|a The metamorphosis / |c by Franz Kafka translated and edited by Stanley Corngold. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."". A harrowing-though absurdly comic-meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. ""When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. The Metamorphosis : Translations, Backgrounds, and Contexts, Criticism. Auden, and Walter Benjamin, background and contextual material, and a new Introduction from Corngold himself". This Modern Library edition collects Stanley Corngold's acclaimed English translation-long hailed as the gold standard by scholars and general readers alike-along with six critical essays by writers including Philip Roth, W.H. Featuring essays by Philip Roth, W.H Auden, and Walter Benjamin. "Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley Corngold.
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18, attempts to render visible these ‘historical wounds’ of Western modernity, including systemic racism and capitalist extraction, drawing links between individual injury and collective trauma.Īriella Aisha Azoulay’s “The Natural History of Rape,” for example, presents a largely textual post-World War II archive through anonymous diaries documenting the rampant sexual abuse of women in Berlin at the hands of the allied forces - their ‘liberators.’ The photographs she includes feature a destroyed city rather than violated bodies - a deliberate comment on the incompleteness of the historical archive.įrench-Algerian artist Kader Attia is the curator of the 12th Berlin Biennale, entitled “Still Present!” (Jennifer Soike) What Algerian psychoanalyst Karima Lazali calls ‘The rogues of the Enlightenment,’” says French-Algerian artist Kader Attia, curator of the 12th Berlin Biennale, entitled “Still Present!” BERLIN: “I’m interested in understanding why the world is haunted by injuries produced by modernity and its massive crimes, such as fascism, colonialism, slavery. As I looked over the photos for a second time I noticed that for a book about stock car racing there are more pictures of the people than their cars and this is something else that Henry and I share. Paul and Dickie had friends in low places.” Henry Horenstein "As I started to look at the photos I recognized most of the cars and I began to marvel at the skills of some of these drivers and their teams for keeping these heaps going. Paul’s cousin Dickie Simmonds owned the local Gulf station and modified the junkers that Paul drove at places like the Seekonk Speedway (Seekonk, MA) and the Thompson Speedway (Thompson, CT). My brother-in-law Paul raced stock cars―old. What better than an old-school sport that would certainly be extinct one day? I’m still waiting. There had to be good pictures there for a wanna-be historian-with-a-camera. “I was still in grad school and I was looking for subjects. Horenstein's joyful images present us with a slice now of what the world of motor racing looked like then, before racing became big business, as it slowly morphed into Nascar - the worlds fastest growing sport. In front of his camera the drivers would fly around the track in beat-up cars customised for racing at break neck speeds in the hopes of small town glory. While at grad school in the early 1970’s Henry Horenstein would attend Speedway races, in New England to see his brother in law compete. In 1999, her novel Looking for X was published. While The Breadwinner was inspired by an interview with a mother and a girl who disguised herself as a boy in a refugee camp, the subsequent books in the series were more imaginative explorations of how children would survive. From these interviews, she wrote The Breadwinner series, which includes The Breadwinner (2001), a book about a girl named Parvana, Parvana's Journey (2002), its sequel, Mud City (2003), about Shauzia, Parvana's best friend, and My Name is Parvana (2011), the fourth book in the series. She travelled to Pakistan in 1997 to interview refugees at an Afghan refugee camp. She has held many jobs advocating for the peace movement and the anti-war movement. Much of her work as a writer has been inspired by her travels and conversations with people from around the world and their stories. Ellis started writing when she was 11 or 12 years old. Her themes are often concerned with the sufferings of persecuted children in the Third World.īorn in Cochrane Ontario, Ellis and her family moved several times during her childhood due to her parents' work. Deborah Ellis CM OOnt (born August 7, 1960) is a Canadian fiction writer and activist. The third section therefore considers the relations between theoretical and practical reason. Reflecting Kant’s own works and most of the secondary literature, these two sections are relatively independent. This focuses on his Critique of Practical Reason or second Critique (1788). Within a few years of the publication of his Critique of Pure Reason in 1781, Immanuel Kant (1724-184) was recognized by his contempo raries as one of the seminal philosophers of modern times -indeed as one of the great philosophers of all time. Subsequently termed “deontological ethics”, Kant’s ethical system also laid the groundwork of moral absolutism, the belief that there are absolute standards against which moral questions can be judged, and that certain actions are right or wrong, devoid of the context of the act.įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit . The second section examines his moral philosophy. The second Critique exercised a decisive influence over the subsequent development of the field of ethics and moral philosophy, becoming the principle reference point for ethical systems that focus on the rightness or wrongness of actions themselves, as opposed to the rightness or wrongness of the consequences of those actions. It follows on from his Critique of Pure Reason and deals with his moral philosophy. The Critique of Practical Reason ( Kritik der praktischen Vernunft) is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques, first published in 1788. LibriVox recording of The Critique of Practical Reason, by Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). It is the only nation that began as a prison. It was the first continent conquered by sea, and the last. It is the only island that is also a continent, and the only continent that is also a country. Here’s a sample of his easy-going prose, a story-telling tone that catches the reader’s attention.Īustralia is the world’s sixth largest country and its largest island. When he makes fun of Australians, it’s always with affection. It’s told with a healthy sense of humour, by someone who comes from Iowa, has lived in Great Britain and loves Australia. It’s a good mix of personal experience and everyday life during his roadtrip, fun facts about Australia but also serious historical information and informative descriptions of nature, and especially the fauna. I enjoyed the tone of his book and its content. Bill Bryson tells us all about a road trip he made in Australia in 2000. I have read it in French and since “Down Under” is a bit tricky to translate, it’s become “Nos voisins du dessous”. Travels in a Sunburnt Country by Bill Bryson. The first book I’d like to talk about is Down Under. Work has been in the way of my writing and updating my blog. I’m going to write short posts about them mostly because I don’t want to go on holiday and leave a backlog of billets behind. I’m flying to Australia in a few days and I have SEVEN unwritten billets about books I’ve read. 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ROBIN KELLEY HAS produced a brilliantly researched and theorized exposition of the appropriation and transformation of U.S. (Chapel Hill, NO University of North Carolina Press, 1990), 369 pages, paper $12.95. African-American Communist Roots | Solidarity African-American Communist RootsĪlabama Communists During the Great Depression Auden ( Horae Canonicae) to James McMichael ( The Lover’s Familiar) have used the structure to great effect. And poets from Rainer Maria Rilke ( Book of Hours), to W.H. Umberto Eco used these “Hours” to divide his best-selling The Name of the Rose into chapters. The “Hours” referred to were the prayers of The Divine Office or “Liturgy Of The Hours”, prayed eight times a day by the religious (abbots, monks, nuns, canons) and clerics (priests, bishops and deacons): Vigils/Matins (middle of the night), Lauds (dawn), Prime (daytime), Terce (mid-morning), Sext (noon), Nones (mid-afternoon), Vespers (evening), and Compline (night prayer). Originally, a “Book of Hours” was a very small, hand-held liturgical/devotional text from the medieval times, usually illustrated. But what exactly is a “Book of Hours”? Or, rather, what was it? And what has it now become? Kevin Young’s new book of poetry is entitled Book of Hours (Knopf, 2014) and it is, as usual, excellent work from perhaps the greatest-or least the best-known-poet of his generation. Since its first launch in 1965, only 40 men and 1 woman have piloted the deep-sea submersible Alvin. An appealing, exhilarating, and informative vicarious journey of discovery. Endmatter explains how Alvin works and describes the author's and illustrator's research. Black smokers blast scalding water and poisonous, sooty particles from deep inside Earth." The digitally created illustrations evoke the dark mysteriousness of the deep ocean and depict the crew as a man of color, a white woman, and a white man. The voyage down is not without perils: "Fishing nets or anchor chains could entangle Alvin and trap you." On the seafloor, "Eerie spires loom. How do you breathe? What kind of music might you listen to? How do you see when you "enter thick blackness"? The answers to those and many other questions are answered. Cusolito's inviting, "you are there" narration puts readers inside the submersible to discover what one wears, eats, and talks about during a typical eight-hour journey to learn about life inhabiting the deepest realms of our oceans. "Imagine you're the pilot of Alvin, a deep-sea submersible barely big enough for three," the engaging text begins. Named for Allyn Vine, who helped pioneer deep submergence research and technology for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Alvin helped in the exploration of the Titanic wreckage in 1986. ♦ Readers join an Alvin pilot and scientists in an exciting journey as they voyage down deep to the ocean floor to collect samples and conduct research. |