Literatura
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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy)
A Portrait Company Today or tomorrow On a claret paper clean and smug, I have to get it done With your sucker’s mug. What a filthy trade it is to paint. What a filthy, filthy trade, To limn each puss with no complaint, And only to be poorly paid. It’s no great fun, I say, To paint a janitor all day, And for some bread Explore the stupid head [...]Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy)Ur. 24 lutego 1885 w Warszawie Zm. 18 września 1939 w Jeziorach na Polesiu Najważniejsze dzieła: W małym dworku dramat, 1921), Wariat i zakonnica (dramat, 1923), Janulka, córka Fizdejki (dramat, 1923), Matka (dramat 1924), Szewcy (dramat, 1934), Pożegnanie jesieni (powieść, 1927), Nienasycenie (powieść, 1930), Nowe formy w malarstwie i wynikające stąd nieporozumienia (1919), Pojęcia i twierdzenia implikowane przez pojęcie Istnienia (1935), Niemyte dusze (1936; wyd. 1975). Pseudonim Witkacy. Polski awangardowy malarz, dramaturg, pisarz i filozof. Malarstwo studiował na krakowskiej ASP (u J. Stanisławskiego i J. Mehofera). W czasie I wojny światowej zaciągnął się do armii carskiej, ranny w 1916 r., pojechał kurować się do rodziny w Moskwie, gdzie był świadkiem wybuchu rewolucji październikowej. Bezpośrednie doświadczenie historii ukształtowało katastroficzną historiozofię Witkacego. W 1918 roku wrócił do Polski i osiadł w Zakopanem. Pracował zarobkowo jako portrecista (w latach 30. stworzył jednoosobową "Firmę portretową"), tworzył teoretyczne teksty z zakresu estetyki, był członkiem krakowskiej grupy formistów, głosząc teorię Czystej Formy w sztuce, mającej odwoływać się u odbiorcy bezpośrednio do uczuć metafizycznych. Z czasem stworzył własny system filozoficzny. W 1935 r. odznaczony prze Polską Akademię Nauk. Po wybuchu II wojny światowej, nie przyjęty jako ochotnik do wojska, udał się w kierunku wschodniej granicy Polski. Zginął śmiercią artystyczno-samobójczą, zażywając weronal wraz ze swą ówczesną kochanką oraz podcinając sobie żyły na wieść o agresji Związku Radzieckiego na prowadzącą wojnę z hitlerowskimi Niemcami Polskę. Kupując książkę wspierasz fundację Nowoczesna Polska, która propaguje ideę wolnej kultury. Wolne Lektury to biblioteka internetowa, rozwijana pod patronatem Ministerstwa Edukacji Narodowej. W jej zbiorach znajduje się kilka tysięcy utworów, w tym wiele lektur szkolnych zalecanych do użytku przez MEN, które trafiły już do domeny publicznej. Wszystkie dzieła są odpowiednio opracowane - opatrzone przypisami oraz motywami.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
James Joyce first wrote Portrait as a one-thousand page novel, full of well-developed scenes and long explanations of Stephens motives, but he decided to trim it into a short book with a new sort of style. The novel tells the story of the first twenty years of Stephen Dedalus a young Catholic boy growing up in late 19th century Ireland. As the title suggests, this is the story not just of a young man, but of a boy developing into an artist. His search for knowledge and undestanding, and the decline of his familys circumstances, lead him to revelations on the nature of art and politics. His personal renaissance makes him feel unwelcome in his own nation, and forces him to decide whether to leave and accept exile, or to stay and fight. An semi-autobiographic novel, featuring a fictionalized character as Joyces alter-ego, it traces his formative childhood years that led him ambivalently away from a vocation in the clergy and into that of literature.
Hugh Walpole
This is the story of a sadist, in this case, a grandfather with excessive ego and a thirst for satisfying his sense of strength. The boys mother, his aunt, the boy himself become a victim of his madness, and the story gathers momentum until they are forced to flee from an environment that gives him his strength. This is a skillful build-up of atmosphere and tension.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Elegantly written novel, which tells about a young man who can not forgive his newly found father, because he left him and his mother. But after many living trials in many ways teach them both, they realize that there are other more important priorities and forces. A pleasant, easy-to-read, and thought-out essay.
John Buchan
A classic John Buchan story of espionage during World War I. It contains several familiar Buchan elements: a motley cast of characters, Great War intrigue, the use of disguises and linguistic talents, the concept of gaining inner strength from a beloved spot in nature, man against the forces of nature in less benign settings, a race against time and evil, and sacrifice for a greater good. This is the epic story of one mans courage. Adam Melfort released from jail just before the outbreak of World War I and becomes involved in intelligence work behind enemy lines. After the war he carries on seeking adventure and tries to prevent the assassination of the German Chancellor. A Prince of the Captivity is not a story about external events, but about what happens in Adams mind and soul as he tries to rebuild his life in a new pattern. However, the external events that forge Melforts soul are drawn from the toolbox of a skillful writer of thrillers.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
“A Princess of Mars“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel, the first of the Barsoom series. It features the characters of John Carter and Carter's wife Dejah Thoris. Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th-century pulp fiction. The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment. This vision of Mars was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell, whose ideas were widely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
“A Princess of Mars“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel, the first of the Barsoom series. It features the characters of John Carter and Carter's wife Dejah Thoris. Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th-century pulp fiction. The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment. This vision of Mars was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell, whose ideas were widely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
In 1914, after seven years of service in the most famous room in the Grill Room in London, he dropped his very favorable position and went to France. In 1919, he came from a war with two crutches and many medals. He came to Paris and looked enviously at the funny scenes in the cafe, and thought that it was all over for him.
Frank Aubrey
Frank Aubrey, the author of The Devil Tree of Eldorado, has ventured again to write a wild and romantic tale of adventure. A Queen of Atlantis is the second of his trilogy of novels. This story relates the discovery of a telepathic race living in the Sargasso Sea. A wonderful tale of the mythical continent, told with outstanding imaginative ingenuity, chronicling the adventures of the near-immortal Monella. The readers interest is sustained from the start and the experiences are thrilling!