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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Essay (1837-12-06), “On Sir Walter Scott,” The London and Westminster Review, Art. 2 (1838-01)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/65857…

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Today In Labor History March 26, 1918: American anarchist Philip Grosser wrote about being tortured in the prison on Alcatraz Island, while serving time there for refusing to serve in World War I. By 1920, he was the only draft resistor still serving time at Alcatraz. Alexander Berkman referred to him as "one of [my] finest comrades."

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #philipgrosser #alexanderberkman #alcatraz #prison #torture #WarResistance #wwi #antiwar #writer #author #books #biography @bookstadon

Cover of Grosser's pamphlet, "Alactraz, Uncle Sam's Devil's Island," with blue cover and sketch of the prison building on Alcatraz island. The pamphlet is laying over a page in Grosser's biography, with a sketch of Grosser, looking straight ahead, clean shaven, in a suit and tie.
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🎧 Немного географии: podcast.ru/1645077334/

— подкаст-путешествие по знаменитым и малоизвестным местам, связанным с жизнью Анны Ахматовой. Автор и ведущая — Алёна Сугоровская, хранитель мемориальной экспозиции музея Анны Ахматовой в Фонтанном Доме, приглащает вас на виртуальные экскурсии.

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Немного географии В качестве обложки стилизованное изображение под вид с крыш на городской пейзаж Санкт-Петербурга, название подкаста написано курсивом на небе, в правом верхнем углу
#travel#poetry#doc_podcast
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Becoming Beauvoir by Kate Kirkpatrick, 2019

A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir's unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious literary prizes and transformed the way we think about gender with The Second Sex. But despite her successes, she wondered if she had sold herself short.

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Her liaison with Jean-Paul Sartre has been billed as one of the most legendary love affairs of the twentieth century. But for Beauvoir it came at a cost: for decades she was dismissed as an unoriginal thinker who 'applied' Sartre's ideas. In recent years new material has come to light revealing the ingenuity of Beauvoir's own philosophy and the importance of other lovers in her life. This ground-breaking biography draws on never-before-published diaries and letters to tell the fascinating story of how Simone de Beauvoir became herself.
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Maria Shriver is opening up about loss and grief in a big way. In her new book I Am Maria — a collection of poems and reflections by the author — Shriver, 69, revealed she was unable to get off the floor of her hotel room after learning of her husband Arnold Schwarzenegger’s infidelity. The news came soon after the deaths of both of her parents. @usweekly reports:
usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/

Us Weekly · Maria Shriver Was ‘Consumed With Grief’ After Husband’s AffairBy Stephanie Kaloi
#ArnoldSchwarzenegger#MariaShriver#Celebrity
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Award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance will be narrating the first ever audio edition of one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the past 30 years, David Levering Lewis’ two volume work on the scholar, author and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois. @AssociatedPress reports:
apnews.com/article/courtney-va

Actor Courtney B. Vance appears at the premiere of FX's "Grotesquerie" in New York on Sept. 23, 2024. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)
AP News · Courtney B. Vance to narrate audio edition of prize-winning W.E.B. Du Bois biographyAward-winning actor Courtney B. Vance will be narrating the first ever-audio edition of one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the past 30 years, David Levering Lewis’ two-volume work on the scholar, author and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois. The first volume is scheduled for June 17. Lewis received Pulitzer Prizes for each of his Du Bois books: “W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919,” published in 1994, and “W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963,” published in 2001.
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#Translator J. #Kalmer in #EasternEurope + #England

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#BaJin #LuXun #MaoDun #XiaoQian
#London #Prague #WWII

Ein Übersetzer in Grenzgebieten: #JosephKalmer (1898-1959)
Kalmer, der ursprünglich Josef #Kalmus hieß, wuchs in einem Dorf an der polnisch-ukrainischen Grenze auf und ging in #Czernowitz nahe der ukrainisch-rumänischen Grenze zur Schule.

Vereinfacht gesagt: er lebte damals in Galizien und #Bukowina ...

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www.zo.uni-heidelberg.deJoseph Kalmer
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