Indian Nocturne

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811210805
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Nocturne written by Antonio Tabucchi and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antonio Tabucchi describes his novella Indian Nocturne (winner of the Medicis Prize in its French translation) as 'an insomnia' but 'also a journey... in which a Shadow is sought.' In his provocatively elusive but totally compelling way, Tabucchi takes us along on a nightmarish trip through the Indian subcontinent, producing sensations by turns exotic, sensual, menacing, and oppressive, as the profound weight of an ancient culture settles on the unwary traveler.

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081122144X
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Nocturne written by Antonio Tabucchi and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1989-03-17 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An enjoyable, well-crafted little book."—The Complete Review Translated from the Italian, this winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger for 1987 is an enigmatic novel set in modern India. Roux, the narrator, is in pursuit of a mysterious friend named Xavier. His search, which develops into a quest, takes him from town to town across the subcontinent.

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081122452X
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Edge of the Horizon written by Antonio Tabucchi and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Directions is proud to be the publisher of the the distinguished Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi, whose works include The Edge of the Horizon, a story of an “unimportant death,” now available for the first time in a paperback edition. Late on night, the body of a young man is delivered to the morgue of an Italian town. The next day's newspapers report that he was killed in a police raid, and that went by the obviously false name "Carlo Nobodi." Spino, the morgue attendant on duty at the time, becomes obsessed with tracing the identity of the corpse. "Why do you want to know about him?" asks a local priest. "Because he is dead and I'm alive," replies Spino. In this spare yet densely packed cautionary tale, Tabucchi reminds us that it is impossible to reach the edge of the horizon since it always recedes before us, but suggests that some people "carry the horizon with them in their eyes."

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782267008722
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nocturne indien written by Antonio Tabucchi and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sylvie Blum-Reid
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137553545
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traveling in French Cinema written by Sylvie Blum-Reid and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel narratives abound in French cinema since the 1980s. This study delineates recurrent travel tropes in films such as departures and returns, the chase, the escape, nomadic wandering, interior voyages, the unlikely travel, rituals, pilgrimages, migrants' narratives and emergencies, women's travel, and healing narratives.

Author : Kazim Ali
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 1770567631
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Winter written by Kazim Ali and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A queer writer travelling through India can't escape the regrets of his past, nor the impending ruin of his present. "I am leaving for the winter – I have to get away from this small town and all its dangers – to write, read, think, all the most important things in the world but which are thought the least important, the most expendable." Thus begins the Indian winter of our narrator, a queer writer and translator much like the author, a winter that includes a meandering journey through India, trying to write about a long-ago lover whose death he has just learned of. While on this journey into memory, he flees his current faltering relationship in search of new friendships and intimacies. Inspired by Antonio Tabucchi's Indian Nocturne, and by the writings of Anaïs Nin, Rachel Cusk, and Carole Maso, among others, Indian Winter finds itself where the travel diary, the künstlerroman, poetry, and autofiction meet. But the heartbreak brought on by his unravelling relationship and his family's inability to accept his queerness cannot be outrun; as he traverses India, our narrator can't help but repeatedly encounter himself and the range of love and alienation he has within.

Author : Éléonore Muhidine
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839467160
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Architecture in Postcards written by Éléonore Muhidine and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on a private collection of 60 postcards of modern architecture in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Agra, the contributors to this volume explore the many dimensions of modern architecture in India from the 1890s to the 1970s and share their own perspective on these objects. Experts on architectural history and visual studies, as well as postcard collectors provide new insights into a territory and its architectural heritage which is still largely unknown in Europe, and reflect on the postcard as a medium for historical research.

Author : Hootan Dehbonei
Publisher : Hootan Dehbonei
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Critique about Said's Orientalism written by Hootan Dehbonei and published by Hootan Dehbonei. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hootan Dehbonei examines the evolution of Western approaches to the culture of the Orient from colonial to post-colonial eras.

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811222454
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro written by Antonio Tabucchi and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary thriller of heroin rings and headless bodies uncovers social ills and corruption in modern day Portugal, whileas in all of Tabucchi's workblurring genre boundaries. Antonio Tabucchi, Italy's premier writer and a best-selling author throughout Europe, draws together Manolo the gypsy, Firmino, a young tabloid journalist with a weakness for Lukacs and Vittorini, and Don Fernando, an overweight lawyer with a professed resemblance to the actor Charles Laughton, to solve a murder that leads far up and down Portugal's social ladder. As the investigation leads deeper into Portugal's power structure, the novel defies expectations, departing from the formulaic twists of a suspense story to consider the moral weight of power and its abuse.

Author : Michael V Pisani
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300130732
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Native America in Music written by Michael V Pisani and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive look at musical representations of native America from the pre colonial past through the American West and up to the present. The discussion covers a wide range of topics, from the ballets of Lully in the court of Louis XIV to popular ballads of the nineteenth century; from eighteenth-century British-American theater to the musical theater of Irving Berlin; from chamber music by Dvoˆrák to film music for Apaches in Hollywood Westerns. Michael Pisani demonstrates how European colonists and their descendants were fascinated by the idea of race and ethnicity in music, and he examines how music contributed to the complex process of cultural mediation. Pisani reveals how certain themes and metaphors changed over the centuries and shows how much of this “Indian music,” which was and continues to be largely imagined, alternately idealized and vilified the peoples of native America.