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Memory Chalet(2011) JUDT, TONYIt might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Inner Workings(2008) COETZEE, J.M.A collection of the author's literary essays from 2000 to 2005. It discusses writers such as Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Sandor Marai who lived through the Austro-Hungarian fin de siecle and felt the influence of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and FrVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Moronic Inferno(2006) AMIS, MARTINAt the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions(2005) AMIS, MARTINFuelled by innumerable cigarettes, Martin Amis provides dazzling portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike: Larkin and Rushdie; Sex without Madonna, expulsion from school, a Stones gig that should have been gagged, on set with Robocop or on court withVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Stranger Shores(2002) COETZEE, J.M.A collection of 29 pieces on books, writing, photography, and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. With literary subjects ranging from Defoe through Rilke and Kafka to the giants of the 20th century, those who admire Coetzee as a novelist can also reVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Points of View(2000) MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSETEclectic and illuminating, these essays are the last that Maugham published. Ranging from an appreciation of Goethe's novels, to an encounter with an Indian holy man, with a considered analysis of the form at which Maugham himself excelled - the short stoVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Notes on the Death of Culture(2022) VARGAS LLOSA, MARIOWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 'The most approachable and exhilarating Latin American writer of our times.' Robert McCrum, ObserverIn the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Mind of an Outlaw(2014) MAILER, NORMANFocuses on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Selected Prose(2013) LAMB, CHARLESBrings together the prose writings of the great early nineteenth-century essayist Charles Lamb, whose shrewd wit and convivial style have endeared him to generations of readers. This title discusses how his tragic life and sainted reputation, caring for hVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Five Moral Pieces(2002) ECO, UMBERTOEmbracing the web of multi-culturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connected to people of other traditions and customs than ever before, making tolerance the ultimate value in today'sVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Roland Barthes Reader(1993) BARTHES, ROLANDAn introduction to the thinking of the French intellectual, Roland Barthes, as applied to such diverse topics as Gide, Garbo, striptease, photography and the Eiffel Tower. The pieces in this collection were written over a period of three decades.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Lives of the Saints(2022) BARRY, SEBASTIANFrom A Long Long Way, his Booker shortlisted novel about the Irish soldiers who fought for Britain during the First World War to his Donal McCann starring hit play, The Steward of Christendom;Vezava: Trda21,02 € -
Darkness Moves(1997) MICHAUX, HENRICritics have compared Michaux's work to such diverse artists as Kafka, Goya, Swift, Klee and Beckett. This anthology contains selections from almost all of Michaux's major works, allowing readers to explore the haunting verbal and pictorial landscape of aVezava: Mehka54,93 € -
We Travelled(2022) HARE, DAVID'A writing career which is the most consistently adventurous of any British dramatist.' ObserverRecording dizzying changes in culture and politics, this is a powerful compilation of prose and poetry by one of the distinctive thinkers of our time.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos(2005) BERGER, JOHNThis is a collection of fragments about time and space by a writer and critic.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Politics and Literature(2019) SARTRE, JEAN-PAULA useful, concise introduction to Sartre's thinking, Politics and Literature investigates concepts and highlights conflicts, interrogations and debates that remain topical and relevant to this day.Vezava: Mehka13,89 € -
Anything We Love Can Be Saved(2005) WALKER, ALICEFrom the author of THE COLOR PURPLE, a unique collection of essays about her life and her activismVezava: Mehka12,61 €
