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Bertolt Brecht in Context (Literature in Context)
by Stephen BrockmannBertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht's significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential playwright of the twentieth century. It explores the specific context from which he emerged in imperial Germany during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as Brecht's response to the turbulent German history of the twentieth century: World Wars One and Two, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi dictatorship, the experience of exile, and ultimately the division of Germany into two competing political blocs divided by the postwar Iron Curtain. Throughout this turbulence, and in spite of it, Brecht managed to remain extraordinarily productive, revolutionizing the theater of the twentieth century and developing a new approach to language and performance. Because of his unparalleled radicalism and influence, Brecht remains controversial to this day. This book – with a Foreword by Mark Ravenhill – lays out in clear and accessible language the shape of Brecht's contribution and the reasons for his ongoing influence.
Bertolt Brecht und Ernst Toller
by Thorsten Unger Kirsten Reimers Lydia MühlbachBertolt Brecht und Ernst Toller zählen zu den wichtigsten Dramenautoren der Weimarer Republik. Politisch gab es zu Lebzeiten zahlreiche Berührungspunkte zwischen beiden, und ebenso finden sich hinsichtlich ihres ästhetisch avancierten Anspruchs mit experimentellen Impulsen keineswegs nur im Feld von Theater und Drama Berührungspunkte. Dennoch lassen sich kaum Belege eines intensiveren Austauschs der Autoren finden. Ein Blick in die Forschung erweckt den Eindruck, hier setze sich dieses Schweigen fort. Dieser Band unternimmt es zum ersten Mal, die beiden Autoren und Œuvres zu vergleichen. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf den Dramen und der Dramenästhetik, aber auch Lyrik, Rundfunk, Frauenrollen, kollaboratives Arbeiten und Kanonfragen sind Themen der 20 Beiträge.
Berto's World: Stories
by R. A. ComunaleThese stories follow Dr. Robert Galen, aka Berto, as he traverses the memories of the tenement neighborhood of his youth and those that resid. Meet the Mad Russian--why does he always carry a meat cleaver whenever he goes to get a shave from Thomas the barber? Then there's Giuseppe--Joe the Junkman--who roams through a neighborhood too poor to throw anything away. There are the Old Guys, veterans of the Great War, one a radio repairman who returned home with shell shock, the other a shoemaker with nothing below the waist. There's Mr. Buck, the clockmaker, who shares a secret with his young apprentice. There's the Candy Lady, who isn't so sweet, and the little Jewish dentist who defeated the Nazis but falls victim to Cupid's arrow from a most unexpected direction. Be sure to meet Sal, Tomas, and Angie, Berto's pals who help him confront life's greatest mystery: the opposite sex. And above all there is his mentor, Dr. Agnelli, who along with a dead lady sets Berto along his life's path. Come and meet them--and all of the unforgettable denizens of Berto's world.
The Bertrams: A Novel, Volume Iii (Classics To Go)
by Anthony TrollopeGeorge Bertram’s uncle, a wealthy City merchant, had sent him to Oxford where he made a brilliant record. Inclined toward the church and unwilling to follow his uncle’s advice to adopt commerce as a career, he postponed his decision until after a visit to the Holy Land. In Jerusalem he met his father Sir Lionel Bertram, whom he had not seen since his boyhood and who had shown no interest in his upbringing. Sir Lionel held a minor military diplomatic post that kept him in the East, and while personally charming was little better than a worthless spendthrift. (Wikipedia)
Bertrand Court
by Michelle BrafmanBertrand Court is a captivating novel told in story form, intertwining seventeen luminous narratives about the secrets of a cast of politicos, filmmakers, and housewives, all tied to a suburban Washington, DC, cul-de-sac. Linked through bloodlines and grocery lines, they respond to life's bruises by grabbing power, sex, or the family silver. As they atone and forgive, they unmask the love and truth that hop white picket fences.Michelle Brafman is the author of the novel Washing the Dead. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Slate, Tablet, the Washington Post, Lilith, the the minnesota review, and elsewhere. She teaches fiction writing at the Johns Hopkins University MA in Writing Program and lives with her family in Glen Echo, Maryland.
Bertrand the hermit: Abitibi
by Yves Patrick BeaulieuOne autumn evening in Montreal, Claude is fifteen years old and can no longer repress the desire to strike down the monster that is his father. The latter is still beating his poor mother. Something happens and then the unbelievable happens. Claude has no choice but to flee to the North. He thinks he has taken his father's life...
Beryl Goes Wild
by Jane SimmonsWhen Beryl escapes from the lorry taking her to the abattoir, she finds a new and rather frightening world. A world of wild pigs, where she makes a friend called Amber, meets the Sisterhood of the Mystic Boar and goes on an epic journey - but will she find a home?
Beryl Goes Wild
by Jane SimmonsWhen Beryl escapes from the lorry taking her to the abattoir, she finds a new and rather frightening world. A world of wild pigs, where she makes a friend called Amber, meets the Sisterhood of the Mystic Boar and goes on an epic journey - but will she find a home?
Besa a las Mujeres (Alex Cross #2)
by James PattersonDe James Patterson, el Bestseller #1 de The New York Times, viene la novela más espantosa y más inolvidable en años. En Los Angeles, una periodista que investigando una serie de asesinatos es matada. En Chapel Hill, North Carolina, una hermosa médica interna desaparece de repente. Ahora Alex Cross de Washington D.C. tiene que resolver su caso de homicidio más perplejo y atemorizoso jamás. Por dos asesinos modelos inteligentes están colaborando, cooperando, compitiendo-- y están trabajando de costa a costa. "Difícil de rechazar . . . late como una bomba, siempre llena de amenaza y tensión."-Los Angeles Times"El hombre que no puede errar."-TIME (120,000 palabras)
Besada
by Alejandra Atala Kimberly LothAtrapada en un culto oscuro, Naomi Aren de dieciséis años ha vivido una tranquila, aunque triste, vida enclavada en las colinas de las montañas Ozark. Con el cabello sin cortar, faldas de mezclilla, y sólo rosas como amigos, Naomi rara vez se pregunta por qué su vida es diferente de la de otros chicos en la escuela. Hasta el día en que su abusivo padre, quien también es el líder de la secta, anuncia su boda. Naomi debe casarse con Dwayne Yerdin, un matón que apesta a sudor y estiércol y es la única persona que la asusta más que su padre. Entonces conoce a Kai, el chico misterioso que le trae sus nuevas y exóticas rosas, y besos robados a la medianoche. Besos que le traen una fuerza sobrenatural que nunca supo que tenía. Mientras se acerca el gran día, Naomi descubre más secretos sobr el culto de su padre. Se entera de que tiene poder propio y mientras Kai pudo haber despertado ese poder, Naomi debe encontrar una manera de usarlo para escapar de Dwayne y su padre-- sin destruirse a sí misma.
Bésame (Tú y Yo #3)
by Lexy TimmsTodos necesitamos un lugar donde podamos sentirnos seguros … Katherine Marshall estaba en camino de liberarse de su abusivo marido, Tim Marshall. Con los papeles de divorcio firmados, finalmente puede seguir con su vida. Hasta que descubre que su marido ha demandado a su novio, Ben O'Leary. Katherine se da cuenta que Tim nunca dejará en paz a las personas que ama. Decide que es hora de huir. Tiene que proteger a Ben. Cuando se encuentra con la nueva novia de Tim, tiene la oportunidad de cambiar las cosas con el hombre que ha convertido en su misión de vida el arruinar la de ella. El karma puede ser un verdadero fastidio a veces. Serie: Tú y Yo Libro 1 – Sólo Yo Libro 2 – Tócame Libro 3 – Bésame
Bésame - Un romance de Sage McGuire
by Sharon Kleve Nina C. BrandonSage ha abandonado la seguridad de su antiguo trabajo como asistente ejecutiva de un idiota, y se ha lanzado de lleno abriendo Investigaciones McGuire. Si tan sólo el contar con la pistola e intuición policial del sargento Carter Morgan pudiese salvarla de ser rozada en la sien por una bala, así como ahorrarle otra visita a la sala de urgencias en su intento de recuperar a Mimi, la perrita del tío de su mejor amiga, de un usurero chiflado en su primer caso como investigadora privada… La aterradora y manipuladora exnovia de Carter, la agente especial del FBI Mia Williams, vuelve a la ciudad y con ganas de armarla. Mia está decidida a reavivar su relación con Carter y está acostumbrada a conseguir lo que quiere—sin importar lo que cueste. ¿Lograrán Sage y Carter mantenerse alejados de los problemas mientras mantienen un apasionado romance? Mantente al tanto para seguir esta historia vertiginosa en Quiéreme – Un romance de Sage McGuire.
Besar al detective
by Élmer MendozaUna vibrante novela que explora el entramado de traiciones, pactos y conspiraciones de una sociedad en la que el crimen organizado forma parte indisoluble de la realidad cotidiana. El maestro de la novela negra mexicana, Élmer Mendoza, regresa con un nuevo caso del Zurdo Mendieta Los pobres resultados de la investigación sobre el sangriento homicidio de un adivinador obligan al Zurdo Mendieta a echar mano de sus contactos dentro del oscuro mundo del narcotráfico. Pero, como todos los favores, ninguno es gratuito. Los pobres resultados de la investigación sobre el sangriento homicidio de un adivinador obligan al Zurdo Mendieta a echar mano de sus contactos dentro del oscuro mundo del narcotráfico. Pero, como todos los favores, ninguno es gratuito. Esta búsqueda lo pone de nuevo en la mira y al reencuentro de su vieja amiga Samantha Valdés, jefa del Cártel del Pacífico, quien tras sufrir un atentado se halla convaleciente en un hospital, rodeada de inútiles agentes especiales y un desconfiado ejército mexicano. Como pago por la información sobre el homicida del adivino, al Zurdo no le queda más remedio que ayudar a la jefa a escapar. Lo consiguen mediante un plan descabellado y mucha adrenalina, aunque el rostro del detective es identificado y su misión queda truncada. En la clandestinidad y con un futuro incierto, el Zurdo revive un traumático evento que remueve su miedo y lo regresa a la calle: su hijo ha sido secuestrado en Los Ángeles. Con ayuda del cártel viaja a Estados Unidos, donde descubre una enmarañada situación en la que reina la confusión operada por el FBI, que esconde intereses de gran alcance que Mendieta no alcanza a vislumbrar. Éste es el regreso del Zurdo Mendieta en una vibrante novela en la que, una vez más, se enfrentará a un complejo rompecabezas donde la frontera que divide la ley del crimen pierde su definición. Otros autores han opinado: "El patriarca de la literatura policial en México" -Arturo Pérez Reverte-
Besar la lona
by Antonio CarreñoUn brillante golpe de efecto en formato poema, un canto a los perdedores, a los actores secundarios, a los vencidos...Porque también hay épica en la derrota. A un lado del cuadrilátero, con calzón azul y casi 6000 trillones de toneladas, el mundo. Y al otro lado estás tú.Se intuye un combate desigual.Y es cierto: vas a acabar besando la lona. Pero quizás después de leer este libro lo puedas ver con mis ojos:Besar la lona no es caer, es darle las gracias al suelo. Antonio Carreño reivindica a través de una escritura brillante y de golpe de efecto la importancia del segundo plano, la épica de la derrota, la grandeza de los actores secundarios y de los perdedores. Porque aprender a volar exige muchas horas de suelo. Críticas:«He de reconocer que, a estas alturas de la representación, creía impensable que ningún meteorito poético hiciera impacto en mí, pero el cabrón de Antonio lo ha conseguido. En el centro del pecho. Touché (...) Tras deglutir hipnotizado la lengua de Antonio, tengo la sensación de que Carreño estaba ahí desde el primer momento, justo a mi lado, los dos a la sombra del triunvirato vencedor, pero que, paradójica e inexplicablemente, nunca habíamos enfrentado nuestras miradas».Del prólogo de Kutxi Romero
Besar y cocinar en Escocia
by Tanja NeiseEl famoso músico Adam Ward vive en un aislado pueblo de Escocia - nadie allí tiene idea de quién es - hasta que un día la vivaz Fiona irrumpe en su vida y la sacude. Cuando Fiona se encuentra de repente en peligro, él se da cuenta de que hay algo detrás de su naturaleza rebelde que despierta mucho más que su instinto protector. ¿Podrán los dos trabajar juntos para superar las sombras del pasado de Fiona?
Besarabia: El testigo | La malaventura | El pasajero
by Iliá MitrofanovTres novelas cortas que retratan la vida de unos ciudadanos tras la ocupación de sus tierras por los rusos durante la segunda guerra mundial. Besarabia es un fantasma en el mapa de Europa, una tierra repartida ahora entre Moldavia y Ucrania, un país que la Historia se comió a dentelladas, engulléndolo sin compasión. En ese lugar de nadie vivieron un día hombres y mujeres que intentaban hilvanar su vida mientras por las calles desfilaban botas siempre distintas. Ese es el caso de Fiódor Petrovich, el barbero que nos habla en El testigo, un infeliz ingenuamente convencido de que su habilidad con la navaja, el cuidado que ponía en enjabonar a sus clientes, le salvarían de la tragedia de la invasión rusa a principios de los años 40 del siglo pasado. De Fiódor pasamos a Sabina, la protagonista de La malaventura, una rebelde sin casa y sin causa, pero generosa hasta la locura en su entrega a un amor que va más allá de su comprensión del mundo. Y, para acabar, he aquí el gran Semén Stavraki, que llena las páginas de El pasajero: ciudadano de Odessa, buzo de profesión y marido entregado, el hombre cuenta sus desventuras a un compañero imaginario en un viaje hacia el peor de los destinos. Esta trilogía, que hemos querido titular Besarabia en homenaje a un lugar que pudo ser y ya no es, celebra la fuerza de Mitrofanov y un talento capaz de devolver incluso a los fantasmas una dignidad que creían perdida.
Besarabia
by Iliá MitrofanovBesarabia es un fantasma en el mapa de Europa, una tierra repartida ahora entre Moldavia y Ucrania, un país que la Historia se comió a dentelladas, engulléndolo sin compasión. En ese lugar de nadie vivieron un día hombres y mujeres que intentaban hilvanar su vida mientras por las calles desfilaban botas siempre distintas.Ese es el caso de Fiódor Petrovich, el barbero que nos habla en El testigo, un infeliz ingenuamente convencido de que su habilidad con la navaja, el cuidado que ponía en enjabonar a sus clientes, le salvarían de la tragedia de la invasión rusa a principios de los años 40 del siglo pasado. De Fiódor pasamos a Sabina, la protagonista de La malaventura, una rebelde sin casa y sin causa, pero generosa hasta la locura en su entrega a un amor que va más allá de su comprensión del mundo. Y, para acabar, he aquí el gran Semén Stavraki, que llena las páginas de El pasajero: ciudadano de Odessa, buzo de profesión y marido entregado, el hombre cuenta sus desventuras a un compañero imaginario en un viaje hacia el peor de los destinos.Esta trilogía, que hemos querido titular Besarabia en homenaje a un lugar que pudo ser y ya no es, celebra la fuerza de Mitrofanov y un talento capaz de devolver incluso a los fantasmas una dignidad que creían perdida.
Besaydoo: Poems (Jake Adam York Prize Ser.)
by Yalie Saweda KamaraSelected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara’s Besaydoo is an elegantly wrought love song to home—as place, as people, as body, and as language. A griot is a historian, a living repository of communal legacies with “a story pulsing in every blood cell.” In Besaydoo, Kamara serves as griot for the Freeborn in Oakland, the Sierra Leonean in California, the girl straddling womanhood, the woman re-discovering herself. “I am made from the obsession of detail,” she writes, setting scenes from her own multifaceted legacy in sharp relief: the memory of her mother’s singing, savory stacks of lumpia, a church where “everyone is broken, but trying.” A multitudinous witness. Kamara psalms from the nexus of many languages—Krio, English, French, poetry’s many dialects—to highlight mechanisms not just for survival, but for abundance. “I make myth for peace,” she writes, as well as for loss, for delight, for kinship, and most of all for a country where Black means “steadfast and opulent,” and “dangerous and infinite.” She writes for a new America, where praise is plentiful and Black lives flourish. But in Besaydoo, there is no partition between the living and the dead. There is no past nor present. There is, instead, a joyful simultaneity—a liberating togetherness sustained by song.
Besaydoo: Poems
by Yalie Saweda KamaraSelected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara’s Besaydoo is an elegantly wrought love song to home—as place, as people, as body, and as language.A griot is a historian, a living repository of communal legacies with “a story pulsing in every blood cell.” In Besaydoo, Kamara serves as griot for the Freeborn in Oakland, the Sierra Leonean in California, the girl straddling womanhood, the woman re-discovering herself. “I am made from the obsession of detail,” she writes, setting scenes from her own multifaceted legacy in sharp relief: the memory of her mother’s singing, savory stacks of lumpia, a church where “everyone is broken, but trying.” A multitudinous witness. Kamara psalms from the nexus of many languages—Krio, English, French, poetry’s many dialects—to highlight mechanisms not just for survival, but for abundance. “I make myth for peace,” she writes, as well as for loss, for delight, for kinship, and most of all for a country where Black means “steadfast and opulent,” and “dangerous and infinite.” She writes for a new America, where praise is plentiful and Black lives flourish.But in Besaydoo, there is no partition between the living and the dead. There is no past nor present. There is, instead, a joyful simultaneity—a liberating togetherness sustained by song.
Beside a Burning Sea
by John ShorsFrom the author of Beneath a Marble Sky comes an inspiring new novel of a man and a woman from different worlds whose love is put to the ultimate test as they struggle to survive an extraordinary set of circumstances. View our feature on John Shors' Beside a Burning Sea. One moment, the World War II hospital ship Benevolence is patrolling the South Pacific on a mission of mercy—to save wounded American soldiers. The next, Benevolence is split in two by a torpedo, killing almost everyone on board. A small band of survivors, including an injured Japanese soldier and a young American nurse whom he saves from drowning, makes it to the deserted shore of a nearby island. Akira has suffered five years of bloodshed and horror fighting for the Japanese empire. Now, surrounded by enemies he is supposed to hate, he instead finds solace in their company—and rediscovers his love of poetry. While sharing the mystery and beauty of this passion with Annie, the captivating but tormented woman he rescued, Akira grapples with the pain of his past while helping Annie uncover the promise of her future. Meanwhile, the remaining castaways endure a world not of their making—a world as barbaric as it is beautiful, as hateful as it is loving. With the blend of epic storytelling and emotional intensity that distinguishes him as a unique talent, John Shors reveals a powerful story of redemption focusing on unlikely lovers, heroes and villains, and war-torn countries—all, in their own ways, fighting to survive. .
Beside Myself: A Novel
by Sasha Marianna SalzmannA brilliant literary debut about belonging, family, and love, and the enigmatic nature of identity. Beside Myself is the disturbing and exhilarating story of a family across four generations. At its heart is a twin&’s search for her brother. When Anton goes missing and the only clue is a postcard sent from Istanbul, Ali leaves her life in Berlin to find him. Without her twin, the sharer of her memories and the mirror of her own self, Ali is lost. In a city steeped in political and social upheaval, where you can buy gender-changing drugs on the street, Ali&’s search—for her missing brother, for her identity—will take her on a journey for connection and belonging.
Beside the Bard: Scottish Lowland Poetry in the Age of Burns (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850)
by George S. ChristianBeside the Bard argues that Scottish poetry in the age of Burns reclaims not a single past, dominated and overwritten by the unitary national language of an elite ruling class, but a past that conceptualizes the Scottish nation in terms of local self-identification, linguistic multiplicity, cultural and religious difference, and transnational political and cultural affiliations. This fluid conception of the nation may accommodate a post-Union British self-identification, but it also recognizes the instrumental and historically contingent nature of “Britishness.” Whether male or female, loyalist or radical, literati or autodidacts, poets such as Alexander Wilson, Carolina Olyphant, Robert Tannahill, and John Lapraik, among others, adamantly refuse to imagine a single nation, British or otherwise, instead preferring an open, polyvocal field, on which they can stage new national and personal formations and fight new revolutions. In this sense, “Scotland” is a revolutionary category, always subject to creative destruction and reformation. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Beside the Darker Shore
by Patricia J. EspositoWhat might the ethical Governor David Gedden give up for one man's exquisite beauty? It's terrifying to consider when the man is a destructive blood prostitute and David is responsible for the state's peaceful vampire community. Blood sales in Boston are up, blood taxes support a thriving new nightlife, neighborhoods have been refurbished, and deaths by vampires have plummeted. David is assured reelection.However, the blood addict Stephen Salando has returned from exile with one unalterable plan: to turn the good governor into a vampire. Stephen is an immortal dhampir, whose beauty obliterates reason, who rouses in David a fierce desire he's ignored his whole life. But for David to have Stephen, he must ally with an ancient vampire, the community's seductive archnemesis. To have him, he must become a killer himself.Will David hold on to his ethical public life? Or will he follow what he most desires, a kiss with a killer to become a vampire himself?
Beside the Ocean of Time
by George Mackay BrownIn this novel set on the fictitious island of Norday in the Orkneys, George Mackay Brown beckons us into the imaginary world of the young Thorfinn Ragnarson, the son of a crofter. In his day-dreams he relives the history of this island people, travelling back in time to join Viking adventurers at the court of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople, then accompanying a Falstaffian knight to the battle of Bannockburn.Thorfinn wakes to the twentieth century and a community whose way of life, steeped in legend and tradition, has remained unchanged for centuries. But as the boy grows up - and falls in love with a vivacious and mysterious stranger - the transforming effect of modern civilization brings momentous and irreversible changes to the island. During the Second World War Thorfinn finds himself in a German prisoner-of-war camp, and it is here that he discovers his gifts as a writer. Long afterwards he returns, now a successful novelist, to a deserted and battle-scarred island. Searching for the peace and freedom of mind he had in abundance as a child, he finds instead something he didn't even know he was looking for.George Mackay Brown intertwines myth and reality to create a novel of deceptive simplicity. The story of Thorfinn and the island of Norday is a universal and profound one, rooted in the timeless landscape of the Orkneys, the inspiration of all his writing.