wyszukanych pozycji: 5
A Typographic Abecedarium
ISBN: 9781909631007 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Letterforms are an inseparable part of a civilized literary landscape. At some distant point in history, letters started as representations of things in the world. Then, gradually, through a complex evolutionary process, they came to be defined as the closed shapes of a writing system. This photo-typographic essay is a meditation on this remarkable transition.
Exploring the relationship between typography and the visual world around us, the essay looks at the twenty-six letters of the English version of the Roman alphabet in four manners: as the world presenting itself in the shape of a... Letterforms are an inseparable part of a civilized literary landscape. At some distant point in history, letters started as representations of things ...
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99,41 zł |
Pushpa: A photographic essay in which cut flowers are coupled with Indian and South-east Asian sculptures and reliefs
ISBN: 9781909631380 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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132,55 zł |
Days Bygone: The Cahier Series 7
ISBN: 9780955296376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Four excerpts from Rachel Shihor s novella "Yankinton" have been selected, and translated from the Hebrew for this cahier. These poignant and humorous tales are as much about the act of recollection as they are about the remembered Tel Aviv of the 1940s. In a playful and yet muted style, Shihor tells of the everyday life of a child beginning to grasp her surroundings. Six works by the painter David Hendler further explore the city."
Four excerpts from Rachel Shihor s novella "Yankinton" have been selected, and translated from the Hebrew for this cahier. These poignant and humorous...
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Stalin Is Dead: Stories and aphorisms on animals, poets and other earthly cr
ISBN: 9781909631144 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this playfully designed dual-language edition, Rachel Shihor s stories published here for the first time in the original Hebrew appear alongside Ornan Rotem s English translation. Shihor offers a medley of aphorisms, flash fiction, and short stories, carving out a slice of a world in which Kafka would feel at home. The characters that inhabit this world reckless she-goats, morose fish, somnambulistic theologians, and poignant old ladies, not to mention dying dictators and dead poets have nothing in common save for the fact that they instruct us on the human condition.
In her... In this playfully designed dual-language edition, Rachel Shihor s stories published here for the first time in the original Hebrew appear alongside Or...
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82,85 zł |
The Manhattan Project: A Photo Essay and Literary Diary
ISBN: 9781909631236 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Internationally celebrated Hungarian novelist Laszlo Krasznahorkai has been heralded by Susan Sontag as the Hungarian master of the apocalypse and compared favorably to Gogol by W. G. Sebald. A new work by Krasznahorkai is always an event, and The Manhattan Project is no less. As part of Krasznahorkai s fellowship at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, he has been working on a novella inspired by a reading of Moby-Dick. Yet, as he follows in Herman Melville s footsteps, a second book alongside the original novella took...
Internationally celebrated Hungarian novelist Laszlo Krasznahorkai has been heralded by Susan Sontag as the Hungarian master of the apocalypse and com...
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176,74 zł |