'Nothing I have read is more affecting than Mihail Sebastian's magnificent, haunting 1934 novel, For Two Thousand Years' - Philippe Sands, Guardian Books of the YearA prescient interwar masterpiece, available in English for the first time'Absolutely, definitively alone', a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't belong. Spending his days walking the streets and his nights drinking and gambling, meeting revolutionaries, zealots, lovers and libertines, he adjusts his eyes to the darkness that falls over Europe, and threatens to destroy him. Mihail Sebastian's 1934 novel was written amid the anti-Semitism which would, by the end of the decade, force him out of his career and turn his friends and colleagues against him. For Two Thousand Years is a lucid, heart-wrenching chronicle of resilience and despair, broken layers of memory and the terrible forces of history.
A gorgeous, tender modern classic about the complexities of love, with an introduction from the Booker-winning author John BanvilleStefan Valeriu, a young Romanian student, holidays alone in the Alps, where he soon becomes entangled in romantic relationships with three different women who pass through his guesthouse. We follow Stefan after his return to Paris as he reflects on the women in his life, at times playing the lover, and at others observing shrewdly from the periphery.Women's four interlinked stories offer nuanced and deeply moving portraits of romantic relationships in all their complexity, from unrequited love and passionate affairs to tepid marriages of convenience. In light, elegant prose, Mihail Sebastian, widely regarded as the greatest Romanian writer of the 20th century, explores longing, otherness, empathy, and regret.'His prose is like something Chekov might have written - the same modesty, candour, and subtleness of observation' Arthur Miller 'I love Sebastian's courage, his lightness, and his wit' John Banville'Sebastian belongs in the pantheon of classic authors' New Statesman 'A minor masterpiece of voice, mood and emotion' Irish Times
The frustrated wife of a French-Tunisian plantation owner, a mysterious older woman, a world weary tomboy, an unhappy mistress, a Parisian factory worker destined for tragedy, an acrobat turned cabaret sensation – these are the women whose lives are linked by their relationship with one man – ?tefan Valeriu. Divided into four separate stories connected by one man, Women takes us from ?tefan’s amorous entanglements at an Alpine lake resort, to his life in Bucharest and Paris, as each of the women in his life opens up new worlds for him. Women is a hymn to love in all its forms, romantic or platonic, sometimes reckless, often glorious and always, ultimately, ephemeral.
Thrown off the train for not having a ticket, Mona finds herself, alone, in a rural town at night. Although she is fashionably dressed, she has no money and nowhere to stay. Fortunately, the local schoolteacher, Marin, invites her to stay at his home while he sleeps over at a friend’s place. However, an attraction soon develops. Marin, a keen astronomer, reveals that he has discovered a star which is not marked on any star chart. They share a wonderfully happy night together. But their idyll is soon shattered by the arrival of Mona’s boyfriend, Grig. Will Mona choose to return to her old life in the city or settle for a quieter life with Marin? This play was a hit play in Romania at the time it was written and has subsequently been adapted for film in both France and Russia. Available for the first time in a new English translation by Gabi Reigh.
In the tradition of Sandor Marai, Mihail Sebastian is a captivating Central European storyteller from the first half of the twentieth century whose work is being rediscovered by new generations of readers throughout Europe, Latin America, and the United States. The 2000 publication of his Journal 1935-1944: The Fascist Years introduced his writing to an English-speaking audience for the first time, garnering universal acclaim. Philip Roth wrote that Sebastian's Journal "deserves to be on the same shelf as Anne Frank's Diary and to find as huge a readership." Outside of the English-speaking world, Sebastian's reputation rests on his fiction. This publication of The Accident marks the first appearance of the author's fiction in English. A love story set in the Bucharest art world of the 1930s and the Transylvanian mountains, it is a deeply romantic, enthralling tale of two people who meet by chance. Along snowy ski trails and among a mysterious family in a mountain cabin, Paul and Nora, united by an attraction that contains elements of repulsion, find the keys to their fate. Mihail Sebastian (1907-1945) was born in southeastern Romania and worked in Bucharest as a lawyer, journalist, novelist, and playwright until anti-Semitic legislation forced him to abandon his public career. His long-lost diary, Journal 1935-1944: The Fascist Years, was published in seven countries between 1996 and 2007, launching an international revival of his work. Sebastian's novels and plays are available in translation throughout Europe, and also have been published in Chinese, Hindi, Bengali, and Hebrew.
En ung jødisk student forsøker å begripe det mørket som dag for dag brer seg over det europeiske kontinentet. Han vandrer gatelangs gjennom en verden som har bestemt seg for at han ikke hører hjemme i den; han forsøker å komme seg opp og fram i et samfunn som stadig holder ham nede. Fra én side trues han av voldelige utbrudd fra en totusenårig antisemittisme, og fra den andre lokkes han av sionistene med .løfter om en jødisk stat i Palestina. Denne romanen fra 1934 gir et nyansert og slående innblikk i mellomkrigstidens .Romania, men har også urovekkende paralleller til vår egen tid.
"Ingenting av det jag läst är mer gripande och oförglömligt än Mihail Sebastians storslagna roman från 1934, I tvåtusen år" Philippe Sands, Guardian Books of the Year "Ensam, absolut ensam, slutgiltigt ensam" är den unge berättaren i romanen I tvåtusen år, en kritiskt tänkande judisk intellektuell som försöker finna sin plats i 1920-talets Bukarest där det antisemitiska gatuvåldet härjar. Efter en tid som arkitekt vid bygget av ett amerikanskt oljeraffinaderi på landsbygden återvänder han till huvudstaden. På dagarna driver han omkring på gatorna och på nätterna dricker han och spelar, möter revolutionärer, fanatiker, kärleksäventyr och libertiner. Hans blick vänjer sig vid det mörker som sänker sig över Europa och hotar honom till livet. Mihail Sebastians mästerverk från 1934 föreligger här för första gången i svensk översättning. Romanen föregriper och skildrar den antisemitism som i slutet av decenniet skulle beröva författaren hans karriär och vända vänner och kolleger mot honom. I tvåtusen år är en hjärtslitande krönika om anpassningsförsök och uppgivenhet, om smärtsamt minnesarbete och om historiens förödande krafter. "Häpnadsväckande relevant för vår egen tid. Det som är så kusligt med I tvåtusen år är hur den tryckande atmosfären [ ] förebådar det auktoritära styret i Rumänien och den rumänska judenhetens utplåning, även om romanen gavs ut innan fascisterna kom till makten Jag kan inte låta bli att tycka att Mihail Sebastian sänder oss ett budskap över generationsgränserna." New York Times Review of Books "Årets bästa roman är skriven 1934. Mihail Sebastians I tvåtusen år, en skildring från mellankrigstidens Bukarest av en namnlös judisk student, tog en mansålder på sig att komma ut i engelsk översättning." Financial Times "En elegant och uppriktig och ohyggligt nedtonad skildring av vad det vill säga att iaktta det oresonliga våldets framväxt." Paris Review "Spöklikt profetisk en lysande översättning av en högst ovanlig roman. I tvåtusen år är en sanningarnas bok." Irish Times "En av de ovanligaste, vackraste och mest förföriska böcker jag läst på många år. Den förenar ett lätt handlag med en förbluffande vrede Den är en klassiker av ett slag vi aldrig skådat förut, och som sådan behöver den läsas och läsas om, en bok som med åren kommer att bli en pålitlig vän för livet." Jewish Quarterly "I tvåtusen år av Mihail Sebastian har varit en undangömd juvel i europeisk litteratur, en som kastar ljus över vad som hände i Rumänien under mellankrigstiden. [ ] Han omkom i en trafikolycka 1945 efter att ha överlevt andra världskriget och undgått Förintelsen. Den fatala händelsen berövade den litterära världen en unik röst." New York Journal of Books "En bok antingen klubbar ner en eller lyfter upp en. Varför ska man annars betala för den? Sebastians bok gör både och." Los Angeles Review of Books "Hans prosa är som något Tjechov kunde ha skrivit samma anspråkslöshet, samma uppriktighet och samma subtila iakttagelseförmåga." Arthur Miller "Den fångar på ett underbart sätt stämningen i förkrigstidens Rumänien i all dess förfining, skönhet och fasa. Jag älskar Sebastians mod, hans lätthet och hans slagfärdighet." John Banville
Mihail Sebastian (19071945) var en rumänsk författare, dramatiker och journalist. På grund av antisemitiska lagar förbjöds under 1940-talet hans pjäser. Idag är han främst berömd för sina dagböcker, postumt publicerade, som skildrar denna period de skrevs mellan åren 1935 och 1944. Bara veckor efter att andra världskriget slutade dog Sebastian i en trafikolycka. Marcel Prousts korrespondens utkom 1939 och är en av de första studierna av Marcel Proust författarskap. Denna översättning till svenska är den andra, efter franska, till något språk. Det rumänska originalet har inte kommit i någon ny utgåva. Därmed är detta en litterär upptäckt av rang, och en text som bara finns tillgänglig i översättning. Inger Johansson har översatt från rumänska och franska. Sebastians franska översättare Laure Hinckel har skrivit förordet.
Bored by religious instruction and painting lessons, a group of friends at a convent school spend their days dreaming of romance, fashion and the latest gramophone records. One by one, they give up their visions of adventure and submit to provincial life, marrying for money and status, like their mothers before them. Plain, jaundiced Lucretia, becomes the envy of her friends when Paul, a glamorous dandy proposes, but she hides a shocking secret that will destroy their marriage and expose them to scandal. Only Adriana Dunea, the most beautiful and talented girl in the school seems destined for happiness with her childhood sweetheart, Gelu. But everything changes when, on a trip to Bucharest, she meets Cello Viorin, a famous composer...
Under tio år, 1935-1944, förde den rumänsk-judiske författaren Mihail Sebastian en dagbok som när den slutligen publicerades i Rumänien 1996 föranledde en livlig debatt om landets antisemitism och roll under andra världskriget. Sebastian tillhörde mellankrigstidens intellektuella miljö i Bukarest och bland hans vänner räknades några av de mest inflytelserika författarna och tänkarna under det rumänska 1900-talet, bland dessa religionshistorikern Mircea Eliade, filosofen Emil Cioran och dramatikern Eugène Ionesco. Dagboken skildrar naket den långsamt krypande brutaliseringen på alla nivåer i det rumänska samhället. En stor del av intelligentian, många av Sebastians kollegor och närmaste vänner, sluter upp bakom de spirande fascistiska rörelserna och hans eget manöverutrymme blir allt mindre. Dagboken är inte bara en krönika över de mörkaste åren av europeisk antisemitism, utan också en författares anteckningar om det dagliga arbetet i skuggan av världspolitikens konvulsioner. Här finns noteringar om böckerna han läser, den klassiska musiken som rattas in från de utländska radiostationerna, hans komplicerade kärleksaffärer här finns ansträngningarna och självtvivlet, motgångarna och framgångarna. Mihail Sebastians dagbok har översatts till en rad europeiska språk och presenteras nu i svensk översättning av Inger Johansson. Boken inleds med ett förord av författaren och essäisten Henrik Nilsson.Röster om Dagbok 1935-1944"Det är 649 sidor viktig, för att inte säga oumbärlig, läsning som nu också kommer ut i en fin svensk översättning av Inger Johansson och med ett upplysande förord av Henrik Nilsson. Det är, som vanligt, ett litet förlag som står för den här bedriften: h:ström." - Thomas Kjellgren, Kristianstadsbladet."Ett unikt vittnesmål från nazismens tidevarv" - Salomon Schulman, Expressen."Ovärderligt dokument omöjligt att sluta läsa" - Cecilia Hansson, SvD. "Dagboken [är] obligatorisk läsning." - Leif Zern, DN."Dagbok 1935-1944 är sannolikt den allra viktigaste pusselbiten för att förstå stämningen som rådde under dessa fatala krisår, då fascismen och antisemitismen slog ut med full kraft i det rumänska samhället och möjliggjorde massavrättningar, pogromer och djupt inhumana särlagstiftningar för den judiska befolkningen." - Ludvig Köhler, Ord & bild"Förtjänar att stå i samma bokhylla som Anne Franks Dagbok och att nå samma stora läsarskara." - Philip Roth"Det är en kuslig dagbok. Långsamt kryper en undergångskänsla fram som förföljer mig även utanför läsningen antagligen med viss hjälp av coronapandemin. Boken dog syrebristdöden i takt med att livsgnistan hos Sebastian slocknade. Resignationen och likgiltigheten lika mörka som trycksvärtan. Under de sista åren upptas sidorna mest av korta anteckningar om kriget. 'Tristess, äckel, likgiltighet, olust' är vad han känner och dagboksskrivandet framstår som 'en dålig vana, ingenting mer.' Någonstans i de sista sidorna kallar han den för en krigsbok. Han är vid det här laget en skugga av sitt forna jag." - Robert Myhreld, Ny tid
Hailed as one of the most important portrayals of the dark years of Nazism, this powerful chronicle by the Romanian Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian offers a lucid and finely shaded analysis of erotic and social life, a Jew's diary, a reader's notebook, a music-lover's journal. Despite the pressure of hatred and horror in the "huge anti-Semitic factory" that was Romania in the years of World War II, his writing maintains the grace of its perceptive and luminous intelligence. The legacy of a journalist, novelist, and playwright, Sebastian's Journal stands as one of the most important human and literary documents of the climate that preceded the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.
La extra a vida de Nicolay Mijail Vinogradov puede adjuntarse a las cr nicas de voces apagadas de la historia. Hay que resaltar que el lector puede sentir anomal as y desprendimientos emocionales intensos, dudas y prejuicios, respecto de este dis mil ser; no es para menos, pues solemos despreciar la magia que constantemente nos persigue. Esta novela est desarrollada en cap tulos que van retrocediendo y avanzando para lograr un impulso logar tmico que los eleve. Est claro que los narradores conocen la historia pero est n dispuestos a admitir los vac os que se producen cuando se exponen biograf as lejanas y azarosas de desentra ar. Este proceso de narraci n infunde a n m s desconfianza en el lector; no obstante, es posible que halle familiaridad en este controvertido personaje, y hasta le resulte digno. Los hechos que se describen se colman de magia, cuesti n que necesita de nuestra creencia para existir: un lgido nacimiento en una lejana Rusia, una condici n animal cong nita, un tratamiento despreciable a nuestro Nicolay, las tempranas e inevitables muertes, el abandono en la prematura primera infancia, la incre ble supervivencia en los pantanos de Vasiug n, la atemporalidad, el destino infructuoso, el renacimiento en los bosques ntimos de Asia, el amor feroz y mortal que le costara la vida a su nico amor, la hu da, la invasi n francesa a Mosc , el duro conocimiento de una grotesca Europa, la bohemia francesa, la universidad en Londres, la familia madrile a, su odisea en aguas del Alt ntico, su peregrinaci n hacia el vac o en Am rica del Sur, su breve ascenci n como adorado ind gena, su regreso y la primera guerra mundial, y muchos etc teras m s. En s misma, la fabulosa pero l gubre vida de Nicolay Mijail Vinogradov suele desmoronarse, requiere intr nsecamente del lector o de la proyecci n de un cineasta para poder Ser. Sebasti n Baudracco Capilla del Monte, C rdoba 14/04/2011
'Overall, the book provides an interesting and useful synthesis of the authors’ research on the predictions of stock market crashes. The book can be recommended to anyone interested in the Bond Stock Earnings Yield Differential model, and similar methods to predict crashes.'Quantitative FinanceThis book presents studies of stock market crashes big and small that occur from bubbles bursting or other reasons. By a bubble we mean that prices are rising just because they are rising and that prices exceed fundamental values. A bubble can be a large rise in prices followed by a steep fall. The focus is on determining if a bubble actually exists, on models to predict stock market declines in bubble-like markets and exit strategies from these bubble-like markets. We list historical great bubbles of various markets over hundreds of years.We present four models that have been successful in predicting large stock market declines of ten percent plus that average about minus twenty-five percent. The bond stock earnings yield difference model was based on the 1987 US crash where the S&P 500 futures fell 29% in one day. The model is based on earnings yields relative to interest rates. When interest rates become too high relative to earnings, there almost always is a decline in four to twelve months. The initial out of sample test was on the Japanese stock market from 1948-88. There all twelve danger signals produced correct decline signals. But there were eight other ten percent plus declines that occurred for other reasons. Then the model called the 1990 Japan huge -56% decline. We show various later applications of the model to US stock declines such as in 2000 and 2007 and to the Chinese stock market. We also compare the model with high price earnings decline predictions over a sixty year period in the US. We show that over twenty year periods that have high returns they all start with low price earnings ratios and end with high ratios. High price earnings models have predictive value and the BSEYD models predict even better. Other large decline prediction models are call option prices exceeding put prices, Warren Buffett's value of the stock market to the value of the economy adjusted using BSEYD ideas and the value of Sotheby's stock. Investors expect more declines than actually occur. We present research on the positive effects of FOMC meetings and small cap dominance with Democratic Presidents. Marty Zweig was a wall street legend while he was alive. We discuss his methods for stock market predictability using momentum and FED actions. These helped him become the leading analyst and we show that his ideas still give useful predictions in 2016-2017. We study small declines in the five to fifteen percent range that are either not expected or are expected but when is not clear. For these we present methods to deal with these situations.The last four January-February 2016, Brexit, Trump and French elections are analzyed using simple volatility-S&P 500 graphs. Another very important issue is can you exit bubble-like markets at favorable prices. We use a stopping rule model that gives very good exit results. This is applied successfully to Apple computer stock in 2012, the Nasdaq 100 in 2000, the Japanese stock and golf course membership prices, the US stock market in 1929 and 1987 and other markets. We also show how to incorporate predictive models into stochastic investment models.
'Overall, the book provides an interesting and useful synthesis of the authors’ research on the predictions of stock market crashes. The book can be recommended to anyone interested in the Bond Stock Earnings Yield Differential model, and similar methods to predict crashes.'Quantitative FinanceThis book presents studies of stock market crashes big and small that occur from bubbles bursting or other reasons. By a bubble we mean that prices are rising just because they are rising and that prices exceed fundamental values. A bubble can be a large rise in prices followed by a steep fall. The focus is on determining if a bubble actually exists, on models to predict stock market declines in bubble-like markets and exit strategies from these bubble-like markets. We list historical great bubbles of various markets over hundreds of years.We present four models that have been successful in predicting large stock market declines of ten percent plus that average about minus twenty-five percent. The bond stock earnings yield difference model was based on the 1987 US crash where the S&P 500 futures fell 29% in one day. The model is based on earnings yields relative to interest rates. When interest rates become too high relative to earnings, there almost always is a decline in four to twelve months. The initial out of sample test was on the Japanese stock market from 1948-88. There all twelve danger signals produced correct decline signals. But there were eight other ten percent plus declines that occurred for other reasons. Then the model called the 1990 Japan huge -56% decline. We show various later applications of the model to US stock declines such as in 2000 and 2007 and to the Chinese stock market. We also compare the model with high price earnings decline predictions over a sixty year period in the US. We show that over twenty year periods that have high returns they all start with low price earnings ratios and end with high ratios. High price earnings models have predictive value and the BSEYD models predict even better. Other large decline prediction models are call option prices exceeding put prices, Warren Buffett's value of the stock market to the value of the economy adjusted using BSEYD ideas and the value of Sotheby's stock. Investors expect more declines than actually occur. We present research on the positive effects of FOMC meetings and small cap dominance with Democratic Presidents. Marty Zweig was a wall street legend while he was alive. We discuss his methods for stock market predictability using momentum and FED actions. These helped him become the leading analyst and we show that his ideas still give useful predictions in 2016-2017. We study small declines in the five to fifteen percent range that are either not expected or are expected but when is not clear. For these we present methods to deal with these situations.The last four January-February 2016, Brexit, Trump and French elections are analzyed using simple volatility-S&P 500 graphs. Another very important issue is can you exit bubble-like markets at favorable prices. We use a stopping rule model that gives very good exit results. This is applied successfully to Apple computer stock in 2012, the Nasdaq 100 in 2000, the Japanese stock and golf course membership prices, the US stock market in 1929 and 1987 and other markets. We also show how to incorporate predictive models into stochastic investment models.
Mihail Gorbaciov a fost ultimul lider al URSS și a avut o influență majoră asupra drumului pe care Rusia l-a urmat la sf rșitul secolului XX. A fost o figură oarecum controversată, cunoscut n Occident ca fiind omul care a pus capăt Războiului Rece, dar, n același timp, unul dintre cei mai puțin populari lideri ai secolului XX n Rusia. Acest lucru este de nțeles, deoarece Gorbaciov a adus Rusia mai aproape de Occident, a făcut comunismul mai democratic și a acordat independență țărilor din blocul estic. n doar 50 de minute, veți afla cum acțiunile sale, inclusiv politicile sale de glasnost și perestroika, au influențat evenimentele din țara sa timp de decenii și veți nțelege influența sa majoră asupra Rusiei contemporane. Această carte simplă și informativă oferă o discuție amănunțită a momentelor cheie din ilustrele cariere politice ale lui Gorbaciov, inclusiv sf rșitul Războiului Rece, sf rșitul regimurilor comuniste din Europa de Est și prăbușirea Uniunii Sovietice. Include, de asemenea, o biografie completă, o introducere valoroasă n contextul politic, social și economic și o evaluare a impactului domniei lui Gorbaciov, oferindu-vă toate informațiile esențiale despre ultimul lider al URSS.
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