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    Politics , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 458min
    The sharp, funny, entirely original and explosive debut novel by Adam Thirlwell – twice named one of the Best Young British Novelists by Granta magazine.In case you had not noticed, writes Adam Thirlwell in his first novel, Politics,, in this book I am not interested in anything so small as the history of the USSR. I am not writing anything so limited.In this epic miniature, therefore, Politics tells the story of three kids in their twenties falling in love with each other in London. And, simultaneously, it tells other, smaller stories: of Stalin on the phone, Mao in the bathroom, Osip Mandelstam in another bathroom, Adolf Hitler on all fours, and Milan Kundera in an argument. Politics, is not (quite) about politics.Adam Thirlwell was born in 1978. He is the author of Politics, The Escape, Miss Herbert and Kapow. He was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. He lives in London. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Banks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013911/bk_adbl_013911_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Being' In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. We feel, says the novelist, 'the unbearable lightness of being' - not only as the consequence of our private acts but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine. Juxtaposing Prague, Geneva, Thailand and the United States, this masterly novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces, it seems, all aspects of human existence. It offers a wide range of brilliant and amusing philosophical speculations and it descants on a variety of styles.
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    The Joke , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 704min
    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 favour 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. This audio edition provides English-language listeners an important further means toward revaluation of The Joke.  For reasons he describes in his author's note, Milan Kundera devoted much time to creating (with the assistance of his American publisher-editor) a completely revised translation that reflects his original as closely as any translation possibly can: reflects it in its fidelity not only to the words and syntax but also in the characteristic dictions and tonalities of the novel's narrators. The result is nothing less than the restoration of a classic. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richmond Hoxie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cnon/000102/bk_cnon_000102_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Festival of Insignificance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 152min
    Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism - that's The Festival of Insignificance. Listeners who know 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. In Immortality, Goethe and Hemingway stroll through several chapters together, talking and laughing. And in Slowness, Vera, the author's wife, says to her husband, 'You've often told me you meant to write a book one day that would have not a single serious word in it.... I warn you, watch out. Your enemies are lying in wait.'Now, far from watching out, Kundera is finally and fully realizing his old aesthetic dream in this novel that we could easily view as a summation of his whole work. A strange sort of summation. Strange sort of epilogue. Strange sort of laughter, inspired by our time, which is comical because it has lost all sense of humor. What more can we say? Nothing. Just read. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richmond Hoxie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cnon/000160/bk_cnon_000160_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mehr als nur ein Hund
    Nicht nur »erlaubt«, sondern wichtig: Trauer um das geliebte TierTrauernde Tierfreunde finden oft wenig Trost und Verständnis in ihrem Umfeld, obwohl sich für immer mehr Menschen der Hund - oder auch ein anderes Haustier - zum Lebensmittelpunkt entwickelt. Besonders für Senioren und allein lebende Menschen kann das Tier zum Partner und zum Lebensinhalt werden. Daher ist es völlig normal, dass der Tod des Hundes unter Umständen genauso betrauert wird wie der eines Menschen. Keiner muss sich dafür rechtfertigen oder gar schämen.In diesem Erinnerungsbuch kann der trauernde Tierfreund eigene Gedanken und Gefühle zum Verlust seines Hundes aufschreiben. Zusätzlich bietet es Gedichte, Geschichten und Gedanken Betroffener sowie berühmter Denker und Dichter, die nicht nur ihre Trauer um einen treuen Weggefährten in Worte fassten. Auch die Trauer um verschollene oder abgegebene Tiere findet hier ihren Raum. Darüber hinaus wird auf die Besonderheiten der Trauer um Tiere eingegangen.Mit Texten und Zitaten von:Hildegard von Bingen, Matthias Claudius, Charles Darwin, Eugen Drewermann, Fjodor Dostojewski, Friedrich dem Großen, Franz Kafka, Milan Kundera, Konrad Lorenz, Arthur Schopenhauer, Adalbert Stifter u.v.a.Ausstattung: Durchgehend 4/4fbg.; mit Leseband
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    The Festival of Insignificance: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 153min
    From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an unexpected and enchanting novel - the culmination of his life's work. Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism - that's The Festival of Insignificance. 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. In Immortality, Goethe and Hemingway stroll through several chapters together, talking and laughing. And in Slowness, Vera, the author's wife, says to her husband: "You've often told me you meant to write a book one day that would have not a single serious word in it.... I warn you: Watch out. Your enemies are lying in wait." Now, far from watching out, Kundera is finally and fully realizing his old aesthetic dream in this novel that we could easily view as a summation of his whole work. A strange sort of summation. Strange sort of epilogue. Strange sort of laughter, inspired by our time, which is comical because it has lost all sense of humor. What more can we say? Nothing. Just listen. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richmond Hoxie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004516/bk_harp_004516_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Yellow Dog: Inspector Maigret; Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 208min
    Georges Simenon's gripping tale of small town suspicion and revenge, part of the new Maigret series. There was an exaggerated humility about her. Her cowed eyes, her way of gliding noiselessly about without bumping into things, of quivering nervously at the slightest word, were the very image of a scullery maid accustomed to hardship. And yet he sensed, beneath that image, glints of pride held firmly in check. She was anaemic. Her flat chest was not formed to rouse desire. Nevertheless, she was strangely appealing, perhaps because she seemed troubled, despondent, sickly. In the windswept seaside town of Concarneau, a local wine merchant is shot. In fact, someone is out to kill all the influential men and the entire town is soon sent into a state of panic. For Maigret, the answers lie with the pale, downtrodden waitress Emma, and a strange yellow dog lurking in the shadows... Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life. Linda Asher is a former fiction editor of the New Yorker and the award winning translator of many works from French including those of Milan Kundera. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gareth Armstrong. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012068/bk_adbl_012068_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Czech writers
    Czech writers ab 32.49 € als Taschenbuch: Karel Capek Milan Kundera Jaroslav HaSek Jaroslav Seifert Jaroslav Foglar Bohumil Hrabal John Amos Comenius Egon Erwin Kisch Adolf Burger Herbert Thomas Mandl Julius Fucík Ondrej Sekora Lotta Hitschmanova Ludvík Vaculík. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    Fictional lesbians
    Fictional lesbians ab 36.99 € als Taschenbuch: Carmilla Willow Rosenberg Sailor Starlights Foxglove Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone Batwoman Reese Williams and Bianca Montgomery Sailor Uranus Erica Hahn Sophie Webster Lena Kundera and Bianca Montgomery Lydia Hart Karma. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,
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    The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard (eBook, PDF)
    Trevor Cribben Merrill offers a bold reassessment of Milan Kundera's place in the contemporary canon. Harold Bloom and others have dismissed the Franco-Czech author as a maker of "period pieces" that lost currency once the Berlin Wall fell. Merrill refutes this view, revealing a previously unexplored dimension of Kundera's fiction. Building on theorist René Girard's notion of "triangular desire," he shows that modern classics such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting display a counterintuitive-and bitterly funny-understanding of human attraction.Most works of fiction (and most movies, too) depict passionate feelings as deeply authentic and spontaneous. Kundera's novels and short stories overturn this romantic dogma. A pounding heart and sweaty palms could mean that we have found "the One" at last-or they could attest to the influence of a model whose desires we are unconsciously borrowing: our amorous predilections may owe less to personal taste or physical chemistry than they do to imitative desire. At once a comprehensive survey of Kundera's novels and a witty introduction to Girard's mimetic theory, The Book of Imitation and Desire challenges our assumptions about human motive and renews our understanding of a major contemporary author.
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