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Sunset Limited : a novel in dramatic form

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  • "An encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. The two men begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing worldviews."
  • "En una habitación cerrada, un hombre negro y otro blanco mantienen una dura batalla dialéctica. El hombre blanco, un profesor de humanidades de vida acomodada, atenazado por sus propias dudas acerca de la condición humana, considera que la única salida a la miserable situación en la que se halla el ser humano es arrojarse a las vías del Sunset Limited. Ha llegado a creer que la experiencia de la felicidad es perniciosa para la condición humana. El hombre negro, sin embargo, se encuentra en el polo opuesto y ha llevado una vida marcada por la violencia, la adicción a las drogas y la cárcel. Pero a pesar de todo no ha perdido su fe. Encerrados en un debate filosófico, los dos contrincantes defienden de manera apasionada sus credos personales y tratan de convertir al otro. Ambas visiones, fundamentalmente contrarias, confluyen en esta conversación que ahonda en el vacío que se abre entre el silencio de Dios y lo inevitable de la muerte."
  • "A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made In that small apartment, "Black" and "White," as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing worldviews. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con and ex-addict, is the more hopeful of the men--though he is just as desperate to convince White of the power of faith as White is desperate to deny it. Their aim is no less than this: to discover the meaning of life."
  • "A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life-or-death decision must be made. In that small apartment, 'Black' and 'White', as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history - mining the origins of two diametrically opposing world views."

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  • "American drama"
  • "Americká dramata"
  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "Sunset Limited : a novel in dramatic form"@en
  • "The Sunset Limited a novel in dramatic form"
  • "The Sunset Limited a novel in dramatic form"@en
  • "The sunset limited"
  • "El Sunset Limited"
  • "Vlak Sunset Limited : román v dramatické formě"
  • "The Sunset Limited a novel in Dramatic Form"
  • "Sunset Limited : powieść w formie dramatu"@pl
  • "Sunset Limited : powieść w formie dramatu"
  • "El sunset limited"@es
  • "The Sunset limited : a novel in dramatic form"
  • "Sunset Limited : romanzo in forma drammatica"
  • "The sunset limited : a novel in dramatic form"
  • "The sunset limited a novel in dramatic form"
  • "The Sunset Limited : a novel in dramatic form"
  • "El Sunset limited"@es
  • "Sunset limited : romanzo in forma drammatica"@it

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