Résultats pour "Faust" dans Fiction

2095, New York. Dans les plus hautes sphères du pouvoir, le contrôle du monde est en marche. Les Puissances, qui règnent sur l'économie mondiale, déploient leurs forces. De l'autre côté de l'Atlantique, un groupe de scientifiques, d'intellectuels, de diplomates et d'espions prépare la résistance. Ils n'ont pas de nom, pas d'argent, pas de statut. Mais leur détermination est digne des utopistes de la Renaissance...

Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away his soul—and the ability to love his fellow man.

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, is a poem, translated by Bayard Taylor, which tells the beautiful and emotional story of a man who has seen and done it all. However, despite all of his learning and education, his life still feels empty and unaccomplished. He believes wholeheartedly that there is something else out there. Faust, having exhausted all other fields of study, turns to magic for fulfillment. He summons the devil and makes a pact - that if the devil can show him something rewarding and fulfilling, he will give the devil his soul.

In una incantevole Trieste fine Ottocento, vivificata dall'aria mitteleuropea e dalla bora dell'irredentismo, si muovono, aggraziate, e come consapevoli di un loro tragico destino, le quattro sorelle Wieselberger. Appartengono a una della buona società: la madre è una tranquilla signora, che si divide tra la casa di città, odorosa di cera e di pulito, e la grande casa di campagna, con giardino, orto e vigna; il padre è uno stimato musicista, che dirige con autorità affettuosa sia la famiglia che l'orchestra dei "dilettanti filarmonici".

The moment Scarlett Rose appeared in the window of her parents’ dance studio, twirling like a beautiful figurine in a music box, she became mine. Irrevocably. She knew me better than I knew the lines of my own hands, though I had never confessed to her whose blood ran through my veins.

In the thrilling climax to the Calek's Tale Trilogy, Wayne Faust weaves all the elements together from the first two books, and introduces new and fascinating characters, while fleshing out existing ones. The War is not only a physical battle between the people on the Mainland, who are desperate to rescue Calek and his twin brother John, and the people on the Island, most notably Hezekiah, the spiritual leader, who is desperate to hang onto his waning power. It's also a spiritual battle between two very different ways of looking at the world.

After fleeing the island on the northern Great Lakes where he was born and raised, 12 year old Calek finds himself on The Mainland for the first time. He discovers that he has been lied to, and that the Old World is far different than he'd been told.

A boy named Calek lives in the town of Refuge on a quaint island in the northern Great Lakes. Growing up, he constantly heard stories about what happened on the Mainland before he was born, a huge conflagration that engulfed the entire world. All that remained were the Forsaken - drooling, mindless monsters who found their way to the island in boats, killing and maiming like rabid dogs. The people of Refuge fought them off with much loss of life, surviving as the last remnants of humanity and dreaming of the day they will repopulate the Mainland and start the world anew.

Town marshal Elias Faust thinks that he can make any problem go away if he throws enough lead at it. The living’s easy for a lawman. Bloody, but easy - that is, until Magnate Gregdon arrives with his undead syndicate to tear the town of Blackpeak, Texas apart. When a shootout with a pair of outlaws goes sideways, Elias Faust accidentally draws the Magnate’s attention. As if dealing with arcane sorcery, reanimated corpses, and the Magnate’s personal vendetta aren’t enough, Faust finds himself at the center of a power-struggle for Blackpeak’s eldritch secrets.

"Don Faust" er en mytisk roman om en mand, der sælger sin sjæl til Fanden og til gengæld for evigt liv skal være dennes højre hånd, Døden. Vi følger ham hans tro tjener rundt i Europa, hvor han spreder skræk og rædsel - men også erobrer den ene smukke kvinde efter den anden. "Med denne historie har forfatteren opfindsomt forbundet og fornyet to store myter. Det er en sjov, fræk og meget underholdende bog.

The small farming town of Hypothermia, Minnesota makes world news when a '62 Chevy Implala is discovered in a trailer full of grain. Government agents quickly impound the Chevy, down playing the incident. Yet when agricultural cooperative photographer Bob Putnam attempts to follow up with a story about the elevator manager who found it, he and his writer/partner uncover an unbelievable plot.

La storia di una vita e di due anime strettamente intrecciate fra loro: quella di una madre nevrotica e possessiva e di un figlio che le sacrifica la propria esistenza. Un rapporto tormentato, fatto di ricatti, rimorsi, slanci di ribellione, ambizioni frustrate e di un amore smisurato e difficile da accettare. Questo romanzo segue i due personaggi in una spirale di rinunce e sentimenti, di manipolazioni e tenacia.

Andrew Birch is a Company Man - a spy, a soldier, a saboteur... a corporate terrorist by any other name. He is one of the top operatives for Astradyne, one of the giant corporations that now rule the irradiated world he lives in. Among his peers, his ruthless efficiency and his love for the company are legendary. Then, on a routine mission, a chance encounter puts an all-too-human face on the consequences of corporate rule. As Birch begins to question the world he has helped build, corporate war breaks out - and he now finds himself a pawn in a game that goes deeper than he ever imagined.

Philipp und Tobias wachsen in der Provinz Sachsens auf. Im Sommer flirrt hier die Luft über den Betonplatten, im Winter bricht der Frost die Straßen auf. Der Hausbau der Eltern scheint der Aufbruch in ein neues Leben zu sein. Doch hinter den Bäumen liegen vergessen die industriellen Hinterlassenschaften der DDR, hinter der Gleichförmigkeit des Alltags schwelt die Angst vor dem Verlust der Heimat. Die Perspektivlosigkeit wird für Philipp und Tobias immer bedrohlicher. Als es zu Aufmärschen in Dresden kommt und auch ihr Heimatort Flüchtlinge aufnehmen soll, eskaliert die Situation.

Tra Sei e Settecento, al di fuori degli ambienti ufficiali della corte di Re Sole, c’è un universo variegato e pittoresco fatto di personaggi stravaganti, cortigiani, avventurieri, imbroglioni e sfaccendati. Fra tutti, si distingue il conte di Gramont, autore di questo memoir dai toni romanzeschi e decisamente originale. L’eroe di queste memorie è l’uomo più alla moda del suo tempo, che non fa altro che far parlare di sé perché non sa rinunciare alla vita mondana, ai salotti, ai tavoli da gioco, ai dadi e ai bordelli.

In diesem Werk wird dem Hörer die Weltsicht des Herrn F. nahe gebracht. Dabei verbindet Autor Armin Peter Faust die kritische Weltsicht eines engagierten Humanisten mit einigen autobiografischen Erlebnisbildern eines Herrn F. mit ironischem Unterton. Da ihn die normative Kraft des Faktischen meist eher verwirrt als überzeugt, versucht er wieder und wieder - ganz in existentialistischer Tradition - der Wahrheit zum Durchbruch zu verhelfen. Doch selbst wenn dies scheitert, so bleibt immer noch der selbstkritische Humor, mit der Herr F.s Stimme verbunden ist.

Edelsteine sind seine Berufung und Herausforderung. Mit der Graveurmaschine erschafft er aus totem Material Götter und Menschen, Teufel und Engel. Was er insgeheim erhofft: Ewigkeit und Dauer. Athanasius Pernath, Gemmenschneider aus Idar, verlacht wegen seiner buckligen Gestalt, wird mit einem kunstvollen Relief in einem Wettbewerb für die Weltausstellung 1937 in Paris Sieger. Das ist für ihn, den Ungestalten, den ewig Verspotteten, die Möglichkeit, auch den Sieg als Mensch zu versuchen.

Postskriptum. Der Titel des Werkes trifft den Inhalt sehr passend, denn es handelt sich tatsächlich um ein Postskriptum, welches nie bei dem Adressaten ankam. 28 Jahre lang bleibt ungesagt, was der Kriegsgefangene seinem Sohn, dem er fremd geworden ist, mitteilen will. Doch hier wurden die Worte niedergeschrieben, die nie ausgesprochen wurden. Dabei werden die Kriegserfahrungen wach gerufen, die den Schreiber so verändert haben. Armin Peter Faust verfasste dieses Werk in Erinnerung an seinen verstorbenen Vater.

Armin Peter Faust wurde am 10. Mai 1943 in Weiden geboren, wo er später auch die Volksschule besuchte. Nach einer Lehre als Edelsteingraveur in Idar-Oberstein und einem diverser Geisteswissenschaften in Tübingen und Saarbrücken, war Faust als Lehrer an beiden Idar-Obersteiner Gymnasien und der Fachhochschule für Schmuck- und Edelsteindesign tätig. Ab 1976 war er mit seinen künstlerischen Arbeiten Teil diverser Ausstellungen. Von 1987 bis 1991 war er Dozent für Schmuck- und Kulturgeschichte an der Fachhochschule Idar-Oberstein, nachdem er 1991 promovierte. Trotz seiner Pensionierung 2009, arbeitete Faust bis 2010 noch weiter am Gymnasium an der Heinzenwies.

Frederick Faust (pen name Max Brand) was said to have written in excess of twenty-five million words as he seemed to have a button to push to generate fictional ideas. Of course, it’s known that much of his work was issued under pen names, around twenty of them, a great many of them wild Westerns. This one that features a drifter named Donnegan. He gets off a train and takes on a job with a rich man who doesn’t seem to care much about the difference between rights and wrongs.

When Gilgamesh Young loses one of his best friends to police violence, he finds himself having a hard time coping with the trauma and the memories of that fateful night. He turns to his boyfriend, Trap, for comfort, who suggests that getting high off Dramamine will be just what Gilgamesh needs to clear his head. During the high, Gilgamesh plays with an Ouija board and summons a demon that decides it doesn't want to go away.