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Poetry. Winner of the 2021 P.C. Hooft-prize, the most important literary prize in The Netherlands for a whole oeuvre. Partly inspired by Chaka, a famous South African novel from 1931, written by Thomas Mofolo, the book charts the imaginary progress of the nineteenth-century statesman and tyrant, Shaka Zulu (1787-1828). Structured around a series of daydreams and major events in Zulu's life, the poet extracts Zulu from the historical past and moves him to the modern media age where speed dating, UFOs and effervescent pain-killers are the norm. The collection is hugely diverse, from lyrical poetry to tweets to
Produkt Man Animal Thing (Schaffer Alfred)(Paperback) označuje EAN kód 9781913606978.
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EAN | 9781913606978 |
Poetry. Winner of the 2021 P.C. Hooft-prize, the most important literary prize in The Netherlands for a whole oeuvre. Partly inspired by Chaka, a famous South African novel from 1931, written by Thomas Mofolo, the book charts the imaginary progress of the nineteenth-century statesman and tyrant,
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I told her the worst, most secret, most important thing in my life - and she wrote a bestselling book about
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Whitehead's response to the epistemological challenges of Hume and Kant in its most vivid and direct
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