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Magritte
This is not a book: Everyday enigma from Belgium's leading Surrealist From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe,"Rene Magritte (1898 1967)created an echo-chamber of object and image, name and thing, reality and representation.Like other Surrealist works, Magritte's paintings combine a precise, mimetic technique with abnormal, alienating configurations which defy the laws of scale, logic, and science: A comb the height of a wardrobe, rocks that float in the sky, clouds that drift through an open door. The result is a direct yet disorientating realm, often witty, often unsettling, and always prompting us to look beyond the visible, to what is hidden by what we see. This introductory book explores Magritte's vast repertoire ofvisual humor, paradox, and surprisewhich to this day makes us look and look again, not only at the painting, but at our sense of self and the world. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN s Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions "
The Mysterious Correspondent New Stories
New writing from the literary master
Throughout Proust's life, nine of his short stories remained unseen - the writer never even spoke of them. Perhaps he was not ready to share the early themes he was nurturing for his masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. Or perhaps, in dealing directly with gay desire, they were too audacious - too near to life - for the censorious society of the time.
In these stories, published in English for the first time, we find an intimate portrait of a young author full of darkness, complexity and melancholy, longing to reveal himself to the world.
Cities of the Plain (Sodom and Gomorrah)
In this fourth volume, Proust’s novel takes up for the first time the theme of homosexual love and examines how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Sodom and Gomorrah is also an unforgiving analysis of both the decadent high society of Paris and the rise of a philistine bourgeoisie that will inevitably supplant it.
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Fantômas
Fantômas was introduced a few years after Arsene Lupin, another well-known thief. But whereas Lupin draws the line at murder, Fantômas has no such qualms and is shown as a sociopath who enjoys killing in a sadistic fashion.He is totally ruthless, gives no mercy, and is loyal to none, not even his own children. He is a master of disguise, always appearing under an assumed identity, often that of a person whom he has murdered. Fantômas makes use of bizarre and improbable techniques in his crimes, such as plague-infested rats, giant snakes, and rooms that fill with sand.
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The Captive
In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her.
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Swann's Way
The definitive translation of one of the greatest French novels of the twentieth century
In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette provides a prophetic model of the narrator's own relationships. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form.
THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATION
The best translation available: 'A really major, significant achievement, and one that you should put on your Christmas list immediately' Guardian
VINTAGE FRENCH CLASSICS - six masterpieces of French fiction in collectable editions.
Iceland
Iceland is an island of multiple identities in constant flux, just like its unruly, volcanic ground. Shaped as much by storytelling as it is by tectonic activity, Iceland's literary heritage is one of Europe's richest - and most ancient.
Iceland: A Literary Guide for Travellers takes the literary-minded traveller (either in person or in an armchair) on a vivid and illuminating journey. It follows Iceland's many stories that have been passed down through the generations: told and retold by sheep farmers, psalm-writers, travelling reverends, independence fighters, scholars and hedonists. From the captivating Norse myths, which continue to inspire contemporary authors such as A.S. Byatt, to gripping Scandinavian crime fiction and Game of Thrones, via Jules Verne and J.R.R Tolkien, W.H. Auden and Seamus Heaney, Iceland's influence has spread far beyond its frozen shores.
Peopled by Norse maidens and witches, elves and outlaws and taking the reader and traveller from Reykjavik and the Bay of Smokes to the remote Westfjords and desolate highlands, this is an enthralling portrait of the Land of Ice and Fire.
High Mountains of Portugal
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Lost in Portugal. Lost to grief. With nothing but a chimpanzee. The extraordinary new novel from the author of Life of Pi. In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomas discovers an old journal. It hints at the location of an extraordinary artefact that - if it exists - would redefine history. Travelling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this treasure. Some thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist finds himself at the centre of a murder mystery. Fifty years on, a Canadian senator takes refuge in northern Portugal, grieving the loss of his beloved wife. But he comes to his ancestral village with an unusual companion: a chimpanzee. The High Mountains of Portugal takes the reader on a road trip through Portugal in the last century - and through the human soul.
A Royal Prisoner
The daring exploits of Fantômas in his attempts to get possession of the King of Hesse-Weimar's famous diamond.
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Son of Nobody
THE READS TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2026 - TimesBOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2026 - Guardian2026 FICTION HIGHLIGHTS - ObserverWHAT TO READ IN 2026 - Financial TimesBOOKS YOU NEED TO READ IN 2026 - BBC CultureTHE MOST HYPED BOOKS WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ IN 2026 - Elle MagazineThe past is never done with: always the song continues Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford University, he seizes it. Though it means leaving his daughter and fracturing marriage back home in Canada, this is the kind of career break he desperately needs. In the depths of the Bodleian Library, Harlow discovers a lost account of the Trojan War, a glimpse into the founding of Western civilization itself. He names the epic poem The Psoad, after its protagonist, a Greek commoner identified as Psoas of Midea but known to all as 'son of nobody'. As sole translator and interpreter of the Psoad, Harlow dedicates the poem and its modern footnotes to his daughter, Helen. Under his gaze, the text unlocks echoes of Ancient Greece into the present day, and a personal message to his beloved child appears. Despite the three-thousand-year gap between the two, a thread hasn't frayed: the universal song of homesickness and regret, of ambition and grief. In this masterpiece of myth and history, Son of Nobody explores how stories become facts, the price we pay to share them and how we live - then, now and always.
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 1
One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three volumes
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's famous translation from the 1920s is today regarded as a classic in its own right and is now available in three volumes in Penguin Classics.
This first volume includes Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove.
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 2
One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three volumes
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's famous translation from the 1920s is today regarded as a classic in its own right and is now available in three volumes in Penguin Classics.
This second volume includes The Guermantes Way and Cities of the Plain.
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 3
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's famous translation from the 1920s is today regarded as a classic in its own right and is now available in three volumes in Penguin Classics.
This third volume includes The Captive, The Sweet Cheat Gone and Time Regained.
In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom
''I was at one of those periods in youth--vacant, without any particular love object--when, like a lover seeing his beloved in all things, we desire, we seek, we see Beauty everywhere.''In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom, the second volume of Proust''s In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), is a novel of exploration and (self-) discovery, continuing the story of the narrator''s youth and adolescence. From the enclosed spaces of the fin-de-siecle social world that revolves around Madame Swann, we move to the fictional town of Balbec on the Normandy coast, a place where the social classes intermingle with mutual fascination. Against the ever-changing backdrop of the sea--a constant reminder of beauty, mutability, and the vastness of the world beyond individual human affairs--the narrator encounters individuals who will shape his experience and indelibly colour his outlook on that world. He finds a friend in the aristocratic Robert de Saint-Loup and is perplexed by his enigmatic uncle the Baron de Charlus; he finds a tutelary figure in Elstir, the gifted, idiosyncratic painter; and in Albertine he comes to recognise the blossoming girl who will become the love--and the bane--of his life. The novel provides a breath-taking illumination of what it is to encounter beauty and to seek to understand our relation to it, in people, in experiences, in art, or the landscape around us. An exploration of the thrills of infatuation, the fallibility of perception, and how desire builds and ebbs, the narrative prepares readers for the love affair that will define the narrator''s future existence and shape the volumes of In Search of Lost Time to come.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Snový život Paní Psyché
Kniha přináší literární záznamy snů z let 1949 až 2013. Autor si své sny začal zaznamenávat z podnětu básníka Jana Kameníka (Ludmily Maceškové) a stejně jako ona se ze studia a pochopení vlastních snů snažil dobrat duchovní podstaty světa a dát co nejpoctivější podobu své životní mystické Cestě. Marcel Kabát (* 1927) pracoval po několika krátkodobých zaměstnáních v účtárně nakladatelství Melanrich (1946–51), v letech 1951–58 byl pomocným dělníkem a posléze úředníkem v Elektromontážních závodech, od roku 1958 až do důchodu pracoval opět v Melantrichu. Vydal prozaické knihy Ten kouzelný čas dětství (1974), Štvanci (1985) a knihu deníkových zápisků a úvah Reflexe (2010). S Janem Kameníkem napsal v padesátých let drama Propast, které dosud nebylo vydáno ani inscenováno. K vydání připravil a doslovem doprovodil knihu Jana Kameníka Mystické deníky (1995).
Kaltenburg
V románu Kaltenburg na pozadí nedávné historie NDR vypráví Marcel Beyer o spletitých cestách lidských životů a osudů. Kaltenburg byl významný ornitolog a etolog, který po válce založil v Drážďanech výzkumný ústav. Byl to také výstřední člověk, který byl schopen opustit osobní auto se Stasi-řidičem a raději jezdil na motocyklu. A pro Hermanna Funka, který během bombardování Drážďan přišel o rodiče, se stal jakýmsi náhradním otcem. Po mnoha letech, už jako starý člověk, Funk vzpomíná na založení institutu, na půl století historie NDR, ale také na náhlé zmizení Kaltenburga po vybudování berlínské zdi a jeho patrně nejtemnější kapitolu života.
Román Kaltenburg byl vřele přijatý jak čtenářskou obcí, tak i kritikou; v roce 2008 obdržel prestižní ocenění Joseph-Breitbach-Preis.
Autor uznávaný německý básník a romanopisec, držitel prestižní Büchnerovy ceny 2016, se nejvíce proslavil románem o dceři nacistického ministra propagandy Josepha Goebbelse Flughunde, jenž byl přeložen také do angličtiny.
Řím. A všude na dosah je krása
Řím je jedno z nejpůvabnějších měst světa. Věčné ve své kráse a krásné ve své dlouhověkosti. V jeho ulicích se prolíná historie, architektonické skvosty, spiritualita, dobré jídlo i vřelí lidé. Krásu a život zde naleznete doslova na každém rohu.
Kde ale začít? Na prohlídku města se nejprve naladíme krátkými úvodními eseji, které nás seznámí s poetikou italských gest, půvabných zdrobnělin i místní gastronomie, která lahodí oku i chuti. Následně se vydáme na 16 různých tras, které autor sám opakovaně procházel a prozkoumával. Ty nás zavedou na všeobecně známá, ale hlavně neznámá, ojedinělá místa, do vináren, kaváren, kin, na náměstí, do skrytých zákoutí, k rozmanitým výlohám i kostelům.
Řím. A všude na dosah je krása není typický turistický průvodce, překypující informacemi a daty, spíše přibližuje svébytnou živoucí atmosféru, která je Římu vlastní, a inspiruje k návštěvě míst, jež byste mohli na svých cestách snadno přehlédnout. Marcel Sauer v Římě prožil čtyři roky, během nichž tuto italskou metropoli dobře poznal ve všech jejích vrstvách.
Knihu doprovázejí četné fotografie, slovníček krásných slov, výběr toho nejlepšího, co lze v Římě zažít, a dokonce i recept na dokonalé špagety carbonara.
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A Vatikán kínos titkai
„A papságon belüli homoszexualitás nagyon komoly kérdés, ami aggodalommal tölt el." - Ferenc pápa. Papi cölibátus, az óvszerhasználattal szembeni egyházi tilalom, a szexuális visszaélések rendszeres eltussolása, XVI. Benedek pápa lemondása, a klérus nőgyűlölete, a papi hivatások számának drasztikus visszaesése, a Ferenc pápa elleni áskálódások - Frédéric Martel szerint ezeket a jelenségeket egyetlen titok köti össze, mely sokáig kimondhatatlan volt. A neve: Szodoma. A bibliai Szodoma városát a hagyomány szerint Isten azért pusztította el, mert lakosai homoszexuális gyakorlatot folytattak. Csakhogy korunkban éppenséggel a Vatikánon belül található a világ egyik legnagyobb homoszexuális közössége. A francia szerző négy éven át belülről követte a Vatikán életét és nagyjából harminc országra kiterjedően folytatta nyomozásait. Több tucat kardinálisnak tette fel kérdéseit, több száz püspökkel és pappal találkozott. Könyve, A Vatikán kínos titkai, az egyház rejtett oldalát tárja fel: azt a legkisebb papi szemináriumoktól a Vatikánig felépülő rendszert, amelyet egyszerre jellemez a homoszexuális kettős életvitel és a legradikálisabb homofóbia. A katolikus egyház Martel állítása szerint mélyen skizofrén: minél nyíltabban homofób egy papi méltóság a társadalom előtt, annál valószínűbb, hogy a magánéletében homoszexuális.
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Kaltenburg
Végre magyarul is olvasható Marcel Beyer nagy sikerű regénye, amelyben a Nobel-díjas Konrad Lorenz alakja elevenedik meg. Hermann Funk először gyerekként, az 1930-as években találkozik apja barátjával, a kiváló zoológussal, Lorenzzel, vagyis Ludwig Kaltenburggal. Az apa és a tudós barátsága azonban egy nap minden magyarázat nélkül megszakad. A második világháború kitörésekor a Funk családnak sikerül elmenekülnie Poznańból Drezdába, ám a város lebombázását csak Hermann éli túl. Az '50-es években, immár felnőttként találkozik újra Kaltenburggal, aki munkát ad neki az intézetében, amely leginkább madártani kutatásokkal foglalkozik. Ám a zoológus háborús múltja körül egyre több lesz a kérdés, és Hermann kételkedni kezd, hogy a szeretett férfi talán nem is az, akinek addig gondolta. Beyer regényében Lorenz mellett számos ismerős figura felbukkan, például a világhírű természetfotós és természetfilmes, Heinz Sielmann, valamint Joseph Beuys performansz- és szobrászművész. A Kaltenburg nagyívű történet hűségről, szenvedélyről és barátságról ember és ember, ember és állat között.
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