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King of Betajnova / Kralj na Betajnovi is a psychological drama about the personal price one is willing to pay in order to accrue wealth. In this intense play, celebrated Slovenian playwright, Ivan Cankar paints a harrowing portrait of Jozef Kantor, a rich innkeeper whose soul is sullied by murder, greed, and ambition. Kantor is feared by everyone in his village with the exception of young Maks Krnec, who is willing to expose Kantor's sinister deeds. Cankar depicts an epic power struggle the likes of David and Goliath, between the idealist Maks and the ruthless Kantor. Written in 1902, King of Betajnova tackles themes of family, wealth, and Machiavellian concepts of ends justifying means. Iv...
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"For the past several decades, French historians have emphasized the writing of history in terms of structures, cultures, and mentalities, an approach exemplified by proponents of the Annales school. With this volume, Bernard Guenée, himself associated with the Annalistes, marks a decisive break with this dominant mode of French historiography. Still recognizing the Annalistes' indispensable contribution, Guenée turns to the genre of biography as a way to attend more closely to chance, to individual events and personalities, and to a sense of time as people actually experienced it, without sacrificing the conceptual rigor made possible by crisply stated problématiques. His engaging and de...
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