Bücher von Paul Russell

From the award-winning author of The Coming Storm comes the brilliantly conceived and precisely rendered novel The Salt Point, a compelling novel of four people and their intermingled and unwinding desires.Anatole loves Leigh ("Our Boy of the Mall"), a great adolescent beauty. Leigh is sleeping with Lydia, Anatole's best friend, who's fighting turning thirty. Chris, once the stunning object of Anatole's desire, is an unscrupulous friend to all and known to none. Set in a Poughkeepsie mall--the Main Street to a new generation--The Salt Point follows Anatole, Leigh, Chris, and Lydia as they achieve their oddly triumphant lives redolent with loss and hope, humor and sadness, union and alienation. As promises are diminished and futures are abandoned, all four hurtle toward that place in which the nature of things is transmuted: a place not unlike the salt point, that unfixed location in the Hudson River where fresh water turns salty.

Eine behütete Kindheit im zaristischen Russland, Flucht vor der Revolution, Ausschweifungen in der Pariser Boheme und Tod im KZ Neuengamme: In nur 45 Jahren (1900- 1945) durchlebt Sergej Nabokow bewegte Zeiten. In seiner aristokratischen Familie ist der unmännliche, stotternde Junge ein Außenseiter, nur ein «Schatten auf dem Hintergrund meiner reichsten Erinnerungen», wie sein berühmter Bruder Wladimir Nabokow ihn später beschreibt. Auf seiner Flucht verschlägt es ihn über Cambridge und Berlin nach Paris, wo er schnell Zugang zu den Kreisen um Cocteau, Diaghilew und Gertrude Stein erlangt. Als er schließlich an Opium zu sterben droht, bringt ihn ein Freund auf sein Schloss in Tirol, wo die Nationalsozialisten das Freundespaar 1941 verhaften. Nach kurzer Haft wegen «widernatürlicher Unzucht » geht Nabokow nach Berlin, wo er als Übersetzer im Propagandaministerium arbeitet. Wegen politischer Äußerungen wird er 1943 ins KZ Neuengamme verbracht, wo er unmittelbar vor Kriegsende entkräftet stirbt. Wo Sergej Nabokow selbst nur undeutliche Spuren hinterlassen hat, bedient sich Paul Russell zeitgenössischer Quellen, darunter die Romane und Memoiren des berühmten Bruders Wladimir, und seiner Fantasie. So hat er ein ungemein lebendiges Bild dieser Epoche und ihrer Menschen geschaffen, vor allem aber einen packenden und geistreichen Roman.

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Lambda Literary Award Finalist; Winner of the Ferro-Grumley AwardSet against the backdrop of a traditional boys' school in upstate New York, The Coming Storm is a delicately and brilliantly rendered tale that reveals the most closely held secrets of the human heart. Russell's award-winning novel is the story of four interlocking lives - Louis Tremper, the headmaster at the Forge School; his wife Claire; Tracey Parker, a 25-year old gay man and recently hired teacher at the Forge School; and Noah Lathrop III, a troubled student - all of whom struggle with their own inner demons, desires, and conflicted loyalties. When Tracey and Noah become involved in an illicit relationship, dark incidents from the school's past begin colliding with the current growing confusion that all of them must face. Compelling and poignant, this is the finest work yet from one of best contemporary American novelists.Stonewall Inn Editions

The debate over free will and responsibility has received an enormous resurgence of interest and the contribution in 1962 by P F Strawson with the publication of his essay "Freedom and Resentment" has generated a range of discussion and criticism in the philosophical community. This work brings together contributions and reactions to this debate.

This text provides an introduction to the Celtic languages covering their historical background. Goidelic languages, Irish, Welsh and Brettonic languages are included. The topics covered include: orthographies; phoentics; phonology; morphology; and word order.