Books by Michael Henry Heim (translator)
“It consists of a single sentence: a monologue being delivered to a gang of women sunbathing topless behind a church. The subject of the monologue is nothing less than the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.” Read more...
Joshua Cohen, Novelist
“The title, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, comes from the main character’s obsession with the fact that all we have is the now, nothing else except the ever-moving now. He wants to know what is happening about our existence in relation to the ephemeral present, which comes and goes so quickly. Since we are stuck in this ever-moving moment, how do the past and future relate to that, and what difference do moral choices make over a lifetime? What is the meaning of our existence? We are stuck in this ever-moving moment, and how does the past relate to that? One meditation in there is where he takes up Nietzsche’s theory of the eternal return – an ancient Hindu concept – in which everything that happens continues to happen eternally, an infinite number of times, over and over, like a broken record.” Read more...
The best books on Time and Eternity
Carlos Eire, Historian
Interviews where books by Michael Henry Heim (translator) were recommended
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The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding) -
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut -
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Michael Henry Heim (translator) & Milan Kundera -
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A Treatise on the Difference between Temporal and Eternal
by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg -
5
From Whom God Hid Nothing
by Meister Eckhart
The best books on Time and Eternity, recommended by Carlos Eire
The best books on Time and Eternity, recommended by Carlos Eire
The Yale historian recommends some of the books of the past millennia that deal with the complicated concept of time and eternity.
The Best Political Novels, recommended by Joshua Cohen
Through the writing of political novels, writers might hope to speak against their time, says the American author Joshua Cohen. Here he selects five books in which the protagonist undergoes a political education.
