Language and Solitude
Title | Language and Solitude PDF eBook |
Author | Ernest Gellner |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1998-10-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521639972 |
Ernest Gellner's final book, first published in 1998, is a synoptic interpretation of the thought of Wittgenstein and Malinowski.
Language and Solitude
Title | Language and Solitude PDF eBook |
Author | Ernest Gellner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Austria |
ISBN | 9780511323270 |
Ernest Gellner's last book focuses on two key figures of the twentieth century: Wittgenstein and Malinowski, showing how the thought of both men grew from a common intellectual and social background, epitomising his belief that philosophy is about important historical, social and personal issues.
The Language of Solitude
Title | The Language of Solitude PDF eBook |
Author | Jan-Philipp Sendker |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2017-05-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1476793670 |
This translation first published in 2016 by Polygon under the title Dragon games.
The Invention of Solitude
Title | The Invention of Solitude PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Auster |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2010-11-25 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0571266746 |
'One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death.' So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father. In 'The Book of Memory' the perspective shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator, 'A', contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather and the solitary nature of writing and story-telling.
Solitude
Title | Solitude PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Koch |
Publisher | Open Court Publishing |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780812692433 |
About the philosophical aspects of solitude.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Title | One Hundred Years of Solitude PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriel García Márquez |
Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2022-10-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Netflix’s series adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude premieres December 11, 2024! One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.
Too Loud a Solitude
Title | Too Loud a Solitude PDF eBook |
Author | Bohumil Hrabal |
Publisher | HMH |
Pages | 83 |
Release | 1992-04-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0547545886 |
A fable about the power of books and knowledge, “finely balanced between pathos and comedy,” from one of Czechoslovakia’s most popular authors (Los Angeles Times). A New York Times Notable Book Haňtá has been compacting trash for thirty-five years. Every evening, he rescues books from the jaws of his hydraulic press, carries them home, and fills his house with them. Haňtá may be an idiot, as his boss calls him, but he is an idiot with a difference—the ability to quote the Talmud, Hegel, and Lao-Tzu. In this “irresistibly eccentric romp,” the author Milan Kundera has called “our very best writer today” celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word (The New York Times Book Review).