Horace Stanley McCoy documentó las dificultades que enfrentaron los estadounidenses durante la Gran Depresión y el período de posguerra en sus crudas y duras novelas. Aunque subestimado en su tiempo, McCoy es ahora reconocido como un par de Dashiell Hammett y James Cain. Su obra exploró los aspectos más oscuros del sueño americano y el peaje psicológico de la presión extrema. El estilo distintivo de McCoy se caracteriza por su concisión e imaginería potente.
Ganar un maratón de baile parece una forma fácil de obtener dinero rápido en la gran Depresión de los años 30. Personas sin recursos económicos, jóvenes desocupados o actores que esperan una oportunidad en Hollywood, prueban fortuna con la misma meta: vencer o morir extenuados. Novela de culto para los existencialistas franceses, fue ignorada por la crítica estadounidense hasta mucho después de la estupenda versión cinematográfica que rodó Sidney Pollack con el título de Danzad, danzad, malditos.
Horace saw the death of the Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire,
and was personally acquainted with the emperor Augustus and the poet Virgil.
This anthology of superb English translations will show how Horace has
permeated English literature for five centuries.
Set against the backdrop of Hollywood, the narrative explores the intertwining themes of temptation and desire, presenting a hard-boiled perspective on the darker side of fame. With a perverse twist, the story delves into the complexities of ambition and the moral dilemmas faced by its characters, revealing the seductive yet dangerous allure of the entertainment industry.
This is a superb new translation of the great Augustan poet Horace's Odes and
Epodes - brilliantly crafted and diverse poems of politics, friendship, love,
and wine. The edition is supplemented by a lucid introduction, extensive
notes, and glossary of names.
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye is a kind of success story. A Phi Beta Kappa scholar succeds in turning himself into a vicious and completely immoral criminal - a man whose contempt for law, order, and human life drives him relentlessly into a career of unrelieved evil. He escapes from a chain gang to join a pack of gangsters and a millionaire's daughter falls in love with him, but eventually his past overtakes him. Kiss Tomorrrow Goodbye is McCoy's most ambitious work and the basis for one of the great gangster movies, starring James Cagney.
The Satires of Horace offer a hodgepodge of genres and styles: philosophy and bawdry; fantastic tales and novelistic vignettes; portraits of the poet, his contemporaries, and his predecessors; jibes, dialogue, travelogue, rants, and recipes; and poetic effects in a variety of modes. For all their apparent lightheartedness, however, the poems both illuminate and bear the marks of a momentous event in world history, one in which Horace himself played an active role--the death of the Roman Republic and the birth of the Principate. John Svarlien's lively blank-verse translation reflects the wide range of styles and tones deployed throughout Horace's eighteen sermons or conversations, deftly reproducing their distinctive humor while tracking the poet's changing mannerisms and moods. David Mankin's Introduction offers a brief account of the political upheavals in which Horace participated as well as the social setting in which his Satires were produced, and points up hallmarks of the poet's distinctive brand of satire. His detailed commentary offers a behind-the-scenes look at Roman society and an often between-the-lines examination of a key work of one of Rome's sharpest observers.
Kniha vypráví příběh o složitém úniku z vězení, při němž byl zabit vězeň, pro kterého byl útěk zorganizován, a na svobodu se dostává jeho náhodně vybraný společník Ralph Cotter. Tento odvážný kousek Cottera zavede do prostředí plného zločinu, machinací a vyděračství, kde ho pohrdání zákonem, řádem a lidským životem zavádí na cestu nekonečného zla. Román posloužil jako předloha pro kultovní film s Jamesem Cagneym v hlavní roli.
