Literary essays of Ezra Pound
Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 1968
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Autumn in Peking
Author : Boris Vian
Publisher : Tamtam Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
Fiction. Translated from the French by Paul Knobloch. Originally published in 1947. "In the Exopotamian desert, where hepatrols blossom and children collect little animals called sandpeepers, the sun shines in an unusual way: it produces eerie black zones whose mysteries remain unexplained. Above all, Vian's pecurilar way with language proves that, indeed, life in the desert is equal to none. Since unusual language is bound to produce unusual fiction, it follows that the story does not take place in the fall, nor is it set in China" - from the Foreword by Marc Lapprand. The fourth novel by Vian, who was a contemporary of Sartre and Beauvoir. His innovative style, cutting-edge during his lifetime, but only successful in the sixties, made him an icon of the May 1968 student movement.
French Opera at the Fin de Siècle
Author : Steven Huebner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 2006-02-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199719921
Book Description
This is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Steven Huebner gives an accessible and colorful account of such operatic favorites as Manon and Werther by Massenet, Louise by Charpentier, and lesser-known gems such as Chabrier's Le Roi malgré lui and Chausson's Le Roi Arthus.
The Flight of the Angels
Author : Alistair Charles Rolls
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042004672
Book Description
It is a close study of four novels by Boris Vian. It aims to show how L'Ecume des jours, L'Automne a Pekin, L'Herbe rouge and L'Arrache-coeur form a unified and coherent tetralogy. By establishing close links between these four texts, it becomes possible to achieve a more comprehensive understanding, not only of the significance of the tetralogy in exposing a complex and multi-layered novelistic strategy at the heart of the vianesque, but of the individual novels as autonomous creations. An examination of the novels reveals that they are not merely joined to one another via a superficial network of textual similarities (that which I refer to as intratextuality), but that this intertwining is emblematic of a common method of narrative construction. Each Vian novel is dependent, for a thorough understanding of the text to be possible, upon the multiple lines of external influence running through it. The sources of this influence (which I refer to as intertextuality) are located in various major texts of twentieth century literature, anglophone as well as francophone. Thus, in each instance the narrative is driven by a complicated interaction of intratextuality and intertextuality."
Red Grass
Author : Boris Vian
Publisher : Tamtam Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780966234695
Book Description
A narrative about an engineer, Wolf, who invents a bizarre machine that allows him to revisit his past and erase inhibiting memories.
Satie the Bohemian
Author : Steven Moore Whiting
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 1999-02-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 0191584525
Book Description
Erik Satie (1866-1925) came of age in the bohemian subculture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and cafés-concerts. Yet apologists have all too often downplayed this background as potentially harmful to the reputation of a composer whom they regarded as the progenitor of modern French music. Whiting argues, on the contrary, that Satie's two decades in and around Montmartre decisively shaped his aesthetic priorities and compositional strategies. He gives the fullest account to date of Satie's professional activities as a popular musician, and of how he transferred the parodic techniques and musical idioms of cabaret entertainment to works for concert hall. From the esoteric Gymnopédies to the bizarre suites of the 1910s and avant-garde ballets of the 1920s (not to mention music journalism and playwriting), Satie's output may be daunting in its sheer diversity and heterodoxy; but his radical transvaluation of received artistic values makes far better sense once placed in the fascinating context of bohemian Montmartre.
The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930
Author : Susan Rutherford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 2006-08-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 052185167X
Book Description
An examination of the female opera singer during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
How to Read
Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Books and reading
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Book Description
Prince of Europe
Author : Philip Mansel
Publisher : Orion Publishing Company
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780753818558
Book Description
The Habsburg courtier Charles-Joseph Prince de Ligne seduced and symbolized eighteenth-century Europe. Speaking French, the international language of the day, he travelled between Paris and St Petersburg, charming everyone he met. He stayed with Madame du Barry, dined with Frederick the Great and travelled to the Crimea with Catherine the Great. But Ligne was more than a frivolous charmer. He participated in and recorded some of the most important events and movements of his day: the Enlightenment; the struggle for mastery in Germany; the decline of the Ottoman Empire; the birth of German nationalism; and the wars to liberate Europe from Napoleon. He had surprisingly radical views, believing for example in property rights for women, legal rights for Jews and the redistribution of wealth. He was also a highly respected writer and his books on gardens, his letters from the Crimea and his epigrams are considered minor classics of French literature.
Opera Acts
Author : Karen Henson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107004268
Book Description
Opera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline for the opera singer. In detailed case studies of four figures - the late Verdi baritone Victor Maurel; Bizet's first Carmen, Célestine Galli-Marié; Massenet's muse of the 1880s and 1890s, Sibyl Sanderson; and the early Wagner star Jean de Reszke - Karen Henson argues that singers in the late nineteenth century continued to be important, but in ways that were not conventionally 'vocal'. Instead they enjoyed a freedom and creativity based on their ability to express text, act and communicate physically, and exploit the era's media. By these and other means, singers played a crucial role in the creation of opera up to the end of the nineteenth century.
