The memoir widely viewed as the best account ever written of fighting in WW1 A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, Storm of Steel illuminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war, seen through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier. Young, tough, patriotic, but also disturbingly self-aware, Junger exulted in the Great War, which he saw not just as a great national conflict but--more importantly--as a unique personal struggle. Leading raiding parties, defending trenches against murderous British incursions, simply enduring as...
The memoir widely viewed as the best account ever written of fighting in WW1 A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, <...
Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the great works in classical literature, and a primary source for our knowledge of much of classic mythology, in which the relentless theme of transformation stands as a primary metaphor for the often cataclysmic dynamics of life itself. For this book, British poets Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun have invited more than forty leading English-language poets to create their own idiomatic contemporary versions of some of the most famous and notorious myths from the Metamorphoses.
Apollo and Daphne, Pyramus and Thisbe, Proserpina, Marsyas,...
Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the great works in classical literature, and a primary source for our knowledge of much of classic mythology,...
C]aptures and encapsulates Europe in those uncertain hours before the upheaval of a continent and the annihilation of a civilization."--Cynthia Ozick, author of Quarrel and Quandary " A] writer well worth adding to the short list of giants such as Thomas Mann, Elie Wiesel, and Primo Levi."--Hadassah Magazine, Sanford Pinsker
C]aptures and encapsulates Europe in those uncertain hours before the upheaval of a continent and the annihilation of a civilization."--Cynthia ...
The Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for "What I Saw," a book that has become a classic with five hardcover printings. Glowingly reviewed, "What I Saw" introduces a new generation to the genius of this tortured author with its "nonstop brilliance, irresistible charm and continuing relevance" (Jeffrey Eugenides, "New York Times Book Review"). As if anticipating Christopher Isherwood, the book re-creates the tragicomic world of 1920s Berlin as seen by its greatest journalistic eyewitness. In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent...
The Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for "What I Saw," a book that has become a classic with five hardcov...
The San Francisco Chronicle said Hofmann s sleek translation does a wonderful job and The New York Times concurred: Anything by Kafka is worth reading again, especially in the hands of such a gifted translator as Hofmann. "
The San Francisco Chronicle said Hofmann s sleek translation does a wonderful job and The New York Times concurred: Anything by Kafk...
Die Literatur der DDR und was aus ihr wurde. Das Lexikon informiert uber das literarische Leben und die Kulturpolitik in der ehemaligen DDR. Es nimmt wichtige Autoren und Institutionen, zentrale Stromungen und Gattungen, literarische Debatten und kulturpolitische Ereignisse in den Blick. Systemkonforme Schriftsteller werden ebenso berucksichtigt wie systemkritische und diejenigen, die das Land verliessen. Auch die weitere Entwicklung von in der DDR geborenen Autoren nach 1989 wird verfolgt."
Die Literatur der DDR und was aus ihr wurde. Das Lexikon informiert uber das literarische Leben und die Kulturpolitik in der ehemaligen DDR. Es nimmt ...
