Books written by male authors (3467)


191.

Amintirea palidă a munţilor by Kazuo Ishiguro RO

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
Romanul "Amintirea palida a muntilor", nominalizat la Booker Prize, a primit The Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, acordat de Royal Society of Literature. "Amintirea palida a muntilor" este povestea melancolica a lui Etsuko, o japoneza care traieste singura in Anglia, straduindu-se sa exorcizeze un trecut bintuit de cosmarul celui de-al Doilea Razboi Mondial si sa se impace cu sinuciderea fiicei sale mai mari, Keiko. Amintirile sale se concentreaza insa asupra unei legaturi de amicitie din tinerete cu o alta tinara, Sachiko, si cu ciudata ei fiica, Mariko. Povestea centrala ... continue

192.

Amintiri din copilărie by Ion Creangă RO

Rating: 3 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
Description:
Poveștile lui Creangă sunt delectabile deopotrivă pentru copii și pentru adulți. Însă numai cei din urmă le pot gusta pe deplin savoarea. Creanga pare a nu-și fi bătut capul să inventeze povești: avea deștul material la îndemână ca să mai fie nevoie de așa ceva. Cât datorează el creației folclorice anonime și cât îi este aceasta tributară după publicarea poveștilor și absorbția – sau reîntoarcerea – acestora în circuitul oralității e o chestiune ce poate interesa migăloase cercetări erudite. Farmecul poveștilor lui Creangă nu stă &ici... continue

193.

Amkoullel, l'enfant peul by Amadou Hampâté Bâ FR

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Country: Africa / Mali flag Mali
Description:
Amkoullel, tel est le surnom que porte le jeune Hampâté Bâ quand, au début du XXe siècle, il s'initie aux traditions familiales séculaires. Fréquentant l'école française en même temps que la coranique, courant la savane alors que des proches partent pour une guerre que l'on dit mondiale, mais qui les concerne si peu, à l'écoute des grands maîtres de la parole, il devient lui-même, à son insu, un griot, garant et dépositaire d'une civilisation orale en pleine mutation. A la fois roman d'aventure, tableau de mœurs et fresque historique, ce livre restitue dans une langue savoureuse et limpide tou... continue

194.

Amkoullel, the Fula Boy by Amadou Hampâté Bâ EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Mali flag Mali
Description:
Born in 1900 in French West Africa, Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ was one of the towering figures in the literature of twentieth-century Francophone Africa. In Amkoullel, the Fula Boy, Bâ tells in striking detail the story of his youth, which was set against the aftermath of war between the Fula and Toucouleur peoples and the installation of French colonialism. A master storyteller, Bâ recounts pivotal moments of his life, and the lives of his powerful and large family, from his first encounter with the white commandant through the torturous imprisonment of his stepfather and to his forced a... continue

195.

Amnesty by Aravind Adiga EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
A riveting, suspenseful, and exuberant novel from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder—and thereby risk deportation. Danny—formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam—is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he’s been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend, Sonja, with his hidden acc... continue

196.

Amok by Stefan Zweig EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
Description:
A new pocket edition of this Conradian tale of maddening desire, from the master of the novella On a sweltering ocean-liner travelling from India to Europe a passenger tells his story: the tale of a doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between his duty and the pull of his emotions; a tale of power and desire, pride and shame and a headlong flight into folly. This is one the most intense and incisive of the novellas which brought Stefan Zweig to worldwide fame.


198.

Amor y basura by Ivan Klíma ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
El protagonista de Amor y basura es un escritor que se ve convertido en barrendero por la censura estatal, y que comparte con los otros miembros de la brigada de limpieza a la que pertenece un similar afán de evasión. Este deseo de elevarse por encima de la realidad, y la imposibilidad material de despegarse de ésta, crean una disyuntiva que constituye el núcleo de esta historia, una bellísima novela en la que Klíma reivindica no solamente la necesidad de la memoria, sino el papel de la literatura en la conformación de la vida personal y de la historia colectiva.


200.

An Actor Prepares by Konstantin Stanislavsky EN

Rating: 5 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Description:
The first volume of Stanislavski's enduring trilogy on the art of acting defines the "System," a means of mastering the craft of acting and of stimulating the actor's individual creativeness and imagination.