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Historical fiction2021Discord
by Ostap Ukrainets
Spring of the peoples. The Austrian Empire pulsates and erupts in uprisings. Everyone is trying to determine their place in a great empire, which for many is alien. Ignatius Kaminsky spent time in a Viennese prison and returned home to Stanislaw. He has a certain authority among the local revolutionaries who are actively involved in the debate between Poles and Ruthenians - to unite against the empire or fight for their own.
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June 2009Hyginus, Fabulae – Faszination Mythos
clara. Kurze lateinische Texte
by Frölich, Roland; Künzel, Giselher
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FictionWHY I CAN'T WRITE
How to survive in a world where you can’t pay rent, can’t afford to focus, be healthy or to remain principled. Dijana Matković tells a powerful story of searching for a room of her own in the late stages of capitalism.
by DIJANA MATKOVIĆ
It is a coming-of-age story for Generation Z. How to grow up or even live in a world where no steady jobs are available, you can’t pay your rent and can’t afford medical or living expenses. Moreover, it touches on how to be a socially engaged artist in such a world, and more so, a woman in a post-me too world? Dijana, a daughter of working-class immigrants, tells the story of her difficult childhood and adolescence, how should became a journalist and later a writer in a society full of prejudices, glass ceilings and obstacles. How she gradually became a stereotypical ‘success story’, even though she still struggles with writing, because she can’t afford a ‘room of her own’. Dijana is a daughter of working-class immigrants, who came to Slovenia in the eighties in search of a better future. The family is building a house but is made redundant from the local factory when Yugoslavia is in the midst of an economic crisis. When her parents get divorced, Dijana, her older sister and mother struggle with basic needs. She is ashamed of their poverty, her classmates bully her because of her immigrant status, but mostly because of her being ‘white trash’. In the local school she meets teachers with prejudices against immigrants, but is helped by a librarian who spots her talent. When Dijana goes to secondary school, she moves in with her older sister who lives in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Her sister is into rave culture and Dijana starts to explore experimenting with drugs, music and dance. At the secondary school, she is again considered ‘the weird kid’, as she isn’t enough of a foreigner for other immigrant kids because she is from the country, yet she isn’t Slovenian enough for other native kids. She falls even deeper into drug addiction, fails the first year of school and has to move back to live with her mother. She takes on odd jobs to make ends meet. Whilst working as a waitress she encounters sexism and sexual violence from customers and abuse from the boss. She finishes night school and graduates. She meets many ‘lost’ people of her generation along the way, who tell her their stories about precarious, minimum wage jobs, lack of opportunities, expensive rent, etc. Dijana writes for numerous newspapers but loses or quits her job, because she isn’t allowed to write the stories she wants or because of the bad working conditions or the blatant sexual harassment. Due to the high rent in the capital, Dijana has to move to the countryside to live with her mother. She feels lonely there, struggles with anxiety and cannot write a second book, because she is constantly under pressure to make a living. She realises that she must persevere regardless of the obstacles, she must follow her inner truth and by writing about it, try to create a community of like-minded people, a community of people who support each other – all literature/art is social.
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Short storiesMarch 2015Neun Kurzgeschichten
by Kafka, Franz
„I think one should generally only read books that bite and sting.” –Franz Kafka. From the salesman who wakes up as a bug one day to the bridge waiting to be stepped on – this collection combines nine of Kafka’s most bizarre tales.
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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)February 2015Erzählungen: Das öde Haus, Das Sanctus, Das steinerne Herz
by Hoffmann, E.T.A.
The confusion of his own senses, driving a person close to madness. A fatal combination of physical and psychological illnesses. And an old man who, in his bitterness, expels an innocent child and flees into scenes long past. This selection from E.T.A. Hoffmann’s famous night pieces (Nachtstücke) illuminates the dark sides of human existence and artfully weaves them into the tales.
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Art & design styles: Conceptual artAugust 2021Sting in the Tale
Art, Hoax, and Provocation
by Antoinette LaFarge
An illustrated survey of artist hoaxes, including impersonations, fabula, cryptoscience, and forgeries, researched and written by an expert “fictive-art” practitioner. The shift from the early information age to our 'infocalypse' era of rampant misinformation has given rise to an art form that probes this confusion, foregrounding wild creativity as a way to reframe assumptions about both fiction and art in contemporary culture. At its center, this “fictive art” (LaFarge’s term) is secured as fact by employing the language and display methods of history and science. Using typically evidentiary objects such as documentary photographs and videos, presumptively historical artifacts and relics, didactics, lectures, events, and expert opinions in technical language, artists create a constellation of manufactured evidence attesting to the artwork’s central narrative. This dissimulation is temporary, with a clear “tell” often surprisingly revealed in a self-outing moment. With all its attendant consequences of mistrust, outrage, and rejection, this genre of art with a sting in its tale is a radical form whose time has come.
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EducationThe More of Myth
A Pedagogy of Diversion
by Doll, M. A.
This book uses a nine-year experience of teaching world mythology to art students in order to discuss why and how such ancient stories provide significance today. Myth’s weird images and metaphors recall Wyrd (Word), the goddess of the cauldron. Students can be guided into the cauldron of mythic language to feel the stirring of new awareness of what it really means to be human. Psychologically, myth offers insights into family relations, memory, imagination, and otherness. Ecological insights from myth teach the connection among human-animal-plant relations and the organicism of all life forms. Cosmological insights from myth surprisingly echo findings in new science, with its emphasis on quantum mechanics, force fields, black holes, subatomic particles, chaos, and the possibilities of time travel. Two areas often considered completely opposite -- myth and science—actually reflect one another, since both propose theories, albeit in different ways. Myth cannot be laughed away as “mere” fabula, since, like science and psychology, it has long explored adventures into unseen, unknown worlds that yield necessary knowledge about the place of humans in the scheme of things big and small. The “more” of myth will be of interest to teachers and students of curriculum studies, to those seeking to go beyond Oedipus and Gutenberg, and to readers who know that all forms of life (including fingernails and rocks) are wondrous, diverse, alive, capable, purposive, and necessary.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)September 2008The Scoundrel Days of Hobo Highbrow
by Pål H. Christiansen
The Scoundrel Days of Hobo Highbrow is about a down-on-his-luck 40ish writer obsessed about Paul Waaktaar-Savoy of the rock group a-ha. Hobo has published a few books and poems in the past and now works as a proof-reader for a newspaper. He aspires to write a Nobel Prize winning literary novel, but has a loose grip on reality. He selects Paul Waaktaar-Savoy as his idol, as someone like him who struggled from a little known country to break out on the world scene. Hobo has a penchant for words. His favorite book is the dictionary and, of course, he plays Scrabble with his girl friend Helle. He and his odd friends make for a humorous story laced with actual tidbits about a-ha.
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FictionAgent Lylyk
by Yuriy Vynnychuk
This is a sequel novel of the series telling about the adventures of Marco Krylovych, the night reporter. A few months have passed after the events described in 'The Dekker's Mansion'. Marco Krylovych is released from prison to help the secret police (NKVD) with catching the murderer of young women. Seems that the suspect is one of the USSR embassy or NKVD employees... So that to continue the investigation Krylovych gets his cover story as Agent Lylyk. Since the maniac chooses his victims for the first letters of their names to make the name Valentina with them, Marco asap needs to find out who Valentina is. It turned out that he was related to her death 20 years ago and someone was seeking revenge. Marco’s colleague was very close to the clue who the murderer is, but he got killed and now Marco is completely sure that it’s someone from the NKVD. Krylovych gets into the trap of the murderer but manages to survive. After all, the murderer is dead. But to render a murderer was not the only task of Krylovych. The Netherlands Embassy’s archives contain the crucial documents that are hunted for by both the USSR and Germany. The Night Reporter also tries to find these documents since the lives of many people depend on them.
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Children's & young adult: general non-fictionWhat Makes Us Human
by Victor Dias de Oliveira Santos, Anna Forlati
What Makes Us Human is a unique picture book on a universal and timely topic: languages and language conservation. The book reads like a riddle, in which the actual theme of the book is not revealed until the very last page. Clues as to the theme are scattered on each page, making the reading experience a more engaging and interesting one for readers. Part of the profits from sales of licenced editions of this will be donated by the author (Ph.D. in Linguistics) to organizations working to support the revitalization and conversation of languages around the world. Can you guess what I am? I have been around for a very long time. Longer than toys, dogs, or anyone you know. I am everywhere.
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September 2017Dime dónde, en que país
by Marco Antonio Campos, Círculo de Poesía, Círculo de Poesía, Círculo de Poesía, Círculo de Poesía
Agrega Marco Antonio Campos a su ya extensa, personalisima y sorprendente obra de poeta, de crítico, de traductor, de cronista, de historiador y estudioso de la literatura mexicana y de otras, este libro ejemplar que él titula Dime Dónde, en qué país (una línea que toma de Villon) y que ha compuesto, como dice, con poemas en prosa y una fábula. El libro es bello y complejo, en su aparente sencillez, pero intrincado contexto de referencias, alusiones literarias, históricas y artísticas y es en efecto, tanto verdadera poesía, como la que ha logrado consumar en su lírica de autor, pero es al mismo tiempo una colección deslumbradora de visiones, de crónicas de viaje por el mundo entero, de paisajes urbanos, amores consumados y no, mares, ríos, montañas, galerías pictóricas, encuentros con autores legendarios o nacidos ayer, barrios paupérrimos, aventuras en tren y al mismo timpo, profundas y conmovedoras inscursiones de la propia biografía, en el alma y en la memoria familiar. De algún modo, este conjunto de Marco Antonio, me hace pensar en el libro admirable y perfecto de otro ilustre visionario, viajero, cronista y autobiógrafo emponente: el grande y prolijo catalán Josep Pla, autor de los diarios voluntariamente imperfectos e invaluables de su Cuaderna gris, que no ha sido posible terminar de imprimir.
