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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories
ISBN: 9780316925419 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.
Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person, ' a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World, ' which reveals a woman's agonized consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, ' a dark, hilarious... In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and sedu...
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137,21 |
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The Pale King
ISBN: 9780316177931 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 960 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has.
The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply... The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he...
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236,31 |
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Puerto Rican Literature: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources
ISBN: 9780313234194 / Angielski / Twarda / 1982 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Product information not available.
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284,13 |
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Girl with Curious Hair
ISBN: 9780393313963 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily "real," almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lyndon Johnson and overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians to the title story, where terminal punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism, Wallace renders the incredible comprehensible, the bizarre normal, the absurd hilarious, the familiar strange.
Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily "real," al...
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68,66 |
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Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
ISBN: 9780292705371 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Viewing contemporary Latin American films through the lens of queer studies reveals that many filmmakers are exploring issues of gender identity and sexual difference, as well as the homophobia that attempts to defeat any challenge to the heterosexual norms of patriarchal culture. In this study of queer issues in Latin American cinema, David William Foster offers highly perceptive queer readings of fourteen key films to demonstrate how these cultural products promote the principles of an antiheterosexist stance while they simultaneously disclose how homophobia enforces the norms of... Viewing contemporary Latin American films through the lens of queer studies reveals that many filmmakers are exploring issues of gender identity an... |
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73,56 |
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The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
ISBN: 9780316074223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has. The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply...
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he...
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95,25 |
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Girl with Curious Hair
ISBN: 9780393027570 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jennifer Levin, New York Times Book Review).
Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jennifer Levin, New York Times Book Re...
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201,97 |
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Gender and Society in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
ISBN: 9780292725102 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Gender is an absolute ground zero for most human societies," writes David William Foster, "an absolute horizon of social subjectivity." In this book, he examines gender issues in thirteen Brazilian films made (with one exception) after the 1985 return to constitutional democracy and elimination of censorship to show how these issues arise from and comment on the sociohistorical reality of contemporary Brazilian society. Foster organizes his study around three broad themes: construction of masculinity, constructions of feminine and feminist identities, and same-sex positionings and... "Gender is an absolute ground zero for most human societies," writes David William Foster, "an absolute horizon of social subjectivity." In this bo... |
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73,56 |
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String Theory: David Foster Wallace On Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication
ISBN: 9781598534801 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An instant classic of American sportswriting the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, the best mind of his generation (A. O. Scott) and the best tennis-writer of all time (New York Times)
Gathered for the first time in a deluxe collector's edition, here are David Foster Wallace's legendary writings on tennis, five tour-de-force pieces written with a competitor's insight and a fan's obsessive enthusiasm. Wallace brings his dazzling literary magic to the game he loved as he celebrates the other-worldly genius of Roger Federer; offers a wickedly witty disection of... An instant classic of American sportswriting the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, the best mind of his generation (A. O. Scott) and the best ...
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83,66 |
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Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women: A Biographical Dictionary
ISBN: 9780313311123 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women" is a powerful testimony to the outstanding contributions 72 of the most noteworthy women have made to their fields and to society. This volume covers a broad range of women excelling in the fields of politics, art, religion, government, education, literature, popular culture, and the sciences, with substantial, up-to-date biographical and career overviews. Many notables are international figures, such as former Nicaraguan President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Cuban Queen of Salsa Celia Cruz, and Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Others, such as... "Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women" is a powerful testimony to the outstanding contributions 72 of the most noteworthy women have made... |
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335,79 |
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The Two Wings of Catholic Thought: Essays on Fides Et Ratio
ISBN: 9780813213026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. John Paul's choice to yoke faith and reason together in an encyclical on the two sources of knowledge caught the world's By stressing the two wings of Catholic thought, the pope captures in the lively image of a soaring bird the same point that theologians like von Balthasar communicate by calling truth symphonic. This work aims to deepen the appreciation for the stereophonic approach to truth that the Holy Father recommends. The essays are in three sections: doctrinal themes; contemporary implications; and historical aspects. In the first, Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., discusses the 20th...
John Paul's choice to yoke faith and reason together in an encyclical on the two sources of knowledge caught the world's By stressing the two wings of...
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93,20 |
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Girl With Curious Hair
ISBN: 9780349111025 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In these stories, the author renders the bizarre normal and the absurd hilarious, from the eerily real, almost holographic evocations of historical figures, to overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians. In the title story, punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism.
In these stories, the author renders the bizarre normal and the absurd hilarious, from the eerily real, almost holographic evocations of historical fi...
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55,58 |
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Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
ISBN: 9780316156110 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This brilliant and hilarious new collection of essays is offered by the award-winning author of the bestselling "Infinite Jest."
This brilliant and hilarious new collection of essays is offered by the award-winning author of the bestselling "Infinite Jest."
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148,65 |
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Infinite Jest
ISBN: 9780349121086 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 1104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. * The cult novel by one of America's most acclaimed authors, reissued with a fresh new jacket look
* The cult novel by one of America's most acclaimed authors, reissued with a fresh new jacket look
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85,91 |
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
ISBN: 9780316925280 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.
In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the fil...
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76,19 |
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The David Foster Wallace Reader
ISBN: 9780241961964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 976 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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96,02 |
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The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
ISBN: 9780316074230 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "The Pale King" remained unfinished at the time of Wallace's death, but it is a deeply intriguing and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with questions of life's meaning and of the ultimate value of work and family.
"The Pale King" remained unfinished at the time of Wallace's death, but it is a deeply intriguing and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as ...
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179,14 |
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Peruvian Literature: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources
ISBN: 9780313230974 / Angielski / Twarda / 1981 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Product information not available.
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335,79 |
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The David Foster Wallace Reader
ISBN: 9780316182409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 976 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here--with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work--essays like his famous cruise-ship piece, "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," excerpts from his novels "The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, "and "The Pale King, "and legendary stories like "The Depressed Person."
Wallace's explorations of morality,... Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here--with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary b...
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95,25 |
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Zapomnění
ISBN: 9788087705865 / Czeski / Miękka / 2022 / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Svůj poslední soubor povídek Zapomnění psal David Foster Wallace paralelně s již nedokončeným románem Bledý král. Kniha vyšla roku 2004. Témata osobní identity a možností porozumění i sebeporozumění se ve Wallaceových textech prolínají s nejsoučasnějšími technikami ovlivňování a vnější prezentace a kladou – nevyslovenou, snad i nevyslovitelnou? – otázku, na co jsme vlastně zapomněli.
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) patřil k nejoriginálnějším anglicky píšícím autorům přelomu tisíciletí. Proslul především románem Nekonečný... Svůj poslední soubor povídek Zapomnění psal David Foster Wallace paralelně s již nedokončeným románem Bledý král. Kniha vyšla roku 2004. ...
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