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Alejo Carpentier wurde 1904 als Sohn eines französischen Architekten und einer Russin in Havanna geboren. Zweisprachig mit Französisch und Spanisch erzogen, ging er in Havanna und Paris zur Schule, studierte Architektur, Literatur und Musikwissenschaften. Er war Mitarbeiter und Herausgeber verschiedener Zeitungen und Zeitschriften, organisierte sich in der Opposition und kam 1927 wegen rebellischer Aktivitäten für ein halbes Jahr ins Gefängnis. Kurze Zeit später ging Carpentier für 11 Jahre ins Exil nach Paris, wo er als Musikkritiker, Komponist und Journalist arbeitete. Das Exil machte ihn mit aktuellen Strömungen, vor allem mit dem Surrealismus, und mit vielen spanischen und lateinamerikanischen Schriftstellern vertraut und sensibilisierte ihn für seine lateinamerikanischen Wurzeln. Das Aufeinanderprallen von moderner Zivilisation und mythischen Kulturen Lateinamerikas bestimmte schon seinen ersten, dokumentarischen Roman ¡Ecué-Yamba-O! von 1933. Von 1939 an lebte Carpentier wieder in Havanna. Er fand schnell Anschluß an die intellektuellen Kreise, lehrte als Professor für Musikwissenschaft an der Universität, schrieb Zeitungsbeiträge und arbeitete für eine staatliche Rundfunkanstalt. 1945 floh er vor dem Terror der Batista-Diktatur ins venezolanische Exil nach Caracas, wo ihm eine gut bezahlte Stelle bei einer Werbeagentur finanzielle Unabhängigkeit sicherte; gleichzeitig hatte er den Lehrstuhl für Kulturgeschichte an der dortigen Kunsthochschule inne. Die Eindrücke und Erfahrungen einer Haiti-Reise verarbeitete er in dem Roman El reino de este mundo von 1949 (dt. Das Reich von dieser Welt, 1964) über den Aufstand der Haitianer gegen die französischen Unterdrücker in Napoleonischer Zeit. Zu einem Manifest lateinamerikanischer Kultur wurde das Vorwort zu diesem Buch, in dem Carpentier sein Konzept des »Wunderbar Wirklichen« darlegte. Mit La música en Cuba von 1946 machte er sich einen Namen als einer der führenden Musikwissenschaftler Lateinamerikas. Musik spielte in seinem Leben und in seinen Büchern eine große Rolle, so in den Romanen Los pasos perdidos von 1953 (dt. Die verlorenen Spuren, 1982) und El acoso von 1956 (dt. Finale auf Kuba, 1960; Hetzjagd, 1989). In den 50er Jahren gehörte Carpentier schon zu den bekanntesten Schriftstellern Lateinamerikas. Nach Castros Sieg kehrte er 1959 nach Kuba zurück, wo ihm viele hohe Ämter übertragen wurden. Er war außerdem Professor für Literatur an der Universität Havanna und von 1967 an Leiter des Staatsverlages. 1962 erschien der historische Roman El siglo de las luces (dt. Explosion in der Kathedrale, 1964) über die Folgen der französischen Revolution auf Kuba. Von 1966 an lebte Carpentier als Kulturattaché der kubanischen Regierung in Paris. 1974 erschienen der Roman El recurso del método, (dt. Staatsraison, 1976; Die Methode der Macht, 1989) - eine sarkastische Charakterisierung eines lateinamerikanischen Diktators - und die Novelle Concierto barroco (dt. Barockkonzert, 1976). La consagración de la primavera von 1978 (dt. Le Sacre du Printemps, 1993) gilt als eine Bilanz des 20. Jahrhunderts und trägt deutlich autobiographische Züge. 1979 erschien sein letztes Buch El arpa y la sombra (dt. Die Harfe und der Schatten, 1979). Carpentier war ein enzyklopädisch gebildeter Autor, dessen Werk als monumentales literarisches Geschichtsfresko Lateinamerikas bezeichnet wird. Es ist bestimmt von einer engagierten Verbindung von Literatur, Politik und Geschichte und dem Bekenntnis zur menschlichen und gesellschaftlichen Freiheit. Carpentier hat mit seinem Konzept des »Wunderbar Wirklichen« die Heterogenität lateinamerikanischer Kulturen in einer Konstante zusammengefaßt und den Weg geebnet für eine künstlerische und kulturelle Selbstbestimmung Lateinamerikas. Alejo Carpentier starb am 24. 04. 1980 in Paris. Anneliese Botond (1922-2006) studierte und promovierte in Paris. Sie war als Lektorin und Übersetzerin für Französische und Lateinamerikanische Literatur tätig.
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This book aims to bring to the attention of both military architecture specialists and simple architecture enthusiasts, an important, but little known, aspect of the Latin American history, through the emblematic case of the Antonellis, a family of military engineers and architects at the service of the Spanish Crown in the 16th and 17th centuries, which wrote one of the most important chapters in the history of the Hispano-American military architecture. The author, Graziano Gasparini, is an architect former full professor of History of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of Caracas of the Central University of Venezuela and Doctor Honoris Causa of the same University.
This book aims to bring to the attention of both military architecture specialists and simple architecture enthusiasts, an important, but little known, aspect of the Latin American history, through the emblematic case of the Antonellis, a family of military engineers and architects at the service of the Spanish Crown in the 16th and 17th centuries, which wrote one of the most important chapters in the history of the Hispano-American military architecture. The author, Graziano Gasparini, is an architect former full professor of History of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of Caracas of the Central University of Venezuela and Doctor Honoris Causa of the same University. (Spanish Edition)
Cars aren't the only things he can hot-wire. Fresh off an eighteen-month stint for grand theft auto, Joel Graziano heads for sleepy Montauk with nothing to his name but an ancient Buick and the keys to his grandmother's rundown beach cottage. He fully intends to serve out his parole fixing boats, keeping his nose clean, and minding his own damned business. Unfortunately, the locals immediately peg him as an interloper, and the keenest stare belongs to his sexy neighbor. Charlotte "œCharlie" Sanger is curious about the man with the double sleeve tattoos, but she's got problems of her own. Her mother's death left Charlie in charge of her father and teenage sister. The result? Joy's pregnant and Dad isn't speaking to either of them. Soon Charlie is sneaking next door to lose herself in mind-blowing sex. It's supposed to be just a temporary neighbors-with-benefits arrangement, but Joel finds Charlie and her quirky gaggle of family and friends growing on him. And he dares to hope that Charlie could be a safe place to hang his heart.
Cillerai’s widow can’t seem to be able to shed a tear for her husband’s death. She hasn’t cried when she found his body, she hasn’t cried at his funeral. When her daughter goes back home in France, Nives is left alone in her estate, with her animals and her little home. Nights are the toughest. She can’t sleep – her body feels numb and completely awake; one day she decides to take her favourite chicken, Giacomina, from the henhouse and keep her with her in the bedroom. Her anxiety immediately evaporates. She feels relieved and guilty: how could she replace her dead husband with a chicken? She sleeps safe and sound now, silence and loneliness don’t scare her anymore. She even starts feeling inexplicably happy… Then one day, Giacomina ends up paralyzed in front of the tv, hypnotized by a detergent ad. Nives tries everything to wake her, but the chicken seems to be completely frozen. The only choice she is left with is to call the vet, Loriano Bottai. Follows a phone call that seems to last a lifetime. Soon the conversation slips from the chicken to the past – the tension on the line changes, it becomes something else. Something that echoes regrets, rage and unforgivable memories – lost loves and bitterness. Beyond Our Souls at Night, Nives is the stories we tell ourselves at night, when we can’t sleep. Stories of unspoken passions, of abandonment, of silent, heart-breaking nostalgia. We go back and forth in time with Nives, and we feel her anger, her loneliness, her desperate generosity in giving all of herself to Loriano and to the reader. With rage and infinite dignity, she breaks down and slowly takes the pieces of her life, of a life she told herself was hers, back together in one phone call – oftentimes it seems she is not even listening to the other side, but more speaking to her past self. She wants to fill the void that has haunted her for thirty years. What to do of that past, of all the roads we wanted to take we never had the guts to follow? What to do with all the years spent living lies? But ultimately – is life ever a lie, or is it just what it is? Are the sliding doors just stories we tell ourselves when we are not able to accept who we truly are? With this new, ground-breaking novel, Naspini explores the core of who we are with such delicateness, such humanity, that it is impossible not to recognize yourself in the flawed, sad, messy, beautiful lives these characters have built for themselves. Nives’ story, her inner world, her courage in finally embracing the truth of her life, makes her story universal and necessary – she is honest, raw, clean, incorruptible. A fierce new heroine of Italian contemporary literature, one that is finally not afraid to look at herself in the mirror.
Here you will learn how to develop an attractive, easily readable, conceptual, business-oriented entity/relationship model, using a variation on the UML Class Model notation. Hear the author, David Hay, talk about his book. This book has two audiences: Data modelers (both analysts and database designers) who are convinced that UML has nothing to do with them; and UML experts who don’t realize that architectural data modeling really is different from object modeling (and that the differences are important). David Hay’s objective is to finally bring these two groups together in peace. Here all modelers will receive guidance on how to produce a high quality (that is, readable) entity/relationship model to describe the data architecture of an organization. The notation involved happens to be the one for class models in the Unified Modeling Language, even though UML was originally developed to support object-oriented design. Designers have a different view of the world from those who develop business-oriented conceptual data models, which means that to use UML for architectural modeling requires some adjustments. These adjustments are described in this book. David Hay is the author of Enterprise Model Patterns: Describing the World, a comprehensive model of a generic enterprise. The diagrams were at various levels of abstraction, and they were all rendered in the slightly modified version of UML Class Diagrams presented here. This book is a handbook to describe how to build models such as these. By way of background, an appendix provides a history of the two groups, revealing the sources of their different attitudes towards the system development process. If you are an old-school ER modeler and now find yourself having to come up to speed on UML to get that next job (or keep the current one), this is your guidebook to success. If you are a long time object oriented programmer who has to interact with data modelers, this book is for you too. David has done the hard work of mapping out how to do a logical entity relationship model using standard (and accepted) UML diagram components. This book shows you step-by-step, with ample examples, how to get from here to there with the least pain possible for all concerned. Kent Graziano Certified Data Vault Master and Oracle ACE Past-President of ODTUG & RMOUG
David W. Barber has delighted readers around the world with Accidentals on Purpose, When the Fat Lady Sings and other internationally bestselling books of musical humor. His bestselling Bach, Beethoven and the Boys chronicles the lives of the great (and not-so-great) composers as you've never read them before – exploring their sex lives, exposing their foibles and expanding on our understanding of these all-too-human creatures. Filled with information, interesting facts and trivia, this hilarious history covers music from Gregorian chant to the mess we're in now. From Bach's laundry lists to Beethoven's bowel problems, from Gesualdo's kinky fetishes to Cage's mushroom madness, Barber tells tales out of school that ought to be put back there. (Think how much more fun it would be if they taught this stuff.) As always, Dave Donald had provided witty and clever cartoon illustrations to accompany the text. "My heartiest commendation for an admirable work of scholarship... I will not say again that it is funny, since this will compel you to set your jaw and dare Barber to make you laugh." - Anthony Burgess, on Bach, Beethoven and the Boys
A hospitable practice needs hospitable thinking and a way of believing. If, before being a right, existing is a debt that is extinguished only by becoming hospitable people, theology is called to favour coexistence among people by overcoming even its own self-understanding, when this is an obstacle to dialogue, helping to live this great change, and learning to welcome the spiritual riches that are for all. This, to the point of making a public contribution at the service of human and spiritual growth of humanity. A research of great value for a hospitable belief, which gives a theological foundation to a new paradigm of welcome and which opens up concrete perspectives for the indispensable interreligious dialogue.
The secularization debate went through a big change during the last fifty years. Could this change be described as a paradigm shift? The volume, after an introduction that deeply analyses the “secularization” concept, picks up and discusses in eight chapters several exemplary figures in the recent debate (H. Blumenberg, D. Martin, C. Taylor, H. Joas, T. Asad, M. Gauchet, J. Habermas, G. Vattimo).Thus, the Author gives for the very first time, a systematic reconstruction of the changes and developments in this debate, ending in a real paradigm shift. The conclusion is however hesitant. It is unclear, Costa claims, whether this concept is still helpful to understand what is going on around us now and is in store for us in the near future. Winner of the Book Prize of the European Society for Catholic Theology (category: senior scholar)
The present book presents its reader with comprehensive knowledge related to cereals processing. It is imperative to have sound knowledge of Food laws and regulations with an Indian perspective as these plays a pivotal role in commercializing food products as well as fresh produce which is aptly covered in this book. It includes recent trends in technology of cereals based products, technological updates in legumes and pulses based convenience/ processed foods, various aspects of evolution of Bakery and confectionery technology, Technological evaluation of milling. Since ages process of fermentation was employed for preserving the cereals based food by using general and specified micro flora and micro fauna. The science and technology involved is well explained in chapter titled Fermented foods based on cereals and pulses. The most important quality attributes related to cereals processing are rheological and thermal changes which occur when extrinsic factors such as moisture and temperature are ebbed and flowed. This subject was sensibly covered under Rheological & thermal changes occurring during processing. Sugarcane and sugar industry have the largest contribution to the industrial development. Various unit operations and technology involved are explained as Recent updates in sugar, honey, jaggery and salt processing. Self life stability of the products with respect to various chemical parameters attributed to the oxidative changes in processed Foods and is also aptly covered
