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Buch, Hörbücher:
Biographien von Schriftstellern
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Conversations with Derek Walcott (Literary Conversations Series)Herausgeber: William Baer
Taschenbuch, 01.04.1996
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Teacher Man: A MemoirAutor: Frank McCourt
Taschenbuch, 04.09.2006
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André Müller im Gespräch mit Thomas BernhardAutor: André Müller
Gebundene Ausgabe, ..1992
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Von ganzem Herzen ... Die Briefe mit Illustrationen ihrer Zeit. So lebte die Schriftstellerin: ihre Korrespondenz mit engen Vertrauten und ihrer Schwester Cassandra Austen. Frauenleben im Regency.Autoren: Jane Austen, Penelope Hughes-Hallett
Gebundene Ausgabe, 23.09.2021
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Klaus Mann: Ein LebenAutor: Thomas Medicus
Gebundene Ausgabe, 16.04.2024
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NovalisAutor: Hermann Kurzke
Taschenbuch, 23.02.2001
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Daily Rituals Women at Work: How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to WorkAutor: Mason Currey
Taschenbuch, 15.10.2020
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Franz Kafka: Der ewige SohnAutor: Peter-André Alt
Gebundene Ausgabe, 24.08.2023
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The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History (Harper Perennial)Jonathan FranzenTaschenbuchThis book delivers the intimate memoir of Franzens growth from a "small and fundamentally ridiculous person, " through an excruciating and strangely happy adolescence, and into his adult life with embarrassing and unexpected passions. 208 pp. 75, 000 print. |
Die halbe Wahrheit: Keine Autobiographie (detebe)W. Somerset MaughamTaschenbuchVierundsechzigjährig und längst berühmt, begibt sich W. Sommerset Maughamauf die Suche nach dem eigenen Standort und eröffnet seinen Lesern in diesem Buch zum erstenmal seine private Gedankenwelt. ' Die halbe Wahrheit' istein Spektrum jener Themen, die das Leben dieses ' Weltbestsellers, des Auflagenmillionärs' Der Spiegel geprägt haben Maughams Überlegungen zu Literatur, Kunst, Musik, Philosophie, Theater und Kino, seine Erfahrungen als Arzt, Spionund Schriftsteller. Es ist auch die Darstellung von Maughams Wesen als Künstler und die Deutung seines Lebensentwurfes. |
Werke. Berner Ausgabe: Band 12: ProsastückeRobert WalserTaschenbuchDie einzelnen Bände der Berner Ausgabe erscheinen fortlaufend. Sie enthalten neben zuverlässig edierten Texten auch ein Nachwort, Informationen zu Überlieferung, Entstehung und Rezeption sowie Stellenkommentare. Prosastücke (1916) sind das konsequenteste Werk eines großen " Miniaturisten", der virtuos mit wechselnden Formen, Themen und Stilen arbeitet. Diese Textsammlung Robert Walsers wurde bisher wenig beachtet. Hier wird sie erstmals als separater Band ediert. |
After Kathy Acker: A BiographyChris KrausTaschenbuch |
Heinrich von Kleist: BiographieGünter BlambergerTaschenbuch |
Sherlock Unlocked: Little-known Facts About the World's Greatest DetectiveDaniel SmithGebundene Ausgabe |
The Road to Middle-earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien Created a New MythologyTom ShippeyTaschenbuchThe definitive guide to the origin of J. R. R. Tolkien's books, from The Hobbit to The History of Middle-earth series - includes unpublished Tolkien extracts and poetry. The Road to Middle-Earth is a fascinating and accessible exploration of J. R. R. Tolkien's creativity and the sources of his inspiration. Tom Shippey shows in detail how Tolkien's professional background led him to write The Hobbit and how he created a work of timeless charm for millions of readers. He discusses the contribution of The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales to Tolkien's great myth-cycle, showing how Tolkien's more 'complex' works can be read enjoyably and seriously by readers of his earlier books, and goes on to examine the remarkable 12-volume History of Middle-earth by Tolkien's son and literary heir Christopher Tolkien, which traces the creative and technical processes through which Middle-earth evolved. The core of the book, however, concentrates on The Lord of the Rings as a linguistic and cultural map, as a twisted web of a story, and as a response to the inner meaning of myth and poetry. By following the routes of Tolkien's own obsessions - the poetry of languages and myth - The Road to Middle-earth shows how Beowulf, The Lord of the Rings, Grimm's Fairy Tales, the Elder Edda and many other works form part of a live and continuing tradition of literature. It takes issue with many basic premises of orthodox criticism and offers a new approach to Tolkien, to fantasy, and to the importance of language in literature. This new edition is revised and expanded, and includes a previously unpublished lengthy analysis of Peter Jackson's film adaptations and their effect on Tolkien's work. |
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics)Thomas De QuinceyTaschenbuchI took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!' Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a fascination with drug use and abuse that has continued from his day to ours. In the Confessions De Quincey invents recreational drug taking, but he also details both the lurid nightmares that beset him in the depths of his addiction as well as his humiliatingly futile attempts to renounce the drug. Suspiria de Profundis centres on the deep afflictions of De Quincey's childhood, and examines the powerful and often paradoxical relationship between drugs and human creativity. In ' The English Mail-Coach', the tragedies of De Quincey's past are played out with horrifying repetitiveness against a backdrop of Britain as a Protestant and an imperial power. This edition presents De Quincey's finest essays in impassioned autobiography, together with three appendices that are highlighted by a wealth of manuscript material related to the three main texts. A B O U T T H E S E R I E S: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. |
Werke. Berner Ausgabe: Band 6: Der GehülfeRobert WalserTaschenbuchDie einzelnen Bände der Berner Ausgabe erscheinen fortlaufend. Sie enthalten neben zuverlässig edierten Texten auch ein Nachwort, Informationen zu Überlieferung, Entstehung und Rezeption sowie Stellenkommentare. Der Gehu lfe (1908) ist der meistgelesene Roman von Robert Walser. Er gilt außerdem als ein Schlüsseltext der europäischen Angestelltenliteratur des Fin de Siècle. In der Modellstadt Bärenswil leben die mehr oder weniger modernen Nachfahren von Gottfried Kellers " Leuten von Seldwyla". Die Hauptfigur, ein Arbeit suchender Kontorschreiber, trifft auf einen als Unternehmer scheiternden Erfinder. Während der subalterne Gehülfe von Anfang an um seine Austauschbarkeit weiß, kämpft sein " Prinzipal" noch um sein auf ein Hauswesen und einen freien Beruf gestütztes Ansehen. |
Kafka's Last Trial: The Strange Case of a Literary LegacyBenjamin BalintTaschenbuch' A highly entertaining story of literary friendship, epic legal battles and cultural politics centred on one of the most enigmatic writers of the 20th century . . . An exquisitely human drama peopled with an eccentric cast of characters that beautifully evokes the early days of Israel, the sadness of the exiles, and the long shadow cast by the Holocaust. ' Financial Times When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfil the writer's last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod took them with him to Palestine in 1939, and devoted the rest of his life to editing and canonizing Kafka's work. By betraying his last wish, Brod twice rescued his legacy - first from physical destruction, and then from obscurity. Balint offers a gripping account of the contest for ownership that followed, ending in Israeli courts with a controversial trial - brimming with legal, ethical, and political dilemmas - that would determine the fate of Kafka's manuscripts. This is at once a biographical portrait of a literary genius, and the story of two countries whose national obsessions with overcoming the traumas of the past came to a head in a hotly contested trial for the right to claim the literary legacy of one of our modern masters. In Kafka's Last Trial, Ben Balint tells the gripping and fascinating stories of Kafka's papers, of Germany and Israel, and of Kafka himself. ' A legal and philosophical black comedy of the first water, complete, like all the best adventure stories, with a physical treasure to be won or lost . . . Deep yet entertaining. ' Spectator |
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