books by Carol Cosman     books:       Camille Claudel2 reviews Anne Delbee Mercury House, 1992 The most painful book I have ever read. This is a book that I wish I had not read and yet it is one of the best books I have ever read. Camille Claudel's soul found it's path into mine and I felt all the hate towards August Rodin that she was incapable of because of her love for him and breathtaking passion for her own and his work. In a lot of ways this book resembles "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" in revealing how a human ...             Mount Analogue6 reviews René Daumal, Carol Cosman Overlook TP, 2004 A terrific read and a literary classic This is a terrific book even for those who are not into mountain climbing or the spiritual philosophy of Gurdjieff. Indeed, when I first read Mount Analogue more than 25 years ago--back in the days when I ignored introductions and back-cover blurbs--I took it for a surrealistic parody of the SciFi travel fantasies of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. Part of its appeal for me lay in the way it ...             The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Oxford World's Classics)10 reviews Emile Durkheim Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 To understand religion Like Emile Durkheim, I was raised with a religious upbringing that didn't fit - I wanted to understand why we create religions in the first place and this book has answers. In the early 1900's Durkheim looked for religious patterns among tribal cultures of Australia and North America. He saw how religion was used to organize tribal society. He saw how religions combine and evolve when tribes ...             Colonel Chabert9 reviews Honoré de Balzac, Carol Cosman New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1997 The best translation... ...of a great Balzac novella. Ms. Cosman captures the rigorous, logical quality of Balzac's prose - most translators get lost in unidiomatic wordiness. This 100 page novella showcases the Master's comfort with legal matters, his profound understanding of "the fang and the claw" and features at its center the incomparable Derville, Balzac's great, recurring lawyer character. I usually recommend ...             Wittgenstein Reads Freud2 reviews Jacques Bouveresse Princeton University Press, 1996 Short and sweet A succinct but nonetheless comprehensive look at Wittgenstein's often-misunderstood views on Freud. It not only provides a new perspective on Wittgenstein's famous comparison of philosophy and psychotherapy, but also reveals Wittgenstein's criticisms of Freud to be both more subtle and more devastating than many of the more obvious and sweeping charges which have been levelled at Freud recently             Convoy To Auschwitz: Women of the French Resistance (Women's Life Writings from Around the World)1 review Charlotte Delbo Northeastern, 1997 WOW!!! I am so glad that this book was translated to english and published here in the States. Please, don't get me wrong, but it is "nice" to have a book about other victims of the Nazi death camps besides Jewish accounts. It serves to remind us and teach us that others too were sentenced to those Death Camps. Many gypsies, resisters, communists, christians, and lesbians, all from different countries, ...             Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?: The Mystery Behind the Agatha Christie Mystery10 reviews Pierre Bayard New Press, 2001 Relax! Bayard affirms the greatness of Agatha Christie. This book could never have been written by an Anglophone critic, who would treat the French reverence of Agatha Christie with the same bemused condescension as its apotheosis of Jerry Lewis (when Bayard lists the major writers who have discussed 'Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?' (Barthes, Eco, Robbe-Grillet, Perec et al), English-speaking writers are predictably absent). Coming from such an Anglophone ...             Fanny Stevenson Muse Adventuress and Roma3 reviews Alexandra Lapierre Fourth Estate, 1996 fanny stevenson - a woman ahead of her time & ahead of ours it is ashame that this book left store shelves so quickly and has become so hard to find. it is one of those rare gems of biography, seemlessly weaving facts and writings and the many stories of a life into a work with a novel-like quality. the work gracefully unfolds the tale of a powerful, courageous woman. fanny stevenson was a woman ahead of her time and she was of her time. she traveled ...             A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal Robert Alter Harvard University Press, 1986             The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, Volume 5 (The Family Idiot) Jean-Paul Sartre University Of Chicago Press, 1994 With this volume, the University of Chicago Press completes its translation of a work that is indispensable not only to serious readers of Flaubert but to anyone interested in the last major contribution by one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers. That Sartre's study of Flaubert, The Family Idiot, is a towering achievement in intellectual history has never been disputed. Yet critics have argued about the precise nature of this novel ...             America Day By Day9 reviews Simone de Beauvoir Trafalgar Square, 1998 Brainy French existentialist explores 1940s America. French existentialist, Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86), was both enchanted by and highly critical of life in America. She was comforted by American cemeteries which, she observed, have more personality than some towns, and offer a final escape from the banality of daily life in America (p. 80). Originally published in France as L'AMERIQUE AU JOUR LE JOUR in 1948, AMERICA DAY BY DAY details the ...             Literature, Theory, and Common Sense (New French Thought Series)1 review Antoine Compagnon Princeton University Press, 2004 common sense in a world of didactic demons I have read "Le Demon de la Theorie", which is Compagnon's text in French, literally "The Demon of Theory". whose title braves the academically subversive idea, born in common sense, that theory, while important to comprehend and understand in the study of literature, lacks a method definitive to the valuable comprehension of literature itself. Simply, he opposes the idealization of literary ...             L'Invitation Au Voyage/Invitation to the Voyage: A Poem from the Flowers of Evil2 reviews Charles Baudelaire Bulfinch Press, 1997 Invitation to the Voyage The translation here strays a bit from the original for the sake of making it rhyme. Although this may raise the eyebrows of some purists, I feel that the english version has charms of its own. The design of this book is really outstanding, and the old duo-tone photographs used to illustrate it are quite poetic in their own right, and seem even more so as a result of the way they are combined ...             Women Poets, The Penguin Book of (Penguin Poets)2 reviews Various Penguin (Non-Classics), 1986 Ancient to modern This anthology contains the work of women poets from ancient times to the 20th century. The English versions of poems from other languages have been translated by a wide range of poets, scholars and professional translators. Some are in free verse, others in metrical and rhymed verse and some preserve the formal pattern of the originals. All of them succeed as fine poems in English. The poems ...             The Girl With the Golden Eyes2 reviews Honore de Balzac Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1998 formidable book Excellent book, full of intelligence, to understand what beauty is.              search for books 1821-1857, ackroyd, adventuress, america, analogue, auschwitz, biography, camille, chabert, christie, classics, claudel, colonel, critical, elementary, flaubert, flowers, golden, gustave, invitation, literature, mystery, penguin, religious, resistance, stendhal, stevenson, thought, wittgenstein, writings books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Enter the Quiet Heart: Creating a Loving Relationship With God we recommend The best translation... home  impressum - about us