1960s
В сборник включены роман всемирно известного писателя-коммуниста Ланоша Мештерхази «В нескольких шагах граница...», рассказы и радионовелла «Люди из Будапешта» В романе воссоздается правдивая картина жизни Венгрии в грозные дни 1919 года, рассказывается о судьбе двух мужественных коммунистов-подпольщиков, бежавших из хортистской тюрьмы. В многоплановых рассказах отражены животрепещущие проблемы с...
Thirty-plus years ago a dark rumble of noise gurgled up from the Lower East Side of New York City, made its way across the Atlantic to Great Britain, zigzagged back over the pond to the West Coast, and exploded. Its namePunk. InPunk 365, the most provocative photography documenting the performances, the looks, and the attitude has been gathered together, revealing reverberations that continue to...
В книге рассматривается чешская литература 60-80-х гг. ХХ века, когда она играла инициативную роль в развитии реформаторского движения «Пражской весны», а после его разгрома в августе 1968 г. пыталась осмыслить его уроки. Автор анализирует наиболее значительные произведения этого периода – романы Кундеры, Шкворецкого, Вацулика, Грабала, Когоута, пьесы Гавела, «поэзию будничного дня» и др., а также...
Published in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art In the mid-1960s, at the height of his creative powers, Andy Warhol produced hundreds of three-minute cinematic portraits, called "Screen Tests." Although rarely screened now,
"Kosinski to wielki pisarz o wyobrazni transgresyjnej. Zakladnik ciemnych, demonicznych sil. Rozpoznal obszary zla i wrocil stamtad z Malowanym ptakiem, pozostawiajac mroczne ostrzezenie: 'Chlopiec w Malowanym ptaku ucielesnia dramat naszej cywilizacji: tragedia zbrodni zawsze pozostaje z zywymi'"
The Attic is Danilo Kis?s first novel. Written in 1960, published in 1962, and set in contemporary Belgrade, it explores the relationship of a young man, known only as Orpheus, to the art of writing; it also tracks his relationship with a colorful cast of characters with nicknames such as Eurydice, Mary Magdalene, Tam-Tam,and Billy Wise Ass. Rich with references to music, painting, philosophy, and...
All his life, Richard Fountain has known only success. He is handsome, with an enviable record from school, army and university. A future career as a talented archaeologist seems assured. That is, until he travels to Greece and meets Chriseis. Chriseis is beautiful, mesmerising and mysterious, but also evil. A spellbound Richard is lured into her dark world of vice, vampirism and ritual, high up i...
The sport is cockfighting, and Frank Mansfield is the Cockfighter--a silent and fiercely contrary man whose obsession with winning will cost him almost everything. In this haunting, ribald, and percussively violent work, the author of the Hoke Mosely detective novels yields a floodlit vision of the cockpits and criminal underbelly of the rural South.
'A variation on the theme of The Turn of the Screw in the manner of Graham Greene with an olive from The Cocktail Party and a dash of Dashiell Hammett.' Cyril Connolly First published in 1961, The Scarlet Boy saw the versatile Arthur Calder-Marshall venturing into gothic terrain with a study in the paranormal. Historian George Grantley agrees to find a property for his school-friend...
Richard Hudson, woman chaser and used car salesman, has a pimp's awareness of the ways women (and men) are most vulnerable. One day Richard decides to make an ambitious film, which turns into a fiasco. Enraged, he exacts revenge on all who have crossed him.
Peter Leland, a young minister, inherits his grandparents' farm in the mountains of North Carolina. He and his wife decide it is the perfect place to spend the summer so Peter can finish his book on Dagon, the maimed pagan deity of fertility described in the First Book of Samuel and in Bradford's History of Plymouth Colony, and whom Peter has preached is still worshiped in American cultu...
Includes the novella, Sardonicus, and 16 other short stories.
Woody Allen began his career writing jokes and scripts, then progressed to stand-up and acting, and finally wrote and directed his first film, Take the Money and Run, in 1969. This was a screwball comedy that starred Allen as a hapless and self-demeaning schlemiel who bumbles his way through preposterous and hilarious situations. His first serious recognition as a filmmaker came with the Oscar he...
От издательства: Уважаемый читатель! Этой книгой начинается серия, которой мы хотим заполнить тот вакуум философской литературы, который сложился в нашей стране за последние годы. Выбирая книгу для начала этой серии, мы остановили свой взор на книге известного политическою деятеля 50-70 гг. Роже Гароди. Член Политбюро ЦК французской комму?нистической партии. Впрочем, точнее было бы сказать - бывш...
Lancashire in the time of Cromwell, a county cursed, like the rest of England, by civil war and beliefs in witchcraft... Accused of the murder of her husband by witchcraft, Mary Standen is only saved from hanging by the intervention of a young commander of a Troop of Horse as she lies naked and bound hand and foot. That same night, as an unwilling witness to a graveyard orgy, she sees for herse...
The harvest is ripe in a Black Country pear orchard. Seasoned hands settle to familiar tasks and the ritual education of newcomers. But corrupted lands yield a bitter crop. The weather turns, friction mounts, and pesticide begins to fall. Kenneth Tynan wrote in The Observer, "Not since Look Back in Anger has a playwright made a debut more striking than this."
This now classic book was first published by Atheneum in 1966. It was selected by Scholastic Books for inclusion in the Arrow Book Club. Twelve-year-old Harry Houdini Marco is awkward and clumsy, bearing little resemblance to his magician namesake, until he acquires the gift of flight.
The definitive collection of tales by the award-winning horror writer includes such classics as "The Hunger," "Miss Genibelle," and "Free Dirt," and features introductions by Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, Roger Corman, and others. Reprint.
The Cook may be described as a fable of horror and delight. The sinister weapons are marvelous food, flattery and, if necessary, neatly accidental murder...
