Resultados para "Kurt" en Ensayos

In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey through life. This is a work that resonates with Vonnegut's singular voice: the magic sound of a born storyteller mesmerizing us with truth.

Kurt Vonnegut presents in Fates Worse than Death a veritable cornucopia of his thoughts on what could perhaps best be summed up as "anti-theology", a manifesto for atheism that details Vonnegut's drift from conventional religion, even a tract evidencing belief in the divine held within each individual self--the deity within each individual person present in a universe that otherwise lacks any real order.

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Slaughterhouse-Five—a “gripping” posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s previously unpublished work on the subject of war and peace. A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly humane humorist, Armageddon in Retrospect is a...

Dieses Hörbuch enthält folgende Fragmente: "Versuch einer kleinen praktischen Kinderlogik" von Karl Philipp Moritz, "Pflicht und Vergnügen" von Karl Philipp Moritz, "Die Zeitbremse nie wieder gesehen" von Kurt Tucholsky, "Stille sprechen" von Stefan Grossmann und "Unmusikalität" von Franz Werfel.

Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong? A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs...

In seinem Essay über das Essen berichtet Walter Benjamin über den Genuss frischer Feigen, Café Creme, Falerner und Stockfisch, Borscht, Pranzo caprese und Maulbeer-Omelette.

After a bestselling and acclaimed diversion into fiction, Chuck Klosterman, author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, returns to the form in which he’s been spectacularly successful with a collection of essays about our consumption of pop culture and sports. Q: What is this book about? A: Well...