Eris sep 2026 (7 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - It begins with a drink thrown in a moment of anger--public, irreversible, and instantly understood. From that point on, everything closes in. Business relationships sour, social standing slips, money tightens, and the small evasions that once held life together stop working. What follows unfolds over just a few days, with a precision that makes every misstep feel both accidental and inevitable. Appointment in Samarra is a novel about pressure and about how little it takes for a life built on appearances to come apart. O'Hara writes without flourish and without relief. He offers no grand catastrophe, only a sequence of recognisable choices, each narrowing the field until there is nowhere left to go.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A priceless object. A handful of people willing to lie, betray, and kill for it. And at the center, a man who knows exactly what everyone is doing--and how far he is willing to go himself. The Maltese Falcon strips the detective story to its core: not the solving of a crime, but the negotiation of a world where nothing is binding and everything has a price. What remains is the pure tension between desire and restraint, knowledge and action, self-interest and the faint, stubborn outline of a code.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - They move from party to party, engagement to engagement, scheme to scheme--never stopping long enough to notice that nothing is holding. Money evaporates, relationships dissolve, plans collapse. Still, the music plays. Vile Bodies is comedy at speed, but its subject is exhaustion: a generation living as if permanence were optional, and discovering that it is not. Beneath the glitter, something is already breaking, but no one quite knows how to stop.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - First published in 1939, Walter Jackson Bate's seminal study of John Keats's 'negative capability' remains the definitive account of one of the central ideas of Romantic poetics. At once genealogical and analytical, Bate traces the concept across a wide intellectual field--linking it to William Hazlitt's notion of 'gusto,' to William Shakespeare's dramatic impersonality, and forward to Henri Bergson's distinction between intellect and intuition. In Bate's formulation, negative capability emerges as a discipline of disinterestedness and imaginative sympathy: the capacity to relinquish the self and enter fully into the reality of another. Against the egotism and epistemic certainties of his age, Keats proposed instead a poetics grounded in openness--to 'uncertainties, mysteries, doubts.' Bate's study restores the full force of that challenge, revealing negative capability not as a passing remark but as a rigorous and enduring principle of artistic creation. This edition returns a foundational work to print, with a new introduction by the Italian poet and critic Maura Del Serra--and renews the truth of T. S. Eliot's judgment: that there is scarcely a statement Keats made about poetry that has not proved true.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A young woman disappears into a world where the law does not reach. Abduction, violence, and trial, all unfold with terrible clarity and no relief. Nobody intervenes, no one answers, nothing is repaired. Sanctuary exposes a system that continues to function even as it ceases to protect. Institutions hold their shape but their force is gone. Power acts freely. Consequence recedes. Still disturbing, still exact, Faulkner's novel endures equally for the clarity of its vision as for its refusal to offer any way out.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In a century of revolutions, final emancipations, and eschatological dreams, the shadowy figure of Louis-Auguste Blanqui--the perpetual insurgent--composed Eternity by the Stars in 1871, imprisoned in the sea fortress of Fort du Taureau. From within his cell, Blanqui arrives at a stark and devastating proposition: given infinite time and a finite number of possible configurations, every event must recur, again and again, without end. Each life is lived an infinity of times across the expanse of the universe; nothing is ever concluded, nothing ever redeemed. History itself becomes a vast mechanism of repetition, indifferent to hope or despair. At once lucid and vertiginous, scientific and hallucinatory, Blanqui's text stands as one of the strangest cosmological speculations of the nineteenth century--and one of its most haunting. This critical edition presents the work in a new English translation, with an extended introduction by Frank Chouraqui, situating Blanqui within a wider constellation of thought from Friedrich Nietzsche to Walter Benjamin and Jorge Luis Borges, and tracing the afterlife of a text that continues to unsettle our understanding of time, action, and the modern condition. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In The Boxer, Gabriele Tinti returns to the ancient bronze known as the Boxer at Rest, a figure seated, battered, unvanquished, and draws from it a sequence of poems as spare and unrelenting as the object itself. These are not elegies for victory, but meditations on endurance, on the dignity of damage, on the silence after violence and the long life of the defeated body. Tinti's lines are cut to the bone. Refusing ornament and consolation alike, they inhabit a world in which strength is indistinguishable from suffering, and survival itself becomes a form of defiance. Across these pages, antiquity is not revived but confronted, its beauty inseparable from brutality, its heroes stripped of myth and left with only their wounds. This edition presents the poems in Italian and English, allowing the full weight and cadence of Tinti's language to resonate across both. What emerges is a work of rare severity and clarity, a book that does not describe the boxer, but becomes him.…