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When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed
secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde turned, he was
increasingly dismissed as apolitical, too inward. In Rilke: The
Last Inward Man, acclaimed critic Lesley Chamberlain uses this
charge as the starting point from which to explore the
expansiveness of the inner world Rilke created in his poetry.
Weaving together searching insights on Rilke's life, work and
reception, Chamberlain casts Rilke's inwardness as a profound
response to a world that seemed ever more lacking in spirituality.
In works of dazzling imagination and rich imagery, Rilke sought to
restore spirit to Western materialism, encouraging not narrow
introversion but a heightened awareness of how to live with the
world as it is, of how to retain a sense of transcendence within a
world of collapsed spiritual certainty.
In 1888, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche moved to Turin. This would
be the year in which he wrote three of his greatest works: Twilight
of the Idols, The Antichrist, and Ecce Homo; it would also be his
last year of writing. He suffered a debilitating nervous breakdown
in the first days of the following year. In this probing, elegant
biography of that pivotal year, Lesley Chamberlain undoes popular
cliches and misconceptions about Nietzsche by offering a deeply
complex approach to his character and work. Focusing as much on
Nietzsche's daily habits, anxieties and insecurities as on the
development of his philosophy, Nietzsche in Turin offers a uniquely
lively portrait of the great thinker, and of the furiously
productive days that preceded his decline.
This title tells the story of a young woman, a Russian refugee who
makes an impulsive marriage to aid her escape. Life in a Scottish
fishing village in the shadow of the Great War makes her feel
packed in 'like a herring in a box' and she reverses her tracks
back to Moscow.
Grief is a universal human response to death and loss. Mourning is
an equally universally observable practice that enables the
bereaved to express their grief and come to terms with the reality
of loss. Yet, despite their prevalence, there is no unified
understanding of the nature and meaning of grief and mourning. The
Meaning of Mourning: Perspectives on Death, Loss, and Grief brings
together fifteen essays from diverse disciplines addressing the
topics of death, grief, and mourning. The collection moves from
general questions concerning the putative badness of death and the
meaning of loss through the phenomenology and psychology of grief,
to personal and cultural aspects of mourning. Contributors examine
topics such as theodicy and grief, reproductive loss, mourning as a
form of recognition of value, the roots of grief in early
childhood, grief in COVID-times, hope, phenomenology of loss,
public commemoration and mourning rituals, mourning for a
devastated culture, the Necropolis of Glasgow, and the "art of
outliving." Edited by Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode, the volume provides
a survey of the rich topography of methodologies, problems,
approaches, and disciplines that are involved in the study of
issues surrounding loss and our responses to it and guides the
reader through a spectrum of perspectives, highlighting the
connections and discontinuities between them.
When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed
secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde turned, he was
increasingly dismissed as apolitical, too inward. In Rilke: The
Last Inward Man, acclaimed critic Lesley Chamberlain uses this
charge as the starting point from which to explore the
expansiveness of the inner world Rilke created in his poetry.
Weaving together searching insights on Rilke's life, work and
reception, Chamberlain casts Rilke's inwardness as a profound
response to a world that seemed ever more lacking in spirituality.
In works of dazzling imagination and rich imagery, Rilke sought to
restore spirit to Western materialism, encouraging not narrow
introversion but a heightened awareness of how to live with the
world as it is, of how to retain a sense of transcendence within a
world of collapsed spiritual certainty.
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Killing The Second Dog (Paperback)
Marek Hlasko; Translated by Tomasz Mirkowicz; Introduction by Lesley Chamberlain
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"Hlasko's story comes off the page at you like a pit bull."--The
Washington Post "His writing is taut and psychologically nuanced
like that of the great dime-store novelist Georges Simenon, his
novelistic world as profane as Isaac Babel's."--Wall Street Journal
"Spokesman for those who were angry and beat ...turbulent,
temperamental, and tortured."--The New York Times "A must-read
...piercing and compelling."--Kirkus Reviews "A self-taught writer
with an uncanny gift for narrative and dialogue."--Roman Polanski
"Marek Hlasko ...lived through what he wrote and died of an
overdose of solitude and not enough love."-- Jerzy Kosinski, author
of The Painted Bird and Being There "A glittering black comedy
...that is equally entertaining and wrenching." -- Publishers
Weekly "The idol of Poland's young generation in 1956." -- Czeslaw
Milosz, 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature Robert and Jacob are
down-and-out Polish con men living in Israel in the 1960s. They're
planning to run a scam on an American widow visiting the country.
Robert, who masterminds the scheme, and Jacob, who acts it out, are
tough, desperate men, adrift in the nasty underworld of Tel Aviv.
Robert arranges for Jacob to run into the woman, whose heart is
open; the men are hoping her wallet is too. What follows is a story
of love, deception, cruelty, and shame, as Jacob pretends to fall
in love with her. It's not just Jacob who's performing a role;
nearly all the characters are actors in an ugly story, complete
with parts for murder and suicide. Marek Hlasko's writing combines
brutal realism with smoky, hardboiled dialogue in a bleak world
where violence is the norm and love is often only an act. Marek
Hlasko, known as the James Dean of Eastern Europe, was exiled from
Communist Poland and spent his life wandering the globe. He died in
1969 of an overdose of alcohol and sleeping pills in Wiesbaden,
Germany.
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The Futurist Cookbook (Paperback)
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti; Introduction by Lesley Chamberlain; Translated by Suzanne Brill
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R309
R251
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Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist
Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an
easy-to-read cookbook. Here are recipes for ice cream on the moon;
candied atmospheric electricities; nocturnal love feasts; sculpted
meats. Marinetti also sets out his argument for abolishing pasta as
ill-suited to modernity, and advocates a style of cuisine that will
increase creativity. Although at times betraying its author's
nationalistic sympathies, The Futurist Cookbook is funny,
provocative, whimsical, disdainful of sluggish traditions and
delighted by the velocity and promise of modernity. Filippo Tommaso
Marinetti was born in 1876 to Italian parents and grew up in
Alexandria, Egypt. He studied in Paris and obtained a law degree in
Italy before turning to literature. In 1909 he wrote the infamous
Futurist Manifesto, which championed violence, speed and war, and
proclaimed the unity of art and life. Marinetti's life was fraught
with controversy: he fought a duel with a hostile critic, was
subject to an obscenity trial, and was a staunch supporter of
Italian Fascism. Alongside his literary activities, he was a war
correspondent during the Italo-Turkish War and served on the
Eastern Front in World War II, despite being in his sixties. He
died in 1944. Lesley Chamberlain is a novelist and historian of
ideas. Her thirteen books include Nietzsche in Turin, The Secret
Artist: A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud and The Food and Cooking
of Russia. Suzanne Brill is an art historian and writer. She has
translated several books for Italian art historians including Caro
Pedretti's Leonardo: Architect, which was nominated for the John
Florio prize. 'A paean to sensual freedom, optimism and childlike,
amoral innocence ... it has only once been answered, by Aldous
Huxley's Brave New World' Lesley Chamberlain
In 1922, Vladimir Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160
"undesirable" intellectuals--mostly philosophers, academics,
scientists, and journalists--to be deported from the new Soviet
State. "We're going to cleanse Russia once and for all" he wrote to
Stalin, whose job it was to oversee the deportation. Two ships
sailed from Petrograd that autumn, taking Old Russia's eminent men
and their families away to what would become permanent exile in
Berlin, Prague, and Paris. Through journals, letters, memoirs, and
personal accounts, Lesley Chamberlain creates a rich portrait of
these banished thinkers and their families. She describes the world
they left behind, the émigré communities they were forced to join,
and the enduring power of the works they produced in exile.
With resonance for today, this book explores a significant crisis
of German philosophy and national identity in the decades around
World War II. Â German philosophy, famed for its high-minded
Idealism, was plunged into crisis when Germany became an urban and
industrial society in the late nineteenth century. The key figure
of this shift was Immanuel Kant: seen for a century as the
philosophical father of the nation, Kant seemed to lack crucial
answers for violent and impersonal modern times. This book shows
that the social and intellectual crisis that overturned Germany’s
traditions—a sense of profound spiritual confusion over where
modern society was headed—was the same crisis that allowed Hitler
to come to power. It also describes how German philosophers
actively struggled to create a new kind of philosophy in an effort
to understand social incoherence and technology’s diminishing of
the individual.
"The Food and Cooking of Eastern Europe," first published in 1989
and a companion volume to Lesley Chamberlain's acclaimed "The Food
and Cooking of Russia," surveys the rich and diverse food cultures
that were known to few people in the West during the half century
when Europe was divided. It contains more than two hundred recipes
interwoven with historical background and notes from the author's
extensive experiences traveling through Central and Eastern Europe.
When originally published this practical cookbook revealed how the
world's most delicious sausages, goulash and sauerkraut, fruit
dumplings, cheesecake, and many other dishes tasted in their
homelands. Now, in a quite different political world, this book is
a vital resource for remembering life before the Iron Curtain was
lifted.This Bison Books edition contains period illustrations and a
new introduction by the author that describes how dramatically this
region and its food have changed since the end of Central and
Eastern Europe's isolation in 1989.
Lesley Chamberlain lived in Soviet Russia in 1978–79 and recorded
her experiences in the form of two hundred recipes interwoven with
details of Russian culture and history and her own practical
advice. From blini to cabbage soup, and caviar eggs to “Russian
salad,” she reveals the continuity of Russian life, despite
political repression, in which the bourgeois cooking of the
nineteenth century coexisted with old dishes dictated by the church
calendar and new inventions to “make do” with the frequent
shortages of vital ingredients under the Soviets. First
published in 1982, this fine collection of recipes and entertaining
literary quotations has become a classic introduction to the rich
culinary history of the region. This new Bison Books edition
contains period illustrations and a new introduction by the author.
There is nothing new about the Russian conservatism Putin stands
for, acclaimed writer Lesley Chamberlain argues. Rather, as
Ministry of Darkness reveals, the roots of Russian conservatism can
be traced back to the 19th century when Count Uvarov's notorious
cry of 'Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality!' rang through the
streets of Russia. Sergei Uvarov was no straightforward
conservative; indeed, this man was at once both the pioneering
educational reformer who founded the Arzamas Writers' Club to which
Pushkin belonged, and the Minister who tyrannised and censored
Russia's literary scene. How, then, do we reconcile such extreme
contradictions in one person? Through Chamberlain's intimate
examination of Uvarov's life and skilled analysis of Russian
conservatism, readers learn how the many paradoxes that dominated
Uvarov's personal and political life are those which, writ large,
have forged the identity of conservative modern Russia and its
relationship with the West. This fascinating book sheds new light
on an often overlooked historical actor and offers a timely
assessment of the 19th-century 'Russian predicament'. In doing so,
Chamberlain teases out the reasons why the country continues to
baffle Western observers and policymakers, making this essential
reading both students of Russian history and those who want to
further understand Russia as it is today.
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