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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand-copied on reeds pulled from the Nile were the treasures of the ancient world. Papyrus is the story of the book’s journey from oral tradition to scrolls to codices, and how that transition laid the very foundation of Western culture. Irene Vallejo evokes the great mosaic of literature in the ancient world, all the while illuminating how ancient ideas about education, censorship, authority, and identity still resonate today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- De Hunter Pechin en 12-15-22
De: Irene Vallejo, y otros
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Sontag
- Her Life and Work
- De: Benjamin Moser
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 22 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
No writer is as emblematic of the American 20th century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Cloying voice
- De Suzanne en 11-02-19
De: Benjamin Moser
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The Western Canon
- The Books and School of the Ages
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: James Armstrong
- Duración: 22 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 230
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 133
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 135
Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, Afrocentrism, and the New Historicism. Insisting instead upon "the autonomy of aesthetic," Bloom places Shakespeare at the center of the Western Canon.....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A personal and opinionated book on the Canon
- De Steffen en 07-23-12
De: Harold Bloom
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- De: Clive James
- Narrado por: Clive James
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 148
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 102
From Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Charlie Chaplin, this varied and unfailingly absorbing book is both story and history, both public memoir and personal record - and provides an essential field-guide to the vast movements of taste, intellect, politics and delusion that helped to prepare the times we live in now.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very enjoyable and well narrated
- De Larbi en 05-18-08
De: Clive James
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How Fiction Works
- De: James Wood
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 85
Ranging widely from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from What Maisie Knew to Make Way for Ducklings, Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step. He sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision, resulting in nothing less than a philosophy of the novel, which has won critical acclaim nationwide, from the San Francisco Chronicle to the New York Times Book Review.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Educational!
- De Don en 05-04-09
De: James Wood
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Jewish Comedy
- A Serious History
- De: Jeremy Dauber
- Narrado por: Jeremy Dauber
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 174
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 151
In a major work of scholarship both erudite and very funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from Biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing his book thematically into what he calls the seven strands of Jewish comedy - including the satirical, the witty, and the vulgar - Dauber explores the ways Jewish comedy has dealt with persecution, assimilation, and diaspora through the ages. He explains the rise and fall of popular comic archetypes such as the Jewish mother, the JAP, and the schlemiel and schlimazel.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not funny
- De supermantwo en 08-31-20
De: Jeremy Dauber
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Machiavelli
- The Art of Teaching People What to Fear
- De: Patrick Boucheron
- Narrado por: Mack Sanderson
- Duración: 2 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
In a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with valuable political insights that resonate as strongly today as they did in his time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Tester
- De Iván en 04-09-24
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- De: William Egginton
- Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
In the early 17th century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a novel. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from studying too many novels of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That story, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Interesting and Informative, but Poorly Read
- De LCorSMT en 06-21-23
De: William Egginton
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The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music
- De: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrado por: Duncan Steen
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 148
One of Nietzsche’s earliest works, The Birth of Tragedy (1872) is a remarkable source of inspiration. It is here that the philosopher expresses his frustration with the contemporary world and urges man to embrace Dionysian energy once more. He refutes European culture since the time of Socrates, arguing that it is one-sidedly Apollonian and prevents man from living in optimistic harmony with the sufferings of life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Apollonian vs The Dionysian
- De JCW en 02-05-18
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Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
- De: Andrew S. Curran
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 36
Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopedie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison for his atheism in 1749, Diderot decided to reserve his best books for posterity - for us, in fact. In the astonishing cache of unpublished writings left behind after his death, Diderot challenged virtually all of his century's accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the norms of human sexuality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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lifelong coverage of his life.
- De Michael Daly en 03-22-21
De: Andrew S. Curran
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At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,048
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 922
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 916
Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!"
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4 out of 5 stars
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Consistent look at incoherent philosophy
- De Gary en 06-19-16
De: Sarah Bakewell
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Immortality
- De: Milan Kundera
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 125
Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cerebral Crosswinds in Parisian fields
- De W Perry Hall en 01-13-14
De: Milan Kundera
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Measure for Measure
- De: William Shakespeare
- Narrado por: Royal Shakespeare Company
- Duración: 2 h y 27 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
A performance of the tragi-comedy by the Royal Shakespeare Company. When a young woman is offered the choice of saving a man's life at the price of her own chastity, what should she do? The political and moral corruption of Vienna has driven Duke Vincentio into hiding while his deputy governor, Angelo, is left to revive the old discipline of civic authority. Angelo's first act is to imprison Claudio, a young nobleman who has gotten his betrothed, Juliet, with child.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Highly recommended
- De Todd en 10-16-08
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Isak Dinesen
- The Life of a Storyteller
- De: Judith Thurman
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 21 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 52
Isak Dinesen earned international fame for Seven Gothic Tales and Out of Africa, and other stories that skillfully combine elements of fable, social conflict, and psychological drama. She was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize. Yet the story of her life - her travels, affairs, and friendships - remains the greatest story of all.
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3 out of 5 stars
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over-written
- De Jacqui Good en 10-19-18
De: Judith Thurman
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Natasha's Dance
- A Cultural History of Russia
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: Ric Jerrom
- Duración: 29 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 116
Beginning in the 18th century with the building of St. Petersburg - a 'window on the West' - and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself - its character, spiritual essence and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the great works - by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall - with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Kaleidescopic panorama of an enigmatic culture.
- De Tarquin en 02-13-19
De: Orlando Figes
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To Show and to Tell
- The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
- De: Phillip Lopate
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 62
Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, is universally acclaimed as “one of our best personal essayists” ( Dallas Morning News). Here, combining more than 40 years of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, he brings us this highly anticipated nuts-and-bolts guide to writing literary nonfiction. A phenomenal master class shaped by Lopate’s informative, accessible tone, and immense gift for storytelling.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not a guide on writing personal essays
- De A. Yoshida en 08-07-13
De: Phillip Lopate
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- De: Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim - translator
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A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals—while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel “the unbearable lightness of being."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Love, Politics, and Strange Bedfellows
- De Mel en 07-01-12
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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Ignorance
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- De: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Irena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence "their memories no longer match."
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The Festival of Insignificance
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 2 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Listeners who know Milan Kundera's earlier books know that the wish to incorporate an element of the "unserious" in a novel is not at all unexpected of him.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Review of Little Significance.
- De Darwin8u en 07-14-15
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Slowness
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 3 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
Disconcerted and enchanted, the listener follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic. Underlying this libertine fantasy is a profound meditation on contemporary life: about the secret bond between slowness and memory, about the connection between our era's desire to forget and the way we have given ourselves over to the demon of speed. And about "dancers" possessed by the passion to be seen, for whom life is merely a perpetual show .
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well done
- De Liam SR en 05-25-19
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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Testaments Betrayed
- An Essay in Nine Parts
- De: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Graeme Malcolm
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
Milan Kundera has established himself as one of the great novelists of our time with such books as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In Testaments Betrayed, he proves himself a brilliant defender of the moral rights of the artist and the respect due to a work of art and its creator's wishes. The betrayal of both - often by their most passionate proponents - is the principal theme of this extraordinary work. Listeners will be particularly intrigued by Kundera's impassioned attack on society's shifting moral judgments and persecutions of art and artists.
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The Joke
- De: Milan Kundera
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- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Kundera 's work) as what it truly is: great, stirring literature that sheds new light on the eternal themes of human existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Adder Sowing Thorns in the Garden of the Soul
- De W Perry Hall en 02-28-17
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A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals—while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel “the unbearable lightness of being."
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4 out of 5 stars
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De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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Ignorance
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- De: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 27
Irena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence "their memories no longer match."
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The Festival of Insignificance
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- Duración: 2 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 36
Listeners who know Milan Kundera's earlier books know that the wish to incorporate an element of the "unserious" in a novel is not at all unexpected of him.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Review of Little Significance.
- De Darwin8u en 07-14-15
De: Milan Kundera
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Slowness
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 3 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
Disconcerted and enchanted, the listener follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic. Underlying this libertine fantasy is a profound meditation on contemporary life: about the secret bond between slowness and memory, about the connection between our era's desire to forget and the way we have given ourselves over to the demon of speed. And about "dancers" possessed by the passion to be seen, for whom life is merely a perpetual show .
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well done
- De Liam SR en 05-25-19
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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Testaments Betrayed
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- De: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher - translator
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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The Joke
- De: Milan Kundera
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- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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5 out of 5 stars
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Adder Sowing Thorns in the Garden of the Soul
- De W Perry Hall en 02-28-17
De: Milan Kundera
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Life Is Elsewhere
- De: Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 23
The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed and (literally) to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent ("innocence with its bloody smile!"), Jaromil is at the same time a true poet. He's no creep, he's Rimbaud.
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Laughable Loves
- De: Milan Kundera
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 39
Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road - only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to seduce a devout girl, then jilts her and yearns for God. In yet another girls wait in bars, on beaches, and on station platforms for the same lover, a middle-aged Don Juan who has gone home to his wife.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Really hard to follow
- De Ingrid en 02-07-24
De: Milan Kundera
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Identity
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 3 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 35
There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own. This also happens with couples - indeed, above all with couples, because lovers fear more than anything else "losing sight" of the loved one. With stunning artfulness in expanding and playing variations on the meaningful moment, Milan Kundera has made this situation - and the vague sense of panic it inspires - the very fabric of this novel.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting
- De Jamy Bee en 12-16-18
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Immortality
- De: Milan Kundera
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 125
Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cerebral Crosswinds in Parisian fields
- De W Perry Hall en 01-13-14
De: Milan Kundera
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 215
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 174
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A well-lubricated orgy of ideas
- De Darwin8u en 04-26-14
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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The Art of the Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Graeme Malcolm
- Duración: 4 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's bureaucratized universe. Kundera's discussion of his own work includes his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action, and the creation of character in the postpsychological novel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative and Inspiring
- De Mo en 11-27-21
De: Milan Kundera, y otros