Helen R. Lane Knihy

An "introduction to the nonfascist life" (Michel Foucault, from the Preface) When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set forth the following theory: Western society's innate herd instinct has allowed the government, the media, and even the principles of economics to take advantage of each person's unwillingness to be cut off from the group. What's more, those who suffer from mental disorders may not be insane, but could be individuals in the purest sense, because they are by nature isolated from society. More than twenty-five years after its original publication, Anti-Oedipus still stands as a controversial contribution to a much-needed dialogue on the nature of free thinking.

A collage made of pictures of Buenos Aires, divided in short stories (some surprisingly brief), told in the warm, humorous, precise and metaphorical style that made Luisa Valenzuela a recognized worldwide author.

Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism

V česky dosud nevydaném románu z roku 1987 se peruánský autor vrací k zážitku antropologické expedice do amazonského pralesa, který výrazně ovlivnil celou jeho tvorbu. Vzpomínky na léta studií na limské Univerzitě svatého Marka a na práci v televizi se prolínají se strhujícími pasážemi, kde Vargas Llosa mistrovsky napodobil styl indiánského „vypravěče“ kmene Mačigengů, který jako živá míza a tmelící prvek kmene obchází roztroušené mačigengské rodiny a vypráví jim dávné mýty, příběhy i drobné klepy z jejich každodenního života. Právě toto indiánské vyprávění patří k nejkrásnějším stránkám, jaké kdy Vargas Llosa napsal. Kosmogonie, legendy i všední příhody mizejícího amazonského kmene svou originalitou jistě osloví a dojmou i českého čtenáře.

Part diary, part autobiography, part self-analysis and commentary, this revealing memoir by the playwright of the Absurd is an expression of the writer's search for the wellsprings and justifications of his existence. Diary jottings mingle with searing memories of his authoritarian father, metaphysical musings with thoughts on anti-Semitism, his wartime experiences, Soviet death camps, and the sham of bourgeois "revolutionaries". There is also the occasional light-hearted fantasy, played out with children who might be his own; the germ of the idea for "Rhinoceros" and various passages of self-probing.