![]() ![]() ![]() His mother, Sophie ("Phia") Entz (1851–1931), came from a well-to-do Prague family, the Entz-Kinzelbergers, who lived in a house on the Herrengasse (Panská) 8, where René also spent many of his early years. ![]() His father, Josef Rilke (1838–1906), became a railway official after an unsuccessful military career. His childhood and youth in Prague were not especially happy. He was born René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke in Prague, capital of Bohemia (then part of Austria–Hungary, now the Czech Republic). He also wrote more than 400 poems in French, dedicated to his homeland of choice, the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Among English-language readers, his best-known work is the Duino Elegies his two most famous prose works are the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. He wrote in both verse and a highly lyrical prose. ![]() His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety: themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language. Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926) was a Bohemian–Austrian poet and art critic. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Sedaris’ register ranges from doggerel to deeply soulful, as when he reflects on the death of a beloved sibling and its effects on a family that has been too often portrayed as dysfunctional when it’s really just odd: “The word,” he writes, “is overused….My father hoarding food inside my sister’s vagina would be dysfunctional. An example is a set piece that comes fairly early in the anthology: the achingly funny “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” with its spot-on reminiscence of taking a French class with a disdainful instructor, a roomful of clueless but cheerful students, and Sedaris himself, who mangles the language gloriously, finally coming to understand his teacher’s baleful utterances (“Every day spent with you is like having a cesarean section”) without being able to reply in any way that does not destroy the language of Voltaire and Proust. He tends toward the archly droll in either genre, both well represented in this gathering, always with a perfectly formed crystallization of our various embarrassments and discomforts. It’s not easy to pick out fact from fiction in the author’s sidelong takes on family, travel, relationships, and other topics. ![]() A welcome greatest-hits package from Sedaris. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And here too is piercing commentary on her own work (including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved, and Paradise) and that of others, among them, painter and collagist Romare Bearden, author Toni Cade Bambara, and theater director Peter Sellars. She looks at enduring matters of culture: the role of the artist in society, the literary imagination, the Afro-American presence in American literature, and in her Nobel lecture, the power of language itself. ![]() In the writings and speeches included here, Morrison takes on contested social issues: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, "black matter(s)," and human rights. It is divided into three parts: the first is introduced by a powerful prayer for the dead of 9/11 the second by a searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., and the last by a heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. ![]() The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style, the literary prowess and moral compass that are Toni Morrison's inimitable hallmark. Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection-a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Letty Davenport Series in Publication Order The publication order of Prey books by John Sandford is the same as the reading order. Lucas Davenport / Prey Books In Publication Order New John Sandford Books Dark Angel (Letty Davenport #2), 2023 Here are all the John Sandford books in order for all the books he has written in the various series and his other books. While Prey is John Sandford’s main series, he has also written additional books in the Virgil Flowers series, the Kidd series, The Singular Menace books, and his latest series featuring Letty Davenport, the adopted daughter of Davenport. I think I have read the book soon after its publication and got hooked on the series right away. I have read most of the author’s books in the series, starting with Rules of Prey, which was first published in 1989. Last Updated on MaThe John Sandford books in order include his most popular bestselling Lucas Davenport (Prey) series, with to date over 30 crime mystery novels. John Sandford Biography – About the Author.The Case for Reading the Virgil Flowers Books.The Singular Menace Books in Publication Order. ![]() Virgil Flowers Books In Publication Order.Letty Davenport Series in Publication Order.Lucas Davenport / Prey Books In Publication Order. ![]() ![]() Prototype version is working but still needs a little bit of optimization [ Sound effects are added, few scripted actions implemented and some assets has their animations. Currently it allows user to explore 3 selected reinterpretations of paintings and a hub gallery that in future will hopefully lead to other paintings/worlds. That created the core idea of a project which was through VR, encourage young people to visit such art exhibitions or museums and allow them to experience new form of interactive dialogue with art.Įxperience is still in WIP state. I also always wanted to share that inspiration with others and in some way commemorate his magnificent work. I frequently visited Historical Museum in Sanok and from my early age was inspired by the art of Beksinski. I was fortunate enough to live near the town where the largest collection of his works is located. De Profundis is a project with the goal to create a virtual explorable world based on the art of famous polish painter - Zdzisław Beksiński. ![]() ![]() Just wanted to share a little bit of my work with you guys. ![]() |