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Tuck's work is an attempt at the rehabilitation of Karl Radek, a sidekick of Lenin's who fell victim to Stalin's vengeance in the 1930s. Though not a full-scale academic biography, it is satisfying and fast-moving without being superficial, and offers an intellectually intriguing thesis. . . . Where others have seen betrayal, Tuck sees Radek the mischief maker. Although Radek implicated many guiltless people and testified to lies, Tuck argues Radek's performance was a master stroke of mischief making, turning the tables against Vyshinsky, showing up and revealing the truth about the show...

The first biography in any language of one of the most celebrated Italian writers of the twentieth century.

Born in 1912 to an unconventional family of modest means, Elsa Morante grew up with an independent spirit, a formidable will, and an unshakable commitment to writing. Forced to hide from the Fascists during World War II in a remote mountain hut with her husband, renowned author Alberto Moravia, she re-emerged at war's end to take her place among the premier Italian writers of her day. When Rome was film capital of the world, she counted Pasolini, Visconti, and the young...

Lily, Molly, and Inez are women of a certain age, of a certain bearing, of a certain class. Late one dire night, Molly telephones from Connecticut to catch Lily up with the news: Inez's corpse -- near-naked but wearing boots -- has been discovered propped up "like a broom" in a corner of her Soho loft. It is an occasion ripe for an all-night heart-to-heart conversation, bouncing deliriously from one evasion to the next -- until the pair of talk-crazy, talk-weary women have successfully diverted themselves with all the wonderfully vagrant stuff of life . . . with everything, in fact, except...

Auch in den beschleunigten Lebenswelten von heute gibt es Spuren des Heiligen: Momente, in denen der säkulare Horizont über sich selbst hinausweist, Erfahrungen menschlicher Selbsttranszendenz, die klar machen, dass das, was ist, nicht alles ist. In Kunst, Literatur, Musik und Architektur lässt sich ein Vorschein der Fülle erfahren.

Um den Sinn für die kulturelle Präsenz des Heiligen zu schärfen, gehen die Miniaturen des vorliegenden Buches verstreuten Spuren des Heiligen nach. Es handelt sich um Skizzen einer experimentellen Theologie, die Alltagsbeobachtungen und...