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Letters to a Young Writer

par Edmund de Waal ...

Traduit par Karen Leeder ...

From the celebrated ceramic artist and author of The Hare with Amber Eyes, a tender story—unfolding in letters, poems, and images—about what it means to be an artist.This is a story about how to begin.In 1921, Edmund de Waal’s grandmother Elisabeth Ephrussi, a young student in Vienna, wrote a letter to the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke. She too was a poet, or an aspiring one, just at the beginning ... En savoir plus

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From the celebrated ceramic artist and author of The Hare with Amber Eyes, a tender story—unfolding in letters, poems, and images—about what it means to be an artist.This is a story about how to begin.In 1921, Edmund de Waal’s grandmother Elisabeth Ephrussi, a young student in Vienna, wrote a letter to the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke. She too was a poet, or an aspiring one, just at the beginning
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Franz Kafka: The Best Works

par Franz Kafka ...

This ebook compiles Franz Kafka's greatest writings, including novels, novellas, short stories and parables such as "Amerika", "The Trial", "The Metamorphosis", "The Castle", "In the Penal Colony", "A Hunger Artist" and "The Great Wall of China". This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) ... En savoir plus

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This ebook compiles Franz Kafka's greatest writings, including novels, novellas, short stories and parables such as "Amerika", "The Trial", "The Metamorphosis", "The Castle", "In the Penal Colony", "A Hunger Artist" and "The Great Wall of China". This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)
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One-Way Street

par Walter Benjamin, Greil Marcus ...

Traduit par Edmund Jephcott ...

One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature—by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, ... En savoir plus

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One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature—by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental,
... En savoir plus
Don Carlos and Mary Stuart

Traduit par Hilary Collier Sy-Quia ...

par Friedrich Schiller, Peter Oswald ...

Collections series Oxford World's Classics
Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, two of German literature's greatest dramas, deal with the timeless issues of power, freedom, and justice. Dating from 1787 and 1800 respectively, one play was written before the French Revolution, the other in its aftermath. Both dramatize periods of crisis in sixteenth-century Europe, and in doing so reflect Schiller's passionate engagement with the great themes of his ... En savoir plus

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Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, two of German literature's greatest dramas, deal with the timeless issues of power, freedom, and justice. Dating from 1787 and 1800 respectively, one play was written before the French Revolution, the other in its aftermath. Both dramatize periods of crisis in sixteenth-century Europe, and in doing so reflect Schiller's passionate engagement with the great themes of his
... En savoir plus
The Emergence of Memory

Conversations with W.G. Sebald

par W.G. Sebald ...

When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the writer, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching ... En savoir plus

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When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the writer, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching
... En savoir plus
Illuminations

Essays and Reflections

par Walter Benjamin, Leon Wieseltier ...

Traduit par Henry Zohn ...

Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century's most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic ... En savoir plus

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Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century's most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic
... En savoir plus
Letters to Milena

par Franz Kafka ...

Collections series The Schocken Kafka Library
In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair. Kafka's Czech translator, Milena Jesenska, was a gifted and charismatic twenty-three-year-old who was uniquely able to recognize Kafka's complex genius and his even more complex character. For the thirty-six-year ... En savoir plus

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In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair. Kafka's Czech translator, Milena Jesenska, was a gifted and charismatic twenty-three-year-old who was uniquely able to recognize Kafka's complex genius and his even more complex character. For the thirty-six-year
... En savoir plus
The Trial

par Franz Kafka ...

Collections series The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time - Starbooks Classics Collection
The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 but not published until 1925. One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed to neither him nor the reader. Like Kafka's other novels, The Trial was never completed, although it does include a chapter which brings the story to ... En savoir plus

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The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 but not published until 1925. One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed to neither him nor the reader. Like Kafka's other novels, The Trial was never completed, although it does include a chapter which brings the story to
... En savoir plus
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (Book Analysis)

Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

par Bright Summaries ...

Collections series BrightSummaries.com
Unlock the more straightforward side of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, which follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, who is shunned and rejected by society in spite of his incredible talent as a perfume-maker. What no one knows is that his ... En savoir plus

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Unlock the more straightforward side of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, which follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, who is shunned and rejected by society in spite of his incredible talent as a perfume-maker. What no one knows is that his
... En savoir plus
Gesammelte Werke: Gedichte + Erzählungen + Roman + Dramen + Schriften zu Kunst und Literatur

Dinglyrik, Duineser Elegien, Malte Laurids Brigge, Jenseitskritik

par Rainer Maria Rilke ...

Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Gedichte + Dramen + Erzählungen + Roman + Schriften zu Kunst und Literatur" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) war ein Lyriker deutscher Sprache. Mit seiner in den Neuen Gedichten vollendeten, von der bildenden Kunst beeinflussten Dinglyrik gilt er als einer ... En savoir plus

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Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Gedichte + Dramen + Erzählungen + Roman + Schriften zu Kunst und Literatur" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) war ein Lyriker deutscher Sprache. Mit seiner in den Neuen Gedichten vollendeten, von der bildenden Kunst beeinflussten Dinglyrik gilt er als einer
... En savoir plus
50 Obras Maestras que debes leer antes de morir

Vol.1 (Bauer Classics)

par Antonio Machado, Federico García Lorca, Gustav Meyrink, Solomon Northup, Miguel de Unamuno, Julio Verne, Mariano José de Larra, José de Espronceda, Amado Nervo, Alexander Pushkin, Francisco de Quevedo, Aristóteles, Benito Pérez Galdos, Virginia Woolf, Gustave Flaubert, Mark Twain, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hardy, Victor Hugo, Jonathan Swift, Giovanni Boccaccio, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sir Walter Scott, Jack London, Sigmund Freud, William Shakespeare, James Fenimore Cooper, Carlo Collodi, Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anne Brontë, Charles Baudelaire, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fedor Mikhaïlovitch Dostoïevski, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austen, Dante Alighieri, Alexandre Dumas, H.P. Lovecraft, Kahlil Gibran, James Joyce, Bauer Books ...

Collections Livre 1 - Los Más Vendidos en Español
Revisados y actualizados, contienen un índice de contenidos al inicio del libro que permite acceder a cada tíltulo de forma fácil y directa.La Divina Comedia por Dante AlighieriMetafísica por AristótelesSentido y Sensibiildad por Jane AustenLas Flores del Mal por Charles BaudelaireEl Decamerón por Giovanni BoccaccioAgnes Grey (Español) por Anne BrontëLas Aventuras de Pinocho por C. CollodiEl ... En savoir plus

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Revisados y actualizados, contienen un índice de contenidos al inicio del libro que permite acceder a cada tíltulo de forma fácil y directa.La Divina Comedia por Dante AlighieriMetafísica por AristótelesSentido y Sensibiildad por Jane AustenLas Flores del Mal por Charles BaudelaireEl Decamerón por Giovanni BoccaccioAgnes Grey (Español) por Anne BrontëLas Aventuras de Pinocho por C. CollodiEl
... En savoir plus
The Metamorphosis

par Franz Kafka ...

Traduit par Ian Johnston ...

One extraordinary morning changes everything forever. In The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka delivers one of the most influential and thought-provoking works of modern literature. Beginning with one of the most unforgettable openings in fiction, this remarkable novella explores the consequences of sudden transformation, inviting readers into a deeply symbolic and emotionally powerful story that ... En savoir plus

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One extraordinary morning changes everything forever. In The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka delivers one of the most influential and thought-provoking works of modern literature. Beginning with one of the most unforgettable openings in fiction, this remarkable novella explores the consequences of sudden transformation, inviting readers into a deeply symbolic and emotionally powerful story that
... En savoir plus
Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist

par Heinrich von Kleist ...

Traduit par Peter Wortsman ...

In this extraordinary and unpredictable cross-section of the work of one of the most influential free spirits of German letters, Peter Wortsman captures the breathlessness and power of Heinrich von Kleist’s transcendent prose. These tales, essays, and fragments move across inner landscapes, exploring the shaky bridges between reason and feeling and the frontiers between the human psyche and the ... En savoir plus

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In this extraordinary and unpredictable cross-section of the work of one of the most influential free spirits of German letters, Peter Wortsman captures the breathlessness and power of Heinrich von Kleist’s transcendent prose. These tales, essays, and fragments move across inner landscapes, exploring the shaky bridges between reason and feeling and the frontiers between the human psyche and the
... En savoir plus
Readings in Goethean Science

par Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Rudolf Steiner ...

An introduction to Goethes natural scientific writings, this book provides an alternative approach to a science of living nature, one that goes beyond simple numbers and measurements. Goethes development of morphological thought is a disciplined methodology that provides such an alternative. Through such observation, we can being to see the essence of living nature. Rudolf Steiner derived his ... En savoir plus

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An introduction to Goethes natural scientific writings, this book provides an alternative approach to a science of living nature, one that goes beyond simple numbers and measurements. Goethes development of morphological thought is a disciplined methodology that provides such an alternative. Through such observation, we can being to see the essence of living nature. Rudolf Steiner derived his
... En savoir plus
Le Loup des steppes d'Hermann Hesse

Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis

par Encyclopaedia Universalis ...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisDans une lettre datée du 3 janvier 1928, Thomas Mann écrit à Hermann Hesse que Le Loup des steppes (Der Steppenwolf), paru à Berlin en 1927, lui a « réappris à lire ». Ce roman, l’un des plus célèbres de l’auteur, écrit au sortir d’une crise de plusieurs années marquée par deux divorces, une dépression, un essai de psychanalyse, fut ... En savoir plus

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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisDans une lettre datée du 3 janvier 1928, Thomas Mann écrit à Hermann Hesse que Le Loup des steppes (Der Steppenwolf), paru à Berlin en 1927, lui a « réappris à lire ». Ce roman, l’un des plus célèbres de l’auteur, écrit au sortir d’une crise de plusieurs années marquée par deux divorces, une dépression, un essai de psychanalyse, fut
... En savoir plus
Maxims and Reflections

par Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...

Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills … Goethe was probably the last true ‘Renaissance Man’.Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar’s court, where he helped oversee major mining, road-building and irrigation ... En savoir plus

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Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills … Goethe was probably the last true ‘Renaissance Man’.Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar’s court, where he helped oversee major mining, road-building and irrigation
... En savoir plus
Mimésis d'Erich Auerbach

Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis

par Encyclopaedia Universalis ...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisVaste enquête consacrée, comme son sous-titre l’indique, à « la représentation de la réalité dans la littérature occidentale », Mimésis – « imitation » en grec, concept clé de la Poétique d’Aristote – fut écrit dans des conditions difficiles, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, à Istanbul, où Erich Auerbarch (1892-1957), d’origine ... En savoir plus

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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisVaste enquête consacrée, comme son sous-titre l’indique, à « la représentation de la réalité dans la littérature occidentale », Mimésis – « imitation » en grec, concept clé de la Poétique d’Aristote – fut écrit dans des conditions difficiles, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, à Istanbul, où Erich Auerbarch (1892-1957), d’origine
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Les Contes de Grimm

Les frères Grimm les plus beaux contes classiques

par Les frères Grimm ...

Un trésor littéraire intemporel :Plongez dans l'univers fascinant des frères Grimm, dont les récits intemporels continuent de captiver des générations de lecteurs. Un chef-d'œuvre incontournable de la littérature mondiale, qui enchante aussi bien les enfants que les adultes.Pour petits et grands :Cette collection ne se contente pas d'enchanter les plus jeunes, elle offre aussi aux adultes une ... En savoir plus

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Un trésor littéraire intemporel :Plongez dans l'univers fascinant des frères Grimm, dont les récits intemporels continuent de captiver des générations de lecteurs. Un chef-d'œuvre incontournable de la littérature mondiale, qui enchante aussi bien les enfants que les adultes.Pour petits et grands :Cette collection ne se contente pas d'enchanter les plus jeunes, elle offre aussi aux adultes une
... En savoir plus
The Metamorphosis

par Franz Kafka ...

in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook. The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German ungeheures Ungeziefer, literally ... En savoir plus

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in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook. The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German ungeheures Ungeziefer, literally
... En savoir plus
La Montagne magique de Thomas Mann

Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis

par Encyclopaedia Universalis ...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisPièce médiane dans l’édifice romanesque de Thomas Mann (1875-1955), située à mi-chemin des Buddenbrok (1901) et du Docteur Faustus (1947), La Montagne magique (1924) marque à la fois le nouveau départ idéologique d’un auteur qui abandonne les idées nationalistes et antidémocratiques des Confessions d’un apolitique (1918), mais aussi ... En savoir plus

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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisPièce médiane dans l’édifice romanesque de Thomas Mann (1875-1955), située à mi-chemin des Buddenbrok (1901) et du Docteur Faustus (1947), La Montagne magique (1924) marque à la fois le nouveau départ idéologique d’un auteur qui abandonne les idées nationalistes et antidémocratiques des Confessions d’un apolitique (1918), mais aussi
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Faust (Part 1&2)

Enriched edition. Part One & Two: The Tragic Tale of an Over-Ambitious Man

par Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Evan Kelley ...

Traduit par Bayard Taylor, Anna Swanwick, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 'Faust' is a groundbreaking work that delves into the themes of human desire, knowledge, and the consequences of pursuing one's ambitions. The play is a complex piece of literature that combines elements of tragedy, comedy, and romance, making it a monumental part of German literary history. Through the character of Faust, Goethe explores the limits of human knowledge ... En savoir plus

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 'Faust' is a groundbreaking work that delves into the themes of human desire, knowledge, and the consequences of pursuing one's ambitions. The play is a complex piece of literature that combines elements of tragedy, comedy, and romance, making it a monumental part of German literary history. Through the character of Faust, Goethe explores the limits of human knowledge
... En savoir plus
Par délà le bien et le mal

par Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Albert ...

En admettant que la vérité soit femme, n’y aurait-il pas quelque vraisemblance à affirmer que tous les philosophes, dans la mesure où ils étaient des dogmatiques, ne s’entendaient pas à parler de la femme ? Le sérieux tragique, la gaucherie importune qu’ils ont déployés jusqu’à présent pour conquérir la vérité étaient des moyens bien maladroits et bien inconvenants pour gagner l... ... En savoir plus

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En admettant que la vérité soit femme, n’y aurait-il pas quelque vraisemblance à affirmer que tous les philosophes, dans la mesure où ils étaient des dogmatiques, ne s’entendaient pas à parler de la femme ? Le sérieux tragique, la gaucherie importune qu’ils ont déployés jusqu’à présent pour conquérir la vérité étaient des moyens bien maladroits et bien inconvenants pour gagner l...
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Death in Venice and Other Stories

par Thomas Mann ...

Traduit par Nicola Luckhurst, Ritchie Robertson ...

Collections series Oxford World's Classics
'impossible here, absurd, depraved, ludicrous and yet sacred, still honourable, even here: "I love you!"' This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912, after which he turned to larger-scale projects. The acknowledged classic among the early shorter fiction is the novella Death in Venice, in which Mann develops a lyrical style and a ... En savoir plus

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'impossible here, absurd, depraved, ludicrous and yet sacred, still honourable, even here: "I love you!"' This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912, after which he turned to larger-scale projects. The acknowledged classic among the early shorter fiction is the novella Death in Venice, in which Mann develops a lyrical style and a
... En savoir plus
On Hitler's Mein Kampf

The Poetics of National Socialism

par Albrecht Koschorke ...

Traduit par Erik Butler ...

Collections Livre 2 - Untimely Meditations
An examination of the narrative strategies employed in the most dangerous book of the twentieth century and a reflection on totalitarian literature.Hitler's Mein Kampf was banned in Germany for almost seventy years, kept from being reprinted by the accidental copyright holder, the Bavarian Ministry of Finance. In December 2015, the first German edition of Mein Kampf since 1946 appeared, with ... En savoir plus

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An examination of the narrative strategies employed in the most dangerous book of the twentieth century and a reflection on totalitarian literature.Hitler's Mein Kampf was banned in Germany for almost seventy years, kept from being reprinted by the accidental copyright holder, the Bavarian Ministry of Finance. In December 2015, the first German edition of Mein Kampf since 1946 appeared, with
... En savoir plus

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