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Author | : Tomáš Zmeškal |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2016-03-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0300188595 |
Set in Czechoslovakia between the 1940s and the 1990s, Tomáš Zmeškal’s stimulating novel focuses on one family’s tragic story of love and the unspoken. Josef meets his wife, Kveta, before the Second World War at a public lecture on Hittite culture. Kveta chooses to marry Josef over their mutual friend Hynek, but when her husband is later arrested and imprisoned for an unnamed crime, Kveta gives herself to Hynek in return for help and advice. The author explores the complexities of what is not spoken, what cannot be said, the repercussions of silence after an ordeal, the absurdity of forgotten pain, and what it is to be an outsider. In Zmeškal’s tale, told not chronologically but rather as a mosaic of events, time progresses unevenly and unpredictably, as does one’s understanding. The saga belongs to a particular family, but it also exposes the larger, ongoing struggle of postcommunist Eastern Europe to come to terms with suffering when catharsis is denied. Reporting from a fresh, multicultural perspective, Zmeškal makes a welcome contribution to European literature in the twenty-first century.
Author | : Steven Payne |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2012-05-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1477113606 |
In the hands of a genius a love letter can become a great, even an immortal work of literature in its own right. Love Letters: Great Literary Romances examines the lives of great writers (John Keats; Franz Kafka; Leonard Woolf), a celebrated composer (Leoš Janácek) and two great lovers of mediaeval Europe (Abelard and Heloise) to see their turbulent and sometimes tormented romantic lives played out in the passionate declarations of love in the letters they wrote.
Author | : J. T. Merydew |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Love-letters |
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Author | : J.T. Merydew |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 419 |
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Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1142256065 |
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Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1939-09 |
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Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
Author | : Muriel Blaive |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2018-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 135005173X |
Drawing on archival sources from Czechoslovakia, Poland, East Germany, Romania and Bulgaria, Perceptions of Society in Communist Europe considers whether and to what extent communist regimes cared about popular opinion, how they obtained their information, and how it helped them implement and maintain their rule. Contrary to popular belief, communist regimes sought to legitimise their domination with minimal resort to violence in order to maintain their everyday power. This entailed a permanent negotiation process between the rulers and the ruled, with public approval of governmental policies becoming key to their success. By analysing topics such as a Stalinist musical in Czechoslovakia, workers' letters to the leadership in Romania, children's television in Poland and the figure of the secret agent in contemporary culture, as well as many more besides, Muriel Blaive and the contributors demonstrate the potential of social history to deconstruct parochial national perceptions of communism. This cutting-edge volume is a vital resource for academics, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates studying East-Central European history, Stalinism and comparative communism.
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Total Pages | : 742 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Brick trade |
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Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Brick trade |
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Author | : Veronika Pehe |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2020-02-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1805394096 |
Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked “nostalgia” to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the former Eastern Bloc. However, this concept seems insufficient to describe memory cultures in the Czech Republic and other contexts in which a “retro” fascination with the past has proven compatible with a steadfast critique of the state socialist era. This innovative study locates a distinctively retro aesthetic in Czech literature, film, and other cultural forms, enriching our understanding of not only the nation’s memory culture, but also the ways in which popular culture can structure collective memory.
Author | : Yael Dayan |
Publisher | : Mosaic Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2016-11-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1771612088 |
Yael Dayan, novelist daughter of the legendary Moshe Dayan and? a public figure with a long and illustrious political career behind her, looks back at her life, scrutinizing it without illusions. Once a desirable, free-spirited young woman and a successful author, she lived with the sense that she held the world in the palm of her hand. And the world adulated both her and the young state she came from. She was an officer in the Israel Defense Force, the daughter of a renowned general, a successful writer—Death Had Two Sons, A Soldier’s Diary: Sinai 1967—much in demand on the lecture tour, and a star of the gossip columns. Now in her 70s, she admits with touching honesty to missing both the vibrant 20-something she was, and the sober woman she became—a fierce political activist and parliamentarian for the left, a fighter for justice, women’s rights and peace. Having resigned her last public position, she must reconcile herself to being a mentor, a participant instead of a leader, yet remaining center-stage on the Peace Camp scene. The narrator’s warm, intimate voice and her rich intellect, as well as her insights, make for a powerful reading experience.