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A heartbroken American writer starts a story about an ice-cold sombrero that falls inexplicably from the sky and lands in the centre of a small Southwest town. Devastated by the departure of his gorgeous Japanese girlfriend, he cannot concentrate on his writing and in frustration he throws away his beginning.But as the man searches through his apartment for strands of his lost love's hair, the discarded story in the wastepaper basket - through some kind of elaborate origami - carries on without him. Arguments over the sombrero begin, one thing leads to another and before long all hell breaks loose in the normally sleep town.

Barcelona. 22 cm. 476 p., 2 h. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Colección 'Joyas literarias'. Uris, Leon 1924-2003. QB VII. Traducción Baldomero Porta .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario.

David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book.If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself.With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. Make no these stories are very, very funny--it's a book that can make you laugh 'til you snort, the way only family can. Sedaris's powers of observation have never been sharper, and his ability to shock readers into laughter unparalleled. But much of the comedy here is born out of that vertiginous moment when your own body betrays you and you realize that the story of your life is made up of more past than future.This is beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk and love a good tumor joke. Calypso is simultaneously Sedaris's darkest and warmest book yet--and it just might be his very best.

This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In the "Exhalation," an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people, but for all of reality.

"Memento is about the fragility of the book and the power of reading. It includes a miniature book that is housed in a metal locket that allows the reader to wear the book close to the body. The simple act of carrying a book on one's person has diverse implications depending on circumstance and place ... While the commemorative aspect of this piece is clear, the content of Memento addresses philosophical questions about the nature of reading and information transfer in our own lives as well as within the context of western culture in general."--Artist's statement from Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website (viewed June 14, 2012)

ברן, שוויץ, שנת 1905. שעת שחר מוקדמת. פקיד צעיר מנמנם בכיסאו במשרד הפטנטים. בחודשים האחרונים פוקדים אותו חלומות מוזרים על עולמות-זמן שונים.יש עולם שבו נע הזמן בתנועה מעגלית, וכל מה שמתרחש בו ישוב ויקרה באותה צורה בדיוק: כל חיבוק, כל נשיקה, כל מוות. בעולם אחר הזמן זורם כמו נהר, והאנשים נשטפים באדוותיו. בעולם שבו הזמן נע אחורה האנשים חיים את חייהם במהופך, מרגע המוות עד הלידה. בעולם הסטטי נשארים צעירים לנצח. ובעולם שמשכו יום אחד בלבד, מספיקים האנשים לחוות כל חוויה מחייהם - אבל רק להרף עין."בעולם בלי עתיד, כל פרידה מידיד היא מוות. בעולם בלי עתיד, כל בדידות היא סופית. בעולם בלי עתיד, כל צחוק הוא הצחוק האחרון. בעולם בלי עתיד, אנשים נאחזים בהווה כאילו היו תלויים על צוק."שמו של הפקיד הצעיר הוא אלברט איינשטיין. הוא שוקד על מחקר מהפכני. חלומותיו ימצאו מקום בתורת היחסות.החלומות של איינשטיין הוא רומן קסום המגשר על מרחק שנות האור שבין מדע לאמנות. הספר תורגם לכשלושים שפות ושהה שבועות רבים ברשימות רבי המכר בארה"ב ובאירופה.אלן לייטמן הוא פרופסור לפיזיקה ולמדעי הרוח ב-MIT, מסצ´וסטס, ומחברם של חמישה-עשר רומנים וספרים מדעיים.

“the Mirror In The Mirror” - Michael Ende’s Book Is A Fantastic Story Labyrinth Of A Very Special Kind. For The Author Himself, This Work Was Of Great Importance: In Interviews, He Liked To Call It His “never-ending Story For Adult Readers.” The Reader Is Taken Into A Mysterious Narrative World, Full Of Bizarre Situations And Mysterious Fates, Surreal Images And Philosophical Thoughts. Those Who Open Themselves In Amazement To These Enigmatic Visions And Allow Themselves To Be Drawn Into The Fantastic Stories Will Emerge From Michael Ende’s Magic Labyrinth With A New Perspective. The Core Question Is: What Is Reflected In A Mirror That Is Reflected In A Mirror? If Two Readers Read The Same Book, They Are Still Not Reading The Same Thing. For Both People Immerse Themselves Into The Reading. The Book Becomes A Mirror In Which The Reader Is Reflected. But In The Same Way, The Reader Is Also A Mirror In Which The Book Is Reflected: The Mirror In The Mirror Refers The Reader Back To Himself. The Faz Writes That Michael Ende Shows With The Book “how Much Darkness, Wildness And Rawness Is Inherent In Dreams. He Does Not Trivialize. His Dreams Make Reference To Reality Because In Dreams, Cicero Wrote, ‘the Remnants Of Those Objects Roll And Tumble About In The Souls Which We Have Thought And Impelled While Awake’.”

Geoff Dyer was a talented young writer, full of energy and reverence for the craft, and determined to write a study of D. H. Lawrence. But he was also thinking about a novel, and about leaving Paris, and maybe moving in with his girlfriend in Rome, or perhaps traveling around for a while. Out of Sheer Rage is Dyer's account of his struggle to write the Lawrence book--a portrait of a man tormented, exhilarated, and exhausted. Dyer travels all over the world, grappling not only with his fascinating subject but with all the glorious distractions and needling anxieties that define the life of a writer.FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD"In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life , Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times

Nightmarish scenarios of violence, dramatic states of mind, and perverse sexual abysses - the films of the Cinema of Transgression that were consciously aimed at shock, provocation, and confrontation, bear witness to an extraordinary radicality.In the 1980s a group of filmmakers from the Lower East Side in New York went on a collision course with the conventions of American society. Transcending all moral or aesthetic boundaries, the low budget films reveal social hardship met with sociopolitical indifference. Sometimes shot with stolen camera equipment, the films contain strident analyses of life in the Lower East Side defined by criminality, brutality, drugs, AIDS, sex, and excess.Even though the movement has remained largely unknown, the Cinema of Transgression has been a significant influence for later generations of artists.With conceptual design and collages by Leonard Neumann LSD, this unique publication reflects the 'pulp-punk' spirit of the Cinema of Transgression.Published on the occasion of the exhibition YOU KILLED ME FIRST: Cinema of Transgression at KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, 19 February – 9 April 2012.English and German text.