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A searing portrayal of Vienna's bourgeoisie, it begins with the arrival of an unnamed writer at an 'artistic dinner' hosted by a composer and his society wife-a couple he once admired and has come to loathe. The guest of honor, a distinguished actor from the Burgtheater, is late. As the other guests wait impatiently, they are seen through the critical eye of the writer, who narrates a silent but frenzied tirade against these former friends, most of whom have been brought together by Joana, a woman they buried earlier that day.

Based on Cartarescu's own role as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. One character asks another: when you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? On a broad scale, the novel's investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines reconcile the realms of life and art.

The Apocryphal Acts of Paul, Peter, John, Andrew, and Thomas is a collection of early Christian texts that did not make it into the canonical New Testament. These apocryphal acts provide additional stories and legends about the apostles and their missionary activities. The publication of the apocryphal Acts in Greek and Latin by Lipsius and Bonnet as well as Schmidt have opened a large, but very little cultivated field of ancient Christian literature. The oldest of these Acts are those which are treated in the present volume.

Im Wiener Kunsthistorischen Museum bezieht jeden zweiten Vormittag der Musikphilosoph Reger Stellung. Nur an den eintrittsfreien Samstagen bleibt Reger dem Museum fern...

Die Autobiographischen Schriften sind der Schlüssel zum Werk von Thomas Bernhard. Sie kehren sein Innerstes nach außen. Keine Texte, die intimer, berührender sind als die fünf zwischen 1975 und 1982 geschriebenen Erzählungen, in denen der Autor seine traumatischen Kindheits- und Jugenderinnerungen beschreibt. Fünf aufwühlende Geschichten, gelesen von fünf der besten deutschsprachigen Schauspieler. Die Ursache. Eine Andeutung, gelesen von Ulrich Matthes. 1943: Dreizehnjährig wird Thomas Bernhard in ein Internat nach Salzburg geschickt.

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on...

Er hatte sich geschworen, diese Leute nie wieder zu sehen. Und doch: Er läuft ihnen direkt über den Weg. Und doch: Er schafft es nicht, die Einladung zum künstlerischen Abendessen abzulehnen...

Der gemeinsame Aufenthalt im Sanatorium ist Anlass für Thomas Bernhard, sich an vergangene Zeiten mit seinem Freund Paul Wittgenstein zu erinnern...

Thomas Bernhard bewegt sich entlang der Grenze zwischen Komik und Tragik, zwischen Wahrheitssuche und offenkundigem Spaß an der Übertreibung. Unglaubliche Geschichten von groteskem Humor, die immer wieder ins Hintergründige und Philosophische umschlagen.

Audie Award, Literary Fiction, 2016. The story of Jack Crabbe, raised by both a white man and a Cheyenne chief. As a Cheyenne, Jack ate dog, had four wives, and saw his people butchered by General Custer's soldiers. As a white man, he participated in the slaughter of the buffalo and tangled with Wyatt Earp.

This landmark work—a foundational volume in the ecological canon—points to a necessary transformation of consciousness if mankind and the planet are to survive. Drawing upon the wisdom of the world's greatest thinkers, Thomas Berry forges a balanced, deeply felt declaration of planetary independence from the sociological, psychological, and intellectual conditioning that threatens the death of the Earth. Offering a path that will avert ecological catastrophe, Berry builds his case on a comprehensive review of the history of ideas.

A Raw Youth (sometimes translated as The Adolescent) is a most chaotic and for non-Russians one of the more confusing of Dostoevsky’s major novels, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoevsky assumed his readers were familiar with the intellectual debates from the 1840s through the 1860s, when dramatic changes, the liberation of the serfs and liberal idealism gave way to anarchism and terrorism. The first person narrator, Arkady, describes his coming of age, his self doubts, his emerging sensuality and his search for roots in family. It is as it ...

In zorniger Rückschau zieht Thomas Bernhard eine Bilanz der ihm verliehenen Literaturpreise. Auf die gesamte Menschheit schimpfend und über sich selbst den Kopf schüttelnd, entwirft er ein Selbstporträt des Autors als Preis- und Preisgeldempfänger. Detailliert schildert der begnadete Komiker die Tragödien, zu denen sich die Überreichung jeweils entwickelte - egal, ob Bremer Literaturpreis, Österreichischer Staatspreis, Grillparzeroder Georg-Büchner-Preis. Thomas Bernhard hadert mit der Welt im Allgemeinen, dem Kulturbetrieb im Besonderen und ganz speziell mit sich selbst mittendrin.

Sie sind der Schlüssel zum Werk von Thomas Bernhard. Sie kehren sein Innerstes nach außen. Kein Text, der intimer, berührender ist als die fünf zwischen 1975 und 1982 geschriebenen Erzählungen, in denen der Autor seine traumatischen Kindheits und Jugenderinnerungen beschreibt.

One of Vogue’s Best Books of the Year “Reading the novel is akin to spending time with a witty if merciless observer of other people’s idiocies. There’s something of a latter-day Holden Caulfield about the narrator…it possesses an enlivening, claustrophobic charge.” —The Spectator...

John Felton meets evil late one Monday morning when the doorbell rings. Standing on the front porch is a stranger. He wears expensive running shoes and a baseball cap and calls himself Richie. He tells John his car has stalled and asks for help. An altercation at the gas station leads to a shocking crime as violence begets violence. At the end of this harrowing day, John returns home to find Richie ensconced in his living room, chatting up his wife. The evil has somehow seeped into his life....

In der Nacht vom 24. auf den 25. Dezember ermordet Konrad seine seit Jahren an den Rollstuhl gefesselte Frau...

Religio Medici: The Religion of a Doctor (1643) by Sir Thomas Browne is an explanation and analysis of the author’s religious belief in relation to his profession as a medical doctor. As such, it is a spiritual testament and a psychological self-portrait based on the Christian virtues of faith, hope, and charity. In the preface, Browne explains that his text is not a scholarly work, requesting that it be approached by a mind informed by faith and open to accepting his self-exploration. The first part explores faith and hope; and the second, charity.

Becket: Warrior - 1159. Toulouse. Thomas of London, Chancellor of England, has spent a lifetime as a clerk, administrator, and ambassador. Now he must prove himself a warrior and leader of men, if his friend and master King Henry II of England is to achieve his ambition to rule all France. The fiery King and calculating Chancellor are as close as brothers, but many at court see Thomas as an upstart. Becket must fight on a political as well as military front. The city of Toulouse controls trade into Spain and the Mediterranean.

A leading scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest who spent more than 50 years writing about our engagement with the Earth, Thomas Berry possessed prophetic insight into the rampant destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of species. In this book he makes a persuasive case for an interreligious dialogue that can better confront the environmental problems of the 21st century.