Mueller takes an unflinching look at the alienation and complexity of a rapidly changing Eastern Europe, focusing on a group of young friends in Ceaucescu's Romania.
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, JA1/4nger exulted in the Great War, which he saw not just as a great national conflict ...
This never-before-translated masterpiece is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front.
"A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-44" is the haunting memoir of a young German soldier on the Russian front during World War II. Willy Peter Reese was only twenty years old when he found himself marching through Russia with orders to take no prisoners. Three years later he was dead. Bearing witness to-and participating in ...
This fanciful novel, a tribute to Roth's beloved Vienna, was first published in 1939, and is based on an incident in 1873 when the Shah of Persia was visiting Europe. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
This groundbreaking anthology will serve as the standard for years to come. Editor Michael Hofmann has assembled brilliant translations of the major German poets, from Rilke and Brecht to Durs Grunbein and Jan Wagner, in an approachable, readable, and endlessly interesting collection. Here we find poetry as a living counter-force to socio ...
1942, at the Eastern Front. Soldiers crouch in horrible holes in the ground, mingling with corpses. Tunneled beneath a radio mast, German soldiers await the order to blow themselves up. Russian tanks, struggling to break through enemy lines, bog down in a swamp, while a German runner, bearing messages from headquarters to the front, scrambles ...
Kafka's first novel is the picaresque comic tale of a young man who disgraces himself in a sexual fiasco and is sent away to Amerika by his embarrassed parents--a fantastical Amerika that existed only in Kafka's imagination.
Michael Hofmann's poems have been widely admired, notably for their gift of compressed and vividly pointed reportage, and the collision course of words and dictions that his poetry characteristically provokes. His subject matter has been equally individual, including his remarkable and complex series of 'father-poems', his subtle portraiture of ...
Seventeen stories by Joseph Roth (1894-1939), the author of THE RADETSKY MARCH. Works include "Station Fallmerayer," "The Triumph of Beauty," and "The Leviathan."
Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu's reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young students, each of whom has left the impoverished provinces for the city in search of better prospects. Any hope they may have had for themselves and their future is dashed because the city, no less than the countryside, bears ...
Visceral, raw, singular, and distinctive, "Frost" is the story of a friendship between a young man at the beginning of his medical career and a painter who is entering his final days. A writer of world stature, Thomas Bernhard combined a searing wit and an unwavering gaze into the human condition. "Frost" follows an unnamed young Austrian who ...
Novelist and journalist Joseph Roth (1894-1939) brought both professions to bear in this collection of reports from his time in Paris in the 1920s. Often drunk, usually excited by what he saw, always admirably lucid and wise, Roth describes Paris and its environs in his own very individual way--and at a time before it changed forever.
Originally published in 1953 in Germany, THE HOTHOUSE tells the story of the last days of a Bundestag member who is tortured by what he sees as the materialistic values and general amorality of postwar Germany. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
Based on the life of Walt Disney, this acerbic novel begins in 1966, with Disney's return to his home town in Missouri, and looks skeptically at his career accomplishments. The author emphasizes the fact that Disney himself was far from a creative genius, and that many of his achievements were the work of others. The novel concentrates on one such ...
It is Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the nervous Frau Rosenthal, the bullying Hitler loyalists, the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming working-class couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Then the Quangels ...
Kathrine is a young Norwegian woman living in a tiny town on a fjord. When her difficulties with her cold and brutal husband increase, she flees to Paris, where she has a passionate affair that awakens her to what she never knew she could have. Peter Stamm has written a quietly lovely little novel about self-discovery--a story that seems old ...
Banned by the Nazis in 1936 for its frank sexual themes, Koeppen's novel is set during the carabet-era of Weimar Germany and centres on Sibylle - a stunning seductress who balances her love affairs with five men at once - and Friedrich, the callow, melancholic youth who obsessively pursues her.
From dross to gold, an enchanting tale of love is spun. Goethe, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Tolstoy, Einstein... all praised the writings of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), a mathematician, physicist and astronomer by profession, and an aphorist and satirist on the sly. In Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl , ...
A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Notorious for a misspent life full of binges, blackouts, and unimaginable bad luck, Malcolm Lowry managed, against every odd, to complete and publish two novels, one of them, "Under the Volcano," an indisputable masterpiece. At the time of his death in 1957, Lowry also left behind a great deal of uncollected and ...
A new novel of artful understatement about mortality, estrangement, and the absurdity of life from the acclaimed author of Unformed Landscape and In Strange Gardens On a day like any other, Andreas changes his life. When a routine doctor's visit leads to an unexpected prognosis, a great yearning takes hold of him--but who can tell if it is ...
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.
Rilke, Sachs, Brecht, Celan: German has produced some of the giants of 20th-century European poetry. In this new selection, complete with many new translations, Michael Hofmann guides us through the poems, poets and themes of German verse. Meticulously researched but eminently approachable, The Faber Book of 20th-Century German Poems is an ...
With the precision of a surgeon, Peter Stamm cuts to the heart of the fragile and revealing moments of everyday life. They are bankers, students, mothers, or retirees. They live in New York City or somewhere in Switzerland, they work in London or Riga, they cross paths in a Fado bar in Lisbon. They breathe the banal routine of daily life. It is ...
Arturo Di Stefano is an anomaly in the modern art world: a figurative painter when the prevailing orthodoxy favors neo-conceptualism and other non-figurative movements. His work -- drawing on literary sources as diverse as The Odyssey and The Waste Land -- engages in a dialogue with the past while remaining utterly contemporary in its methods and ...
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