Vintage publishing nov 2002 (6 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Discover the adventures of David Boring in this electrifying new graphic novel from the author of Ghost WorldDavid Boring is a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured inner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is, and what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of circumstances (in this case a sensational cascade of vengeance, humiliation and murder), the primal nature of mankind will come inexorably to the fore.'Imagine a tilted comic-book homage to Hitchcock's Vertigo, but with religious cults, fetishistic scrapbooks and scenes of underwater coupling' - Guardian 132 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Schwindelartige Gefühle der Irritation - in den vier durch wiederkehrende Motive und literarische Anspielungen kunstvoll miteinander verwobenen, geheimnisvollen Geschichten überkommen sie den Erzähler immer dann, wenn sich zwischen Erinnerung und Wirklichkeit eine bedrohliche Kluft auftut. Neben dem französischen Romancier Henri Beyle alias Stendhal ist es vor allem Franz Kafka, dem sich der Autor über die literarische Bewunderung hinaus verbunden fühlt und dessen ruheloser, lebendigtoter Jäger Gracchus durch alle vier Geschichten geistert. Es ist die Melancholie, die Sebald an diesen beiden Autoren interessiert und seinen eigenen Erfahrungen gegenüberstellt, denn wie der Erzähler selbst wurden auch Stendhal und Kafka von Eingebungen getrieben, von Träumen, Ahnungen und - 'Schwindelgefühlen' geplagt.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Discover the adventures of David Boring in this electrifying new graphic novel from the author of Ghost WorldDavid Boring is a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured inner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is, and what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of circumstances (in this case a sensational cascade of vengeance, humiliation and murder), the primal nature of mankind will come inexorably to the fore.'Imagine a tilted comic-book homage to Hitchcock's Vertigo, but with religious cults, fetishistic scrapbooks and scenes of underwater coupling' - Guardian.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Why are there religious beliefs in all cultures Do they have features in common and why does religion persist in the face of science Pascal Boyer shows how experimental findings in cognitive science, evolutionary biology and cultural anthropology are now providing precise answers to these general questions, and providing, for the first time, real answers to the question: Why do we believe.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Discover the adventures of David Boring in this electrifying new graphic novel from the author of Ghost WorldDavid Boring is a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured inner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is, and what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of circumstances (in this case a sensational cascade of vengeance, humiliation and murder), the primal nature of mankind will come inexorably to the fore.'Imagine a tilted comic-book homage to Hitchcock's Vertigo, but with religious cults, fetishistic scrapbooks and scenes of underwater coupling' - Guardian 132 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Discover the adventures of David Boring in this electrifying new graphic novel from the author of Ghost WorldDavid Boring is a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured inner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is, and what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of circumstances (in this case a sensational cascade of vengeance, humiliation and murder), the primal nature of mankind will come inexorably to the fore.'Imagine a tilted comic-book homage to Hitchcock's Vertigo, but with religious cults, fetishistic scrapbooks and scenes of underwater coupling' - Guardian 132 pp. Englisch.…