
ISBN 10: 1590177185ISBN 13: 9781590177181
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. On Being Blue is a book about everything blue-sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things-and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do.Gass writes-Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up. Among the ancient elements, blue occurs everywhere- in ice and water, in the flame as purely as in the flower, overhead and inside caves, covering fruit and oozing out of clay. Although green enlivens the earth and mixes in the ocean, and we find it, copperish, in fire; green air, green skies, are rare. Gray and brown are widely distributed, but there are no joyful swatches of either, or any of exuberant black, sullen pink, or acquiescent orange. Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life. Whether slick light sharp high bright thin quick sour new and cool or low deep sweet dark soft slow smooth heavy old and warm- blue moves easily among them all, and all profoundly qualify our states of feeling. On Being Blue is a book about everything blue-sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things-and about everything else. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2011
ISBN 10: 1590174445ISBN 13: 9781590174449
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Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2010
ISBN 10: 1590173392ISBN 13: 9781590173398
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Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2001
ISBN 10: 0940322625ISBN 13: 9780940322622
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Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, 2016
ISBN 10: 1590177177ISBN 13: 9781590177174
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Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2015
ISBN 10: 1590178947ISBN 13: 9781590178942
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. An NYRB Classics Original from one of the most important and revered philosophers of the 19th century, Anti-Education collects five brilliant and provocative lectures that Nietzsche delivered to the public in Basel in 1872. These lectures, in a clear and precise translation by Damion Searls, question accepted ideas about education and redefine what it means to truly learn.AN NYRB Classics OriginalIn 1869, at the age of twenty-four, the precociously brilliant Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed to a professorship of classical philology at the University of Basel. He seemed marked for a successful and conventional academic career. Then the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner transformed his ambitions. The genius of such thinkers and makers-the kind of genius that had emerged in ancient Greece-this alone was the touchstone for true understanding. But how was education to serve genius, especially in a modern society marked more and more by an unholy alliance between academic specialization, mass-market journalism, and the militarized state? Something more than sturdy scholarship was called for. A new way of teaching and questioning, a new philosophy . . .What that new way might be was the question Nietzsche broached in five vivid, popular public lectures in Basel in 1872.Anti-Educationpresents a provocative and timely reckoning with what remains one of the central challenges of the modern world. Composed in emulation (and to some degree as a satire) of a Platonic dialogue, this book presents a stimulating, provocative, and thoroughly timely reckoning with one of the great problems of the day. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2005
ISBN 10: 1590171179ISBN 13: 9781590171172
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Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 1590179943ISBN 13: 9781590179949
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Lindsay, Norman (illustrator). Paperback. Now in paperback The Magic Pudding is a pie, except when it's something else, like a steak, or a jam doughnut, or an apple dumpling, or whatever its owner wants it to be. And it never runs out. No matter how many slices you cut, there's always something left over. It's magic. But the Magic Pudding is also alive. It walks and it talks and it's got a personality like no other. A meaner, sulkier, snider, snarlinger Pudding you've never met. So Bunyip Bluegum (the koala bear) finds out when he joins Barnacle Bill (the sailor) and Sam Sawnoff (the penguin bold) as members of the Noble Society of Pudding Owners, whose "members are required to wander along the roads, indulgin' in conversation, song and story, and eatin' at regular intervals from the Pudding." Wild and woolly, funny and outrageously fun, The Magic Pudding stands somewhere between Alice in Wonderland and The Stinky Cheese Man as one of the craziest books ever written for young readers. A meaner, sulkier, snider, snarlinger Pudding you've never met. So Bunyip Bluegum finds out when he joins Barnacle Bill (the sailor) and Sam Sawnoff as members of the Noble Society of Pudding Owners, whose "members are required to wander along the roads, indulgin' in conversation, song and story, and eatin' at regular intervals from the Pudding." Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2017
ISBN 10: 1681371855ISBN 13: 9781681371856
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Blake, Quentin (illustrator). Paperback. If you think Babar is the only storybook elephant with a cult following, then you havent met Uncle, the presiding pachyderm of a wild fictional universe that has been collecting accolades from children and adults for going on fifty years. Unimaginably rich, invariably swathed in a magnificent purple dressing-gown, Uncle oversees a vast ramshackle castle full of friendly kooks while struggling to fend off the sneak attacks of the incorrigible (and ridiculous) Badfort Crowd. Each Uncle story introduces a new character from Uncles madcap world: Signor Guzman, careless keeper of the oil lakes; Noddy Ninety, an elderly train conductor and the oldest student of Dr. Lyres Select School for Young Gentlemen; the proprietors of Cheapmans Store (where motorbikes are a halfpenny each) and Dearmans Store (where the price of an old milk jug goes up daily); along with many others. But for every delightful friend of Uncle, there is a foe who is no less deliriously wicked. Luckily the misbegotten schemes of the Badfort Crowd are no match for Uncles superior wits. Quentin Blakes quirky illustrations are the perfect complement to J.P. Martins stories, each one of a perfect length for bedtime reading. Lovers of Roald Dahl and William Steig will rejoice in Uncles wonderfully bizarre and happy world, where the good guys always come out on top, and once a year, everybody, good and bad, sits down together for an enormous Christmas feast. Relates various adventures of Uncle, the millionaire elephant, who rules over the kingdom of Homeward while wearing a purple dressing gown. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2001
ISBN 10: 094032279XISBN 13: 9780940322790
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A hilarious and devastating tale of growing up in Hollywood.The hero of Darcy O'Brien's A Way of Life, Like Any Other is a child of Hollywood, and once his life was a glittery dream. His father starred in Westerns. His mother was a goddess of the silver screen. The family enjoyed the high life on their estate, Casa Fiesta. But his parents' careers have crashed since then, and their marriage has broken up too.Lovesick and sex-crazed, the mother sets out on an intercontinental quest for the right-or wrong-man, while her mild-mannered but manipulative former husband clings to his memories in California. And their teenage son? How he struggles both to keep faith with his family and to get by himself, and what in the end he must do to break free, makes for a classic coming-of-age story-a novel that combines keen insight and devastating wit to hilarious and heartbreaking effect. A classic coming-of-age story-a novel that combines keen insight and devastating wit to hilarious and heartbreaking effect. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2003
ISBN 10: 1590170571ISBN 13: 9781590170571
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Set an a mysterious island, Casares's novel weaves a complex web of plotting and narrative, building a storyJorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to .the Centre of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy s novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious. Suzanne Jill Levine s revision of Ruth Simm s translation offers a fresh experience of an uncanny work of genius.Inspired by Bioy Casares s fascination with the movie star Louise Brooks, The Invention of Morel has gone on to live a secret life of its own. Greatly admired by Julio Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Octavio Paz, the novella helped to usher in Latin American fiction s now famous postwar boom. As the model for Alain Renais and Alain Robbe-Grillet s Last Year in Marienbad, it also changed the history of film. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2001
ISBN 10: 0940322846ISBN 13: 9780940322844
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 1681370077ISBN 13: 9781681370071
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Williams, Garth (illustrator). Paperback. Miss Bianca is a white mouse of great beauty and supreme self-confidence, who, courtesy of her excellent young friend, the ambassadors son, resides luxuriously in a porcelain pagoda painted with violets, primroses, and lilies of the valley. Miss Bianca would seem to be a pampered creature, and not, you would suppose, the mouse to dispatch on an especially challenging and extraordinarily perilous mission. However, it is precisely Miss Bianca that the Prisoners Aid Society picks for the job of rescuing a Norwegian poet imprisoned in the legendarily dreadful Black Castle. Miss Bianca, after all, is a poet too, and in any case she is due to travel any day now to Norway. There Miss Bianca will be able to enlist one Nils, known to be the bravest mouse in the land, in a desperate and daring endeavor that will take them, along with their trusty companion Bernard, across turbulent seas and over the paws and under the maws of cats into one of the darkest places known to man or mouse. It will take everything theyve got and a good deal more to escape with their own lives, not to mention the poet. Margery Sharps classic tale of pluck, luck, and derring-do is amply and beautifully illustrated by the great Garth Williams. Sharp's classic tale of pluck, luck, and derring-do--featuring mouse heroes Miss Bianca and Bernard and basis for the Disney animated motion picture--is amply and beautifully illustrated by Williams. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2017
ISBN 10: 1681371847ISBN 13: 9781681371849
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Pinkwater, Daniel (illustrator). Paperback. An ALA Notable BookKids ages 9-12 will "delight in the oddness" of this Home Alone-style tale set in the 1970s-from a prolific children's author who captures "a magic that's not like anyone else's" (Neil Gaiman).With Victor's parents out of town, he is free to investigate the mysterious lizard musicians who have recently appeared on TV . . .Things Victor loves- pizza with anchovies, grape soda, B movies aired at midnight, the evening news. And with his parents off at a resort and his older sister shirking her babysitting duties, Victor has plenty of time to indulge himself and to try a few things he's been curious about. Exploring the nearby city of Hogboro, he runs into a curious character known as the Chicken Man (a reference to his companion, an intelligent hen named Claudia who lives under his hat).The Chicken Man speaks brilliant nonsense, but he seems to be hip to the lizard musicians (real lizards, not men in lizard suits) who've begun appearing on Victor's television after the broadcast of the late-late movie. Are the lizards from outer space? From "other space"? Together Victor and the Chicken Man, guided by the able Claudia, journey to the lizards' floating island, a strange and fantastic place that operates with an inspired logic of its own. Exploring the nearby city of Hogboro, he runs into a curious character known as the Chicken Man. The Chicken Man speaks brilliant nonsense, but he seems to be hip to the lizard musicians who've begun appearing on Victor's television after the broadcast of the late-late movie. Are the lizards from outer space? From "Other space"? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2014
ISBN 10: 1590177819ISBN 13: 9781590177815
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. An NYRB Classics OriginalAn NYRB Classics OriginalSimone Weil-philosopher, activist, mystic-is one of the most uncompromising of modern spiritual masters. In "On the Abolition of All Political Parties" she challenges the foundation of the modern liberal political order, making an argument that has particular resonance today, when the apathy and anger of the people and the self-serving partisanship of the political class present a threat to democracies all over the world. Dissecting the dynamic of power and propaganda caused by party spirit, the increasing disregard for truth in favor of opinion, and the consequent corruption of education, journalism, and art, Weil forcefully makes the case that a true politics can only begin where party spirit ends.This volume also includes an admiring portrait of Weil by the great poet Czeslaw Milosz and an essay about Weil's friendship with Albert Camus by the translator Simon Leys. Simone Weil is one of the most intransigent and taxing of spiritual masters, always willing to push her thinking-and us-one step beyond the apparently reasonable in pursuit of the one truth, the one good. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2018
ISBN 10: 1681373068ISBN 13: 9781681373065
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Chosen by the Sunday Times as one of its 99 Best Books for ChildrenThe people of remote Inishrone, a few miles off the Connemara coast, know better than to go to the Island of Horses. Everyone has heard tales of men who have gone there and never come back. Yet one day young Pat Conroy and his friend Danny MacDonagh head off anyway, telling their parents that they are fishing for eels. On the island they find no ghosts but many mysteries, including a beautiful--and tame--black colt. But when they return home, with the colt in tow, they find themselves launched into a world of trouble. Before their adventure is over, the boys must brave rough seas and the murderous duplicity of a conniving horse trader, with only the advice of Pat's frail grandmother and their own good sense to guide them.A loving, clear-eyed portrait of rural Irish life, The Island of Horses is fraught with suspense and peopled with unforgettable individuals. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2020
ISBN 10: 1681375060ISBN 13: 9781681375069
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Berson, Harold (illustrator). Paperback. Imagine how shocked you would be if, like ten-year-old Colin Mason, you were the oldest (smartest, best) kid in a family of four, and then you found out that all these years, without knowing it, you've had an older sister, an "awful, awful, bad, bad, girl-Loretta Mason Potts." Who? What? Wait! . But this is only the first of many surprises that lie in store for Colin, as things get curiouser and curiouser very fastImagine how shocked you would be if, like ten-year-old Colin Mason, you were the oldest (smartest, best) kid in a family of four, and then you found out that all these years, without knowing it, you've had an older sister, an "awful, awful, bad, bad, girl-Loretta Mason Potts." Who? What? Wait! . But this is only the first of many surprises that lie in store for Colin, as things get curiouser and curiouser very fast. Loretta (a glum gangly girl and so very very rude!) comes home and before you know it, Colin is secretly following her down a hidden tunnel that leads from a bedroom closet to an astonishing castle, where a charming and beautiful countess keeps court attended by a dapper and ever-obliging general, and in this world everybody loves Loretta (especially when she's rude), so much so that they're begging her to stay with them forever. What is the secret behind this mysterious other world and how does it connect to the many secrets in the Mason family? It'll take a spellbinding, hair-raising adventure, involving not just Colin and Loretta but their mother and the rest of the family, to work that out. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2019
ISBN 10: 1681373785ISBN 13: 9781681373782
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Gripe, Harald (illustrator). Paperback. By the Winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Children's LiteratureAlbert the glassblower and Sofia are the loving parents of little Klas and Klara. Albert makes the most beautiful glass bowls and vases (unfortunately they are so impractical that no one will buy them), while Sofia supports the family by working in the fields. Every year Albert goes to the fair to try to sell his wares, and sometimes Sofia and the children go too. At the fair the family meets Flutter Mildweather, a weaver of magical rugs that foretell the future, and Klas and Klara come the attention of the splendid Lord and Lady of All Wishes Town, who have everything they want except for one: children. Full of curious and vivid characterslike the one-eyed raven Wise Wit, who can only see the bright side of life, and the monstrous governess Nana, whose piercing song can shatter glassThe Glassblowers Children also ponders such serious matters as what it means to find meaningful work and the difference between what you want and what you need. In The Glassblowers Children Maria Gripe has drawn on fairy tales and Norse myths to tell a thrilling story with a very modern sensibility. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2017
ISBN 10: 1681371049ISBN 13: 9781681371047
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A time-travel story that is both a poignant exploration of human identity and an absorbing tale of suspense.Its natural to feel a little out of place when youre the new kid, but when Charlotte Makepeace wakes up after her first night at boarding school, shes baffled: everyone thinks shes a girl called Clare Mobley, and even more shockingly, it seems she has traveled forty years back in time to 1918. In the months that follow, Charlotte wakes alternately in her own time and in Clares. And instead of having only one new set of rules to learn, she also has to contend with the unprecedented strangeness of being an entirely new person in an era she knows nothing about. Her teachers think shes slow, the other girls find her odd, and, as she spends more and more time in 1918, Charlotte starts to wonder if she remembers how to be Charlotte at all. If she doesnt figure out some way to get back to the world she knows before the end of the term, she might never have another chance. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 1681370069ISBN 13: 9781681370064
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Eichenberg, Fritz (illustrator). Paperback. She saw: first, a square opening, about eight inches wide, in the lowest stepfinally, she saw that there was a walnut shell, or half one, outside the nearest door. She went to look at the shellbut looked with the greatest astonishment. There was a baby in it. So ten-year-old Maria, the orphaned mistress of Malplaquet, discovers the secret of her deteriorating estate: On a deserted island at its far corner, in the temple long ago nicknamed Mistress Mashams Repose, lives an entire community of peoplethe People, as they call themselvesall only inches tall. With the help of her only friendthe absurdly erudite ProfessorMaria soon learns that this settlement is no less than the kingdom of Lilliput (first seen in Gullivers Travels) in exile. Safely hidden for centuries, the Lilliputians are at first endangered by Marias well-meaning but clumsy attempts to make their lives easier, but their situation grows truly ominous when they are discovered by Marias greedy guardians, who look at the People and see only a bundle of money. Ten-year-old Maria, an orphaned heiress living with her unpleasant guardians on a crumbling English estate called Malplaquet, finds her life changing in unimagined ways when she explores an overgrown island on the estate's lake and discovers the descendants of Gulliver's Lilliputians. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2002
ISBN 10: 1590170075ISBN 13: 9781590170076
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1977Shortlisted for the Booker PrizeThe real-life Guinness heiress offers an inside look at the lives of eccentric aristocrats in this "masterful . . .macabre fairy-tale and blackly humorous family portrait" (Literary Hub).This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl. Great Granny Webster herself is a fabulous monster, the chilliest of matriarchs, presiding with steely self-regard over a landscape of ruined lives.Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece.Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, 2018
ISBN 10: 1681371278ISBN 13: 9781681371276
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Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2017
ISBN 10: 1681370603ISBN 13: 9781681370606
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A stunning work of memoir and an unforgettable depiction of the brilliance and madness by one of Surrealism's most compelling figuresIn 1937 Leonora Carrington-later to become one of the twentieth century's great painters of the weird, the alarming, and the wild-was a nineteen-year-old art student in London, beautiful and unapologetically rebellious. At a dinner party, she met the artist Max Ernst. The two fell in love and soon departed to live and paint together in a farmhouse in Provence.In 1940, the invading German army arrested Ernst and sent him to a concentration camp. Carrington suffered a psychotic break. She wept for hours. Her stomach became "the mirror of the earth"-of all worlds in a hostile universe-and she tried to purify the evil by compulsively vomiting. As the Germans neared the south of France, a friend persuaded Carrington to flee to Spain. Facing the approach "of robots, of thoughtless, fleshless beings," she packed a suitcase that bore on a brass plate the word Revelation.This was only the beginning of a journey into madness that was to end with Carrington confined in a mental institution, overwhelmed not only by her own terrible imaginings but by her doctor's sadistic course of treatment. In Down Below she describes her ordeal-in which the agonizing and the marvelous were equally combined-with a startling, almost impersonal precision and without a trace of self-pity. Like Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Down Below brings the hallucinatory logic of madness home. Leonora Carrington is perhaps the most enchanting of the women Surrealists. This book describes the events of 1940, when, after her longtime lover artist Max Ernst was sent to a concentration camp, Carrington was "led across the border of Knowledge" and imprisoned in a sanatorium for the insane. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2012
ISBN 10: 1590174542ISBN 13: 9781590174548
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A New York Review Books OriginalIn 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. Berlin Stories collects his alternately celebratory, droll, and satirical observations on every aspect of the bustling German capital, from its theaters, cabarets, painters' galleries, and literary salons, to the metropolitan street, markets, the Tiergarten, rapid-service restaurants, and the electric tram. Originally appearing in literary magazines as well as the feuilleton sections of newspapers, the early stories are characterized by a joyous urgency and the generosity of an unconventional guide. Later pieces take the form of more personal reflections on the writing process, memories, and character studies. All are full of counter-intuitive images and vignettes of startling clarity, showcasing a unique talent for whom no detail was trivial, at grips with a city diving headlong into modernity. Berlin Stories collects Robert Walser's alternately celebratory, droll, and satirical observations on every aspect of the bustling German capital, Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc, 2002
ISBN 10: 1590170229ISBN 13: 9781590170229
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