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    "Vieri Tosatti musicista e scrittore"
    di Maria Grazia Teodori
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    Author: Vieri Tosatti
    Language:Italian
    Gender:Female
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    2010/02/28mrpowerlunch updated Synopsis of Murphy.
    The novel Murphy (1938) was Samuel Beckett's third work of prose fiction, and second published, after the short-story collection More Pricks than Kicks (1934) and his unpublished (until 1992) first novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women. It was written in English, unlike much of Beckett's later writing, which he composed in French. After many rejections, it was published by Routledge on the recommendation of Beckett's painter friend Jack Butler Yeats. The book recounts the hilarous but tragic life of Murphy in London as he attempts to reconcile the life of the body with the life of the mind.

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    Plot summary

    The plot of Murphy follows an eponymous "seedy solipsist" who, urged to find a job by his lover Celia Kelly, begins work as a male nurse at the Magdalen Mental Mercyseat, and finds the insanity of the patients an appealing alternative to conscious existence.

    Murphy is an example of Beckett's fascination with the artistic and metaphorical possibilities of chess. Near the novel's end, Murphy plays a game of chess with Mr. Endon, a patient who is "the most biddable little gaga in the entire institution". But Murphy cannot replicate his opponent's symmetrical and cyclical play, just as he is unable to will himself into a state of catatonic bliss. He resigns "with fool's mate in his soul", and dies shortly afterwards. Beckett relates the game in full English notation, complete with a comically arch commentary.

    Moving between Ireland and England, the novel is caustically satirical at the expense of the Irish Free State, which had recently banned Beckett's More Pricks Than Kicks: the astrologer consulted by Murphy is famous 'throughout civilised world and Irish Free State'; 'for an Irish girl' Murphy's admirer Miss Counihan was 'quite exceptionally anthropoid'; and in the General Post Office, site of the 1916 Rising, Neary assaults the buttocks of Oliver Sheppard's statue of mythic Irish hero Cuchulainn (the statue in fact possesses no buttocks). The novel also contains a scabrous portrait of poet Austin Clarke as the dipsomaniac Austin Ticklepenny, given to unreciprocated 'genustuprations' of Murphy under the table; against Oliver St. John Gogarty's advice, Clarke declined to sue.

    Murphy indeed cannot go insane to achieve freedom. What he turns to instead is nothingness, and his ashes are properly spread amidst the grime of a bar. Celia also discovers the beauty of nothingness, as she loses her love, Murphy, and her grandfather's health declines. Beckett seamlessly converts comedy to terror of non-existence, as he does in his later work, Waiting for Godot.

    Among the many thinkers to influence Murphy's mind-body debate are Spinoza, Descartes, and the little-known Belgian Occasionalist Arnold Geulincx.
  • mrpowerlunch
    2010/02/28mrpowerlunch updated Details of Murphy.
    Book: Murphy
    General Book Type:Fiction
    Language:English
    Original Publish Date:1938
    Copyright Expired:No
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    2010/02/28mrpowerlunch updated editions for Murphy.

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    • Publisher: Grove Press
    • Date: 1938
    • Book ID: OL:OL22476204M


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    • Publisher: Bordas
    • Date: 1947
    • Book ID: OL:OL19409220M


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    • Publisher: Grove Press
    • Date: January 20, 1994
    • Book ID: OL:OL7875212M, ISBN10:0802150373, ISBN13:9780802150370


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    • Publisher: Union générale d'éditions
    • Date: 1971
    • Book ID: OL:OL4073849M


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    • Publisher: Calder Publications
    • Date: 1993
    • Book ID: OL:OL7798911M, ISBN10:0714500429, ISBN13:9780714500423


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    • Publisher: Random House~trade
    • Date: May 1969
    • Book ID: OL:OL7455759M, ISBN10:0394172108, ISBN13:9780394172101


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    • Publisher: Calder Publications Ltd
    • Book ID: OL:OL8905818M, ISBN13:9781714500420, ISBN10:171450042X


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    • Publisher: San Quentin Drama Workshop
    • Date: January 1, 2001
    • Book ID: OL:OL9489272M, ISBN13:9780971285804, ISBN10:0971285802


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    • Publisher: Picador
    • Date: 1973
    • Book ID: OL:OL10487525M, ISBN13:9780330234443, ISBN10:0330234447


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    • Publisher: French & European Pubns
    • Date: October 1, 1947
    • Book ID: OL:OL11040250M, ISBN13:9780785947103, ISBN10:0785947108


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    • Publisher: Tusquets
    • Date: December 1992
    • Book ID: OL:OL13225918M, ISBN13:9788426410658, ISBN10:8426410650


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    • Publisher: Bordas
    • Date: 1947
    • Book ID: OL:OL13778937M


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    • Publisher: Les Éditions de Minuit
    • Date: 1965
    • Book ID: OL:OL16383051M


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    • Publisher: Grove Press
    • Date: 1970
    • Book ID: OL:OL17882552M


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    • Publisher: Rowohlt Tb.
    • Date: January 1, 1994
    • Book ID: OL:OL9048117M, ISBN10:3499135256, ISBN13:9783499135255

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    2010/02/28mrpowerlunch updated Synopsis of The American jeremiad.
    Introduction: the puritan errand reassessed -- Blessings of time and eternity -- Genetics of salvation -- Typology of America's mission -- Ritual of consensus -- Epilogue: the symbol of America.

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    Product Description

    Books on Early American History and Culture, 1971-1980: An Annotated Bibliography continues a series of bibliographies listing book-length works on North America and the Caribbean prior to 1815. Essential for scholars, librarians, and students of early America, the book surveys nearly 1,200 monographs, essay collections, exhibition catalogues, and reference works published between 1971 and 1980. In addition to bibliographic information each entry includes brief annotations, which describe the scope and approach to each item and the book's main thesis. Also included are lists of journals where each work has been reviewed and the number of times the book has been cited in professional literature, and the number of OCLC member libraries holding the work. In 31 thematic sections, the book covers such topics as: exploration and colonialization, Native Americans, the American Revolutionary War, the Constitution, race and slavery, gender, religion.
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    2010/02/09mrpowerlunch updated Synopsis of The Wheel of time : the Shamans of ancient Mexico, their thoughts about life, death and the universe.

    WORLD-RENOWNED BESTSELLING AUTHOR CARLOS CASTANEDA'S SELECTION OF HIS WRITINGS ON THE SHAMANS OF ANCIENT MEXICO

    Near the end of his life, Carlos Castaneda gathered together and reviewed his seminal works on his training as a shaman initiate, recorded in a literary career that spans over thirty years. The result is this groundbreaking collection of quotations -- the essence of Carlos Castaneda, drawn from his landmark volumes including The Teachings of Don Juan, Journey to Ixtlan, A Separate Reality, and Tales of Power. Enhanced with an introduction and original commentary by the author, this powerful work illuminates the shaman's life as never before. Castaneda's words explore how the ancient shamans could literally touch and direct the wheel of time -- a profound yet pragmatic tradition that can be felt even in our day. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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    2010/02/09mrpowerlunch updated Synopsis of The active side of infinity.
    Product Description
    "Ordinarily, events that change our path are impersonal affairs, and yet extremely personal.

    "My teacher, don Juan Matus, said this in guiding me as his apprentice to collect what I considered to be the memorable events of my life. Don Juan Matus was a Yaqui Indian shaman from Sonora, Mexico; he was a nagual, a leader of a group of fifteen men and women shamans who traced their lineage to the shamans who lived in Mexico in ancient times. Over the course of thirteen years, don Juan ushered me into the cognitive world of those shamans, a world which was, according to him, ruled by a different system of cognition than the one which rules our world of everyday life.

    "Writing The Active Side of Infinity was a response to don Juan's directive to collect such an album of memorable events. Though it seemed at the time that don Juan had given me this instruction on the spur of the moment, as time went by he revealed to me that gathering such a collection was a traditional task given by the shamans of his lineage to their apprentices. Don Juan said that it was called a collection or an album because it was like an album of pictures made out of the recollection of events that had profound significance in the shaman's life, events that changed things for him, that illuminated his path. Don Juan stated that to formulate an album of this nature demanded such discipline and impartiality that it was, in essence, an act of war.

    "Don Juan described the total goal of the shamanistic knowledge that he handled as the preparation for facing the definitive journey: the journey that every human being has to take at the end of his life. He said that what modern man referred to vaguely as 'life after death' was, for those shamans, a concrete region filled to capacity with practical affairs of a different order than the practical affairs of daily life, yet bearing a similar functional practicality. Don Juan considered that to collect the memorable events in their lives was, for shamans, the preparation for their entrance into that concrete region, which they called the a active side of infinity.

    In this book written in the final years of preparation for his definitive journey, anthropologist and shaman Carlos Castaneda gives us his most autobiographical and intimately revealing work ever, the fruit of a lifetime of experience and perhaps the most moving volume in his oeuvre.
  • mrpowerlunch
    2010/02/09mrpowerlunch updated Synopsis of Magical passes : the practical wisdom of the Shamans of ancient Mexico.
    Product Description
    Carlos Castaneda learned that for us to perceive any of the worlds that exist beside our own, not only do we have to covet them, but we need to have sufficient energy to seize them. Magical Passes offers readers for the first time the key to this energetic conditioning. In his revolutionary new book, Castaneda reveals a series of body positions and physical movements that enabled sorcerers, and their apprentices, to navigate their own sorceric journeys. The magical passes described in this unusual volume allow those who practice them to gather and redeploy energy, reaching optimal states of vitality and alertness, as well as the opportunity to travel the same road as the Mexican sorcerers.
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