Makarios
When Mikhail Makarios became head of the Church of Cyprus in 1950, Greek Cypriots presumed that he would lead the struggle for union with Greece - partly because the Church was perceived to be the custodian of this nationalist tradition. And though Archbishop Makarios III pursued this objective energetically, by 1959 he had signed the agreements that established an independent Cyprus republic – ending the dream of enosis and setting the scene for today’s struggles to bring peace to the island. In this first English language biography of one of the most important figures in Cypriot modern history, Demetris Assos shows how Makarios oscillated between his personal nationalist romantic idealism and the management of hard political realities on the ground, and argues a nuanced understanding of this ambivalence is crucial to contextualise and explain his actions. Assos shows how, by the 1950s, the political authority of Makarios’ position became intertwined with his spiritual power. He also
As Rich as the King
WINNER OF THE FRANÇOISE SAGAN PRIZE WINNER OF THE BOOKSTAGRAM PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE GONCOURT PRIZE FOR DEBUT NOVEL 'With this book, Abigail Assor announces herself as one of the most distinctive voices in North African literature. This ...
As Rich as the King
WINNER OF THE FRANÇOISE SAGAN PRIZE FEATURED IN CHANEL SHORTLISTED FOR THE GONCOURT PRIZE FOR DEBUT NOVEL 'With this book, Abigail Assor announces herself as one of the most distinctive voices in North African literature. This is a vibrant,...
Dom Casmurro
Dom Casmurro is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition . Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Logic of Experimentation
Logic of Experimentation offers several innovative and ground-breaking perspectives on music performance, music ontology, research methodologies and ethics of performance. It proposes new modes of thinking and exposing past musical works to contem...
Vansinnesläkaren
Machado De Assis (1839-1908) var färgad och arbetarson, i ett Brasilien som avskaffade slaveriet först 1888. Han var epileptiker och självlärd. Som ung typograflärling började han skriva poesi. Så småningom blev han erkänd författare och slutade s...
Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
Preservada a ortografia de poca.] MEM RIAS P STUMAS DE BR S CUBAS o Romance de Machado de Assis que foi publicado em 1881, inaugurando o movimento realista no Brasil. A obra dividida em 160 cap tulos caracterizados, onde o narrador um finado chamado Br s Cubas que nasceu em uma fam lia abastada do s culo XIX. O Romance se inicia com a declara o da morte de Br s Cubas, cujo protagonista relata suas mem rias depois de ter sido v tima de pneumonia. Machado de Assis no pr logo da terceira edi o destaca: 'O que faz do meu Br s Cubas um autor particular o que ele chama 'rabugens de pessimismo'. H na alma deste livro, por mais risonho que pare a, um sentimento amargo e spero, que est longe de vir de seus modelos. ta a que pode ter lavores de igual escola, mas leva outro vinho. N o digo mais para n o entrar na cr tica de um defunto, que se pintou a si e a outros, conforme lhe pareceu melhor e mais certo.' ('Ao verme que primeiro roeu as frias carnes do meu cad ver dedico como saudosa lembran
Dom Casmurro
Bentinho e Capitu s o criados juntos e se apaixonam na adolesc ncia. Mas a m e dele, por for a de uma promessa, decide envi -lo ao semin rio para que se torne padre. L o garoto conhece Escobar, de quem fica amigo ntimo. Algum tempo depois, tanto um como outro deixam a vida eclesi stica e se casam.
Epitaph of a Small Winner
'I am a deceased writer not in the sense of one who has written and is now deceased, but in the sense of one who has died and is now writing'. So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian. While the grave m...
Weber's Electrodynamics
"Great progress has been made in electrical science, chiefly in Germany, by cultivators of the theory of action at a distance. The valuable electrical measurements of W. Weber are interpreted by him according to this theory, and the electroma...
Artistic Research
Artistic Research: Charting a Field in Expansion provides a multidisciplinary overview of different discourses and practices, exploring cutting-edge questions from the burgeoning field of artistic research. Intended as a primer on artistic researc...
Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the Americas Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature. In his masterpiece, the 188...
Quincas Borba
Machado de Assis is considered the pre-eminent writer of Brazil. Quincas Borba is one of his four most important novels and features some of the same characters as Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas. The main character of this novel is a well-meaning...
Infinitesimal
On August 10, 1632, five leading Jesuits convened in a sombre Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny parts. The doctrine would become the foundation of calculus, but on ...
Dom Casmurro
This crisp new translation by John Gledson is the only complete, unabridged, and annotated edition available of one of the most distinctive novels of the turn of the century.
Futures of the Contemporary
Futures of the Contemporary explores different notions and manifestations of "the contemporary" in music, visual arts, art theory, and philosophy. In particular, the authors in this collection of essays scrutinise the role of artistic re...
Bras Cubas Postuma Memoarer
Brás Cubas postuma memoarer har formen av en självbiografi. Det är en krönika över den döde berättarens erotiska misslyckanden. Machados litterära grepp är effektivt - eftersom den fiktive författaren är död kan han uttrycka sig öppenhjärtigt. På sin jakt efter kärlek och avkomma avvisar Brás Cubas de kvinnor som vill ha honom och eftertraktar de ouppnåeliga. Till slut dör han oälskad och utan arvingar, men lyckas ändå summera sitt liv som ett slags seger. Vad som gör denna över 100 år gamla bok så läsvärd är Machados humor, lysande prosa och djupa förståelse för alla mänskliga svag heter. Brás Cubas postumt skrivna memoarer får vi följa hans liv från vaggan till graven. Vi översköljs av en rikedom av episoder som utspelas i Brasilien i en miljö där den europeiska livsstilen är förhärskande bland de besuttna och där slaveriet fortfarande finns kvar. Mot denna bakgrund framträder vivören Brás Cubas med alla sina fel och brister som han från sin oberörda position kan kosta på sig att lämna ut helt oförblommerat. När han berättar sitt livs historia dör förhållandet till en gift kvinna spelar en stor roll avslöjar han ideligen sin snålhet, falskhet och äregirighet. Dent märkliga med denna bok är att den inger läsaren en oroande misstanke om att Brás Cubas inte är ensam om att vara behäftad med dessa svagheter och att man rentav stundtals kan tycka att boken är en spegel som man håller i sin hand. Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) var en man som hade sett samhället ur många perspektiv, som föräldralös pojke, som typograflärling och journalist och slutligen som uppburen författare och medlem av Brasilianska Akademien. Hans författarskap kom så småningom att präglas av skepticism och pessimism som dock mildras av en varm humor.