Tijdens de afwezigheid van een dubbelzinnige pastoor, die in de greep is van een sinistere weldoener, maakt de plaatsvervangende priester met zijn onverbloemde optreden de opgekropte angsten en begeertes los. Satire.
Tancredo, a young hunchback, observes and participates in the goings on at the church in which he lives under the care of Father Almida.
Tancredo, a young hunchback, observes and participates in the goings on at the church in which he lives under the care of Father Almida.
Russian Literature 1945-1988
Die Reihe Arbeiten und Texte zur Slavistik umfasst Monographien und Sammelbände zur slawistischen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft. Im Zentrum stehen dabei Forschungsbeiträge zur russischen Literatur. Publikationssprachen sind Deutsch und Russisch.
Russian Literature 1945-1988
Die Reihe Arbeiten und Texte zur Slavistik umfasst Monographien und Sammelbände zur slawistischen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft. Im Zentrum stehen dabei Forschungsbeiträge zur russischen Literatur. Publikationssprachen sind Deutsch und Russisch.
Maximilian Sacheverell Hollingsworth is a counterfeiter, sculptor, filmmaker, sound artist, mystic, and terminal recluse, and over the course of fifty years, making use of a vast stockpile of illegitimate currency, he funds a great range of secret, large-scale art projects throu…
A counterfeiter, sculptor, filmmaker, mystic, and terminal recluse uses his ill-gotten gains to wreak secret havoc upon a bankrupt London, in this timely debut novel.
"Jonathan Swift's angers were all too real, though Swift was temperamentally equivocal about their display. Even in his most brilliant satire, A Tale of a Tub, the aggressive vitality of the narrative is designed, for all the intensity of its sting, never to lose its cool. Yet S…
"More than three centuries since their first publication, Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub, 'The Battle of the Books, ' 'The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, ' and An Argument against Abolishing Christianity remain striking, prescient, and still-relevant challenges to Modern …