Автор: Hughes-Hallett Lucy Название: Gabriele D`Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War ISBN: 0307276554 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307276551 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 2023.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction Winner of the Costa Biography Award **"Washington Post" Best Books of 2013** **"Economist" Best Books of 2013** This fascinating life of Gabriele d'Annunzio--the charismatic poet, bon vivant, and virulent nationalist who prefigured Mussolini--traces the early twentieth century's trajectory from Romantic idealism to Fascist thuggery. D'Annunzio was Italy's premier poet at a time when poetry could trigger riots. A brilliant self-publicist, he used his fame to sell his work, seduce women, and promote his extreme nationalism. At once an aesthete and a militarist, he enjoyed risking death no less than making love, and he wrote with equal enthusiasm about Fortuny gowns and torpedoes. In 1915 his incendiary oratory helped drive Italy into the First World War, and in 1919 he led a troop of mutineers into the Croatian port of Fiume, where he established a delinquent utopia. Futurists, anarchists, communists and proto-fascists descended on the place, along with literati and thrill-seekers, drug dealers and prostitutes. Three years later, when the fascists marched on Rome, they belted out anthems they'd learned in Fiume, while Mussolini consciously modeled himself on the great poet. Lucy Hughes-Hallett's compelling biography is a revelation both of d'Annunzio's flamboyant life and of the dramatic times he helped to shape.
Автор: Hughes-Hallett Lucy Название: Fabulous: Stories ISBN: 0062940090 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062940094 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 3563.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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From the author of the "sophisticated and erudite" Peculiar Ground (Boston Globe) comes a collection of classic, witty fables, elegantly updated for our modern times.
It's in the nature of myth to be infinitely adaptable.
Each of these startlingly original stories is set in modern Britain. Their characters include a people-trafficking gang-master and a prostitute, a migrant worker and a cocksure estate agent, an elderly musician doubly befuddled by dementia and the death of his wife, a pest-controller suspected of paedophilia and a librarian so well-behaved that her parents wonder anxiously whether she'll ever find love.
They're ordinary people, preoccupied, as we all are now, by the deficiencies of the health service, by criminal gangs and homelessness, by the pitfalls of dating in the age of #metoo. All of their stories, though, are inspired by ones drawn from Graeco-Roman myth, from the Bible or from folk-lore.
The ancients invented myths to express what they didn't understand. These witty fables, elegantly written and full of sharp-eyed observation of modern life, are also visionary explorations of potent mysteries and strange passions, charged with the hallucinatory beauty and horror of their originals.
Автор: Hughes-hallett, Lucy Название: Fabulous ISBN: 0008334889 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008334888 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1187.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Not since Angela Carter`s The Bloody Chamber have old stories been made to feel so electrically new. Not since Wim Winders` Wings of Desire have the numinous and the everyday been so magically combined.
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