Great Bordellos of the World

Politics & Social Sciences

Murphy, Emmett

Social Sciences

Quartet

Coming out: Homosexual politics in Britain from the nineteenth century to the present

Jeffrey Weeks

Jazz West Coast: The Lost Angeles Jazz Scene of the 1950s

GORDON, ROBERT

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Sade My Neighbour (Encounter)

Literature & Fiction

KLOSSOWSKI, PIERRE

Contemporary

On the Mountain

thomas-bernhard

An extraordinary montage of sex and politics, Péter Esterházy's innovative novel can be seen to prefigure the liberation of Eastern Europe. Written under what the author calls "small, Hungarian, pornographic circumstances," A Little Hungarian Pornography exists in a context of official falsehood and misinformation, of lies of the body, the soul, and the state, perpetuated in the duality of language. In a state where the lack of democracy was called socialist democracy, economic chaos a socialist economy, and revolution an anti-revolution, the notion of speech and obscenity becomes equally distorted and skewed. Under these circumstances, the author considers the shackles inherent in the vocabulary of oppression and contrasts this with the freedom of the body in sex. A kaleidoscopic digression on perversion and politics, A Little Hungarian Pornography is both satire and critique, trifle and tract, and further support for Esterházy's status as one of the best writers in Europe today.

Little Hungarian Pornography

Esterhazy, Peter - Translated By Judith Sollosy

Sabriya portrays life in Damascus in the 1920's. Central to the story is Sabriya's journey to self-knowledge, intertwined with the rise and eclipse of national and feminist awareness during her painful life. The national revolt is crushed by superior foreign power and Sabriya's personal emancipation is stifled by the traditional values of a patriarchal society.Written from the point of view of a young girl passionately committed to the nationalist cause but unable, because of her sex, to take an active part, it seethes with the frustrated energy of the reluctant bystander and vividly expresses the terror of civilians living in a city rocked nightly by explosions.

Sabriya: Damascus bitter sweet

Ulfat Idilbi

Literary

A wild, experimental, polyphonic novel, recounting a typical day of diminishing returns at a nursing homeHouse Mother Normal, subtitled “A Geriatric Comedy,” is the English writer B. S. Johnson’s fifth novel. Unusual in both its subject and structure, this novel is a remarkable study of old age, stripped of sentimentality and spiked with bizarre language and perceptions. Made up of eight monologues describing a single day at a nursing home, House Mother Normal explores the failing minds of the elderly with precision, humor, and unflagging compassion, and Johnson achieves, with inventiveness and escalating absurdity, a vivid multidimensional effect.

House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy

B.S. Johnson

In Love

Thorne, Nicola

Bird: The legend of Charlie Parker

Arts & Photography

Reisner, Robert George

Music

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