Madman Or Saint
Author | : José Echegaray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1912 |
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Author | : José Echegaray |
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Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1912 |
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Author | : Jeff VanderMeer |
Publisher | : Picador |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 2022-01-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374721157 |
From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic City of Saints and Madmen. In this reinvention of the literature of the fantastic, you hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited—an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians. City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading—and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced that he’s made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago . . . By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and “eyewitness” reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose—and find—yourself again.
Author | : Andrew Quintman |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0231535538 |
Tibetan biographers began writing Jetsun Milarepa's (1052–1135) life story shortly after his death, initiating a literary tradition that turned the poet and saint into a model of virtuosic Buddhist practice throughout the Himalayan world. Andrew Quintman traces this history and its innovations in narrative and aesthetic representation across four centuries, culminating in a detailed analysis of the genre's most famous example, composed in 1488 by Tsangnyön Heruka, or the "Madman of Western Tibet." Quintman imagines these works as a kind of physical body supplanting the yogin's corporeal relics.
Author | : Jose Echegaray Y. Alizaguirre |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 1912 |
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Author | : Ernst Philipp K. Lange |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1861 |
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Author | : Bruce Olds |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2015-06-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250087368 |
On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, leaving fifteen people dead. Viewed in the North as a saint of freedom and in the South as the devil incarnate, Brown was a visionary who not only foretold but made inevitable the bloody apocalypse of the Civil War. An intricate mosaic of alternating narrative voices, Raising Holy Hell is an explosive, multitextured evocation of the prophetic madness of the man who saw an America damned by the sin of slavery.
Author | : Russell Shorto |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2012-09-04 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1453265910 |
From the New York Times–bestselling author: “Each chapter . . . offers a window on a different intersection of psychiatry and spirituality” (New Age). In Saints and Madmen, bestselling author Russell Shorto explains how modern science is beginning to reconcile centuries of religious experiences with current psychiatric theories. Psychotic patients sometimes believe they’re developing mystical powers, speaking to animals or conversing with God during their episodes. As one patient said, psychosis can be life’s greatest joy, and also its worst hell. Traditional psychiatry has approached the existence of these occurrences as a treatable medical problem, a case of unbalanced chemicals in the brain. But could it be more? In Saints and Madmen, Shorto writes about the scientists who reject the Freudian view of religious experience as narrow-minded, and shows us how their findings could change how we understand our own minds and spirits.
Author | : David Housewright |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2008-05-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312370817 |
The secret behind a kidnapping and a murder lies hidden in McKenzie's own difficult past, in the latest work from the Edgar Award-winning author.
Author | : Edward Brooke-Hitching |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2023-03-08 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1797222686 |
Brought to light from the depths of libraries, museums, dealers, and galleries around the world, these forgotten artistic treasures include portraits of oddballs such as the British explorer with a penchant for riding crocodiles, and the Italian monk who levitated so often he's recognized as the patron saint of airplane passengers. Discover impossible medieval land yachts, floating churches, and eagle-powered airships. Encounter dog-headed holy men, armies of German giants, 18th-century stuntmen, human chessboards, screaming ghost heads, and more marvels of the human imagination. A captivating odditorium of obscure and engaging characters and works, each expertly brought to life by historian and curator of the strange Edward Brooke-Hitching, here is a richly illustrated and entertaining gallery for lovers of outré art and history.
Author | : Andrew Quintman |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2013-11-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0231164157 |
Tibetan biographers began writing Jetsun Milarepa’s (1052–1135) life story shortly after his death, initiating a literary tradition that turned the poet and saint into a model of virtuosic Buddhist practice throughout the Himalayan world. Andrew Quintman traces this history and its innovations in narrative and aesthetic representation across four centuries, culminating in a detailed analysis of the genre’s most famous example, composed in 1488 by Tsangnyön Heruka, or the “Madman of Western Tibet.” Quintman imagines these works as a kind of physical body supplanting the yogin’s corporeal relics.