The Cremator
Title | The Cremator PDF eBook |
Author | Ladislav Fuks |
Publisher | Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press |
Pages | 173 |
Release | 2016-10-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 802463290X |
“The devil’s neatest trick is to persuade us that he doesn’t exist.” It is a maxim that both rings true in our contemporary world and pervades this tragicomic novel of anxiety and evil set amid the horrors of World War II. As a gay man living in a totalitarian, patriarchal society, noted Czech writer Ladislav Fuks identified with the tragic fate of his Jewish countrymen during the Holocaust. The Cremator arises from that shared experience. Fuks presents a grotesque, dystopian world in which a dutiful father, following the strict logic of his time, liberates the souls of his loved ones by destroying their bodies—first the dead, then the living. As we watch this very human character—a character who never ceases to believe that he is doing good—become possessed by an inhuman ideology, the evil that initially permeates the novel’s atmosphere concretizes in this familiar family man. A study of the totalitarian mindset with stunning resonance for today, The Cremator is a disturbing, powerful work of literary horror.
The Cremator
Title | The Cremator PDF eBook |
Author | Ladislav Fuks |
Publisher | London ; New York : Marion Boyars : Distributed in the United States by Scribner |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Cremator's Revenge
Title | Cremator's Revenge PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret LeNois |
Publisher | A Better Be Write Publisher |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2006-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780976773207 |
Alfred Stillman is a worker in a funeral home, obsessed with avenging his grandmother’s brutal murder at the hands of drifters. Joanne Logan is a naive young reporter who decides the best way to write about the local street people is to live in their world. Cremator's Revenge is a unique story of life on the streets of Daytona Beach, Florida, and of the dangers and hardships that the homeless face every day of their lives. It is a story of the twists and turns, which life and fate dole out in people's lives, changing their destinies forever.
Annual Report
Title | Annual Report PDF eBook |
Author | Lowell (Mass.). Board of Health |
Publisher | |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | Public health |
ISBN |
The Surveyor and Municipal and County Engineer
Title | The Surveyor and Municipal and County Engineer PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 876 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | Municipal engineering |
ISBN |
Lay Me in God's Good Earth
Title | Lay Me in God's Good Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Kent Burreson |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 131 |
Release | 2024-08-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1514007614 |
Current burial practices in the West fail to confront us with the reality of death and make it harder to grieve properly. Burreson and Hoeltke argue that natural burial offers a more accurate picture of Christian hope and resurrection. This immensely practical guide is also an application of the hope of the resurrection to those grieving.
Mobilities in Life and Death
Title | Mobilities in Life and Death PDF eBook |
Author | Avril Maddrell |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2023-06-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3031282841 |
This open access book focuses on migrant and minority cemetery needs through the conceptual lens of the mobilities of the living and the dead. In doing so, the book brings migration and mobility studies into much-needed dialogue with death studies to explore the symbolically and politically important issue of culturally inclusive spaces of cemeteries and crematoria for migrants and established minorities. The book addresses majority and minority cemetery and crematoria provisions and practices in a range of North West European contexts. It describes how the planning, management and use of cemeteries and crematoria in multicultural societies can tell us about the everyday lived experiences of migration and migrant heritage, urban diversity, social inclusion and exclusion in Europe, and how these relate to migrant and minority experience of lived citizenship, practices of territoriality and bordering, colonial/postcolonial narratives. The book will be of interest to readers in the fields of migration/mobilities studies and death studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners, such as local government officers, cemetery managers and city planners.