“My Life in Art” is the 1924 autobiography of seminal Russian actor and teacher Konstantin Stanislavski. The book is divided into four sections : “Artistic Childhood”, “Artistic Youth”, “Artistic Adolescence”, and “Artistic Adulthood”. Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski (1863 – 1938) was a Russian actor and theatre director, famous for the 'Stanislavski Method' of teaching acting. This fascinating volume constitutes a must-read for a ...
"Nets to Catch the Wind” is a 1921 collection of poetry by Elinor Morton Wylie. The poems include: “Beauty”, “The Eagle And The Mole”, “Madman's Song”, “The Prinkin' Leddie”, “August”, “The Crooked Stick”, “Atavism”, “Wild Peaches”, “Sanctuary”, “The Lion And The Lamb”, etc. A marvellous collection of melodious, sensuous poetry not to be missed by fans of Wylie's seminal work. Elinor Morton Wylie (1885–1928) was an American n ...
Книги о Гарри Поттере стали не только любимым детским чтением, не только бестселлером, но и отличным способом познания мира и его новых, не описанных прежде закономерностей. «Хогвартс» – это не просто школа, где интересно, это школа, где очень хорошо усваиваются предметы, потому что учащиеся на собственной шкуре могут почувствовать всю степень их нужности. Как устроен «Хогвартс»? Поговорим об этом с писателем Дмитрием Быковым на веселой лекции д ...
Whether in poetry, fiction, radio drama or sound installations, Esther Dischereit's work represents a unique departure in recent European writing: a distinctive, off-beat syntax of German-Jewish intimacy with the fractured consciousness and deeply rutted cultural landscape of today's Germany. Sometimes a Single Leaf, mirroring the development of Esther Dischereit's poetry across three decades, includes selections from three of her ...
Commenting on Hoskote's poetry on the Poetry International website, the poet and editor Arundhathi Subramaniam observes: «His writing has revealed a consistent and exceptional brilliance in its treatment of image. Hoskote's metaphors are finely wrought, luminous and sensuous, combining an artisanal virtuosity with passion, turning each poem into a many-angled, multifaced experience.» Ranjit Hoskote belongs to the younger generation of ...
Mila Haugova has written a moving book about the farewell of loved ones and the slipping away of one's own life. The starting point is a double loss: her mother dies and her lover goes his own way. During her dead mother's childhood and distant past, the loved ones have faced a hoped-for future. Now only a reduced daily life remains, shot through with ever present memories. Haugova overlays the departed, and now recalculated, images of ...
Jan Baeke, the award-winning Dutch poet, has, in Greater than the Facts (Groter dan de feiten, 2007), created an intriguing filmic world in which tensions are rife and nothing is quite as it seems. It is a world whose elements keep recurring, coalescing little by little into dreamlike leitmotifs – a bus journey, a hotel room, dogs, cigarettes, fire, a blind man, a canary, a man and a woman in love. And love, however fragile it may be, is a major ...
Иван Алексеевич Бунин. Что вспоминается, когда слышишь это дорогое для каждого русского читателя имя? Быть может, блистательные «Темные аллеи», цикл из тридцати восьми рассказов, который называют «энциклопедией любви». Биографы, литературоведы, да и просто читатели давно задаются вопросом: как могло родиться у писателя такое множество волнующих любовных сюжетов и разнообразных женских характеров? В очередной книге серии раскрываются тайны любовн ...
This vintage book contains Percy Bysshe Shelley's seminal 1819 poem, «Masque of Anarchy». The poem, though written in a relaxed and familiar manner, is highly characteristic of Shelly's other works. It has the usual ardour of his tone, the unbounded sensibility by which he combines the most domestic with the most remote and fanciful images, as well as his signature patience. This volume is highly recommended for all poetry-lovers, and ...