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30 April 1945 by Alexander Kluge; Wieland Hoban (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: The\German List Ser.
April 30, 1945, marked an end of sorts in the Third Reich. The last business day before a national holiday and then a series of transfers of power, April 30 was a day filled with contradictions and bewildering events that would forever define global history. It was on this day that while the Red Army oc ...Show more
Anselm Kiefer Notebooks Volume 1, 1998-99 by Anselm Kiefer; Tess Lewis (Translator)
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Category: Art | Series: The\German List Ser.
"For a long time, it was not clear if I would become a writer or an artist," says Anselm Kiefer, whose paintings and sculptures have made him one of the most significant and influential artists of our time. Since he was awarded the Peace Prize by the German Book Trade in 2008, his essays, speeches, and ...Show more
August by Christa Wolf ; Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Having grown up during the Nazi regime, she and her family were forced to flee their home like many others, nearly starving to death in the process. Her earliest novels were controversial because they contai ...Show more
Collected Poems: George Trakl by Georg Trakl; James Reidel (Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: The\German List - (Seagull Titles CHUP) Ser.
The work of poet Georg Trakl, a leading Austrian-German expressionist, has been praised by many, including his contemporaries Rainer Maria Rilke and Else Lasker-Schüler, as well as his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein, who famously wrote that while he did not truly understand Trakl's poems, they had the tone ...Show more
Correspondence: Paul Celan Ingeborg Bachman by Paul Celan; Ingeborg Bachmann; Wieland Hoban (Translator)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: The\German List Ser.
Paul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of post-World War II German literature's most important novelist ...Show more
Dispatches from Moments of Calm by Alexander Kluge; Gerhard Richter; Nathaniel McBride (Translator)
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Category: Art | Series: The\German List Ser.
On October 5, 2012, the German national newspaper Die Welt published its daily issue--but things looked . . . different. Quieter. The sensations of the day, forgotten as soon as they're read, were missing, replaced with an unprecedented calm, extracted with care from the chaos of the contemporary.That c ...Show more
Drilling Through Hard Boards : 133v Political Stories by Alexander Kluge; Wieland Hoban (Translator); Reinhard Jirgl (Contribution by); Iain Galbraith (Translator)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: The\German List Ser.
Max Weber famously described politics as "a strong, slow drilling through hard boards with both passion and judgment." Taking this as his inspiration, Alexander Kluge brings readers yet another literary masterpiece. Drilling through Hard Boards is a kaleidoscopic meditation on the tools available to tho ...Show more
Goethe Dies by Thomas Bernhard; James Reidel (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
This collection of four stories by the writer George Steiner called "one of the masters of European fiction" is, as longtime fans of Thomas Bernhard would expect, bleakly comic and inspiringly rancorous. The subject of his stories vary: in one, Goethe summons Wittgenstein to discuss the Tractatus Logico ...Show more
Night Music by Theodor W. Adorno; Wieland Hoban (Translator)
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Category: Film & Music | Series: The\German List Ser.
Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, he began his career as a composer and successful music critic. Night Music presents the first complete English translations of two collections of texts compiled by German philosopher and musicolo ...Show more
Old Masters: A Comedy by Thomas Bernhard
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters has been called his "most enjoyable novel" by the New York Review of Books. It's a wild satire that takes place almost entirely in front of Tintoretto's White-Bearded Man, on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, as two typically Viennese pedants (serving as alter egos f ...Show more
The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr; Simon Pare (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
In a publishing world that is all too full of realist novels written in undistinguished prose, discernible only by their covers, The Flying Mountain stands out--if for no other reason than that it consists entirely of blank verse. And that form is most suitable for the epic voyage Christoph Ransmayr rel ...Show more
The Great Fall by Peter Handke; Krishna Winston (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
"On the day of the Great Fall he left nothing, nothing at all behind." The latest work by Peter Handke, one of our greatest living writers, chronicles a day in life of an aging actor as he makes his way on foot from the outskirts of a great metropolis into its center. He is scheduled to receive a presti ...Show more