Hľadanie: Transcendence
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Poems: 1962-2020
A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet
For the past fifty years, Louise Gluck has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless intelligence, wit and intimacy of her poetic voice as for her development of a particular form: the book-length sequence of poems. This volume brings together the twelve collections Gluck has published to date, offering readers the opportunity to become immersed in the artistry and vision of one of the world's greatest living poets.
From the allegories of The Wild Iris to the myth-making of Averno; the oneiric landscapes of The House on Marshland to the questing of Faithful and Virtuous Night - each of Gluck's collections looks upon the events of an ordinary life and finds within them scope for the transcendent; each wields its archetypes to puncture the illusions of the self. Across her work, elements are reiterated but endlessly transfigured - Persephone, a copper beech, a mother and father and sister, a garden, a husband and son, a horse, a dog, a field on fire, a mountain. Taken together, the effect is like a shifting landscape seen from above, at once familiar and unspeakably profound.
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Stanislav Rakús v tomto súbore próz uplatňuje na rozdiel od svojej doterajšej tvorby nový typ poetiky. Ide zväčša o príbehy, v ktorých prostredníctvom motívov choroby, ohrozenia, osamelosti, smrti, ale i konfrontáciou staroby s mladosťou a detstvom vznikajú vypäté obrazy zo života obyčajných ľudí.
Cez postavu protagonistu, jeho spomienky a prežívanie sa tu v rodinných väzbách tematizuje aj teritoriálna vzdialenosť medzi západným a východným Slovenskom. Závery príbehov sa vyznačujú tým, že do nich prenikajú neurčité a transcendentné prvky, ktoré dodávajú prózam nádych modelovosti.
V knihe nechýba ani komická tonalita, charakteristická pre autorovu predchádzajúcu tvorbu.
O AUTOROVI
Stanislav Rakús (*1940) vydal prozaické knihy Žobráci (1976), Pieseň o studničnej vode (1979), Temporálne poznámky (1993), Nenapísaný román (2004), Excentrická univerzita (2008), Telegram (2009) a Fáza uvoľnenia (2013).
Pre deti napísal knihu humorne ladených rozprávok Mačacia krajina (1986). Z oblasti literárnej vedy vydal knihy Próza a skutočnosť (1982), Epické postoje (1988), Medzi mnohoznačnosťou a presnosťou (1993), Poetika prozaického textu (1995), Z rozprávaní, úvah a rozhovorov (2003), Hovoriť niečím iným (2010), Medzi látkou a témou (2011) a Text a dielo (2019).
Za svoju tvorbu získal viacero ocenení (Cena Dominika Tatarku, Cena Anasoft litera, Cena Asociácie organizácií spisovateľov Slovenska, Cena Jána Johanidesa, Cena Nadácie Tatra banky) a mnohé z jeho kníh boli preložené.
V súčasnosti pôsobí ako emeritný profesor na Katedre slovenskej literatúry a literárnej vedy Prešovskej univerzity. Žije v Košiciach.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the most celebrated inspirational fable of our time, tells the story of a bird determined to be more than ordinary. This bestselling modern classic, reissued with a beautiful new cover design, is a story for people who want to follow their dreams and make their own rules and has inspired people for decades. 'Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight -- how to get from shore to food and back again,' writes author Richard Bach in this allegory about a unique bird named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. 'For most gulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.' Flight is indeed the metaphor that makes this story soar. This bestselling modern classic is a fable about seeking a higher purpose in life, even if your flock, tribe or neighbourhood finds your ambition threatening (at one point our beloved gull is even banished from his flock). By not compromising his higher vision, Jonathan learns the meaning of love and kindness and gets the ultimate payoff -- transcendence.
Love in the New Millennium
The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today
In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Some try to flee-whether to a mysterious gambling bordello or to ancestral homes that can be reached only underground through muddy caves, sewers, and tunnels. Others seek out the refuge of Nest County, where traditional Chinese herbal medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self. Each life is circumscribed by buried secrets and transcendent delusions.
Can Xue's masterful love stories for the new millennium trace love's many guises-satirical, tragic, transient, lasting, nebulous, and fulfilling-against a kaleidoscopic backdrop of commerce and industry, fraud and exploitation, and sex and romance drawn from the East and the West.
Lacná kniha Ľútostivosť (-70%)
Stanislav Rakús v tomto súbore próz uplatňuje na rozdiel od svojej doterajšej tvorby nový typ poetiky. Ide zväčša o príbehy, v ktorých prostredníctvom motívov choroby, ohrozenia, osamelosti, smrti, ale i konfrontáciou staroby s mladosťou a detstvom vznikajú vypäté obrazy zo života obyčajných ľudí.
Cez postavu protagonistu, jeho spomienky a prežívanie sa tu v rodinných väzbách tematizuje aj teritoriálna vzdialenosť medzi západným a východným Slovenskom. Závery príbehov sa vyznačujú tým, že do nich prenikajú neurčité a transcendentné prvky, ktoré dodávajú prózam nádych modelovosti.
V knihe nechýba ani komická tonalita, charakteristická pre autorovu predchádzajúcu tvorbu.
O AUTOROVI
Stanislav Rakús (*1940) vydal prozaické knihy Žobráci (1976), Pieseň o studničnej vode (1979), Temporálne poznámky (1993), Nenapísaný román (2004), Excentrická univerzita (2008), Telegram (2009) a Fáza uvoľnenia (2013).
Pre deti napísal knihu humorne ladených rozprávok Mačacia krajina (1986). Z oblasti literárnej vedy vydal knihy Próza a skutočnosť (1982), Epické postoje (1988), Medzi mnohoznačnosťou a presnosťou (1993), Poetika prozaického textu (1995), Z rozprávaní, úvah a rozhovorov (2003), Hovoriť niečím iným (2010), Medzi látkou a témou (2011) a Text a dielo (2019).
Za svoju tvorbu získal viacero ocenení (Cena Dominika Tatarku, Cena Anasoft litera, Cena Asociácie organizácií spisovateľov Slovenska, Cena Jána Johanidesa, Cena Nadácie Tatra banky) a mnohé z jeho kníh boli preložené.
V súčasnosti pôsobí ako emeritný profesor na Katedre slovenskej literatúry a literárnej vedy Prešovskej univerzity. Žije v Košiciach.
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Lacná kniha Pozemské mocnosti
Ve velkolepém panoramatickém záběru onoho dlouhého evropského století od Francouzské revoluce (1789) do pruského masakru civilistů ve Flandrech (1914) líčí významný anglický historik politický zápas křesťanských církví s emancipačním, liberálním národním státem na pozadí humanistických kultů – Robespierrova jakobínského deismu, comtovské Velké bytosti lidstva, saint-simonovského a marxistického beztřídního ráje budoucnosti – s jejich zatím ještě komickou, protože předtotalitní občanskou liturgií a rituály odvozenými z křesťanství.
Politická náboženství měla paradoxně původ v racionalismu osvícenství, tedy v osvícenském kultu člověka, osvěty a rozumu, z něhož vychází i prakticky celá historiografie 20. století, která považuje náboženství za pouhou dekoraci socioekonomického vývoje, aniž by zaregistrovala, že se sekularizovala pouze Evropa. Klíčem k porozumění evropskému vývoji je právě rozumářská utopická víra v dokonalé společenské uspořádání, jež zatratila křesťanskou transcendenci i posmrtnou spásu a stává se vražedným plánem na totální přestavbu tohoto světa – předznamenaným už jakobínskou genocidou ve Vendeé. Burleigh názorně dokládá, jak v kotli pozemských ideologií ve století stále ještě křesťanském dozrávaly plány, z nichž se později zrodila dvojčata nacionálního a internacionálního socialismu. Dílo na výsost aktuální možná povede i k zamyšlení nad budovatelským plánem nové Evropy.
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Beneath the Lions Gaze
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974 - the eve of a revolution.
Yonas kneels in his mother's prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor, has been ordered to report to jail after helping a victim of state-sanctioned torture to die.
And Dawit, Hailu's youngest son, has joined an underground resistance movement-a choice that will lead to more upheaval and bloodshed across a ravaged Ethiopia.
Emotionally gripping, poetic and indelibly tragic, Beneath the Lion's Gaze is a transcendent story that tells a gripping story of family and of the bonds of love and friendship. It is a story about the lengths to which human beings will go in pursuit of freedom and the human price of a national revolution.
Kindred
'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox
'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.' Yuval Noah Harari
Kindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins.Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside cliches of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval.
Much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination, perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality. Kindred does for Neanderthals what Sapiens did for us, revealing a deeper, more nuanced story where humanity itself is our ancient, shared inheritance.
Po Bábelu
Stěžejní dílo jednoho z nejvýraznějších žijících literárních a kulturních kritiků anglicky mluvícího světa. G. Steiner v něm zkoumá fenomén překladu. Vychází z židovské kabaly a jazykové mystiky stejně jako z moderní hermeneutiky a v protestu proti úzké specializaci uvažuje o překladu jako základním prvku všeho rozumění, interpretace a komunikace, vlastně celých kulturních dějin. G. Steiner se narodil 23. 4. 1929 v Paříži, kam jeho rodiče již roku 1924 přesídlili z antisemitské Vídně. Rodina se sice roku 1940 dále stěhuje do New Yorku, Steiner ale i zde navštěvuje francouzské lyceum a poznává na něm řadu předních francouzských intelektuálů (J. Maritain, C. Lévi-Strauss, Saint-John Perse), takže přirozeným základem jeho polyglotství i komparatistického myšlení zůstane spojení středoevropského humanismu s francouzským univerzalismem. Vedle toho v New Yorku také přistupuje k bar micva a osobně tak za další východisko svého myšlení přijímá židovství. Studuje na univerzitě v Chicagu (B. A. 1948), na Harvardu (M. A. 1950) a v Oxfordu (PhD. 1955). Ve své první knize Tolstoj, nebo Dostojevskij (Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism, 1959) staví Steiner proti Tolstého dějinnému humanismu Dostojevského naddějinnou přesažnost a vyzvedá pochopení tohoto autora pro temné stránky a tragičnost člověka. V následující Smrti tragédie (The Death of Tragedy, 1961) konstatuje zánik tohoto jedinečného západního žánru, podkopaného osvícenským sekulárním optimismem a demokratizací společnosti.
Ve druhé půli 60. let se George Steiner, od roku 1961 fellow cambridgeské Churchill College a hostující profesor na amerických univerzitách, začíná soustavně obírat tématem šoa a jeho významu pro smysluplnost další kultury. Tato fascinace nepominutelně osobní povahy se objevuje jak v jeho díle beletristickém (nejprve v souboru povídek Anno Domini, 1964, později například v kontroverzní novele Transport A. H. do San Cristóbalu /Portage to San Cristobal of A. H./, 1981), tak v tvorbě esejistické - poprvé v knize Jazyk a ticho (Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature and the Inhuman, 1967; esej "Ústup slova" vyšla roku 1975 samizdatově v překladu Václava Černého).
Skrytě osobní krédo obsahuje i soubor esejí Extrateritoriální (Extraterritorial: Papers on Literature and the Language Revolution, 1971): zde se autor znovu obrací k tématu jazyka, tentokrát z pohledu jazykového bezdomoví, v němž se ocitl moderní spisovatel (Beckett, Borges či Nabokov, stejně jako Steiner sám). Především esej "Jazykový živočich" svým důrazem na neoddělitelnost člověka od řeči jasně předjímá opus magnum Po Bábelu. Ještě předtím se ale Steiner roku 1971 v knize V hradu Modrovousově (In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture) soustavněji vrátí ke krizi západní kultury, z níž v souladu se svými ranými pracemi vidí východisko v "sázce na transcendenci". V roce, kdy vyšla kniha Po Bábelu (After Babel, 1974) autor symbolicky nalézá definitivní působiště ja
Lacná kniha Paint at Black
Josie Tyrell, art model, teen runaway, and denizen of LA's 1980 punk rock scene, finds a chance at real love with art student Michael Faraday. A Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist, Michael introduces her to his spiritual quest and a world of sophistication she had never dreamed existed. But when she receives a call from the Los Angeles County Coroner, asking her to identify her lover's dead body, her bright dreams all turn to black. What happens to a dream when the dreamer is gone?" is the central question of Paint it Black, the story of the aftermath of Michael's death, and Josie's struggle to hold onto the true world he shared with her. As Josie searches for the key to understanding his death, she finds herself both repelled and attracted to Michael's pianist mother, Meredith, who holds Josie responsible for her son's torment. Soon, the two women find themselves drawn into a twisted relationship reflecting equal parts distrust and blind need. Passionate, wounded, fiercely alive, Josie Tyrell walks the brink of her own destruction as she fights to discover the meaning of Michael's death. With the luxurious prose and emotional intensity that are her hallmarks, Janet Fitch has written a spellbinding new novel about love, betrayal, and the possibility of transcendence."
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Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
More than 100,000 copies sold! Millions of Americans know yoga as a superb form of exercise and as a potent source of calm in our stress-filled lives. Far fewer are aware of the full promise of yoga as a 4,000-year-old practical path of liberation—a path that fits the needs of modern Western seekers with startling precision. Now Stephen Cope, a Western-trained psychotherapist who has lived and taught for more than ten years at the largest yoga center in America, offers this marvelously lively and irreverent pilgrim's progress for today's world. He demystifies the philosophy, psychology, and practice of yoga, and shows how it applies to our most human dilemmas: from loss, disappointment, and addiction, to the eternal conflicts around sex and relationship. And he shows us that in yoga, liberation does not require us to leave our everyday lives for some transcendent spiritual plane—life itself is the path. Above all, Cope shows how yoga can heal the suffering of self-estrangement that pervades our society, leading us to a new sense of purpose and to a deeper, more satisfying life in the world.
Whatever Happened to Tradition?
The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us.
The central argument of this book is that we can only face the future with hope if we have a proper sense of tradition - political, social and religious. We ignore our past at our peril. The problem, argues Tim Stanley, is that the Western tradition is anti-tradition, that we have a habit of discarding old ways and old knowledge, leaving us uncertain how to act or, even, of who we really are.
In this wide-ranging book, we see how tradition can be both beautiful and useful, from the deserts of Australia to the court of nineteenth-century Japan. Some of the concepts defended here are highly controversial in the modern West: authority, nostalgia, rejection of self and the hunt for spiritual transcendence. We'll even meet a tribe who dress up their dead relatives and invite them to tea.
Stanley illustrates how apparently eccentric yet universal principles can nurture the individual from birth to death, plugging them into the wider community, and creating a bond between generations. He also demonstrates that tradition, far from being pretentious or rigid, survives through clever adaptation, that it can be surprisingly egalitarian.
The good news, he argues, is that it can also be rebuilt. It's been done before. The process is fraught with danger, but the ultimate prize of rediscovering tradition is self-knowledge and freedom.
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Tiger Woods
Based on three years of extensive research and reporting, two of today's most acclaimed investigative journalists, Jeff Benedict of Sports Illustrated and eleven-time Emmy Award winner Armen Keteyian, deliver the first major biography of Tiger Woods - sweeping in scope and packed with groundbreaking, behind-the-scenes details of the Shakespearean rise and epic fall of a global icon.
In 2009, Tiger Woods was the most famous athlete on the planet, a transcendent star of almost unfathomable fame and fortune living what appeared to be the perfect life - married to a Swedish beauty and the father of two young children. Winner of fourteen major golf championships and seventy-nine PGA Tour events, Woods was the first billion-dollar athlete, earning more than $100 million a year in endorsements from the likes of Nike, Gillette, AT&T and Gatorade.
But it was all a carefully crafted illusion. As it turned out, Woods had been living a double life for years - one that exploded in the aftermath of a late-night crash that exposed his serial infidelity and sent his personal and professional life off a cliff. In Tiger Woods, Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian dig deep behind the headlines to produce a richly reported answer to the question that has mystified millions of sports fans for nearly a decade: who is Tiger Woods?
Drawing on more than four hundred interviews with people from every corner of Woods's life - friends, family members, teachers, romantic partners, swing coaches, business associates, Tour pros and members of Woods's inner circle - Benedict and Keteyian construct a captivating psychological profile of an African-American child programmed by an attention-grabbing father and the original Tiger Mom to be the 'chosen one', to change not just the game of golf, but the world as well. But at what cost?
Benedict and Keteyian provide the startling answers in a biography, updated for this edition, destined to make headlines and linger in the minds of readers for years to come.
Rock Concert: A High-Voltage History, from Elvis to Live Aid
Decades after the rise of rock music in the 1950s, the rock concert retains its allure and its power as a unifying experience - and as an influential multi-billion-dollar industry. In Rock Concert, acclaimed interviewer Marc Myers sets out to uncover the history of this compelling phenomenon, weaving together ground-breaking accounts from the people who were there.
Myers combines the tales of icons like Joan Baez, Ian Anderson, Alice Cooper, Steve Miller, Roger Waters and Angus Young with figures such as the disc jockeys who first began playing rock on the radio; the audio engineers that developed new technologies to accommodate ever-growing rock audiences; music journalists, like Rolling Stone's Cameron Crowe; and the promoters who organized it all, like Michael Lang, co-founder of Woodstock, to create a rounded and vivid account of live rock's stratospheric rise.
Rock Concert provides a fascinating, immediate look at the evolution of rock 'n' roll through the lens of live performances, spanning the rise of R&B in the 1950s, through the hippie gatherings of the '60s, to the growing arena tours of the '70s and '80s. Elvis Presley's gyrating hips, the British Invasion that brought the Beatles in the '60s, the Grateful Dead's free flowing jams and Pink Floyd's The Wall are just a few of the defining musical acts that drive this rich narrative. Featuring dozens of key players in the history of rock and filled with colourful anecdotes, Rock Concert will speak to anyone who has experienced the transcendence of live rock.
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Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world
'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, 'think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the future; the second between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead. They must balance what they know, which is necessarily drawn from the past, with what they intuit about the future, which is inherently conjectural and uncertain. It is this intuitive grasp of direction that enables leaders to set objectives and lay down a strategy.'
In Leadership, Kissinger analyses the lives of six extraordinary leaders through the distinctive strategies of statecraft which he believes they embodied. After the Second World War, Konrad Adenauer brought defeated and morally bankrupt Germany back into the community of nations by what Kissinger calls 'the strategy of humility'. Charles de Gaulle set France beside the victorious Allies and renewed its historic grandeur by 'the strategy of will'. During the Cold War, Richard Nixon gave geostrategic advantage to the United States by 'the strategy of equilibrium'. After twenty-five years of conflict, Anwar Sadat brought a vision of peace to the Middle East by a 'strategy of transcendence'. Against the odds, Lee Kwan Yew created a powerhouse city-state, Singapore, by 'the strategy of excellence'. Although when she came to power Britain was known as 'the sick man of Europe', Margaret Thatcher renewed her country's morale and international position by 'the strategy of conviction'.
To each of these studies, Kissinger brings historical perception, public experience and - because he knew each of their subjects, and participated in many of the events he describes - personal knowledge. The book is enriched by insights and judgements such as only he could make, and concludes with his reflections on world order and the indispensability of leadership today.
Kindred
Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox
'A wonderful portrait of these enigmatic, long-lost relatives.' Professor Alice Roberts
One of the Best Books of 2020, Sunday Times
Kindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins.
In Kindred, Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside cliches of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. They ranged across vast tracts of tundra and steppe, but also stalked in dappled forests and waded in the Mediterranean Sea. Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval.
At a time when our species has never faced greater threats, we're obsessed with what makes us special. But, much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination, perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality.
Kindred does for Neanderthals what Sapiens did for us, revealing a deeper, more nuanced story where humanity itself is our ancient, shared inheritance. It is only by understanding them, that we can truly understand ourselves.
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Specimen Days
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours" comes a new thrilling and thought-provoking masterpiece. "Specimen Days" is a novel made up of three linked visionary narratives about the relationship between man and machine. The first narrative, a ghost story set at the height of the Industrial Revolution, tells the story of man-eating machines. An ecstatic boy, barely embodied in the physical world, speaks in the voice of the great visionary poet Walt Whitman. He works at an oppressive factory connected to the making of a mysterious substance with some universal function and on which the world's economy somehow depends. The slight boy can barely operate the massive machine which speaks to him in the voice of his devoured brother. A woman who was to have married the brother is now the object of obsessive interest by the boy. In a city, in which all are mastered by the machine, the boy is convinced that the woman must be saved before she too is devoured. This grisly but ultimately transformative story establishes three main characters who will appear, reincarnated, in the other two sections of this startling modern novel. The boy, the man and the woman are each in search of some sort of transcendence as is made manifest by the recurrence of the words of Whitman ('It avails not, neither distance nor place! I am with you, and know how it is'). In part two, a noir thriller set in the early years of our current century, the city is at threat from maniacal bombers, while the third and last part plays with the sci-fi genre, taking our characters centuries into the future. The man who was devoured by a machine in part one is now literally a machine - a robot who becomes fully human before our eyes. The woman is a refugee from another part of the universe, a warrior in her native land but a servant on this planet. "Specimen Days" is a genre-bending, haunting ode to life itself - a work of surpassing power and beauty by one of the most original and daring writers at work today."
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Lacná kniha Ľútostivosť (-90%)
Stanislav Rakús v tomto súbore próz uplatňuje na rozdiel od svojej doterajšej tvorby nový typ poetiky. Ide zväčša o príbehy, v ktorých prostredníctvom motívov choroby, ohrozenia, osamelosti, smrti, ale i konfrontáciou staroby s mladosťou a detstvom vznikajú vypäté obrazy zo života obyčajných ľudí.
Cez postavu protagonistu, jeho spomienky a prežívanie sa tu v rodinných väzbách tematizuje aj teritoriálna vzdialenosť medzi západným a východným Slovenskom. Závery príbehov sa vyznačujú tým, že do nich prenikajú neurčité a transcendentné prvky, ktoré dodávajú prózam nádych modelovosti.
V knihe nechýba ani komická tonalita, charakteristická pre autorovu predchádzajúcu tvorbu.
O AUTOROVI
Stanislav Rakús (*1940) vydal prozaické knihy Žobráci (1976), Pieseň o studničnej vode (1979), Temporálne poznámky (1993), Nenapísaný román (2004), Excentrická univerzita (2008), Telegram (2009) a Fáza uvoľnenia (2013).
Pre deti napísal knihu humorne ladených rozprávok Mačacia krajina (1986). Z oblasti literárnej vedy vydal knihy Próza a skutočnosť (1982), Epické postoje (1988), Medzi mnohoznačnosťou a presnosťou (1993), Poetika prozaického textu (1995), Z rozprávaní, úvah a rozhovorov (2003), Hovoriť niečím iným (2010), Medzi látkou a témou (2011) a Text a dielo (2019).
Za svoju tvorbu získal viacero ocenení (Cena Dominika Tatarku, Cena Anasoft litera, Cena Asociácie organizácií spisovateľov Slovenska, Cena Jána Johanidesa, Cena Nadácie Tatra banky) a mnohé z jeho kníh boli preložené.
V súčasnosti pôsobí ako emeritný profesor na Katedre slovenskej literatúry a literárnej vedy Prešovskej univerzity. Žije v Košiciach.
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Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
From the author of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue . . .Although best known for his short stories, Edgar Allan Poe was by nature and choice a poet. This edition of his complete poetry illustrates the transcendent world of unity and ultimate beauty he created in his verse. From his exquisite lyric To Helen to his immortal masterpieces Annabel Lee, The Bells, and The Raven, Poe stands beside the celebrated English Romantic poets Shelley, Byron, and Keats, and his haunting, sensuous poetic vision profoundly influenced the Victorian giants Swinburne, Tennyson, and Rossetti. Today his dark side speaks eloquently to contemporary readers in his poems, such as The Haunted Palace and The Conqueror Worm, with their powerful images of madness and the macabre. But even at the end of his life, Poe reached out to his art for comfort and courage, giving us in Eldorado a talisman to hold during our darkest moments a timeless gift from an American writer. With an Introduction by Jay Pariniand an Afterword by April Bernard"