Bolla

Bolla
Author: Pajtim Statovci
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2022-07-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593082443

From the author of National Book Award finalist Crossing comes an unlikely love story in Kosovo with unpredictable consequences that reverberates throughout a young man's life—a dazzling tale full of fury, tenderness, longing, and lust. “Devastating in the most beautiful ways. From the first pages you realize that you are in the hands of an absolute artist.” —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby April 1995. Arsim is a twenty-four-year-old, recently married student at the University of Pristina, in Kosovo, keeping his head down to gain a university degree in a time and place deeply hostile to Albanians. In a café he meets a young man named Miloš, a Serb. Before the day is out, everything has changed for both of them, and within a week two milestones erupt in Arsim’s married life: his wife announces her first pregnancy and he begins a life in secret. After these fevered beginnings, Arsim and Miloš’s unlikely affair is derailed by the outbreak of war, which sends Arsim’s fledgling family abroad and timid Miloš spiraling down a dark path, as depicted through chaotic journal entries. Years later, deported back to Pristina after a spell in prison and now alone and hopeless, Arsim finds himself in a broken reality that makes him completely question his past. What happened to him, to them, exactly? How much can you endure, and forgive? Entwined with their story is a re-created legend of a demonic serpent, Bolla; it’s an unearthly tale that gives Arsim and Miloš a language through which to reflect on what they once had. With luminous prose and a delicate eye, Pajtim Statovci delivers a relentless novel of desire, destruction, intimacy, and the different fronts of war.

Art Matters

Art Matters
Author: Peter de Bolla
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2003-03-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0674011104

In the face of a great work of art, we so often stand mute, struck dumb. Countering contemporary assumptions that art is valued only according to taste or ideology, Peter De Bolla gives a voice - and vocabulary - to the wonder art can inspire.

The Education of the Eye

The Education of the Eye
Author: Peter De Bolla
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2003
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780804748001

The Education of the Eye examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain, setting out to reclaim visual culture for the democracy of the eye and to explain how aesthetic contemplation may, once more, be open to all who have eyes to look.

The Architecture of Concepts

The Architecture of Concepts
Author: Peter de Bolla
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2013-12-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0823254402

The Architecture of Concepts proposes a radically new way of understanding the history of ideas. Taking as its example human rights, it develops a distinctive kind of conceptual analysis that enables us to see with precision how the concept of human rights was formed in the eighteenth century. The first chapter outlines an innovative account of concepts as cultural entities. The second develops an original methodology for recovering the historical formation of the concept of human rights based on data extracted from digital archives. This enables us to track the construction of conceptual architectures over time. Having established the architecture of the concept of human rights, the book then examines two key moments in its historical formation: the First Continental Congress in 1775 and the publication of Tom Paine’s Rights of Man in 1792. Arguing that we have yet to fully understand or appreciate the consequences of the eighteenth-century invention of the concept “rights of man,” the final chapter addresses our problematic contemporary attempts to leverage human rights as the most efficacious way of achieving universal equality.

Crossing

Crossing
Author: Pajtim Statovci
Publisher: Pantheon
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2019
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1524747491

"The death of head of state Enver Hoxha and the loss of his father leave Bujar growing up in the ruins of Communist Albania and of his own family. Only his fearless best friend, Agim--who is facing his own realizations about his gender and sexuality--gives him hope for the future. Together the two decide to leave everything behind and try their luck in Italy. But the struggle to feel at home--in a foreign country and even in one's own body--will have corrosive effects, spurring a dangerous search for new identities"--

Nella bolla di sapone con Covid-19 e poesia (In the soap bubble with Covid-19 and poetry)

Nella bolla di sapone con Covid-19 e poesia (In the soap bubble with Covid-19 and poetry)
Author: Luciano costa
Publisher: Aletti Editore
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2024-06-27
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 8859193370

Saprà infonderci emozioni mai provate, il virus sconosciuto in cattedra insediatosi. C’indurrà in estrema confusione, scompigliando la routine e la globalizzazione. Con fascino e carisma ci terrà sotto il suo manto, con la sua conoscenza, c’impartirà di vita nuova lezione. The unknown virus settling in will instil new emotions in us. It will cause us extreme confusion, by disrupting routine and globalisation. It will keep us under its mantle with charm and charisma, it will teach us a new lesson of life with its knowledge.