Arnošt Procházka Libri

'Twilight of the Gods' was to serve as a short introduction to the whole of Nietzsche's philosophy and its aim was to attack eternal idols as he put it. These included socratic rationality, Christian morality and their contemporary counterparts.

L'opera intende sostenere che il cosiddetto "dover essere", inteso come valoreideale, svincolato dalla realtà effettuale e dalla storia, è essenzialmenteimpostura, menzogna. In quest'opera il nichilismo dell'autore si scagliacontro una morale che si ostina a conservare in vita ciò che la storia ha giàcondannato. Pertanto la morale e il Cristianesimo sono connessi per Nietzschecon la malattia e la decadenza.

The Kill (La Curée) is the second volume in Zola's great cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart, and the first to establish Paris - the capital of modernity - as the centre of Zola's narrative world. Conceived as a representation of the uncontrollable 'appetites' unleashed by the Second Empire (1852-70) and the transformation of the city by Baron Haussmann, the novel combines into a single, powerful vision the twin themes of lust for money and lust for pleasure. The all-pervading promiscuity of the new Paris is reflected in the dissolute and frenetic lives of an unscrupulous property speculator, Saccard, his neurotic wife Renée, and her dandified lover, Saccard's son Maxime.

With a title translated either as Against Nature or as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-de-siècle novel follows its sole character, Des Esseintes, a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where he indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous excitability and debilitating ennui, he gluts his aesthetic appetites with classical literature and art, exotic jewels (with which he fatally encrusts the shell of his tortoise), rich perfumes, and a kaleidoscope of sensual experiences. The original handbook of decadence, Against Nature exploded like a grenade (in the words of Huysmans) and has enjoyed a cult readership from its publication to the present day.

Die Ausgabe enthält 20 ausgewählte Novellen, die im italienischen Original und in einer wortgetreuen deutschen Übersetzung dargeboten werden. Ihnen folgt ein umfangreicher Kommentar, in dem die Bezüge zur zeitgenössischen Realität erhellt und die von Boccaccio verarbeiteten vielfältigen literarischen Traditionen aufgedeckt werden. Eine Ausgabe, die in bisher nicht gekannter Weise in den Kosmos dieser wohl bedeutendsten Novellensammlung der abendländischen Literatur einführt. Sprachen: Deutsch, Italienisch

Engl. Zsfassung u.d.T.: Přerov - Upper Square : from a prehistoric Hillfort to a Medieval Town.