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My Life of Absurdity
Author | : Chester B. Himes |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1560250941 |
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The author shares the experiences of his later years as an internationally known writer in Paris' expatriate cafe society
My Life of Absurdity
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Author | : Chester B. Himes |
Publsiher | : Paragon House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1557783071 |
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This second volume in the autobiography of legendary writer Chester Himes talkes the reader into the heart of Paris expatriate cafe society in the 1950s, offering fascinating glimpse of lovers, three continents, and other black men like himself making their way as writers: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison.
The Age of Absurdity
Author | : Michael Foley |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1847375243 |
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PHILOSOPHY. A wry and accessible investigation into how the desirable states of wellbeing and satisfaction are constantly undermined by modern life. Michael Foley examines the elusive condition of happiness common to philosophy, spiritual teachings and contemporary psychology, then shows how these are becoming increasingly difficult to apply in a world of high expectations. The common challenges of earning a living, maintaining a relationship and ageing are becoming battlegrounds of existential angst and self-loathing in a culture that demands conspicuous consumption, high-octane partnerships and perpetual youth. Foley presents an entertaining strategy of not just accepting but embracing today's world - finding happiness in its absurdity.
The Myth of Sisyphus And Other Essays
Author | : Albert Camus |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2012-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780307827821 |
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One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaffirming the value of personal existence, and the possibility of life lived with dignity and authenticity.
Lyrical and Critical Essays
Author | : Albert Camus |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2012-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780307827784 |
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Edited by Philip Thody, translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy. "Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus' three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is that they illuminate new facets of his usual subject matter."--The New York Times Book Review "...a new single work for American readers that stands among the very finest."--The Nation
The Autobiography of Chester Himes The quality of hurt
Author | : Chester B. Himes |
Publsiher | : Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : UOM:39015027235723 |
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The Age of Absurdity
Author | : Michael Foley |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2010-09-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780857203724 |
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The good news is that the great thinkers from history have proposed the same strategies for happiness and fulfilment. The bad news is that these turn out to be the very things most discouraged by contemporary culture. This knotty dilemma is the subject of TheAge ofAbsurdity- a wry and accessible investigation into how the desirable states of wellbeing and satisfaction are constantly undermined by modern life. Michael Foley examines the elusive condition of happiness common to philosophy, spiritual teachings and contemporary psychology, then shows how these are becoming increasingly difficult to apply in a world of high expectations. The common challenges of earning a living, maintaining a relationship and ageing are becoming battlegrounds of existential angst and self-loathing in a culture that demands conspicuous consumption, high-octane partnerships and perpetual youth. In conclusion, rather than denouncing and rejecting the age, Foley presents an entertaining strategy of not just accepting but embracing today's world - finding happiness in its absurdity.
Surrealism and the Art of Crime
Author | : Jonathan Paul Eburne |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Authors |
ISBN | : 0801446740 |
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Corpses mark surrealism's path through the twentieth century, providing material evidence of the violence in modern life. Though the shifting group of poets, artists, and critics who made up the surrealist movement were witness to total war, revolutionary violence, and mass killing, it was the tawdry reality of everyday crime that fascinated them. Jonathan P. Eburne shows us how this focus reveals the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the thought and artwork of the surrealists and establishes their movement as a useful platform for addressing the contemporary problem of violence, both individual and political. In a book strikingly illustrated with surrealist artworks and their sometimes gruesome source material, Eburne addresses key individual works by both better-known surrealist writers and artists (including André Breton, Louis Aragon, Aimé Césaire, Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dalí) and lesser-known figures (such as René Crevel, Simone Breton, Leonora Carrington, Benjamin Péret, and Jules Monnerot). For Eburne "the art of crime" denotes an array of cultural production including sensationalist journalism, detective mysteries, police blotters, crime scene photos, and documents of medical and legal opinion as well as the roman noir, in particular the first crime novel of the American Chester Himes. The surrealists collected and scrutinized such materials, using them as the inspiration for the outpouring of political tracts, pamphlets, and artworks through which they sought to expose the forms of violence perpetrated in the name of the state, its courts, and respectable bourgeois values. Concluding with the surrealists' quarrel with the existentialists and their bitter condemnation of France's anticolonial wars, Surrealism and the Art of Crime establishes surrealism as a vital element in the intellectual, political, and artistic history of the twentieth century.