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A Man in Love

Author : Martin Walser
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628728744
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book A Man in Love written by Martin Walser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Colm Toibin’s The Master and Michael Cunningham’s The Hours, a witty, moving, tender novel of impossible love and the mysterious ways of art. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is so famous his servant auctions off snippets of his hair and children and adults recite from his many works by memory. When he was a young poet, his first novel, a story of love and romantic fervor ending in suicide, was an international blockbuster that set off a wave of self-inflicted deaths across Europe. Now seventy-three, sought after and busy with scientific pursuits and responsibilities to the Grand Duke, he has fallen in love with a nineteen-year-old, Ulrike von Levetzov. Infatuated, at the spa in Marienbad, he seeks her out. They exchange glances, witty words. In the social swirl, they find each other. On the promenade, they parade together arm in arm. Time spent away from her is sleepless, and when they kiss, it is in the “Goethian” way, from his books: a matter of souls, not mouths or lips. And yet, his years fail him. At an afternoon tea party, a younger man tries to seduce her. At a costume ball, he collapses. When he proposes nonetheless, Ulrike and her mother are already preparing to leave. Caught in a storm of emotion and torn between despair and unwillingness to give up hope, he begins an elegy in his coach as he pursues her: “The Marienbad Elegy,” one of his last great works.

New Critical Perspectives on Martin Walser

Author : Frank Pilipp
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781879751675
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book New Critical Perspectives on Martin Walser written by Frank Pilipp and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1994 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical essays on contemporary German novelist. Martin Walser (born 1927) is one of the most prolific contemporary German novelists, and one with a place in world literature. His work provides an astute critical commentary in novelistic form on postwar Germany. The present volume comprises essays by eleven Walser experts on various aspects of his writings, with concentration on the novels of the last 15 years, books such as Runaway Horse (1978), The Inner Man (1979), The Swan Villa(1980), Letter to Lord Liszt (1982), and In Defense of Childhood (1991). Parallels and influences discussed in these studies include Schiller, Richardson, Hofmannsthal, Kafka, Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust, Updike, Brecht, and Walter Kempowski.

Runaway Horse

Author : Martin Walser
Publisher : New York : Holt, Rinehart, Winston
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Runaway Horse written by Martin Walser and published by New York : Holt, Rinehart, Winston. This book was released on 1980 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The accidental reunion of two men, former schoolmates, and their wives in a lakeside resort leads to a comparison of memories, an awkward intimacy, and a moment of terrible, yet exhilarating liberation.

A Gushing Fountain

Author : Martin Walser
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628725443
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book A Gushing Fountain written by Martin Walser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appearing for the first time in English, this masterful novel by one of the foremost figures of postwar German literature is an indelible portrait of Nazism slowly overtaking and poisoning a small town. Semi-autobiographical, it is also a remarkably vivid account of a childhood fraught with troubles, yet full of remembered love and touched by miracle. In a provincial town on Lake Constance, Johann basks in the affection of the colorful staff and regulars at the Station Restaurant. Though his parents struggle to make ends meet, around him the world is rich in mystery: the attraction of girls; the power of words and his gift for music; his rivalry with his best friend, Adolf, son of the local Brownshirt leader; a circus that comes to town bringing Anita, whose love he and Adolf compete to win. But in these hard times, with businesses failing all around them and life savings gone in an instant, people whisper that only Hitler can save them. As the Nazis gradually infiltrate the churches, the school, the youth organizations—even the restaurant—and come to power, we see through Johann’s eyes how the voices of dissent are silenced one by one, until war begins the body count that will include his beloved older brother. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

The Unicorn

Author : Martin Walser
Publisher : Calder Publications Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Unicorn written by Martin Walser and published by Calder Publications Limited. This book was released on 1971 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Burden of the Past

Author : Thomas A. Kovach
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571133687
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book The Burden of the Past written by Thomas A. Kovach and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English translation, analysis, and contextualization of Walser's notorious but little-examined Peace-Prize speech and related writings. The German novelist Martin Walser's 1998 speech upon accepting the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade remains a milestone in recent German efforts to come to terms with the Nazi past. The day after the speech, Ignatz Bubis, leader of Germany's Jewish community, attacked Walser for inciting dangerous right-wing sentiment with controversial passages including the notorious statement "Auschwitz is not suited to be a moral bludgeon," thus igniting the protracted public battle of opinions known as the "Walser-Bubis Debate." The speech continues to loom large in Germany's struggle to acknowledge responsibility for Nazi crimes yet escape a suffocating burden of remembrance. But in spiteof its notoriety, little attention has been paid to what the speech actually says, as opposed to the public outcry and debate that followed it. This book presents the text of the speech, along with several of Walser's other essays and speeches about the Holocaust and its impact on German identity, in English translation. It examines them as texts, a process that involves a discussion of literary complexities and an attempt to distinguish valid criticism of German intellectual life from what is justifiably problematic. And it places this textual examination in the context of Walser's and other postwar German intellectuals' attempts to deal with the Nazi past, of German-Jewish relations in the postwar era, and of the once hidden and now -- due in part to Walser's speech -- increasingly open discourse about Germans as victims during and immediately after the Nazi era. Thomas A. Kovach is Professorof German Studies at the University of Arizona.

German Culture and the Uncomfortable Past

Author : Helmut Schmitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351933825
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book German Culture and the Uncomfortable Past written by Helmut Schmitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the question of the role of the past in the shaping of a contemporary identity, this volumes spans three generations of German and Austrian writers and explores changes and shifts in the aesthetics of Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past). The purpose of the book is to assess contemporary German literary representations of National Socialism in a wider context of these current debates. The contributors address questions arising from a shift over the last decade, triggered by a generation change-questions of personal and national identity in Germany and Austria, and the aesthetics of memory. One of the central questions that emerges in relation to the Hitler youth generation is that of biography, as examined through Günter Grass' and Martin Walser's conflicting views on the subject of National Socialism. Other themes explored here are the conflict between the post-war generations and the contributions of that conflict to (West)-German mentality, and the growing historical distance and its influence on the aesthetics of representation.

Essays on Twentieth-century German Drama and Theater

Author : Hellmut H. Rennert
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820444031
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Twentieth-century German Drama and Theater written by Hellmut H. Rennert and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles by both German literature specialists and German theater experts grew out of the Comparative Drama Conference held annually between February and March from 1977 to 1999 in Gainesville, Florida. At the center of the contributors' work is the productive tension between the literary and the performance aspects of German drama and theater. At the same time, the reception is truly American, since the German playwrights, directors, theorists, and dramatists discussed have gone through creative filters in the researching, performing, and teaching of German drama and theater on various campuses across the United States during the last third of the twentieth century.

Eye on Europe

Author : Deborah Wye
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 13 : 9780870703713
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Eye on Europe written by Deborah Wye and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2006 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing and vibrant study of an innovative and lesser-known facet of contemporart art. Identifies significant strategies exploited by European artists to extend their aesthetic vision within the mediums of prints, books and multiples. Exploring commercial techniques, confrontational approaches and language and the expressionist impulse. Showcases the creativity being channelled into printed art by todays generation.

Beyond 1989

Author : Keith Bullivant
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571810373
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Beyond 1989 written by Keith Bullivant and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the opening up of the East in the autumn of 1989 claims were being made, on the one hand, that German literature had never, in fact, been divided, while others were proclaiming the end of East and West German literatures as they had existed, and the beginning of a new era.

Text

Author : W. S. Hill
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472111947
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Text written by W. S. Hill and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another volume in the distinguished annual

The Novel in German since 1990

Author : Stuart Taberner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139499882
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Novel in German since 1990 written by Stuart Taberner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diversity is one of the defining characteristics of contemporary German-language literature, not just in terms of the variety of authors writing in German today, but also in relation to theme, form, technique and style. However, common themes emerge: the Nazi past, transnationalism, globalisation, migration, religion and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and identity. This book presents the novel in German since 1990 through a set of close readings both of international bestsellers (including Daniel Kehlmann's Measuring the World and W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz) and of less familiar, but important texts (such as Yadé Kara's Selam Berlin). Each novel discussed in the volume has been chosen on account of its aesthetic quality, its impact and its representativeness; the authors featured, among them Nobel Prize winners Günter Grass, Elfriede Jelinek and Herta Müller demonstrate the energy and quality of contemporary writing in German.

Another Country

Author : Jan-Werner Müller
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300083880
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (838 download)

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Download or read book Another Country written by Jan-Werner Müller and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book not only examines changing notions of nationhood and their complicated relationship to the Nazi past but also charts the wider history of the development of German political thought since World War II, while critically reflecting on some of the continuing blind spots among German writers and thinkers.

Futurity

Author : Amir Eshel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226924955
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Futurity written by Amir Eshel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When looking at how trauma is represented in literature and the arts, we tend to focus on the weight of the past. In this book, Amir Eshel suggests that this retrospective gaze has trapped us in a search for reason in the madness of the twentieth century’s catastrophes at the expense of literature’s prospective vision. Considering several key literary works, Eshel argues in Futurity that by grappling with watershed events of modernity, these works display a future-centric engagement with the past that opens up the present to new political, cultural, and ethical possibilities—what he calls futurity. Bringing together postwar German, Israeli, and Anglo-American literature, Eshel traces a shared trajectory of futurity in world literature. He begins by examining German works of fiction and the debates they spurred over the future character of Germany’s public sphere. Turning to literary works by Jewish-Israeli writers as they revisit Israel’s political birth, he shows how these stories inspired a powerful reconsideration of Israel’s identity. Eshel then discusses post-1989 literature—from Ian McEwan’s Black Dogs to J. M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year—revealing how these books turn to events like World War II and the Iraq War not simply to make sense of the past but to contemplate the political and intellectual horizon that emerged after 1989. Bringing to light how reflections on the past create tools for the future, Futurity reminds us of the numerous possibilities literature holds for grappling with the challenges of both today and tomorrow.

Volume 12, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art

Author : Jon Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351875264
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Volume 12, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art written by Jon Stewart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Kierkegaard is primarily known as a philosopher or religious thinker, his writings have also been used extensively by literary writers, critics and artists worldwide who have been attracted to his creative mixing of genres, his complex use of pseudonyms, his rhetoric and literary style, and his rich images, parables, and allegories. The goal of the present volume is to document this influence in different language groups and traditions. Tome I explores Kierkegaard’s influence on literature and art in the Germanophone world. He was an important source of inspiration for German writers such as Theodor Fontane, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Alfred Andersch, and Martin Walser. Kierkegaard’s influence was particularly strong in Austria during the generation of modernist authors such as Rudolf Kassner, Karl Kraus, Robert Musil, and Hermann Broch. Due presumably in part to the German translations of Kierkegaard in the Austrian cultural journal Der Brenner, Kierkegaard continued to be used by later figures such as the novelist and playwright, Thomas Bernhard. His thought was also appropriated in Switzerland through the works of Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt. The famous Czech author Franz Kafka identified personally with Kierkegaard’s love story with Regine Olsen and made use of his reflections on this and other topics.

Kierkegaard Bibliography

Author : Peter Šajda
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351653598
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard Bibliography written by Peter Šajda and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture

Author : John Sandford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136816100
Total Pages : 1258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture written by John Sandford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 1,100 entries written by an international group of over 150 contributors, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture brings together myriad strands of social, political and cultural life in the post-1945 German-speaking world. With a unique structure and format, an inclusive treatment of the concept of culture, and coverage of East, West and post-unification Germany, as well as Austria and Switzerland, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture is the first reference work of its kind. Containing longer overviews of up to 2,000 words, as well as shorter factual entries, cross-referencing to other relevant articles, useful further reading suggestions and extensive indexing, this highly useable volume provides the scholar, teacher, student or non-specialist with an astonishing breadth and depth of information.