Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the ‘Roaring Twenties’. A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver - her psychiatrist. The resulting saga of the Divers’ troubled marriage, and their circle of friends, includes a cast of aristocratic and beautiful people, unhappy love affairs, a duel, incest, and the problems inherent in the possession of great wealth. Despite cataloguing a maelstrom of interpersonal conflict, Tender is the Night has a poignancy and warmth that springs from the quality of Fitzgerald's writing and the tragic personal ... |
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Over 200 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and conceptual pieces trace the story of modern art's innovation and adventure. With explanatory texts for each work, and essays introducing each of the major modern movements, this is an authoritative overview of the ideas and the artworks that shook up standards, assaulted the establishment, and trailblazed new ideas. A blow-by-blow account of groundbreaking modernism. Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. ... |
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Winner of The 2023 International Booker Prize. ... In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flaneur named Gaustine opens a clinic for the past that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. As Gaustine's assistant, the unnamed narrator is tasked with collecting the flotsam and jetsam of the past, from 1960s furniture and 1940s shirt buttons to scents and even afternoon light. But as the rooms become more convincing, an increasing number of healthy people seek out the clinic as a time shelter, hoping to escape from the horrors ... |
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A key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading art theoretician whose influence resonates to this day. Coining the term "Neo-plasticism", he pursued a style of painting composed only of primary colors against a grid of black vertical and horizontal lines and a white base background. Mondrian's vision was that this essential painting would help to achieve a society in which art as such has no place, but rather exists for the total realization of "beauty". With stints in Amsterdam, Paris, London, and New York, Mondrian drew ... |
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An American Journalist's Inside Look at Cuba, 1959 - 1969. ... Between 1959 and 1969, photojournalist Lee Lockwood documented Cuba and its victorious revolutionary Fidel Castro with unprecedented freedom and access, including a marathon seven-day interview with Castro himself. This volume includes Lockwood's evocative photographs of Cuba and Castro, his many insightful observations, and extensive excerpts from the unprecedented Lockwood - Castro conversations. A unique and telling portrait of Cuba and its enigmatic leader. On December 31, 1958, Lee Lockwood, then a young photojournalist, went to Cuba to cover ... |
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Compiler: Neli Miteva . ... This book follows the process in the search for personal identity in Bulgarian fashion design through the three conceptual exhibition projects "XXSOFIA", "1.5 km of...", and "STATIONS". The garment is seen as a specific connection of the individual with its environment ("XXSOFIA"), as a visual commentary on the concept of "distance", its duration, length or transience ("1.5 km of..."), or as an interpretation of the global trend multilocalism through the study of our identity created through the experience collected by living in ... |
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"Внимавай! Ако играеш на призрак, ще станеш призрак." Кабала, анонимен автор Макар и още много млада, мексиканската писателка Валерия Луизели вече е привлякла вниманието на читателите и критиката с полъха на креативност и енергия в книгите си. Въпреки младостта си Луизели е живяла в различни страни и е успяла да си изгради многопластова визия за света. Смесването на реалност и фантазия, на различни времеви планове вероятно е наследила от родната си испаноезична литература. В романа ѝ "Безтегловните" се налага деликатен паралелизъм с произведенията на Хуан Рулфо , неин учител в изобразяването ... |
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Dr. Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter's research, only to discover a virus, newly unearthed from melting permafrost. The plague unleashed reshapes life on earth for generations. Yet even while struggling to counter this destructive force, humanity stubbornly persists in myriad moving and ever inventive ways. Among those adjusting to this new normal are an aspiring comedian, employed by a theme park designed for terminally ill children, who falls in love with a mother trying desperately to keep her son alive; a scientist who, having failed to save his own son from ... |
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Замир е лице на кампания за набиране на пари за пострадали сирийски бебета. Но чрез образа му писателят Хакан Гюндай разкрива как дори правозащитните и благотворителните организации, основани с най-добри намерения, могат с времето да се превърнат в корумпирани. Хакан Гюндай разкрива света такъв, какъвто е - корумпиран от глава до пети. От исторически примери за дискриминационни политики на НПО до неетичните методи, които благотворителните организации могат да изберат за набиране на пари, Гюндай задава спешни въпроси за бежанците, расизма, универсалните човешки права, национализма и религията. Хакан Гюндай е роден на ... |
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"In Genesis, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen." Sebastiao Salgado On a very fortuitous day in 1970, 26-year-old Sebastiao Salgado held a camera for the first time. When he looked through the viewfinder, he experienced a revelation: suddenly life made sense. From that day onward - though it took years of hard work before he had the experience to earn his living as a photographer - the camera became his tool for interacting with the world. Salgado, who "always preferred the chiaroscuro palette of black-and-white images," shot very little color in his early ... |
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Намери смелост да се изправиш срещу страховете си, да преодолееш несгодите и да създадеш живот, който обичаш. ... Какво бихте направили, ако страха вече не стои на пътя ви? Казвате си, че сте твърде заети, за да преследвате мечтите си. Нямате възможностите. Все някога ще стигнете до тях. Но какво, ако истинската причина да отлагате целите си е страха? Равни части вдъхновение и строга любов "Действай въпреки страха" съчетава лесни за изпълнение съвети с мотивацията да започнете да правите реални промени, които водят до големи резултати. Пригответе се да излезете от страничните линии и да скочите в собствения си ... |
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Книгата е част от поредицата "Отвъд" на издателство "Жанет - 45". ... "Необикновена творба, която разглежда актуални и провокативни теми... Този роман ни напомня преди всичко, че Егърс е писател, и то писател от най-висока проба... Изключително постижение във вече твърде внушителната кариера на Егърс - и извънредно необходимо четиво." San Francisco Chronicle "Егърс е с глава над всички когато става дума за писане на прочувствени, социално отговорни книги, съчетаващи репортаж и фикция. Макар "Холограма за краля" да е художествено произведение... то въстава срещу днешното ... |
