Apartment in Athens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apartment in Athens write by Glenway Wescott. This book was released on 2011-07-06. Apartment in Athens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A bestseller in 1945, this book has been out of print for over thirty years Like Wescott’s extraordinary novella The Pilgrim Hawk (which Susan Sontag described in The New Yorker as belonging “among the treasures of 20th-century American literature”), Apartment in Athens concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer, Wescott stages an intense and unsettling drama of accommodation and rejection, resistance and compulsion—an account of political oppression and spiritual struggle that is also a parable about the costs of closeted identity.
Athens Apartment
Athens Apartment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Athens Apartment write by N. A. Diaman. This book was released on 2009. Athens Apartment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ATHENS APARTMENT explores daily life in a modern European capital. It touches on family, culture and history from a unique perspective and challenges some unexamined myths and traditions.
Apartment for Rent in Athens
Apartment for Rent in Athens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apartment for Rent in Athens write by Royal Arch. This book was released on 2013-05-06. Apartment for Rent in Athens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A mini guide of Athens for our guests!Un mini guide d'Athènes destiné à nos hôtes!
An Apartment on Uranus
An Apartment on Uranus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Apartment on Uranus write by Paul B. Preciado. This book was released on 2020-01-28. An Apartment on Uranus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A “dissident of the gender-sex binary system” reflects on gender transitioning and political and cultural transitions in technoscientific capitalism. Uranus, the frozen giant, is the coldest planet in the solar system as well as a deity in Greek mythology. It is also the inspiration for uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrich in 1864 to define the “third sex” and the rights of those who “love differently.” Following Ulrich, Paul B. Preciado dreams of an apartment on Uranus where he might live beyond existing power, gender and racial strictures invented by modernity. “My trans condition is a new form of uranism,” he writes. “I am not a man. I am not a woman. I am not heterosexual. I am not homosexual. I am not bisexual. I am a dissident of the gender-sex binary system. I am the multiplicity of the cosmos trapped in a binary political and epistemological system, shouting in front of you. I am a uranist confined inside the limits of technoscientific capitalism.” This book recounts Preciado's transformation from Beatriz into Paul B., but it is not only an account of gender transitioning. Preciado also considers political, cultural, and sexual transition, reflecting on issues that range from the rise of neo-fascism in Europe to the technological appropriation of the uterus, from the harassment of trans children to the role museums might play in the cultural revolution to come. An Apartment on Uranus is a bold, transgressive, and necessary book.
Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens
Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens write by Ionna Theocharopoulou. This book was released on 2017. Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sprawling beneath the acropolis, modern Athens is commonly viewed in negative terms: congested, ugly and monotonous. A Mediterranean version of "informal" urbanism prevalent throughout the so-called developing world, 'Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens' reassesses the explosive growth of post-war Athens through its most distinctive building type, the polykatoikia, a small-scale multi-storey apartment block (from poly meaning "multiple" and oikos meaning "house"). Theocharopoulou re-evaluates the polykatoikia as a low-tech, easily constructible innovation that stimulated the post-war urban economy, triggering the city's social mid-twentieth century transformation, enabling the migrants who poured into Athens to become urban citizens, aspiring to a modern life. The interiors of the polykatoikia apartments reflect a desire for modernity as marketed to housewives through film and magazines. Regular builders became unlikely allies in designing these polykatoikia interiors, enabling inhabitants to exert agency over their daily lives - and the shape of the post-war city. Theocharopoulou's reading draws on popular media as well as urban and regional planning theory, cultural studies and anthropology to examine the evolution of this phenomenon and, in light of Greece's recent financial crisis, considers the role polykatoikia might play in building an equitable and sustainable twenty-first-century city. 154 colour and b/w images
