Lucie Simerová Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Per anni Jack Kerouac ebbe l'abitudine di tenere accanto al letto, sul comodino, un taccuino e una matita. E ogni mattina, appena sveglio, registrava tutto quanto poteva ricordare dei sogni fatti durante la notte. Da quegli appunti trasse poi questa sorta di "autobiografia parallela" filtrata attraverso l'attività onirica, pubblicata da Lawrence Ferlinghetti nel 1961 in un'edizione ridotta e qui proposta per la prima volta nella versione integrale. Nei sogni qui narrati compaiono molti dei personaggi dei racconti dell'autore di On the Road, riconoscibili grazie alla tabella delle corrispondenze suggerita dallo stesso Kerouac. Insolito e originale, Il libro dei sogni è un'opera illuminata da una scrittura spontanea e affascinante, una finestra aperta sul mondo interiore di un grande scrittore.

Beautifully rejacketed, Doctor Sax is one of Kerouac’s best books – a vivid, nostalgic tale of one boy’s extraordinary childhood. Of all his books, Doctor Sax was the one Jack Kerouac loved the most. He began writing it in 1948, but wrote the greater part of it in 1952, when he was staying in Mexico with William Burroughs. Told through the character of Kerouac’s fictional alter ego, Jack Duluoz, the novel tells the story of his extraordinary childhood in Massachusetts. A clever and rebellious boy, playing among the river weeds and railroad tracks, going to the movies, reading pulp comics and watching cartoons, Jack creates an imaginary world of strange, new possibilities. Within this world lies the weird and wonderful Doctor Sax…

In these uncollected writings Jack Kerouac portrays himself in his life. He hitches a ride to San Francisco with a blonde, goes on the road with photographer Robert Frank, rides bus through the Northwest and Montana, records the blues of an old Negro hobo, talks about the Beats and how it all began, gives his "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" and defends his novel The Subterraneans, compares Shakespeare and James Joyce, describes the cafeterias and subways of Manhattan, goes to a ballgame and a prize fight, and reflects on Céline, on Christmas in New England, on Murnau's Nosferatu, on jazz & bop, and tells us what he's thinking about. And in the closing piece "cityCityCITY," we're treated to Jack's science fiction vision of the future."Table of Contents Robert Creeley: Thinking of Jack: A Preface On the Road On the Beats On Writing Observations On Sports Last Words cityCityCITY Editor's Note

Seventeen-year-old Ever is the sole survivor of a car crash that killed her entire family. Living with her aunt in Southern California, she's plagued by the ability to hear the thoughts of those around her, and haunted by the ghost of her little sister. She tries to tune everyone out, shunning her old lifestyle as the pretty, popular cheerleader, but somehow she can't hide from Damen, the new guy at school. Stunningly handsome, clever and not a little bit intimidating, there's something about him that doesn't quite add up. Ever realises he's hiding something, but nothing could prepare her for the truth - especially when the truth involves past lives, murderous enemies, everlasting love and the secret of eternal youth . . .

Dans ce livre gorgé d'espace, d'infini, de violence, de cruauté et de mort, pas un personnage qui n'ait le goût et le sens de l'invisible, pas un personnage qui ne tente de voir au-delà et, quelquefois, y réussit. La maison de l'aube parle d'un temps presque révolu, retenu ici et là comme la robe sur laquelle on tire, le monde de la nature avec les nuages, la pluie, les arcs-en-ciel, les étoiles — quelque chose que nous avons cessé de voir et de savoir ou, plutôt, que nous ne savons plus voir et reconnaître ! À le (res) susciter, Scott Momaday excelle, comme il excelle à restituer l'ambiguïté du monde indien, en équilibre instable entre hier et aujourd'hui, le sacré et le profane les dieux ou Dieu, les dieux ou rien, le calumet de la paix, et la cigarette, la noblesse et une déchéance...

Beautiful stories from the new and old worlds, infused with autobiographical elements. "Everything can become a passion," states the title story, and the protagonists of Isaac B. Singer provide ample evidence of this. This collection gathers tales of Jewish destinies in both the new and old worlds, focusing on individuals filled with fears and hopes. The Dibbuk often plays a crucial role, predominantly possessing female characters and transforming them into the obsessed. "The longer I live among them [the Jews of Eastern Europe] and write about them, the greater my astonishment at the diversity of their personalities and, as I am one of them, at my own whims and passions. And while I hope for their redemption and resurrection, I dare to say that for me all these people are still alive. In literature, as in our dreams, there is no death." Isaac B. Singer

Laura Middlebrooková žije do svých pětadvaceti let až příliš poklidně. Náhle se dozvídá, že brzy zemře. Rozhodne se, a donutí pohledného a divokého detektiva Seana Wildera, aby se s ní oženil a ukázal jí nevázaný pařížský noční život.

Twenty years have passed for Asher Lev. He is a world-renowned artist living in France, still uncertain of his artistic direction. When his beloved uncle dies suddenly, Asher and his family rush back to Brooklyn--and into a world that Asher thought he had left behind forever....

Una recreación ficticia de la vida de Geronimo, el último gran guerrero de la nación apache, y su lucha contra los colonos blancos para mantener la tierra y el modo de vida de su tribu.