Alice Munro Książki

Zbiór ośmiu opowiadań o kobietach. Ich losy, możliwości i ograniczenia we współczesnym świecie są główną osią twórczości Munro, znakomitej pisarki kanadyjskiej. Jej bohaterki muszą sobie radzić z niejednoznacznością własnych uczuć, z wewnętrznymi konfliktami, z rozdźwiękiem między tym, czego chcą, a tym, co muszą. Jest tak z wkraczającą w dorosłość mężatką, która szuka swojego miejsca w życiu, jest tak z młodą kobietą, która przyjeżdża na wakacje do matki, ale nie potrafi z nią wytrzymać, bo ma w sobie zbyt dużo goryczy i żalu. Miłość kobiet przyjmuje rozmaite formy: uczucia matki do córki, dziecka do dorosłego, żony do męża, przyjaciółki do przyjaciółki - Munro pokazuje je wszystkie z niezwykłą wnikliwością, odsłaniając głębię i zawiłość zwyczajnego życia oraz siłę emocji, które wiążą ludzi ze sobą na nieskończenie różnorodne sposoby.

Wszystkie bohaterki nagrodzonego prestiżową Man Booker Prize tomu opowiadań noblistki to uciekinierki, badające granice swojej wolności, a raczej klatki, jaką stało się ich życie. Szukają wyzwolenia i wydaje się, że zrobiły wszystko, by być gdzie indziej, spr�bować czegoś innego, p�jść za swoimi pragnieniami, uwolnić się od samotności i znaleźć szczęście, kt�re wydaje się na wyciągnięcie ręki, lecz nigdy dostatecznie blisko, by je posmakować. Z pozornie prostych epizod�w, buduje Munro nastroje pełne ulotnego dramatyzmu, kt�ry powoli przechodzi w melancholię i cichą zadumę nad możliwością i niemożliwością zmiany oraz stopnia, w jakim można wpłynąć na własny los.

Lata 40., kanadyjska prowincja. Del Jordan, dziewczynka, później dziewczyna, mieszka na farmie swojego ojca, gdzie jej najczęstszymi towarzyszami są ekscentryczny przyjaciel rodziny i szorstki młodszy brat. Kiedy Del zacznie spędzać więcej czasu w mieście, pojawią się też kobiety: matka agnostyczka sprzedająca farmerom encyklopedie, lubieżna Fern Dogherty i najlepsza przyjaciółka, Naomi. Dzięki tym nauczycielom i nauczycielkom, a także dzięki własnym doświadczeniom z seksem, narodzinami i śmiercią, Del odkrywa jasne i mroczne strony kobiecości.

Short Stories. This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the facade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.

** Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature ** 'Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being, as she descends, time and again, headlamp on full beam, pickaxe and butter-knife at the ready' The Times Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this new selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight. Beautifully observed and remarkably crafted, written with emotion and empathy, these stories are nothing short of perfection. A masterclass in the genre, from an author who deservedly lays claim to being one of the major fiction writers of our time.

Alice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman , is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story. In this earlier collection, she demonstrates all of those strengths that have won her so many literary accolades. A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the memory of her parents' confounding yet deep bond. The accidental near-drowning of a child exposes the fragility of the trust between children and parents. A young man, remembering a terrifying childhood incident, wrestles with the responsibility he has always felt for his younger brother. In these and other stories Alice Munro proves once again a sensitive and compassionate chronicler of our times. Drawing us into the most intimate corners of ordinary lives, she reveals much about ourselves, our choices, and our experiences of love.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. "[Friend of My Youth is] a wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

A remarkable early collection of stories by Alice Munro, the bestselling author of Dear Life, and one of the greatest fiction writers of our time. âe~Alice Munroâe(tm)s stories are miraculousâe(tm) Sunday Times âe~No one else can âe" or should be allowed to âe" write like the great Alice Munroâe(tm) Julian Barnes âe~She sets down the pains and pleasures of living in a spare, singing prose, not a word wastedâe(tm) Daily Telegraph âe~Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell: they are made to lastâe(tm) Observer âe~She's the most savage writer I've ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptiveâe(tm) Jeffrey Eugenides

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.“In Munro’s hands, as in Chekhov’s, a short story is more than big enough to hold the world—and to astonish us again and again.” — Chicago TribuneIn an unbroken procession of brilliant, revelatory short stories, Alice Munro has unfolded the wordless secrets that lie at the heart of all human experience. She has won three Governor General’s Literary Awards in her native Canada, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award.Vintage Munro includes stories from throughout her The title stories from her collections The Moons of Jupiter ; The Progress of Love ; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage ; “Differently,” from Selected Stories , and “Carried Away,” from Open Secrets .

My Best Stories is a dazzling selection of stories—seventeen favourites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were written, allowing even the most devoted Munro admirer to discover how her work developed. "Royal Beatings" shows us right away how far we are from the romantic world of happy endings. "The Albanian Virgin" smashes the idea that all of her stories are set in B.C. or in Ontario's "Alice Munro Country." "A Wilderness Station" breaks short story rules by transporting us back to the 1830s and then jumping forward more than a hundred years. And the final story, "The Bear Came Over the Mountain," which was adapted into the film Away from Her, leads us far beyond the turkey-plucking world of young girls into unflinching old age. Every story in this selection is superb. It is a book to read—and reread—very slowly, savouring each separate story. This collection of small masterpieces deserves a place in every book lover's home.

A collection of stories whose lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. Women look back at their young selves, at first marriages made when they were naive and trusting, at husbands and their difficult, demanding little ways.

Rose and her stepmother, Flo, live in Hanratty—across the bridge from the "good" part of town. Rose, alternately fascinated and appalled by the rude energy of the people around her, grows up nursing her hope of outgrowing her humble beginnings and plotting an escape to university. Rose makes her escape and thinks herself free. But Hanratty's question—Who Do You Think You Are?—rings in her ears during her days in Vancouver, mocks her attempts to make her marriage successful, and haunts her new career. In these stories of Rose and Flo, Alice Munro explores the universal story of growing up—Rose's struggle to accept herself tells the story of our lives.

THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken: the joys, fears, loves and awakenings of women echo throughout these twelve unforgettable stories, laying bare the unexceptional and yet inescapable pain of human contact.

Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight. It is written with emotion and empathy.

Fifteen short stories set in typical Alice Munro territory, the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario.

At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.

This collection of stories capture the essence of life. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being. A portrait of how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be.

Ranging from the 1850s to the present and from Ontario to Brisbane and Albania, these eight linked stories are concerned with the daily threads of life in two small Ontario towns. All the stories centre on unconventional women who refuse to let themselves be constrained by society or everyday life.

Alice Munro turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past. 'One of my very favourite writers' Claire Tomalin From her ancestors' view from Edinburgh's Castle Rock in the eighteenth century to her parents' thwarted ambitions in Ontario, and her own awakening in 1950s Canada, Munro effortlessly weaves fact and myth to create an epic story of past and present, proving that fiction has much to tell us about life. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009

Dimensions; Fiction; Wenlock Edge; Deep-Holes; Free radicals; Face; Some Women; Child's Play; Wood; Too Much Happiness

When Queenie elopes with a recently widowed neighbour her family are uniformly shocked, and a window on adult life and relationships is opened for her step-sister. A summertime stay with the newlyweds in Toronto yields further insight into the lives of couples, but also causes confusion. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage .

Alice Thomas Ellis introduces a remarkable collection of revenge stories by some of the finest contemporary women writers. This book seeks not to relay the ever burgeoning factual accounts of how women get their own back, but to show their reactions to betrayal, cruelty, and simple nastiness through the filter of fiction. One of the most satisfying means of revenge, as these authors clearly realize, is to put the offender in a story. Ellis studies the history of women's revenge against men, and emerges with fascinating insights into the dynamic differneces that place the sexes in passionate opposition. Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Fay Welson, Carol Shields, Pat Knight, Agatha Christie, Shelley Weiner, Patrice Chaplin, Judith Amantbis, Sylvia Petter, Jane Barker Wright, Norma Meacock, Pauline Holdstock, Jean Pickering, Vicky Crut, Deborah Bosley, Amanda Graig, and Clare Colvin.

Short Stories by Ann Beattie, John Updike, Cynthia Ozick, Louis D. Rubin, Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Tallent, Hortense Calisher, Joyce Carol Oates, Elizabeth Hardwick, and many others.

Eine an Alzheimer erkrankte Frau überrascht ihren Ehemann, der sie ein Leben lang betrogen hat, mit der Liebe zu einem Rollstuhlfahrer im Pflegeheim.Verdrängte Schuld, die heimlich weiterwirkt, rätselvolle Beziehungen, bestürzend kühne Momente des Ausbrechens aus dem eigenen das ist der Stoff, aus dem Munros Erzählungen sind.

Die schönsten Erzählungen der Literatur-Nobelpreisträgerin Alice MunroDie in ›Ferne Verabredungen‹ versammelten schönsten Erzählungen der kanadischen Nobelpreisträgerin Alice Munro spiegeln das ganze Panorama ihrer Kunst. Da ist die junge Carla in »Ausreißer«, deren Fluchten sie doch nur wieder zu sich selbst führen, oder die Ehefrau in »Die Kinder bleiben hier«, die während eines scheinbar perfekten Urlaubs von einem Moment auf den anderen ihre Familie verlässt. Zum ersten Mal liegt auch die Erzählung »Die Dimensionen eines Schattens« auf Deutsch vor.Es sind Geschichten von verborgenen Sehnsüchten, die sich allmählich ihren Raum erobern, von kühnen Momenten des Ausbrechens – mal eindringlich, mal beunruhigend, doch immer voller Sympathie für das Leben und seine Helden.

Het uitzicht vanaf Castle Rock is het meest persoonlijke boek van Alice Munro (geboren Laidlaw) waarin ze uit haar familiegeschiedenis put. Haar voorouders van vaderskant hebben sinds mensenheugenis in Schotland gewoond en het is haar vaders betovergrootvader die met zijn gezin de oversteek naar de Nieuwe Wereld waagt. Er zijn brieven bewaard gebleven van meerdere generaties Laidlaw; zo heeft Munro een beeld kunnen geven van hoe het de nieuwe emigranten en hun nageslacht verging.

Nobelpreis für Literatur 2013 Alice Munro vermag es wie niemand sonst, so viel Realität, so viel Verstrickung auf so wenigen Seiten unterzubringen. Sie weiß ihre Figuren auf so knappem Raum so präzise auszuloten, den Leser so geschickt über das scheinbar Alltägliche mitten ins Dunkle, Geheimnisvolle der menschlichen Psyche zu stoßen. Ihre Storys sind Kammerspiele des Gefühls, spektakulär im scheinbar Unspektakulären - sprachliche Meisterstücke. Alice Munro hält alles in der Schwebe, erlöst uns nicht vorschnell aus unserer Unsicherheit, sondern webt uns ein in ihr erzählerisches Netz: ihr einziges Zuhause.

Les deux nouvelles présentées dans ce livre "De sacrées raclées" et "Un demi-pamplemousse" ont paru initialement dans la presse en 77 et 78, avant d'être reprises dans un recueil publié sous le titre "Who do you thinck you are? " Elles mettent en scène les personnages de Rose, adolescente rebelle, et de sa belle-mère Flo, avec pour toile de fond Hanratty, l'une de ces petites villes d'Ontario chères au coeur de l'auteur. A travers les rapports entre les deux femmes qui, l'une comme l'autre ont eu à souffrir très jeunes de la mort de leur mère, à travers la violence de leurs affrontements ou la complicité de leurs échanges dans leurs moments de trêves, c'est toute la générosité, toute l'humanité de l'auteur qui s'exprimeContents:De sacrées raclées --Un demi-pamplemousse.

Вот уже тридцать лет Элис Манро называют лучшим в мире автором коротких рассказов, но к российскому читателю ее книги приходят только теперь, после того, как писательница получила Нобелевскую премию по литературе. Критика постоянно сравнивает Манро с Чеховым, и это сравнение не лишено оснований: подобно русскому писателю, она умеет рассказать историю так, что читатели, даже принадлежащие к совсем другой культуре, узнают в героях самих себя. Сдержанность, демократизм, правдивость, понимание тончайших оттенков женской психологии, способность вызывать душевные потрясения – вот главные приметы стиля великой писательницы.

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Edition originale, 1968. Prix du Gouverneur général, la même année. L'auteur est l'un des écrivains canadiens-anglais les plus en vue. Ses quinze nouvelles ont pour cadre de petites villes et la campagne du sud-ouest de l'Ontario, et pour sujet principal le monde profond, cruel et mélancolique de l'enfance. Très accessible. Des textes autobiographiques qui ont cependant "toute l'autorité de la nature humaine" (##The English quarterly##). [SDM].