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A collection of six Bernhard plays, all in English for the first
time. Save Yourself if You Can is a collection of six plays that
span the entirety of Thomas Bernhard’s career as a dramatist. The
plays collected in this long-awaited addition to Bernhard’s
oeuvre in English—The Ignoramus and the Madman, The Celebrities,
Immanuel Kant, The Goal Attained, Simply Complicated, and Elizabeth
II—traverse somber lyricism and misanthropy to biting satire and
glorious slapstick. They explore themes that will be familiar to
longtime readers of Bernhardt, but here they are presented in a
subtly different register, attuned to the needs of the stage.
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This interdisciplinary study examines the transformation of Glasgow
as it has transitioned from a de-industrial to a post-industrial
city during the 20th and 21st centuries. A broad range of
contributors analyse diverse issues of urban policy, regeneration,
and economic and social change to consider the necessary actions
required to secure the gains of regeneration and create an
economically competitive and socially just city.
A collection of previously untranslated stories from a master of
twentieth-century Austrian literature, Thomas Bernhard. "The cold
increases with the clarity," said Thomas Bernhard while accepting a
major literary prize in 1965. That clarity was the postwar
realization that the West's last remaining cultural reference
points were being swept away by the ever-greater commodification of
humankind. Collecting five stylistically transitional tales by
Bernhard, all of which take place in sites of extreme cold, this
volume extends that bleak vision of the master Austrian
storyteller. In "Ungenach," the reluctant heir of an enormous
estate chooses to give away his legacy to an assortment of oddballs
as he discovers the past of his older brother, who was murdered
during a career in futile colonialist philanthropy. In "The
Weatherproof Cape," a lawyer tries to maintain a sense of familial
solidarity with a now-dead client with the help of an unremarkable
piece of clothing. "Midland in Stilfs" casts a jaundiced eye on the
laughable efforts of a cosmopolitan foreigner to attain local
authenticity on a moribund Alpine farmstead. In "At the Ortler,"
two middle-aged brothers-one a scientist, the other an
acrobat-meditate on their unusual career paths while they climb a
mountain to reclaim a long-abandoned family property. And in "At
the Timberline," the unexpected arrival of a young couple in a
mountain village leads to the discovery of a scandalous crime that
casts a shadow on the personal life of the policeman investigating
it.
Place one guga [almost fully grown gannet chick] and one stone in a
pan of water and boil. Once you can pierce the stone with a fork,
the guga is ready for eating… Meet Calum. In 1930, the last
remaining St Kildans evacuated their isolated outpost 100 miles off
the west coast of Scotland. Calum returns a few years later, alone
and troubled, the sole guardian of the islanders’ abandoned
homes. Haunted by the memories that linger there, he begins to
re-live the experiences of residents long past. Acrobats, airmen,
cormorants, cragsmen and angels leap, climb, shimmer and swoop
through the pages of The Guga Stone. With subtle humour, Donald S.
Murray mixes mythology, fiction and history to recreate St
Kilda’s tales and legends for our time.
Douglas Robertson has taken his father's classic book, Survive the
Savage Sea, as his starting point. The Robertson family set sail
from the south of England on their 43-foot schooner, LUCETTE, which
was holed by killer whales and sank in the Pacific Ocean. Four
adults and two children survived the next 38 days adrift, first in
a rubber life raft, then crammed into a 9-foot fiberglass dinghy,
before being rescued by a passing Japanese fishing vessel. This is
the story of the 18-month voyage of the LUCETTE across the
Atlantic, through the Panama Canal and into the Pacific, and how
the family survived their shipwreck. It is a vivid account of the
delights and hardships and the excitements and the dangers,
experienced by the family both before and after the shipwreck. The
author has drawn upon a wealth of other sources, including his own
memories of a life-changing experience, to bring us this true story
of adventure ? ultimately a very human and humbling tale.
Fo is a successful actress and stage director with a bumpy past.
She is 39 and desperate to have a child. Convinced it will come
between them, Dina, her partner, does everything she can to
discourage her. But Fo is not the only one who wants this child. So
do her friend Brendan, her mother Goni, her mother's best friend
Betsy and all the other ex-pats and oddballs that make up her
Athenian circle of friends and relations. When an unlikely father
presents himself, she is faced with an impossible dilemma. Give in
to her maternal instinct regardless of the consequences or be
destined to a life of bitter regret?
Fo is a successful actress and stage director with a bumpy past.
She is 39 and desperate to have a child. Convinced it will come
between them, Dina, her partner, does everything she can to
discourage her. But Fo is not the only one who wants this child. So
do her friend Brendan, her mother Goni, her mother's best friend
Betsy and all the other ex-pats and oddballs that make up her
Athenian circle of friends and relations. When an unlikely father
presents himself, she is faced with an impossible dilemma. Give in
to her maternal instinct regardless of the consequences or be
destined to a life of bitter regret?
Pericles (Peri) Pontakis, investigative journalist and host of the
controversial TV show Under World, is fighting a losing battle
against corruption in the upper chelons of Greek society. He has
little to show for a life's committment to social justice, except a
ruined marriage, two alienated children, a mountain of debt, and a
multitude of powerful and dangerous enemies. Among his many
admirers and acquaintances, his only true friends are Jack, his
feisty cat, and the down-and-out journalist, Christos, to whom he
lets the apartment below. When his life starts collapsing around
him, he decides to change tack and make a documentary about the
threatened Loggerhead turtle, in the hope that this 'undemanding'
project will enable him to save not only the turtle but his own
soul. However, the path to salvation is strewn with unforeseen
obstacles, some of which prove not altogether unpleasant.
Pericles (Peri) Pontakis, investigative journalist and host of the
controversial TV show Under World, is fighting a losing battle
against corruption in the upper chelons of Greek society. He has
little to show for a life's committment to social justice, except a
ruined marriage, two alienated children, a mountain of debt, and a
multitude of powerful and dangerous enemies. Among his many
admirers and acquaintances, his only true friends are Jack, his
feisty cat, and the down-and-out journalist, Christos, to whom he
lets the apartment below. When his life starts collapsing around
him, he decides to change tack and make a documentary about the
threatened Loggerhead turtle, in the hope that this 'undemanding'
project will enable him to save not only the turtle but his own
soul. However, the path to salvation is strewn with unforeseen
obstacles, some of which prove not altogether unpleasant.
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