Архив рубрики «Юмор»
Tale of Genji
Written centuries before the time of Shakespeare and Chaucer, The Tale of Genji marks the birth of the novel-and after more than a millennium, this seminal work about the life and loves of Prince Genji, master poet, dancer, musician and
Script into Performance: A Structuralist Approach
«An analysis of script interpretation for the theater. The text includes theories on performance as well as examples from the works of Shelley, Ibsen and Pinter. In his new preface, Hornby laments the modernization of classic plays which he believes
The Plague
The message is not the highest form of creative art, but it may be of such importance for our time that to dismiss it in the name of artistic criticism would be to blaspheme against the human spirit.
Measuring the World: A Novel
Loosely based on the lives of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt and a contemporary, mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, Kehlmann’s novel, a German bestseller widely heralded as an exemplar of «new» German fiction, injects musty history
The Parrot’s Theorem: A Novel
Murder mystery meets mathematical history in this pleasantly whimsical but unfocused debut novel, which begins when a Parisian bookseller named Pierre Ruche receives a priceless collection of historical math books from a wartime colleague named