Author: Jozef Czapski
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681372592
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
The first translation of painter and writer Józef Czapski's inspiring lectures on Proust, first delivered in a prison camp in the Soviet Union during World War II. During the Second World War, as a prisoner of war in a Soviet camp, and with nothing but memory to go on, the Polish artist and soldier Józef Czapski brought Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time to life for an audience of prison inmates. In a series of lectures, Czapski described the arc and import of Proust’s masterpiece, sketched major and minor characters in striking detail, and movingly evoked the work’s originality, depth, and beauty. Eric Karpeles has translated this brilliant and altogether unparalleled feat of the critical imagination into English for the first time, and in a thoughtful introduction he brings out how, in reckoning with Proust’s great meditation on memory, Czapski helped his fellow officers to remember that there was a world apart from the world of the camp. Proust had staked the art of the novelist against the losses of a lifetime and the imminence of death. Recalling that triumphant wager, unfolding, like Sheherazade, the intricacies of Proust’s world night after night, Czapski showed to men at the end of their tether that the past remained present and there was a future in which to hope.
The Lost Time Accidents
Author: John Wray
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374281130
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Exiled from time after a failed love affair, Waldemar "Waldy" Tolliver is forced to confront a difficult betrayal and his ancestral legacy against a backdrop of historical events in the first half of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374281130
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Exiled from time after a failed love affair, Waldemar "Waldy" Tolliver is forced to confront a difficult betrayal and his ancestral legacy against a backdrop of historical events in the first half of the twentieth century.
How Jack Lost Time
Author: Stéphanie Lapointe
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN: 1771647582
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
An artful and timeless exploration of love, loss, grief, and family, How Jack Lost Time will appeal to readers of Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse, and other picture books for older readers and adults. Jack is not like other sea captains. Fishermen say he’s weird, but Jack only cares about one thing: the grey whale with the scarred dorsal fin, the one who swallowed up his son, Julos, years before. Jack promises he will not come home without Julos, even if it means losing himself in the process. Then, on a night like any other, Jack sees something lurking around his boat. He throws himself into the whale’s dark mouth. But is he too late? Will his son recognize him after years of being alone? Poignant, original, and vibrant, this contemporary nautical fable journeys into the heart of the human spirit, and will move readers young and old. Winner of the 2019 Governor General’s Award for Youth Literature—French Language
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN: 1771647582
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
An artful and timeless exploration of love, loss, grief, and family, How Jack Lost Time will appeal to readers of Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse, and other picture books for older readers and adults. Jack is not like other sea captains. Fishermen say he’s weird, but Jack only cares about one thing: the grey whale with the scarred dorsal fin, the one who swallowed up his son, Julos, years before. Jack promises he will not come home without Julos, even if it means losing himself in the process. Then, on a night like any other, Jack sees something lurking around his boat. He throws himself into the whale’s dark mouth. But is he too late? Will his son recognize him after years of being alone? Poignant, original, and vibrant, this contemporary nautical fable journeys into the heart of the human spirit, and will move readers young and old. Winner of the 2019 Governor General’s Award for Youth Literature—French Language
The Book of Unconformities
Author: Hugh Raffles
Publisher: Verse Chorus Press
ISBN: 1891241745
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present. Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enters these gaps, drawing together threads of geology, history, literature, philosophy, and ethnography to trace the intimate connections between personal loss and world historical events, and to reveal the force of absence at the core of contemporary life. Through deeply researched explorations of Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan's Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived in New York City along with six Inuit adventurers in 1897, Raffles shows how unconformities unceasingly incite human imagination and investigation yet refuse to conform, heal, or disappear. A journey across eons and continents, The Book of Unconformities is also a journey through stone: this most solid, ancient, and enigmatic of materials, it turns out, is as lively, capricious, willful, and indifferent as time itself.
Publisher: Verse Chorus Press
ISBN: 1891241745
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present. Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enters these gaps, drawing together threads of geology, history, literature, philosophy, and ethnography to trace the intimate connections between personal loss and world historical events, and to reveal the force of absence at the core of contemporary life. Through deeply researched explorations of Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan's Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived in New York City along with six Inuit adventurers in 1897, Raffles shows how unconformities unceasingly incite human imagination and investigation yet refuse to conform, heal, or disappear. A journey across eons and continents, The Book of Unconformities is also a journey through stone: this most solid, ancient, and enigmatic of materials, it turns out, is as lively, capricious, willful, and indifferent as time itself.
The Lost Track of Time
Author: Paige Britt
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545538149
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A magical fantasy, an allegorical cautionary tale, a feast of language, a celebration of creativity--this dazzling debut novel is poised to become a story for the ages! Penelope is running out of time!She dreams of being a writer, but how can she pursue her passion when her mother schedules every minute of her life? And how will she ever prove that writing is worthwhile if her mother keeps telling her to "get busy!" and "be more productive"?Then one day, Penelope discovers a hole in her schedule--an entire day completely unplanned!--and she mysteriously falls into it. What follows is a mesmerizing journey through the Realm of Possibility where Penelope sets out to find and free the Great Moodler, the one person who may have the answers she seeks. Along the way, she must face an army of Clockworkers, battle the evil Chronos, take a daring Flight of Fancy, and save herself from the grip of time.Brimming with clever language and masterful wordplay, The Lost Track of Time is a high-stakes adventure that will take you to a place where nothing is impossible and every minute doesn't count--people do!
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545538149
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A magical fantasy, an allegorical cautionary tale, a feast of language, a celebration of creativity--this dazzling debut novel is poised to become a story for the ages! Penelope is running out of time!She dreams of being a writer, but how can she pursue her passion when her mother schedules every minute of her life? And how will she ever prove that writing is worthwhile if her mother keeps telling her to "get busy!" and "be more productive"?Then one day, Penelope discovers a hole in her schedule--an entire day completely unplanned!--and she mysteriously falls into it. What follows is a mesmerizing journey through the Realm of Possibility where Penelope sets out to find and free the Great Moodler, the one person who may have the answers she seeks. Along the way, she must face an army of Clockworkers, battle the evil Chronos, take a daring Flight of Fancy, and save herself from the grip of time.Brimming with clever language and masterful wordplay, The Lost Track of Time is a high-stakes adventure that will take you to a place where nothing is impossible and every minute doesn't count--people do!
The Pages of Lost Time
Author: Sharon Lea Ford (Author)
Publisher: Sharon Lea Ford
ISBN: 0646564544
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Tom and Jenna are two teens, suddenly orphaned and sent to live with their uncle. Their despondency was perhaps the porthole that allowed something different, something new into their young lives, as oftentimes, vulnerability can let life’s strange mysteries in. But what is real and what is imagination? Is there a dimension in between those two existences?Tom and Jenna find this world when they discover a secret book in their uncle’s library. Thrust inside the book, they land in a world where the sky is dark, the trees lifeless and the wind, chillingly cold. As they merge from one chapter to the next, they happen upon bloodthirsty beast, some futuristic others ancient. Only time will tell if the world they’ve entered is real or a fragmented part of their imaginations.
Publisher: Sharon Lea Ford
ISBN: 0646564544
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Tom and Jenna are two teens, suddenly orphaned and sent to live with their uncle. Their despondency was perhaps the porthole that allowed something different, something new into their young lives, as oftentimes, vulnerability can let life’s strange mysteries in. But what is real and what is imagination? Is there a dimension in between those two existences?Tom and Jenna find this world when they discover a secret book in their uncle’s library. Thrust inside the book, they land in a world where the sky is dark, the trees lifeless and the wind, chillingly cold. As they merge from one chapter to the next, they happen upon bloodthirsty beast, some futuristic others ancient. Only time will tell if the world they’ve entered is real or a fragmented part of their imaginations.
Lost Time is Never Found Again (English)
Author: Sahadeva Dasa
Publisher: Golden Age Media
ISBN: 9382947108
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Time needs your tender loving care because it is a unique, irreplaceable resource. Taking it for granted would be your undoing. Time is not found on supermarkets shelves in case you need an extra supply. There are no vending machines even. There is no place where you can buy or hire extra time. Neither you can pull it out from the last year’s stock. As the Sun sets on the horizon, your day is gone and as the Sun rises in the east, your night is gone. Gone means gone for ever, never to return. There are many things in life which go and come back but time is not one of those.
Publisher: Golden Age Media
ISBN: 9382947108
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Time needs your tender loving care because it is a unique, irreplaceable resource. Taking it for granted would be your undoing. Time is not found on supermarkets shelves in case you need an extra supply. There are no vending machines even. There is no place where you can buy or hire extra time. Neither you can pull it out from the last year’s stock. As the Sun sets on the horizon, your day is gone and as the Sun rises in the east, your night is gone. Gone means gone for ever, never to return. There are many things in life which go and come back but time is not one of those.
Star Trek: Lost Time
Author: Ilsa J. Bick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141650690X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS Almost a year after the S.C.E. crew on the da Vinci helped Lieutenant Nog of Deep Space 9 ™ salvage the hulk of DS9's sister station Empok Nor, a booby trap left behind by the Androssi threatens the Bajoran system. But the potential damage may be greater than the combined crews of the da Vinci and DS9 can handle, as the threat stretches across two universes -- and their only hope for survival may rest with their long-dead crewmates 111 and Kieran Duffy! LOST TIME
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141650690X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS Almost a year after the S.C.E. crew on the da Vinci helped Lieutenant Nog of Deep Space 9 ™ salvage the hulk of DS9's sister station Empok Nor, a booby trap left behind by the Androssi threatens the Bajoran system. But the potential damage may be greater than the combined crews of the da Vinci and DS9 can handle, as the threat stretches across two universes -- and their only hope for survival may rest with their long-dead crewmates 111 and Kieran Duffy! LOST TIME