Verlag: Archipelago Botanicals, 2003
ISBN 10: 0972869220 ISBN 13: 9780972869225
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Erstausgabe
Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. A remarkable and bracing collection of classic anti-war writing (Richard Flanagan) from Croatian writer Miljenko Jergovic, whose piercing prose recalls Kurt Vonnegut and Aleksander HemonMiljenko Jergovics remarkable début collection of stories, Sarajevo Marlboro, earned him wide acclaim throughout Europe. In melancholy, dreamlike prose, the stories in Sarajevo Marlboro recall Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, but Jergovics book is the strongest of the three (Maud Newton). Croatian by birth, Jergovic spent his childhood in Sarajevo and chose to remain there throughout most of the war. These stories are distinctly of the material world, and they are shaped by Jergovics deeply personal vision, subterranean humor, and a razor-sharp understanding of the fate of the citys young Muslims, Croats, and Serbs - the minute details of their interior lives in the foreground, the killing zone in the background.
Verlag: Archipelago Botanicals, 2012
ISBN 10: 1935744321 ISBN 13: 9781935744320
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. Written in the shadow of the Yugoslav wars, yet never eclipsed by them, Mama Leone is a delightful cycle of interconnected stories by one of Central Europes most dazzling contemporary storytellers. Miljenko Jergovic leads us from a bittersweet world of precocious childhood wonder and hilarious invention, where the seduction of a well-told lie is worth more than a thousand prosaic truths, out into fractured worlds bleary-eyed from the unmagnificence of growing up. Yet for every familial betrayal and diminished expectation, every love and home(land) irretrievably lost, every terror and worst fear realized, Jergovics characters never surrender the promise of redemption being but a lone kiss or winning bingo card away. As readers we wander the books rhapsodic literary rooms, and as a myriad of unforgettable human voices call out to us, startled, across oceans and continents, we recognize them as our own.
Verlag: Archipelago Botanicals, 2013
ISBN 10: 1935744801 ISBN 13: 9781935744801
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. F First Edition. For José Ángel Valente, the word was foremost. He was of a generation that came of age under the Franco dictatorship. But unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not often address political or social issues directly in his poems. His influence as a poetic force proved to be much deeper. From the outset Valentes work was bold yet disciplined, immediate yet lyrical, combining poetic precision with a knack for capturing vital moments and a keen ear for musicality. His chief concern was poetry that explored and transcended itself: poetry as knowledge. A poet of unfailing integrity, he never wavered in his pursuit of the truth of the word. Exploring questions of love, loss, and the spirit, he stripped twentieth-century Spanish poetry of its rhetorical excesses, producing contemplative, introspective, and at times mystical verses, rejecting the facile and embracing silence. In his later years, he turned to stirring, highly distilled prose poems in such works as The Singer Does Not Awaken and Landscape with Yellow Birds. Then the clear melody of his early verse gave way to intensely resonant passages that folded in upon each other and opened startling vistas in unexpected directions. This is the first major selection of Valentes work to appear in English.
Mehr Angebote von anderen Verkäufern bei AbeBooks
Neu ab EUR 27,19
Gebraucht ab EUR 17,79
Mehr entdecken Softcover
Verlag: Archipelago Botanicals, 2017
ISBN 10: 0914671596 ISBN 13: 9780914671596
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. One of the central writers and thinkers in contemporary Maghreb letters and banned by the Moroccan government, Abdellatif Laabi's poetry is increasingly influential on the international scene and spans six decades of political and literary change, innovation, and struggle. Including a wide range of work, from piercing domestic love poetry to a fierce lyricism of social resistance informed by nearly a decade spent in prison for "crimes of opinion," all of Laabi's poetry is situated firmly against tyranny and for life--an almost mythic sense of spiritual and earthly joy emanates from this resistance through the darkness of political oppression. This selection of poetry has been masterfully rendered into English for the first time by Donald Nicholson-Smith and introduced by the eminent poet and critic Pierre Joris--the first in translation to be chosen by Laabi himself.
Verlag: Archipelago Botanicals, 2009
ISBN 10: 0980033063 ISBN 13: 9780980033069
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: New. Translation. First published as a feuilleton in a left-wing newspaper in 1850, The Salt Smugglers provides a political satire of the waning days of Frances short-lived Second Republic. With nods to Diderot and Sterne, this shaggy-dog story deals less with contraband salt smugglers than with the subversive power of fiction to transgress legal and esthetic boundaries. By writing what he claimed was a purely documentary account of his picaresque adventures in search of an elusive book recording the true history of a certain seventeenth-century swashbuckler, Nerval sought to deride the press censors of the day who forbade the serial publication of novels in newspapers - and in the process he provocatively deconstructed existing distinctions between fact and fiction. Never before translated into English and still unavailable as a separately published volume in French, The Salt Smugglers is a pre-postmodern gem of experimental prose. Richard Sieburths vibrant translation and illuminating afterword remind us why Gérard de Nervals blend of sly irony and acerbic social criticism proved so inspiring to authors as various as Baudelaire, Proust, and Leiris.
Verlag: Archipelago Botanicals, 2016
ISBN 10: 0914671359 ISBN 13: 9780914671350
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: New. Raymond Carver meets William Faulkner in this pitch-perfect short story collection that captures the hopes and fears of working-class Greeks during the countrys economic crisis (Los Angeles Review of Books)Ikonomous stories convey the plight of those worst affected by the Greek economic crisis-laid-off workers, hungry children. In the urban sprawl between Athens and Piraeus, the narratives roam restlessly through the impoverished working-class quarters located off the tourist routes.Everyone is dreaming of escape: to the mountains, to an island or a palatial estate, into a Hans Christian Andersen story world. What are they fleeing? The old woes-gossip, watchful neighbors, the oppression and indifference of the rich-now made infinitely worse. In Ikonomous concrete streets, the rain is always looming, the politicians slogans are ignored, and the police remain a violent, threatening presence offstage. Yet even at the edge of destitution, his men and women act for themselves, trying to preserve what little solidarity remains in a deeply atomized society, and in one way or another finding their own voice. There is faith here, deep faith-though little or none in those who habitually ask for it.
Verlag: Archipelago Botanicals, 2013
ISBN 10: 193574464X ISBN 13: 9781935744641
Anbieter: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, USA
Zustand: new.
Verlag: Archipelago Botanicals, 2013
ISBN 10: 1935744909 ISBN 13: 9781935744900
Anbieter: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, USA
Zustand: new.
Verlag: Archipelago Botanicals, 2015
ISBN 10: 0914671138 ISBN 13: 9780914671138
Anbieter: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, USA
Zustand: new.
Verlag: Archipelago Botanicals, 2004
ISBN 10: 0972869247 ISBN 13: 9780972869249
Anbieter: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, USA
Zustand: new.
Verlag: Archipelago Botanicals, 2016
ISBN 10: 0914671332 ISBN 13: 9780914671336
Anbieter: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, USA
Zustand: new.
Verlag: Archipelago Botanicals, 2005
ISBN 10: 0976395002 ISBN 13: 9780976395003
Anbieter: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, USA
Zustand: new.
Verlag: Archipelago Botanicals, 2016
ISBN 10: 0914671510 ISBN 13: 9780914671510
Anbieter: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, USA
Zustand: new.
Verlag: Archipelago Botanicals, 2005
ISBN 10: 0974968080 ISBN 13: 9780974968087
Anbieter: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, USA
Zustand: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Verlag: Archipelago Botanicals, 2011
ISBN 10: 0982624638 ISBN 13: 9780982624630
Anbieter: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, USA
Zustand: new.
Mehr Angebote von anderen Verkäufern bei AbeBooks
Neu ab EUR 562,56
Gebraucht ab EUR 1.113,65
Mehr entdecken Softcover