Votes utiles reçus relativement à des chroniques et des listes:
75% (3 sur 4)
Surnom : parobekova
Emplacement: Cleveland, Ohio USA
Dans mes propres mots:
As you can tell from my nickname, I am of Slovak descent and love any and all things Slovak. I have travelled to Slovakia four times, play Slovak folk tunes on the accordion and collect dolls dressed in kroje. I have an undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature and review all types of Slavic books for a variety of publications. I dream about going over to live in Bratislava for awhile, drin… Lire la suiteAs you can tell from my nickname, I am of Slovak descent and love any and all things Slovak. I have travelled to Slovakia four times, play Slovak folk tunes on the accordion and collect dolls dressed in kroje. I have an undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature and review all types of Slavic books for a variety of publications. I dream about going over to live in Bratislava for awhile, drinking coffee on Michalska Street, watching the traffic go by. I love to read and write and one day would love to meet and marry a wonderful Slovak man.
|
|
Évaluations
Classement de l'évaluateur: 29,623 - Total des votes utiles : 3 sur 4
|
Even without the telltale subtitles, you can tell that "Goodbye Lenin" is not an American movie. Why is that, you ask? Because it can offer all the elements of good filmmaking: storytelling, character development...of its general complexity without sacrificing values. Values, you say? Oh yeah--those quaint notions that inherently recognize right versus wrong and/or hold some old traditions near & dear. Again, the inclusion of old-time verities tips one off that TimeWarner is not providing the funding for "Goodbye Lenin." In fact, TimeWarner types would not fit into the ouevre of the film at all. To cut to the chase, the story follows the antics of a young son's attempts… Lire la suite
|
|
|
Welcome to "Animal Farm" as performed within the setting of the Soviet National Writers Union during the communist era. We all know the AF credo: "All men are born equal--some more so than others" could have been made to order for the bloated pompous Soviet bureaucracy of yore. Fur Hat was my first introduction to Vladimir Voinovich: after reading this delightful satire on corruption/cronyism/toadyism within Party machinations, I nominate Voinovich on a par with Vonnegut. Readers will meet lots of Party types in this story: typical system hacks (Pyotr Lukin), over-decorated pompous military types (Karetnikov) and blatant anti-Semites (nearly every character in the book). Even our… Lire la suite
|
|
|
Perhaps our author's early years as a young Jesuit novice started out just as unusual as his early priesthood was destined to be. At 15 yrs old, Jan Korec, a native of Bosany (in the Slovak Republic) was the youngest Jesuit novitiate in his region; he took his vows at age 17 in 1941. Three yrs later, during the 1944 Slovak National Uprising, Korec hid out in a cellar in Trnava, reading philosophy to pass the time as the front line moved on thru. After that, he worked at a Trnava hospital caring for wounded Russian soldiers! Then while completing his studies at the Jesuit Institute, he wrote his thesis on Dialectical Materialism--irony incarnate, of course, as this is the official swan… Lire la suite
|
|
Accueil Amazon
