For sheer abundance of talent, there can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V. S. Naipaul. [He is] the world’s writer, a master of language and perception.–The New York Times Book Review A superlative traveler who misses nothing worth the record.–The Times (London) Beyond Belief is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time: the effects of the Islamic conversion of Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia. It is not a book of opinion. It is–in the Naipaul way–a very rich and human book, full of people and stories. Islam is an Arab religion, and it makes imperial Arabizing demands on its converts. In this way it is more than a private faith, and it can become a neurosis. What has this Arab Islam done to the histories of these converted countries? How do the converted peoples, non-Arabs, view their past–and their future? In a follow-up to Among the Believers, his classic account of his travels through these countries, V. S. Naipaul returns after seventeen years to find out how and what the converted preach. In Indonesia he finds a pastoral people who have lost their history through a confluence of Islam and technology. In Iran he discovers a religious tyranny as oppressive as the secular one of the Shah, and he meets people weary of the religious rules that govern every aspect of their lives. Pakistan–in a tragic realization of a Muslim re-creation fantasy–inherited blood feuds, rotting palaces, antique cruelty; then President Zia installed religious terror with $100 million of Saudi money. In Malaysia, the Muslim Youth organization is alive and growing, and the people are mentally, physically, and geographically torn between two worlds, struggling to live the impossible dream of a true faith born out of a spiritual vacancy. A startling and revelatory addition to the Naipaul canon, Beyond Belief confirms the author’s reputation as a masterly observer, a finder-out of stories, as well as a magnificent teller of them.
The inside story of the decline of the Wall Street Journal chronicles the internal power struggles and ineptitude that threaten to bring the newspaper down. By the author of Win at Any Cost: The Sellout of College Athletics. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.
Na srpskom (ćirilicom) i engleskom (latinicom) jeziku.
U ovom izdanju u cijelosti se donose četiri knjige i knjižice romantičarskoga pjesnika, vrsna putopisca i zdušna borca za hrvatska nacionalna prava, fra Ivana Despota iz Zaostroga: Pisma o izborih gornjoprimorskih, zbirka Prve iskre, putopis Put na Lovćen te knjiga proze i stihova Malo zrnja. Uvršten je i izbor radova objavljenih u književnoj periodici. Izbor i predgovor: Nedjeljko Mihanović.
Zbornik radova znanstvenog skupa s međunarodnim sudjelovanjem.
This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of twentieth-century writers, finally allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life and the depths of his art. An intensely private man, Nabokov was uprooted first by the Russian Revolution and then by World War II. Transformed into a permanent wanderer, he did not achieve fame until late in life, with the success of Lolita. In this first of two volumes, Brian Boyd vividly describes the liberal milieu of the aristocratic Nabokovs, their escape from Russia, Nabokov’s education at Cambridge, and the murder of his father in Berlin. Boyd then turns to the years that Nabokov spent, impoverished, in Germany and France, until the coming of Hitler forced him to flee, with wife and son, to the United States. This volume stands on its own as a fascinating exploration of Nabokov’s Russian years and Russian worlds, prerevolutionary and émigré. In the course of his ten years’ work on the biography, Boyd traveled along Nabokov’s trail everywhere from Yalta to Palo Alto. The only scholar to have had free access to the Nabokov archives in Montreux and the Library of Congress, he also interviewed at length Nabokov’s family and scores of his friends and associates. For the general reader, Boyd offers an introduction to Nabokov the man, his works, and his world. For the specialist, he provides a basis for all future research on Nabokov’s life and art, as he dates and describes the composition of all Nabokov’s works, published and unpublished. Boyd investigates Nabokov’s relation to and his independence from his time, examines the special structures of his mind and thought, and explains the relations between his philosophy and his innovations of literary strategy and style. At the same time he provides succinct introductions to all the fiction, dramas, memoirs, and major verse; presents detailed analyses of the major books that break new ground for the scholar, while providing easy paths into the works for other readers; and shows the relationship between Nabokov’s life and the themes and subjects of his art.
Provides a detailed portrait of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha who overcame sarcasm and ridicule after his investiture as Prince of Bulgaria to rule his country amid the turbulent political and diplomatic climate of turn-of-the-century Europe.
Vrhunski tim istražitelja – šesnaestogodišnji forenzičar nepogrešivog detektivskog instinkta Luke Harding i njegova desna ruka robot Malc naći će se pred novom zagonetkom. Naime, morat će istražiti veliki broj sumnjivih smrtnih slučajeva u bolnici York, gdje će Luke upoznati i vlastita oca, koji tu radi kao liječnik. Međutim, taj će susret biti daleko od sretnog obiteljskog okupljanja jer će uskoro na mjestu zločina pronaći očev DNK… Napeti triler s elementima fantastike, napisan iz pera ovog suvremenog američkog autora koji je poznat kao pisac dječjih trilera.
Depuis longtemps, j’avais envie de construire un enfer. Je mesurais pourtant ce qu’avait d’ambitieux et meme de chimérique un pareil projet a la suite des anonymes égyptiens, de Virgile, saint Augustin, et surtout Dante… , a raconté Ismail Kadaré a propos de ce roman qu’on peut considérer comme son chef-d’oeuvre. Rejeton d’une illustre famille de grands serviteurs de l’Etat, Mark-Alem est embauché par la plus secrete, la plus puissante, la plus terrifiante institution qui se puisse imaginer: une administration chargée de collecter, jusque dans les provinces les plus reculées, les songes de tout un chacun, de les rassembler en un lieu unique, puis de les trier, de les classer, de les interpréter, afin d’isoler ces maîtres-reves dans lesquels le destin de l’Empire et de son tyran pourra etre déchiffré. Mission dantesque que celle de drainer et centraliser l’inconscient collectif de tout un pays! Tâche kafkaienne que celle de passer au crible ces millions d’allégories et d’énigmes nocturnes, dans la terreur de laisser échapper celle qui permettra de connaître et conjurer les menaces a venir! Cercle apres cercle, Mark-Alem est promu dans les instances concentriques de ce haut lieu de pouvoir, jusqu’a en devenir le maître tout-puissant. Mais un maître hanté par la crainte d’etre a son tour broyé par la bureaucratie infernale qu’il dirige: ne finira-t-il pas par lire un jour, dans le rébus de quelque reve anonyme, la disgrâce et la condamnation de sa propre famille? Centre du royaume des ténebres, le Palais des Reves est comme l’archétype de ces polices des consciences qui, de toute éternité, ont été préposées a la perpétuation des tyrannies, des plus anciennes a celles dont notre époque a vu, notamment en Europe, l’épanouissement et le raffinement supremes, puis le brutal effondrement. Ecrit et publié en Albanie en 1981, ce roman retentit comme un cri de terreur dans la nuit des empires de l’Est aujourd’hui a l’agonie. De ces cris que poussent soudain les dormeurs, incapables de sortir tout a fait du cauchemar qui vient de les réveiller en sursaut. Mais n’est-ce pas encore l’état dans lequel se trouve chacun de nous en cette fin d’un siecle barbare?
Descrizione del libro: William McNeill focalizza l’attenzione su Venezia e i veneziani quali principali mediatori e tramiti tra le regioni dell’Adriatico, dell’Egeo e del Mar Nero, descrivendo le relazioni nate dal mare, tra le comunita cristiane, latine ed ortodosse nel periodo che va dal 1081 al 1797. Per settecento anni, dal dodicesimo al diciottesimo secolo, la Repubblica Veneta ha avuto un ruolo chiave negli scambi culturali tra i popoli d’Europa meridionale ed orientale. L’Autore propone una sintesi ed un modello alternativo di storia in campi non ancora esplorati ed una diversa visione di Venezia considerata come cardine dell’Europa per il suo ruolo unico di frontiera tra il mondo cattolico e quello ortodosso.
