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ár a könyvön:
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eredeti ár:
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990 Ft
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One
There was no wind; sea flat as a plate met sky the same colour as the water. Only an occasionai glint betrayed their meeting. The beach sloped so slowly to meet the sea it might have been an illusion that it inclined at all. Sand, dry as a biscuit near the shore, changed colour gradually,...
Prologue
In the peace of the dawn the tolling of the bells ought to have sounded all the more strange and out of place. Instead, the dull rhythmic knocks of their gigantic clappers - their ropes pulled by a feeble yet stubborn hand - accompanied the calmness of the morning like the beating of an...
1It all began with outbreaks of discontent in the villages.Day by day bad omens began to appear in the poorer areas. An old farmer of Galland saw the form of a fiery chariot in the sky. In Sareaux an ignorant old woman croaked out oracles couched in the purest Latin. Rumors went around of a cross...
No one could write a book of this kind out of his head, and I have taken what I wanted where I could find it. My chief source of information has naturally been the works of Machiavelli. I have found much that was to my purpose in Tommasini's biography and something in Villari's, and I have made...
JAILBIRD Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During the Second World War he served in Europe and, as a prisoner of war in Germany, witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired his classic növel...
It might begin:The thrush has his anvil or altar on one fallen stone in a heap, gold and grey, roughly squared and shaped, hot in the sun and mossy in the shade. The massive rubble is in a clearing on a high hill. Below is the canopy of the forest. There is a spring, of course, and a litde river...
Baudolino tries his hand at writing
Rattisbon Anno Dommini Domini mense decembri mclv Cronicle of
Baudolino ofthefammily ofAulario.
I Baudolino son of Galiaudo Gagliaudo of the Aulari with a head
that looks like a lion halleluia gratias to the Allmighty may he forgive me
ego habeo facto the...
AT YOUR OWN RISK A Saint's Testament % Derek Jarman - painter, theatre designer and film-maker - held his first one man show at the Lisson Gallery in 1969. He designed sets and costumes for the theatre (Jazz Calendar with Frederick Ashton and Don Giovanni at the Coliseum). He was production...
PROLOGUEI am the doubter and the doubt. And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.- Ralph Waldo EmersonI suppose because I went to film school, I think of my Story as a sort of film. In a film, this part would he under the credits, opening with an establishing shot from a high angle, perhaps the Eiffel...
The Three Novels of a Poet
I think it only fair to tell the reader ofthe following pages why, at this time of day, when surely everything that could be said about Goethe has long since been said, I should write an essay on his novels. It has given me pleasure to do so, and if there is a better...
Augustus
I
I think I must be one of the few persons still alive who knew Augustus Hare. I had published a first novel which had had some success and he asked a common friend, a minor canon of St. Paul's, to invite me to dinner so that we might meet. 1 was young, twenty-four, and shy; but he...
ONEIt was religious yearning granted hope, it was the holy grail of science. Our ambitions ran high and low for a creation myth made real, for a monstrous act of self-love. As soon as it was feasible, we had no choice but to follow our desires and hang the consequences. In loftiest terms, we aimed...
ON A BEACH IN SIDON A BULL WAS APING a lover's coo. It was Zeus. He shuddered, the way he did when a gadfly got him. But this time it was a sweet shuddering. Eros was lifting a girl onto his back: Europa. Then the white beast dived into the sea, his majestic body rising just far enough above the...
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Introduction
I was standing in my father's room reading the Sunday Times Magazine cover story 'Vietnam: old glory, young blood.' The date was 24 March 1968, and I was 22. I looked at all the pictures, read all the words. I can still remember the feel of the newsprint in my hand. I recall...
I HE LAST FEW WEEKS have not been easy for me. After an absence of sixty years, Magda Damrosch has reentered my life and my system is in turmoil. I cannot sleep and I am troubled by constipation. How ironic that the release of the psychological mechanism should be accompanied by stoppages in the...
The insuperable gap between East and West that exists in some eyes is perhaps nothing more than an optical illusion. Perhaps it is only the conventional way of expressing a popular opinion based on insufficient evidence and masquerading as a universally recognized statement of fact, for which...
TRANSLATOR*S NOTE
THE translator's task is not simply impossible, it is also extremely difficult, and especially so in a book, such as My Michael, whose essence consists, to a large extent, in the texture of the language. A further complication is that Israëli Hebrew naturally reflects the...
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Preface
'I am painting the infinite'
Vincent van Gogh^
This is a book about the biggest subject of all. Its the ultimate travellers guide to everything that could be: the rough and the smooth guide to infinity.
Infinity has hatmted human minds for thousands of years. It...
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INTRODUCTION
At the height of the Vietnam War in 1968, the young German revolutionary Rudi Dutschlce appealed to the raging students of West Berlin to "commit yourselves like Mao's Chinese comrades to a Long March through the institutions of the state." A generation later, and an...
1. Common Knowledge
Anyone in the neighborhood could tell you how Michael and Pauline first met.
It happened on a Monday afternoon early in December of 1941. St. Cassian was its usual poky self that day—a street of narrow East Baltimore row houses, carefully kept little homes intermingled...
Introduction
Was my aunt Virginia Woolf indeed a great writer? When I was still a teenager, it seemed as though a few people thought so, although not so many as now, but their voices were thinly spread, neither quite convinced nor convincing. But then the world was infinitely smaller, and the...
Prologue Post-Impressionism: Royal Academy of Arts, London 1980
He signed the Friends' Book in his elegant handwriting: Alexander Wedderburn, January 22nd, 1980.
She had said, peremptory as always, that he was to go straight to Room III, where 'the miraculous stuff was to be found. Early. So...
Iam out here in California waiting for the walls to come tumbling down. We have had omens. Ten years of plague. Seven years of drought. Firestorms. Mudslides. Floods. Pestilence. Riots. Tremors. Visions of the Virgin. The millennium is bearing down on us fast. Nobody knows if 1999 will bring the...
Acknowledgements
I had never intended to write my memoirs, because, as a musician, I had always believed that only the life of a major composer is interesting or important enough to merit writing about. Two factors, however, made me change my mind. First, I realized quite recently that I am one...
Preface
There is one point I want to make about these stories. The reader will notice that many of my stories are written in the first person singular. That is a literary convention which is as old as the hills. It was used by Petronius Arbiter in the Satyricon and by many of the story-tellers...
An hour before dawn on March 7th 1974, Kaspar Joachim Utz died of a second and long-expected stroke, in his apartment at No. 5 Siroká Street, overlooking the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague.
Three days later, at 7.45 a.m., his fiiend Dr Vaclav OrHk was standing outside the Church of St Sigismund,...
The Harvest
But what's wrong with that man?
All afternoon (yesterday the day before yesterday and today) he's
been sitting there staring at aflame he humped into me at evening as he went downstairs he said to me: 'The body dies the water clouds the soul hesitates
and the wind forgets always...
1
Stretching eyes west Over the sea. Wind foul or fair. Always stood she Prospect-impressed; Solely out there Did her gaze rest. Never elsewhere Seemed charm to be. HARDY, "The Riddle'
An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay—Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of...
TO MT TWO COLLEOIANO
You have been a joy, a surprise, a source of wonderment for me at every stage of your young lives. So I suppose I shouldn't be astonished by what you have done for me and this book; but I am, and dedicating it to you is a mere whisper of my gratitude. I gave you the...
With a journey before him, Charley Mason's mother was anxious that he should make a good breakfast, but he was too excited to eat. It was Christmas Eve and he was going to Paris. They had got through the mass of work that quarter-day brought with it, and his father, having no need to go to the...
My name is Serena Frome (rhymes with plume) and almost forty years ago I was sent on a secret mission for the British security service. I didn't return safely. Within eighteen months of joining I was sacked, having disgraced myself and ruined my lover, though he certainly had a hand in his own...
TlMEQUAKE Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During the Second World War he served in Europe and, as a prisoner of war in Germany, witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an exper.ence which inspired his classic növel...
Preface
The characters of fiction are strange fish. They come into your mind. They grow. They acquire suitable characteristics. An environment surrounds them. You think of them now and again. Sometimes they become an obsession so that you can think of nothing else. Then you write of them and for...
The Harvest
But what's wrong ivith that man ?
All afternoon (yesterday the day before yesterday and today) he's
been sitting there staring at a flame he humped into me at evening as he went downstairs he said to me: 'The body dies the xvater clouds the soul hesitates
and the tmnd forgets...
Author's note:
These stories take place in an industrial city of northern Italy. The first in the sériés were written in the early 1950s and thus are set in a very poor Italy, the Italy of neo-realistic movies. The last stories date from the mid-60s, when the illusions of an economic boom...
Preface to
CATCH-22
In 1961, The New York Times was a newspaper with eight columns. And on November 11 of that year, one day after the official publication date of Catch-22, the page with the book review carried an unusual advertisement that ran from top to bottom and was five columns wide. To...
One AdrenochromeWhen the man was dead, Jon was cómpelled to tidy up the mess he'd made in the process of killing him. Because the man had put up something of a struggle there was a fair amount of furniture to be straightened, photographs uprighted and pillows to be fluffed, which he went about...