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This book is about the madness of everyday life under a
dictatorship. It shifts in theme and time, testing the borderlines
of prose and poetry, fiction and non-fiction, history and
autobiography - all in the unassuming guise of a children's ABC.
The Last Window-Giraffe is a playful and personal journey through
the political unrest of the seventies and eighties. It was inspired
by a Hungarian children's dictionary, entitled Window-Giraffe,
which explained the whole world in simple terms; a world where
everything was in order and all problems were easily solved.Popular
across Europe for the best part of a decade, The Last
Window-Giraffe is a politically infused rendition of the original:
quirky, astute and powerful. Peter Zilahy draws on his travels
around the 'soft dictatorships' of Eastern Europe, offering his
acerbic observations on the often bizarre spectacle. In one
instance, he describes the carnival-like protests against the
Milosevic regime in Belgrade simply and humorously. This reflects,
like the format of the book, the manner in which the regime treat
their people like children. Filled with his own striking
photographs, Zilahy gives fascinating insight into a whole other
universe behind the Iron Curtain. The Last Window-Giraffe is one of
the most unusual, beguiling books you will ever read."
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Magyar Menu (Paperback)
Ivan Bacher; Translated by Tim Wilkinson
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R305
R249
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A small nation with big appetites the Hungarians love to eat, cook
and above all talk about their rich pepper-and-cream laden grub.
No-one loves talking and writing about Hungarian food, its history
and qualities more than leading local columnist Ivan Bacher whose
always witty and sometimes screamingly funny pieces assembled here
include the exploding pig-shave story and how Budapest's crows were
terrorised by a palpuszta cheese. Amidst the fun are real insights
on how to prepare, eat and enjoy food in a magnificently Magyar
manner.
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Prae, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
Miklos Szentkuthy; Translated by Tim Wilkinson
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R1,184
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'A fine and powerful piece of work... Dark, at times cryptic, and
hugely energetic' Irish Times "No!" is the first word of this
haunting novel. It is how a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer
answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a child, and it is
how he answered his wife years earlier when she told him that she
wanted one. The loss, longing and regret that haunt the years
between these two 'No!'s give rise to one of the most eloquent
meditations ever written on the Holocaust. As Kertesz's narrator
addresses the child he couldn't bear to bring into the world, he
takes readers on a mesmerising, lyrical journey through his life,
from his childhood to Auschwitz to his failed marriage.
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Melancholy (Hardcover)
Laszlo F Foldenyi; Translated by Tim Wilkinson; Foreword by Alberto Manguel
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R792
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A leading European intellectual reflects on the changing concept of
melancholy throughout history Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian
writer Laszlo Foeldenyi as "one of the most brilliant essayists of
our time." Foeldenyi's extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion
of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights,
gives proof to such praise. His book, part history of the term
melancholy and part analysis of the melancholic disposition,
explores many centuries to explore melancholy's ambiguities. Along
the way Foeldenyi discovers the unrecognized role melancholy may
play as a source of energy and creativity in a well-examined life.
Foeldenyi begins with a tour of the history of the word melancholy,
from ancient Greece to the medieval era, the Renaissance, and
modern times. He finds the meaning of melancholy has always been
ambiguous, even paradoxical. In our own times it may be regarded
either as a psychic illness or a mood familiar to everyone. The
author analyzes the complexities of melancholy and concludes that
its dual nature reflects the inherent tension of birth and
mortality. To understand the melancholic disposition is to find
entry to some of the deepest questions one's life. This
distinguished translation brings Foeldenyi's work directly to
English-language readers for the first time.
Unique in Hungarian literature, at the time of its first appearance
in 1935, Towards the One & Only Metaphor was greeted with
plaudits by such leading Hungarian critics as Laszlo Nemeth, Andras
Hevesi, and Gabor Halasz, with Nemeth declaring: "Szentkuthy's
invention has the merit that he pries writing open in an entirely
original manner. . . Where everything was wobbling the writer
either joins the earth-shaping forces, or else he sets up his
culture-building laboratory over all oscillations. Seated in his
cogitarium, even in spite of himself, Szentkuthy is brother to the
bellicose on earth in the same way as a cloud is a relative to a
plow in its new sowing work." Szentkuthy referred to this nearly
unclassifiable text as a Catalogus Rerum, "an index that is of
entities and phenomena, a Catalogue of Everything in the Entire
World." In a sequence of 112 shorter and longer passages,
Szentkuthy has recorded his experiences and thoughts, reflected on
his reading matter as well as political, historical, and erotic
events, moving from epic subjectivity to ontological actualities:
"Two things excite me: the most subjective epic details and the
ephemeral trivialities of my most subjective life, in all their own
factual, unstylized individuality - and the big facts of the world
in their allegorical, Standbild-like grandiosity: death, summer,
sea, love, gods, flowers." Similar in kind to the ruminative waste
books of Lichtenberg and the journals of Joubert, while Towards the
One and Only Metaphor is a fragmentary text, at the same time, it
is ordered, like a group of disparate stars which, when viewed from
afar, reveal or can be perceived to form a constellation - they are
sculpted by a geometry of thought. Szentkuthy conjures up and
analyzes spectacle and thought past and present with sensitivity,
erudition, and linguistic force. As Andras Keszthelyi observed, the
text is essentially something of a manifesto, "an explicit
formulation of the author's intentions, his scale of values, or, if
you wish: his ars poetica." Through dehumanization, Szentkuthy
returns us to the embryo and the ornament, but so as to bring us
into the very particles of existence. Towards the One and Only
Metaphor is also a confessional, a laying bare of the heart, even
through masks, but in moving beyond the torpid self-obsession that
rules our age, Szentkuthy's revelations yield forth the x-ray of a
typus, and like Montaigne and Rousseau, he is equally revealing,
entertaining, and humorous. Now available in English for the first
time, Towards the One & Only Metaphor is destined to stand as
one of the principal works of world literature of the 20th century.
Volume II of a three volume set containing the complete Poetry of
Tim Wilkinson/Wayne Wilkes, 1975 to 2010
6 tales and three essays of hearts in Oklahoma. A writer
rediscovers his passion: A child's first taste of death: A lonely
writers search for companionship & love: Feline Seduction:
Mourning a Grandfathers loss: The Love of a special dog: A favorite
Uncle: Memories of Mother: The loss of innocence in the jet age:
Marginalia on Casanova, the first volume of the St. Orpheus
Breviary, is Miklos Szentkuthy's synthesis of 2,000 years of
European culture. St. Orpheus is Szentkuthy's Virgil, an
omniscient, poet who guides us not through hell, but through all of
recorded history, myth, religion, and literature, albeit reimagined
as St. Orpheus metamorphosizes himself into kings, popes, saints,
tyrants, and artists. At once pagan and Christian, Greek and
Hebrew, Asian and European, St. Orpheus is a mosaic of history and
mankind in one supra-person and veil, an endless series of masks
and personae, humanity in its protean, futural shape, an always
changing function of discourse, text, myth, & mentalite.
Through St. Orpheus' method, disparate moments of history become
synchronic, are juggled to reveal, paradoxically, their mutual
difference and essential similarity. "Orpheus wandering in the
infernal regions," says Szentkuthy, "is the perennial symbol of the
mind lost amid the enigmas of reality. The aim of the work is, on
the one hand, to represent the reality of history with the utmost
possible precision, and on the other, to show, through the
mutations of the European spirit, all the uncertainties of
contemplative man, the transiency of emotions and the sterility of
philosophical systems." Marginalia on Casanova relives the
despiritualization of the main protagonist's sensual adventures,
though it is less his sex life & more his intellectual mission,
the sole determinant of his being, which is the focus of this
mesmeric book. Through his own glittering associations and broadly
spanning array of metaphors, Szentkuthy analyses and views the 18th
century and its notion of homogeneity from the vantage point of the
20th century, with the full armor of someone who was, perhaps, one
of the last Hungarian Europeans. While a commentary on Casanova's
memoirs, it is also Szentkuthy's very own philosophy of love.
Passion, playfulness, irony, and a whole gamut of protean
metamorphoses are what characterize Marginalia on Casanova, a work
in which readers will experience both profundity and a taking to
wing of essay-writing that is intellectually radiant and which is
as sensual and provocative as a gondola ride with Casanova.
Over the years I have come to regard attending concerts as
highlights of my life; chances to witness first hand the wonder
created by what I consider to be some of the greatest contemporary
musical talents at full power on stage. I am sure that most
everyone who has attended a great concert has a least a few
memories of it; their own Concert Footage. This book is my account
of over 200 of these events beginning in 1970 and spanning forty
years. Luminaries in the world of rock and jazz that it has been my
extreme good fortune to see perform live are Yes, Pink Floyd, The
Who, The Moody Blues, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Pat Metheny
Group, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Steve
Winwood, Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa, Crosby, Still & Nash, Neil
Young, Rush, Deep Purple, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Ray Vaughan,
Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Santana, Return To Forever, King Crimson,
Mahavishnu Orchestra, John McLaughlin, Weather Report, Chick Corea,
Stanley Clarke, Al Di Meola, and Bill Bruford among many others.
Included in this chronological history is background material on
the performers and their ongoing history. Also detailed are the
varied and storied concert venues involving intimate gatherings to
stadium crowds for solo acoustic performances to gargantuan rock
spectacle. Also detailed are the good and bad travel related
experiences, the requisite intoxication and indulgence, and great
friends and family sharing in the events. All related, at times
with a fair dose of humor, through the eyes of the author; your
typical middle class guy from a typical Midwestern background who
just happened to fall in love with music during the mid sixties.
Much credit must be given to the Beatles for so heavily influencing
the direction this love of music would take. But it was the initial
concert experiences of the early seventies that forever changed me.
In particular, Hendrix in the summer of 1970 was the springboard to
all that would follow. Although still too young and inexperienced
at the time to fully appreciate the late great megatalent, Hendrix
opened my eyes to the amazing possibilities and power of music in a
live setting. Subsequent monster shows by Jethro Tull, Emerson,
Lake & Palmer, and Yes a few years later set the benchmark and
put me on a course to pursue music and concerts that lived up to
the set precedent. Touched on are the amazing relationships and
lasting bonds formed with great bands like these, forged by the
music and such stunning performances. But of course along the way
there were numerous new musical paths to explore that rarely, if
ever, resulted in anything but a different yet wonderful concert
experience. There were drugs and alcohol as well; also contributing
to the formation of those bonds and an indisputable part of what
the great music of this generation is about. Perhaps excerpts from
a sort of top ten list might include shows like Yes' 1976 and 1991
shows in Dallas, The Who's Cotton Bowl concert during their 1982
"farewell" North American tour, Jethro Tull's 1973 Passion Play
concert, The Moody Blues' 1982 Long Distance Voyager concert in
Dallas, Pink Floyd's 1980 The Wall concert in Los Angeles and their
great Texas Stadium shows of 1988 and 1994, and Return To Forever's
2008 Reunion concert in Dallas. I wrote this book for myself, while
keeping in mind the thousands of people that were in those
audiences with me. Indeed, I have to hope that a number of them
will find this book and relive their experiences. Another goal
would be to rekindle interest that may have waned in the music of
these great artists. Quite obviously, without them, there would be
no book. And lastly, should a reader come across an artist new to
them (perhaps Camel or Marillion), investigate them, and discover
something that enriches their life, then I would deem Concert
Footage a worthwhile endeavor indeed.
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Detective Story (Paperback)
Imre Kertesz; Translated by Tim Wilkinson
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'A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power'
Times Literary Supplement From his prison cell, Antonio Martens, an
interrogator for the recently fallen dictatorship, awaits
execution. His charge? Multiple counts of murder; the murder of
those disappeared by the state. Bereft of authority, and unable to
avoid the consequences of his actions any longer, Martens turns his
story to his involvement in the assassination of the high-profile
Salinas family, and with it peers into the murderous mechanics of a
regime bent on achieving its ends - no matter the means.
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Detective Story (Paperback)
Imre Kertesz; Translated by Tim Wilkinson
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From Nobel Laureate Imre Kertesz comes this riveting novel about a
torturer for the secret police of a Latin American regime who tells
the haunting story of the father and son he ensnared and destroyed.
Now in prison, Antonio Martens is a torturer for a recently defunct
dictatorship. He requests and is given writing materials in his
cell, using them to narrate his involvement in the torture and
assassination of a wealthy and prominent man and his son whose
principled but passive opposition to the regime left them
vulnerable to the secret police. Inside Martens's mind, we inhabit
the rationalizing world of evil and see firsthand the inherent
danger of inertia during times of crisis. A slim, explosive novel
of justice railroaded by malevolence, Detective Story is a warning
cry for our time.
Imre Kert?sz's savagely lyrical and suspenseful new novel traces
the continuing echoes the Holocaust and communism in the
consciousness of contemporary Eastern Europe.
Ten years after the fall of communism, a writer named B. commits
suicide, devastating his circle and deeply puzzling his friend
Kingsbitter. For among B.'s effects, Kingsbitter finds a play that
eerily predicts events after his death. Why did B.-who was born at
Auschwitz and miraculously survived-take his life? As Kingsbitter
searches for the answer -and for the novel he is convinced lies
hidden among his friend's papers-"Liquidation" becomes an inquest
into the deeply compromised inner life of a generation. The result
is moving, revelatory and haunting.
At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish
section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a
train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate.
He doesn't particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow
prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, "You
are no Jew." In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, Georg remains
an outsider.
The genius of Imre Kertesz's unblinking novel lies in its refusal
to mitigate the strangeness of its events, not least of which is
Georg's dogmatic insistence on making sense of what he witnesses-or
pretending that what he witnesses makes sense. Haunting, evocative,
and all the more horrifying for its rigorous avoidance of
sentiment, Fatelessness" "is a masterpiece in the traditions of
Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Tadeusz Borowski.
This richly illustrated volume is the first complete atlas of
coffee production in Ethiopia, birth-place of coffee drinking and
the main home of wild arabica coffee (Coffea arabica). Around 15
million Ethiopians are coffee farmers, and Ethiopia is Africa's
largest coffee producer and one of the most important
coffee-growing regions of the world, renowned for its diversity of
flavour profiles, including those of the celebrated coffees of
Harar, Limu, Sidamo, and Yirgacheffe. The aim of the Coffee Atlas
of Ethiopia is to inform the reader about the coffee landscape of
Ethiopia. It shows where coffee is grown, where the natural coffee
forests are located, and where coffee could be grown. The atlas
maps are accompanied by information on coffee farming, environment
and climate, and a description of the main coffee areas. Also
included in the atlas are key coffee origins, coffee towns and
coffee delivery centres, as well as other useful items. The atlas
can be used to assess the potential and vulnerability for coffee
farming in Ethiopia, as well as provide a logistics resource for
the coffee sector and those otherwise working with, or interested
in, coffee. It is also an essential reference for resource
managers.
Cold formed structural members are being used more widely in
routine structural design as the world steel industry moves from
the production of hot-rolled section and plate to coil and strip,
often with galvanised and/or painted coatings. Steel in this form
is more easily delivered from the steel mill to the manufacturing
plant where it is usually cold-rolled into open and closed section
members.
This book not only summarises the research performed to date on
cold form tubluar members and connections but also compares design
rules in various standards and provides practical design examples.
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