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Showing posts with label amazon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label amazon. Show all posts
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rejected by amazon
Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash by Richard Lourie
wow... вернее oy vey
добавляю таг открытое общество.
Saturday, July 8, 2017
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Sunday, April 5, 2015
Nightmare Alley
carnival of gloom and despair
из предисловия:
see also Nightmare Alley (Film, 1947)
из предисловия:
Had only Gresham known of the paper Freud delivered at the Conference of the Central Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association in September 1921. In it, Freud declared: "It no longer seems possible to brush aside the study of so-called occult facts; of things which seem to vouchsafe the real existence of psychic forces other than the known forces of the human and animal psyche, or which reveal mental faculties in which, until now, we did not believe."how very funny
see also Nightmare Alley (Film, 1947)
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
clever girl
Clever girl, thought Somerset as he left the marquee to look for Tom: toeing the line, yes, but keeping Holbrook lively by scratching at the surface of his jealousy not enough to hurt but just enough to cause a little pleasant itch. - The Rich Pay Latesee also somewhat artificial
Sunday, November 2, 2014
100 books
according to amazon & according to The Guardian
я читал 18 и 28 соответственно.
из списка amazon я бы определенно выкинул Catch-22, Harry Potter, In Cold Blood, Of Human Bondage, The Handmaid's Tale. вообще непонятно как в этот дурацкий список попал The Stranger.
Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime lists are full of gaps: One hundred essential reads without Mark Twain, Henry James and Daniel Defoe? These are guides for the Game of Thrones generation.
и, на мой вкус, conspicuously absent are All the King's Men, Waiting for Godot, The Day of the Locust. они есть в списке Modern Library
в общем у всех свой список.
вот еще Harvard Book Store Top 100 Books, там даже Мастер и Маргарита есть, и Scarlet Letter, что, на мой вкус, правильно.
но поразительно, что они включили A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn. книга неплохая, но включить ее в сто лучших книг?!!?
а в Top 100 Books You Should Read Before You Die есть The Bonfire of the Vanities.
я читал 18 и 28 соответственно.
из списка amazon я бы определенно выкинул Catch-22, Harry Potter, In Cold Blood, Of Human Bondage, The Handmaid's Tale. вообще непонятно как в этот дурацкий список попал The Stranger.
Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime lists are full of gaps: One hundred essential reads without Mark Twain, Henry James and Daniel Defoe? These are guides for the Game of Thrones generation.
и, на мой вкус, conspicuously absent are All the King's Men, Waiting for Godot, The Day of the Locust. они есть в списке Modern Library
в общем у всех свой список.
вот еще Harvard Book Store Top 100 Books, там даже Мастер и Маргарита есть, и Scarlet Letter, что, на мой вкус, правильно.
но поразительно, что они включили A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn. книга неплохая, но включить ее в сто лучших книг?!!?
а в Top 100 Books You Should Read Before You Die есть The Bonfire of the Vanities.
Friday, October 24, 2014
Gnostic Gospels
The Gnostic Gospels - в ортодоксальных евангелиях Воскресение - реальный факт, и апостолы были его свидетелями. согласно гностическим евангелиям Воскресение следует понимать как чисто духовное событие, явление духа Христа. автор книги предполагает, что причина того, что ортодоксальная точка зрения возобладала - в том, что это дало возможность выделить апостолов как свидетелей Воскресения и положило тем самым начало церковной иерархии.
автор - Elaine Pagels. удивительная дама. удивительная жизнь. см. Early life and education. ну и все остальное.
недопущение женщин к выполнению религиозных обрядов как еще одна причина того, что ортодоксальная церковь победила - на особенно убедительно. а вот эгалитарность католиков и их четкие и необременительные правила для признания человека христианином - это наверняка давало им преимущество перед гностическими туманными критериями и определенной элитарностью.
вообще анализ Pagels можно было бы назвать маркстстским, она там даже Фейербаха цитирует о том что theology is really anthropology, при этом называет старика psychologist бедный наверное в могиле ворочается. и Ницше к месту цитирует что в сущности был только один христианин, и он умер на кресте. с этим всем не поспоришь.
в конце она вдруг сбилась вдруг на фрейдизм вот глупости какие.
про каббалу ни слова, хотя в русской Вики внятно написано: Умозрительная Каббала представляет собой соединение элементов гностицизма II-III веков н.э. и неоплатонизма.. английская же версия даже о неоплатонизме говорит с забавным еврейским задором: "Kabbalah mysticism on the Knesset Menorah, which shared some similarities of theory with Jewish Neoplatonists", причем это - единственное упоминание. хуцпа, что тут скажешь.
amazon: almost Marxist analysis
автор - Elaine Pagels. удивительная дама. удивительная жизнь. см. Early life and education. ну и все остальное.
недопущение женщин к выполнению религиозных обрядов как еще одна причина того, что ортодоксальная церковь победила - на особенно убедительно. а вот эгалитарность католиков и их четкие и необременительные правила для признания человека христианином - это наверняка давало им преимущество перед гностическими туманными критериями и определенной элитарностью.
вообще анализ Pagels можно было бы назвать маркстстским, она там даже Фейербаха цитирует о том что theology is really anthropology, при этом называет старика psychologist бедный наверное в могиле ворочается. и Ницше к месту цитирует что в сущности был только один христианин, и он умер на кресте. с этим всем не поспоришь.
в конце она вдруг сбилась вдруг на фрейдизм вот глупости какие.
про каббалу ни слова, хотя в русской Вики внятно написано: Умозрительная Каббала представляет собой соединение элементов гностицизма II-III веков н.э. и неоплатонизма.. английская же версия даже о неоплатонизме говорит с забавным еврейским задором: "Kabbalah mysticism on the Knesset Menorah, which shared some similarities of theory with Jewish Neoplatonists", причем это - единственное упоминание. хуцпа, что тут скажешь.
amazon: almost Marxist analysis
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
The way things really are
Miss Lonelyhearts is a book about what's really happening out there. Most of the people inhabiting this planet are blessed by the evolution with a cognitive bias which allows then not to concentrate on the "negative". Nathanael West, as well as his protagonist known in the book by his "pen name" Miss Lonelyhearts are both denied this blessing. They see things the way things really are. Which is, according to the "depressive realism" concept is the correct way to see the reality.
The protagonist, Miss Lonelyhearts, works for a newspaper. His work is to read letters by the newspaper subscribers, and based on them to write a newspaper column giving advice and providing support and counseling to the readers in their difficult situations. The problem with Miss Lonelyhearts is that he's so much depressed by unspeakable human suffering he encounters in the letters and life around him that he can't in earnest give any advice or consolation his readership expects from him.
In fact, the only advice he can give to his readers is suicide, but his editor says that his job is to increase the subscriber base, not to decrease it. This is an example of dark humor characteristic of Nathanael West. The book abounds with this type opf humor. It's also very poetic, and philosophical. The central chapter, "Miss Lonelyhearts in the Dismal Swamp", explains the terrible bind Miss Lonelyhearts finds himself in, both with his newspaper job - and with his life itself. West's power as a poetic prose writer and philosopher is especially clear in this chapter.
The events in this small book steadily take turn from bad to worse, and the protagonist, trying to emphasize with his readers' suffering, is murdered in the end by the crippled husband of one of the readers, who forces herself on Miss Lonelyhearts as a lover while he can't spare himself neither from her advances nor from her husband's friendship which eventually turns to violent hatred.
"Miss Lonelyhearts" should be compared with "The Loved One" by Evelyn Waugh, they have many similar characters and parallel plot developments, even though they're very different and compliment each other in many ways. "The Loved One" actually has certain common themes with another West's novel, "The Day of the Locust", too.
West was a very powerful writer, this can be clearly seen in "Miss Lonelyhearts", as well as in "The Day of the Locust". Both deserve to be much better known, but, probably, they're to dark and unsympathetic towards American public (and humanity in general) to enjoy wider recognition. Amazon
The protagonist, Miss Lonelyhearts, works for a newspaper. His work is to read letters by the newspaper subscribers, and based on them to write a newspaper column giving advice and providing support and counseling to the readers in their difficult situations. The problem with Miss Lonelyhearts is that he's so much depressed by unspeakable human suffering he encounters in the letters and life around him that he can't in earnest give any advice or consolation his readership expects from him.
In fact, the only advice he can give to his readers is suicide, but his editor says that his job is to increase the subscriber base, not to decrease it. This is an example of dark humor characteristic of Nathanael West. The book abounds with this type opf humor. It's also very poetic, and philosophical. The central chapter, "Miss Lonelyhearts in the Dismal Swamp", explains the terrible bind Miss Lonelyhearts finds himself in, both with his newspaper job - and with his life itself. West's power as a poetic prose writer and philosopher is especially clear in this chapter.
The events in this small book steadily take turn from bad to worse, and the protagonist, trying to emphasize with his readers' suffering, is murdered in the end by the crippled husband of one of the readers, who forces herself on Miss Lonelyhearts as a lover while he can't spare himself neither from her advances nor from her husband's friendship which eventually turns to violent hatred.
"Miss Lonelyhearts" should be compared with "The Loved One" by Evelyn Waugh, they have many similar characters and parallel plot developments, even though they're very different and compliment each other in many ways. "The Loved One" actually has certain common themes with another West's novel, "The Day of the Locust", too.
West was a very powerful writer, this can be clearly seen in "Miss Lonelyhearts", as well as in "The Day of the Locust". Both deserve to be much better known, but, probably, they're to dark and unsympathetic towards American public (and humanity in general) to enjoy wider recognition. Amazon
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