Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his themes: dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers and the elusive nature of identity itself. schovat popis
Persoonlijk getint verslag van de Nederlandse schrijfster (1944-) van haar omgang met het werk van de Nederlandse humanist (1469-1536).
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Marilyn Monroe
MARILYN MONROE. HER ROLLAR-COASTER LIFE. HER DECEPTION - SHROUDED DEATH. HER DIVIDED SECRET LIFE. HER LEGION OF LOVERS. HER INTIMACIES WITH JFK AND BOBBY KENNEDY. HER MAFIA CONNECTIONS. This is the one book that tells the whole naked, deeply moving truth about the all -too-beautiful talented, and tormented woman who played a role in public and in private that was too much for flesh and spirit to survive.
Friday's are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty and monotony, scraping together the dregs of their savings for the food and medicine that keeps them alive. But on Fridays the postman comes - and that sets a fleeting wave of hope rushing through the Colonel's ageing heart. For fifteen years he's watched the mail launch come into harbour, hoping he'll be handed an envelope containing the army pension promised to him all those years ago. Whilst he waits for the cheque, his hopes are pinned on his prize bird and the upcoming cockfighting season. But until then the bird - like the Colonel and his wife - must somehow be fed...