Francesca Bandel Dragone Książki

Each of Carlos Castaneda's books is a tantalizing burst of illumination into the depths of our deepest mysteries, like a sudden flash of light, like a burst of lightning over the desert at night, which shows us a world that is both alien & totally familiar--the landscape of our dreams. Fire from Within is the author's most brilliant thought-provoking & unusual book, one in which Castaneda, under the tutelage of don Juan & his disciples, at last constructs, from the teachings of don Juan & his own experiences, a stunning portrait of the "sorcerer's world" that is crystal-clear & dizzying in its implications.

Urodzony w Peru antropolog, filozof i szaman, guru pokolenia dzieci kwiatów i rewolucji obyczajowej 1968 roku Carlos Castaneda (1925-1998), to autor 12 książek, napisanych w ciągu 30 lat i sprzedanych w 8 milionach egzemplarzy, przetłumaczonych na 17 języków. Jego wielką zasługą jest to, że potrafił jak nikt inny wskazać nam drogę do nieznanych światów istniejących równolegle z naszym. Inspiracją dla Castanedy było jego spotkanie i niezwykłe szkolenie u indiańskiego czarownika Juan Matusa z plemienia Yaqui, z Meksyku. Po tym, spotkaniu opublikował Nauki don Juana, a Dar orła to kolejny tom opowieści o indiańskiej, tajemniczej wiedzy, to powrót do świata czarowników, których wiedza przekazywana jest od wielu pokoleń w przekazie ustnym przez kolejnych naguli aż od czasów Tolteków, który dopiero Castaneda ujawnia. A jak pisze sam Autor zgłębiając się w zawiłości magii, odkryłem, że to, co na początku uważałem za system prymitywnych wierzeń i praktyk, jest ogromnym, skomplikowanym światem. By zaznajomić się z tym światem i móc go opisać, muszę wykorzystać samego siebie na coraz bardziej skomplikowane i subtelne sposoby. Castaneda zaprasza w daleką podróż...

The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl obscenity trial to the invention of the cut-up technique, Barry Miles's extraordinary narrative chronicles the feast of ideas that was Paris, where the Beats took awestruck audiences with Duchamp and Celine, and where some of their most important work came to fruition--Ginsberg's "Kaddish" and "To Aunt Rose"; Corso's The Happy Birthday of Death; and Burroughs's Naked Lunch. Based on firsthand accounts from diaries, letters, and many original interviews, The Beat Hotel is an intimate look at an era of spirit, dreams, and genius.

Written by the author of Jonathan Livingstone Seagul, Illusions, The Bridge Across Forever and One, this novel tells of an adventure of the heart and mind.

Groucho Marx may be the funniest man who ever lived. Here in one volume are the classics of Marxian mayhem: excerpts from the scripts of the immortal movies, passages from his books, his articles for magazines ranging from The New Yorker to the Saturday Evening Post , the choicest ad-libs and quips from his long-running game show, You Bet Your Life , and selected letters, including his classic correspondence with T. S. Eliot. It's all here-the finest and funniest work by this century's most influential comedian, that man of whom Woody Allen said, "He is simply unique in the same way Picasso and Stravinsky are, and I believe his outrageous, unsentimental disregard for order will be equally funny a thousand years from now. In addition to all this, he makes me laugh." In the words of Groucho Marx: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he go in my pajamas I don't know. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.