Enchantments And Dragons, Catelli Mary

Автор: Catelli Giovanni
Название: Death of Camus
ISBN: 1787383865 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787383869
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In this disturbing book, Giovanni Catelli seeks to solve the mysterious 1960 car crash that killed Albert Camus and his publisher, Michel Gallimard, who was behind the wheel. Based on meticulous research, he builds a compelling case that Camu--author of The Stranger, The Plague and The Myth of Sisyphus--was the victim of premeditated murder. Thus it was that the 46-year-old French Algerian philosopher, journalist and Nobel laureate was silenced--by the KGB.

The Russians had a motive: Camus had campaigned tirelessly against the Soviet crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, denouncing the Bolshevik propagandist and Soviet foreign minister Dmitri Shepilov. He had also vociferously supported the awarding of the Nobel Prize to the dissident novelist Boris Pasternak, which enraged Moscow.

Sixty years after Camus' death, Catelli takes us back to a murky period in the Cold War. He probes the relationship between Camus and Pasternak, the fraught publication of Doctor Zhivago, the penetration of France by Soviet spies, and the high price paid by those throughout Europe who resisted the USSR.

Автор: Berlin Marlena, Catelli Gaetano
Название: SS Daughter: A Love Story
ISBN: 0692498028 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692498026
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Описание: This book is the life story of Marlena Berlin. Only the names have been changed (including her own). Otherwise, every word is true.]

Before Marlena is born, her eventual father, Werner, fights for six years in Hitler's Waffen-SS.

Following the war, he becomes a successful businessman in the primarily German-speaking region of northern Italy where he grew up. He eventually marries Nina - Marlena's future mother - a beautiful vivacious woman 16 years his junior.

After numerous breakups and reconciliations, Nina abandons Werner and settles in America, leaving Marlena behind when she is only 5.

Now without a wife, Werner makes Marlena his "SS Princess". The price Marlena pays for the privileges this entails is emotional, physical, and sexual abuse by Werner the whole time she is growing up.

In her teen years, Marlena becomes a heroin addict to numb her pain. Werner dies when she is in her early 20's, leaving her with an estate worth a few million dollars.

Together with her lover, Fabio (who is also an addict, and the father of their two sons), Marlena burns through all of the money in under 3 years.

Her mother, Nina, then gets legal custody of both of Marlena's sons, and takes them to America. Utterly broken and still addicted to heroin, Marlena follows her mother to America - with only an 8th grade education, and without hope for the future. In spite of enormous struggles in her financial and personal life, through hard work and a lot of therapy Marlena slowly overcomes the damage done by her upbringing.

And yet, through it all, Marlena continues to love her father deeply and, psychologically, has never stopped searching for him. Aside from her children, Werner is the only person who never betrayed her. No matter how much trouble her rebelliousness caused him, he was always there when she needed his help. Always.

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34 photographs; 1 drawing.

Автор: Catelli Gaetano
Название: Behind Lesbia`s Door: Her Slave-Girls` Shocking Revelations
ISBN: 0615654800 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615654805
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Описание: Clodia ("the Beautiful") Metelli's lineage is comparable to a current British Royal: "By the reckoning of the imperial biographer Suetonius, the patrician Claudii amassed during the lifetime of the Republic a total of twenty-eight consulships, five dictatorships, seven censorships, six triumphs, and two ovations" (Skinner). Wiseman summarizes: " M]ulier nobilis noble-woman] is putting it mildly: This daughter of the patrician Claudii was not merely a member of an ornamental social lite, but at the heart of the ruling class of the Roman Republic."

Clodia is also the object of a lifelong obsession of the greatest love poet of ancient Rome, the emotionally volatile Gaius "the Puppy" Catullus, whose term of endearment for his inamorata is Lesbia - an allusion to the poetess Sappho of the Isle of Lesbos. And, during the final decades of his life, the Golden Age of Roman literature's greatest writer of prose, conservative stalwart Marcus Tullius "Chick-Pea" Cicero, also, is preoccupied with Clodia - in his censorious (and envious) fashion.

In addition to her activities as poetess, playwright, and patroness of younger men of various talents (Austin), Clodia is involved in radical politics, via promoting the career of her youngest brother, Clodius "Pretty-Boy" Pulcher, an effete demagogue who is not above employing his mob of plebeian followers to influence political outcomes. According to Cicero, Clodia has enjoyed a 'special relationship' with her pretty little brother since their youth.

Even by the standards of ancient Rome, Clodia is controversial; and the controversy continues to the present day. In contradiction to the testimonia of both Cicero and Catullus, Skinner, the leading authority on Clodia, writes: " T]he Clodia of history turns out to be the direct antithesis of the Clodia of myth"; and, "It is hard to think of her as the victim of unruly passions; she seems, on the contrary, firmly in control of her own life."

Based upon the extant record, it does appear that Clodia is not the "victim" of anyone or anything. Rather, it seems that her cuckold-husband, "Swifty" Celer - a military commander and Consul of the Roman Empire; Catullus the febrile "New Poet"; the tall, temperamental russet-haired Caelius; and Cicero, the great orator and former Consul (driven into exile for a time by Clodia's brother Clodius), in one way or another, are her victims.

At all events, the irreducible fact is that however much either or both of Cicero and Catullus may be exaggerating the sensational elements of Clodia's conduct, no other woman of the ancient West has inspired so much rousing prose and arousing poetry, by two authors who know her personally.

Catullus begins Carmen 5, the first in which he addresses Clodia as Lesbia:

Let's live and let's love, my Lesbia / and prize the prattle of all the / prudish prunes at a penny

Alas, Catullus: Be careful what you wish for. "Rusty" Caelius, Catullus's boyhood friend as well as Cicero's prodigal former protege, eventually supersedes Catullus in Lesbia's affections, concurrently with her husband's mysterious death. Three years later, Clodia is in the Roman Forum accusing Caelius of having attempted to poison her.

Following the (likely guilty) Caelius's acquittal due to his counsel Cicero's blistering attack on Clodia's morals, Catullus composes Song-poem 67 (the central focus of this work), "The Door." It might candidly be subtitled "And That's Not All " Unsure himself what to believe, with gleeful malice the jilted Catullus's song-poem puts in the 'mouth' of a talkative front door (of Clodia's original marital home in Catullus's native Verona) the shocking slave-girl gossip emanating from within, both regarding the true nature of Clodia's marriage to Celer the cuckolded Consul, and the real reason Clodia has accused Caelius of trying to poi