Art and Culture
HOMO SOVIETICUS
On the Actuality of Svetlana Alexievich’s Second Hand Time. The Last of the Soviets
Ten years ago, Secondhand Time. The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize winner 2015, came into being. In twenty stories, collected between 1991 and 2012, the author reveals otherwise unheard voices of people from the former Soviet Union, reflecting on their lives before and after perestroika. The core matter on how the regime managed to transform its subjects into creatures of a persistent authoritarianism infuses this work with urgent actuality.
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ARTISTIC AND INFORMATIVE
12 Amazing Coffee-Table Books for a Cozy Home!
Unable to travel yet? Don’t worry! These illustrated books will take you across time and space without stepping out of the door: In this 12 creative editions with the best of art, travel, and culture!
Art and Culture
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
When Innocence, Youth, And Friendship are Crushed by the Brutality of a Never Ending War
Edward Berger’s Oscar nominated film adaption (2022) of Erich Maria Remarque’s novel Im Westen Nichts Neues (1929), tell us about the downfall of the German “iron youth” deluded into war by twisted dreams of victory. With a storytelling contrasting illusion and reality, innocence and deception, joy and misery, humanity and brutality, a mosaic of beauty and monstrosity arises, making the war’s main toll clear: the final dissolution of the individual.
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SOOTHING BLUE
The Relaxing Power of Lavender for Hair, Skin, and Soul
For ages, lavender was believed to have such healing and disinfecting properties, that it became a key ingredient in the battle against disease. Today, we love lavender for its alleviating effects in these amazing product lines!
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Art and Culture
PARADISE
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s East African World of Dreams, Nightmares, and Rude Awakenings
The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 takes us with his novel Paradise (1994) to a highly stratified East African society at the turn of the twentieth century. Against the backdrop of an increasingly pervasive European domination and surrounded by a breathtaking incommensurable landscape, a boy’s transition into adulthood is determined by complex power relations and the increasing awareness of being a stranger in his own country.
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GOLD, COPPER, TERRACOTTA, AND MORE
Find Your Best Make-up Choices for a Gorgeous Bronze Look!
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