Barbara Bray Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

I want to try and understand why so many people commit crimes in the name of identity," writes Amin Maalouf. Identity is the crucible out of which we come: our background, our race, our gender, our tribal affiliations, our religion (or lack thereof), all go into making up who we are. All too often, however, the notion of identity--personal, religious, ethnic, or national--has given rise to heated passions and even massive crimes. Moving across the world's history, faiths, and politics, he argues against an oversimplified and hostile interpretation of the concept. He cogently and persuasively examines identity in the context of the modern world, where it can be viewed as both glory and poison. Evident here are the dangers of using identity as a protective--and therefore aggressive--mechanism, the root of racial, geographical, and colonialist subjugation throughout history.Maalouf contends that many of us would reject our inherited conceptions of identity, to which we cling through habit, if only we examined them more closely. The future of society depends on accepting all identities, while recognizing our individualism.

Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time. She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust himself said to her, "You know everything about me." Her reminiscences of her employer present an intimate picture of the daily life of a great writer who was also a deeply peculiar man, while Madame Albaret herself proves to be a shrewd and engaging companion.

Professor Ilya Zbarski mummified Lenin two months after his death to maintain the Soviet founder's body in perpetuity. Between 1924 and the fall of communism in 1991, hundreds of millions of visitors paid their respects to the embalmed bodies of Lenin and later, Stalin. This text reveals the story of Zbarski, his family and of those who worked in the mausoleum laboratory. Lenin's body was plunged into a secret solution based on glycerine and potassium acetate. This story, unthinkable except in a totalitarian regime, is also that of the burgeoning Soviet Union and those who, disregarding Stalin and his growing antisemitic paranoia, believed that working in the shadows of the mausoleum would protect them forever. Abandoned by the State since 1991, the laboratory can only survive through the patronage of the "nouveaux riches" and the Russian mafia dynasties. The text includes both archival and contemporary photographs.

Recounts the conflicts surrounding Lacan's break with the institutional framework of Freudian orthodoxy, the popularity of Lacanianism in the 1960s and 1970s, and its encounters with the women's movement

Když byl Giono v roce 1953 požádán vydavatelem časopisu Reader’s Digest, aby napsal příběh o nejpozoruhodnějším člověku, s nímž se kdy setkal, poslal mu tuto povídku, kterou chtěl vzbudit zájem o zalesňovací program.. Ve Vyšehradu vychází tato slavná kniha již v 9. vydání, opět s ilustracemi Heleny Konstantinové.

A semi-autobiographical novel exploring the anarchic nature of passion, the traumas of childhood and the legacy of the Holocaust. Threatened with allusions to her life's work, this melancholic and dreamlike novel is typical of the novelist.

Tématem rozsahem nevelké, o to více však strhující prózy Milenec z roku 1984 je první smyslný prožitek, erotický vztah patnáctileté chudé bělošky a o dvanáct let staršího bohatého Číňana, zasazený do kulis lidnatého Šalonu, čínské enklávy indočínského Saigonu. V novele, jež nese zřetelné autobiografické prvky, rozehrála Marguerite Durasová drama lásky bez budoucnosti, která navzdory své bezvýchodnosti vyniká tělesností a nevysloveným poutem. O tom, jak výjimečná tato próza je, svědčí nejen skutečnost, že v ní mají své kořeny všechny pozdější postavy spisovatelčina díla, ale především ohlas, jejž novela vyvolala. Literární text a potažmo i vztah v něm popisovaný byly sice označovány za skandální, knize se navzdory tomu dostalo hned několika uznání – za francouzské vydání získala autorka prestižní Goncourtovu cenu, za vydání americké cenu Paris-Ritz-Hemingwayovu. V roce 1992 převedl novelu unikátním způsobem na stříbrné plátno režisér Jean-Jacques Annaud. „Vytvořit bezvýchodnou situaci je pro mě ukojení, kterému se říká literatura“, prohlásila autorka a právě tato slova jsou pro Milence více než charakteristická. Konečně byla to právě Marguerita Durasová, která byla v líčení mučivé erotické bolesti nedostižná.

Presents an account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, this book shows the lives of a cast of village characters.

In the early 1970s Harold Pinter joined forces with director Joseph Losey and Proust scholar Barbara Bray to develop a screenplay of Proust's masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past. Pinter took more than a year to conceive and write the screenplay and called the experience "the best working year of my life." Although never produced, Harold Pinter's The Proust Screenplay is considered one of the greatest adaptations for the cinema ever written.With fidelity to Proust's text, the screenplay is an extraordinary re-creation by one of the leading playwrights of our time. It is, in its way, a unique collaboration between two extraordinary writers united across more than half a century and two different cultures by a special concern for time and memory.