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Internationally renowned psychiatrist and author Irvin Yalom has devoted his career to counselling those suffering from anxiety and grief. But never had he faced the need to counsel himself until his wife, esteemed feminist author Marilyn Yalom, was diagnosed with cancer. In this book, Marilyn and Irvin share how they took on profound new struggles: Marilyn to die a good death, Irvin to live on without her. In alternating accounts of their last months together and Irvin's first months alone, they offer us a rare window into coping with death and the loss of one's beloved

"This book is an effort to understand the effects of the experience on children of living through World War II in Europe and United States. It is based exclusively on first-person accounts recorded by people Marilyn Yalom had known closely as adults and after decades-long conversations with them. These friends convey wartime memories from childhood years spent in France, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, England, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Holland. In addition to their recollections, Marilyn Yalom added her own wartime memories-those of an American girl safely protected in Washington, D.C., while bombs dropped on my counterparts abroad"-- Provided by publisher

Marilyn Yalom explores the transformation of marriage from a religious duty in medieval Europe to a source of personal fulfillment in modern America. She examines the rise of romantic love and the evolving purpose of marriage for women, providing an insightful historical analysis of this institution amidst contemporary changes.

Exploring the deep-rooted French culture of romance, Marilyn Yalom delves into how love is celebrated through various forms of art, including literature, paintings, and cinema. She highlights the belief that a French person devoid of romantic desire is akin to someone lacking essential senses. Yalom's scholarly examination reveals the core principles that have shaped the French understanding of love over centuries, offering insights into the societal norms surrounding amorous relationships in France.

The evolution of chess is explored through the fascinating history of the queen piece, which emerged after five centuries without her. Initially absent from the game, the queen's introduction coincided with chess's rise in popularity among European royals in the Middle Ages. Over time, she transformed into a formidable force on the board, serving as both a fierce warrior and protector of the king, reflecting broader societal changes in gender roles and power dynamics.

An eminent scholar unearths the captivating history of the two-lobed heart symbol, shedding light on how we have expressed love since antiquity

In this book gender is the lens through which autobiography and biography are scrutinized. The authors show what is revealed when they magnify the gendered aspects of both men’s and women’s writing. The eternal questions of identity, choice, responsibility, happiness, tragedy, and even death are interpreted in terms of gender analysis. The book presents a sequence of studies from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century that includes individuals such as American poet Anne Sexton and German writers Christa Wolf and Paul Celan, and groups such as nineteenth-century Mexican women and members of the British working class. It extends the paradigm of “self-reflexive” literature to include and highlight the overlap between autobiography and biography, especially in the case of women who often wrote their lives obliquely through the biographies of their famous male relatives, e. g., Adèle Hugo and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. The authors refuse to accept a monolithic conception of gender. The studies of Charles and Mary Lamb, Nadezhda Durova, and John Stuart Mill demonstrate that even in the nineteenth century, a binary gender system is inadequate as a mode of approach to actual life stories.

Das Vermächtnis der großen Kulturhistorikerin Marilyn Yalom »Wir sind die letzten Zeitzeugen, die den Zweiten Weltkrieg noch erlebt haben, und bald werden wir nicht mehr da sein. Dieses Buch möchte ich als ein Zeugnis und eine Mahnung hinterlassen in der Hoffnung, dass diese Lebenswege uns die Sinnlosigkeit des Krieges vor Augen führen. Gerade jetzt, in Zeiten des wiedererstarkenden Nationalismus und eskalierender Konflikte weltweit mögen uns diese Schicksale dazu bringen, uns zu fragen, ob auch unsere Kinder und Enkelkinder zu Opfern machthungriger Erwachsener werden.« Marilyn Yalom

Všetci vieme, čo je francúzsky bozk aj francúzska galantnosť, ani ménage à trois či rendezvous iste netreba prekladať – a už vôbec nie amour. Francúzi milujú lásku! Láska je súčasťou ich národnej identity rovnako ako dobré víno, syry a móda. Majú ju jednoducho v krvi. Uznávaná autorka Marilyn Yalom ide vo svojej knihe Ako Francúzi vymysleli lásku po stopách lásky od stredoveku až po dnešok a skúma našu posadnutosť týmto romantickým citom prostredníctvom najvýznamnejších literárnych diel – od trubadúrskych vyznaní cez Molièrovu komiku, slávneho Cyrana z Bergeracu, existenciálne prežívanie v podaní Jeana-Paula Sartra a Simone de Beauvoir, škandalóznu Marguerite Durasovú až po súčasné provokatívne romány. Ak aj Francúzi lásku priamo nevynašli, Marilyn Yalom fundovane a s humorom dokazuje, že literatúrou a kultúrou výrazne ovplyvnili jej dnešnú podobu.

Provokatívna, priekopnícka a pútavá kniha o kultúrnych dejinách prsníka. Marilyn Yalomová skúma dvadsaťpäťtisíc rokov vnímania ženských pŕs, ktoré v čase nadobúdali množstvo rôznych významov v umení, náboženstve, psychológii, politike i spoločnosti. Približuje ich ako symbol v maliarstve, sochárstve, literatúre, lekárskych traktátoch, fotografii aj v reklame. Od bohyne Eset, ktorej materské mlieko spôsobovalo nesmrteľnosť, cez legendy o Amazonkách či Romulovi a Removi, stredovek, keď sa pod taktovkou cirkvi zobrazovanie ženskej postavy takmer nelíšilo od mužskej, až po postupnú premenu prsníka na symbol duchovnej výživy a ochrany. Aké prostriedky sa používali na ich liečbu či skrášlenie? Kedy ich strikne zahaľovali a ako sa neskôr využívali na politické účely či v marketingu? Kniha Prsia naprieč dejinami vás v deviatich tematických kapitolách podnieti premýšľať o ženských vnadách tak, ako nikdy predtým.