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Ollivier Dyens
An artist, an essayist and a poet.
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Book: Ollivier Dyens 1 Nov 2001
Metal and Flesh
The evolution of man: technology takes over
"Are we not men," bark the creatures residing in H.G. Wells's fantasy island, and cultural critic Ollivier Dyens looks into the issue in his book Metal and Flesh. Arguing that culture has redefined...
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Adriaan van Dis
A Dutch author, with Indo (Eurasian) roots, who debuted in 1983 with the novella Nathan Sid. He is also known as the host of his own television show.
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Heinrich Lüber
Author and for the last twenty years performance artist.
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Book: Shizuko Natsuki 1 Jun 1987
The third lady
An exemplary suspense novel, one the reader will long remember.
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Shizuko Natsuki
Japanse auteur van detectives en thrillers.
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Chris Gregory
A lecturer in media and film studies, English, and creative writing.
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William Burroughs
An American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author who affected popular culture as well as...
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Book: William Burroughs 1 Jan 1985
The ticket that exploded
A novel by William S. Burroughs first published in 1962 by Olympia Press and later published in the United States in 1967. It is the second book in a trilogy created using the cut-up technique, often...
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Ole Bouman
Ole Bouman is the director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute, globally the largest institute of its kind.
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Eldon Garnet
A multidisciplinary artist and novelist based in Toronto and a professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
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Book: Nicholson Baker 1 Jan 1992
VOX
A novel about telephone sex
Baker's self-indulgent novel, a 14-week PW bestseller in cloth, transcribes a long telephone conversation between two people who meet over a phone-sex call-in line.
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Nicholson Baker
A contemporary American writer of fiction and non-fiction. As a novelist, he often focuses on minute inspection of his characters' and narrators' stream of consciousness, and has written about such...
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Book: Steiner, George 1 Jan 1989
Real Presences
Is there anything in what we say?
"Real Presences" argues that any understanding of the nature of language is based on the assumption of God's presence, and discusses the influence of this on literary criticism.
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Book: Bruce Chatwin 1 Jan 1987
The Songlines
A 1986 book written by Bruce Chatwin, combining fiction and non-fiction. Chatwin describes a trip to Australia which he has taken for the express purpose of researching Aboriginal song and its...
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Bruce Chatwin
English novelist and travel writer. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill (1982). Married and bisexual, he was one of the first prominent men in Britain known to...
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Edwin Abbott
An English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the satirical novella Flatland (1884).
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Book: Edwin Abbott 1 Jan 1884
Flatland
A Romance of many Dimensions
An 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Writing pseudonymously as "A Square", Abbott used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to offer pointed...
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Ivan Toergenjev
A Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches, is a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers...
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Book: Ivan Toergenjev 1 Jan 1974
Vaders en Zonen
Vaders en zonen (Russisch: Отцы и дети, Ottsy i Deti, wat letterlijk vertaald "Vaders en Kinderen" betekent), is een roman uit 1862 van de Russische schrijver Ivan Toergenjev. Het is een van zijn...
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Book: Hermann Hesse 1 Jan 1974
Reis naar het morgenland
A short novel by German author Hermann Hesse. It was first published in German in 1932 as "Die Morgenlandfahrt". This novel came directly after his biggest international success, Narcissus and...
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Book: Hermann Hesse 1 Jan 1973
Demian
Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth is a Bildungsroman by Hermann Hesse, first published in 1919; a prologue was added in 1960. Demian was first published under the pseudonym "Emil Sinclair"...
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Hermann Hesse
German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Book: Harry Mulisch 1 Jan 1974
Chantage op het leven
Two short stories by Harry Mulisch.