wyszukanych pozycji: 18
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Nietzsche's Kisses
ISBN: 9781573661270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Nietzsche's Kisses is the story of Friedrich Nietzsche's last mad night on earth. Locked in a small room on the top floor of a house in Weimar, the most radical and influential of nineteenth-century German philosophers hovers between dream and wakefulness, memory and hallucination, the first person, second, and third, past and present, reliving his brief love affair with feminist Lou Salome, his stormy association with Richard Wagner, and his conflicted relationship with Lisbeth, his radibly anti-Semitic sister. Here is an authoritative portrait of the Nietzsche we know and the...
Nietzsche's Kisses is the story of Friedrich Nietzsche's last mad night on earth. Locked in a small room on the top floor of a house in Weimar,...
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73,27 |
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Head in Flames
ISBN: 9780998403748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Head in Flames is an astonishing collage novel composed of chips of sensation, observation, memory, and quotation shaped into a series of narraticules told by three alternating voices, each inhabiting a different font and aesthetic / political / existential space. The first belongs to Vincent van Gogh on the day he shot himself in Auverssur-Oise in July 1890. The second to Theo van Gogh (Vincent’s brother’s great grandson) on the day he was assassinated in Amsterdam in November 2004. The third to Mohammed Bouyeri, Theo’s murderer, outraged by the... Head in Flames is an astonishing collage novel composed of chips of sensation, observation, memory, and quotation shaped into a series of ... |
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56,98 |
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Always Crashing in the Same Car: A Novel After David Bowie
ISBN: 9781573661997 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A prismatic, imaginative exploration of David Bowie’s last daysAn intricate collage-novel fusing and confusing fact and imagination, Always Crashing in the Same Car is a prismatic exploration of David Bowie through multiple voices and perspectives—the protean musician himself, an academic trying to compose a critical monograph about him, friends, lovers, musicologists, and others in Bowie’s orbit. At its core beat questions about how we read others, how we are read by them, how (if at all) we can tell the past with something even close to accuracy, what it feels like being the opposite...
A prismatic, imaginative exploration of David Bowie’s last daysAn intricate collage-novel fusing and confusing fact and imagination, Always Crashing...
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73,27 |
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Girl Imagined by Chance
ISBN: 9781573661034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Girl Imagined by Chanceis a critifictional novel about a couple who find themselves having created a make-believe daughter (and soon a make-believe life to accompany her) in order to appease their friends, family, and the culture of reproduction. Structured around twelve photographs from a single roll of film, the bookexplores the nature of photography and the questions that nature raises about the notions of the simulated and the real, the media-ization of consciouness, originality, self construction, and the way we all continually fashion our faces into masks for the next shot. At...
Girl Imagined by Chanceis a critifictional novel about a couple who find themselves having created a make-believe daughter (and soon a make-bel...
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87,93 |
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Calendar of Regrets
ISBN: 9781573661577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Calendar of Regrets is a wildly inventive and visually rich collage of twelve interconnected narratives, one for each month of the year, all pertaining to notions of travel--through time, space, narrative, and death. The poisoning of the painter Hieronymus Bosch; anchorman Dan Rather's mysterious mugging on Park Avenue as he strolls home alone one October evening; a series of postcard meditations on the idea of travel from a young American journalist visiting Burma; a husband-and-wife team of fundamentalist Christian suicide bombers; the myth of Iphigenia from Agamemnon's...
Calendar of Regrets is a wildly inventive and visually rich collage of twelve interconnected narratives, one for each month of the year, all pe...
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112,37 |
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Theories of Forgetting
ISBN: 9781573661799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Theories of Forgetting is concerned with how words matter, the materiality of the page, and how a literary work might react against mass reproduction and textual disembodiment in the digital age--right from its use of two back covers (one "upside down" and one "right-side up") that allow the reader to choose which of the novel's two narratives to privilege.
Theories of Forgetting is a narrative in three parts. The first is the story of Alana, a filmmaker struggling to complete a short documentary about Robert Smithson s famous earthwork, The Spiral Jetty, located where the... Theories of Forgetting is concerned with how words matter, the materiality of the page, and how a literary work might react against mass reprod...
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87,93 |
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10: 01
ISBN: 9780998403731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Set in an AMC theater in the iconic Mall of America, 10:01 drops into and out of the various minds of the audience members during the few minutes before the feature rolls, sampling various filmic genres (horror, magical realism, SF, the love story, porn, and much more) as it speeds toward an apocalyptic conclusion called our society of the spectacle. Set in an AMC theater in the iconic Mall of America, 10:01 drops into and out of the various minds of the audience members during the few ... |
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56,98 |
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My Adventurous Times In Antarctica
ISBN: 9781922792235 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
186,72 |
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Absolute Away
ISBN: 9781950539956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
cena:
65,53 |
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My Adventurous Times In Antarctica
ISBN: 9781922792211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
152,42 |
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Sewing Shut My Eyes
ISBN: 9781573660839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Sewing Shut My Eyes is a tour-de-force avant-pop anti-spectacle nine darkly satiric out-takes of America tubing. Visions of mid-air synchronicities, robotic cockroaches, cyborg poets and one monstrous HDTV, all rendered in a hypo-manic style of electrified clauses and full-throttle patter. Here's Mona Sausalito, self-proclaimed "fricking gorgeous" bad-little-girl for Escort a la Mode and, on the side, Neogoth lyricist in the band of her boyfriend Mosh ("His real name is Marvin Goldstein"). Mona wants to be a poet. "I write about human sacrifices, cannibalism, vampires, and stuff. Mosh...
Sewing Shut My Eyes is a tour-de-force avant-pop anti-spectacle nine darkly satiric out-takes of America tubing. Visions of mid-air synchronici...
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73,27 |
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There's No Place Like Time: A Retrospective
ISBN: 9781941423936 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. There s No Place Like Time is a strange beast: a fictional catalogue of a real retrospective of experimental films by a videographer who never existed. A collection of critical and biographical essays, stills, and reminiscences about Alana Olsen s (a character who first appeared in Lance Olsen s novel Theories of Forgetting) powerful body of work produced in relative anonymity, There s No Place Like Time remembers an oeuvre of fewer than 30 videos that span roughly four decades and have influenced artists as varied as Lars von Trier, Douglas Gordon, and Martin... There s No Place Like Time is a strange beast: a fictional catalogue of a real retrospective of experimental films by a videographer who nev... |
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63,49 |
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William Gibson
ISBN: 9781557421982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Lance Olsens discerning critique was the first extended study ever published on the work of William Gibson, whose mindbending science fiction novel, Neuromancer (1984), created the subgenre of Cyberpunk, and became the first novel to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards for best SF novel of the year. Olsen covers Gibsons major early works, including Neuromancer, Burning Chrome, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive. Complete with bibliography, notes, and index.
Lance Olsens discerning critique was the first extended study ever published on the work of William Gibson, whose mindbending science fiction novel, N...
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63,99 |
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Shrapnel: Contemplations
ISBN: 9798986547923 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,17 |
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Ellipse of Uncertainty: An Introduction to Postmodern Fantasy
ISBN: 9780313255113 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 145 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This fascinating study of literary theory is the first work of its kind to examine the intersection of fantasy and postmodernism, and to analyze contemporary fantasy writers comparatively. After carefully developing working definitions of postmodernism and fantasy, the author goes on to analyze works by various postmodernist fantasy writers. Olsen's approach is eclectic, bringing to each text or textual complex those forces he feels most interestingly stir up its sediment--be they biographical, structural, psychoanalytic, philosophical, reader-response, or otherwise. Finally he argues that... This fascinating study of literary theory is the first work of its kind to examine the intersection of fantasy and postmodernism, and to analyze co... |
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298,41 |
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Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing
ISBN: 9781935738190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Architectures of Possibility" theorizes and questions the often unconscious assumptions behind such traditional writing gestures as temporality, scene, and characterization; offers various suggestions for generating writing that resists, rethinks, and challenges authors to push their work into self-aware and surprising territory.
"Architectures of Possibility" theorizes and questions the often unconscious assumptions behind such traditional writing gestures as temporality, scen...
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85,17 |
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How to Unfeel the Dead: New and Selected Fictions
ISBN: 9781551281803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Praise for Lance Olsens Fiction: ""In the world of contemporary fiction, Lance Olsen is a rock star."" -Brooklyn Rail
""Olsen is a master of an evocative, expressive prose.""-Publishers Weekly Lance Olsens more than 20 books of and about experimental fiction include the novels Theories of Forgetting (2014), Calendar of Regrets (2010), Head in Flames (2009), Nietzsches Kisses (2006), and Girl Imagined by Chance (2002), as well as the anti-textbook Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing (2012) and critifictional... Praise for Lance Olsens Fiction: ""In the world of contemporary fiction, Lance Olsen is a rock star."" -Brooklyn Rail ...
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cena:
97,98 |
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Our Adventurous Times in Antarctica
ISBN: 9781922920300 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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297,26 |