In 1947 Simone de Beauvoir took a road trip across America. She travelled from coast to coast, from New York to Hollywood, taking in New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana and Washington DC. She rode a pony through the Grand Canyon, listened to jazz...Lasīt vairāk
Henri de Marsay believes neither in man nor woman, God nor devil. He believes in Paris, a city that readily accommodates his pursuit of sensual pleasure. It is in the Tuileries, just outside the Cafe des Feuillants, that Henri de Marsay first catche...Lasīt vairāk
Jean-Paul Sartre, Joseph S. Catalano, Carol Cosman
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Jan-2023, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226822327)
The Family Idiot is a masterwork by one of the greatest intellects of the twentieth century. Published in three massive volumes in French between 1971 and 1972, and five volumes in English translation between 1981 and 1993, Jean-Paul Sartres classi...Lasīt vairāk
Jean-Paul Sartre, Joseph S. Catalano, Carol Cosman
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Jan-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226822310)
An approachable abridgment of Sartres important analysis of Flaubert. From 1981 to 1994, the University of Chicago Press published a five-volume translation of Jean-Paul Sartres The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857,...Lasīt vairāk
In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Durkheim investigated the enduring source of human social identity and fellowship by studying the simplest form of documented religion, totemism among the Aborigines of Australia. His book about the origin...Lasīt vairāk
The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the state of being an outsider - even in ones own country - and of allegiance. With intense power and lyricism, Camus evokes beautiful but harsh landscapes, whether the shimmering deserts of his native Al...Lasīt vairāk
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In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim sets himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigates what he considered to be the simplest form of documented religion - totemism...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Jul-2004, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691070421)
Assessing the accomplishments and failings of literary theory, this work defends the methods and goals of a theoretical commitment tempered by the wisdom of common sense. It is organized not by school of thought but around seven central questions: l...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Sep-2001, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: The New Press, ISBN-13: 9781565846777)
A French psychoanalyst and literary scholar offers a dramatic re-reading of Agatha Christies classic novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, challenging Hercule Poirots conclusions about the identity of the killer and presenting a startling new solutio...Lasīt vairāk
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At the end of Agatha Christies classic detective novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Hercule Poirot declares with a customary late flourish the identity of the murderer. But who can we believe?...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Jul-2000, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The New Press, ISBN-13: 9781565845794)
A French psychoanalyst and literary scholar offers a dramatic re-reading of Agatha Christies classic novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, challenging Hercule Poirots conclusions about the identity of the killer and presenting a startling new solutio...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-May-2000, Hardback, Izdevniecība: George Braziller, ISBN-13: 9780807614518)
Yasmina Reza is best known as the author of the immensely successful Tony award-winning play Art. Her latest work, Hammerklavier, is a bittersweet collection of autobiographical sketches that have love, loss, and the relentless passage...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Dec-1999, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), ISBN-13: 9780753808597)
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An account of the authors travels around America in 1947, from New York to Washington, San Francisco to Las Vegas, and Chicago to New Orleans and the Deep South. It includes her visits to drug dens in Chicago, and experiences of smoking pot at bohem...Lasīt vairāk
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This is Simone de Beauvoirs account of her travels around America in 1947, from New York to Washington, San Francisco to Las Vegas, Chicago to New Orleans and the deep South. The account contains observations about postwar American culture, food an...Lasīt vairāk
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Henri de Marsay almost believes in love when he catches sight of the beautiful girl with the golden eyes and vows her seduction Specifically rendered for the American reader, a new edition of the classic novella exposes the Parisian love tria...Lasīt vairāk
Balzac once referred to art as nature concentrated. And nowhere did his own art achieve such a rarefied state as in Colonel Chabert - one of the celebrated Scenes from Private Life from La Comedie Humaine. Chabert is among Balzacs most tragic he...Lasīt vairāk
