Adam Szostkiewicz Boeken

The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, Eichmann in Jerusalem is as shocking as it is informative—an unflinching look at one of the most unsettling (and unsettled) issues of the twentieth century.

Adam Szostkiewicz - dziennikarz, publicysta i tłumacz., od 1999 roku związany z „Polityką”. Autor książek Przebudzony. Opowieść o Buddzie i o tym czego w buddyzmie szukają ludzie Zachodu (Warszawa 2004), „Święte szyfry. Historie i metafory” (Warszawa 2011).Szostkiewicz w najnowszej książce sporo miejsca poświęca Kościołowi, zastanawia się nad przyszłością chrześcijaństwa i katolicyzmu, dziedzictwem Jana Pawła II, fenomenem papieża Franciszka, a także nad przyszłością innych religii i wyznań – islamu, gandyzmu, buddyzmu.

Onboard the Fidèle, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. In quick succession he assumes numerous guises - from a legless beggar and a worldly businessman to a collector for charitable causes and a 'cosmopolitan' gentleman, who simply swindles a barber out of the price of a shave. Making very little from his hoaxes, the pleasure of trickery seems an end in itself for this slippery conman. Is he the Devil? Is his chicanery merely intended to expose the mercenary concerns of those around him? Set on April Fool's Day, The Confidence-Man (1857) is an engaging comedy of masquerades, digressions and shifting identity, and a devastating satire on the American dream. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.