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Equilibrium (Paperback, New edition)
Tonino Guerra; Translated by Eric Mosbacher; Introduction by Michael Bracewell; Notes by Michael Bracewell
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R320
Discovery Miles 3 200
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"I had just gotten away from it all, by which I mean all those
ordinary, boring things like skyscrapers, cigar-smoking
industrialists, linoleum, plastics, television, westerns and
marihuana. I had either seen or heard about them. Whether they are
good or bad is beside the point..." A nameless graphic designer is
haunted by the concentration camp in which he was once interned.
Obsessed with his past, as well as Italy's present 'economic
miracle' he retreats to a rural villa where he decorates the rooms
with "arrows, signs, advertisements"; invents a new, purposefully
incomprehensible typeface; and attempts to devise a marketing
campaign for stones. Upon finally returning to Milan life becomes
even more unbalanced. He loses his job and acquires a mistress whom
he soon confuses both with his wife and the memory of the young,
Czech woman he abandoned at the end of the war... Known primarily
as a screenwriter for Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini and
Andrei Tarkovsky among many others, Tonino Guerra also wrote poetry
and fiction. Reissued to mark the centenary of Guerra's birth, and
with a new introduction by acclaimed cultural critic Michael
Bracewell, Equilibrium remains a relevant, powerful, and intensely
visual account of a truly (post-)modern man.
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Cocaine (Paperback)
Pitigrilli; Translated by Eric Mosbacher; Afterword by Alexander Stille
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R407
R352
Discovery Miles 3 520
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Cocaine is the story of a young man who runs off to Paris to seek
fame, fortune, and fun. Pitigrilli's classic novel charts the
comedy and pathos of a young man's tragic trajectory. Tito Arnaudi
is a dandified hero with several mistresses he juggles. A failed
medical student, Tito is hired as a journalist in Paris, where he
investigates cocaine dens and invents lurid scandals and gruesome
deaths that he sells to newspapers as his own life becomes more
outrageous than his phony press reports. Telling of orgies and
strawberries soaked in champagne and ether, Tito lives with
intensity as he pursues his Italian girlfriend Maud (nee Maddalena)
and wealthy Armenian Kalantan, who insists on making love in a
black coffin. Provocatively illustrated, filled with lush,
intoxicating prose, Cocaine is a wicked novel about the Lost
Generation in 1920s Paris. Dizzy and decadent, Pitigrilli leaves
nothing unexplored as he presents astonishing descriptions of upper
class debauching -- strawberries and chloroform, naked dancing,
cocaine aplenty, and guests openly injecting morphine. Despite its
wit, Cocaine is a sobering account of the dangers of drugs and
sexual obsession. Tito happily trades in his twilight years for
moments of wicked ecstasy.
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Cocaine (Paperback)
Pitigrilli; Translated by Eric Mosbacher; Afterword by Alexander Stille
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R408
R383
Discovery Miles 3 830
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Named Library Journal Best Fiction in Translation 2013. "Cocaine is
a brilliant black comedy that belongs on the same shelf as Evelyn
Waugh's Vile Bodies and Dawn Powell's The Wicked Pavilion.
Pitigrilli is an acidic aphorist and a wicked observer of social
folly."--Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City and
Brightness Falls "Pitigrilli was an enjoyable writer--spicy and
rapid--like lightning."--Umberto Eco "The name of the author
Pitigrilli ...is so well known in Italy as to be almost a byword
for 'naughtiness' ...The only wonder to us is that some
enterprising translator did not render some of his books available
in English sooner." -- The New York Times, Paris in the
1920s--dizzy and decadent. Where a young man can make a fortune
with his wits ...unless he is led into temptation. Cocaine's
dandified hero Tito Arnaudi invents lurid scandals and gruesome
deaths, and sells these stories to the newspapers. But his own life
becomes even more outrageous than his press reports when he
acquires three demanding mistresses. Elegant, witty, and wicked,
Pitigrilli's classic novel was first published in Italian in 1921
and charts the comedy and tragedy of a young man's downfall and the
lure of a bygone era. The novel's descriptions of sex and drug use
prompted church authorities to place it on a list of forbidden
books. Cocaine retains its venom even today. Pitigrilli was the pen
name of Dino Segre, born in Turin in 1893. He worked as a foreign
correspondent in Paris during the 1920s, and became equally
celebrated and notorious for a series of audacious and subversive
books. He died in 1975.
A biography of composer Jacques Offenbach that is also a social and
cultural history of Second Empire Paris. Siegfried Kracauer's
biography of the composer Jacques Offenbach is a remarkable work of
social and cultural history. First published in German in 1937 and
in English translation in 1938, the book uses the life and work of
Offenbach as a focal point for a broad and penetrating portrayal of
Second Empire Paris. Offenbach's immensely popular operettas have
long been seen as part of the larger historical amnesia and
escapism that pervaded Paris in the aftermath of 1848. But Kracauer
insists that Offenbach's productions must be understood as more
than glittering distractions. The fantasy realms of such operettas
as La Belle Helene were as one with the unreality of Napoleon III's
imperial masquerade, but they also made a mockery of the pomp and
pretense surrounding the apparatuses of power. At the same time,
Offenbach's dreamworlds were embedded with a layer of utopian
content that can be seen as an indictment of the fraudulence and
corruption of the times. This edition includes Kracauer's preface
to the original German edition as well as a critical foreword by
Gertrud Koch.
This is a new release of the original 1959 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1959 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1955 edition.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
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