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Monografie je komplementem ke svazku Dopisů (ed. Michal Topor, 2019), je věnována dráze muže, jenž se narodil roku 1889 jako Arnošt/Ernst Lustig, v letech 1907–1916 se profiloval – pod různými pseudonymy (mj. jako Arne Laurin) – jako...

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As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh reveals the inner life of Susan Sontag. Providing a unique insight into the mind of one of the leading intellectuals of the modern age.

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Henri Cartier-Bressonas photography came to define the 20th century. This book tells his life story through his images: all the major events from his youth to his death in 2004 are described, contextualized and analysed...

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In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years. Some writers attempt to conceal the literary influences which have shaped their thinking but not Henry Miller.

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1930s Hollywood. The depression has receded, the studios are booming, and the glitz and glamour are bewitching. But for Cecilia Brady, this is just life. That is, until she meets Monroe Stahr...

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The authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read THE Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion and become fascinated ...

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In his early twenties, poor, depressed, stranded in the Coral Sea on the seemingly endless survey mission of HMS Rattlesnake, hopelessly in love with the young Englishwoman Henrietta Heathorn, Thomas Henry Huxley was a nobody...

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Francis Bacon was one of the giants dominating the artistic landscape of the mid-twentieth century, and served as the inspiration and launching point for much of the figural and abstract art that came after him...

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In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of 40, readers all over the world will reach for the works of Franz Kafka. Many of them will want to learn more about the enigmatic man...

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In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke—a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway was released home, where he took his own life...

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„Franz Kafka byl Praha a Praha byla Franz Kafka“, napsal kdysi Johannes Urzidil. A skutečně, kdo se vydá po stopách života Franze Kafky, toho cesta zavede přímo do srdce starého císařského města nad Vltavou.

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From the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, comes the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four...

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For readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, wise, and fiercely candid collection of personal essays establishes Lena Dunham the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO s Girls as one of the most...

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