Pantagruel and Gargantua (Rabelais Franois)(Paperback)

Pantagruel and Gargantua (Rabelais Franois)(Paperback)

These bawdy and boisterous tales, with their fixation on food and faeces, are not just entertaining yarns, as Francois Rabelais parodies medieval learning, lambasts the established church authority and develops his own ideal visions for the ordering of

Gargantua and Pantagruel (Rabelais Francois)(Paperback)

A masterly new translation of Rabelais's robust scatalogical comedy Parodying everyone from classic authors to his own contemporaries, the dazzling and exuberant stories of Rabelais expose human follies with mischievous and often obscene humor. Gargantua depicts a young giant who becomes a

Gargantua - Françoise Rabelais

Nový překlad Rabelaisova Gargantuy, tohoto arcidíla renesančního humanismu a reformismu, této potopy rafinovaných obscenit, této brutální kritiky soudobé církve a univerzity, tohoto snění o světě lepším a svobodnějším, reflektuje proměny češtiny, a to zdaleka nejen ve

Pantagruel - Chrabré a hrůzostrašné skutky slovutného Pantagruela, zaznamenané nebožtíkem panem Alcofribasem, abstraktérem kvintesence - Rabelais Fran

Pantagruel, 'první arcidílo moderní komičnosti' (F. X. Šalda) líčí svéráznou cestu hlavní postavy za poznáním. Stavba románu poskytovala autorovi spoustu příležitostí k satiře na všechny oblasti soudobého života a středověkého myšlení, jako byly scholastická teologie a

Life as a Bilingual: Knowing and Using Two or More Languages (Grosjean Franois)(Paperback)

Asero (Dominique Franois)(Paperback)

'A singular novel.' --Lydia Davis, author of Can't and Won't and Essays One'An exhilarating adventure ' --Alberto Manguel, author of The Library at Night and Fabulous Monsters'Extraordinary. . . . Brings to mind the great mushroom scenes of the film Phantom Thread. How not to be aroused by this

Franois Berthoud: Fashion, Fetish and Fantasies (Berthoud Franois)(Pevná vazba)

Celebrating one of the fashion world's foremost illustrators and art directors and his provocative blending of erotica with fashion. Known for erotica and romantic fashion illustration--and for blending them to highlight the eroticism he considers inherent in fashion--Fran ois Berthoud is

Intensive Basic Latin: A Grammar and Workbook (Mondon Jean-Franois)(Paperback)

Intensive Basic Latin: A Grammar and Workbook comprises a dynamic reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume. The book presents forty individual grammar points, covering the core material which students would expect to encounter in their first year of learning Latin. Grammar points

Francois Rabelais a lidová kultura středověku a renesance - Michail Michajlovič Bachtin

Kniha Michaila Bachtina Francois Rabelais a lidová kultura středověku a renesance patří ke klasickým dílům historické literatury druhé poloviny 20. století. Po svém vydání v ruském originálu byla velmi záhy přeložena do všech světových jazyků a stala se modelovou studií o

Collected Maxims and Other Reflections (La Rochefoucauld Franois de)(Paperback)

Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld's shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behavior have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust, de Gaulle, Nietzsche, and Conan Doyle. This is the fullest collection of La

The Globalization of Inequality (Bourguignon Franois)(Paperback)

Why national and international equality matter and what we can do to ensure a fairer world In The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and policymaker Fran ois Bourguignon examines the complex and paradoxical links between a vibrant world economy that has raised the living standard

Louvre Abu Dhabi: The Complete Guide (Charnier Jean-Franois)(Paperback)

Manon Lescaut (Prvost Antoine Franois)(Paperback)

When the young nobleman Des Grieux lays eyes on the beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut, he immediately falls in love with her, and they elope to Paris, incurring the wrath of his family and forfeiting his inheritance. However, he struggles to satisfy her taste for luxury, frittering away the

Life with Picasso (Gilot Franoise)(Paperback)

Fran oise Gilot's candid memoir remains the most revealing portrait of Picasso written, and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative life shared by two modern artists. Fran oise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a

Bilingual: Life and Reality (Grosjean Franois)(Paperback)

Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. In a lively and entertaining book, an international authority on bilingualism explores the many

The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Volume 1 (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

Nikolai Gogol was an artist who, like Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, and Sterne, knew how to walk upside down in our valley of sorrows so as to make it to a merry place. This two-volume edition at last brings all of Gogol's fiction (except his novel Dead Souls) together in paperback. Volume 1 includes

Testing the Limit: Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the Phenomenological Tradition (Sebbah Franois-David)(Paperback)

Through three different versions of phenomenological discourse (Derrida, Henry, and Levinas), this book explores the notions of excess and the excess of excess relative to conceptions of the

Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time (Hartog Franois)(Paperback)

Francois Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's 'regimes of historicity,' or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts, positioning The Odyssey as a work on the

Dark Art: A Horror Coloring Book (Gautier Franois)(Paperback)

Calling all coloring and horror fans Step into the beautiful, macabre world of Fran ois Gautier in this intricate, detailed, and genuinely frightening coloring book. Color your way through the grim and gruesome world of Dark Art. Featuring elaborately detailed black line artwork of undead

Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton (Kadue Katie)(Paperback)

Inspired by Virgil's Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor. When is literary production more menial than inspired, more like housework than heroics of the mind? In this revisionist study, Katie Kadue shows that some of the authors we credit with groundbreaking

French Poetry - From Medieval to Modern Times(Pevná vazba)

From the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Jacques Reda and Yves Bonnefoy, French Poetry offers English-speaking readers a one-volume introduction to a rich and varied

Altered Inheritance: Crispr and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing (Baylis Franoise)(Pevná vazba)

A leading bioethicist offers critical insights into the scientific, ethical, and political implications of human genome editing. Designer babies, once found only in science fiction, have become a reality. We are entering a new era of human evolution with the advent of a technology called CRISPR,

Testaments Betrayed (Kundera Milan)(Paperback / softback)

Written like a novel, i this book same characters meet and cross paths with each other. Stravinsky and Kafka with their odd friends Ansermet and Brod; Hemingway with his biographer; Janacek with his little nation; and Rabelais with his heirs - the great n

Leonardo Da Vinci: Self Art and Nature (Quiviger Franois)(Pevná vazba)

This incisive and illuminating biography follows the three themes that shaped the life of Leonardo da Vinci and, through him, forever changed Western art and imagination: nature, art, and self-fashioning. Nature and art helped form Leonardo. He spent his first twelve years in the Tuscan