In der zweiten Halfte des 19. Jahrhunderts beginnt Deutschland, seinen 'Platz an der Sonne' zu erobern. Wahrend die deutsche Kolonialgeschichte in Afrika jedoch ein vergleichsweise kurzes Intermezzo bleibt, das nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg mit den Versailler Vertragen seinen unruhmlichen politischen Abschluss findet, floriert der Afrika-Diskurs auf literarischer und kultureller Ebene bis in die Gegenwart hinein und lauft anderen Projektionsraumen des Fremden/Exotischen - gerade in der jungsten Vergangenheit - den Rang ab. Wie haben sich deutsche Diskurse uber Afrika und Afrikaner vom spaten 19....
In der zweiten Halfte des 19. Jahrhunderts beginnt Deutschland, seinen 'Platz an der Sonne' zu erobern. Wahrend die deutsche Kolonialgeschichte in Afr...
In this series, contemporary poets select and introduce a poet of the past who they have particularly admired. By their selection and personal and critical reactions, they offer an insight into their own work, as well as providing an introduction to some of the greatest poets in history.
In this series, contemporary poets select and introduce a poet of the past who they have particularly admired. By their selection and personal and cri...
Michael Hofmann, a much-praised contributor to Poetry Introduction 5, was born in Germany in 1957 but brought up in Britain. Nights in the Iron Hotel, which won the author a Cholmondeley Award in 1984, is his first full-length volume. This book deals with his life and work.
Michael Hofmann, a much-praised contributor to Poetry Introduction 5, was born in Germany in 1957 but brought up in Britain. Nights in the Iron Hotel,...
After returning from a pleasant holiday with his wife, Astrid, and their two children, Thomas walks out the front door. Thomas walks up the street. Thomas keeps walking. Astrid gradually realizes that her husband has not just gotten up early to go to work. She waits for as long as she can and then puts as much energy as she can into trying to find him - coming to understand, along the way, that there is little she can do if Thomas is striving to stay lost. In precise and hypnotic prose that cuts as cleanly as a scalpel, To the Back of Beyond is a novel that takes away the safe...
After returning from a pleasant holiday with his wife, Astrid, and their two children, Thomas walks out the front door. Thomas walks up the street. Th...
A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect, is brought together in this collection with the rest of his works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Contemplation, a collection of his earlier short studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America; and an eyewitness account of an air display. Together, these stories, fragments and miniature...
A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the s...
Christoph, a middle-aged writer, has a story to share with Lena, a young actress. A long time ago, he was in a relationship with a woman called Magdalena, who was also an actress. Lena is currently in a relationship with a man called Chris, who is also a writer. As the two talk, it becomes clear that the two relationships contain echoes, similarities, and coincidences too remarkable to be called coincidences. Are Chris and Lena doomed to repeat Christoph and Magdalena's broken relationship, or are Christoph and Magdalena a warning from the future? Who really exists? Is there such a thing as...
Christoph, a middle-aged writer, has a story to share with Lena, a young actress. A long time ago, he was in a relationship with a woman called Magdal...
