The Magic Lamp Dreams Of Our Age

Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786694492

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The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age by Ben Okri Pdf

Twenty-five stories, twenty-five paintings, five years to write, ten years to paint. This is an extraordinary collaboration between artist and artist: the Booker Prize-winning writer Ben Okri and the painter Rosemary Clunie. Together they have created a world, and peopled it with dreams. Twenty-five fairy tales for adults, these narratives are a response to our times, informed by our world but not limited by it, imaginative, enchanting, haunting – both prescient and prophetic. Twenty-five original paintings, beautiful, playful, intimate, dreamlike, these works pull you in to a land of colour and vision. Who can say which came first, the word or image, when both grew together out of a long friendship and a creative symbiosis. What if Calvino and Magritte had combined inspiration? What if we could see our world again with a child's eyes? What if there really is a magic lamp?

Author : Rosemary Alice Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350153011

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The Tough Alchemy of Ben Okri by Rosemary Alice Gray Pdf

Winner of the Booker Prize for The Famished Road, Ben Okri is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary writers writing today. Featuring a substantial new interview with Ben Okri himself, a full bibliography of his creative work and covering his complete works, this is the first in-depth study of Okri's themes and artistic vision. Rosemary Gray explores Okri's career-long engagement with myth, Nigerian politics and culture, and with the environmental crisis in the age of the Anthropocene.

Author : Vanessa Guignery
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496851574

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Conversations with Ben Okri by Vanessa Guignery Pdf

Conversations with Ben Okri collects twenty-six interviews that range from 1986 to 2023 and reflect the international resonance of Nigerian writer Ben Okri's work. The reader is given access to the various phases of Okri’s life and career, beginning with his childhood (b. 1959) and upbringing in Nigeria and the publication of his early short stories and novels. The interviews also explore the tremendous success of The Famished Road (for which Okri became the first Black African writer to receive the Booker Prize in 1991) and the dazzling creativity of his subsequent work in a multiplicity of literary genres. The volume offers insight into the writer’s creative process and his unique views on literature, history, memory, politics, freedom, spirituality, and environmental issues. The conversations often veer into fascinating philosophical discussions about the nature of art and reality, the value of myth, and the dynamics of storytelling. Since the publication of his first novel in 1980, Okri has encouraged his readers to open their minds and eyes to new modes of perceiving reality. Convinced of the universality of art, he has been intent on redreaming the world from a variety of perspectives in poems, essays, short stories, novels, and plays written over a period of more than forty years. Throughout his career, Ben Okri has never stopped experimenting with new forms, creating the stoku (a mixture of short story and haiku), endowing his fictional and nonfictional creations with poetic undertones, and collaborating with visual artists, musicians, and dancers.

Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788549585

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The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri Pdf

One of 2019's most anticipated novels in THE TIMES, IRISH TIMES and GUARDIAN. 'Where fiction's master of enchantments stares down a real horror, and without blinking or flinching, produces a work of beauty, grace and uncommon power' MARLON JAMES, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015. An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own, by the Man Booker-winner Ben Okri. In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: Who is the Prisoner? When Amalantis disappears, her lover Karnak goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a growing realization. To find Amalantis, he must first understand the meaning of her question. Karnak's search leads him into a terrifying world of lies, oppression and fear at the heart of which lies the Prison. Then Karnak discovers that he is not the only one looking for the truth. The Freedom Artist is an impassioned plea for justice and a penetrating examination of how freedom is threatened in a post-truth society. In Ben Okri's most significant novel since the Booker Prize-winning The Famished Road, he delivers a powerful and haunting call to arms. 'Ben Okri is that rare thing, a literary and social visionary, a writer for whom all three – literature, culture and vision – are profoundly interwoven' ALI SMITH.

Author : John Freeman
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780802146397

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Freeman's: Power by John Freeman Pdf

The “fresh, provocative, engrossing” literary journal explores the nature of power in its various forms with new stories, essays, and poetry (BBC.com). Spouse to spouse, soldier to citizen, looker to gazed upon, power is never static: it is either demonstrated or deployed. This thought-provoking issue of the acclaimed literary anthology Freeman’s explores who gets to say what matters in a time of social upheaval. Margaret Atwood posits it is time to update the gender of werewolf narratives. Aminatta Forna shatters the silences which supposedly ensured her safety as a woman of color walking in public spaces. The narrator of Lan Samantha Chang’s short story finally wrenches control of the family’s finances from her husband only to make a fatal mistake. Meanwhile the hero of Tahmima Anam’s story achieves freedom by selling bull semen. Booker Prize winner Ben Okri watches power stripped from the residents of Grenfell Tower by ferocious neglect. Meanwhile, Barry Lopez remembers fourteen glimpses of power, from the moment he hitched a ride on a cargo plane in Korea to the glare he received from a bear traveling with her cubs in the woods, asking—do you intend me harm? Featuring work from brand new writers Nicole Im, Jaime Cortez, and Nimmi Gowrinathan, as well as from some of the world’s best storytellers, including US poet laureate Tracy K. Smith, Franco-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, and Turkish novelist Elif Shafak, Freeman’s: Power escapes from the headlines of today and burrows into the heart of the issue.

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781786826640

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(L'Etranger) The Outsider by Albert Camus Pdf

Camus' sparse parable about the human condition is one of the great stories of the 20th Century, here adapted for the stage by Booker prize winner Ben Okri. A faceless man who can no longer pretend, Mersault commits a senseless murder under the glare of the Algerian sun. On trial he feels distanced from proceedings, he is castigated for not expressing remorse, for not crying at his mother's funeral, and is forced to confront the hypocrisy and injustice of society. In an age where we are being increasingly told what to feel, The Outsider is a blast of uncompromising honesty. Albert Camus, French novelist, essayist, philosopher and Nobel laureate, was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. Ben Okri, author of The Famished Road, is one of contemporary literature's most important writers. This adaption brings them together for a rare dramatisation of one of modern literature's most celebrated works.

Author : Deb Koffman
Publisher : Bellastoria Press Llp
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942209207

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The Magic Lamp by Deb Koffman Pdf

A little lamp with a big imagination discovers who and how it wants to be--from sparkling to silly and everything in between. A book in rhyme about the joyful power of our own thoughts.

Author : Deborah Koffman
Publisher : Bellastoria Press Llp
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942209185

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The Magic Lamp by Deborah Koffman Pdf

A little lamp who doesn't know it's magic discovers the power of imagination to create who and how it wants to be-from sparkling to silly, tiny to huge and everything in between. "An inspiring story. The lamp and the reader experience imagination at its fullest, and learn of the true power of letting your imagination run wild." Nadia, age 10.

Author : David Hawkes
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030559403

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The Reign of Anti-logos by David Hawkes Pdf

The concept of ‘performativity’ has risen to prominence throughout the humanities. The rise of financial derivatives reflects the power of the performative sign in the economic sphere. As recent debates about gender identity show, the concept of performativity is also profoundly influential on people’s personal lives. Although the autonomous power of representation has been studied in disciplines ranging from economics to poetics, however, it has not yet been evaluated in ethical terms. This book supplies that deficiency, providing an ethical critique of performative representation as it is manifested in semiotics, linguistics, philosophy, poetics, theology and economics. It constructs a moral criticism of the performative sign in two ways: first, by identifying its rise to power as a single phenomenon manifested in various different areas; and second, by locating efficacious representation in its historical context, thus connecting it to idolatry, magic, usury and similar performative signs. The book concludes by suggesting that earlier ethical critiques of efficacious representation might be revived in our own postmodern era.

Author : Paul Boutet
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781434337627

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The Secret of Aladdin's Lamp by Paul Boutet Pdf

The Secret of Aladdin's Lamp Or How To Be Happy and Realize Your Dreams provides you with a fundamental understanding of how to enter into a proper relationship with the divine Being. The book will also equip you with the life-long capacity to directly and personnaly relate to the divine Source and Giver for any needs that arise in your life. To support you in this process, you will find specific examples of prayers and meditations to realize your challenges and goals much more easily. You will also find in it instructions on how you can create your own prayers using the powerful templates provided. In fact, by applying the principles in this book in your daily life, you will be holding Aladdin's Lamp in your own hands. Be happy and realize all your dreams! (Paul Stackhouse, editor, Ottawa, Canada)

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1536 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498512

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Carl Bowen
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781434227744

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Aladdin and the Magic Lamp by Carl Bowen Pdf

The story of Aladdin, a poor youth living in Al Kal'as who outsmarts an evil sorcerer, getting his hands on a magical lamp with a wish-fulfilling genie!

Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781905570768

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The Mystery Feast by Ben Okri Pdf

‘In every moment, we are part of the infinite stories that the universe is telling us and that we are telling the universe.’ Packed with ideas and inspiration, The Mystery Feast offers numerous pathways into the magical world of storytelling. Beginning with a poem, ‘All we do’, Booker prize-winning novelist Ben Okri presents his considered thoughts on the purpose and meaning of stories, concluding with a series of condensed ‘Notes to the modern storyteller’. The collection is completed with a ‘stoku’ – a brief tale on the theme. Based on decades of honing his art, this stimulating booklet gives a glimpse into the mind of a master of contemporary storytelling.

Author : Jean Maalouf
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781543417708

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Heal Your Life by Jean Maalouf Pdf

For our very survival and sanity, we need God. We need virtue. We need character. The good person brings good things out of a good treasure, and the evil person brings evil thing out of an evil treasure (Matthew 12:35). Godly people make all the difference in the world by striving to match the politics of the earth with the politics of the kingdom of God. By talking about uncovering the healing power of faith, hope, love, and prayer, this book uncovers at the same time the secret of sanitythe sanity that runs our lives at the individual level, as well as at the national and international levels. Sanity requires the rejection of the gods weve created by learning to focus on the God in whose image weve been created. Billions of dollars are spent every year on the pursuit of physical perfection. People do anything to become richer, more powerful, or more prestigiouswith improved appearances and more pleasing makeup in all domains as if the only value that really counts is the most attractive picture we are able to show. In this very expensive race for the outside perfect masks, the pursuit of inner beauty can often be pushed aside when this inner beauty is by far more important than the outer beauty. Dont we know that the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart (1 Samuel 16:7)? In this book, Heal Your Life: Awakening to the Power of FaithHopeLovePrayer, Dr. Maalouf masterly invites us to reject the double lifestyle we are living and to genuinely consider living by the truth of the permeation and integration of theology and politics. Politics, Pope Paul VI declared, is the highest form of charity. And we can add that charity is the highest form of political sanity as well. Indeed, real politics takes action and contemplation. All our crises are rooted in our spiritual crisis first. For our sanity and survival, God is needed. For our sanity and survival, the politics of the earth should match the politics of the kingdom of God, as this book explains.

Author : Rhea Duttagupta
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781408176207

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Leadership by Rhea Duttagupta Pdf

Taking in an amazing range of nationalities - British, Arabic, Chinese, Indian, Greek, Italian, American, Korean - in Leadership: It's in Your DNA Rhea Duttagupta examines how her interviewees became leaders, what worked for them, mistakes they've learned from and risks they've taken. From boardroom politics to the challenges faced by the first female commissioner of Asian police tasked with transforming the world's one of the most corrupt prisons, the stories are diverse, inspirational and instructional. This book provides readers with a framework of ten ingredients distilled from Rhea's extensive experience and research. She argues that these ingredients are innate within us and that if we recognise their importance and enhance them within ourselves, they'll help us maximise our achievements and our leadership qualities.