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Belcastro Agency is a full-service literary agency representing authors writing adult and young adult fiction. We are a passionate, hands-on, editorially-focused agency and work closely with our writers in developing manuscripts and proposals for submission. In addition, we actively manage subsidiary rights for the projects we represent including foreign translation, audio, and film/television rights.
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Who's gonna cook this food?
women, housework and healthy diet
by Bela Gil
Today, after decades of scientific research and questioning of the fast-food industry, we know that ultra-processed foods are major promoters of chronic non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, as well as contributing to the destruction of nature, since they are based on monocultures of commodities such as soy, wheat, corn and sugar cane. We also know that home cooking with fresh or minimally processed ingredients is the best option for nourishing the body, strengthening regional cultures and respecting the environment. But, as Bela Gil asks in her new book, who is going to make this food? Based on this question, the chef, presenter and activist links healthy eating, feminism and domestic work, complexifying a debate ignored by cookbooks and cooking shows. Is it the housewife, the mother, the grandmother, the wife, the migrant domestic worker, the poor black woman from the periphery who will continue to have to man the stove? And who will make her food, her family's food? In Who's going to make this food?, Bela Gil criticizes the historical devaluation of the act of cooking, which has its roots in slavery, and calls for the payment of wages for domestic work, a theme of the work of thinkers such as Silvia Federici. “Is it right that, for a few to have fresh food and be healthy and free to pursue their dreams, many others have to make do with ultra-processed products that are bad for the body and the planet - and that's when they don't go hungry?”
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August 1982Vom Narzißmus zum Objekt
by Béla Grunberger, Peter Canzler
Die in diesem Band enthaltenen Studien des Pariser Analytikers Béla Grunberger gehören zu den gewichtigen psychoanalytischen Beiträgen zum Thema Narzißmus. »Der Mensch weiß nicht, auf welchen Platz er sich stellen soll. Er ist sichtlich verwirrt und von seinem wahren Ort vertrieben, ohne ihn wiederfinden zu können. Unruhig und ohne Erfolg sucht er ihn überall in der undurchdringbaren Finsternis.« (»Pascal«)
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FictionWHY I CAN'T WRITE
How to survive in a world where you can’t pay rent, can’t afford to focus, be healthy or to remain principled. Dijana Matković tells a powerful story of searching for a room of her own in the late stages of capitalism.
by DIJANA MATKOVIĆ
It is a coming-of-age story for Generation Z. How to grow up or even live in a world where no steady jobs are available, you can’t pay your rent and can’t afford medical or living expenses. Moreover, it touches on how to be a socially engaged artist in such a world, and more so, a woman in a post-me too world? Dijana, a daughter of working-class immigrants, tells the story of her difficult childhood and adolescence, how should became a journalist and later a writer in a society full of prejudices, glass ceilings and obstacles. How she gradually became a stereotypical ‘success story’, even though she still struggles with writing, because she can’t afford a ‘room of her own’. Dijana is a daughter of working-class immigrants, who came to Slovenia in the eighties in search of a better future. The family is building a house but is made redundant from the local factory when Yugoslavia is in the midst of an economic crisis. When her parents get divorced, Dijana, her older sister and mother struggle with basic needs. She is ashamed of their poverty, her classmates bully her because of her immigrant status, but mostly because of her being ‘white trash’. In the local school she meets teachers with prejudices against immigrants, but is helped by a librarian who spots her talent. When Dijana goes to secondary school, she moves in with her older sister who lives in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Her sister is into rave culture and Dijana starts to explore experimenting with drugs, music and dance. At the secondary school, she is again considered ‘the weird kid’, as she isn’t enough of a foreigner for other immigrant kids because she is from the country, yet she isn’t Slovenian enough for other native kids. She falls even deeper into drug addiction, fails the first year of school and has to move back to live with her mother. She takes on odd jobs to make ends meet. Whilst working as a waitress she encounters sexism and sexual violence from customers and abuse from the boss. She finishes night school and graduates. She meets many ‘lost’ people of her generation along the way, who tell her their stories about precarious, minimum wage jobs, lack of opportunities, expensive rent, etc. Dijana writes for numerous newspapers but loses or quits her job, because she isn’t allowed to write the stories she wants or because of the bad working conditions or the blatant sexual harassment. Due to the high rent in the capital, Dijana has to move to the countryside to live with her mother. She feels lonely there, struggles with anxiety and cannot write a second book, because she is constantly under pressure to make a living. She realises that she must persevere regardless of the obstacles, she must follow her inner truth and by writing about it, try to create a community of like-minded people, a community of people who support each other – all literature/art is social.
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August 1977Die Seele und das Leben
Studien zum frühen Lukács
by Sándor Radnóti, Agnes Heller, Ferenc Fehér, György Márkus, Agnes Meller-Vértes
Unser Band enthält eine – durchaus empathische – Auseinandersetzung mit Werk und Person des frühen, des vormarxistischen Lukács und nimmt damit eine Thematik auf, die bis heute weitgehend Desiderat geblieben ist. Sein besonderer Reiz liegt nicht zuletzt darin, daß die einzelnen Beiträge im Licht erst jüngst aufgefundener Dokumente ein Stück der Biographie des jungen Lukács und, durchs Prisma der individuellen Lebensgeschichte gebrochen und reflektiert, zugleich ein Stück Sozialgeschichte der bürgerlichen Intelligenz im vorrevolutionären Europa aufhellen. Im Zentrum stehen Analysen von Lukács' frühen, von Neukantianismus und Lebensphilosophie gleichermaßen geprägt ästhetischen und philosophischen Entwürfen, seines »romantischen Antikapitalismus« vor 1918 und seiner Beziehung zu Irma Seidler, Ernst Bloch, Béla Balázs und Paul Ernst. Der narrative Gestus der Essays, fern jeder einsinnigen Deutung, vermittelt ein Bild vom frühen Lukács, das plastisch »lebensvoll« und prägnant in einem ist.
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March 2014In Blaubarts Burg
Anmerkungen zur Neudefinition der Kultur
by George Steiner, Friedrich Polakovics
»Verflechten sich die Wurzeln des Unmenschlichen mit denen der Hochzivilisation?« Dieser Frage hatte George Steiner sich bereits in seinen Essays über Sprache und Schweigen gestellt. In Blaubarts Burg – anspielend auf ein berühmtes Gruselmärchen und dessen Vertonung in Béla Bartóks Oper – leitet die nicht eindeutig zu beantwortende Frage zu einem Ausblick auf die Kultur der Gegenwart und Zukunft über: Die literarische Wort- und Wertekultur, die unwiederbringlich verlorengeht, wird abgelöst von einer universalen musikalischen Soundkultur und schließlich überwältigt von Naturwissenschaft und Technik. Angesichts der Unmöglichkeit, abzuschätzen, wohin eine solche Entwicklung führen mag, fühlt sich der Kulturkritiker wie Blaubarts Geliebte, als sie den Schlüssel zur letzten Tür verlangt, nachdem ihr die Öffnung der anderen Türen alle Spielarten des Schreckens vor Augen geführt hat. Zwei mögliche Haltungen bieten sich in einem solchen Moment der Nachkultur an: die grimmige Ergebung Freuds oder die »fröhliche Wissenschaft« Nietzsches.
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January 1984Schriften zum Film Band 2: Der Geist des Films
Artikel und Aufsätze 1926 - 1931
by Balázs, Béla / Herausgegeben von Diederichs, Helmut H.; Mitherausgeber Gersch, Wolfgang
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February 2018Electric Dreams
Die 10 Stories der Erfolgsserie
by Dick, Philip K. / Englisch Wohl, Bela; Englisch Timmermann, Klaus; Englisch Mohr, Thomas; Englisch Wasel, Ulrike
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September 2009Diabetes? Packen wir's an
Ein Buch für Schlaumeier
by Betschart-Roemer, Jean / Illustriert von Songer, Nancy; Übersetzt von Hagge, Wolfgang; Übersetzt von Bartus, Bela
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June 2001Grundrechte-Report 2001
Zur Lage der Bürger- und Menschenrechte in Deutschland. Ein Projekt der Gustav Heinemann-Initiative, des Komitees für Grundrechte und Demokratie und des Bundesarbeitskreises kritischer Juragruppen
by Herausgegeben von Müller-Heidelberg, Till; Herausgegeben von Finckh, Ulrich; Herausgegeben von Steven, Elke; Herausgegeben von Rogalla, Bela
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June 2003Grundrechte-Report 2003
Zur Lage der Bürger- und Menschenrechte in Deutschland
by Herausgegeben von Müller-Heidelberg, Till; Herausgegeben von Finckh, Ulrich; Herausgegeben von Steven, Elke; Herausgegeben von Rogalla, Bela; Herausgegeben von Micksch, Jürgen; Herausgegeben von Kaleck, Wolfgang; Herausgegeben von Kutscha, Martin
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May 2017Exportgut Reformation
Ihr Transfer in Kontaktzonen des 16. Jahrhunderts und die Gegenwart evangelischer Kirchen in Europa
by Herausgegeben von Grigore, Mihai-D.; Herausgegeben von Wien, Ulrich A.; Beiträge von Andersen, Svend; Beiträge von Brusanowski, Paul; Beiträge von Bünker, Michael; Beiträge von Campi, Emidio; Beiträge von Csepregi, Zoltàn; Beiträge von Fabiny, Tamas; Beiträge von Filo, Geza; Beiträge von Harasimowicz, Jan; Beiträge von Harinck, George; Beiträge von Hatzinger, Katrin; Beiträge von Hazlett, Ian; Beiträge von Hirzel, Martin; Beiträge von Ilic, Luka; Beiträge von Kato, Bela; Beiträge von Kohler, Alfred; Beiträge von Konya, Peter; Beiträge von Lienhard, Marc; Beiträge von Müller, Andreas; Beiträge von Olesen, Jens E.; Beiträge von Pech, Edwin; Beiträge von Rajsp, Vincenc; Beiträge von Schwarz, Karl W.; Beiträge von Selderhuis, Herman J.; Beiträge von Steindorff, Ludwig; Beiträge von Szegedi, Edit
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Children's & YAHERBS OF THE LITTLE WITCH
by POLONCA KOVAČ
HERBS OF THE LITTLE WITCHWritten by Polonca Kovač and illustrated by Ančka Gošnik Godec The little witch is a friendly witch, and she knows not only how to turn a mean mouse into a friendly one but also all about the magic secrets of healing herbs. This is a classic prizewinning Slovene illustrated book, which can be picked up again and again and enjoyed in all its charms great and small, including its descriptions and methods of using more than 30 healing herbs. The book Herbs of the Little Witch was selected for the Ibby Honour List 2000. Format: 23 x 29.5 cm76 pages | Age: 4+
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FictionTHE LOONY BIN ON THE HILL
by SUZANA TRATNIK
NOMINATED FOR THE KRESNIK AWARD IN 2019 (FOR THE BEST NOVEL IN SLOVENIA). THE LOONY HOUSE ON THE HILL (Norhaus na hribu) “Oh, believe me, this woman, who is still so young, did all this. She killed someone, disposed of the body and concealed it all.” This sentence in the introduction to the novel surprises us, but still does not prepare us for what follows. The main character, Ariana, whose mother disappeared when Ariana was still very little, lives in a tense, conflictive relationship with her aunt, in the remote village of Privežice. The place which, as noted by the merciless observer and commentator Ariana, appeared around the madhouse on the hill at the end of the paved road, where one of the inmates was her grandmother. What happens is not a typical love story or a typical story about getting to know oneself, although it talks precisely about this. What distinguishes this novel above all else is the lively, flowing dialogue, and the uncompromising, direct aesthetics (sometimes involving ugliness or at least uncouthness or lack of political correctness), which grabs us and takes us on a crazy adventure.
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Lugosi
by Koren Shadmi
A biography chronicling the tumultuous personal and professional life of horror icon Bela Lugosi. LUGOSI, the tragic life story of one of horror’s most iconic film stars, tells of a young Hungarian activist forced to flee his homeland after the failed Communist revolution in 1919. Reinventing himself in the U.S., first on stage and then in movies, he landed the unforgettable role of Count Dracula in what would become a series of classic feature films. From that point forward, Lugosi’s stardom would be assured...but with international fame came setbacks and addictions that gradually whittled his reputation from icon to has-been. LUGOSI details the actor’s fall from grace and an enduring legacy that continues to this day.
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Children's & YAPIMPLES, LOVE AND OTHER LIFE PROBLEMS
by URŠKA KALOPER
PIMPLES, LOVE, AND OTHER LIFE PROBLEMSWritten by Urška Kaloper During puberty, the body changes, and so does the way we experience ourselves and the world. We encounter our first loves, and the first disappointments that inevitably follow. How to cope? Ana, Nina, Miha, Luka, Nika, Eva, Maja and Tina also have a whole bunch of problems growing up, but they deal with them in a fun as well as instructive way. Pick up this book and join them! Their stories will certainly help you solve many problems. Format: 16,5 x 23,8 cm202 pages | Age: 11+
