Kurt Wagenseil Libri

A MASTERFUL COLLECTION OF TWENTY-FIVE SHORT STORIES FROM THE INIMITABLE AUTHOR OF SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5, KURT VONNEGUT 'Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer...a zany but moral mad scientist' Time A diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms. A scientist discovers the secret to unlocking instant happiness, with unexpected consequences. In an America where everyone is equal every which way, a tennage boy plans to overthrow the system. Welcome to the Monkey House gathers together twenty-five of Kurt Vonnegut's short stories from the 1950s and 1960s. Shot through with Vonnegut's singular humour, wit and bewilderment at humanity, this is a collection that celebrates a true master of short-form fiction.

Nexus is the third volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life workThe exhilarating final volume of Henry Miller's semi-autobiographical trilogy, Nexus follows his last months in New York. Trapped in a bizarre ménage-à-trois with his fiery wife Mona and her lover Stasia, he finds his life descending into chaos. Finally, betrayed and exhausted, he decides to leave America and sail for Paris, to discover his true vocation as a writer.

Vietato per quasi trent’anni in tutti i paesi anglosassoni (dal 1934, quando uscì presso una piccola casa editrice parigina, al 1961, anno in cui ne fu liberalizzata la vendita negli Stati Uniti), Tropico del Cancro si è trascinato a lungo, troppo a lungo, la fama di libro prima di tutto “scandaloso”, adatto solo a lettori in cerca di sensazioni forti. In realtà è uno dei romanzi più innovativi e importanti dell’intero Novecento americano, che si avvale di una lingua originalissima nel suo porsi come radicalmente antiletteraria, e che visita con impressionante realismo gli ambienti e i personaggi della particolarissima migrazione intellettuale dagli States a Parigi, molto abbondante soprattutto nei tardi anni Venti.Rigorosamente autobiografico, il libro non si costruisce secondo un vero e proprio intreccio, ma si muove liberamente da un incontro all’altro, da una sbronza all’altra, da un amplesso all’altro, in un mondo popolato di giovani artisti senza un soldo, di piccoli truffatori, di prostitute, di debosciati e fannulloni di vario tipo: una bohème ormai molto poco romantica, che riflette innanzi tutto una cupa desolazione.

It is rather awful, Emma thought as she walked across the fields down to the farm, how this business is leading us all into subterfuge and deception, and we can't really tell who is friend and who is enemy . . . ' Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cosy existence she shares with her grandmother, a famous retired actress, has been shattered: there's no post, no telephone, no radio - and an American warship sits in the harbour. As the two women piece together clues about the 'friendly' military occupation on their doorstep, family, friends and neighbours gather round to protect their heritage. In this chilling novel of the future, Daphne du Maurier explores the implications of a political, economic and military alliance between Britain and the United States.