Landscape And MemoryKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995 - 672 pagina's A Time Magazine Best Books of the Year. In Landscape and Memory, award-winning author Simon Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers; and the duel between a monumental sculptor and a feminist gadfly on the slopes of Mount Rushmore. The result is a triumphant work of history, naturalism, mythology, and art, as encyclopedic as The Golden Bough and as irresistibly readable as Schama's own Citizens. "A work of great ambition and enormous intellectual scope...consistently provocative and revealing."--New York Times "Extraordinary...a summary cannot convey the riches of this book. It will absorb, instruct, and fascinate."--New York Review of Books |
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... Tadeusz just two years later , in 1834 , all the more astonishing . For although Jankiel ( the name of his old Yiddish host in Wilno ) is also an innkeeper , he is as much in his ele- ment in the countryside as the feudal barons ...
... Tadeusz just two years later , in 1834 , all the more astonishing . For although Jankiel ( the name of his old Yiddish host in Wilno ) is also an innkeeper , he is as much in his ele- ment in the countryside as the feudal barons ...
Pagina 56
... Tadeusz himself of the enemy clan of the Soplica — are themselves bound to a historically determined destiny ; to ancient memories of mutual wrongs , personal , dynastic , and national . Tadeusz is the son of Jacek Soplica , whose ...
... Tadeusz himself of the enemy clan of the Soplica — are themselves bound to a historically determined destiny ; to ancient memories of mutual wrongs , personal , dynastic , and national . Tadeusz is the son of Jacek Soplica , whose ...
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... Tadeusz , 80-81 . For a fascinating discussion of the symbolic possi- bilities of the inn , and whether Mickiewicz meant it to have Masonic or Solomonic conno- tations , see Clark , op . cit . , chap . 1 , 40ff . 11. Mickiewicz , Pan ...
... Tadeusz , 80-81 . For a fascinating discussion of the symbolic possi- bilities of the inn , and whether Mickiewicz meant it to have Masonic or Solomonic conno- tations , see Clark , op . cit . , chap . 1 , 40ff . 11. Mickiewicz , Pan ...
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