The Flower Show The Toth Family

Author : István Örkény
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780811208376
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flower Show ; The Toth Family written by István Örkény and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1982 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two novellas reveal the Hungarian author's incisive view of the absurdities of modern life

Author : István Örkény
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789631348149
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flower Show written by István Örkény and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : István Örkény
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flower Show ; The Toth Family written by István Örkény and published by New Directions Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1982 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Raymond Queneau
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811220850
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Flowers written by Raymond Queneau and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1985-04-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only a pataphysician nurtured lovingly on surrealist excess could have come up with The Blue Flowers, Queneau's 1964 novel. At his death in 1976, Raymond Queneau was one of France's most eminent men of letters––novelist, poet, essayist, editor, scientist, mathematician, and, more to the point, pataphysician. And only a pataphysician nurtured lovingly on surrealist excess could have come up with The Blue Flowers, Queneau's 1964 novel, now reissued as a New Directions Paperbook. To a pataphysician all things are equal, there is no improvement or progress in the human condition, and a "message" is an invention of the benighted reader, certainly not the author or his perplexing creations––the sweet, fennel-drinking Cidrolin and the rampaging Duke d'Auge. History is mostly what the duke rampages through––700 years of it at 175-year clips. He refuses to crusade, clobbers his king with the "in" toy of 1439––the cannon––dabbles in alchemy, and decides that those musty caves down at Altamira need a bit of sprucing up. Meanwhile, Cidrolin in the 1960s lolls on his barge moored along the Seine, sips essence of fennel, and ineffectually tries to catch the graffitist who nightly defiles his fence. But mostly he naps. Is it just a coincidence that the duke appears only when Cidrolin is dozing? And vice versa? In the tradition of Villon and Céline, Queneau attempted to bring the language of the French streets into common literary usage, and his mad word-plays, bad puns, bawdy jokes, and anachronistic wackiness have been kept amazingly and glitteringly intact by the incomparable translator Barbara Wright.

Author : Harold B. Segel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231114042
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945 written by Harold B. Segel and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iron Curtain concealed from western eyes a vital group of national and regional writers. Marked by not only geographical proximity but also by the shared experience of communism and its collapse, the countries of Eastern Europe--Poland, Hungary, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, and the former states of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany--share literatures that reveal many common themes when examined together. Compiled by a leading scholar, the guide includes an overview of literary trends in historical context; a listing of some 700 authors by country; and an A-to-Z section of articles on the most influential writers.

Author : Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811214612
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems for the Game of Silence written by Jerome Rothenberg and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I look for new forms and possibilities," writes Jerome Rothenberg in Poems for the Game of Silence, "but also for ways of presenting in my own language the oldest possibilities of poetry going back to the primitive and archaic cultures that have been opening up to us over the last hundred years." It is this combined sense of mystery and authenticity, in words and new structures that approach archetypal chant, that informs his poetry. First published in 1971, this volume brings together a selection of Rothenberg's early groundbreaking work: a wide range of experimental forms, both written and oral, set beside renderings of Native American, Australian, and other primitive songs, as well as the ancestral poems exploring his own origins that look forward to his later poetry.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811214353
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stairs to the Roof written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A play produced only twice in the 1940s and now published for the first time reveals that Tennessee Williams anticipated the themes of Star Trek by decades.

Author : Federico García Lorca
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200905
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Plays; Comedies and Tragicomedies written by Federico García Lorca and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1963 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two additional comedies, published here in book form in English for the first time, are The Billy-Club Puppets -- a guignol-type farce with delicate wit; and The Butterfly's Evil Spell, an "insect comedy" about a beetle-poet who aspires to be a butterfly.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811207577
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1980 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this masterful play, Tennessee Williams explores the meaning of loneliness and the need for human connection through the lens of four women and the designs and desires they harbor--for themselves and for each other.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811202237
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Arm and Other Stories written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1967 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the eleven remarkable stories of Tennessee Williams's first volume of short fiction, originally published in 1948 and reissued as a paperbook in response to an increasingly insistent public demand. It was this book which established Williams as a short story writer of the same stature and interest he had shown as a dramatist. Each story has qualities that make it memorable. In "One Arm" we live through his last hours and memories with a 'rough trade" ex-prizefighter who is awaiting execution for murder. "The Field of Blue Children" explores some of the strange ways of the human heart in love, "Portrait of a Girl in Glass" is a luminous and nostalgic recollection of characters who figure in "The Glass Menagerie," while "Desire and the Black Masseur" is an excursion into the logic of the macabre. "The Yellow Bird," well known through the author's recorded reading of it, which tells of a minister's daughter who found a particularly violent but satisfactory way of expiating a load of inherited puritan guilt, may well become part of American mythology.