Candy -- a satire of Voltaire's Candide -- chronicles her adventures with mystics, sexual analysts, and everyone she meets when she sets out to experience the world.
The first comprehensive edition of Pessoa's poetry in the English language, Fernando Pessoa & Co. is a work of extraordinary depth and poetic precision.
Terminal Paradox is the first full-length study of his work, from his extraordinary first novel, The Joke, through the brilliant and varied books that followed--including The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Kundera's latest best-seller, ...
... chest , and then , instead of slowing down , he sprints . He hears the waves ... up and he sprints . He would go on — he wills himself to go on— until he dies or explodes or implodes or whatever happens to you when the heart gets too big for ...
A reprint of the controversial 1959 novel about narcotics addict Bill Lee, his travels in search of drugs, and his eventual descent into the nightmarish fantasy world of Interzone.
We find in Beckett's masterful, exquisite prose, the familiar themes from his earlier works here expressed in the anguished murmurings of the solitary human consciousness.
The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader's Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought
... Beckett Project " had been built ) , replaced Rand Mitchell as Listener ( 18-30 January 1983 ) . The play was published in Rockaby and Other Short Pieces ( Grove , 1981 ) with " Rockaby , " All Strange Away , and “ A Piece of Monologue ...
... KENNETH LONERGAN is the author of This Is Our Youth , selected as one of Time magazine's ten best plays of 1998. In addition he was nominated for a Drama Desk Best Play Award and received Encore magazine's Taking Off Award . The Waverly ...
The author of You Can Count on Me introduces a new character, Jeff, a hapless security guard who tries to get his life back on track after being tossed out of the Navy.
" In The Bald Soprano Ionesco throws together a cast of characters including the quintessential British middle-class family the Smiths, their guests the Martins, their maid Mary, and a fire chief determined to extinguish all fires -- ...
... ROOM and the alley behind it then left the bar and went back to the Greeks . They told Tralala what they were going to do and went to a furnished room they had rented over one of the bars ... room Al started telling 194 HUBERT SELBY , JR .
On the verge of committing an act of violence, a troubled, orphaned Indian teenager finds himself hurtled through time and into various bodies, before returning to himself, forever altered by his experiences.
... education " at the University . " He always wants to sweat with Indian ... Education of Little Tree , was supposedly written by a Cherokee Indian named Forrest ... Indian stories edited by white men , two nonfiction studies 58 Sherman Alexie.
Samuel Beckett. Works by Samuel Beckett published by Grove Press Collected Poems in English and French Collected Shorter Plays ( All ... Rockaby , Ohio Impromptu , Quad , Catastrophe , Nacht and Träume , What Where ) Complete Short Prose : ...
... Monologues for Boys From You're a Good Man , Charlie Brown by Clark Gesner , based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schultz . Act I 123 Charlie Brown From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Samuel Langhorne Clemens 127 Huckleberry From ...
... Brady Cunningham began coming out to the farm more often once the house was on the market . We'd see her from my porch in her bib overalls and work gloves , her hair tied back with a bandanna , Aunt Jemima - style . She would emerge ...
... script returned to the publisher , where it falls into a well of silence . Finally the truth is wrung from the wet ... kingpin was play- ing golf with a legal iron , and while fairwaying ( certainly not while on the green ) he described the ...
... script gives both script and author a patina of professional respectability ... screenplay , and we were viable again , never mind that the script was stuck in ... kingpin . The scene would end in silence , the camera traveling over the ...
Nancy J. Cohen. Author's. Note. This story was inspired by an incident that happened when I attended a premier beauty ... Free Book Sampler for new subscribers. Thank you for taking the time to read my book. If you enjoyed the story, please ...
... heard you say that you heard the voice of God when you were a teenager , that ever since then you've been waiting to hear God's voice again , and that right now you want me to act as intermediary so the voice of God will speak to you ...
... script " of The Threepenny Opera as she was for Happy End ) . 28 In the unhappy creative course of Happy End and the Brecht scam that lay behind it , Brecht represented himself originally as the author of Happy End . He said he had ...
... films are made in Calcutta , while the Tamil and Telugu cinemas have served as launch pads for politicians such as MG Ramachandran and NT Rama Rao . The greatest cinematic growth now is in regional languages such as Oriya , Marathi and ...
Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
Laid out as diary entries of the last nine months of Burroughs's life, "Last Words" spans the realms of cultural criticism, personal memoir, and fiction.
Joe Orton. What the Butler Saw ' Surely we're all mad people , and they Whom we think are , are not . ' - The Revenger's Tragedy The first London performance of What the Butler Saw was WHAT THE BUTLER SAW.
... guitar kit from Martin Guitars some time later ( that " some time " encompassing other careers as ski instructor , kayak builder , arts ad- ministrator ) so that he could fool around on a guitar of his own , he looked at all the little ...
First published in 1797, this is a sequence of bizarre sexual adventures punctuated by philosophical and theological premises on total egoism and human liberty.
... book . " Since then , however , he has written three major plays : The Balcony ( 1956 ) , The Blacks ( 1958 ) , and The Screens ( 1961 ) . His books were first published privately by admirers of his work in small and expensive editions ...
From the acclaimed writer Susan Minot, author of Monkeys, Lust & Other Stories and Folly, and the legendary filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, director of Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor (winner of nine Academy Awards, including Best ...
In Patrick Marber's new tragi-comic play, four strangers meet, fall in love and fall out of love. Set in contemporary London, Marber recreates an atmosphere of brutality in relation to modern romance.
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