The Second Death of Ramón Mercader
Author : Jorge Semprun
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 1973-01-01
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ISBN : 9780297004288
Author : Jorge Semprun
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 1973-01-01
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ISBN : 9780297004288
Author : Jorge Semprún
Publisher :
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 1973
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Author : John P. Davidson
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1480465194
DIVDIVA dark and riveting thriller that reimagines the life and mission of the Spanish nationalist enlisted to murder Leon Trotsky: Based on a true chapter of world history and ten years of research, here is the story of the real-life reluctant soldier and killer, Ramón Mercader—the obedient assassin/divDIV Ramón Mercader was plucked from the front of the Spanish Civil War by the Soviets and conscripted to murder the great intellectual Leon Trotsky, a leader of the Bolshevik Revolution who was exiled in the 1920s for opposing Joseph Stalin./divDIV As Ramón is trained for the task and assumes a new identity, he lives a lush life in Paris, befriending Frida Kahlo and other artists of the time. He falls in love with a left-leaning Jewish woman whom he is ordered to seduce as a means of getting at Trotsky./divDIV From Barcelona to Paris and New York to Mexico City, the group controlling Ramón—including Ramón’s mother and her lover—guides the assassin on the inevitable resolution of his grim task as he must penetrate Trotsky’s compound./divDIV/div/div
Author : Liran Razinsky
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300217226
In 1963, French-Spanish writer Jorge Semprun published Le Grand Voyage (The Long Voyage), a fictional account of his deportation to Buchenwald. Later, Semprun became an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and served as Spain's minister of culture. This volume of the Yale French Studies series constitutes an overall assessment of his work, spanning his broad range of genres and traditions. Including both new perspectives and pieces by authors who have written widely on Semprun, this volume is a refreshing and dynamic look at one of the twentieth-century's most interesting literary voices.
Author : Rubén Gallo
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0262014424
Freud's Mexican disciples, Mexican books, Mexican antiquities, and Mexican dreams.
Author : Bertrand M. Patenaude
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0060820691
Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much passion, controversy, and curiosity as Leon Trotsky. His role in history—his epic rise and fall, his fiery persona, his violent end in Mexico in August 1940—holds a fascination that transcends the history of the Russian Revolution. Bertrand M. Patenaude masterfully interweaves the story of Trotsky’s final years with flashbacks to pivotal episodes in his career as a young Marxist, revolutionary hero, Red Army chief, Bolshevik leader, outcast from Stalin’s USSR, and ultimately heretic of the Kremlin, targeted for assassination by its secret police. Gripping, tragic, and based on extensive firsthand research, Trotsky brilliantly illuminates the fateful and dramatic life of one of history’s most captivating and important figures.
Author : Jorge Semprún
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 1978
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Author : Michael J. Shapiro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 20,79 MB
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1350164321
In The Phenomenology of Religious Belief, the renowned philosopher Michael J. Shapiro investigates how art – and in particular literature and film – can impact upon both traditional interpretations and critical studies of religious beliefs and experiences. In doing so, he examines the work of prolific and award-winning writers such as Toni Morrison, Philip K. Dick and Robert Coover. By placing their work in conjunction with critical analyses of media by the likes of Ingmar Bergman and Pier Paolo Pasolini and combining it with the work of groundbreaking thinkers such as George Canguilhem, Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Žižek, Shapiro takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to the question of how life should be lived. His assessment of phenomenological subjectivity also leads him to question the nature of political theology and extend the criticism of Pauline theology.
Author : Brad Stevens
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 22,41 MB
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786481880
"I just did it, and I probably made more mistakes than the average person who makes a first film. I didn't really have any help, and I wouldn't take any help. I had to do it on my own. Once I made my first film I considered myself a film-maker. I lost all interest in the theater and never went back"--Monte Hellman In 1970, an LA Times headline described Monte Hellman as "Hollywood's best kept secret". More than thirty years later, Hellman and his work are still secrets, his genius recognized only by a small but passionate group of admirers. This book is both a biography of Hellman and a critical study of his films, which include The Shooting, Two-Lane Blacktop and Ride in the Whirlwind. It also covers films to which Hellman has contributed as an editor, actor and producer, as well as those on which he has worked, in various capacities, without onscreen credit, such as Shatter and Robocop. Attention is focused on the hallmarks of Hellman's work, including his dominant themes and obsessive characters, and all the films are subjected to close stylistic analysis.
Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 25,99 MB
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374201749
Cuban writer Iván Cárdenas Maturell meets a mysterious foreigner on a Havana Beach who is always in the company of two Russian wolfhounds. Ivan quickly names him 'the man who loves dogs'. The man eventually confesses that he is the man who murdered Leon Trotsky in Mexico.