Best regional & cultural dramas & plays books according to redditors
We found 119 Reddit comments discussing the best regional & cultural dramas & plays books. We ranked the 34 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Diary of a Taxi Driver: True Stories From Singapore's Most Educated Cabdriver
To give you a few examples of great contemporary writers :
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> I dont know how easy it is to actually get a copy, though.
Really hard!
It's the Japanese modernists for me, both poets and novelists—so much is so so good, and quite a bit has been translated, but good luck finding anything assigned outside of an upper-level Japanese lit class.
Novels:
• Hayashi Fumiko—Diary of a Vagabond) (1927)
• Yokomitsu Riichi—Shanghai (1931)
• Yasunari Kawabata—The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (1930)
• Kobayashi Takiji—The Crab Cannery Ship and Other Novels of Struggle (1929)
Short Stories:
• Modanizumu: Modernist Fiction from Japan, 1913–1938
• For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution: An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature
Books of Poetry:
• The Collected Poems of Sagawa Chika
• The Poetry and Poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburo
I'm writing an essay on this right at this moment...spooky!
There's a radio play version of it on this site here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p027n4xp
which I'd highly recommend because it gives you a much better sense of what the performance would look like than just reading it. (You might need to use some sort of proxy for it if you're outside the UK though)
The English title is "the man outside" and there's copies of the book on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Outside-Wolfgang-Borchert/dp/0811200116 You might have to get a second hand copy though.
The play was also made into a film called 'Love '47' in English but this is quite far removed from the original text and in my opinion not as good so I'd recommend reading the play before watching it.
If you want to find out more about Wolfgang Borchert or the play itself I'd recommend the book "The life and works of Wolfgang Borchert" by Gordon Burgess. It gives a good introduction, a simple description of his life and the time he was writing in and introduces some basic ideas on the texts.
It's one of my favourite German plays so I hope you enjoy!
The First Word is a good overview of research that has been done on the evolution of language and why it's such a difficult and controversial topic.
I did my senior seminar/thesis on the evolution of language and in addition to The First Word we started with these articles for a general look at the questions we have regarding evolution of language and what the answers may be.
Edit: P.S. I haven't read Bickerton's Adam's Tongue, but I've read several of his articles and found them useful, so that title may also be worth having a look at.
I'd highly recommend Andrew Porter's translation. I read it before I saw my first Ring (Seattle, 1986) and I still have my dogeared old copy and re-read it every time I am lucky enough to a a cycle. I've read other translations, but I always come back to this one.
https://www.amazon.com/Ring-Nibelung-Richard-Wagner/dp/0393008673
Im just gonna suggest my favorite french and french canadian books :
>Set in Kigali, Rwanda, the novel deals with a love affair between an elder Canadian expatriate and a young Rwandan, AIDS and the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
(Amazon link : https://www.amazon.com/Sunday-at-Pool-Kigali/dp/1400034345/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475200692&sr=1-1&keywords=a+sunday+at+the+pool+in+kigali)
Theres a movie named "A Sunday in Kigali" that was made about it but I prefer the book.
>Incendies follows the journey of twins Jeanne and Simon, as they attempt to unravel the mystery of their mother's life.[1] When Jeanne and Simon Marwan lose their mother, Nawal, they are instead left with a difficult mission that sends them on a journey to the Middle East in pursuit of their tangled roots and a long-lost brother.
It's a very hard and crude book but it's also excellent. There's a good movie about it too. Won multiples prize, I think the movie is as good as the play.
(Amazon link : https://www.amazon.com/Scorched-Revised-Wajdi-Mouawad/dp/0887549268)
>Pour échapper à la galère, Justinien Pibrac devient bourreau officiel du seigneur de Bellerocaille. Le jour de sa première exécution, après quelques maladresses rocambolesques, il parvient finalement à briser les os du condamné. Ainsi début la saga trépidante des Pibrac, qui deviendront de génération en génération les plus grands bourreaux de tous les temps.
It's really really well written and it's filled with black humour. I dont want to spoil anything at all but it's a sure pick-up if you search a book in french.
Science fiction book about a machine that allows communication between ants and human. I think it stands out from other science fiction book by having a more litteral approach to the philosophical themes it talks about.
Well, it's not my phrase. That's what the study of the origins of language is referred to as in Linguistic literature. It's actually somewhat confusing, because "the evolution of language" refers to how language originated both as a social structure and as a biological feature of humans, while "language evolution" refers to the processes by which established languages change over time (ie, Old English becoming Middle English becoming Modern English).
Also, there are many researchers who would argue that language is a special case of meaning—that is, without language there is no meaning, and structure preceded semantics. Particularly, Deacon, Bickerton, and Torey all express this idea in different ways. I'm partial to this point of view myself.
Just looked at the book on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Pages-Twisted-Makers-Diary/dp/1481153730)
Boring. Tries too hard to be shocking as if it were written by a 15-year-old boy. (Of course, if the target audience is 15-year-old boys, ZYO Entertainment (the copyright holder) knows their stuff.)
It's also a self-published book which is always a pig in a poke (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-pig-in-a-poke.html). So, I wouldn't fork over $30+ for it.
You might enjoy San Manuel Bueno, Martir by Unamuno. I've never read it in English and you can find a complete text in Spanish online here. Short and engaging. As per an amazon.com review (of an english translation),
>This book consists of the memories that a woman from a small town in Spain has of don Manuel, the town's priest. The woman, Anglea, grew up around don Manuel, whom the whole village worships as a saint. Angela, however, knows don Manuel's one secret -- he doesn't believe in God. Don Manuel continues in the church because it is the best way for him to help the people of his villaige. He continues to preach what he sees as a lie because he believes that the simple people of his village need faith to live. Angela, and don Manuel himself, struggle greatly with the question of whether don Manuel is a saint or a hypocrite. This book raises a fascinating question, and it is worth the effort of reading this short novel just to ponder its central theme. Unamuno, however, also suceeds in showing the reader the great tragedy of the title character's life. The novel is emotionally as well as philosophically rich. Don Manuel Bueno, Martir, is a beautiful and rewarding read.
My favorite nonfiction book is "Douze coups de théatre" by Michel Tremblay. I dont think its translated tough.
Other than that, I really liked "Empire of the Ants" and "Fondation" if you like science fiction. For historic settings, I liked "Incendies"/"Scorched".
The Runners is now available on Amazon ($8.83 paperback or $0.99 ebook). It's a mythical story about an African tribe that lives in the desert just outside of an Oasis. They are unable to live in the Oasis because of the Great Cat. The Runners have to run into the Oasis every morning, fill their packs with water, and outrun the Great Cat to bring life to their tribe. They experience the Joseph Campbell hero journey on a daily basis. The setting of the book is ultimately a commentary on the state of mankind, perpetually just outside of paradise, and only able to experience it fleetingly. The story has big themes: life and death, good and evil, love and hate.
Recently finished The Road Trip, a litfic account of a 5,000 km road trip I took with friends down the East Coast of Australia. Spoiler alert: Living in a van with four people is a fucking nightmare.
https://www.amazon.com/Road-Trip-Kyle-David-Iverson-ebook/dp/B07T2RDRQD
I'm very sorry for the inconvenient. But I couldn't find the link on Kindle. Here's the link on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/When-Jasmine-Returns-Nabeel-Kallas/dp/1977932177/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1516466808&sr=8-9&keywords=when+the+jasmine+returns
Please help me find the link of the book on Kindle. I'm having a trouble doing so. Thanks for understanding.
Here: https://www.amazon.com/When-Jasmine-Returns-Nabeel-Kallas-ebook/dp/B0795T8JBC/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1516466808&sr=8-9
I don't know about cool and unique, but:
A pocket dictionary, perhaps? Or traditional Norwegian folktales? Or a bilingual edition of A Doll's House? Bilingual books are wonderful!
There are also some good Norwegian movies, like The Bothersome Man (2006) and Blind (2014).
You could also get him an over-priced waffle iron for making tractor shaped waffles.
Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia is based on a play by the French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais.
The "sequel" to it, Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" too.
https://www.amazon.com/Figaro-Trilogy-Seville-Marriage-Classics-ebook/dp/B006GODTMK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525319904&sr=8-1
I have no idea which translation is most accurate, but I have always preferred Andrew Porter's translation, as it is designed to be sung, fitting the music like a glove. That alone makes it the most pleasurable to follow along to while listening or watching.
http://www.amazon.com/Ring-Nibelung-Richard-Wagner/dp/0393008673/ref=sr_1_1