Hľadanie: Absurdity
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The Metamorphosis / Proměna
Anglicko-česká verze klasického Kafkova díla Kafkova povídka Proměna (Die Verwandlung), publikovaná r. 1915, je považována za klíčové dílo krátké prózy 20. století. Obsahuje typické kafkovské prvky jako absurditu, pocit bezvýchodnosti, tragicko-komické momenty. Je těžké rozhodnout, co vlastně proměna ve hmyz znamená. Zda jde o sen, symbolické zobrazení osamělosti a bezradnosti či obraz měšťanské strnulosti a povrchní morálky. Profesor německé literatury Stanley Corngold z univerzity v Princetonu uvádí ve své knize Komentátorova beznaděj (The Commentator’s Dispair) až sto třicet různých vysvětlení. Díky německé větné stavbě Kafka v originálu často používá momentu překvapení a zvratu na samém konci věty. To je pak samozřejmě oříšek pro překladatele. I samotný překlad slova ungeziefer není zcela přesný, protože kromě hmyzu ve středověké němčině toto slovo znamená nečisté zvíře nevhodné k uctívání, jakousi havěť. V naší publikaci naleznete anglický a český překlad povídky. Nejsou zcela identické a bude jistě zajímavé porovnat, jak si který z překladatelů s původním německým textem pohrál. Nicméně čeština Vám jistě pomůže tam, kde Vám bude angličtina připadat nesrozumitelná. Věříme, že si z obou překladů mnohé odnesete a kromě čtení samotného se přiučíte i něčemu novému v anglickém jazyce. Anglický text si můžete poslechnout na nahrávce ke stažení. V publikaci také naleznete jazykové komentáře.
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101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die (Revised and Updated)
Fourth edition, fully revised and updated. 101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die is a whisky guide with a difference. It is not an awards list.
It is not a list of the 101 'best' whiskies in the world in the opinion of a self-appointed whisky guru. It is simply a guide to the 101 whiskies that enthusiasts must seek out and try in order to complete their whisky education. Avoiding the deliberately obscure, the ridiculously limited and the absurdly expensive, whisky expert Ian Buxton recommends an eclectic selection of old favourites, stellar newcomers and mystifyingly unknown drams that simply have to be drunk.
The book decodes the marketing hype and gets straight to the point; whether from Canada, India, America, Sweden, Ireland, Japan or the hills, glens and islands of Scotland, here are the 101 whiskies that you really want. Try them before you die - Slainte!
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Lacná kniha 101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die (Revised and Updated) (-50%)
Fourth edition, fully revised and updated. 101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die is a whisky guide with a difference. It is not an awards list.
It is not a list of the 101 'best' whiskies in the world in the opinion of a self-appointed whisky guru. It is simply a guide to the 101 whiskies that enthusiasts must seek out and try in order to complete their whisky education. Avoiding the deliberately obscure, the ridiculously limited and the absurdly expensive, whisky expert Ian Buxton recommends an eclectic selection of old favourites, stellar newcomers and mystifyingly unknown drams that simply have to be drunk.
The book decodes the marketing hype and gets straight to the point; whether from Canada, India, America, Sweden, Ireland, Japan or the hills, glens and islands of Scotland, here are the 101 whiskies that you really want. Try them before you die - Slainte!
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You Will Never Be Forgotten
'Wickedly, exquisitely hilarious' Alexandra Kleeman
'Open-source desire, self-replicating fantasy' Tom McCarthy
'A brilliant and brilliantly strange and strangely funny and menacing debut!' Sam Lipsyte
In this provocative, bitingly funny debut collection, people attempt to use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of grief, rage or despair, only to reveal their most flawed and human selves.
An architect draws questionable inspiration from her daughter's birth defect. A content moderator for 'the world's biggest search engine,' who spends her days culling videos of beheadings and suicides, turns from stalking her rapist online to following him in real life. At a camp for recovering internet trolls, a sensitive misfit goes missing. A wounded mother raises the second incarnation of her child.
In You Will Never Be Forgotten, Mary South explores how technology can both collapse our relationships from within and provide opportunities for genuine connection. Formally inventive, darkly absurdist, savagely critical of the increasingly fraught cultural climates we inhabit, these ten stories also find hope in fleeting interactions and moments of tenderness. They reveal our grotesque selfishness and our intense need for love and acceptance, and the psychic pain that either shuts us off or allows us to discover the greatest depths of empathy. This incendiary debut marks the arrival of a perceptive, idiosyncratic, instantly recognizable voice in fiction - one that could only belong to Mary South.
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Když projížděl Chruščov naší vesnicí
Povídky albánského spisovatele, diplomata a pedagoga Ylljeta Aliçky nás přivádějí do země, o jejíchž reáliích u nás panuje stále velmi slabé povědomí. Výrazně to platí o albánské literatuře, která se v českých překladech vyskytuje jen zcela ojediněle. Vedle světově proslulého literáta, Ismaila Kadareho, se tak Ylljet Aliçka stává teprve druhým žijícím albánským spisovatelem, jehož tvorba se českým čtenářům zpřístupňuje. Čím si Aliçka tuto pozornost zasluhuje?
Jeho povídky poutavou formou poodkrývají každodenní realitu života v Albánii v době komunismu a také v prvním desetiletí po jeho pádu. Autor přitom v jejich sepsání vycházel převážně z vlastních životních zkušeností, což cizincům dovoluje lépe pochopit syrovost, absurditu a krutost života v zemi, jež ve druhé polovině minulého století prošla specifickým historickým vývojem stěží srovnatelným s jinou evropskou zemí. S ohledem na kontext Aliçkových povídek je žádoucí si tento vývoj v krátkosti připomenout.
Na sklonku druhé světové války se k moci dostali komunisté v čele s Enverem Hodžou (1908-1985). Až do roku 1948 byla Albánie úzce napojena na Titovu Jugoslávii a komunistická vedení obou zemí aktivně připravovala začlenění Albánie do jugoslávské federace. Teprve roztržka Stalina s Titem v roce 1948 přeměnila Albánii v běžný sovětský satelit. Hodžovo vedení se nekompromisně zbavilo všech dřívějších projugoslávských členů vládnoucí strany a ostrá rétorika proti dřívějšímu spojenci se stala klíčovým ideologickým pilířem stalinistického režimu v Tiraně. Těžkou ranou pro albánsko-sovětské spojenectví, z něhož země významně ekonomicky profitovala, bylo úmrtí Stalina v roce 1953 a kritika jeho kultu ze strany nového sovětského vedení. Sovětské pokusy o nové sblížení s Bělehradem byly albánskými komunisty sledovány s nedůvěrou a obavami o vlastní pozici. Neochota Envera Hodži zahájit proces destalinizace ve vlastní zemi a zároveň nelibost Sovětů nad albánskými megalomanskými průmyslovými projekty přivedlo nakonec Albánii k druhé roztržce, tentokrát se SSSR a jejími satelity. Na zasedání komunistických a dělnických stran v Moskvě v roce 1960 vystoupila albánská delegace ostře proti Chruščovově politice destalinizace a v propukajícím sovětsko-čínském ideologickém a mocenském sporu se postavila na stranu asijské mocnosti. Odvážný krok malé země, motivovaný pouze mocenskými zájmy její politické elity, dovedl Albánce do poněkud kuriózního spojenectví se vzdálenou Čínou, která ale do značné míry pomohla překlenout výpadek předchozí hospodářské pomoci sovětského bloku. Albánie se na oplátku stala pro Čínu jakýmsi hlasem na mezinárodní scéně, neboť pekingští komunisté se až do začátku 70. let nacházeli v naprosté mezinárodní izolaci. Peking neměl své křeslo ani v OSN. Pročínský kurz a objevující se hospodářské potíže se v Albánii projevily sílící mobilizační kampaní, která měla zajistit masivnější zapojení Albánců do výstavby socialismu a odpoutat jejich pozornost od narůstajících hospodářských problémů. Pod její rouškou režim likvidoval zbytky potenciálně nebezpečných skupin obyvatelstva. V roce 1967 tak mj. vyvrcholila protináboženská kampaň, která postavila mimo zákon všechny náboženské instituce a vedla k uzavření všech svatostánků v zemi. Albánie byla prohlášena za ateistický stát, což poté stvrdila nová ústava v roce 1976. Pod hlavičkou boje proti byrokratismu byly také tisíce lidí přesunuty na venkov. Na jedné straně se tak vládnoucí skupina zbavila nepohodlných osob v důležitých centrech moci a na straně druhé příchod relativně vzdělaných kádrů na venkov přispěl k rozbití tradičních kmenově rodových struktur venkovské společnosti, autority jejích vůdců a religiozity venkova. Tyto kampaně nazývané dobovou propagandou jako „další revolucionarizace života“ v jistém ohledu kopírovaly čínskou kulturní revoluci. Na rozdíl od Číny se však v Albánii tento proces nevymkl vládnoucí straně z rukou a ve svém důsledku vedl k posílení kultu osobnosti Envera Hodži a k nacionalizaci albánské komunistické ideologie. Obavy z možné zahraniční intervence, které zesílily po vpádu vojsk Varšavské smlouvy do Československa v srpnu 1968, se odrazily také v mohutné militarizaci země. Obyvatelstvo, včetně žen, se povinně účastnilo vojenských cvičení a do pádu komunismu byly v Albánii postaveny statisíce betonových bunkrů, které měly zemi ochránit před vnějším nepřítelem. Albánsko-čínské spojenectví se nakonec stalo obětí racionalizace čínské politiky. Navazování kontaktů se západními zeměmi včetně USA a slábnoucí čínská ochota financovat albánskou industrializaci zapříčinily v druhé polovině 70. let ideologický a politický rozchod obou zemí. Stejně jako v případě Jugoslávie a sovětského bloku začala Albánie obviňovat i Čínu ze zrady marxisticko-leninských principů. V období od roku 1978 do smrti Envera Hodži v roce 1985 se Albánie nacházela v naprosté mezinárodní izolaci, která se projevila v dramaticky se zhoršující životní úrovni obyvatel. Politický kurz Hodžova nástupce Ramize Alii navazoval na předchozí politiku, ale následkem hospodářského kolapsu a událostí v Evropě na konci 80. let byl nakonec donucen k opatrným reformám a otevírání země světu. Masivní demonstrace pak na počátku 90. let vedly i v Albánii k pádu komunistického režimu.
Každodenní pídění po základním zboží probíhalo v atmosféře permanentní propagandistické masáže, vyžadující naprostou konformitu s režimem, a ve strachu před všudypřítomnými spolupracovníky tajné policie. Jakákoliv odchylka od norem stanovených stranickými ideology byla drakonicky postihována. Poslech zahraniční hudby nebo četba zakázané literatury neznamenaly jen ztrátu zaměstnání či vyloučení ze studia, ale obvinění ještě v 80. letech končili ve věznicích nebo pracovních táborech s mnohaletými tresty odnětí svobody.
Několik desetiletí trvající stalinistická vláda diktátora Envera Hodži se sice na počátku 90. let 20. století zhroutila, avšak zbídačení země, dlouhá mezinárodní izolace, rychlý přechod od autarkie k dravému kapitalismu a nulová demokratická tradice vedly k politické a sociální nestabilitě provázené hromadným exodem obyvatelstva. Složité období počátků albánské demokracie vyvrcholilo v roce 1997 bankrotem země, ozbrojeným povstáním a zhroucením státní autority, která zemi vrhla do všeobecného chaosu. Většina území státu byla ovládána ozbrojenými gangy, kterým se do rukou dostaly zbraně z vyrabovaných armádních skladů. Zároveň došlo k polarizaci obyvatel – na příznivce tehdejšího prezidenta Saliho Beriši a příznivce opozičních socialistů v čele s Fatosem Nanem. Opozice obviňovala Berišu, že jeho vláda podporovala finanční instituce, které začátkem roku 1997 zkrachovaly, a že povstání na jihu země chtěl potlačit armádou. Nepokoje trvaly asi půl roku a vyžádaly si kolem 2000 lidských životů.
Nelehké období albánských dějin v druhé polovině 20. století Aliçka představuje očima neelitních skupin obyvatelstva. K čtenáři tak promlouvají prosté venkovské ženy, vězni, primitivní bachaři, venkovští učitelé, studenti či namyšlení místní straničtí funkcionáři a jejich mnohdy úsměvné až tragikomické příběhy skládají pestrou mozaiku těžko uvěřitelné albánské reality v době nedávné. Vezmeme-li v potaz české zkušenosti s komunistickým režimem a dobou transformace v 90. letech, nabízí se českému čtenáři prostřednictvím Aliçkových povídek zajímavé srovnání…
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Poirot Investigates
The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings...First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond! then came the 'suicide' that was murder! the mystery of the absurdly chaep flat! a suspicious d
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Lacná kniha Něco bylo ve tmě, co nebylo vidět (-90%)
Povídkový soubor belgického spisovatele. Jednotlivé texty rozhodně nespojuje nějaká myšlenka všeobjímajícího humanismu. Je to naopak zvrácenost a absurdita a také variace na postavu Minitrip - robinzonku s osudem mučednice, jež se stává patologickým naplněním jednoho erotického snu. Ozvěny stěžejních dějinných okamžiků 20. století i rozestřená prezentace velkých témat moderního světa se prolínají všemi povídkami.
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The Habsburgs
In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium.
From modest origins, the Habsburgs grew in power to gain control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in just a few decades, their possessions rapidly expanded to take in a large part of Europe stretching from Hungary to Spain, and from the Far East to the New World. The family continued to dominate Central Europe until the catastrophe of the First World War.
With its seemingly disorganized mass of large and small territories, its tangle of laws and privileges and its medley of languages, the Habsburg Empire has always appeared haphazard and incomplete. But here Martyn Rady shows the reasons for the family's incredible endurance, driven by the belief that they were destined to rule the world as defenders of the Roman Catholic Church, guarantors of peace and patrons of learning. The Habsburg emperors were themselves absurdly varied in their characters - from warlords to contemplatives, from clever to stupid, from idle to frenzied - but all driven by the same sense of family mission. Scattered around the world, countless buildings, institutions and works of art continue to bear witness to their overwhelming impact.
The Habsburgs is the definitive history of a remarkable dynasty that, for better or worse, shaped Europe and the world.
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Black Hammer Vol. 3 - Age Of Doom Part One
The Eisner Award-winning superhero saga returns with this two-part mystery with lots of revelations! Picking up immediately where we left off--Lucy Weber has become the new Black Hammer and right as she's about to reveal to our heroes how they got stuck on the farm and can escape she vanishes. Now our new Black Hammer finds herself trapped in a gritty world filled with punk rock detectives, emo gods, anthropomorphic humans, absurdist heroes, and many more weirdos, in mad world in which there is no escape! Collects Black Hammer: Age of Doom #1-5. "I didn't think something could be thrilling and sad at the same time but now there's Black Hammer proving me wrong. Amazing, just flat-out amazing."--Patton Oswalt "I don't read many comics these days, and I can't remember the last time I read a superhero comic, but I'm loving Black Hammer." - Mike Mignola "Black Hammer is easily one of Lemire's best creations." - Scott Snyder
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Complete Brigadier Gerard Stories
Mon Dieu! The extraordinary, sabre-rattling adventures of Gerard, a young French cavalry officer in the time of the Napoleonic wars, introduce a hero who will be adored by fans of Flashman and Sherlock Holmes alike. Gathered here in one edition are both volumes of Conan Doyle's much loved tales, which will delight modern readers with their absurdist humour, infectious warmth and swash-buckling energy.
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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
From the ingenious comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and creator of Spamalot, comes an absurdly funny memoir of unparalleled wit and heartfelt candour.
Best known for his unforgettable roles in Monty Python, from the Flying Circus to The Meaning of Life, Eric Idle reflects on the meaning of his own life in this brilliantly entertaining memoir that takes us on an unforgettable journey from his childhood in an austere boarding school through his successful career in comedy, television, theatre and film.
2019 marks the 50th anniversary of The Pythons, and this laugh-out-loud memoir is the perfect celebration, chock-full of behind-the-scenes stories from a high-flying life that features everyone from Princess Leia to the Queen. With anecdotes sprinkled throughout that involve close friends and luminaries such as Mick Jagger, George Harrison, Steve Martin, Paul Simon and David Bowie - let alone the Pythons themselves - Eric captures a time of tremendous creative output with equal hilarity and heart.
Named after the song he wrote for Life of Brian that has since become the number-one song played at funerals in the UK, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life reflects on the highlights of his life and career with the off-beat humour that has delighted audiences for decades.
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Oi Frog & Friends
Oi Frog!
The laughter never ends with Oi Frog and Friends!
Jam-packed with the silliest of animals, this bestselling rhyming story will have the youngest of readers in fits of laughter. Over 1 million copies sold!
Cats sit on mats, hares sit on chairs, mules sit on stools and gophers sit on sofas. But Frog does not want to sit on a log. Jam-packed with animals and silliness, this original rhyming story is guaranteed to get children giggling!
‘An absolute treat.’ Daily Mail
‘Hilarious.’ Guardian
‘The most outstanding children’s book.’ Jo Wiley, BBC Radio 2
Can’t get enough? Look out for: Oi Dog, Oi Cat, Oi Duck-billed Platypus, Oi Puppies
Oi Frog and Friends is a top ten bestselling series. Loved by children and parents, the books have won numerous awards, including the Laugh Out Loud Picture Book Award, and been shortlisted for many more!
Oi Dog!
Jam-packed with the silliest of animals, this bestselling rhyming story will have the youngest of readers in fits of laughter.
The hilarious sequel to the bestselling Oi Frog! will have children rolling around with laughter.
Winner of the 2017 Laugh Out Loud Picture Book Award. Shortlisted for the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award 2016.
Frog’s had enough, he’s the changing the status quo! Cat insists that there are rules – only mules sit on stools, no one but hares should sit on chairs and however irritating, dogs MUST sit on frogs.
‘Well, I’m changing the rules,’ said the frog.
‘From now on, dogs sit on logs, not frogs!’
And everyone else is going to have to sit somewhere else too. Will Cat want to sit on gnats instead of cushy mats? Will spiders like sitting on gliders? Will whales be happy to sit on nails? And, most importantly, where is FROG going to sit?
Oi Cat!
This absurdly funny, rhyming read-aloud picture book is guaranteed to get children giggling!
From the bestselling, multi-award-winning creators of Oi Frog. *Over 1 million copies sold*
According to Frog …
Cats sit on gnats,
Dogs sit on logs,
Alpacas sit on cream crackers,
Armadillos sit on pillows and
Chicks sit on bricks.
But wait! Cat doesn’t like sitting on gnats, they keep biting his bottom! Will Frog and Dog help him change the rules?
‘This animal rhyming silliness goes from strength to strength.’ The Guardian
‘Will have children in fits of giggles.’ Parents in Touch
Can’t get enough? Look out for: Oi Frog, Oi Dog, Oi Duck-billed Platypus, Oi Puppies
Oi Frog and Friends is a top ten bestselling series. Loved by children and parents, the books have won numerous awards, including the Laugh Out Loud Picture Book Award, and been shortlisted for many more!
Oi Puppies!
Another brilliantly funny, rhyming read-aloud picture book, jam-packed with cute puppies and silliness. From the bestselling, multi-award-winning creators of Oi Frog!
Dog is looking after some puppies. Quite a few puppies, actually, and none of them will sit! Not even on guppies, like they’re supposed to! They’re getting a little out of hand. But luckily Frog’s got a cunning plan . . .
Praise for Oi Frog!:
‘An absolute treat.’ – Daily Mail
‘Everyone will love it.’ – Guardian
Oi Frog and Friends is a top ten bestselling series which has sold 1.4 million copies to date. Oi Dog! won the 2017 Laugh Out Loud Awards (among others), and Oi Goat! was the number one bestselling 2018 World Book Day Book. Oi Frog! won a Silver Award at the Nielsen Bookscan Awards 2019, and Oi Duck-billed Platypus! was shortlisted for the Children’s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2019.
Oi Aardvark!
The team behind the bestselling favourite OI FROG! is back with another hilarious picture book that is guaranteed to get little ones laughing out loud. Join in with the fun and silliness, and meet a whole host of crazy creatures from aardvarks to zebras, along the way. The perfect riotous read for all OI! fans – the laughter never ends with Oi Frog and Friends . . .
Praise for OI FROG!
‘An absolute treat.’ – Daily Mail
‘Hilarious.’ – Guardian
Oi Duck-Billed Platypus!
A brilliantly funny, rhyming read-aloud picture book. Jam-packed with animals and silliness!
From the bestselling, multi-award-winning creators of Oi Frog. *Over 1 million copies sold*
Oi! Where are duck-billed platypuses meant to sit?
And Kookaburras and hippopotamuses and all the other animals with impossible to rhyme with names…
Over to you Frog!
‘Laugh-aloud humour will have young readers in fits of giggles.’ Parents in Touch
Can’t get enough? Look out for: Oi Frog, Oi Dog, Oi Cat, Oi Puppies
Oi Frog and Friends is a top ten bestselling series. Loved by children and parents, the books have won numerous awards, including the Laugh Out Loud Picture Book Award, and been shortlisted for many more!
Poirot Investigates
The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings...First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond...then came the 'suicide' that was murder...the mystery of the absurdly chaep flat...a suspicious death in a locked gun-room...a million dollar bond robbery...the curse of a pharoah's tomb...a jewel robbery by the sea...the abduction of a Prime Minister...the disappearance of a banker...a phone call from a dying man...and, finally, the mystery of the missing willl. What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!
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Banksy Captured
BANKSY CAPTURED by Steve Lazarides, now available to the book trade for the first time, charts the birth of our modern-day Robin Hood. A true art legend, a man able to articulate the voice of sub-culture that made its way to the mainstream. The negatives for these pictures lay in Lazarides’ loft for many years. Whilst Banksy’s rise to fame became undeniable these pictures took on a different meaning than just personal, private documentation. Along with never before heard tales of the artist at work and absurdist capers from their time working together BANKSY CAPTURED shares a moment in time before the artworld and most of the globe took note. From the introduction: I first met this scruffy, moody guy known as Banksy around 1997. At the time I was the inhouse photographer and picture editor for the magazine Sleaze Nation, created and edited by the wonderfully eccentric Steve Beale. He'd heard a rumour about an innovative young graffiti artist known as Banksy. Partly because we were all Bristolians and a pretty partisan bunch, he asked me to try and track him down. Through my contacts in Bristol, I got a hook up. We first met down by the docks where Banksy was helping coordinate an event called Walls on Fire. I drove Steve and I down to the rendezvous. Even at this point being anonymous was high on Banksy's agenda, and I was only permitted to photograph the back of his head. Afterwards we went on an almighty bender. The only downside was that when I returned the following day to pick up the car it had been nicked. In hindsight, it's weird to think that this meeting would go on to alter the course of my life. This book isn't about me as his manager, agent, or gallerist. It is a celebration of my time as a photographer documenting the birth of a legend. I had a back stage pass; permission to accompany him and document some of his most iconic imagery. It was only very recently, when looking through the whole of my picture archive, that I began to see the cultural value of this body of work. The portraits, reportage of Banksy putting works on the streets, shots in the studio and the documentation of his early art, have not had the airtime they deserve. Steve Lazarides
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The City in the Middle of the Night
"If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives."
From the brilliant mind of Charlie Jane Anders ("A master absurdist"-New York Times; "Virtuoso"-NPR) comes a new novel of Kafkaesque futurism. Set on a planet that has fully definitive, never-changing zones of day and night, with ensuing extreme climates of endless, frigid darkness and blinding, relentless light, humankind has somehow continued apace-though the perils outside the built cities are rife with danger as much as the streets below.
But in a world where time means only what the ruling government proclaims, and the levels of light available are artificially imposed to great consequence, lost souls and disappeared bodies are shadow-bound and savage, and as common as grains of sand. And one such pariah, sacrificed to the night, but borne up by time and a mysterious bond with an enigmatic beast, will rise to take on the entire planet--before it can crumble beneath the weight of human existence.
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18,95 €
Lets Get Lost
Five strangers. Countless adventures. One epic way to get lost.
Four teens across the country have only one thing in common: a girl named Leila. She crashes into their lives in her absurdly red car at the moment they need someone the most.
Hudson, Bree, Elliot and Sonia find a friend in Leila. And when Leila leaves them, their lives are forever changed. But it is during Leila's own 4,268-mile journey that she discovers the most important truthsometimes, what you need most is right where you started. And maybe the only way to find what you're looking for is to get lost along the way."
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10,40 €
10,95 €
The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion
The ultimate TV companion book to Good Omens, a massive new television launch on Amazon Prime Video and the BBC, written and show-run by Neil Gaiman and adapted from the internationally beloved novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
'[It was] absurdly good fun...Terry charged Neil with getting it made, almost as his deathbed wish, so it's a real labour of love' - David Tennant
In the beginning there was a book written by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman about the forces of good and evil coming together to prevent the apocalypse, scheduled to happen on a Saturday just after tea.
Now, that internationally beloved novel has been transformed into six hour-long episodes of some of the most creative and ambitious television ever made. Written and show-run by Neil Gaiman and directed by Douglas Mackinnon, this BBC Studios creation brings Good Omens spectacularly to life, through a cast that includes David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Jon Hamm, Miranda Richardson, Josie Lawrence, Derek Jacobi, Nick Offerman, Jack Whitehall and Adria Arjona.
Keep calm, because The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion is your ultimate guide to navigating Armageddon. Through character profiles and in-depth interviews with the stars and the crew, stunning behind-the-scenes and stills photography of the cast and locations, and a fascinating insight into costume boards and set designs, you will discover the feats of creativity and mind-boggling techniques that have gone into bringing an angel, a demon, and the Antichrist to the screens of people everywhere. This book will take you inside the world of Heaven and Hell (and Tadfield) and is set to shatter coffee tables around the world.
Britt-Marie Was Here
The number 1 European bestseller by the author of New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon A Man Called Ove, Britt-Marie was Here is a funny, poignant and uplifting tale of love, community, and second chances.
For as long as anyone can remember, Britt-Marie has been an acquired taste. It's not that she's judgemental, or fussy, or difficult - she just expects things to be done in a certain way. A cutlery drawer should be arranged in the right order, for example (forks, knives, then spoons). We're not animals, are we?
But behind the passive-aggressive, socially awkward, absurdly pedantic busybody is a woman who has more imagination, bigger dreams and a warmer heart than anyone around her realizes.
So when Britt-Marie finds herself unemployed, separated from her husband of 20 years, left to fend for herself in the miserable provincial backwater that is Borg - of which the kindest thing one can say is that it has a road going through it - and somehow tasked with running the local football team, she is a little unprepared. But she will learn that life may have more to offer her that she's ever realised, and love might be found in the most unexpected of places.
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9,45 €
9,95 €
Peterburg Tales
Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant facade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor ('The Nose'), a painter and a lieutenant whose romantic pursuits meet with contrasting degrees of success ('Nevsky Prospect') and a lowly civil servant whose existence desperately unravels when he loses his prized new coat ('The Overcoat'). Also including the 'Diary of Madman', this new translation of Petersburg Tales paint a critical yet hilarious portrait of a city riddled with pomposity and self-importance, masterfully juxtaposing nineteenth-century realism with madcap surrealism, and combining absurdist farce with biting satire.
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7,13 €
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