Author: Jean-Paul Sartre File Type: epub One of Sartres greatest existentialist works of fiction, The Wall contains the only five short stories he ever wrote. Set during the Spanish Civil War, the title story crystallizes the famous philosophers existentialism.The Wall, the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution. Through the gaze of an impartial doctorseemingly there for the mens solacetheir mental descent is charted in exquisite, often harrowing detail. And as the morning draws inexorably closer, the men cross the psychological wall between life and death, long before the first shot rings out. This brilliant snapshot of life in anguish is the perfect introduction to a collection of stories where the neurosis of the modern world is mirrored in the lives of the people that inhabit it . This is an unexpurgated edition translated from the French by Lloyd Alexander.**ReviewLeaves Lady Chatterleys Lover asleep at the post. (Punch) About the Author Jean-Paul Sartre was a prolific philosopher, novelist, public intellectual, biographer, playwright and founder of the journal Les Temps Modernes. Born in Paris in 1905 and died in 1980, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964and turned it down. His books include Nausea, Intimacy, The Flies, No Exit, Sartres War Diaries, Critique of Dialectical Reason, and the monumental treatise Being and Nothingness.

Author: David Z. Moster File Type: pdf Every year before the holiday of Sukkot, Jews all around the world purchase an etroga lemon-like fruitto participate in the holiday ritual. In this book, David Z. Moster tracks the etrog from its evolutionary home in Yunnan, China, to the lands of India, Iran, and finally Israel, where it became integral to the Jewish celebration of Sukkot during the Second Temple period. Moster explains what Sukkot was like before and after the arrival of the etrog, and why the etrogs identification as the choice tree fruit of Leviticus 2340 was by no means predetermined. He also demonstrates that once the fruit became associated with the holiday of Sukkot, it began to appear everywhere in Jewish art during the Roman and Byzantine periods, and eventually became a symbol for all the fruits of the land, and perhaps even the Jewish people as a whole. **

Author: Dejan Jovic File Type: pdf The disintegration of Yugoslavia was the result of many factors, not of a single one, but the primary one - the author argues - was commitment of the Yugoslav political elite to the Marxist ideology of withering away of the state. Ideology had a central place in Yugoslav politics. The trend of decentralization of Yugoslavia was not primarily motivated by reasons of ethnic politics, but by Marxist beliefs that the state should be decentralized and weakened until it was finally replaced by a self-managing society, especially the case during the extended period of the last 15 years before the actual breakdown of Yugoslav socialist federation.Yugoslavia A State that Withered Away examines the emergence, implementation, crisis and the breakdown of the fourth (Kardeljs) constitutive concept of Yugoslavia (1974-1990), and relations between anti-statist ideology of self-management and the actual collapse of state institutions. Based on interviews with key members of former Yugoslavias political elite, documents and other primary sources, the book reconstructs the elites motives and reasons for the actions that led to state collapse. Contrary to the dominant explanation of the collapse of Yugoslavia, the book argues that Yugoslavia did not collapse primarily because of the complexity of its ethnic structure, of changes in the international environment, or of a deep economic crisis. Although these factors provided the context in which the elite operated, it was the elites perception of these problems that decisively influenced their decisions

Author: Leslie Hill File Type: pdf Few thinkers of the latter half of the twentieth century have so profoundly and radically transformed our understanding of writing and literature as Jacques Derrida (19302004). Derridian deconstruction remains one of the most powerful intellectual movements of the present century, and Derridas own innovative writings on literature and philosophy are crucially relevant for any understanding of the future of literature and literary criticism today. Derridas own manner of writing is complex and challenging and has often been misrepresented or misunderstood. In this book, Leslie Hill provides an accessible introduction to Derridas writings on literature which presupposes no prior knowledge of Derridas work. He explores in detail Derridas relationship to literary theory and criticism, and offers close readings of some of Derridas best known essays. This introduction will help those coming to Derridas work for the first time, and suggests further directions to take in studying this hugely influential thinker.