"Stories of Mr. Keuner gathers Bertolt Brecht's fictionalized comments on politics, everyday life, and exile. Written from the late 1920s till the late 1950s, Stories of Mr. Keuner is the precipitate of Brecht's experience of a world in political and cultural flux, a world of revolution, civil war, world war, cultural efflorescence, Nazism, Stalinism, and the Cold War in short, the first half of the twentieth century.Mr. Keuner said: " ..."
Storm Still(1st Edition) (The German List) 通过 Peter Handke, MartinChalmers Paperback, 124 页, 发布时间 2018 通过 Seagull Books ISBN-13: 978-0-85742-558-4, ISBN: 0-85742-558-7
"Peter Handke, a giant of Austrian literature, has produced decades of fiction, poetry, and drama informed by some of the most tumultuous events in modern history. But even as these events shaped his work, the presence of his mother—a woman whose life spanned the Weimar Republic, both world wars, and the postwar consumer economy—loomed even larger. In Storm Still, Handke’s most recent work, he returns to the land of his birth, the Austri ..."
"Greed is another intriguing and challenging novel from Europe's cleverest, most visceral social phobic.-The ListIn her first novel published in English since becoming the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004, Elfriede Jelinek delivers a stunning and unforgettable book.Greed is the story of Kurt Janisch, an ambitious but frustrated country policeman, and the lonely women he seduces. It is a thriller set amid the mountains ..."
"December 23, Saturday evening The German offensive in the West is making
progress and depresses me greatly; nevertheless I hear on all sides (the Windes,
Stern, Katz), it should not be viewed too gloomily, it is an act of desperation,
perhaps it does not mean a postponement, but perhaps even an acceleration of
the inevitable end. Anyhow I am heavy at heart. Especially as it has turned very
cold, and our diet gets worse every day, a ..."
Prose(Reprint) (The German List) 通过 Thomas Bernhard, MartinChalmers Paperback, 180 页, 发布时间 2018 通过 Seagull Books ISBN-13: 978-0-85742-576-8, ISBN: 0-85742-576-5
"“His manner of speaking, like that of all the subordinated, excluded, was awkward, like a body full of wounds, into which at any time anyone can strew salt, yet so insistent, that it is painful to listen to him,” from The CarpenterThe Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931–89) is acknowledged as among the major writers of our time. The seven stories in this collection capture Bernhard’s distinct darkly comic voice ..."
"The setting is an idyllic Alpine village where a woman's underwear factory nestles in the woods. Two factory workers, Brigitte and Paula, dream and talk about finding happiness, a comfortable home and a good man. They realize that their quest will be as hard as work at the factory. Brigitte subordinates her feelings and goes for for Heinz, a young, plump, up-and-coming businessman. With Paula, feelings and dreams become confused. She ge ..."
I Will Bear Witness(Updated) A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941 通过 Victor Klemperer, MartinChalmers Paperback, 544 页, 发布时间 1999 通过 Modern Library Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-75378-7, ISBN: 0-375-75378-8
"The publication of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. "In its cool, lucid style and power of observation," said The New York Times, "it is the best written, most evocative, most observant record of daily life in the Third Reich." I Will Bear Witness is a work of literature as well as a revelation of the day-by-day horror of the Nazi years. ..."
"The diaries of a Jew in Nazi Germany; the most important documnet to emerge from the period since the publication of The Diary Of Anne Frank.The first of two volumes, this covers the period from Hitler's election to the beginning of the holocaust."
"From the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature! “[The Passport] has the same clipped prose cadences as Nadirs, this time applied to evoke the trapped mentality of a man so desperate for freedom that he views everything through a temporal lens, like a prisoner staring at a calendar in his cell.”âWall Street Journal “A swift, stinging narrative, fable-like in its stoic concision and painterly detail.”âThe Philadelphia Inquirer ..."
"The Silences of Hammerstein, the latest work from one of Germany’s most significant contemporary authors, engages readers with a blend of a documentary, collage, narration, and fictional interviews. The gripping plot revolves around the experiences of real-life German General Kurt von Hammerstein and his wife and children. A member of an old military family, a brilliant staff officer, and the last commander of the German army before Hit ..."
"Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature."With the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, Muller depicts the language of the dispossessed." Jury of the Nobel Prize for Literature"[Muller s] dark, closely observed and sometimes violent work often explores exile and the grim quotidian realities of life under Ceausescu. . . . Her sensibility is often bleak, but the detail in her fiction can whip it alive." New York TimesThe Pa ..."
"On April 8, 1945, several American bomber squadrons were informed that their German targets were temporarily unavailable due to cloud cover. As it was too late to turn back, the assembled ordnance of more than two hundred bombers was diverted to nearby Halberstadt. A middle-sized cathedral town of no particular industrial or strategic importance, Halberstadt was almost totally destroyed, and a then-thirteen-year-old Alexander Klug ..."
" An exceptional book. "The Times Literary Supplement " Gracefully measured, conversational and obliquely impressionistic . . . a cause for celebration." "The Irish Times"This extraordinary novel is based on a true story of the love between Rudi and Marga. Imprisoned in Auschwitz, Rudi petitions to be allowed to marry Marga and make his son legitimate. Eventually his petition is granted no one knows why. Rudi s wife and child are brought ..."
" In these 99 meditations, poet and novelist Hans Magnus Enzensberger celebrates the tenacity of the normal and routine in everyday life, where the survival of the objects we use without thinking—a pair of scissors, perhaps—is both a small, human victory and a quiet reminder of our own ephemeral nature. He sets his quotidian reflections against a broad historical and political backdrop: the cold war and its accompanying atomic threat; th ..."
""The Silences of Hammerstein", the latest work from one of Germany's most significant contemporary authors, engages readers with a blend of documentary, collage, narration, and fictional interviews. The gripping plot revolves around the experiences of real-life German General Kurt von Hammerstein and his wife and children. A member of an old military family, a brilliant staff officer, and the last commander of the German army before Hit ..."
"Scathingly clever short stories. Includes "The Devil in the White House" and "The Development of Iraq as a Case for the Files." At once a genuine story-teller and a literary documentarian, Alexander Kluge's genius lies in the very special way he makes found material his own. Each of the miniatures collected here touches on "facts" and is only several pages long. In just a paragraph he can etch a whole world: he is as great a master of c ..."
"A companion to the award-winning novel The Orphanage, Detlev's Imitations is an investigation of the limits of language; an ethnography of sexual cultures; a novel of Hamburg--and a poetic documentation of postwar German history . "Fichte is a major literary voice, distinctive and challenging."--Publishers Weekly"
""Summer Resort", the first novel by noted translator Esther Kinsky, is set in a village somewhere on the endless Hungarian plain. It is the hottest summer in memory, and everyone in the village dreams of the sweet life in Udulo, a summer resort on a river. The characters that populate "Summer Resort" tell stories - comic, tragic, or both - of life in rural Hungary. Tales of onion kings and melon pickers, of scrapyards and sugar beet fac ..."
"Scathingly clever short stories. Includes "The Devil in the White House" and "The Development of Iraq as a Case for the Files." At once a genuine story-teller and a literary documentarian, Alexander Kluge's genius lies in the very special way he makes found material his own. Each of the miniatures collected here touches on "facts" and is only several pages long. In just a paragraph he can etch a whole world: he is as great a master of c ..."