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30 April 1945 by Alexander Kluge; Wieland Hoban (Translator)
Category: History | 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
All the Land by Jo Lendle; Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
Category: Biography | Series: The\German List Ser.
How, in 1930, did Alfred Wegener, the son of minister from Berlin, find himself in the most isolated spot on earth, attempting to survive an unthinkably cold winter in the middle of Greenland? In All the Land, Jo Lendle sets out to chronicle Wegener's extraordinary journey from his childhood in Germany ...Show more
Anselm Kiefer Notebooks Volume 1, 1998-99 by Anselm Kiefer; Tess Lewis (Translator)
Category: Art Instructional | 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)
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
BLUMENBERG by LEWITSCHAROFF SIBYLLE
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Now in paperback, from one of the most dazzling authors of contemporary German literature comes this delightful tale of a philosopher and his encounter with a supernatural lion. One night, German philosopher Hans Blumenberg returns to his study to find a shocking sight--a lion lying on the floor as if ...Show more
Collected Poems: George Trakl by Georg Trakl; James Reidel (Translator)
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)
Category: Biography | 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
December by Alexander Kluge; Gerhard Richter; Martin Chalmers (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed December, a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept photographs for the darkest month of the year. In storie ...Show more
Dispatches from Moments of Calm by Alexander Kluge; Gerhard Richter; Nathaniel McBride (Translator)
Category: Art and Design | 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)
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
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