Nobel prize
"Детство Иисуса" - шестнадцатый по счету роман Кутзее. Наделавший немало шума еще до выхода в свет, он всерьез озадачил критиков во всем мире. Это роман-наваждение, каждое слово которого настолько многозначно, что автор, по его словам, предпочел бы издать его "с чистой обложкой и с чистым титулом", чтобы можно было обнаружить заглавие лишь в конце книги. Полная символов, зашифрованных смыслов, алл...
Книга лирический стихотворений лауреата Нобелевской премии Иосифа Бродского. В сборник вошла также Нобелевская лекция, прочитанная поэтом при вручении ему высокой награды.
Это письмо-дневник женщины, дни которой сочтены. Роман-элегия, глубокий, проникновенный.
Эту книгу российские читатели ждут давно. Биография нобелевского лауреата Джона Нэша, математика, чью творческую деятельность на 30 с лишним лет прерывала шизофрения, вышла в США в 1998 году, была номинирована на Пулитцеровскую премию и переведена на 30 языков, а ее экранизация получила четырех “Оскаров”. В книге научные достижения Нэша и его личная история описаны гораздо подробнее, чем в фильме,...
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Сборник произведений крупнейшего прозаика ФРГ Г. Бёлля включает два романа, которые были написаны в начале пятидесятых годов, - "Где ты был, Адам?" и "Дом без хозяина", а также рассказы из сборника "Город привычных лиц".
"Эта книга, - Разъяснял Бергсон в Предисловии к седьмому изданию "Материи и памяти", - утверждает реальность духа, реальность материи, и в ней делается попытка определить отношение между первым и вторым на ясном примере - примере памяти.
A superb new collection from one of our best and best-loved writers. Nine stories draw us immediately into that special place known as Alice Munro territory–a place where an unexpected twist of events or a suddenly recaptured memory can illumine the arc of an entire life. The fate of a strong-minded housekeeper with a “frizz of reddish hair,” just entering the dangerous country of old-maidhood,...
Since 1901 there have been over three hundred recipients of the Nobel Prize in the sciences. Only ten of them -- about 3 percent -- have been women. Why? In this updated version of Nobel Prize Women in Science, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the reasons for this astonishing disparity by examining the lives and achievements of fifteen women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a cruc...
Fable about a man who wants a child, but is unknowingly sterile. His devoted wife decides to conceive by another man. The deception causes torment even greater than before.
The Collected Poems of one of the world's greatest living writers, Tomas Transtromer, now available in this comprehensive edition. In day's first hours consciousness can grasp the world as the hand grips a sun-warmed stone. Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of Tomas Transtromer has had a profound influence around the world, an influence that has steadily grown and has no...
Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger brother. When she begins spending more time in town, she is surrounded by women-her mother, an agnostic, opinionted woman who sells encyclopedias to local farmers; her mother's boarder, the lusty Fern Dogherty; and he...
A three-part reworking of themes from Greek tragedy, the plays are set in New England in 1865, just after the Civil War. A returning victor, General Ezra Mannon (Agamemnon), is poisoned by his unfaithful wife Christine (Clytemnestra) and then avenged by his son Orin (Orestes) and daughter (Lavinia). With Orin's subsequent suicide, Lavinia (the Electra of the title) becomes a fatalistic reclus...
Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic Faber poetry covers, connecting the backlist and the new titles within a single embracing cover solution. A major reissue program is scheduled, to i...
This is the third volume of the collected works of Harold Pinter, who is regarded by many as the foremost playwright in the English language today. Featured are The Homecoming, one of Pinter's best-known works, along with three other plays, six revue sketches, and a short story. The memoir Mac introduces the volume. Pinter's work during this period clearly displays his developing interes...
Selected poems in English and Polish by Wistawa Szymborska
Harold Pinter has long been acknowledged as one of the most influential playwrights in contemporary theatre; his arresting and original works have left a lasting imprint on the development of the stage and screen while delighting audiences around the world. This, the first of four volumes, contains his first five plays, including The Birthday Party (1958), his first full-length drama; as well as...
В этой книге лауреат Нобелевской премии по экономике 2005 года Томас Шеллинг рассматривает системы поведения, в которых индивид, реагируя на внешние обстоятельства и приспосабливаясь к ним, оказывается неспособен понять, как его внешне незначительные и даже кажущиеся бессмысленными действия в сочетании с действиями других индивидов порождают непредвиденные результаты и приводят к значимым непредна...
Arranged in chronological sequence, The Secret Rose offers a glimpse of all Yeats' styles-beginning with his youthful romantic idealism and ending with his more outspoken, sardonic treatment of sexuality.
Dramatist, scriptwriter, short story writer, novelist, poet, director, and actor, Harold Pinter has earned universal praise for his distinctive style and imagination. In this, the most recent of four volumes, Pinter's work echoes many of his earlier themes and techniquesstruggles for power and an ambience of menacewhile finding fresh subject matter and means to express his changing dramatic visi...
For those who are familiar with Yeats' poetry, particulary his beloved early poems like "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," reading "Rosa Alchemica" is an experience of joy. Called by critics his best work of fiction, "Rosa Alchemica" incorporates not only the lush language and imagery of early Yeats, but also his personal interests: Irish culture, myth and legend, and his lifelong membership in th...
Originally published in 1969, Seamus Heaney's Door into the Dark continues a furrow so startlingly opened in his first collection, Death of a Naturalist (1966). With the sensuosness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early writing, these poems graphically depict the author's rural upbringing, from the local forge to the banks of Lough Neagh, concluding in...
