Petr Fantys Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

In the past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. Now, in a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and political unrest, he must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility of a literary afterlife, and the prospect of (unconventional) fatherhood in a city that might soon be under water. In prose that Jonathan Franzen has called 'hilarious...cracklingly intelligent...and original in every sentence', Lerner's new novel charts an exhilarating course through the contemporary landscape of sex, friendship, memory, art and politics, and captures what it is like to be alive right now.

We'd like to introduce you to Elizabeth Finch. We invite you to take her course in Culture and Civilisation. Her ideas are not to everyone's taste. But she will change the way you see the world. 'The task of the present is to correct our understanding of the past. And that task becomes the more urgent when the past cannot be corrected.' Elizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, an inspiration - always rigorous, always thoughtful. With careful empathy, she guided her students to develop meaningful ideas and to discover their centres of seriousness. As a former student unpacks her notebooks and remembers her uniquely inquisitive mind, her passion for reason resonates through the years. Her ideas unlock the philosophies of the past, and explore key events that show us how to make sense of our lives today. And underpinning them all is the story of J - Julian the Apostate, her historical soulmate and fellow challenger to the institutional and monotheistic thinking that has always threatened to divide us. This is more than a novel. It's a loving tribute to philosophy, a careful evaluation of history, an invitation to think for ourselves. It's a moment to reflect and to gently explore our own theories and assumptions. It is truly a balm for our times.

Begin jaren zestig. In een saaie voorstad van Londen brengt de negentienjarige student Paul de zomermaanden door in zijn ouderlijk huis. Op aanraden van zijn moeder schrijft hij zich in bij de plaatselijke tennisclub. Tijdens een toernooi ontmoet hij Susan: achtenveertig jaar oud, zelfverzekerd, ironisch, overdonderend. Susan is getrouwd, met twee volwassen dochters. Paul en Susan worden elkaars geliefden. In Het enige verhaal kijkt Paul jaren later terug op de zomer die zijn leven voorgoed veranderde, op het begin van hun liefde, op de daaropvolgende jaren samen en hoe dit leven uiteindelijk, heel langzaam, ontrafelde.

Eind jaren dertig staat een jonge man - aanstormende componist, toegewijde huisvader - met een ingepakt koffertje bij de lift van een flatgebouw in Leningrad. Hij wacht er de hele nacht, nachtenlang, in de overtuiging dat hij opgepakt zal worden en afgevoerd naar het Grote Huis. Geen enkele beroemdheid die hij in de afgelopen tien jaar heeft ontmoet, kan hem nu helpen. En weinig mensen die naar het Grote Huis worden afgevoerd, komen ooit terug. Aldus begint de eerste roman van Julian Barnes sinds zijn met de Man Booker Prize bekroonde Alsof het voorbij is. Een verhaal over de botsing tussen Kunst en Macht, en de compromissen die een kunstenaar moet aangaan om zijn stempel op de wereld te drukken - dit allemaal aan de hand van de fictionele biografie van een van de grootste componisten van de twintigste eeuw, Dmitri Sjostakovitsj. Het tumult van de tijd is Barnes' meest diepgaande werk tot nu toe, het werk van een literaire grootmeester.

Levensbeschrijving van de Iraanse Roxanne, in 1938 geboren in het joodse getto in Teheran. Tegen de achtergrond van de politieke gebeurtenissen in Iran wordt het leven geschetst van haar bazige grootmoeder en haar moeder die haar dochtertje bij een kennis in huis doet, omdat er een doem op haar zou rusten.

'You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...' Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as 'an unparalleled magus of the heart'. This book confirms that opinion.

Vtipná zamyšlení autora povídek o mužích ve člunu a na toulkách tentokrát míří do vlastních řad. Jerome Klapka Jerome v nich podrobuje trefné kritice to, čeho si Angličané tolik váží – střídmý pohled na věc a racionální úsudek. Čtenář se dozví, jak Angličan zvládá různé životní situace, jaký je prospěch otroctví, jak pečovat o ženy a jak je zvládat. Dvojjazyčný text s gramatickým a lexikálním komentářem pod čarou. Pro středně pokročilé. Komentář Jana Nováková. Obsah: O tom, jak pečovat o ženy a jak je zvládnout O umění rozhodnout se O tom, že dělat věci s rozmyslem je ztráta času O naší ušlechtilosti

Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these “confessions,” the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist, and explores their fruitful conjunction. He begins by exploring the boundary between fiction and nonfiction—playfully, seriously, brilliantly roaming across this frontier. Good nonfiction, he believes, is crafted like a whodunnit, and a skilled novelist builds precisely detailed worlds through observation and research. Taking us on a tour of his own creative method, Eco recalls how he designed his fictional realms. He began with specific images, made choices of period, location, and voice, composed stories that would appeal to both sophisticated and popular readers. The blending of the real and the fictive extends to the inhabitants of such invented worlds. Why are we moved to tears by a character’s plight? In what sense do Anna Karenina, Gregor Samsa, and Leopold Bloom “exist”? At once a medievalist, philosopher, and scholar of modern literature, Eco astonishes above all when he considers the pleasures of enumeration. He shows that the humble list, the potentially endless series, enables us to glimpse the infinite and approach the ineffable. This “young novelist” is a master who has wise things to impart about the art of fiction and the power of words.

Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock? In this investigation of the role of imagery in our culture, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence as she takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and Dachau and Auschwitz to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and New York City on September 11, 2001. Sontag's new book, a startling reappraisal of the intersection of "information", "news," "art," and politics in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster, will forever alter our thinking about the uses and meanings of images in our world

Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magus, John Fowles set out his ideas on life in The Aristos. The chief inspiration behind them was the fifth century BC philosopher Heraclitus. In the world he saw in constant and chaotic flux the supreme good was Aristos. unfree world. He called a materialistic and over-conforming culture to reckoning with his views on a myriad of subjects - pleasure and pain, beauty and ugliness, Christianity, humanism, existentialism and socialism.

Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart (1907–1992), někdejší profesor právní teorie Oxfordské univerzity, patří mezi nejvýznamnější postavy právní filozofie 20. století a jeho kniha Pojem práva radikálním způsobem změnila tradiční pohledy na právo a jeho vztah k morálce i politice, na pojem přirozeného práva a spravedlnosti i na právní metodologii.

Kanadský autor se v tomto románu vrací do země svého dětství na Srí Lanku a konfrontuje minulost této exotické krajiny s její rozporuplnou současností. Hrdinkou je soudní lékařka, která se vrací do rodné země sužované občanskou válkou a politickým terorem, aby našla důkazy o vraždění civilistů. Při pátrání po pachatelích těchto zločinů se setkává s lidmi, kteří jí pomohou uvědomit si, že realita této země je mnohem složitější, než se jí po dlouhém odloučení na první pohled jeví, a že i pravda, o kterou usiluje, může mít více podob. Hrdinka, která se musí postupně vyrovnat se svými západem poznamenanými názory na dobro a zlo, nachází opět vřelý vztah ke své rodné zemi a dění na ostrově se stává již natrvalo součástí jejího života. Závažné politické téma je rámováno barvitým nekonvenčním obrazem země, jejích duchovních a přírodních tradic.

Humorous essays with a philosophical undertone explore the value of possessions and the choices we face. Jerome K. Jerome, who faced personal hardships in his youth, gained fame with his witty observations on life, particularly in his renowned work, "Three Men in a Boat." This collection reflects his unique blend of humor and introspection, offering readers insightful commentary on everyday experiences. The new edition includes a biography that sheds light on Jerome's life and literary contributions.

Lenochovy myšlenky jsou pokračováním humorně laděných zamyšlení Jalové nápady lenivého člověka. Klapkův postřeh a vtip tentokrát míří takříkajíc do vlastních řad, když podrobují trefné kritice to, co je Angličanům tak drahé – střídmý a racionální úsudek. Čtenář se dozví, jak Angličan zvládá různé životní situace, jaké jsou například radosti a prospěch otroctví, jak pečovat o ženy a jak je zvládnout.

In Mantissa (1982), a novelist awakes in the hospital with amnesia -- and comes to believe that a beautiful female doctor is, in fact, his muse.

Presents an analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. This title also re-examines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power.