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L'Officina dello sguardo
I due volumi raccolgono contributi di autorevoli studiosi italiani e stranieri che, partendo dalla pluralità di orizzonti di interesse di Maria Andaloro, avviano inediti percorsi critici e storiografici. Se I luoghi dell’arte, titolo della prima serie di saggi, s’incentra sulla geografia artistica della Sicilia e del Mediterraneo, di Roma e di Bisanzio nel Medioevo, raggiungendo però anche territori ‘altri’, dall’Anatolia preistorica fino alla Cina, la seconda raccolta, Immagine, memoria, materia, sviluppa una varietà di affondi tematici che comprende gli sguardi dell’estetica, della critica d’arte, della diagnostica e del restauro, in omaggio al pensiero della studiosa, sempre volto a riunificare e al contempo a distinguere i molteplici ambiti del sapere artistico, in un’ottica di vitale complessità creativa.
Soviet Disunion
Ethnic upheaval throughout the USSR now threatens the very reforms introduced by Gorbachev and may well decide the fate of his government. This volume describes the histories of the suppressed and angry nationalities, their drive for the restoration of national rights, and the implications for the future. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Feodor Vladimir Larrovitch; an Appreciation of His Life and Works
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Vladimir Nabokov
The Velvet Butterfly is the third in a series of introductions to some of our major literary figures by the noted cultural journalist and foreign correspondent Alan Levy.
Vladimir Sorokin's Discourses
Vladimir Sorokin is the most controversial contemporary Russian writer. He became famous when the Putin youth organization burned his books and he picked up neo-imperialist discourses in his dystopian novels, making him one of the fiercest critics of Russia's "new middle ages," while remaining steadfast in his dismantling of foreign discourses.
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Pretender to the Throne
This hilarious novel follows the continuing adventures of the simple peasant Ivan Chonkin, who has been arrested as a traitor to the motherland after spending World War II happily tending a garden. Lacking evidence against him, the bumbling bureaucrats base their case on a rumor in his home village that he is the illegitimate son of a prince. The comic case of mistaken identity escalates as they accuse this unlikely prince of working in league with Hitler to restore the monarchy. In this sequel to The Extraordinary Life and Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich ridicules everything that was sacred in the Soviet Union - including the army, the justice system, the press, and Stalin - in a refreshing combination of dissident conscience and universal humor.
Vladimir M.
Moscow, March 1953: As Stalin breathes his last, four women meet in Room 408 of the luxurious hotel Metropol. They have gathred to reminisce about the great poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, whose work they once inspired. Following his mysterious suicide twenty-five years earlier, he was canonised by Stalin - but in life he was a farmore complicated man, violently torn between art and politics. As his muses piece together their conflicting memories of the man, a portrait of the artist as a tormented young idealist emerges, revealing him as a sexual obsessive caught in the eye of history's storm, struggling to hold on to his ideals in the face of a revolution betrayed. In Vladimir M., Robert Littell creates a provocative cocktail of fiction and reality, bringing to life the tumultuous Stalinist era and the disaster it spelt for the artists it ensnared.
National Union Catalog
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