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Author : Romain Gary
Publisher : New York : G. Braziller
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book Your Ticket is No Longer Valid written by Romain Gary and published by New York : G. Braziller. This book was released on 1977 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Schoolcraft
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203208
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)
Download or read book Romain Gary written by Ralph Schoolcraft and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-05-26 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Ralph Schoolcraft explores the extraordinary career of the modern French author, film director, and diplomat—a romantic and tragic figure whose fictions extended well beyond his books. Born Roman Kacew, he overcame an impoverished boyhood to become a French Resistance hero and win the coveted Goncourt Prize under the pseudonym—and largely invented persona—Romain Gary. Although he published such acclaimed works as The Roots of Heaven and Promise at Dawn, the Gaullist traditions that he defended in the world of French letters fell from favor, and his critical fortunes suffered at the hands of a hostile press. Schoolcraft details Gary's frustrated struggle to evolve as a writer in the eye of a public that now considered him a known quantity. Identifying the daring strategies used by this mysterious character as he undertook an elaborate scheme to reach a new readership, Schoolcraft offers new insight into the dynamics of authorship and fame within the French literary institutions. In the early 1970s Gary made his departure from the conservative literary establishment, publishing works that boasted a quirky, elliptical style under a variety of pseudonymous personae, the most successful of which was that of an Algerian immigrant by the name of Emile Ajar. Moving behind the mask of his new creation, Gary was able to win critical and popular acclaim and a second Goncourt in 1975. But as Schoolcraft suggests, Gary may have "sold his shadow"—that is, lost his authorial persona—by marketing himself too effectively. Going so far as to recruit a cousin to stand in as the public face of this phantom author, Gary kept the secret of his true authorship until his violent death in 1980 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The press reacted with resentment over the scheme, and he was shunned into the ranks of literary oddities. Schoolcraft draws from archives of the several thousand documents related to Gary housed at the French publishing firms of Gallimard and Mercure de France, as well as the Butler Library at Columbia University. Exploring the depths of a story that has long remained shrouded in mystery, Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow is as much a fascinating biographical sketch as it is a thought-provoking reflection on the assumptions made about identities in the public sphere.
Author : Alexia Bloch
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812237597
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book Red Ties and Residential Schools written by Alexia Bloch and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thoughtful study should interest anyone concerned with social and political life at the periphery of today's Russian Federation."—Choice
Author : Louis Althusser
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789602319
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book Philosophy of the Encounter written by Louis Althusser and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1970s and 1980s, Louis Althusser endured a period of intense mental instability during which he murdered his wife and was committed to a psychiatric hospital. Spanning this deeply troubling period, this fourth and final volume of political and philosophical writings reveals Althusser wrestling in a creative and unorthodox fashion with a whole series of theoretical problems to produce some of his very finest work. In his profound exploration of questions of determinism and contingency, Althusser developed a "philosophy of the encounter," which he links to a hidden and subterranean tradition in the history of Western thought which stretches from Epicurus through Spinoza and Machiavelli to Marx, Derrida and Heidegger.
Author : Ian Watts
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1457565358
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ian's Essential Travel Tips: Overcome Travel Fears, Travel with Confidence, Make the Right Choices written by Ian Watts and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian’s Essential Travel Tips was written to help people demystify foreign travel and craft foreign trips to their tastes. This book answers many of the questions that first-time travelers have but also provides valuable information for seasoned travelers. You have choices, but it’s important that you avoid common mistakes and choose wisely. Never settle for a mediocre result when you can choose a superior option for the same cost, and never compromise your safety in order to save money. Whether you’ve never journeyed outside of the USA or are planning your hundredth foreign vacation, within this book you will find a tip to craft your travels to your tastes and needs. Travel your way. DON’T LET TRAVEL SCARE YOU! Ian’s Essential Travel Tips offers friendly travel advice based on real travel experience. • Learn what works • Avoid illness and danger • Plan your experiences based on choices that make sense for you
Author : David Bellos
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 144640286X
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book Romain Gary written by David Bellos and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Airman, war hero, immigrant, law student, diplomat, novelist and celebrity spouse, Romain Gary had several lives thrust upon him by the history of the twentieth century, but he also aspired to lead many more. He wrote more than two dozen books and a score of short stories under several different names in two languages, English and French, neither of which was his mother tongue. Gary had a gift for narrative that endeared him to ordinary readers, but won him little respect among critics far more intellectual than he could ever be. His varied and entertaining writing career tells a different story about the making of modern literary culture from the one we are accustomed to hearing. Born Roman Kacew in Vilna (now Lithuania) in 1914 and raised by only his mother after his father left them, Gary rose to become French Consul General in Los Angeles and the only man ever to win the Goncourt Prize twice. This biography follows the many threads that lead from Gary's wartime adventures and early literary career to his years in Hollywood and his marriage to the actress Jean Seberg. It illuminates his works in all their incarnations, and culminates in the tale of his most brilliant deception: the fabrication of a complex identity for his most successful nom de plume, Émile Ajar. In his new portrait of Gary, David Bellos brings biographical research together with literary and cultural analysis to make sense of the many lives of Romain Gary - a hero fit for our times, as well as his own.
Author : Lin Lougheed
Publisher : Barrons Educational Series
ISBN 13 : 1506258824
Total Pages : 1876 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book TOEIC Superpack written by Lin Lougheed and published by Barrons Educational Series. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 1876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Barron’s TOEIC Superpack provides the most comprehensive preparation available to help you master your English-language proficiency. This three-book set features test-like practice exams, audio tracks online, and essential review to help you prepare for the exam. TOEIC Superpack includes: Barron’s TOEIC with Downloadable Audio: Get comprehensive prep with 4 full-length model tests, plus extensive review and access to audio tracks online. Essential Words for the TOEIC: Build your vocabulary with 600 words that appear frequently on the TOEIC, plus a model test TOEIC Practice Exams with Downloadable Audio: Get 6 full-length model exams, plus access to listening comprehension audio material online. Students who purchase the TOEIC Superpack save 30% off the price of items purchased separately.
Author : Lin Lougheed
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1506273440
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book TOEIC Essential Words (with Online Audio) written by Lin Lougheed and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TOEIC Essential Words focuses on 600 words commonly used on the TOEIC. Words are taught in 50 vocabulary-building lessons that focus on American English as it is used in today’s business, industry, communications, and cultural activities. This book includes: All activities formatted like the actual exam Examples of practical English usage Additional exercises to help expand vocabulary A quiz after every five lessons Online audio to help in pronunciation and listening comprehension. Each lesson uses: 12 target words with definitions Several uses in different contexts for the words Practice exercises after the lesson New to this edition is a practice TOEIC test based on the actual exam. Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.
Author : Gabriel Hershman
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750981873
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book Albert Finney written by Gabriel Hershman and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Hershman has managed to gather a huge amount of information and distill it into a book that is not only respectful but full of insights into what makes this unstarriest of stars able to produce brilliant work without appearing to break a sweat.' - Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday He was a Salford-born, homework-hating bookie's son who broke the social barriers of British film. He did his share of roistering, and yet outlived his contemporaries and dodged typecasting to become a five-time Oscar nominee and one of our most durable international stars. Bon vivant, perennial rebel, self-effacing character actor, charismatic charmer, mentor to a generation of working-class artists, a byword for professionalism, lover of horseflesh and female flesh – Albert Finney is all these things and more. Gabriel Hershman's colourful and riveting account of Finney's life and work, which draws on interviews with many of his directors and co-stars, examines how one of Britain's greatest actors built a glittering career without sacrificing his integrity.
Author : Marc Augé
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816634378
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book In the Metro written by Marc Augé and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourists climb the Eiffel Tower to see Paris. Parisians know that to really see the city you must descend into the metro. In this revelatory book, Marc Auge takes readers below Paris in a work that is both an ethnography of the city and a personal narrative. Guiding us through history, memory, and physical space, Auge juxtaposes the romance of the metro with the reality of multiethnic urban France. His work is part autobiography, with impressions from a lifetime riding the trains; part meditation on self and memory reflected in the people and places underneath Paris; part analysis of a place where the third world and the first world meet, where remnants of cultures move and press together; and part a reflection on anthropology in an era of globalization and urban development. Although he is a pillar of French thought, In the Metro is Auge's first major critical and creative work translated into English. It shows him to be firmly rooted in a tradition of literary ethnography that reaches back to Claude Levi-Strauss and Michel de Certeau, but also engaged in current theoretical debates in literary and cultural studies. In Auge's idiosyncratic and innovative approach, the act of observing the quotidian is elevated to an art. The writer and his history become part of the field he observes, and anthropology interacts with a site -- urban life -- usually reserved for sociology and cultural studies. Throughout, Auge reveals a passion for his milieu, seeing the metro as a place rich with history and literature -- an eclectic egalitarian society.
