The Silent Crossing
The Silent Crossing

Author: Pascal Quignard

Publisher:

Published: 2024-03-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781803093611

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A haunting homage to life and liberty, to society and solitude, and to the binding and unbinding that constitute the weft of our lives. Drawing on materials from across many cultures, Pascal Quignard makes an effort to establish shared human values as the breeding ground for a modern Enlightenment. Considering atheism as a spiritual liberation, suicide as a free act, and the rejection of society as a free choice, the author explores philosophical themes that have run through human civilizations--most often as heresies--from our earliest days. In his search for freedom, Quignard questions the binding dependency of religion, querying how, in a world where all forms of society presuppose that someone (or some collective) is looking over our shoulders, we can be free. These reflections, he implies, are the essential spiritual exercise for our times. Few voices in contemporary French literature are more distinct than that of Quignard. By reading this fragmentary, episodic assemblage of intimate experiences and borrowed tales, we open up a space of liberty, creating for the reader space for meditation and, perhaps, liberation.

Silent Crossing
Silent Crossing

Author: Ellen McCarthy

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13:

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A young man emerges from a car crash on a remote road in Boston. Sixteen years later Melanie Yeats walks into a Garda station with her hands stained in bloo. What is the connection between Melanie, her missing husband, the car crash. Is she a murderer or a wictim? There are more question than answers

Code of Federal Regulations
Code of Federal Regulations

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 910

ISBN-13:

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Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.

Cold War Crossings
Cold War Crossings

Author: Patryk Babiracki

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2014-03-20

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1623491428

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Approaching the early decades of the “Iron Curtain” with new questions and perspectives, this important book examines the political and cultural implications of the communists’ international initiatives. Building on recent scholarship and working from new archival sources, the seven contributors to this volume study various effects of international outreach—personal, technological, and cultural—on the population and politics of the Soviet bloc. Several authors analyze lesser-known complications of East-West exchange; others show the contradictory nature of Moscow’s efforts to consolidate its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and in the Third World. An outgrowth of the forty-sixth annual Walter Prescott Webb Lectures, hosted in 2011 by the University of Texas at Arlington, Cold War Crossings features diverse focuses with a unifying theme.

Crossing the Sierra de Gredos
Crossing the Sierra de Gredos

Author: Peter Handke

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2009-04-06

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 0810125552

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In this visionary novel, Handke offers descriptions of objects, relationships, and events that teach readers a renewed way of seeing. Following humankinds ancient quest for love, this book is peopled with memorable characters and universal adventures.

Simon's Crossing
Simon's Crossing

Author: Charles William Asher

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2010-01-20

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1450202489

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Enter the biblically historic world of Simon of Cyrene, where a world of grief, revenge, and Dennis Patrick Slattery and tender devotion awaits. There, families are torn apart, marauding soldiers enact their violent ways, and random events suddenly disrupt life. Along this journey there will be encounters with Pontius Pilate, Veronica, Mary, and the sons of Simon, Rufus and Alexander, as they seek to grasp the mystery of a compassionate Nazarene, serenely putting into practice the kingdom of God. Forced to carry the cross of Jesus, Simon of Cyrene, a little known biblical figure, reluctantly yields to his task. At the same time, Simon struggles with personal loss and a fiery desire for revenge. In Simons story, the vulnerability of our own journeys is laid bare as we cross paths with a simple wooden cross and a redemptive twist of fate. In Simons Crossing, this ordinary man, from Cyrene, steps boldly out of the pages of the Bible. He senses that his own life depends on the Nazarene staggering just ahead of him. Persuaded by sacrificial love, we too discover what it is like to cross over into the imaginal power of a story well-told, where salvation lies close at hand. Simons story compels us to carry on as well.