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Lyric of the Circle Heart

William Eastlake
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Author : William Eastlake
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564781364

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These novels face head-on the reality of the American Indian, perhaps the last great taboo in American culture. After all of the flag-waving, the wars to protect the Land of the Free, and interventions around the world in the name of democracy, how do Americans admit, even today, that America was not discovered by Columbus and not courageously cultivated by white Anglo-Saxons? The land was invaded and a people destroyed, all in the name of religion, political freedom, and money. Long before Cormac McCarthy and even long before Tom Robbins, William Eastlake invented an American Southwest whose comic and tragic dimensions, as well as its hard beauty, encapsulates American myths and nightmares in much the way that Faulkner did with his invented Yoknapatawpha County. Against a background of New Mexico that transcends regional space, Eastlake explores race, greed, and tradition, evoking stereotypes for the sake of exploding them and laying bare an American reality that is a strange mix of pop culture, zany humor, biting satire, and a deep-seated respect for and love of the land.

Alien Visions

Margaret Ziolkowski
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Author : Margaret Ziolkowski
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0874139260

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There are many parallels and some revealing differences in the encounter between, on the one hand, the Americans and various Indian tribes and, on the other, the Russians and some of the peoples of the Caucasus and Siberia. The enduring cultural consequences of these encounters provide a fruitful area of inquiry for the comparative examination of national images in literatures. The major focus on this study is the perceptions and literary portrayal of the Chechens by the Russians and the Navajos by the Americans. Both the Chechen in Russian literature and the Navajo in American literature are often constructs, images derived from a potent combination of prejudices and received assumptions. In each case a relatively sizable corpus of writings produced over a century or longer exemplifies or attempts to counter persistent and influential modes of cultural stereotyping. The diachronic analysis of the portrayal of either the Chechens or the Navajos illuminates patterns of prejudice that have immense implications for both popular and high culture. The juxtaposition of the discussion of the two groups as they have been treated in Russian and American literature can deepen our understanding of the commonalities present in attempted cultural domination or ethnic idealization. Margaret Ziolkowski is Professor of Russian at Miami University, Ohio.

Their Four Hearts

Vladimir Sorokin
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Author : Vladimir Sorokin
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628974126

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In many respects, Their Four Hearts is a book of endings and final things. Vladimir Sorokin wrote it in the year the Soviet Union collapsed and then didn’t write fiction for ten years after completing it––his next book being the infamous Blue Lard, which he wrote in 1998. Without exaggerating too much, one might call it the last book of the Russian twentieth century and Blue Lard the first book of the Russian twenty-first century. It is a novel about the failure of the Soviet Union, about its metaphysical designs, and about the violence it produced, but presented as God might see it or Bataille might write it. Their Four Hearts follows the violent and nonsensical missions carried out by a group of four characters who represent Socialist Realist archetypes: Seryozha, a naive and optimistic young boy; Olga, a dedicated female athlete; Shtaube, a wise old man; and Rebrov, a factory worker and a Stakhanovite embodying Soviet manhood. However, the degradation inflicted upon them is hardly a Socialist Realist trope. Are the acts of violence they carry out a more realistic vision of what the Soviet Union forced its “heroes” to live out? A corporealization and desacralization of self-sacrificing acts of Soviet heroism? How the Soviet Union truly looked if you were to strip away the ideological infrastructure? As we see in the long monologues Shtaube performs for his companions––some of which are scatological nonsense and some of which are accurate reproductions of Soviet language––Sorokin is interested in burrowing down to the libidinal impulses that fuel a totalitarian system and forcing the reader to take part in them in a way that isn’t entirely devoid of aesthetic pleasure. As presented alongside Greg Klassen’s brilliant charcoal illustrations, which have been compared to the work of Bruno Schulz by Alexander Genis and the work of Ralph Steadman as filtered through Francis Bacon by several gallerists, this angular work of fiction becomes a scatological storybook-world that the reader is dared to immerse themselves in.

And, in Conclusion, I Would Also Like to Mention Hydrogen

W. C. Bamberger
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Author : W. C. Bamberger
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781434402714

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This major new collection of Bamberger's literary essays focuses on the process of trying to understand difficult new works and concepts, and of coming to grips with something new, mysterious, or simply "the other."

An Egyptian Novel

Orly Castel-Bloom
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Author : Orly Castel-Bloom
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628972603

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The protagonist has Egyptian roots going back many generations: on her father’s side, to the expulsion of the Jews of Spain in 1492, when seven brothers of the Kastil family (from Castilla) landed on the Gaza coast after many trials and tribulations. Her mother’s side goes back even further, to the only family that Jewish history has ignored: the ones who said “No” to Moses and stayed in Egypt. After migrating to Israel in the 1950s and settling on a kibbutz—from which they were soon expelled for Stalinism—this storied clan moved to Tel Aviv. In this unconventional family saga, Orly Castel-Bloom blends fact with fiction, history with legend, reimagining the lives of her forebears in unforgettable prose.

Hidden Camera

Zoran Živković
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Author : Zoran Živković
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564784126

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"An undertaker finds an invitation to a private showing of a movie stuck in his apartment door. Upon arrival at the theater, he discovers that there's only one other person in the audience, and when the "movie" turns out to be footage of him sitting in a park calmly eating his lunch, he becomes convinced that he's an unwitting participant in a sinister reality show, whose unseen cameras are determined to humiliate him in front of thousands of people. Certain that he's being filmed at every moment, he begins a bizarre odyssey through the dark and empty streets of his city, encountering increasingly absurd situations, becoming ever more paranoid and distrustful, and waiting for the opportunity to stage a rebellion against his hidden tormentors."--BOOK JACKET.

Wasabi for Breakfast

Foumiko Kometani
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Author : Foumiko Kometani
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564789662

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Wasabi for Breakfast by Foumiko Kometani Pdf

These touching novellas detail the difficulties of a Japanese woman to both adapt to her new life in the United States without abandoning ties to her family and community back home. This book collects two novellas by the noted Japanese painter: “Family Business” and “1,001 Pillars of Flame.” In the first, Megumi—like the author, a long-time resident of the United States—pays a visit to her now eighty-seven-year-old mother in Japan. After so many years living abroad, Megumi simply can't understand contemporary Japan, and when her nephew runs away from home, and her elderly mother gives chase, Megumi finds herself having to relearn Japanese survival skills in an effort to bring them home safely. In “1,001 Pillars of Fire,” another Japanese-American woman, Yu, has been living in California for decades—which makes it all the more painful that she’s just as subject to discrimination now as ever. When, in the wake of the Rodney King trial, LA’s African-American population begins to riot, Yu learns just how much damage exclusion can do—finding it even within her own family.

Lend Me Your Character

Dubravka Ugrešić
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Author : Dubravka Ugrešić
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564783758

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Lend Me Your Character by Dubravka Ugrešić Pdf

"Splendidly ambitious . . . A brilliant, enthralling spread of story-telling and high-velocity reflections. In her indignation and in her sorrow Ugresic speaks for many people, many experiences. She is a writer to follow. A writer to be cherished." Susan Sontag"

Literature and Cinematography

Viktor Shklovskiĭ
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Author : Viktor Shklovskiĭ
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781564784827

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Literature and Cinematography by Viktor Shklovskiĭ Pdf

In this essay, a leading figure of the Russian Formalist movement of the 1910s and 1920s enunciates the function of the arts: what they are and, more importantly, what they are not. His views of the other arts lead him into speculations about cinematography, which was just emerging at the time of writing, 1923.

Night

Vedrana Rudan
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Author : Vedrana Rudan
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564783472

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Not since Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Ferdinand Bardamu has a character appeared in fiction with such a bitter, ironic, hysterically ranting voice. Tonka--a fifty-something woman spending the night watching TV before leaving her husband for a younger man--rails against all of society, from attacks on America to complaints about commercials, from the passive nature of most married women to the way corporations control the world.With shocking honesty and anger, she pours out her soul to an imaginary audience, interspersing her rants with the story of her difficult life, the suffering experienced during the Yugoslav war, and the affairs she and her best friend have with the same man.

Love and Death in the American Novel

Leslie A. Fiedler
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Author : Leslie A. Fiedler
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1564781631

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Love and Death in the American Novel by Leslie A. Fiedler Pdf

"No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say." Washington Post

The Inquisitory

Robert Pinget
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Author : Robert Pinget
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564783278

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The Inquisitory consists entirely of the interrogation of an old, deaf servant regarding unspecified crimes that may or may not have taken place at his master's French chateau. The servant's replies - which are by turns comic, straightforward, angry, nostalgic, and disingenuous - hint at a variety of seedy events, including murder, orgies, tax fraud, and drug deals. Of course, the servant wasn't involved with any of these activities - if the reader chooses to believe him. In trying to convince the inquisitor of his innocence, the servant creates a web of half-truths, vague references, and glaring inconsistencies amid "forgotten" details, indicating that he may know more than he's letting on.

Gestures

Igncacy Karpowicz
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Author : Igncacy Karpowicz
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628972085

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A forty-year-old man, burying himself in work and avoiding close emotional bonds with people, pays a visit to his mother in the country and is forced to extend it upon discovering her illness. While there, he reevaluates past familial and romantic relationships and finally attempts to build new ones. Gestures is "a psychologically precise and moving autopsy of a 'man in the wake of ordeals.'"

Best European Fiction 2012 (Best European Fiction)

Aleksandar Hemon
Best European Fiction 2012 Best European Fiction Book PDF

Author : Aleksandar Hemon
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564786807

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Best European Fiction 2012 (Best European Fiction) by Aleksandar Hemon Pdf

Translated from more than 25 languages and highlighting the future luminaries and revolutionaries of international literature. Fans of the series will find everything they've grown to love, while new readers will discover what they've been missing!

Those Whom I Would Like to Meet Again

Giedra Radvilaviciute
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Author : Giedra Radvilaviciute
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564789709

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Ten stories on the border of fiction and essay, in which the experiences of life “are unrecognizably transformed, like the flour, eggs, nuts, and apples in a cake.” In ten of her best essay-stories, Giedra Radvilavičiūtė travels between the ridiculous and the sublime, the everyday and the extraordinary. In the place of plot, which the author claims to have had “shot and buried with the proper honors,” the reader finds a dense, subtly interwoven structure of memory and reality, banalities and fantasy, all served up with a good dollop of absurdity and humor. We travel from the old town of Vilnius to Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood, from the seaside to a local delicatessen, all in a narrative collage as exquisitely detailed as a bouquet of flowers. As in all of her work, Radvilavičiūtė plays with the genres of fiction and nonfiction, essay and short story, in which the experiences of life “are unrecognizably transformed, like the flour, eggs, nuts, and apples in a cake.”