Upon its publication in Germany in 1983, this author's book stirred both critical acclaim and consternation, attracting a wide readership. He finds cynicism the dominant mode in contemporary culture, in personal and institutional settings; his book is both a history of the impulse and an investigation of its role today, among those whose earlier hopes for social change have crumbled and faded away.
Als De tuin der lusten, het beroemde schilderij van Jeroen Bosch, in het Prado-museum van Madrid door een agressieve bezoeker wordt beschadigd en het doek als gevolg daarvan hersteld moet worden, ontdekt restaurateur Michael Keie in de diepere kleurlagen van het schilderij een reeks geheime tekens. Na deze intrigerende ontdekking wordt hij voortdurend op de hielen gezeten door een vrouw die beweert psychologe te zijn. Heeft zij het gemunt op de negatieven van het röntgenonderzoek? En welke betekenis hebben de zeldzame symbolen? De pogingen van Keie dit raadsel van het Prado op te lossen, voeren al snel terug naar de oorsprong van het schilderij, naar het 's Hertogenbosch van 1510, waar de Inquisitie jacht maakt op elke mogelijke vorm van ketterij... Oorspronkelijke Nederlandse titel: Het geheim van Jeroen Bosch
Presents an account of the author's journey in 1950 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad. This work provides a study of societies - British Guyana, Surinam, Martinique and Jamaica - examining their common heritage of colonialism and slavery.
Geschiedenis van de Spaanse Burgeroorlog (1936-1939) met veel aandacht voor de sociale, politieke, militaire en economische aspecten van dit conflict.
'According to Plato, fools do not strive for the beautiful and the good, for divine bliss, because they are satisfied with themselves. The wise do not strive for it either because they already have those things. Only the people in between, half-way between fools and the wise, you and I and all the others waiting patiently here in a traffic jam for the next green light, are vulnerable to the arrow of Eros.' On Love and Death is a witty and inspiring meditation on the erotic link between the two great forces of human existence. Patrick S|skind provocatively draws on scenes as contemporary as a young couple having oral sex while stuck in traffic, as literary as Thomas Mann's discovery of forbidden love in his seventies, and as mythical as the stirring tales of death conquered through love in the narratives of Orpheus and Jesus.
Persoonlijk relaas over de depressie van de schrijver, afgewisseld met meer algemene beschouwingen over deze aandoening.
Een Amerikaanse schrijver begint een nieuw leven als hotelmanager op Hawaiï en observeert de levens van de hotelgasten en personeelsleden.
Een Zuid-Amerikaanse leraar filosofie, die de drugsmafia aanklaagt in de krant, vindt regelmatig als afschrikmiddel een lijk in zijn tuin.
Reveals one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century: the system of Soviet camps that are responsible for the deaths of countless millions. This work presents history of the camp: from its origins under the tsars, to its colossal expansion under Stalin's reign of terror, its zenith in the late 1940s and eventual collapse in the era of glasnost.
At the gateway to the Mediterranean lie the two Pillars of Hercules: Gibraltar and Ceuta, in Morocco. Paul Theroux decided to travel from one to the other taking the long way round. He travels by a dilapidated taxi, smoke-filled bus, bicycle and even a cruise-liner. This eventful tour aims to evoke the essence of Mediterranean life.
A sedici anni Ann è scappata di casa per sottrarsi agli abusi del compagno della madre e si guadagna da vivere raccogliendo funghi ai margini di North Fork, un piccolo paese di taglialegna tra le foreste dello Stato di Washington. Fragile e sola, la salute minata da gravi allergie, Ann trova conforto solo nei medicinali, in qualche allucinogeno e nella religione cattolica. Quando un giorno torna dai boschi sostenendo di aver visto la Vergine Maria, Ann diventa una speranza cui aggrapparsi per gli abitanti del paese e per la folla di persone che vi accorre alla ricerca di un miracolo.
Een man trekt in 1838 naar New Hampshire met een zestienjarig meisje dat hij met pokeren won.
Alice Miller affronta in questo libro le conseguenze della rimozione nel contesto personale e sociale, le cause delle ferite infantili e le loro possibili prevenzioni, nonché le nuove opportunità attualmente disponibili per risolvere gli effetti delle traumatizzazioni precoci. I temi principali delle tre studi contenute in questo volume sono le origini della perdita del sé e i percorsi verso la riscoperta di sé. Il dramma del bambino dotato, ovvero sensibile e attento, consiste nel percepire precocemente i bisogni dei genitori e nell'adattarsi a essi, imparando a non sentire le proprie emozioni più intense e indesiderate. Sebbene questi sentimenti "proibiti" non possano sempre essere evitati in seguito, rimangono comunque dissociati, il che significa che la parte più vitale del vero sé non viene integrata nella personalità. Ciò porta a una insicurezza e a una povertà emotiva (perdita del sé), che possono manifestarsi in depressione o essere difese attraverso la grandiosità. Gli esempi forniti sensibilizzano sul dolore non espresso del bambino, nascosto dietro idealizzazioni, e sulla tragedia dei genitori inaccessibili, che un tempo erano bambini disponibili.
Erika Kohutová è una professoressa di pianoforte in un conservatorio di Vienna. Dopo la morte del padre in una clinica psichiatrica, vive sola con la madre dominante e conflittuale, da cui è emotivamente dipendente nonostante i litigi insopportabili. Erika conduce una vita doppia: durante il giorno è un'insegnante severa e riservata, guadagnandosi il rispetto e la stima dei colleghi, mentre di notte si abbandona a desideri perversi e violenti. La sua routine viene interrotta da un giovane studente, Klemmer, che desidera instaurare un rapporto più profondo con lei. Inizialmente, Erika lo respinge, ma col tempo cede. Tuttavia, il loro primo incontro intimo lascia Klemmer sconcertato, considerandola malata e depravata, incapace di soddisfare le sue fantasie. Il romanzo "La Pianista" offre un ritratto scioccante di una donna intrappolata tra l'immagine che la società borghese ha della femminilità e i desideri che emergono dagli angoli più oscuri della sessualità.
Het wonderlijke levensverhaal van een sensuele, voluptueuze joodse vrouw in Jeruzalem tussen 1948 en de jaren '90.
Shrouding themselves & their aims in secrecy, the leaders of the Taliban movement control Afghanistan with an inflexible, crushing fundamentalism. The most extreme & radical of all Islamic organizations, the Taliban inspires fascination, controversy & fear in both the Muslim world & the West. Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban into focus in this enormously interesting & revealing book. It's the only authoritative account of the Taliban & modern day Afghanistan available to English language readers. Based on his experiences as a journalist covering the civil war in Afghanistan for 20 years, traveling & living with the Taliban, & interviewing most of the Taliban leaders since their emergence to power in 1994, Rashid offers unparalleled 1sthand information. He explains how the growth of Taliban power has already created severe instability in Russia, Iran, Pakistan & five Central Asian republics. He describes the Taliban's role as a major player in a new Great Game: a competition among Western countries & companies to build oil & gas pipelines from Central Asia to Western & Asian markets. The author also discusses the controversial changes in American attitudes toward the Taliban--from early support to recent bombings of Osama Bin Laden's hideaway & other Taliban-protected terrorist bases--& how they've influenced the stability of the region.
Il protagonista del romanzo, Winston Smith, è un membro subalterno del partito, incaricato di "correggere" i libri e gli articoli di giornale già pubblicati, cioè modificarli in modo da rendere riscontrabili e veritiere le previsioni fatte dal partito; egli inoltre si occupa di modificare la storia scritta, contribuendo così ad alimentare la fama di infallibilità del Partito stesso. Apparentemente è un tipo malleabile, ma Winston in realtà mal sopporta i condizionamenti del partito e non riesce ad adeguare la propria mente al bispensiero. Accanto a lui agiscono altri due personaggi: Julia, della quale Winston è innamorato (malgrado i divieti del partito) è una giovane che si adatta al partito solo per convenienza, e O'Brien, un importante funzionario nel quale il protagonista vede una figura paterna. Nonostante il partito imponga la castità, Winston e Julia diventano amanti e decidono di collaborare con un'organizzazione clandestina di resistenza. Si confidano quindi con O'Brien, che i due credono ribelle. Arrestati, vengono interrogati proprio da O'Brien, che in realtà è un agente della psicopolizia, il cui fine è far penetrare in Winston, evidentemente refrattario al condizionamento sociopolitico del Socing, la tecnica del Bispensiero attraverso tre fasi: apprendimento, comprensione, accettazione. Il tentativo riuscirà perfettamente, e Winston finirà così allineato al regime.
From the acclaimed author of Floating in My Mother’s Palm and Children and Fire, a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times—“epic, daring, magnificent, the product of a defining and mesmerizing vision” (Los Angeles Times). Trudi Montag is a Zwerg—a dwarf—short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share—from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he’s a girl, to the Jews Trudi harbors in her cellar. Ursula Hegi brings us a timeless and unforgettable story in Trudi and a small town, weaving together a profound tapestry of emotional power, humanity, and truth.
Dionisio Vivo, a young South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio's letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop; and although Dionisio manages to escape the hit-men sent to get him, he soon realizes that others are more vulnerable, and his love for them leads him to take a colossal revenge. "Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord is the second novel in a trilogy set in South America. It won a Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1992.
The acclaimed story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history: "An exuberant mixture of history and romance, written with a wit that is incandescent" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men and the local saint periodically rises from his sarcophagus to cure the mad. Then the tide of World War II rolls onto the island's shores in the form of the conquering Italian army. Caught in the occupation are Pelagia, a willful, beautiful young woman, and the two suitors vying for her love: Mandras, a gentle fisherman turned ruthless guerilla, and the charming, mandolin-playing Captain Corelli, a reluctant officer of the Italian garrison on the island. Rich with loyalties and betrayals, and set against a landscape where the factual blends seamlessly with the fantastic, Corelli's Mandolin is a passionate novel as rich in ideas as it is genuinely moving.
Vertaald naar het Nederlands door / Translated into Dutch by Tinke Davids / 9789029508896 / Literature translated into Dutch / Nederlands / Dutch / Néerlandais / Niederländisch / paperback / 13 x 21 cm / 251 .pp /
'Gedumpt' vertelt opnieuw het verhaal van een moord op een jonge vrouw: Betty Jean Scales. Het is het adembenemende relaas van twee mannen, een schrijver en een detective, in hun hongerige zoektocht naar gerechtigheid. CPNB Maand van het spannende boek 1998.
Theologische beschouwing over menselijke gevoelens van ontoereikendheid en schuld, door de Amerikaanse rabbijn.
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In denkbeeldige herinneringen vertelt de auteur over ontmoetingen en gebeurtenissen in zijn leven, in zijn huwelijk en in zijn werk als schrijver.
Verslag van de zeereis die de Engelse natuuronderzoeker maakte van 1831-1836 waarop hij materiaal verzamelde voor zijn latere boek over oorsprong en ontwikkeling van de soorten.
Combining the acute observation of a nineteenth-century missionary, and the wit of a Monty Python player, Redmond O'Hanlon is famous for his adventurous travel. His new challenge is the Congo, the most dangerous and inhospitable jungle in the world.
Beginning his journey in Boston, where he boarded the subway commuter train, Paul Theroux travelled the length of North and South America, to his destination in Patagonia. In this book he vividly evokes the contrasts of his journey.
Van de Rio Negro naar Buenos Aires - Charles Darwin Goedenavond, mrs. Thys - Jan Brokken Drie maanden in de West - W. Wijnaendts Francken-Syserinck Paaseiland: voorbij de branding van Rapa Nui - Paul Theroux Kongo - Redmond O'Hanlon Filfla - Boudewijn Büch Het dorp van Ratu Dinges - Johnny Frisbie Bot Pippel - Linda Polman De Kakaanse seismograaf - Benno Barnard
One of the world's premier travel writers launches his most exotic and tantalizing adventure yet, as he kayaks the shimmering Pacific, exploring the islands, and taking up residence to discover the secrets of these happy isles.
Na zijn reis van twee maanden naar het hart van Borneo dacht Redmond O'Hanlon dat een reis van vier maanden over de Orinoco naar het hart van het Amazonegebied geen enkel probleem zou opleveren. Niets bleek minder waar: naast de gevaren die hij al kende uit Borneo, deden zich nog heel andere voor: een op aids lijkende ziekte, rivierblindheid, geelzucht en niet te vergeten een minuscuul visje dat maar één wens heeft: een penis binnenzwemmen en zich daar nestelen, waarna slechts één remedie rest: afhakken. Al deze gevaren verbleken echter bij het grootste van alle: zijn medereizigers. Het heeft O'Hanlon niet belet terug te komen met een even geestig als erudiet verslag van zijn reis. Van exotische vogels en otters tot indianen met zeer ongewone gebruiken. En wie kan zeggen dat hij aanwezig is geweest bij het uitsterven van een taal?
After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great Britain to find out what the British were really like. The result is this perceptive, hilarious record of the journey. Whether in Cornwall or Wales, Ulster or Scotland, the people he encountered along the way revealed far more of themselves than they perhaps intended to display to a stranger. Theroux captured their rich and varied conversational commentary with caustic wit and penetrating insight.
Deels autobiografisch relaas over het leven van een Amerikaan vanaf zijn vijftiende jaar tot aan de nadering van de middelbare leeftijd.
Describes the author's travels by train in every province of the People's Republic of China.
Waarom zou een Israëlische jood zich voordoen als een Arabier? Het was volgens mij (de schrijver) de beste manier om in de huid van een Palestijn te kruipen.` Joram Binoer stak zijn licht op in de Gazastrook, in de vluchtelingenkampen op de Westoever en in het centrum van Tel Aviv. Een gewaagde onderneming.
'We've left a lot of men in Borneo - know what I mean?' With their SAS trainer's warnings ringing in their ears, the naturalist, Redmond O'Hanlon, and the poet, James Fenton, set out to rediscover the lost rhinoceros of Borneo. They were loaded with enough back-breaking kit to survive two months in a steaming 95degree jungle.
The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending traces the life of a seemingly ordinary woman with an extraordinary disdain for wisdom in this “marvelous literary epiphany” (The New York Times Book Review). In this wonderfully provocative novel, Barnes follows Jean Serjeant from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, confronting readers with the fruits of her relentless curiosity: pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalogue of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and a glimpse of technology in the twenty-first century (when The Absolute Truth can be universally accessed). Elegant, funny and intellectually subversive, Staring at the Sun is Julian Barnes at his most dazzlingly original.
Een journalist doet verslag van zijn ervaringen gedurende de twee jaar dat hij, vermomd als Turkse gastarbeider, in West-Duitsland werkte.
