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Creation Lake
Sadie Smith is een Amerikaanse geheim agent. Haar werk is illegaal, haar relaties zijn immoreel en haar opdrachtgevers vage figuren die gebaat zijn bij onrust. Op missie in Frankrijk moet Sadie een groep klimaatactivisten tot een opstand aanzetten. Terwijl ze meedraait in de dagelijkse routine van hun commune raakt ze in de ban van Bruno Lacombe, hun geestelijk leider. Bruno is een door de wol geverfde anarchist, een selfmade filosoof die nachtelijke epistels de ether in slingert en een terugkeer naar prehistorische leefgewoonten bepleit. De dag van de opstand nadert. Sadie dreigt haar grip op de activisten te verliezen. En ineens willen haar opdrachtgevers nog meer.
€ 24,99 -
The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death.
€ 23,50 -
Il lago della creazione
'Sadie Smith', la protagonista di questo libro, non si chiama veramente Sadie Smith. Il suo vero nome non lo sapremo mai, ma quel che sappiamo è che Sadie è una giovane spia, un'ex agente dell'Fbi incaricata da non meglio precisati 'contatti' di indagare su un gruppo di anarchici, i Moulinard, insediati in una comune agricola nel sudovest della Francia. I Moulinard, in lotta contro il progetto di un gigantesco bacino idrico agroindustriale che rischia di dissestare l'ecosistema della valle e spazzare via i contadini locali, si ispirano agli insegnamenti di Bruno Lacombe, un eccentrico "maître à penser" postsituazionista, ex sodale di Guy Debord, che si è ritirato a vivere in assoluto isolamento nelle grotte della regione, da cui esce solo per inviare ai suoi accoliti e-mail in cui espone una visione del mondo radicalmente anticapitalista e antimoderna. Come sarebbero andate le cose, si domanda Lacombe, se ad avere la meglio nella lotta evolutiva per la sopravvivenza non fosse stato l'"Homo sapiens", 'il bullo interglaciale che ha plasmato il mondo in cui siamo intrappolati', ma l'uomo di Neanderthal, ben piú capace di contemplare le stelle e di sognare, ovvero di 'rendere visibile l'invisibile'? La missione di Sadie è dimostrare che i Moulinard sono responsabili di atti di sabotaggio e azioni violente, o se necessario spingerli in quella direzione infiltrandosi tra loro, il che non è un problema per la cinica e scafata spia statunitense, che disprezza quello che considera l'ingenuo idealismo dei gauchiste, coglie impietosamente le loro contraddizioni ed è disgustata dalla scarsa virilità del mellifluo Lucien. Piú difficile per lei è restare indifferente al fascino sovversivo di Bruno Lacombe, con cui condivide la fiera durezza di carattere e una profonda solitudine esistenziale. Sadie finirà cosí per imparare da Lacombe a scrutare nel buio, e a 'salutare e guardare scomparire' i fardelli che per tutta la vita si è portata dietro. Ispirato ad alcune vicende reali di infiltrazione poliziesca e persecuzione giudiziaria contro l'attivismo ecologista, l'ultimo romanzo di Rachel Kushner, da sempre interessata alla storia della controcultura e dell'antagonismo politico, ci regala una prospettiva inedita da cui contemplare i conflitti del nostro tempo: lo sguardo algido e malinconico, alienato eppure struggente, di una nemica, e ci spinge a domandarci: e se fosse il nostro stesso sguardo?. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
€ 36,50 -
Fatti per bruciare. Saggi 2000-2020
I diciannove saggi qui raccolti spaziano dal giornalismo letterario al memoir, dalla critica d'arte al reportage in zone di guerra. Alle riflessioni sulle opere di Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson, Marguerite Duras, Clarice Lispector e Nanni Balestrini, Kushner affianca il racconto di esperienze private, tra cui il viaggio in un campo profughi palestinese, la partecipazione a una corsa illegale di motociclette, l'incontro con il cinema documentaristico nell'Italia degli anni Settanta, e l'adolescenza in una San Francisco ai limiti della legalità. A fungere da collante nella moltitudine di scenari è la riflessione sull'arte come rivoluzione e sulla rivoluzione come forma d'arte. Se infatti il ruolo politico e sociale dell'opera artistica è al centro dei saggi di stampo più marcatamente critico, le pagine sul cinema italiano degli anni Settanta o sul sistema penitenziario americano intendono mostrare la potenza rivoluzionaria ed estetica del pensiero e del dibattito, il tutto filtrato dallo stesso sguardo lucido e tagliente; dallo stesso acume irriverente eppure profondamente empatico; dalla stessa fame di conoscenza e verità. I saggi si uniscono così come tessere di un mosaico che compongono l'immagine dell'autrice non come oracolo bensì come ricettacolo e veicolo di immagini ed esperienze da restituire vivide nella loro integrità. Vi si avverte il dovere della testimonianza, e non perché la vita che viene raccontata sia quella di una privilegiata, ma perché chi racconta ha il privilegio della sopravvivenza.
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See der Schöpfung
Ausgezeichnet mit dem SPIEGEL Buchpreis 2025 Sadie Smith - 34, skrupellos, verführerisch, ehemalige FBI-Agentin - wird von einem namenlosen Auftraggeber in eine entlegene Gegend in Südfrankreich geschickt. Ihr Auftrag: Sie soll eine Kommune anarchistischer Umweltaktivisten infiltrieren, die im Verdacht steht, Anschläge verübt zu haben. Sadie blickt zunächst mit Verachtung auf die Idealisten und die französische Provinz mit ihren verschlafenen Dörfern und Höfen. Doch dann gerät sie in Kontakt mit Bruno Lacombe, dem Vordenker der Gruppe. Bruno lehnt die Zivilisation ab, er lebt in einer Neandertalerhöhle und sieht die Rettung der Menschheit in der Rückwendung zu ihren Ursprüngen. Die Auseinandersetzung mit ihm lässt Zweifel in der eigentlich so abgebrühten Sadie keimen, und sie, die die Fäden in der Hand zu halten glaubte, gerät mehr und mehr in seinen Bann. Eine provozierende Agenten-Story im Spannungsfeld von Gesellschaftskritik, Aktivismus und Politik. 'Das Elektrisierende an diesem Roman ist die Verknüpfung von aktueller Politik mit einer dunklen Gegengeschichte der Menschheit. Kushners aufregende Ideen haben uns mitgerissen. Der ganze Roman ist ein tiefgründiger, unwiderstehlicher Pageturner.' Die Booker-Prize-Jury 'Rachel Kushner erfindet den Spionageroman auf coole, hochintelligente Weise neu.' Hernán Díaz 'Rachel Kushner ist die aufregendste Autorin ihrer Generation.' Bret Easton Ellis
€ 26,00 -
Creation Lake
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024****INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'Imagine Slow Horses' Jackson Lamb in the body of Jodie Comer's character in Killing Eve' SUNDAY TIMES'Compulsively readable... Kill Bill written by John le Carré' OBSERVERSeductive and cunning American spy-for-hire Sadie Smith has been sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France.Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists influenced by the beliefs of an enigmatic elder, Bruno Lacombe, who has rejected civilisation, lives in a Neanderthal cave, and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism.Sadie casts her cynical eye over this region of ancient farms and sleepy villages, and finds Bruno's idealism laughable, but just as she is certain she's the seductress and puppet master of those she surveils, Bruno Lacombe is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own tragic story.Beneath this a taut, dazzling story of espionage and intrigue lies one of a woman caught in the crossfire between the past and the future, and a profound treatise on human history.'The most exciting writer of her generation' BRET EASTON ELLIS'Reinvents the spy novel in one cool, erudite gesture' HERNAN DIAZ*A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, INDEPENDENT, DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE ATLANTIC, GUARDIAN, VULTURE, THE ECONOMIST*
€ 24,00 -
Creation Lake
"'Sadie Smith' is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader. We never learn her real name. Sadie has met her lover Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by 'cold bump'--making him believe the encounter was accidental. And like everyone she chooses to interact with, Lucien is useful to her. ... Sadie operates on strategy and dissimulation, based on what her 'contacts,'--shadowy figures in business and government--instruct. First, these contacts want her to incite provocation. Then they want more"
€ 28,50 -
Creation Lake
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024****INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'Imagine Slow Horses' Jackson Lamb in the body of Jodie Comer's character in Killing Eve' SUNDAY TIMES'Compulsively readable... Kill Bill written by John le Carré' OBSERVERSeductive and cunning American spy-for-hire Sadie Smith has been sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France.Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists influenced by the beliefs of an enigmatic elder, Bruno Lacombe, who has rejected civilisation, lives in a Neanderthal cave, and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism.Sadie casts her cynical eye over this region of ancient farms and sleepy villages, and finds Bruno's idealism laughable, but just as she is certain she's the seductress and puppet master of those she surveils, Bruno Lacombe is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own tragic story.Beneath this a taut, dazzling story of espionage and intrigue lies one of a woman caught in the crossfire between the past and the future, and a profound treatise on human history.'The most exciting writer of her generation' BRET EASTON ELLIS'Reinvents the spy novel in one cool, erudite gesture' HERNAN DIAZ*A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, INDEPENDENT, DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE ATLANTIC, GUARDIAN, VULTURE, THE ECONOMIST*
€ 19,50 -
The Mars Room
€ 31,95 -
Harte Leute
Rachel Kushner ist für ihren Mut, ihren Ehrgeiz und ihren Killerinstinkt bekannt. In Harte Leute versammelt sie eine Auswahl ihrer Essays, die sich mit den drängendsten kulturellen, künstlerischen und politischen Themen unserer Zeit ebenso befasst wie mit Kushners schriftstellerischen Grundlagen und Wurzeln. Das Buch enthält Texte über Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson und Marguerite Duras, über den Besuch in einem palästinensischen Flüchtlingslager, ein illegales Motorradrennen in Baja California, die wilden Streiks im Italien der Siebzigerjahre, ihre Liebe zu Oldtimern und ihr Leben als Jugendliche in der Musikszene von San Francisco. Es schließt mit einem Finale furioso: einem wilden Manifest über «harte Leute». Zwanzig rasiermesserscharfe Essays von einer der großen Stimmen der zeitgenössischen US-Literatur.
€ 26,00 -
The Mayor of Leipzig
An acidic portrait of the grifters and pretenders of the art world, from the celebrated author of The Mars Room In Rachel Kushner's latest work of fiction, The Mayor of Leipzig, an unnamed artist recounts her travels from New York City to Cologne--where she contemplates German guilt and art-world grifters, and Leipzig--where she encounters live "adult entertainment" in a business hotel. The narrator gossips about everyone, including the author. "Taking a time out from what happened to me in Cologne and in Leipzig," Kushner writes, "I want to let you in on a secret: I personally know the author of this story you're reading. Because she fancies herself an art world type, a hanger-on. Who would do that voluntarily? I mean, it's not like someone held a gun to my head and said, Be an artist. I chose it, but I still can't imagine having anything to do with the art world if you don't have to. Also, people who don't make stuff, who instead try to catalogue, periodize, and understand art, they never understand the first thing. Art is about taste, a sense of humor, and most writers lack both." Rachel Kushner (born 1968) is the author of The Flamethrowers (2013) and The Mars Room (2018). Her debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. A collection of her early work, The Strange Case of Rachel K, was published by New Directions in 2015. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's and the Paris Review.
€ 22,00 -
La sala Marte
Novela del año según TIME y finalista del Man Booker Prize.«Áspera, empática, finamente construida, sin edulcorantes y cargada de golpes,ninguno de ellos suave.».- Margaret Atwood«La mayor parte de los libros de ficción literaria son de corta duración. La sala Marte permanecerá. Es auténtica.».- Stephen KingEl camino que recorre Romy, condenada a dos cadenas perpetuas, es el que parece programado para ciertas personas y que pone en cuestión el sueño americano: un camino que va directo desde la pobreza hasta la cárcel. En La sala Marte entramos de lleno en este mundo extraño situado tras los muros de una prisión de mujeres, cargado de detalles y de un idioma y una rutina propios; un mundo aparte pero unido íntimamente al del exterior.La minuciosidad con la que Rachel Kushner trata la violencia latente y explícita de esta red carcelaria, la oscuridad y la comicidad de sus personajes, la implicación con la que se ha empapado de la realidad más subterránea de su país, han convertido a esta novela en una obra clave de la literatura americana actual.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONTIME'S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDLONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALAn instant New York Times bestseller from two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room earned tweets from Margaret Atwood-"gritty, empathic, finely rendered, no sugar toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled"-and from Stephen King-"The Mars Room is the real deal, jarring, horrible, compassionate, funny."It's 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: her young son, Jackson, and the San Francisco of her youth. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, portrayed with great humor and precision.Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room is "wholly authentic…profound…luminous" (The Wall Street Journal), "one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart" (The New York Times Book Review, cover review)-a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined and "affirms Rachel Kushner as one of our best novelists" (Entertainment Weekly).
€ 30,50