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A Typographic Abecedarium (Paperback): Ornan Rotem A Typographic Abecedarium (Paperback)
Ornan Rotem
R738 R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Save R253 (34%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Letterforms are an inseparable part of a civilized literary landscape. At some distant point in history, letters started as representations of things in the world. Then, gradually, through a complex evolutionary process, they came to be defined as the closed shapes of a writing system. This photo-typographic essay is a meditation on this remarkable transition. Exploring the relationship between typography and the visual world around us, the essay looks at the twenty-six letters of the English version of the Roman alphabet in four manners: as the world presenting itself in the shape of a letter, as an intended letter in space, as a flat letter on paper, and finally as a pure geometric form embodied in a typeface. Familiar letterforms are presented in fresh, surprising ways, forming an homage to the beauty of type and a reflection on its ubiquity in our visual understanding of the world around us. Alongside the fascinating images, Ornan Rotem's text offers an overview and a detailed discussion of each letter. In this unusual book, text and image coalesce to create a modern day primer on letters: a typographic abecedarium.

Stalin Is Dead - Stories and aphorisms on animals, poets and other earthly cr (Paperback, Bilingual ed.): Rachel Shihor Stalin Is Dead - Stories and aphorisms on animals, poets and other earthly cr (Paperback, Bilingual ed.)
Rachel Shihor; Translated by Ornan Rotem; Foreword by Nicole Krauss
R447 R405 Discovery Miles 4 050 Save R42 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this playfully designed dual-language edition, Rachel Shihor's stories-published here for the first time in the original Hebrew-appear alongside Ornan Rotem's English translation. Shihor offers a medley of aphorisms, flash fiction, and short stories, carving out a slice of a world in which Kafka would feel at home. The characters that inhabit this world-reckless she-goats, morose fish, somnambulistic theologians, and poignant old ladies, not to mention dying dictators and dead poets-have nothing in common save for the fact that they instruct us on the human condition. In her introduction, Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love, confirms, "Only a master could make such originality feel inevitable. The only question is why so few people have had the chance to read her." These edifying stories, with all their sadness and humor, are a writer's tour de force and a reader's delight.

Days Bygone - The Cahier Series 7 (Paperback): Rachel Shihor Days Bygone - The Cahier Series 7 (Paperback)
Rachel Shihor; Translated by Ornan Rotem
R413 R373 Discovery Miles 3 730 Save R40 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Four excerpts from Rachel Shihor's novella Yankinton have been selected, and translated from the Hebrew for this cahier. These poignant and humorous tales are as much about the act of recollection as they are about the remembered Tel Aviv of the 1940s. In a playful and yet muted style, Shihor tells of the everyday life of a child beginning to grasp her surroundings. Six works by the painter David Hendler further explore the city.

Pushpa - A photographic essay in which cut flowers are coupled with Indian and South-east Asian sculptures and reliefs... Pushpa - A photographic essay in which cut flowers are coupled with Indian and South-east Asian sculptures and reliefs (Hardcover)
Ornan Rotem
R750 R337 Discovery Miles 3 370 Save R413 (55%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Crossing Horizons - World, Self, and Language in Indian and Western Thought (Hardcover, New): Shlomo Biderman Crossing Horizons - World, Self, and Language in Indian and Western Thought (Hardcover, New)
Shlomo Biderman; Translated by Ornan Rotem
R1,674 Discovery Miles 16 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book, Shlomo Biderman examines the views, outlooks, and attitudes of two distinct cultures: the West and classical India. He turns to a rich and varied collection of primary sources: the "Rg Veda," the Upanishads, and texts by the Buddhist philosophers N?g?rjuna and Vasubandhu, among others. In studying the West, Biderman considers the Bible and its commentaries, the writings of such philosophers as Plato, Descartes, Berkeley, Kant, and Derrida, and the literature of Kafka, Melville, and Orwell. Additional sources are Mozart's "Don Giovanni" and seminal films like Ingmar Bergman's "Persona."

Biderman uses concrete examples from religion and literature to illustrate the formal aspects of the philosophical problems of transcendence, language, selfhood, and the external world and then demonstrates their plausibility in actual situations. Though his method of analysis is comparative, Biderman does not adopt the disinterested stance of an "ideal" spectator. Rather, Biderman approaches ancient Indian thought and culture from a Western philosophical standpoint to uncover cultural presuppositions that can be difficult to expose from within the culture in question.

The result is a fascinating landmark in the study of Indian and Western thought. Through his comparative prism, Biderman explores the most basic ideas underlying human culture, and his investigation not only sheds light on India's philosophical traditions but also facilitates a deeper understanding of our own.

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