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Story of the Eye
A masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, George Bataille's Story of the Eye was the Fifty Shades of Grey of its era. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Joachim Neugroschal, and published with essays by Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes.
Bataille's first novel, published under the pseudonym 'Lord Auch', is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacrilegious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille's obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.
This edition also includes Susan Sontag's superb study of pornography as art, 'The Pornographic Imagination', as well as Roland Barthes' essay 'The Metaphor of the Eye'.
Georges Bataille (1897-1962), French essayist and novelist, was born in Billom, France. He converted to Catholicism, then later to Marxism, and was interested in psychoanalysis and mysticism, forming a secret society dedicated to glorifying human sacrifice. Leading a simple life as the curator of a municipal library, Bataille was involved on the fringes of Surrealism, founding the Surrealist magazine Documents in 1929, and editing the literary review Critique from 1946 until his death. Among his other works are the novels Blue of Noon (1957) and My Mother (1966), and the essays Eroticism (1957) and Literature and Evil (1957).
If you enjoyed Story of the Eye, you might like Anais Nin's Delta of Venus, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
Sword of Honour
Fictionalising his experience of service during the Second World War, Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour is the complete one-volume edition of his masterful trilogy, edited with an introduction by Angus Calder in Penguin Modern Classics.
Waugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of Crouchback's war. When action comes in Crete and in Yugoslavia, he discovers not heroism, but humanity. Sword of Honour combines three volumes: Officers and Gentlemen, Men at Arms and Unconditional Surrender, which were originally published separately. Extensively revised by Waugh, they were published as the one-volume Sword of Honour in 1965, in the form in which Waugh himself wished them to be read.
If you enjoyed Sword of Honour, you might like Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
Collected Stories
A man at his desk is interrupted by the appearance of a woodland elf in his room; the piano maestro Bachmann ends his career; a barber shaves the face of a man who once tortured him; a shy dreamer makes a deal with the Devil. In these sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy, Nabokov displays an astonishing range of inventiveness, with dazzling sleight of hand, fantastical fairy tales, intellectual games, and enchanting glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss.
The collection displays Nabokov's astonishing range of technical and formal inventiveness: the dazzling sleight of hand, fanciful fairy tales, ingenious puzzles, enchanting vignettes, and haunting melancholic narratives full of disturbing ambiguities.
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The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion and fulfilment in the arms of others, they contemplate the humiliation of divorce. Misako's father believes their relationship has been damaged by the influence of a new and alien culture, and so attempts to heal the breach by educating his son-in-law in the time-honoured Japanese traditions of aesthetic and sensual pleasure. The result is an absorbing, chilling conflict between ancient and modern, young and old.
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Román obsahuje veľa kritických svedectiev proti byrokracii, ale na druhej strane sa postavil proti tým, ktorí a pripri odmietali úradníctvo ako zbytočné, ako brzdu, ako krádež štátnych peňazí. Román nastoľuje otázky, ktoré nielenže nestratili dodn
es aktuálnosť, ale ich pálčivosť sa skôr radikalizuje.
Balzacovi Úradníci práve dnes k nám prichádzajú ako na zavolanie.
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Lacná kniha Barva nachu (-25%)
Dnes již klasické dílo – slavný román, psaný formou jednoduchých dopisů Bohu, o ženském sebeuvědomování i sebevědomí. Nejznámější dílo afroamerické spisovatelky, která spolu s Toni Morrisonovou představuje v Americe výrazný ženský hlas a která započala éru literatury, v níž si ženské spisovatelky troufly psát otevřeně o svém sexuálním prožívání.. Barva nachu byla v USA (tedy ještě před později tak opatrnou politickou korektností ) nadšeně přijata, získala dvě nejdůležitější literární ceny a také ji úspěšně zfilmoval Steven Spielberg. Nezapomenutelný literární portrét hrdinky Celie, jejích přátel a rodiny je plný vášně, bolesti a chuti do života. K opravdovosti a dojemnosti příběhu přispívá především jazykový způsob, jakým je Celiina výpověď podána.
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Ultramarín
Výbor z poezie s doslovem a básněmi Tess Gallagherové, autorovy druhé manželky. Americký spisovatel R. Carver (1939–1988) proslul především jako autor povídek, s nimiž se už český čtenář měl možnost seznámit. Sám Carver si však více než povídek cenil své básnické tvorby, které se průběžně věnoval po celou svou spisovatelskou kariéru. Básně mapují vnější i vnitřní události Carverova soukromého života – rozporuplný vztah k matce, otci, první ženě a dětem, boj se závislostí na alkoholu, zážitky z cest po světě a rybářských výprav, hluboký vztah ke druhé ženě Tess, boj s rakovinou a smíření se smrtí. Podobně jako v povídkách, tak i v básních ještě ve větší zkratce dokáže povýšit banální životní okamžik na moment čehosi posvátného.
Plechový bubínek
Na začátku padesátých let bubnuje a píše hrbáček Oskar Matzerath v Léčebném a zaopatřovacím ústavu běh svého života. Outsider, který umí vybubnovat pravdu a rozezpívat sklo, projevuje se při tom jako jediný zdravý ve světě zdání, lži a zločinu. Po přečtení jeho fantastické autobiografie, kterou vede od předválečného Gdaňsku až do poválečného Düsseldorfu, si uvědomujeme, že o Německu a o střední Evropě - jak v době vraždění národů, tak v době biedermeieru obnovy - víme o mnoho více než předtím.
Rebel
A philosophical exploration of the idea of 'rebellion' by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus' The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the Marquis de Sade. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Anthony Bower with an introduction by Oliver Todd.
The Rebel is Camus' 'attempt to understand the time I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951, it makes a daring critique of communism - how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It questions two events held sacred by the left wing - the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917 - that had resulted, he believed, in terrorism as a political instrument. In this towering intellectual document, Camus argues that hope for the future lies in revolt, which unlike revolution is a spontaneous response to injustice and a chance to achieve change without giving up collective and intellectual freedom.
Light in August
A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable that he is pursued by a lynch-hungry mob.
Yet after the sacrifice, there is new life, a determined ray of light in Faulkner's complex and tragic world.
Diary of a Mad Old Man
While recovering from a stroke, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi turns to his diary to wryly record his struggle with his ageing body and his growing desire for his beautiful daughter-in-law Satsuko, a chic, Westernised dancer with a shady past. Shining with a self-effacing humour, Tanizaki's last novel is a tragicomedy about desire and the will to survive.
The Key
This is the diary of a middle-aged man who is deeply in love with his younger wife, Ikuko. In spite of that love, the pair have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other's desires...until the day Ikuko discovers her husband's diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism. Ikuko realises she has found the key to his very soul.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Equally tragic, joyful and comical, Gabriel Garcia Márquez's masterpiece of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a seamless blend of fantasy and reality, translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa in Penguin Modern Classics.
Gabriel Garcia Márquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo, the town they have built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book and only Aureliano Buendia can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny. Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy with comic invention, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century.
Gabriel Garcia Márquez (b. 1928) was born in Aracataca, Colombia. He is the author of several novels, including Leaf Storm (1955), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
If you enjoyed One Hundred Years of Solitude, you might like Love in the Time of Cholera, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
'With a single bound Gabriel Garcia Márquez leaps on the stage with Günter Grass and Vladimir Nabokov ... dazzling'
The New York Times
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Penguin Classics: Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is a powerful exploration of alienation and loneliness in 1930s America, published in Penguin Modern Classics.
Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, and a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind, sympathetic nature. The owner of the café where Singer eats every day, a young girl desperate to grow up, an angry socialist drunkard, a frustrated black doctor: each pours their heart out to Singer, their silent confidant, and he in turn changes their disenchanted lives in ways the could never imagine. Moving, sensitive and deeply humane, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter explores loneliness, the human need for understanding and the search for love.
Carson McCullers (1917-1967) was the critically acclaimed author of several popular novels in the 1940s and '50s, including The Member of the Wedding (1946), adapted for the stage in the 1950s and filmed in 1952 and 1997. Her novels frequently depicted life in small towns of the southeastern United States and were marked by themes of loneliness and spiritual isolation. Other films based on her books are Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967, with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968, starring Alan Arkin) and The Ballad of the Sad Café (1991, starring Vanessa Redgrave).
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Autor, doktor filosofie, zabývající se rovněž divadelní vědou, anglickou literaturou a historií, známý české čtenářské obci již titulem Pú a filosofové (čes. VOLVOX GLOBATOR 1997), umožňuje Medvídkovi Pú další rozšíření znalostí v dosud netušených oblastech nejen hermetických. Alchymie, astrologie, mystika, tarot, druidové, král Artuš, kabala... tím vším musí projít nejen Pú a jeho přátelé, ale i každý trochu zvídavý čtenář.
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Lacná kniha Pú a starověká mystéria (-50%)
Autor, doktor filosofie, zabývající se rovněž divadelní vědou, anglickou literaturou a historií, známý české čtenářské obci již titulem Pú a filosofové (čes. VOLVOX GLOBATOR 1997), umožňuje Medvídkovi Pú další rozšíření znalostí v dosud netušených oblastech nejen hermetických. Alchymie, astrologie, mystika, tarot, druidové, král Artuš, kabala... tím vším musí projít nejen Pú a jeho přátelé, ale i každý trochu zvídavý čtenář.
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The Glass Bead Game
In the remote Kingdom of Castalia, the scholars of the Twenty Third century play the Glass Bead Game. The elaborately coded game is a fusion of all human knowledge - of maths, music, philosophy, science, and art. Intrigued as a school boy, Joseph Knecht becomes consumed with mastering the game as an adult.
As Knecht fulfils his life-long quest he must contend with unexpected dilemmas and the longing for a life beyond the ivory tower.
A Year in Provence
The bestselling, much-loved classic account of an English couple escaping to enjoy the fruits of French rural summer living - an irresistible feast of humour and heart.
Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious two hundred year-old farmhouse in the Lubéron Valley and began a new life.
In a year that begins with a marathon lunch and continues with a host of gastronomic delights, they also survive the unexpected and often hilarious curiosities of rural life. From mastering the local accent and enduring invasion by bumbling builders, to discovering the finer points of boules and goat-racing, all the earthy pleasures of Provençal life are conjured up in this enchanting portrait.
Ada or Ardor
'A great work of art, radiant and rapturous, affirming the power of love and imagination' The New York Times Book Review
Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross continents, are continually parted and reunited, come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship and, decades later, put their extraordinary experiences into words.
Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, Nabokov's longest, richest novel is a love story, but also a fairy tale, a historical parody, an erotic satire, an exploration of the passing of time and a supreme work of the imagination.
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