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TUMULT by ENZENSBERGER HANS MAGNUS
Category: Biography | Series: The\German List Ser.
A collection of writings based on Enzensberger's personal experience as a left-wing sympathizer during the 1960s. Hans Magnus Enzensberger, widely regarded as Germany's greatest living poet, was already well known in the 1960s, the tempestuous decade of which Tumult is an autobiographical record. Deri ...Show more
The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr; Simon Pare (Translator)
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 Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr; Simon Pare (Translator)
Category: Man Booker International Prize | 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)
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
The Rest Is Slander - Five Stories by Thomas Bernhard; Douglas Robertson (Translator)
Category: Short Stories | Series: The\German List Ser.
A collection of previously untranslated stories from a master of twentieth-century Austrian literature, Thomas Bernhard. "The cold increases with the clarity," said Thomas Bernhard while accepting a major literary prize in 1965. That clarity was the postwar realization that the West's last remaining cu ...Show more
Ulysses - Mahler after Joyce by Nicolas Mahler; Alexander Booth (Translator)
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: The\German List Ser.
A twist on the Irish literary classic Ulysses, told through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style. Dublin, 16 June 1904: through a day in the life of the advertising agent Leopold Bloom and the sensations of the ordinary, James Joyce created a maximal book from a minimum of matter. Ulysses, ...Show more
War Diary by Ingeborg Bachmann; Jack Hamesh (Contribution by); Hans Höller (Editor, Afterword by); Mike Mitchell (Translator)
Category: Biography | Series: The\German List Ser.
Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of the most important novelists, poets, and playwrights of postwar German literature. As befitting such a versatile writer, her War Diary is not a day-by-day journal but a series of sketches, depicting the last months of World War II and t ...Show more
What Was Before by Martin Mosebach; Kári Driscoll (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Martin Mosebach's novel What Was Before opens with a young couple enjoying a moment of carefree intimacy. Then the young woman, turning slightly more serious, asks her lover that fateful question, one that sounds so innocent but carries toxic seeds of jealousy: What was your life like before you met me? ...Show more
Without Model - Parva Aesthetica by Theodor W. Adorno; Wieland Hoban (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\German List Ser.
Essays by Adorno on art and cinema, available in English for the first time. In Without Model, Theodor W. Adorno strikingly demonstrates the intellectual range for which he is known. Taking the premise of the title as his guiding principle, that artistic and philosophical thought must eschew preconcep ...Show more