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Denver Lindley

    My Belief
    Stories of Five Decades
    Víťazný oblúk
    • Stories of Five Decades

      • 333 stránok
      • 12 hodin čítania

      This unique selection of twenty-three stories - all but three available in English for the first time - offers an unparalleled spectrum of Hermann Hesse's writing from 1899 to 1948. The reader can trace Hesse's development from the aestheticism of his youth through to the realism and surrealism of the next decade to the classicism of his old age. All his stories, as Hesse himself realized, are concerned primarily with his own secret dreams, his own bitter anguish and his own lifelong quest to penetrate the mysteries of man's inner reality. Stories of Five Decades is a rewarding and distinguished display of the full range of Hesse's hypnotically vivid and lyrical story-telling as it blossomed over a lifetime. There could be no better introduction to Hesse than this skilfully selected volume - Financial Times All the stories in this book are a kind of dream journey - Times Literary Supplement A really fascinating collection of short stories...if you enjoy Hesse's strange and beautiful prose which so often opens up unknown avenues for speculation, these will richly satisfy - The Scotsman Cover Illustration: Justin Todd

      Stories of Five Decades1982
      5,0
    • My Belief

      Essays on Life and Art

      • 399 stránok
      • 14 hodin čítania

      My Belief: Essays on Life and Art is a collection of essays by Hermann Hesse. The essays, written between 1904 and 1961, were originally published in German, either individually or in various collections between 1951 and 1973. This collection in English was first published in 1976, edited by Theodore Ziolkowski.

      My Belief1978
      3,9
    • Rovnako ako všetky Remarquove romány aj Víťazný oblúk bol preložený do mnohých svetových jazykov i sfilmovaný. Dej sa odohráva pred druhou svetovou vojnou v Paríži, kde sa podarilo ukryť lekárovi Ravicovi, ktorý ušiel z nemeckého koncentračného tábora. V tomto meste pod Víťazným oblúkomžijú aj mnohí iní utečenci zo všetkých kútov Európy. Ich neistý, bezútešný život je presvietený iba teplotou náhodných priateľských vzťahov. Lekár Ravic patrí k tým šťastnejším, lebo netrpí núdzu a v istej šťastnej chvíli takmer nájde naplnenie života v láske, ale mladá herečka Joan Madou len ako hviezda preletí cez jeho temnú oblohu a zapadne. Ešte raz sa s ňou Ravic stretáva — operuje ju — nie je však v jeho moci zachrániť ju. E. M. Remarque v tomto románe o trpkom údele emigrantov odhaľuje neľútostnú tvár fašizmu, kriticky hodnotí skorumpovaný politický a spoločenský systém krajiny tzv. slobody a humanisticky vyzdvihuje jediný zmysel v živote človeka, ktorým je ľudské porozumenie a láska. Vydanie v Smene druhé.

      Víťazný oblúk1961
      4,4