Three Streets Storybook Nd Series

Author : Yoko Tawada
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811229319

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Three Streets (Storybook ND Series) by Yoko Tawada Pdf

Yoko Tawada—winner of the National Book Award—presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in Berlin The always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In "Kollwitzstrasse," as the narrator muses on former East Berlin's new bourgeois health food stores, so popular with wealthy young people, a ghost boy begs her to buy him the old-fashioned sweets he craves. She worries that sugar's still sugar—but why lecture him, since he's already dead? Then white feathers fall from her head and she seems to be turning into a crane . . . Pure white kittens and a great Russian poet haunt "Majakowskiring": the narrator who reveres Mayakovsky's work is delighted to meet his ghost. And finally, in "Pushkin Allee," a huge Soviet-era memorial of soldiers comes to life—and, "for a scene of carnage everything was awfully well-ordered." Each of these stories opens up into new dimensions the work of this magisterial writer.

Author : Osamu Dazai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811232111

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Early Light (Storybook ND Series) by Osamu Dazai Pdf

Early Light gathers three tales by Osamu Dazai, author of the wildly popular No Longer Human Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII. Having lost their own home, he and his wife flee with a new baby boy and their little girl to relatives in Kofu, only to be bombed out anew. "Everything's gone," the father explains to his daughter: "Mr. Rabbit, our shoes, the Ogigari house, the Chino house, they all burned up," "Yeah, they all burned up," she said, still smiling. "One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji," another autobiographical tale, is much more comic: Dazai finds himself unable to escape the famous views, the beauty once immortalized by Hokusai and now reduced to a cliche. In the end, young girls torment him by pressing him into taking their photo before the famous peak: "Goodbye," he hisses through his teeth, "Mount Fuji. Thanks for everything. Click." And the final story is "Villon's Wife," a small masterpiece, which relates the awakening to power of a drunkard's wife. She transforms herself into a woman not to be defeated by anything, not by her husband being a thief, a megalomaniacal writer, and a wastrel. Single-handedly, she saves the day by concluding that "There's nothing wrong with being a monster, is there? As long as we can stay alive."

Author : César Aira
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811228909

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The Famous Magician (Storybook ND Series) by César Aira Pdf

A writer is offered a devil’s bargain: will he give up reading books in exchange for total world domination? A certain writer ("past sixty, enjoying 'a certain renown'") strolls through the old book market in a Buenos Aires park: "My Sunday walk through the market, repeated over so many years, was part of my general fantasizing about books." Unfortunately, he is suffering from writer's block. However, that proves to be the least of our hero's problems. In the market, he fails to avoid the insufferable boor Ovando—"a complete loser" but a "man supremely full of himself: Conceit was never less justified." And yet, is Ovando a master magician? Can he turn sugar cubes into pure gold? And can our protagonist decline the offer Ovando proposes granting him absolute power if the writer never in his life reads another book? And is his publisher also a great magician? And the writer's wife? Only César Aira could have cooked up this witch's potion (and only he would plop in phantom Mont Blanc pens as well as fearsome crocodiles from the banks of the Nile)—a brew bubbling over with the question: where does literature end and magic begin?

Author : Helen DeWitt
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811230087

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The English Understand Wool (Storybook ND Series) by Helen DeWitt Pdf

A modern amorality play about a 17-year-old girl, the wilder shores of connoisseurship, and the power of false friends Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not be so fortunate. If some other young girl, with two million dollars at stake, finds this of use I shall count myself justified. Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais ton ("bad taste" loses something in the translation). One should not ask servants to wait on one during Ramadan: they must have paid leave while one spends the holy month abroad. One must play the piano; if staying at Claridge’s, one must regrettably install a Clavinova in the suite, so that the necessary hours of practice will not be inflicted on fellow guests. One should cultivate weavers of tweed in the Outer Hebrides but have the cloth made up in London; one should buy linen in Ireland but have it made up by a Thai seamstress in Paris (whose genius has been supported by purchase of suitable premises). All this and much more she has learned, governed by a parent of ferociously lofty standards. But at 17, during the annual Ramadan travels, she finds all assumptions overturned. Will she be able to fend for herself? Will the dictates of good taste suffice when she must deal, singlehanded, with the sharks of New York?

Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811228411

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Spadework for a Palace (Storybook ND Series) by László Krasznahorkai Pdf

A joyful ode—in a single soaring, crazy sentence—to the interconnectedness of great (and mad) minds Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: “Reality is no obstacle.” Indeed. This high-octane obsessive rant vaults over all obstacles, fueled by the idées fixe of a “gray little librarian” with fallen arches whose name—mr herman melvill—is merely one of the coincidences binding him to his lodestar Herman Melville (“I too resided on East 26th Street . . . I, too, had worked for a while at the Customs Office”), which itself is just one aspect of his also being “constantly conscious of his connectedness” to Lebbeus Woods, to the rock that is Manhattan, to the “drunkard Lowry” and his Lunar Caustic, to Bartok. And with this consciousness of connection he is not only gaining true knowledge of Melville, but also tracing the paths to “a Serene Paradise of Knowledge.” Driven to save that Palace (a higher library he also serves), he loses his job and his wife leaves him, but “people must be told the truth: there is no dualism in existence.” And his dream will be “realized, for I am not giving up: I am merely a day-laborer, a spade-worker on this dream, a herman melvill, a librarian from the lending desk, currently an inmate at Bellevue, but at the same time—may I say this?—actually a Keeper of the Palace."

Author : Clarice Lispector
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811229944

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The Woman Who Killed the Fish (Storybook ND Series) by Clarice Lispector Pdf

Four beguiling tales for children of all ages. A surprising new facet of Clarice Lispector’s genius “That woman who killed the fish unfortunately is me,” begins the title story, but “if it were my fault, I’d own up to you, since I don’t lie to boys and girls. I only lie sometimes to a certain type of grownup because there’s no other way.” Enumerating all the animals she’s loved—cats, dogs, lizards, chickens, monkeys—Clarice finally asks: “Do you forgive me?” “The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit” is a detective story which explains that bunnies think with their noses: for a single idea a bunny might “scrunch up his nose fifteen thousand times” (he may not be too bright, but “he’s not foolish at all when it comes to making babies”). The third tale, “Almost True,” is a shaggy dog yarn narrated by a pooch who is very worried about a wicked witch: “I am a dog named Ulisses and my owner is Clarice.” The wonderful last story, “Laura’s Intimate Life” stars “the nicest hen I’ve ever seen.” Laura is “quite dumb,” but she has her “little thoughts and feelings. Not a lot, but she’s definitely got them. Just knowing she’s not completely dumb makes her feel all chatty and giddy. She thinks that she thinks.” A one-eyed visitor from Jupiter arrives and vows Laura will never be eaten: she’s been worrying, because “humans are a weird sort of person” who can love hens and eat them, too. Such throwaway wisdom abounds: “Don’t even get me started.” These delightful, high-hearted stories, written for her own boys, have charm to burn—and are a treat for every Lispector reader.

Author : Yōko Tawada
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081121690X

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Facing the Bridge by Yōko Tawada Pdf

From Japan to Vietnam to Amsterdam to the Canary Islands, these three new tales by master storyteller Yoko Tawada float between cultures, identities, and the dreamwork of the imagination

Author : Yoko Tawada
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811229296

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Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada Pdf

A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the 2022 National Book Award Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as “the land of sushi.” Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): “homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language.” As she searches for anyone who can still speak her mother tongue, Hiruko soon makes new friends. Her troupe travels to France, encountering an umami cooking competition; a dead whale; an ultra-nationalist named Breivik; unrequited love; Kakuzo robots; red herrings; uranium; an Andalusian matador. Episodic and mesmerizing scenes flash vividly along, and soon they’re all next off to Stockholm. With its intrepid band of companions, Scattered All Over the Earth (the first novel of a trilogy) may bring to mind Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland or a surreal Wind in the Willows, but really is just another sui generis Yoko Tawada masterwork.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Traffic accidents
ISBN : MINN:30000011632605

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The Walking in Traffic Safety (WITS) Program for Preschoolers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357409

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

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1492 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Government publications
ISBN : OSU:32435030431365

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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Computer software
ISBN : 0916087158

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The Latest and Best of TESS by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ryan T. Higgins
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781368070287

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Spring Stinks by Ryan T. Higgins Pdf

Ruth the bunny is excited to share the smelly springtime smells of spring with Bruce! But what will Bruce think of all that stink? Little Bruce Book

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : American literature
ISBN : PSU:000052001260

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Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Lynne Warren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1823 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781135205362

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Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set by Lynne Warren Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography explores the vast international scope of twentieth-century photography and explains that history with a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary manner. This unique approach covers the aesthetic history of photography as an evolving art and documentary form, while also recognizing it as a developing technology and cultural force. This Encyclopedia presents the important developments, movements, photographers, photographic institutions, and theoretical aspects of the field along with information about equipment, techniques, and practical applications of photography. To bring this history alive for the reader, the set is illustrated in black and white throughout, and each volume contains a color plate section. A useful glossary of terms is also included.