Resultados para "Prague" en Narrativa literaria

In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the oppressed writers with whom he quickly becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre and poignant adventures, a perverse kind of heroism.

Una vez más, Moreno-Ruiz, haciendo buena su aseveración de que siempre es reportero, incluso cuando escribe ficción, hibrida con humor situaciones reales sobre las que ensaya, en el sentido más intelectual del término -aunque según él cabe hacerlo como quien habla de rugby- a través de la ficción literaria.

Winter blankets Montreal, while a bookseller and her lover dream of Prague. As the narrator’s open marriage becomes the subject of a novel, reality blurs with fiction, and she tries to reconcile the need to create with the desire for love and sex. Written in stark, spare prose, Prague is an introspective and intimate account of the making of a novel from life.

Ved sit barnebarns bryllup i New York genkender Josef en kvinde, som han ikke har set i 60 år, og som han troede var død i Auschwitz. Hvad skete der, efter de sidste gang så hinanden i Prag i 1940? De elskende fra Prag er en uforglemmelig kærlighedshistorie i skyggen af Anden Verdenskrig om det unge, forelskede par, Lenka og Josef, der gifter sig i al hast, da truslen om krig kommer nærmere. Josef sætter kurs mod New York, men Lenka insisterer på at blive tilbage med sine forældre og sin søster og støde til senere, når de har papirerne i orden. Skæbnen vil det dog anderledes.

Para el doctor Josef Kronz, una ciudad es todas las ciudades. En todas será un extraño. Un extranjero siempre es el otro, el que mira, desde fuera, lo que ocurre en la ciudad, detrás de las cortinas, bajo la lluvia, siempre bajo la lluvia. Mira a distancia, desde el futuro, jamás desde el pasado, porque el extranjero, este en particular, ha procurado no llevar un bulto sobre los hombros: no hubo un antes para él o, mejor dicho, tiene una inmensa capacidad de olvidar.

In 1927, as Natalia Faber travels from Berlin to Prague with her mother, their train is delayed in Saxon Switzerland. In the brief time the train is idle, Natalia learns the truth about her father - who she believed died during her infancy - and meets a remarkable woman named Dr. Magdalena Schaeffer, whose family will become a significant part of her future. Shaken by these events, Natalia arrives at a spa on the shore of Lake Hevíz in Hungary. Here, she meets Count Miklós Andorján, a journalist and adventurer. The following year, they will marry.

Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. Every nation has...

Es ist Jahre her, dass Anna ihren Ex-Mann Leo zuletzt gesehen hat. Nun begegnet sie ihm zufällig in Prag wieder. Anna ist in der Stadt, um etwas über Craft Bier zu lernen, und hat ein Zimmer im Zentrum angemietet. Doch sie muss die gemütliche Dachwohnung ausgerechnet mit Leo teilen – ihrem neuen Mitbewohner. Und es kommt noch schlimmer: Auch Leo wird die nächsten Wochen an einer Weiterbildung und einem Brauerei-Wettbewerb teilnehmen. Sie sind also Konkurrenten! Ausgeschlossen, dass längst vergessene Gefühle zwischen ihnen erwachen.

26, 211 Miles is the story of a 22-year-old as he travels for a year after graduating from college and is titled as such because that's how far the lead character needs to go in order to be able to say "I love you."