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Austerlitzby Winfried Georg Sebald, Anthea BellISBN 0375756566 (0-375-75656-6)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Austerlitz'Book summary:Willkommen im Universum des W.G. Sebald. Der Besuch lohnt sich. Man tritt ein in den schmuckvollen Bahnhof von Antwerpen, einem Monument des belgischen Kolonialismus, wo der unbenannte Erzähler gerade mit einem Gefühl des Unwohlseins aus England ankommt. Nachdem er den großäugigen Tieren im benachbarten Nocturama einen kurzen Besuch abgestattet hat, spricht er im prunkvollen Wartesaal jenen Jacques Austerlitz an, der dort gerade zeichnet und fotografiert -- und ab nun der Held des Romans sein wird. Erst viele Jahre später und nach vielen Reisen quer durch Europa wird der -- inzwischen weiser und nachdenklicher -- gewordene Leser vor der Festung Breedonk bei Antwerpen entlassen.
Austerlitz ist ein sehr europäisches Buch, mit Aufenthalten in Wales, London, Prag, Theresienstadt, Marienbad und Paris. Ortsbeschreibungen verraten viel über die Austerlitzsche Seele. Als er in den 50er-Jahren einmal in Nürnberg aus dem Zug aussteigt und deutschen Boden betritt, beobachtet er Schuhwerk und Schweigsamkeit der vorübergehenden Menschen in den Fußgängerparadiesen. Die Architektur wird zum Seelenzustand, zu etwas, das psychologische Rückschlüsse zulässt -- für welche Art Mensch zum Beispiel haben die Architekten das Sicherheitssystem der Pariser Bibliothèque Nationale entwickelt?
Sebalds Sprache erinnert in ihrer Klarheit und Bestimmtheit gelegentlich an Thomas Bernhard, wenngleich die schlimmsten Ereignisse ohne Übertreibung beschrieben werden. Wo kommen die Waren her, die im Theresienstädter Laden auf den Tischen ausliegen? In diesem Buch ohne Kapitel oder Absätze sind Fotos ein wichtiger Bestandteil.
Statt des Exils beschreibt Sebalds Roman auf bewegende Weise die Suche nach der eigenen Vergangenheit. Wie kann Austerlitz die Heimat verlassen, wenn er sich an sie nicht erinnern kann, nicht mal weiß, wo sie gewesen ist? Der ausführliche Mittelteil des Buches beschreibt die Reise nach Prag, Theresienstadt und das dazugehörige dunkle Kapitel mitteleuropäischer Geschichte. Den Stillstand der Zeit zwischen Kindertransport (von Prag nach England, 1939, als Fünfjähriger) und der Abreise aus Prag mit wiedergefundener Identität in den 50er-Jahren.
Austerlitz versucht, "das Bild der von dem Wanderer durchquerten beinahe schon in der Vergessenheit geratenen Landschaft" heraufzubeschwören. Dabei empfindet er ein Gefühl des Widerwillens und des Ekels. Die Exkurse zu den verschiedensten Themen sind wertvolle Anregungen und wichtiger Teil dieser seelischen Landschaft. Was bleibt, ist die Frage: Werden im Nocturama nach Feierabend die Lichter eingeschaltet, damit die Tiere schlafen können? --Richard Foster [via]
Austerlitzby W. G. Sebald, Anthea BellISBN 0375504834 (0-375-50483-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Berlin Alexander Platzby Alfred DoblinISBN 080446121X (0-8044-6121-X)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Berlin Alexander Platz'Book summary:Released from jail, Franz Biberkopf tries to live an honest life, but fate is against him as he enters the world of gangsters, thieves, and young nazis in 1920s Berlin. [via]
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Clownby Heinrich Böll, Leila VennewitzISBN 014018726X (0-14-018726-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Clown'Book summary:Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schneir collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he wont marry her within the Catholic Church. The desertion triggers a searing re-examination of his lifethe loss of his sister during the war, the demands of his millionaire father and the hypocrisies of his mother, who first fought to save Germany from the Jews, then worked for reconciliation
afterwards.
Heinrich Bölls gripping consideration of how to overcome guilt and live up to idealismhow to find something to believe ingives stirring evidence of why he was such an unwelcome presence in post-War German consciousness . . . and why he was such a necessary one. [via] -
The Confusion of Young Torlessby Robert Musil, J. M. Coetzee, Shaun WhitesideISBN 0142180009 (0-14-218000-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confusion of Young Torless'Book summary:Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational undercurrents of humanity. The Confusions of Young Törless, published in 1906 while he was a student, uncovers the bullying, snobbery, and vicious homoerotic violence at an elite boys academy. Unsparingly honest in its depiction of the author's tangled feelings about his mother, other women, and male bonding, it also vividly illustrates the crisis of a whole society, where the breakdown of traditional values and the cult of pitiless masculine strength were soon to lead to the cataclysm of the First World War and the rise of fascism. A century later, Musil's first novel still retains its shocking, prophetic power.[via]More editions of The Confusion of Young Torless:
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Der Besuch Der Alten Dameby Friedrich DurrenmattISBN 0395040892 (0-395-04089-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Der Besuch Der Alten Dame'Book summary:The full German text of Dürrenmatt's play is accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context. [via]
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Die Dreigroschenoper/the Threepenny Operaby Bertolt BrechtISBN 3518030493 (3-518-03049-3)
Softcover, Suhrkamp Pub Ny
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Dog Yearsby Gunter Grass, Ralph ManheimISBN 015626112X (0-15-626112-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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El Rodaballoby Gunter GrassISBN 8420441864 (84-204-4186-4)
Softcover, Alfaguara
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Rodaballo'Book summary:The author uses nine women to help him narrate the history of humanity, from prehistoric times to the uprising of the workers of Gdansk. Hundreds of thousands of years of battles between the sexes and social classes, between progress and superstition, distributed among nine chapters that correspond to the nine-month of the pregnancy of the authors wife. [via]
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Elective Affinitiesby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, R. J. HollingdaleISBN 0140442421 (0-14-044242-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elective Affinities'Book summary:Elective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four people in an inexorable manner. The novel asks whether we have free will or not and confronts its characters with the monstrous consequences of repressing what little "real life" they have in themselves, a life so far removed from their natural states that it appears to them as something terrible and destructive. [via]
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- Elective Affinities: ISBN 0192837761 (0-19-283776-1)
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Elective Affinities: ISBN 0895269562 (0-89526-956-2)
Softcover, Gateway Books - Elective Affinities: ISBN 0140442421 (0-14-044242-1)
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- Elective Affinities: ISBN 0192837761 (0-19-283776-1)
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Faustby Martin Greenberg, Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0300068263 (0-300-06826-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust'Book summary:Goethe's Faust, Part Two is distinguished by its extraordinary range of allusion, tone, and style. Full of variety of historical scene and poetic effect, the masterpiece is at times satirical, witty, and even broadly comic, at others grand and soaring. This sparkling new translation of Faust, Part Two now affords English-language readers much of the pleasure afforded readers of the original German. Award-winning translator Martin Greenberg casts Goethe's verse in a natural, vigorous, lucid English that preserves Goethe's poetic effects while accurately rendering the sense of the original lines.
The book contains a preface by the translator that helps to bridge the abrupt transition from Part One to Part Two. The story is still that of Faust and his compact with Mephistopheles, but no longer narrowly domestic, ranging through classical Greece, medieval and modern Europe, and an exalted conclusion in a Goethean heaven.
"There is no question that Faust, Part Two is the supreme poetic masterpiece of Germany's greatest writer. Its translation demands an almost unique commitment of effort and skill, and Greenberg's forceful, congenial version may truly be called the best available". -- Cyrus Hamlin, Yale University [via]
Faustby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, David LukeISBN 0192836366 (0-19-283636-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Faust Part 2by Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0140440933 (0-14-044093-3)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust Part 2'Book summary:This is a new translation of Faust, Part Two by David Luke, whose translation of Faust, Part I was the winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize. Here, Luke expertly imitates the varied verse-forms of the original, and provides a highly readable and actable translation which includes an introduction, full notes, and an index of classical mythology. [via]
Flounderby Gunter GrassISBN 0449203492 (0-449-20349-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Flounderby Ralph Manheim, Gunter GrassISBN 0156319357 (0-15-631935-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flounder'Book summary:It all begins in the Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman at the very spot where millennia later Grass's home town, Danzig, will arise. Like the fish, the fisherman is immortal, and down through the ages they move together. As Grass blends his ingredients into a powerful brew, he shows himself at the peak of his linguistic inventiveness. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of Flounder:
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Gertrudeby Hermann Hesse, Hilda RosnerISBN 0312424639 (0-312-42463-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gertrude'Book summary:With Gertrude, Herman Hesse continues his life-long exploration of the irreconcilable elements of human existence. In this fictional memoir, the renowned composer Kuhn recounts his tangled relationships with two artistshis friend Heinrich Muoth, a brooding, self-destructive opera singer, and the gentle, self-assured Gertrude Imthor. Kuhn is drawn to Gertrude upon their first meeting, but Gertrude falls in love with Heinrich, to whom she is introduced when Kuhn auditions them for the leads in his new opera. Hopelessly ill-matched, Gertrude and Heinrich have a disastrous marriage that leaves them both ruined. Yet this tragic affair also becomes the inspiration for Kuhn's opera, the most important success of his artistic career.[via] -
Homo Faberby Max FrischISBN 3518068547 (3-518-06854-7)
Hardcover, Suhrkamp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homo Faber'Book summary:mäßige Abnutzungsspuren, etwas bestoßen, Titelblatt mit Notizen sowie dezente Anstreichungen (alles Bleistift) [via]
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Illuminationsby Walter BenjaminISBN 0805202412 (0-8052-0241-2)
Softcover, Schocken Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Illuminations'Book summary:Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's Epic Theater. Also included are his penetrating study "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and Benjamin's theses on the philosophy of history.
Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin's life in dark times. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times. [via]More editions of Illuminations:
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Joseph and His Brothersby Thomas Mann, John E. WoodsISBN 1400040019 (1-4000-4001-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joseph and His Brothers: The Story of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph In Egypt, Joseph the Provider'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winners great masterpiece is a major literary event.
Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four partsThe Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provideras a unified narrative, a mythological novel of Josephs fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. Deploying lavish, persuasive detail, Mann conjures for us the world of patriarchs and pharaohs, the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, and the universal force of human love in all its beauty, desperation, absurdity, and pain. The result is a brilliant amalgam of humor, emotion, psychological insight, and epic grandeur.
Now the award-winning translator John E. Woods gives us a definitive new English version of Joseph and His Brothers that is worthy of Manns achievement, revealing the novels exuberant polyphony of ancient and modern voices, a rich music that is by turns elegant, coarse, and sublime. [via] -
Klingsor's Last Summerby Hermann HesseISBN 0374181667 (0-374-18166-7)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Knulpby Hermann HesseISBN 0374509875 (0-374-50987-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Neverending Storyby Michael EndeISBN 0140074317 (0-14-007431-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Neverending Story'Book summary:Shy, awkward Bastian is amazed to discover that he has become a character in the mysterious book he is reading and that he has an important mission to fulfill. [via]
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- The Neverending Story: ISBN 0140386335 (0-14-038633-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Neverending Story: ISBN 0525457585 (0-525-45758-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - The Neverending Story: ISBN 0140317937 (0-14-031793-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Neverending Story: ISBN 081613751X (0-8161-3751-X)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr - The Neverending Story: ISBN 0140076190 (0-14-007619-0)
Hardcover, Penguin USA - The Neverending Story: ISBN 0385176228 (0-385-17622-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - The Neverending Story: ISBN 0606028064 (0-606-02806-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media - The Neverending Story: ISBN 0816137072 (0-8161-3707-2)
Hardcover, G.K. Hall - The Neverending Story: ISBN 0140074317 (0-14-007431-7)
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- The Neverending Story: ISBN 0140386335 (0-14-038633-5)
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Parzivalby A.T. Hatto, WolframISBN 0140443614 (0-14-044361-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parzival'Book summary:Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chretien de Troyes. It follows Parzival from his boyhood and career as a knight in the court of King Arthur to his ultimate achievement as King of the Temple of the Grail, which Wolfram describes as a life-giving Stone. As a knight serving the German nobility in the imperial Hohenstauffen period, the author was uniquely placed to describe the zest and colour of his hero's world, with dazzling depictions of courtly luxury, jousting and adventure. Yet this is not simply a tale of chivalry, but an epic quest for spiritual education, as Parzival must conquer his ignorance and pride and learn humility before he can finally win the Holy Grail. [via]
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Parzivalby Andre Lefevere, WolframISBN 082640345X (0-8264-0345-X)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parzival'Book summary:Parzival, an Arthurian romance completed by Wolfram von Eschenbach in the first years of the thirteenth century, is one of the foremost works of German literature and a classic that can stand with the great masterpieces of the world. The most important aspects of human existence, worldly and spiritual, are presented in strikingly modern terms against the panorama of battles and tournaments and Parzival's long search for the Grail. The world of knighthood, of love and loyalty and human endeavor despite the cruelty and suffering of life, is constantly mingling with the world of the Grail, affirming the inherent unity between man's temporal condition and his quest for something beyond human existence. [via]
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Parzivalby Wolfram Von EschenbachISBN 0394701887 (0-394-70188-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parzival'Book summary:Parzival, an Arthurian romance completed by Wolfram von Eschenbach in the first years of the thirteenth century, is one of the foremost works of German literature and a classic that can stand with the great masterpieces of the world. The most important aspects of human existence, worldly and spiritual, are presented in strikingly modern terms against the panorama of battles and tournaments and Parzival's long search for the Grail. The world of knighthood, of love and loyalty and human endeavor despite the cruelty and suffering of life, is constantly mingling with the world of the Grail, affirming the inherent unity between man's temporal condition and his quest for something beyond human existence. [via]
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Parzival of Wolfram Von Eschenbackby Von Eschenbach WolframISBN 0404509053 (0-404-50905-3)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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The Radetzky Marchby Joseph Roth, Nadine GordimerISBN 1585673269 (1-58567-326-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Radetzky March'Book summary:Joseph Roth's 1932 novel, The Radetzky March, starts with an accident that creates a dynasty. When an infantry lieutenant steps in front of a bullet intended for the young Franz Joseph, the Austro-Hungarian emperor rewards him with wealth, promotion, and a knighthood. Almost overnight, Joseph Trotta is "severed" from his ancestors, and his family is transformed from unremarkable soldiers and peasants living in the outer reaches of the empire to barons and high-ranking officials living near the imperial palace. As long as Franz Joseph is the Kaiser, their status is secure. But when Trotta happens upon a schoolbook account of the event that exaggerates his heroism, he is shaken:
He had been driven from the paradise of simple faith in Emperor and Virtue, Truth, and Justice, and, now fettered in silence and endurance, he may have realized that the stability of the world, the power of laws, and the glory of majesties were all based on deviousness.
As World War I approaches and the monarchy's limitations become apparent, Trotta's son and grandson become even further removed from this paradise. They continue to follow the codes of honor and duty, though such behavioral guides become pointless, even burdensome, in a world shorn of simple faith in an emperor. Trotta's grandson Carl Joseph finds his military career overwhelmed by bad horsemanship, alcohol dependency, frivolous roulette and baccarat debts, and misguided love affairs--the kinds of flaws, he thinks, that are inevitable without the self-assurance and practical knowledge that he would have gained had he earned (rather than inherited) his position. Not long ago, he thinks wistfully, his family lived as peasants "in dwarfed huts, making their wives fertile by night and their fields by day." It is here that the Trottas' demise is at its most poignant, as the focus of the narrative shifts from the loss of status to the far more devastating loss of purpose.In both style and temperament, Roth's novel stands between the 19th and 20th centuries, and the three Trottas could be seen as part of a progression that stretches back to Tolstoy's Prince Andrei and looks ahead to the Mathieu of Sartre's Les Chemins de la Liberté trilogy. Although The Radetzky March illustrates why the monarchy was doomed, and isn't blind to the new nations and ideologies on the horizon, Roth is more interested in his characters' psychology than their politics. And their central difficulty--the bewildering meaninglessness that follows the dissolution of an ideal--has been a fundamental 20th-century dilemma. The Trottas are, in Roth's stunning phrase, "homesick for the Kaiser." One need only substitute "the Chairman" or "Marxism" or "God" to understand the novel's lasting resonance. --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
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- The Radetzky March: ISBN 0879510153 (0-87951-015-3)
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Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Radetzky March: ISBN 0879515589 (0-87951-558-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Radetzky March: ISBN 0713904690 (0-7139-0469-0)
Hardcover, Allen Lane - The Radetzky March: ISBN 0879515481 (0-87951-548-1)
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- The Radetzky March: ISBN 0879510153 (0-87951-015-3)
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The Radetzky Marchby Joachim Neugroschel, Joseph Roth, Alan BanceISBN 0679451005 (0-679-45100-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Radetzky March'Book summary:Joseph Roth's 1932 novel, The Radetzky March, starts with an accident that creates a dynasty. When an infantry lieutenant steps in front of a bullet intended for the young Franz Joseph, the Austro-Hungarian emperor rewards him with wealth, promotion, and a knighthood. Almost overnight, Joseph Trotta is "severed" from his ancestors, and his family is transformed from unremarkable soldiers and peasants living in the outer reaches of the empire to barons and high-ranking officials living near the imperial palace. As long as Franz Joseph is the Kaiser, their status is secure. But when Trotta happens upon a schoolbook account of the event that exaggerates his heroism, he is shaken:
He had been driven from the paradise of simple faith in Emperor and Virtue, Truth, and Justice, and, now fettered in silence and endurance, he may have realized that the stability of the world, the power of laws, and the glory of majesties were all based on deviousness.
As World War I approaches and the monarchy's limitations become apparent, Trotta's son and grandson become even further removed from this paradise. They continue to follow the codes of honor and duty, though such behavioral guides become pointless, even burdensome, in a world shorn of simple faith in an emperor. Trotta's grandson Carl Joseph finds his military career overwhelmed by bad horsemanship, alcohol dependency, frivolous roulette and baccarat debts, and misguided love affairs--the kinds of flaws, he thinks, that are inevitable without the self-assurance and practical knowledge that he would have gained had he earned (rather than inherited) his position. Not long ago, he thinks wistfully, his family lived as peasants "in dwarfed huts, making their wives fertile by night and their fields by day." It is here that the Trottas' demise is at its most poignant, as the focus of the narrative shifts from the loss of status to the far more devastating loss of purpose.In both style and temperament, Roth's novel stands between the 19th and 20th centuries, and the three Trottas could be seen as part of a progression that stretches back to Tolstoy's Prince Andrei and looks ahead to the Mathieu of Sartre's Les Chemins de la Liberté trilogy. Although The Radetzky March illustrates why the monarchy was doomed, and isn't blind to the new nations and ideologies on the horizon, Roth is more interested in his characters' psychology than their politics. And their central difficulty--the bewildering meaninglessness that follows the dissolution of an ideal--has been a fundamental 20th-century dilemma. The Trottas are, in Roth's stunning phrase, "homesick for the Kaiser." One need only substitute "the Chairman" or "Marxism" or "God" to understand the novel's lasting resonance. --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
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Ratby Gunter Grass, Ralph ManheimISBN 015675830X (0-15-675830-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Ratby Ralph Manheim, Gunter GrassISBN 0151759200 (0-15-175920-0)
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Rings of Saturnby W. G. Sebald, Michael HulseISBN 0811214133 (0-8112-1413-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rings of Saturn'Book summary:In August 1992, W.G. Sebald set off on a walking tour of Suffolk, one of England's least populated and most striking counties. A long project--presumably The Emigrants, his great anatomy of exile, loss, and identity--had left him spent. Initially his tour was a carefree one. Soon, however, Sebald was to happen upon "traces of destruction, reaching far back into the past," in a series of encounters so intense that a year later he found himself in a state of collapse in a Norwich hospital.
The Rings of Saturn is his record of these travels, a phantasmagoria of fragments and memories, fraught with dizzying knowledge and desperation and shadowed by mortality. As in The Emigrants, past and present intermingle: the living come to seem like supernatural apparitions while the dead are vividly present. Exemplary sufferers such as Joseph Conrad and Roger Casement people the author's solitude along with various eccentrics and even an occasional friend. Indeed, one of the most moving chapters concerns his fellow German exile--the writer Michael Hamburger.
"How is it that one perceives oneself in another human being, or, if not oneself, then one's own precursor?" Sebald asks. "The fact that I first passed through British customs thirty-three years after Michael, that I am now thinking of giving up teaching as he did, that I am bent over my writing in Norfolk and he in Suffolk, that we both are distrustful of our work and both suffer from an allergy to alcohol--none of these things are particularly strange. But why it was that on my first visit to Michael's house I instantly felt as if I lived or had once lived there, in every respect precisely as he does, I cannot explain. All I know is that I stood spellbound in his high-ceilinged studio room with its north-facing windows in front of the heavy mahogany bureau at which Michael said he no longer worked because the room was so cold, even in midsummer..."
Sebald seems most struck by those who lived or live quietly in adversity, "the shadow of annihilation" always hanging over them. The appropriately surnamed George Wyndham Le Strange, for example, remained on his vast property in increasing isolation, his life turning into a series of colorful anecdotes. He was "reputed to have been surrounded, in later years, by all manner of feathered creatures: by guinea fowl, pheasants, pigeons and quail, and various kinds of garden and song birds, strutting about him on the floor or flying around in the air. Some said that one summer Le Strange dug a cave in his garden and sat in it day and night like St. Jerome in the desert."
In Sebald's eyes, even the everyday comes to seem extraterrestrial--a vision intensified in Michael Hulse's beautiful rendition. His complex, allusive sentences are encased in several-pages-long paragraphs--style and subject making for painful, exquisite reading. Though most often hypersensitive to human (and animal) suffering and making few concessions to obligatory cheeriness, Sebald is not without humor. At one point, paralyzed by the presence of the past, he admits: "I bought a carton of chips at McDonald's, where I felt like a criminal wanted worldwide as I stood at the brightly lit counter, and ate them as I walked back to my hotel." The Rings of Saturn is a challenging nocturne, and the second of Sebald's four books to appear in English. The excellent news is that his novel Vertigo is already slated for translation. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Rosshaldeby Hermann Hesse, Ralph ManheimISBN 0312422296 (0-312-42229-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rosshalde'Book summary:Hermann Hesse's Rosshalde is the classic story of a man torn between obligations to his family and his longing for a spiritual fulfillment that can only be found outside the confines of conventional society.[via]
Johann Veraguth, a wealthy, successful artist, is estranged from his wife and stifled by the unhappy union. Veraguths love for his young son and his fear of drifting rootlessly keep him bound within the walls of his opulent estate, Rosshalde. Yet, when he is shaken by an unexpected tragedy, Veraguth finally finds the courage to leave the desolate safety of Rosshalde and travels to India to discover himself anew. -
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilkeby Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen MitchellISBN 0679722017 (0-679-72201-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke ; Edited and Translated by Stephen Mitchell ; with an Introduction by Robert Hassby Stephen Mitchell, Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0394716361 (0-394-71636-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Simplicissimusby Johann Jacob Grimmelshausen, Mike MitchellISBN 1903517427 (1-903517-42-7)
Softcover, Dedalus Ltd
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Sonnets To Orpheusby Rainer Maria Rilke, Herter NortonISBN 0393328856 (0-393-32885-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sonnets To Orpheus'Book summary:Written with astonishing rapidity in two weeks of February 1922, when Rilke was finally completing the Duino Elegies that had occupied him intermittently for a decade, Sonnets to Orpheus is a series of fifty-five brilliant and affirmative songs. It is in a sense a spontaneous creative dividend generated by a larger work. Because the sonnets were written only four years before Rilke's death, they belong properly to his final and philosophic period, and offer a sharp and striking contrast to the less mystical Das Buch der Bilder and Neue Gedichte.[via]
Rainer Maria Rilke was one of Germany's most important poets. His influences include the paintings of the Worpswedders and the French Impressionists, the sculpture of Rodin (to whom he was both friend and secretary), and the poetry of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarmé, and other symbolists. His poetry is innovative, enigmatic, and entertainingly idiosyncratic. C.F. MacIntyre's translations are both true to the original and poetic in their own right, and in each book he includes an introduction and notes. German text faces the English translation.More editions of Sonnets To Orpheus:
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Sonnets To Orpheusby Stephen Mitchell, Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0671557084 (0-671-55708-4)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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Sonnets To Orpheusby Willis Barnstone, Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 1590301528 (1-59030-152-8)
Softcover, Shambhala Pubns
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The Threepenny Operaby Bertolt BrechtISBN 0413390306 (0-413-39030-6)
Softcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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The Threepenny Operaby Kurt WeillISBN 080215039X (0-8021-5039-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Threepenny Operaby Ralph Manheim, Bertolt Brecht, John WillettISBN 1559702524 (1-55970-252-4)
Softcover, Arcade Pub
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Threepenny Opera: Methuen Student Editionby Bertolt Brecht, John WillettISBN 041377452X (0-413-77452-X)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Threepenny Opera: Methuen Student Edition'Book summary:This Student Edition of Brecht's satire on the capitalist society of the Weimar Republic features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text. It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature.[via]
Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. It focuses on the feud between Macheaf - an amoral criminal - and his father in law, a racketeer who controls and exploits London's beggars and is intent on having Macheaf hanged. Despite the resistance by Macheaf's friend the Chief of Police, Macheaf is eventually condemned to hang, until in a comic reversal the queen pardons him and grants him a title and land. With Kurt Weill's unforgettable music - one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz to the theatre - it became a popular hit throughout the western world.
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Visitby Friedrich DurrenmattISBN 0802130666 (0-8021-3066-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Visit'Book summary:Dürrenmatt once wrote of himself: I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness, and The Visit is a consummate, alarming Dürrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo. The play takes place somewhere in Central Europe and tells of an elderly millionairess who, merely on the promise of her millions, swiftly turns a depressed area into a boom town. But the condition attached to her largesse, which the locals learn of only after they are enmeshed, is murder. Dürrenmatt has fashioned a macabre and entertaining parable that is a scathing indictment of the power of greed.[via] 
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeshipby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Eric A. BlackallISBN 3518029630 (3-518-02963-0)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Young Torlessby Robert Musil, Eithne Wilkins, Ernst KaiserISBN 0394710150 (0-394-71015-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Besuch Der Alten Dameby Friedrich DurrenmattISBN 0415051401 (0-415-05140-1)
Softcover
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Der Butt: Romanby Gunter GrassISBN 3472860693 (3-472-86069-3)
Hardcover, Luchterhand
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Frischs Homo Faberby Walter SchmitzISBN 3518385283 (3-518-38528-3)
Hardcover, Suhrkamp
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Goethe, Faust IIby Helmut KobligkISBN 3425063588 (3-425-06358-8)
Hardcover, M. Diesterweg
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Illuminationen: Ausgew. Schriftenby Walter BenjaminISBN 3518068458 (3-518-06845-8)
Hardcover, Suhrkamp
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Joseph Und Seine Bruderby Thomas MannISBN 3103481047 (3-10-348104-7)
Hardcover, S. Fischer
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joseph Und Seine Bruder'Book summary:Endlich wieder: Thomas Manns Josephsromane in einem Band!
Thomas Mann hat mit seiner vierbändigen Joseph-Geschichte einen der größten mythischen Romane des 20. Jahrhunderts geschrieben. Aus einer kurzen biblischen Erzählung entwickelt der Autor ein episches Gemälde, das durch szenischen Reichtum, durch seine menschlichen Figuren, seinen Humor und seine Weisheit gleichermaßen begeistert. Insgesamt 17 Jahre hat Thomas Mann an seinem Opus magnum gearbeitet, bis 1943 der letzte Band erschien.
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Der Kaukaisische Kreiderkreisby Bertolt BrechtISBN 3518100319 (3-518-10031-9)
Softcover, Suhrkamp Verlag
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Radetzkymarsch: Romanby Joseph RothISBN 3423017155 (3-423-01715-5)
Hardcover, Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag
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Die Rattinby Gunter GrassISBN 3472866241 (3-472-86624-1)
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Die Schlafwandler: E. Romantrilogieby Hermann BrochISBN 3518024914 (3-518-02491-4)
Hardcover, Suhrkamp
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Die Unendliche Geschichte: Von A Bis Zby Michael Ende, Roswitha QuadfliegISBN 3522128001 (3-522-12800-1)
Hardcover, Thienemann
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Die Verlorene Ehre Der Katharina Blum: Oder, Wie Gewalt Entstehen Und Wohin Sie Fuhren Kann Erzahlungby Heinrich BollISBN 3462010336 (3-462-01033-6)
Hardcover, Kiepenheuer & Witsch
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LA Historia Interminableby Michael Ende, Miguel SaenzISBN 9681902548 (968-19-0254-8)
Softcover, Aguilar
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Historia Interminable'Book summary:Small Bastian is nobody's idea of a hero; but in an ancient, mysterious book, he discovers an enchanted world only he can save. It begins as a "will-o'-the-wisp" goes to ask the Childlike Empress for help against the Nothing, which is spreading all over. The Empress is ill, which may be the cause of the Nothing. She then reveals that the only thing that can save Fantastica is a human child, who must give her a new name to restart the cycle of life. Thus, Bastian re-names the Empress 'Moon Child'; and helps re-build Fantastica with his imagination. Description in Spanish: El Reino de la Fantasia esta en un serio peligro: pronto va a desaparecer sin que sus habitantes puedan evitarlo. Solo hay un ser que podria ayudarles. Un nino llamado Bastian. Un nino que habita al otro lado, en la realidad. Lanzandose a una mravillosa aventura que cambiara para siempre su vida y la de sus peculiares companeros de fatigas -el valiente guerrero Atreyu y un dragon de la suerte volador-, Bastian y todo aquel que quiera acompanarle comprenderan que el destino de todos los seres esta unido y que si fantasia se extingue con ella se ira toda la inocencia del mundo, todas las esperanzas, suenos e ilusiones. [via]
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La Historia Interminable/ Neverending Storyby Michael Ende, Roswitha QuadfleigISBN 8420432261 (84-204-3226-1)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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