Results for: books tagged ‘Human Condition’
Free Fall: William Golding
Somehow, somewhere, Sammy Mountjoy lost his freedom, the faculty of freewill 'that cannot be debated but only experienced, like a colour or the taste of potatoes'. As he retraces his ... More
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The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist: Breyten Breytenbach
Decalogue: The Ten Commandments: Krzystof Kieslowski
Ten short films, each based on a broken commandment, set in and around an apartment block in Warsaw. The stories are simple, describing experiences and emotions common to us all ... More
The Intellectuals and the Masses: John Carey
Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the revulsion from common humanity ... More
The Brown Parrots of Providencia: Fergus Allen
Fergus Allen's work ranges broadly from sombre reflections on the loneliness and bestiality of human experience, through small fictional psychodramas, to light-hearted fantasy, as in his unexpected poem about Guinness's ... More
The Pugilist at Rest: Thom Jones
Thom Jones's magnificent first collection of stories presents a brutal vision of the human condition, in a world without mercy or redemption. The Pugilist at Rest gives us an America ... More
The Flower of My Secret: Pedro Almodovar
The Flower of My Secret is Pedro Almodovar's deeply moving portrait of a woman who is brought to the abyss of her own loneliness and despair. Leo, a writer of ... More
View with a Grain of Sand: Wislawa Szymborska
The Ordinary Seaman: Francisco Goldman
The ordinary seaman is Esteban, a 19-year-old veteran of the war in Nicaragua who has come to America with fourteen other men to crew the boat 'Urus'. Docked on a ... More
Farewell Waltz: Milan Kundera
Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided ... More
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