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Drilling Through Hard Boards : 133v Political Stories by Alexander Kluge; Wieland Hoban (Translator); Reinhard Jirgl (Contribution by); Iain Galbraith (Translator)
Category: Culture | 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)
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
Goethe Dies by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Fiction | Series: SB-The German List
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
In Search of Lost Time - Mahler after Proust by Nicolas Mahler; Alexander Booth (Translator)
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: The\German List Ser.
A twist on the French literary classic In Search of Lost Time told through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style. Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most important works of French literature--if not the most important. Reading it can be life-changing. Nicolas Mahler's comi ...Show more
King of China by Tilman Rammstedt ; Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
When Keith Stapperpfennig and his family give their grandfather the trip of a lifetime--an all expenses paid holiday to any destination in the world--the eccentric old man arbitrarily chooses China, and he asks Keith to accompany him. But when Keith loses all the money for the journey at a casino, he go ...Show more
Lions by Hans Blumenberg
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: German List
For distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. Lions, translated by Kari Driscoll, collects thirty-two of Blumenberg's philosophical vignettes to reveal that the figure of the lion unites two of his other great preoccupations: metaphors and anecdotes as non-philosophica ...Show more
MOKUSEI A LOVE STORY by NOOTEBOOM CEES & DIXON ADRIENNE (TRANS)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Two men talk in Tokyo. One, a Belgian, is a diplomat. The other, Dutch, is a photographer. What, they wonder, is the real face of Japan? How can they get beyond the European idea of the nation and its people--with its exoticism--and see Japan as it truly is? The Belgian has an idea: he helps the photogr ...Show more
Mr. Zed's Reflections by Hans Magnus Enzensberger; Wieland Hoban (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Any new book by poet, essayist, writer, and translator Hans Magnus Enzensberger, one of the most influential and internationally renowned German intellectuals, is cause for notice, and?Mr. Zed's Reflections?is no exception. Every afternoon for almost a year, a plump man named Mr. Zed comes to the same s ...Show more
Night Music by Theodor W. Adorno; Wieland Hoban (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | 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
Night Music: Essays on Music 1928-1962 by Theodor W. Adorno
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: SB-The German List
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 musicologi ...Show more
Old Masters: A Comedy by Thomas Bernhard
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
One Day a Year - 2001-2011 by Christa Wolf; Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: The\German List Ser.
During a 1960 interview, East German writer Christa Wolf was asked a curious question: would she describe in detail what she did on September 27th? Fascinated by considering the significance of a single day over many years, Wolf began keeping a detailed diary of September 27th, a practice which she carr ...Show more