Κοινότητα Αναγνωστών Βιβλίων - readers.gr

An idle mind...is the Devils workshop. But he doesnt like his workplace. Hes fed up with Hell and wants to be transferred to Heaven. Things are not that simple however. To get inti Heaven, you have to take exams, difficult exams. His Angel colleague plays the Devils advocate and tries to help him. And what if he doesnt get it? Well, in that case hell go back to Hell. And well go with him on a visit. A guided tour to the innermost galleries of Hell, the hottest chambers with the most nigthmarish torture devices - a book with a truly diabolical sense of humor.

A lifer sentenced to 622 years? And the best years of his life, too! Just think how high the rents will be by the time he gets out! Because, of course, life expectancy is rising all the time... But there's worse than that. Worse than weeks of solitary confinement in complete darkness, reading "War and Peace" (in Braille) over and over again... Worse than prison cooking, the cause of innumerable riots... Worse than the doctor, who meticulously examines his patients before killing them... What could be worse than all that? It's Montecristo! In the darkest hours he is there, r...

If he'd lived in different times, he'd have been rowing in a galley or building pyramids in the desert. If he'd been a monkey, the other monkeys would have stolen his bananas. Yes, of course, it's our Lifer again, the eternal victim. He tries to make friends and they break his glasses. He escapes and they don't even need to look for him -he finds his own way back. And when he decides to go on hunger strike and rather die than eat, once again he's probably made the wrong decision: like the cook always says, "with prison grub one thing doesn't rule out the other." But don't w...

Die griechischen Mythen haben schon immer eine besondere Anziehungskraft auf die internationale Kunst ausgeubt, besonders auf die darstellenden Kunste wie das Theater und der Film. In den Mythen sind die grossten Angste und Existenzfragen des Menschen, in Bezug auf seine Herkunft und seinen Lebensweg, enthalten. Da die Mythologie schon immer in gewisserWeise archetypische und symbolische Funktion hatte, konnte sich die Filmkunst der Anziehungskraft der mythischen Helden und Gotter, ihrer Heldentaten und dem Versuch des Menschen, die Natur zu unterwerfen und sein Schicksal z...