LIBROS DEL AUTOR: vladimir holan

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  • Walls
    Vladimír Holan / Josef Tomáš
    Through all the changes in direction of Holan's life and work, the word wall took on an immense breadth of meaning to him. He chose the epigraph 'thy walls are always before my eyes' from the prophet Isaiah to refl ect the sensory boundaries of the body and the boundaries of existence. Th is book is an anthology of Holan's poems connected by the central motif of a wall or walls...
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    16,89 €

  • Dolour
    Vladimir Holan / Josef Toma
    Reading Dolour is like looking into the most private depths of Holan’s soul. Some of his poems are so simple that they are almost child-like; some are cruel and harsh, while others border on pornography. One can easily call him a wordsmith - he uses words as thoughts to convey his every written nuance. Sometimes, he purposefully chooses archaic and totally obsolete Czech words,...
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    19,96 €

  • Narrative Poems II
    Vladimír Holan / Josef and Tomáš Katarina Tomáš
    This collection of Holan's narrative poems, Narrative Poems II, was published in 1963, but the poems were written between 1948 and 1953, during some of the cruellest years following the establishment of a totalitarian regime in Czechoslovakia. Writing in 'a delirious seclusion' in what today is regarded a legendary house on the island of Kampa in Prague, the poet experienced '...
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    16,86 €

  • A Short Biography Of William Lloyd Garrison (1904)
    F. Holan / FHolan / Vladimir Tchertkoff
    ''A Short Biography of William Lloyd Garrison'' is a book written by Vladimir Tchertkoff in 1904. The book is a brief account of the life and work of William Lloyd Garrison, an American abolitionist and journalist who played a pivotal role in the anti-slavery movement in the United States. The biography covers Garrison’s early life, his involvement in the abolitionist movement,...
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    29,10 €

  • Narrative Poems I
    Vladimír Holan / Josef Tomáš
    On reading Narrative Poems I, a particular music enters the mind: The echo of a ballad. It doesn't happen by chance. It is the tragic and mysterious ballad Máj by the Czech romantic poet K. H. Mácha, that impressed Holan with its characters and its ritornello as a wonderful way of telling stories in the popular style. In 1938, the menace of war made Czech poets react and face t...
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    20,82 €

  • The First Testament
    Vladimír Holan / Josef Tomáš
    2005 marks the centenary anniversary of the birth in Prague of Vladimir Holan (1905-1980). He was one of the great poets of his time, yet is almost unknown to the English-speaking literary world. In the darkest part of the history of his country, he created such graphic poetry, with expressions and imagery so deep and rich, that the two apocalyptic poems in this book seem to...
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    31,61 €

  • The First Testament
    Vladimír Holan / Josef Tomáš
    2005 marks the centenary anniversary of the birth in Prague of Vladimir Holan (1905-1980). He was one of the great poets of his time, yet is almost unknown to the English-speaking literary world. In the darkest part of the history of his country, he created such graphic poetry, with expressions and imagery so deep and rich, that the two apocalyptic poems in this book seem to...
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    17,27 €