[PDF] Strange News From Another Star eBook

Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 1972
Category : German fiction
ISBN : 0374270880

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Eight stories about the distillation of wisdom, concerning dream worlds, magical thinking, the subconscious and the soul.

Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466835214

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In 1919, the same year Demian was published, seven of these stories appeared as a book entitled Märchen--literally, Fairy Tales. For this first edition in English, we have followed the arrangement Hesse made for the final collected edition of his works, where he added an eighth story, "Flute Dream." The new note so clear in Demian was first sounded, Hesse believed, in some of these tales written during the years 1913 to 1918, the period that brought him into conflict with supporters of the war, with his country and its government, with conventional intellectual life, with every form of orthodoxy both in the world and in himself. Unlike his earlier work, from Peter Camenzind through Knulp, the stories in Strange News from Another Star do not allow for an essentially realistic interpretation. They are concerned with dream worlds, the subconscious, magical thinking, and the numinous experience of the soul. Their subject is the distilling of wisdom. The eight stories are "Augustus," "The Poet," "Flute Dream," "Strange News from Another Star," "The Hard Passage," "A Dream Sequence," "Faldum," and--perhaps the masterpiece of this collection--"Iris."

Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 2003-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312422646

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The Nobel Prize winner's 1922 fairy tale about a young man in the garden of paradise is accompanied by eighteen other stories that interweave fantasy, dream, satire, and folktale elements.

Author : Martin Power
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 35,90 MB
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 0857128620

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As with most great bands, it is difficult to remember a time when Blur weren’t a part of Britain’s rich musical landscape. From art-rock origins they went on to make four multi-platinum number one albums and produced some of the finest songs of the modern era: End of A Century, Girls And Boys, Parklife, Song 2, Beetlebum... And it might not be over yet! The Life Of Blur charts their story from shaky beginnings through to the full-blown superstardom of Parklife, The Great Escape and beyond. At the heart of this tale is the complex, sometimes explosive relationship between Blur’s four founding members: Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Dave Rowntree and Alex James. A rich soup of relentless ambition, dogged persistence, fraying tempers and a million clanging champagne bottles, the emotional chemistry that makes up Blur has been just as interesting to watch as the songs the band have produced. Author Martin Power has talked with band’s former managers, fellow musicians, old school teachers and close friends to shed new light on a group once called “the most intelligent, enduring and credible band to emerge from the Nineties”. With a concise critical commentary on their music, rare photographs and a complete discography, as well as shedding new light on the group's various solo activities - including Damon Albarn's Gorillaz and Graham Coxon's one-man assault on the indie charts - this is the definitive account of Blur’s epic journey.

Author : Lara Vetter
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813065224

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title A Curious Peril examines the prose penned by modernist writer H.D. in the aftermath of World War II, a little-known body of work that has been neglected by scholars, and argues that the trauma H.D. experienced in London during the war profoundly changed her writing. Lara Vetter reveals a shift in these writings from classical "escapist" settings to politically aware explorations of gender, spirituality, nation, and imperialism. Impelled by the shocking political crises of the early 1940s, and increasingly sensitive to imperialist logics, H.D. began to write about the history of modern Europe using innovative forms and genres. She directed her well-known interest in mysticism and otherworldly themes toward the material world of empire-building and perpetual war. Vetter contends that H.D.'s postwar work is essential to understanding the writer's entire career, marking her entrance into late modernism and even foretelling crucial aspects of postmodernism.