LIBROS DEL AUTOR: peter bien

5 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: peter bien

  • L. P. Hartley
    Peter Bien
    The Eustace and Hilda trilogy (1947) and The Go-Between (1953) are acknowledged to be among the most important and best-liked works by the twentieth-century British novelist L. P. Hartley (1895-1972). Peter Bien, making use of extensive correspondence with the author, who sent him unpublished materials and also met with him personally, discusses these novels at length, adds a c...
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    13,85 €

  • Kazantzakis and Linguistic Revolution in Greek Literature
    Peter Bien
    Peter Bien focuses on Kazantzakis’ obsession with the demotic, the language 'on the lips of the people,' showing how it governed his writing, his ambition, and his involvement in Greek politics and educational reform. Kazantzakis’ obsession worked against him in his Odyssey and found its natural vehicle only in his translation of Homer’s Iliad and his novels, Zorba the Greek, T...
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    163,26 €

  • Kazantzakis and Linguistic Revolution in Greek Literature
    Peter Bien
    Peter Bien focuses on Kazantzakis’ obsession with the demotic, the language 'on the lips of the people,' showing how it governed his writing, his ambition, and his involvement in Greek politics and educational reform. Kazantzakis’ obsession worked against him in his Odyssey and found its natural vehicle only in his translation of Homer’s Iliad and his novels, Zorba the Greek, T...
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    66,39 €

  • Kazantzakis, Volume 2
    Peter Bien
    Putting Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis’s vast output into the context of his lifelong spiritual quest and the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Greece, Peter Bien argues that Kazantzakis was a deeply flawed genius--not always artistically successful, but a remarkable figure by any standard. This is the second and final volume of Bien’s definitive and monumental biography ...
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    129,27 €

  • Kazantzakis, Volume 1
    Peter Bien
    'No author who lives in Greece,' writes Peter Bien, 'can avoid politics.' This first volume of his major intellectual biography of Nikos Kazantzakis approaches the distinguished--and controversial--writer by describing his struggle with political questions that were in reality aspects of a fervent religious search. Beginning with Kazantzakis’s early career in fin-de-siècle Par...
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    52,52 €