6/30/2023 0 Comments Jean genet querelle![]() To him (and to everyone around him) everything's a game in which losing sometimes can be useful (the dice game where he deliberately loses in order to have sex with Nuno, played by Gunther Kauffman). Based on author Jean Genet's 1947 novel Querelle de Brest, the movie revolves about Querelle, an Belgian sailor (Brad Davis) who plays with danger with his criminal affairs selling opium and his involvement with male and female, using of his good looks to get what he wants. In a way, the most tragical of all of his works after being forced to cut part of it to get a release in America, probably the first time he ever had to back down and cut something he directed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Far from being a masterpiece like "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul" or "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant", but this is a very good project directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, his last and the one he got some of the heaviest criticism of his career. I don't think I quite understood what "Querelle" was about but the good aspect of it is that you at each view you get new things, and it grows on you. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In The Awakening (1899), the novel that scandalized many of her contemporaries and effectively ended her public career as a writer, Chopin tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a restless, unsatisfied woman who embarks on a quixotic search for fulfillment. In the two story collections Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), Chopin transforms the popular local color sketch into taut, perfectly calibrated tales that portray Louisiana bayou cultures with sympathetic insight and an eye to the unresolved conflicts of a South reeling from the Civil War. Louis businessman, and the man’s alcoholic wife. The explosive novel At Fault (1890) centers on a love triangle between a strong-willed young widow, a stiff St. Now, The Library of America collects all of Chopin’s novels and stories as never before in one authoritative volume. Her stories of fiercely independent women challenged contemporary mores as much by their sensuousness as their politics, and today seem decades ahead of their time. ![]() From ruined Louisiana plantations to bustling, cosmopolitan New Orleans, Kate Chopin wrote with unflinching honesty about propriety and its strictures, the illusions of love and the realities of marriage, and the persistence of a past scarred by slavery and war. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments The remarkably bright creatures![]() ![]() The book is told in third person for all characters but the octopus. It would be heartwarming without the octopus, but its role in the story really makes this book stand out. And his presence makes a profound impact on Tova and others. He gets a lot more than he bargained for in deciding to make an extended visit to Sowell Bay. When a young man comes to the small town from California, he ends up pulled into Tova and Marcellus’s orbit. But she helps him and keeps his secret, and the two become unlikely friends. The octopus has been managing to escape most nights for short stints, unbeknownst to anyone. One night, she discovers the aquarium’s giant Pacific octopus, Marcellus, outside of his tank. Her husband died fairly recently, and her only child, Erik, disappeared on a boat 30 years ago. And even though she has sufficient savings to live on, she has a job at night cleaning at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Tova Sullivan may be 70 years old and slight of build, but she can work hard. ![]() IN SHORT: This book about family lost and found is utterly charming and made more so by the narration by a grumpy old octopus. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Bad Debt Book 1 by Kervin Straits![]() ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments The pink trance notebooks![]() ![]() Sitting at her kitchen table, Wojciechowsky would work in a trance-like state filling notebooks with jottings that recall Surrealist automatic writings. ![]() This marked the onset of her automatic writings and her artistic development. Propelled by Mona, Marks' young Native American spirit guide, and by her own spiritual gatekeeper Morning Glory, the artist began to draw by strapping a small pencil to her hands with a rubber band. Sometime after World War II, Wojciechowsky was introduced to psychic Bertha Marks. She married Polish immigrant Leo Wojciechowsky, settled in New York, where they raised two children. She emigrated to the United States in 1923, where she was employed as a governess, and later as a seamstress and laundress. Spirits Among Us reveals the enigmatic and rarely seen world of this renowned artist and medium healer in a wide range of works on paper created from 1951 to 1978, along with a selection of automatic writings and artifacts from her life.īorn in Steinach, Germany, the artist reported experiencing her first visions at the age of four. Andrew Edlin Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by Agatha Wojciechowsky (1896-1986), the first held in New York since 1972. ![]() |