Bøger af Mark Polizzotti

An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why the movement continues to resonate

"In four beautifully woven parts, Mukasonga spins a marvelous recounting of the clash between ancient Rwandan beliefs and the missionaries determined to replace them with European Christianity. When a rogue priest is defrocked for fusing the gospels with the martyrdom of Kibogo, a fierce clash of cults ensues. Swirling with the heady smell of wet earth and flashes of acerbic humor, Mukasonga brings to life the vital mythologies that imbue the Rwandan spirit. In doing so, she gives us a tale of disarming simplicity and profound universal truth. Kibogo's story is reserved for the evening's end, when women sit around a fire drinking honeyed brew, when just a few are able to stave off sleep. With heads nodding, drifting into the mist of a dream, one faithful storyteller will weave the old legends of the hillside, stories which church missionaries have done everything in their power to expunge. To some, Kibogo's tale is founding myth, celestial marvel, magic incantation, bottomless source of hope. To white priests spritzing holy water on shriveled, drought-ridden trees, it looms like red fog over the village: forbidden, satanic, a witchdoctor's hoax. All debate the twisted roots of this story, but deep down, all secretly wonder - can Kibogo really summon the rain?--

Max Delmarc, age fifty, is a famous concert pianist with two problems: the first is a paralyzing stage fright for which the second, alcohol, is the only treatment. In this unparalleled comedy from the Prix Goncourt-winning French novelist Jean Echenoz, we journey with Max, from the trials of his everyday life, through his untimely death, and on into the afterlife.After a brief stay in purgatory-part luxury hotel, part minimum security prison, under the supervision of deceased celebrities-Max is cast into an alarmingly familiar partition of hell, "the urban zone," a dark and cloudy city much like his native Paris on an eternally bad day. Unable to play his beloved piano or stomach his needed drink, Max engages in a hapless struggle to piece his former life back together while searching in vain for the woman he once loved.An acclaimed bestseller with 50,000 copies sold in France, Piano is a sly, sardonic evocation of Dante and Sartre for the present day, the playful, daring masterpiece of a novelist at the top of his form.

Highway 61 Revisited gavs ut 1965 och blev en av Bob Dylans mest betydelsefulla skivor. Skivan innehåller bland annat flera klassiska låtar som Dylan även idag framför på sina konserter, exempelvis "Like A Rolling Stone" och "Desolation Row". Den sistnämnda låten handlar om den amerikanska drömmen och hur den på endast tio verser kan förvandlas till den amerikanska mardrömmen.Highway 61 är vid sidan av Route 66 den mest legendariska vägen i USA och den sträcker sig från Kanada i norr till Mexiko i söder. Vägen passerar inte bara Dylans uppväxtstad Hibbing utan även platser där andra kända musiker föddes, bland andra Elvis Presley och Muddy Waters.Mark Polizzotti (född 1957) är en amerikansk författare, översättare, poet och kritiker. Han har bland annat översatt flera romaner av nobelpristagaren Patrick Modiano till engelska och skrivit musikböckerna Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton och Los Olvidados.

An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't.

Examines just what makes the songs so affecting, how they work together as a suite, and how lyrics, melody, and arrangements combine to create an unusually potent mix. This book blends musical and literary analysis of the songs themselves, biography (where appropriate) and recording information (where helpful).

Los Olvidados (1950) established Luis Bunuel's reputation as a world-class director. The film exhibits some of Bunuel's recognisable themes of love's yearnings, social injustice, and surrealism, but with a layer of compassion that sets it apart from many of his other films.