Пол Фасселл

Книга Пола Фассела - историка, литературоведа и ветерана Второй мировой войны - посвящена Первой мировой как "точке перехода" от старого типа сознания к новому. Практики окопной войны, как повседневные, так и магистические (то есть связанные с воздействием ситуативных магических культурных кодов на сознание), во многом определили те существенные изменения, которые произошли в мировосприятии в ХХ в...

In this amusing and trenchant book, Paul Fussell zeroes in on the death of American sensibility and taste. "We are living in a moment teeming with raucously overvalued emptiness and trash," he writes in this reference work that exposes bad, from bad advertising and bad ideas to bad restaurants and bad TV.

The bestselling, comprehensive, and carefully researched guide to the ins-and-outs of the American class system with a detailed look at the defining factors of each group, from customs to fashion to housing. Based on careful research and told with grace and wit, Paul Fessell shows how everything people within American society do, say, and own reflects their social status. Detailing the lifestyl...

The year 2000 marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Fussell illuminates a war that changed a generation and revolutionised the way we see the world. He explores the British experience on the western Front from 1914 to 1918, focusing on the various literary means by which it has been remembered, conventionalized and myt...