Read and Download Héctor Abad book Oblivion in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Oblivion. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 272 pages. Book excerpt: Oblivion is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written memorial to the author's father, Héctor Abad Gómez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by paramilitaries in 1987. Twenty years in the writing, it paints an unforgettable picture of a man who followed his conscience and paid for it with his life during one of the darkest periods in Latin America's recent history.

Read and Download Héctor Joaquín Abad Faciolince book Oblivion in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Oblivion. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Book excerpt: 'Oblivion' is a memorial to the author's father, Hector Abad Gomez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by paramilitaries in 1987."

Read and Download Brantley Nicholson book The Aesthetic Border in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book The Aesthetic Border. This book was released on 2022-05-22 with total page 163 pages. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study examines how modern Colombian literature—from Gabriel García Márquez to Juan Gabriel Vásquez—reflects one of the world’s most tumultuous entrances into globalization. While these literary icons, one canonical, the other emergent, bookend Colombia’s fall and rise on the world stage, the period between the two was inordinately violent, spanning the Colombian urban novel’s evolution into narco-literature. Marking Colombia’s cultural and literary manifestations as threefold, this book explores García Márquez’s retreat to a rural romanticism that paradoxically made him a global literary icon; the country’s violent end to the twentieth century when its largest economic export was narcotics; and the contemporary period in which a new major author has emerged to create a “literature of national reconstitution.” Harkening back to the Regeneration movement and extending through the early twenty-first century, this book analyzes the cultural implications of Colombia’s relationship to the wider world.

Read and Download Mario Vargas Llosa book Sabers and Utopias in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Sabers and Utopias. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 304 pages. Book excerpt: A landmark collection of essays on the Nobel laureate’s conception of Latin America, past, present, and future Throughout his career, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa has grappled with the concept of Latin America on a global stage. Examining liberal claims and searching for cohesion, he continuously weighs the reality of the continent against the image it projects, and considers the political dangers and possibilities that face this diverse set of countries. Now this illuminating and versatile collection assembles these never-before-translated criticisms and meditations. Reflecting the intellectual development of the writer himself, these essays distill the great events of Latin America’s recent history, analyze political groups like FARC and Sendero Luminoso, and evaluate the legacies of infamous leaders such as Papa Doc Duvalier and Fidel Castro. Arranged by theme, they trace Vargas Llosa’s unwavering demand for freedom, his embrace of and disenchantment with revolutions, and his critique of nationalism, populism, indigenism, and corruption. From the discovery of liberal ideas to a defense of democracy, buoyed by a passionate invocation of Latin American literature and art, Sabers and Utopias is a monumental collection from one of our most important writers. Uncompromising and adamantly optimistic, these social and political essays are a paean to thoughtful engagement and a brave indictment of the discrimination and fear that can divide a society.

Read and Download Tahia Abdel Nasser book Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 224 pages. Book excerpt: In memoirs, Arab writers have invoked solitude in moments of deep public involvement. Focusing on Taha Hussein, Sonallah Ibrahim, Assia Djebar, Latifa al-Zayyat, Mahmoud Darwish, Mourid Barghouti, Edward Said, Haifa Zangana, and Radwa Ashour, this book reads a range of autobiographical forms, sources, and affinities with other literatures.Taking a comparative approach, Nasser shows the local sources of contemporary Arab autobiography, adaptations of a global genre, and cultural exchange. She also examines different aspects of the contemporary autobiography as it has evolved in the Arab world during the past half-century, focusing on the particularity of the genre written in different languages but pertaining to one overarching Arab culture. Drawing on memoirs, testimonies, autobiographical novels, poetic autobiography, journals, and diaries, she examines solitude and national struggles in contemporary Arab autobiography.

Read and Download Henry Wiencek book Master of the Mountain in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Master of the Mountain. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 354 pages. Book excerpt: Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek's eloquent, persuasive book—based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson's papers—opens up a huge, poorly understood dimension of Jefferson's world. We must, Wiencek suggests, follow the money. So far, historians have offered only easy irony or paradox to explain this extraordinary Founding Father who was an emancipationist in his youth and then recoiled from his own inspiring rhetoric and equivocated about slavery; who enjoyed his renown as a revolutionary leader yet kept some of his own children as slaves. But Wiencek's Jefferson is a man of business and public affairs who makes a success of his debt-ridden plantation thanks to what he calls the "silent profits" gained from his slaves—and thanks to a skewed moral universe that he and thousands of others readily inhabited. We see Jefferson taking out a slave-equity line of credit with a Dutch bank to finance the building of Monticello and deftly creating smoke screens when visitors are dismayed by his apparent endorsement of a system they thought he'd vowed to overturn. It is not a pretty story. Slave boys are whipped to make them work in the nail factory at Monticello that pays Jefferson's grocery bills. Parents are divided from children—in his ledgers they are recast as money—while he composes theories that obscure the dynamics of what some of his friends call "a vile commerce." Many people of Jefferson's time saw a catastrophe coming and tried to stop it, but not Jefferson. The pursuit of happiness had been badly distorted, and an oligarchy was getting very rich. Is this the quintessential American story?

Read and Download P.C. Sandler book A Clinical Application of Bion s Concepts in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book A Clinical Application of Bion s Concepts. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 258 pages. Book excerpt: This book presents many correlations which link remarkable theories from Bion with a detailed selection of the author's personal clinical experiences. It demonstrates the real existence of conditions that allow dialogue and clinical investigation by the analytic pair.

Read and Download Ronald Neame book Straight from the Horse s Mouth in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Straight from the Horse s Mouth. This book was released on 2003 with total page 330 pages. Book excerpt: It includes tales of the on- and off-the-set antics of comedian George Formby, Neame's first-person account of working with Noel Coward and David Lean, and many other equally exciting episodes in the life of this filmmaker."--BOOK JACKET.

Read and Download Anne Sinai book Reach for the Top in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Reach for the Top. This book was released on 2007-02-09 with total page 408 pages. Book excerpt: This first-ever, personal account of one of film's most controversial stars, clears up the many myths and misconceptions about his life, disclosing for the first time his real name. Packed with personal anecdotes, 23 black and white photographs, a filmography, and a detailed index, this book will fascinate film students, scholars, and enthusiasts.

Read and Download Wes D. Gehring book Irene Dunne in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Irene Dunne. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 252 pages. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the American film actress from her childhood days spent in Louisville, St. Louis, and Madison, Indiana, through her Hollywood career to her retirement, and receipt of the Kennedy Center Award in 1985.

Read and Download Ben Nyce book Scorsese Up Close in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Scorsese Up Close. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Book excerpt: This study of Martin Scorsese's works looks closely at the cinematic text of the films themselves. Unlike other books on Scorsese, which favor the discussion of broad themes and plot summary, Nyce also examines particular shots and sequences of shots. Scorsese Up Close mirrors the same scrutiny that the filmmaker brings to the shooting and editing process.

Read and Download Ray Zone book 3 D Filmmakers in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book 3 D Filmmakers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Book excerpt: La 4e de couv. porte : "In '3-D filmmakers : conversations with creators of stereoscopic motion pictures', stereographer and film historian Ray Zone presents the insights of twenty-one professionals who have worked in this specialized field. In this collection of interviews, Zone explores the art and craft of 3-D filmmaking with producers, screenwriters, directors, and cinematographers. Interviewees range from Arch Oboler - producer of Bwana Devil, the 1952 feature that triggered the boom of 3-D films - to producers and cinematographers who have worked with single-strip 3-D film production in the 1970s and '80s, 3-D films in theme parks, current IMAX films, and the new and still-evolving format of digital 3-D cinema. These interviews provide a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at more than five decades of this unique medium. This one-of-a-kind book will interest aspiring filmmakers, stereo photography enthusiasts, cinema buffs, devotees of popular culture, and film historians."

Read and Download Hector Abad book Oblivion in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Oblivion. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 296 pages. Book excerpt: Oblivion is a heartbreaking tribute to the author's father, Hector Abad Gomez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by paramilitaries in 1987. Twenty years in the writing, it paints an unforgettable picture of a man who followed his conscience and paid for it with his life during one of the darkest periods in Latin America's recent history. Transcending the political, it also shines as one of the most exquisitely written accounts of profound love between a father and son that modern literature has to offer.

Read and Download Marian Cannon Schlesinger book Snatched from Oblivion in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Snatched from Oblivion. This book was released on 1979 with total page 264 pages. Book excerpt: Marian Cannon Schlesinger's memoir of growing up in an academic household in Cambridge, Massachusetts, tells the story of a community and way of life which have virtually disappeared. Her account of Cambridge characters, local politics, college life, and town-gown confrontations in the early years of the century supplements the core narrative concerning a remarkable family, dominated by high-spirited, independent women. The author also writes about her travels in Italy and China in the 1930s. -- Amazon.com.

Read and Download Robin Hemley book Oblivion in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Oblivion. This book was released on 2022 with total page 104 pages. Book excerpt: "Like language, like summer, like love, OBLIVION is irresistible." Junot Diaz Robin Hemley's Oblivion: An After Autobiography has that quality that every reader yearns for-one lies down on a couch and curls up and nothing else is going to happen until one finishes reading it. I read it one long, delirious day. The work is largely about the "saving" nature of the imagination. It's surprisingly funny and always utterly, mortifyingly serious. The book is also very much about being a writer, an artificer, and being willing to do anything to get the words out-anything? Apparently so. What makes Oblivion profound is that it's about a writer's hope to escape oblivion, and how universal a human yearning that is, because every human being is utterly terrified of death and oblivion, and we all contrive ways to tell ourselves that we won't be forgotten. It's Hemley's best book-the book he was born to write and has been dying, as it were, to write his whole life. I truly admire and love the book. - David Shields, author of The Last Interview and Reality Hunger

Read and Download James Montgomery book Memoirs of the Life and Writings of James Montgomery in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Memoirs of the Life and Writings of James Montgomery. This book was released on 1855 with total page 400 pages. Book excerpt:

Read and Download Samuel R. Watkins book Co Aytch Maury Grays First Tennessee Regiment Civil War Memoir in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Co Aytch Maury Grays First Tennessee Regiment Civil War Memoir . This book was released on 2023-11-11 with total page 207 pages. Book excerpt: In 1881, with a "house full of young 'rebels' clustering about my elbows," Watkins began to chronicle his experiences in the First Tennessee Regiment. "Co. Aytch" is considered to be one of the greatest memoirs ever written by a soldier of the field. The charming prose captures the experience of the common private soldier, from the hardships of camp life to the horrors of battle, the camaraderie of a unit to the loss of a brother, the pride in one's state to the devastation of defeat.