Berlin Tales(1st Edition) (City Tales) 通过 Helen Constantine, LynMarven, M. Greaves Paperback, 256 页, 发布时间 2009 通过 Oxford University Press, U.S.A. ISBN-13: 978-0-19-955938-1, ISBN: 0-19-955938-4
"Berlin Tales is a collection of seventeen translated stories associated with Berlin. The book provides a unique insight into the mind of this fascinating city through the eyes of its story-tellers. Nearly twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the stories collected here reflect on the city's fascinating recent history, setting out with the early twentieth-century Berlin of Siegfried Kracauer and Alfred Doblin and culminating in ..."
"Demonstrating an unflinching insight into the internal worlds of adolescent men and women, this collection of stories presents an array of memorable characters. From a young woman seeing a dead body for the first time to a sister watching her anorexic sibling transform, this anthology delves deeply into people s lives, capturing their fears and frustrations against a backdrop of pressures at pivotal moments. In the background, an over-e ..."
Body and Narrative in Contemporary Literatures in German(1st Edition) Herta Müller, Libu%se Moníková, and Kerstin Hensel (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs) 通过 LynMarven Hardcover, 294 页, 发布时间 2005 通过 Clarendon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927776-6, ISBN: 0-19-927776-1
"This book examines the relationship between representations of the body and narrative strategies in the work of three contemporary women writers from the former Eastern Bloc countries: Herta Muller, an ethnic German from Romania; Libu%se Monikova, who emigrated from Czechoslovakia to West Germany and chose to write in German; and Kerstin Hensel, from the GDR. Marven shows how the content and form of their works are interlinked, and how ..."
Ulrike Draesner(1st Edition) A Companion (Companions to Contemporary German Culture) 通过 Karen Jane Leeder, LynMarven Paperback, 240 页, 发布时间 2018 通过 De Gruyter ISBN-13: 978-3-11-047895-2, ISBN: 3-11-047895-1
"Ulrike Draesner is a prize-winning writer of novels, short stories, critical essays and poetry, and one of the foremost authors in Germany today. While a number of volumes have been published in German on her work, the current Companion offers the first volume on Draesner in English, capitalising on the interest in her work in Germany and further afield. Introducing Draesner’s major novels and short stories, poetry collections and essa ..."
"Two music producers pack up their studio – along with their dreams of ever making it in the industry – after too many bands fail to pay their bills… A woman takes up an invitation to visit an ex-lover in Arizona, only to find his apartment is no bigger than a motel room… A former drama student runs into an old classmate from ten years before, hardly recognising the timid creature he’s become… Each character in Larissa Boehning’s debut c ..."
"This volume is a critical companion to the works of Herta Muller, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009. Muller (1953-) is a Romanian-German novelist, essayist and producer of collages whose work has been compared with that of W.G. Sebald and Franz Kafka. The Nobel Committee described her as a writer 'who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed'. In works such as ..."
"After the international success in the 1990s of authors such as Bernhard Schlink, Marcel Beyer, and Thomas Brussig, an impressive number of new German-language novelists are making a significant impact. Some, like Karen Duve, Daniel Kehlmann, and Sasa Stanisic, have achieved international recognition; some, like Julia Franck, have won major prizes; others, like Clemens Meyer, Alina Bronsky, and Ilja Trojanow, are truly "emerging authors ..."
"The novelist and essayist Libuše Moníková (1945-1998) made a unique contribution to German, Czech and world literature, writing in German from a distinctly Czech perspective in a manner which can best be described as encyclopaedic and highly intertextual. Positively received abroad, particularly in Germany and the US, her works remained until recently relatively unknown in the land of her birth. This volume, whose appearance marks wha ..."
"Eleven-year-old Elly is missing. After an extensive police search she is presumed dead, and her family must learn to live with a gaping hole in their lives. Her parents’ marriage is torn apart by grief, while her sister Ines swings between jealousy and guilt. Then, four years later, Elly reappears. Her strange behavior is initially put down to the trauma of what has happened to her, but soon her family is plagued by doubts. Elly’s grand ..."
Elly a gripping tale of grief, longing, and doubt (Hardback) 通过 Maike Wetzel, LynMarven Hardcover, 144 页, 发布时间 2020 通过 Scribe Uk ISBN-13: 978-1-912854-12-7, ISBN: 1-912854-12-0
"LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER AWARD FOR FICTION IN TRANSLATION A missing child is a nightmare for any family. But what happens when they come back? Eleven-year-old Elly is missing."
"She is co-editor of Seminar: AJournal of Germanic Studies and has published on
authors such as Herta Müller, Botho Strauß, and Ingeborg Bachmann. Book
publications ... Recent works include Stylistic Approaches to Translation (2006)
and A Critical Introduction to Translation Studies (2011), and she is the editor of
Visible Poets, a series of bilingual poetry books, for Arc Publications. Rebecca
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Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs Body and Narrative in Contemporary Literatures in German : Herta Muller, Libuse Monikova, Kerstin Hensel. Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs 通过 LynMarven 发布时间 2010 ISBN-13: 978-1-281-34593-6, ISBN: 1-281-34593-8
"After the international success in the 1990s of authors such as Bernhard Schlink, Marcel Beyer, and Thomas Brussig, an impressive number of new German-language novelists are making a significant impact. Some, like Karen Duve, Daniel Kehlmann, and Sasa Stanisic, have achieved international recognition; some, like Julia Franck, have won major prizes; others, like Clemens Meyer, Alina Bronsky, and Ilja Trojanow, are truly "emerging authors ..."