Republic Of Dreams

Author : Nélida Piñon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : OCLC:1245771990

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The Republic of Dreams by Nélida Piñon Pdf

Author : Ross Wetzsteon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0684869969

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Republic of Dreams by Ross Wetzsteon Pdf

Chronicles the New York City neighborhood's role as a bohemian enclave that became the home of and transformed the lives of individuals who came to the neighborhood to pursue their individual artistic, personal, and political dreams.

Author : Nelida Pinon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:939642149

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The Republic of Dreams by Nelida Pinon Pdf

The matriarch has begun her final task; the task of dying. As Eulalia shapes her memories and dreams into tales, the clan, gathered at her side, relives its past and vies for its future. A novel following four generations of a family torn between its Spanish past and Brazilian present.

Author : Mark Ford
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501724145

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Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams by Mark Ford Pdf

Raymond Roussel, one of the most outlandishly compelling literary figures of modern times, died in mysterious circumstances at the age of fifty-six in 1933. The story Mark Ford tells about Roussel's life and work is at once captivating, heartbreaking, and almost beyond belief. Could even Proust or Nabokov have invented a character as strange and memorable as the exquisite dandy and graphomaniac this book brings to life? Roussel's poetry, novels, and plays influenced the work of many well-known writers and artists: Jean Cocteau found in him "genius in its pure state," while Salvador Dalí, who died with a copy of Roussel's Impressions d'Afrique on his bedside table, believed him to be one of France's greatest writers ever. Edmond Rostand, Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, Michel Foucault, and Alain Robbe-Grillet all testified to the power of his unique imagination. By any standards, Roussel led an extraordinary life. Tremendously wealthy, he took two world tours during which he hardly left his hotel rooms. He never wore his clothes more than twice, and generally avoided conversation because he dreaded that it might turn morbid. Ford, himself a poet, traces the evolution of Roussel's bizarre compositional methods and describes the idiosyncrasies of a life structured as obsessively as Roussel structured his writing.

Author : Kevin J McNamara
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610394857

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Dreams of a Great Small Nation by Kevin J McNamara Pdf

"The pages of history recall scarcely any parallel episode at once so romantic in character and so extensive in scale." -- Winston S. Churchill In 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by the ruinous cost in blood and treasure of the First World War. As Imperial Russia and Habsburg-ruled Austria-Hungary began to succumb, a small group of Czech and Slovak combat veterans stranded in Siberia saw an opportunity to realize their long-held dream of independence. While their plan was audacious and complex, and involved moving their 50,000-strong army by land and sea across three-quarters of the earth's expanse, their commitment to fight for the Allies on the Western Front riveted the attention of Allied London, Paris, and Washington. On their journey across Siberia, a brawl erupted at a remote Trans-Siberian rail station that sparked a wholesale rebellion. The marauding Czecho-Slovak Legion seized control of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, and with it Siberia. In the end, this small band of POWs and deserters, whose strength was seen by Leon Trotsky as the chief threat to Soviet rule, helped destroy the Austro-Hungarian Empire and found Czecho-Slovakia. British prime minister David Lloyd George called their adventure "one of the greatest epics of history," and former US president Teddy Roosevelt declared that their accomplishments were "unparalleled, so far as I know, in ancient or modern warfare."

Author : G. Garfield Crimmins
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393046338

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The Republic of Dreams by G. Garfield Crimmins Pdf

The battle of the artistic dreamers of the island Republic of Dreams against the League of Common Sense is beautifully illustrated with postcards, maps, telegrams, and a passport in the style of art deco and surrealism. 30,000 first printing.

Author : Ross Wetzsteon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416589518

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Republic of Dreams by Ross Wetzsteon Pdf

If the twentieth century was the American century, it can be argued that it was more specifically the New York century, and Greenwich Village was the incubator of every important writer, artist, and political movement of the period. From the century's first decade through the era of beatniks and modern art in the 1950s and '60s, Greenwich Village was the destination for rebellious men and women who flocked there from all over the country to fulfill their artistic, political, and personal dreams. It has been called the most significant square mile in American cultural history, for it holds the story of the rise and fall of American socialism, women's suffrage, and the commercialization of the avant-garde. One Villager went so far as to say that "everything started in the Village except Prohibition," and in the 1940s, the young actress Lucille Ball said, "The Village is the greatest place in the world." What other community could claim a spectrum ranging from Henry James to Marlon Brando, from Marcel Duchamp to Bob Dylan, from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney to Abbie Hoffman? The story of the Village is, in large part, the stories old Villagers have told new Villagers about former Villagers, and to tell its story is in large part to tell its legends. Republic of Dreams presents the remarkable, outrageous, often interrelated biographies of the giants of American journalism, poetry, drama, radical politics, and art who flocked to the Village for nearly half a century, among them Eugene O'Neill, whose plays were first produced by the Provincetown Players on Macdougal Street, for whom Edna St. Vincent Millay also wrote; Jackson Pollock, who moved to the Village from Wyoming in 1930 and was soon part of the group of 8th Street painters who would revolutionize Western painting; E. E. Cummings, who lived for years on Patchin Place, as did Djuna Barnes; Max Eastman, who edited the groundbreaking literary and political journal The Masses, which introduced Freud to the American public and also published Sherwood Anderson, Amy Lowell, Upton Sinclair, Maksim Gorky, and John Reed's reporting on the Russian Revolution. Republic of Dreams is beautifully researched, outspoken, wise, hip, exuberant, a monumental, definitive history that will endure for decades to come.

Author : Gary Beck
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359254255

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The Republic of Dreams and Other Essays by Gary Beck Pdf

From the previous published essays of New York author Gary Beck, comes The Republic of Dreams. A collection of his best essays with concerns for the the modern world and its interaction with the government body that rules over it. "A thought provoking collection for the modern age and future."-Alexis Allinson

Author : Peter Reich
Publisher : Peter Reich
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781458179289

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A Book of Dreams by Peter Reich Pdf

Author : S. D. Chrostowska
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770566293

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The Eyelid by S. D. Chrostowska Pdf

In Greater America, with sleep under siege, this lucid and prophetic novel of ideas depicts the end of human reverie. An unnamed, unemployed, dream-prone narrator finds himself following Chevauchet, diplomat of Onirica, a foreign republic of dreams, to resist a prohibition on sleep in near-future Greater America. On a mission to combat the state-sponsored drugging of citizens with uppers for greater productivity, they traverse an eerie landscape in an everlasting autumn, able to see inside other people’s nightmares and dreams. As Comprehensive Illusion – a social media-like entity that hijacks creativity – overtakes the masses, Chevauchet, the old radical, weakens and disappears, leaving our narrator to take up Chevauchet's dictum that "daydreaming is directly subversive” and forge ahead on his own. In slippery, exhilarating, and erudite prose, The Eyelid revels in the camaraderie of free thinking that can only happen on the lam, aiming to rescue a species that can no longer dream. "A slight but quick-witted and thoughtful philosophical parable that falls somewhere between Camus and Gaiman’s Sandman universe." —Kirkus Reviews "S. D. Chrostowska's The Eyelid is a brilliant, visionary satire on the digital mindscape of twenty-first-century late capitalism embodied in the new global state of Greater America. Insomnia is in; dreams are seditious; sleep is outlawed. Lulled by false fantasies projected by Artificial Intelligence (CI in the book), video games, and media collaborators, humans drug themselves to stay awake so they can slave through the now standard twenty-hour work days. Witty, oracular, Surreal, trenchant, politically astute, and often hilarious, The Eyelid is a throwback to the classics of the genre, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Samuel Butler's Erewhon. We are turning into a race of sleep-deprived automatons, Chrostowska warns, increasingly unable to mount political opposition or even dream a different future." —Douglas Glover

Author : Nélida Piñon
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173010093228

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The Republic of Dreams by Nélida Piñon Pdf

Here is another multigenerational Latin American saga, this time about immigrants from Spanish Galicia to Brazil. Paterfamilias Madruga has made good, acquiring showy objects of wealth as fast as he amasses his fortune. Now that his wife Eulalia is dying, he takes stock of the family they have produced and finds them amorphous, spineless creatures who leave him cold--except for granddaughter Breta, who accompanies him on a trip back to Spain and who agrees to write a book about the family's ordeal of emigration. In their transplantation from lush and green Galicia to the desolate urban shores of Brazil, something vital has been lost, and a deep longing for the past and for the Old World permeates the book. The writing itself is characterized by the use of elliptical sentences, otherwise called fragments. For Latin American enthusiasts. --Jack Shreve, Library Journal.

Author : Gelasio Gaetani d’Aragona Lovatelli
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781614285199

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The Italian Dream by Gelasio Gaetani d’Aragona Lovatelli Pdf

For more than three years, Aline Coquelle, the well-known globe-trotting photographer, and Count Gelasio Gaetani d’Aragona Lovatelli, a member of one of the oldest aristocratic Italian families, have followed the map of Italy’s best wines. Guided by Gelasio, readers are introduced to a tribe of artistic and wine-loving amici who share their passion for their country’s heritage and bounty. The Italian Dream: Wine, Heritage, Soul is an escape into the effortlessly elegant Italian lifestyle, savoring wine behind the private gates of family castles and vineyards, from the foothills of the Alps to the hill towns of Tuscany to the relaxed southern seasides.

Author : Mohsen Rashidi
Publisher : Writers Republic LLC
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781646205523

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Beauty out of Dream by Mohsen Rashidi Pdf

This book is about following my dream for more than 15 years and during these years I had faced a lot of difficulties that could stop me of continuing, but something inside me inspired me to reach it, to follow it, to think about it. And when I approached my dream I understand what those years wanted to teach me. A real life experience definitely can move you on faster to reach your goals.

Author : Martin A. Lee,Bruce Shlain
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0802130623

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Acid Dreams by Martin A. Lee,Bruce Shlain Pdf

Provides a social history of how the CIA used the psychedelic drug LSD as a tool of espionage during the early 1950s and tested it on U.S. citizens before it spread into popular culture, in particular the counterculture as represented by Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, and others who helped spawn political and social upheaval.

Author : Raymond Geuss
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674968950

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Reality and Its Dreams by Raymond Geuss Pdf

One of political philosophy’s most trenchant and inventive critics challenges the field’s normative turn, arguing that the study of politics should focus on real politics, where normative judgments arise from concrete configurations of power. Raymond Geuss shows how this can be done without succumbing to a toxic relativism or abandoning utopianism.