A mysterious visitor comes to visit three desperate human beings and offers a unique but ambiguous time-gift to each of them. These encounters are woven round philosophical questions at the core of human existence.
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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Zoran Zivkovic
Zoran Zivkovic weaves four mysterious encounters around philosophical questions at the core of human existence. Provocative and original, Time Gifts is a meditation on the nature of time and, especially, on the nature of those at its mercy.
This concise book by the well-known Serbian writer and literary researcher summarizes his decade-long experience of teaching creative writing at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. Always offering attendees four good reasons for not attending his course, or, in a broader perspective, discouraging them from professional writing altogether, the author reflects ultimately on what it really takes to become a writer of literary fiction. This essay, which makes up the first part of this work, is complemented by a selection of witty short stories, forming the second part, and which have been used as templates in the teaching context.
This volume collects both essays and fictional material around two core topics in the long career of the Serbian writer, essayist, researcher, publisher and translator. The first topic - first contact - is chiefly represented by his comprehensive essay on "The Theme of First Contact in the SF Works of Arthur C. Clarke" and reflected on the literary level with his short stories "The Bookshop" and "The Puzzle". Two shorter essays on the second topic - time travel in SF literature - introduce, amongst others, the well-known and fascinating mosaic novel Time Gifts, which skillfully explores the more literary side of the notions of past, present and future. In the annotations the author provides insights into his take on the subjects presented.
Der fachgerechte Umgang mit der Handbugelsage (Unterweisung Industriemechaniker / -in)
Zoran Zivkovic
Grin Verlag
2008
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Unterweisung / Unterweisungsentwurf aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich AdA Handwerk / Produktion / Gewerbe - Mechanische Berufe, Metall und Kunststoff, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 86 Punkte, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der fachgerechte Umgang mit der Handbügelsäge Inhaltverzeichnis: UNTERWEISUNGSPROBE ZUR AUSBILDEREIGNUNGSPRÜFUNG (NACH ? 3 AEVO) DIE AUSZUBILDENDEN: LERNZIELE: Richtlernziel: Groblernziel: Feinlernziel: 4-STUFEN METHODE ARBEITSZERGLIEDERUNG ANLAGEN Unterweisungsprobe zur Ausbildereignungsprüfung (nach ? 3 AEVO) Zuständige Stelle: Industrie- und Handelskammer Regensburg Prüfungsteilnehmer: Der Autor Tag der Unterweisung: 11. Oktober 2004, 11 Uhr Unterweisungsthema: Der fachgerechte Umgang mit der Handbügelsäge Lernort: Lehrwerkstatt Ausbildungsberuf: Industriemechaniker Auszubildende: Zwei Ausbildungsstand: 1. Ausbildungsjahr Ausbildungsabschnitt: 1. Quartal Unterweisungsdauer: ca. 20 Minuten Unterweisungsmethode: 4 Stufen-Methode Ausbildungsmittel: 3 Handbügelsägen, 3 Sägeblätter mit mittlerer Zahnteilung, 1 Schraubstock, 1 Pinsel oder Handfeger, 1 Dreikantfeile, 1 Flachfeile, mehrere bereits angerissene Vierkantrohre, 4 Arbeitsblätter zur Übung
The Writer: A Very Short Novel, without Chapters, about Writing and Darkness Where does all the writing come from? Is it divine inspiration, a bolt of lightning that reveals a whole new work in a single glimpse, or a unique gift granted by demonic forces to penetrate the darkness and see beyond it? Two fundamental principles of the most noble of all arts are in the permanent collision, surrounded by the contagious environment of the authors' vanity, envy, malice.The Ghostwriter A writer sits down to work, but who can resist the addictive temptation of the email inbox? Each message alert brings a new question and a fresh challenge, until a tangled web weaves its way around the hapless author. Yet all the while his cat, Felix, gets on with life regardless. Zoran Zivkovic's hilarious new novella lays bare the oddities and absurdities of the writing life: the traps writers set for themselves and the snares readers lay for them. Here, too, are fascinating puzzles about the nature of authorship and the writer's identity, the relationship between the writer and their work and between the writer and the reader, the reader and that which is read. Above all, though, it is a paean to the Cat, to a relationship which in its simplicity and innocence, its playfulness and affection, makes nonsense of all these human perplexities.
Once again Zivkovic demonstrates the sheer power of storytelling in this complex cycle of interlocking narratives. Like one of Escher's drawings, the narrative threads lead one through a dizzying labyrinth of recurring themes, images and characters, all of whom are linked with elegant mathematical precision: God and suicide, food and poison, monks, athletes, soldiers and soccer players all take their places in the circle-dance. Absurdity, surreality and humor abound; death is the ultimate destiny, yet always the next story offers infinite ways of escape.
On a strange train journey, in a series of six compartments, a traveller experiences unpredictable encounters, culminating in a meeting of epiphanic power. Through a narrative of dreamlike sharpness Compartments taps into the fears and absurdities, the beauties and mysteries of the unconscious mind, to achieve a consummation both moving and full of hope.Includes a new essay on Compartments by British author Tamar Yellin.
The Book is not quite a novel, although almost half of it takes the form of a narrative, neither is it an essay, although quite a lot of what is said in it adopts that style. It is actually closest to that rare type or "para-genre" of satirical prose embodied in the exemplary In Praise of Folly by the famous humanist from Rotterdam. Instead of the "Folly," of human manias and absurdities, here, in a similar kind of double-talk, the books themselves "speak," those monuments to our intelligence, ambitions and self-importance, and they primarily "speak" by making an analogy between man's fate and that of books--to man's detriment, of course.
What could a computer wizard self-exiled in an abandoned Buddhist temple possibly have in common with the humble servant of a medieval fresco painter? What is the link between the enigmatic mission of a giant radio-telescope and a tribe of spherical beings who dwell in a world full of unearthly scents and herbs? What will bring four great scientists from various centuries, Archimedes, Ludolph van Ceulen, Nikola Tesla and Stephen Hawking, to the same spot in time? What has this got to do with Rama, a female computer program, impregnated by a strange ape? And, above all, why is it necessary for Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty to join forces so that the Fourth Circle can finally be closed?Winner of the Milos Crnjanski Award
A glorious surrealistic work that brings together a computer wizard living in exile, spherical aliens, Archimedes, Ludolph van Ceulen, Nikola Tesla, and Stephen Hawking to resolve a mystery and a threat affecting all of humanity... joining forces with Sherlock Holmes, Moriarty, and a female computer named Rama.
A mysterious visitor comes to see three desperate human beings: an astronomer in his prison cell the night before his execution for the ultimate heresy; a paleolinguist with a wasted life behind her who has been forgotten by everybody in her dusty basement office; an old watchmaker with a dark, painful spot in his past that has haunted him for decades. The visitor has a unique but ambiguous time-gift for each one of them. His true identity is only known by an insane artist locked up in her asylum atelier. But who would believe an artist in this world, even if she were not insane? Runner-up for the 1998 NIN Award, by a World Fantasy Award-winning author
Six strangely related stories about six encounters that could or should have never happened... Encounters that are impossible, encounters that are from beyond the boundaries of what we have decided is reality and possibility, and yet remain within the realms of what we call ordinary.
Seven stories about moments of divine revelation through music, which leave no mark beyond the ephemeral instant of their perception: a teacher whose autistic ward inexplicably writes down one of the fundamental values of theoretical physics; a librarian whose dream of the Great Library is reenacted upon her computer screen; a man who buys a music box that when played provides a glimpse into his alternative life; an elderly woman that, hearing a hand organ in a train station, begins to have visions of the death of everyone she encounters; a retired SETI scientist who, despite having no real interest in art, suddenly begins to paint a strange first contact signal; a dying professor who finally has a chance to hear in the form of music the answers to the ultimate questions; and a violin-maker's apprentice who knows the truth behind his master's mysterious suicide.