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Apr 03, 2020 08:40PM
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Free membership (2 months) to Bart Ehrman’s blog. (Biblical stuff)
Lia wrote: "https://www.publicbooks.org/public-bo..."This is all they have on Lukacs:
https://www.publicbooks.org/?s=lukacs
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This is all they have on Lukacs:
https://www.publicbooks.org/?s=lukacs"
Is that all? Man, what will I do when I run out of stuff to read!?
Ebay has some copies. Unfortunately, the cheapest I saw was 25 simoleons. At that price, I could make a wallop of a profit if I sold my copy, which would be an excellent example of capitalist dialectics--'buy low, sell high'. Come up with an antithesis to that, whydoncha.
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http://filmedonstage.com/news/93-shak...
https://www.youtube.com/user/Shakespe...
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Save $20 / £16 and get yourself unlimited access to over a million books, magazines, and audiobooks for two months. Read and download books onto any Kindle, iOS, Android, PC or Mac and enjoy offline reading anywhere. Note - this deal is available until the end of April and for new customers only.
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“We have added 20 additional titles to our free ebook library! These plus our original 30 free ebooks will be available until May 20th without charge.”
Our newly added titles:
Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico by Antonio Tabucchi, trans. by Tim Parks
The Exploded View by Ivan Vladislavić
Wayward Heroes by Halldór Laxness , trans. by Philip Roughton
A Change of Time by Ida Jessen, trans. by Martin Aitken
Dreams and Stones by Magdalena Tulli, trans. by Bill Johnston
My Kind of Girl by Buddhadeva Bose, trans. by Arunava Sinha
Dance on the Volcano by Marie Vieux-Chauvet, trans. by Kaiama L. Glover
Seraphin by Philippe Fix, trans. by Donald Nicholson-Smith
A Kitchen in the Corner of the House by Ambai, trans. by Lakshmi Holmström
A Wheel With a Single Spoke by Nichita Stănescu, trans. by Sean Cotter
The Gothamites by Eno Raud, art by Priit Pärn, trans. by Adam Cullen
Hīznobyūtī by Claude Ponti, trans. by Alyson Waters
Hyperion by Friedrich Hölderlin, trans. by Ross Benjamin
Small Lives by Pierre Michon, trans. by Elizabeth Deshays, Jody Gladding
Emblems of Desire by Maurice Scève, trans. by Richard Sieburth
Wolf Hunt by Ivailo Petrov, trans. by Angela Rodel
Landscape with Yellow Birds by José Ángel Valente, trans. by Thomas Christensen
Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga, trans. by Melanie Mauthner
All One Horse by Breyten Breytenbach, trans. by Breyten Breytenbach
Blinding by Mircea Cărtărescu, trans. by Sean Cotter
The original list:
Bacacay by Witold Gombrowicz, trans. by Bill Johnston
Sarajevo Marlboro by Miljenko Jergović, trans. by Stela Tomasevic
Private Life by Josep Maria de Sagarra, trans. by Mary Ann Newman
A Useless Man: Selected Stories by Sait Faik Abasıyanık, trans. by Alexander Dawe and Maureen Freely
Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga, trans. by Melanie Mauthner
The Farm by Héctor Abad, trans. by Anne McLean
Absolute Solitude by Dulce María Loynaz, trans. by James O’Connor
A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa, trans. by Daniel Hahn
Eline Vere by Louis Couperus, trans. by Ina Rilke
The Waitress Was New by Dominique Fabre, trans. by Jordan Stump
The Expedition to the Baobab Tree by Wilma Stockenström, trans. by J.M. Coetzee
A Dream in Polar Fog by Yuri Rytkheu, trans. by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse
Diaries of Exile by Yannis Ritsos, trans. by Edmund Keeley and Karen Emmerich
Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury, trans. by Humphrey Davies
The Woman of Porto Pim by Antonio Tabucchi, trans. by Tim Parks
Newcomers by Lojze Kovačič, trans. by Michael Biggins
The Novices of Sais by Novalis, trans. by Ralph Manheim
Stone Upon Stone by Wiesław Myśliwski, trans. by Bill Johnston
The Scent of Buenos Aires by Hebe Uhart, trans. by Maureen Shaughnessy
In Praise of Defeat by Abdellatif Laâbi, trans. by Donald Nicholson-Smith
Good Will Come from the Sea by Christos Ikonomou, trans. by Karen Emmerich ← highly recommended
Distant Light by Antonio Moresco, trans. by Richard Dixon
Book of My Mother by Albert Cohen, trans. by Bella Cohen
Tranquility by Attila Bartis, trans. by Imre Goldstein
Posthumous Papers of a Living Author by Robert Musil, trans. by Peter Wortsman
Mouroir by Breyten Breytenbach
The Folly by Ivan Vladislavić
For Isabel: A Mandala by Antonio Tabucchi, trans. by Elizabeth Harris
Lenz by Georg Büchner, trans. by Richard Sieburth
The Child Poet by Homero Aridjis, trans. by Chloe Aridjis
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https://www.tor.com/2020/04/20/downlo...
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(unfortunately, Book 5 is not free, so from my POV this is like being baited!)
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https://www.jermynstreettheatre.co.uk...
ONLINE READING
The Odyssey
BY HOMER.
TRANSLATED BY EMILY WILSON.
DIRECTED BY TOM LITTLER.
9 OCTOBER 2020
72 actors. 12 hours. 1 epic journey.
Homer’s The Odyssey is one of the world’s most influential poems. It recounts the adventures of Odysseus as he tries to get home after the Trojan War, alongside his wife Penelope’s struggles to keep their island kingdom from civil war, and his son Telemachus’ search to find his lost father.
The Odyssey brings 72 actors together to perform Homer’s poem in sequence, reawakening the oral tradition the poem comes from. The Odyssey was first performed by bards across the Mediterranean in the eighth century BCE. Now, it will be performed in the first event of its kind via a free online stream on YouTube.
The full cast comprises:
Janet Suzman, Emma Fielding, Jim Findley, Aaron-Louis Cadogan, Dorothea Myer-Bennett, Theo Ancient, Daphne Alexander, Jack Klaff, Sally Cheng, Naomi Frederick, Burt Caesar, Richard Keightley, Jamael Westman, Miranda Foster, Michael Pennington, Bu Kunene, Bea Svistunenko, Joelle Brabban, Christopher Ravenscroft, Michael Lumsden, Naomi Asaturyan, Richard Derrington, Kirsty Bushell, Rob Heanley, Hannah Kumari, Paddy Stafford, Mercedes Assad, Cindy-Jane Armbruster, Augustina Seymour, Stanton Wright, Lynn Farleigh, Simon Kane, Skye Hallam, Lara Sawalha, Elliot Pritchard, Lydia Bakelmun, Edmund Digby-Jones, Waj Ali, Hannah Morrish, Nalan Burgess, Ellie Nunn, Alice McCarthy, Adam Karim, Helen Reuben, Gavin Fowler, Rebecca Banatvala, Viss Elliot Safavi, Leah Whitaker, Adam Sopp, Judy Rosenblatt, Emanuel Vuso, Jessie Bedrossian, Annabel Bates, Tiwalade Ibirogba-Olulode, Atilla Akinci, Sam Crerar, David Sturzaker, Paula James, Issy Van Randwyck, Ian Hallard, Asha Kingsley, Miranda Raison, Samuel Blenkin, David Threlfall and Rachel Pickup.
Emily Wilson, a 2020 Booker Prize Judge, is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Her translation, recapturing the life of the poetry for the 21st century, was hailed as a definitive new version upon its publication in 2017.
Together with the London Review Bookshop and publishers WW Norton, Jermyn Street Theatre will stream this continuous performance of all 24 books live online.
Books 1 to 4 will stream from 9am on the LRB Bookshop YouTube channel,
Books 5 to 24 will continue at 12 noon on the Jermyn Street Theatre YouTube channel and run until late that night.
The entire reading will remain on YouTube for a week.
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Be “there” or be square!
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https://www.getty.edu/publications/oc...
The time is right for adopting a framework for the protection of cultural heritage.
The J. Paul Getty Trust, prompted by the destruction of cultural heritage in Syria and Iraq, is enlisting the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect to engage in an educational campaign for the protection of cultural heritage in conflict zones.
The campaign seeks to raise awareness of UN Member States regarding the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its additional protocols, as well as recent resolutions by the UN Security Council.
To that end, the J. Paul Getty Trust has initiated a series of papers on culture at risk.
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Free eBooks until 17 May
https://mailchi.mp/ef083df9e0ee/readi...
In light of the recent escalation of conflict in Israel and Palestine, and to mark Nakba Day, we are proud to offer the following eBooks about Palestine for free from our website until Monday 17 May.
These Saqi titles are essential to the study and celebration of Palestinian history and culture. These memoirs, literary collections, novels and histories are written by Palestinians, as well as by experts in their respective fields.
We hope these stimulating, informed works bring you empowerment and inspiration.
In solidarity,
Saqi Team
Books mentioned in this topic
Wayward Heroes (other topics)The Exploded View (other topics)
The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico (other topics)
Good Will Come from the Sea (other topics)
Authors mentioned in this topic
Halldór Laxness (other topics)Ivan Vladislavić (other topics)
