6/30/2023 0 Comments Madonna kurk mantolu![]() He was imprisoned over his nonfiction writing, including satirical works slamming the government in humor magazines. He serialized "Madonna in a Fur Coat" in a newspaper in 1941, two years before it would be published as a book. As a left-wing poet, teacher and journalist, he returned home and became an outspoken critic of the single-party regime in the early years of the Turkish Republic. The author lived in Germany between 19 and was shocked by the rise of Nazism there. But why is the 1940s novel still so popular in today's Turkey, and linked to a political event such as the Gezi Park protests? "Kurk Mantolu Madonna" ("Madonna in a Fur Coat") by Sabahattin Ali is a highly quotable book on issues such as love, relationships, loneliness, coincidences and miracles. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments The high king's tomb![]() The Piast-dynasty king has been resting in Wawel Castle since his death in 1333.ĭespite his diminutive nickname, he was one of Poland’s greatest kings and restored the kingdom after the period of feudal fragmentation which started in the early 12th century. ![]() “Hence his nickname, although this was not so small for the Middle Ages, people were shorter then.” Projekt badań nieinwazyjnych pochówku Władysława Łokietka ![]() Lead archeologist Tomasz Wagner said: “According to us, the king was 152-155 cm tall when he was alive.Īrcheologists used an endoscope threaded through three 18 mm boreholes to peer inside the 14th-century king’s burial chamber. Public domain/Projekt badań nieinwazyjnych pochówku Władysława ŁokietkaĪ Polish king nicknamed Władysław the Elbow-high because of his small height may not have been as short as previously thought.Īccording to researchers examining the medieval king’s tomb at Wawel castle in Kraków in the hope of retrieving genetic material, the nickname might not even refer to the king’s height, which is thought to have been 120cm. According to archeologists examining the medieval king’s tomb at Wawel castle in Kraków, the nickname might not even refer to the king’s height, which is thought to have been 120cm. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Vandermeer dead astronauts![]() ![]() In this shattered landscape, VanderMeer explores urgent ideas about capitalism, greed, and natural destruction. This is a Mobius strip of a novel, with each chapter containing worlds upon nested worlds, all of them dreamlike and dark. ![]() Dead Astronauts is a prequel of sorts, following those three astronauts as they square off against a nefarious biotech corporation known only as the Company, which devastated Earth’s biome by releasing bioengineered creatures into the wild. Through novels like Borne and the Southern Reach Trilogy (whose first volume, Annihilation, was adapted into a 2018 Natalie Portman movie), VanderMeer has become a pioneer of the New Weird, a genre that subverts cliches of speculative fiction to create something dark, terrorizing, and wonderful.ĭead Astronauts, his latest novel, returns to the post-apocalyptic world of Borne, where three dusty spacesuits fallen from the heavens and embedded in the terrain made for a memorable, mysterious image. ![]() His novels and stories exist at the vanguard of art and activism, with each one not only pushing the formal boundaries of literary science fiction, but advancing the conversation about climate crisis. As the prophet of climate fiction, Jeff VanderMeer occupies a singular space in literature. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Hell's Muse by Jack Wallen![]() ![]() His fangs, they tear at me his claws, they rend me from creamy flesh to a shuddering mass of broken bone and torn exposed sinew. He has taken what he will and that much more caring nothing of the husk he leaves behind until the next moment in which he wishes to taste his satisfaction. In my own hazed world, I see only through the blood he has spread upon me, marking me as his own – this beast that will not be tamed, this beast that does not rest this beast that shall never release me from my eternal damnation of bondage. ![]() To lie awake among the foul stench of his putrid liquid offerings leaves me but half the creature I may have been before his hand touched upon mine. ![]() |