Adventures In Immediate Irreality
Title | Adventures In Immediate Irreality PDF eBook |
Author | Max Blecher |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 125 |
Release | 2015-02-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811224724 |
Often called “the Kafka of Romania,” Max Blecher died young but not before creating this incandescent novel. Adventures in Immediate Irreality, the masterwork of the Romanian writer Max Blecher, vividly paints the crises of "irreality" that plagued him in his youth: eerie and unsettling mirages wherein he would glimpse future events. In gliding chapters that move with a peculiar dream logic of their own, this memoiristic novel sketches the tremulous, frightening, and exhilarating awakenings of a young man.
Adventures in Immediate Irreality
Title | Adventures in Immediate Irreality PDF eBook |
Author | Max Blecher |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780811217606 |
Often called "the Kafka of Romania," Max Blecher died young but not before creating this incandescent novel.
Scarred Hearts
Title | Scarred Hearts PDF eBook |
Author | Max Blecher |
Publisher | Old Street Publishing |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Emmanuel, a young man with spinal tuberculosis and confined to a sanatorium outside Paris, narrates his and his fellow patients' attempts to live life to the fullest as their bodies slowly atrophy and die. Blending dark humor and pathos, Scarred Hearts was hailed as a masterpiece on publication in Romanian in 1939, and was more recently compared to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain and the fiction of Franz Kafka. Like Emmanuel, Max Blecher suffered from tuberculosis of the spine, and spent the last year of his life in a full body cast and wheelchair, before dying at age twenty-nine with two novels completed.
For Two Thousand Years
Title | For Two Thousand Years PDF eBook |
Author | Mihail Sebastian |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2016-02-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0241189624 |
'Absolutely, definitively alone', a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't belong. Spending his days walking the streets and his nights drinking and gambling, meeting revolutionaries, zealots, lovers and libertines, he adjusts his eyes to the darkness that falls over Europe, and threatens to destroy him. Mihail Sebastian's 1934 masterpiece, now translated into English for the first time, was written amid the anti-Semitism which would, by the end of the decade, force him out of his career and turn his friends and colleagues against him. For Two Thousand Years is a prescient, heart-wrenching chronicle of resilience and despair, broken layers of memory and the terrible forces of history.
Day In Day Out
Title | Day In Day Out PDF eBook |
Author | Terezia Mora |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2009-10-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0061976873 |
In a scruffy park of a West European metropolis, a man in an ill-fitting trench coat is found hanging by the feet, half-dead. This is Abel Nema, the enigmatic yet fascinating protagonist of Terézia Mora’s internationally acclaimed novel, a linguistic phenomenon who can speak ten languages flawlessly but whose grip on reality is slowly slipping away. Since his self-imposed exile from his Balkan homeland ten years earlier, he has been making a life among fellow refugees: a group of bohemian jazz musicians, an eccentric student of ancient history, and a gang of young Gypsies. His acquaintances among the locals include a neighbor who claims to have visited heaven (and introduces Abel to hallucinogens), the sordid characters who frequent the neighborhood sex bar, and a wonderfully zany family he joins when, desperate to extend his residency permit, he enters into a fictive marriage. Yet through it all he remains strangely hollow: for all his languages he has little humanity to put into words. Day In Day Out, Terézia Mora’s fierce and beautiful debut novel, is at once an evocation of the newly multicultural Europe and an exploration of a deeply disturbed individual. It is a prose labyrinth of rare poetic force that marks its author as a major new voice in contemporary fiction.
Talks with T.G. Masaryk
Title | Talks with T.G. Masaryk PDF eBook |
Author | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk |
Publisher | Catbird Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780945774266 |
Translated by Dora Round Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937) was a philosophy professor who became the founder and first president of Czechoslovakia (1918-1935) and was a leading figure in world affairs between the wars. Capek, author of 'War with the Newts', and Czechoslovakia's most prominent writer during these years, interviewed Masaryk at great length and produced this volume that tells Masaryk's unique story.
Studs
Title | Studs PDF eBook |
Author | Emanuel Xavier |
Publisher | Cleis Press |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2014-08-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 162778070X |
Rough and surly, smooth and sultry, or quick and raw -- however you like it, you’ll find it in Studs, 20 of the hottest and best-written man-to-man sex stories to appear in print this year. In "Underground Operator” two men on a nearly empty subway platform indulge in rough, anonymous sex that lets them momentarily forget the stifling summer heat. "Donuts to Demons” finds a self-described "rock-n-roll artfag” searching for a lover "as patient and gifted and generous as he advertised on Craigslist.”