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Val and Tyne
Dr. Val McCormick runs a successful movie makeup effects business, Splatter House FX. But there's something a little different about the life-like stunt doubles he mutilates on camera. They're a little too life-like. Dead bodies, in fact: re-animated for those spectacular few moments. Now that he's got his big break on a huge Hollywood movie starring William Katt and Tyne Daly, Val will go to any lengths to ensure his gruesome money shot is the most realistic ever put on film. What could possibly go wrong?
The World Republic of Letters
The "world of letters" has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality. In this book, Pascale Casanova shows us the state of world literature behind the stylistic refinements--a world of letters relatively independent from economic and political realms, and in which language systems, aesthetic orders, and genres struggle for dominance. Rejecting facile talk of globalization, with its suggestion of a happy literary "melting pot," Casanova exposes an emerging regime of inequality in the world of letters, where minor languages and literatures are subject to the invisible but implacable violence of their dominant counterparts. Inspired by the writings of Fernand Braudel and Pi...
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The Plague-spreader's Tale
In the last months of World War II, a young man with a fatal disease, straight out the army, is sent to a TB sanatorium near Palermo. It feels like a leper colony- people arrive, but never leave until they are dead, usually in a matter of months. Even the doctor has the illness in his cells. But the sap of life cannot be stopped from flowing. The men's and women's wings of the sanatorium are strictly segregated, but there are permits to go into town for patients who have passed a screening; there are little boys to run lovers' errands; and there is human ingenuity. In the long, hot summer of 1946, at an evening of amateur theatricals organised by the doctor, our narrator falls in love with Marta, a young ballerina who has not lost her grace. But what sort of future can be expected of such a romance?
