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The Autograph Hunter
"I'd managed to puncture a hole between our universe and the parallel one where all the celebrities lived." 'Effortlessly funny and human' Daily Mail Adam Andrusier spent his childhood in pursuit of autographs. After writing to every famous person he could think of, from Frank Sinatra to Colonel Gaddafi, he soon jostled with the paparazzi at stage doors and came face-to-face with the most famous people on the planet. For young Adam, autographs were a backstage pass to a world beyond his chaotic family home in Pinner, and his Holocaust-obsessed father. They provided a special connection to a world of glamour and significance lying just beyond his reach. But as Adam turned from collector to de...
Two Hitlers and a Marilyn
Adam Andrusier spent his childhood in pursuit of autographs. After writing to every famous person he could think of, from Frank Sinatra to Colonel Gaddafi, he soon jostled with the paparazzi at stage doors and came face-to-face with the most famous people on the planet. For young Adam, autographs were a backstage pass to a world beyond his chaotic family home in Pinner, and his Holocaust-obsessed father. They provided a special connection to a world of glamour and significance lying just beyond his reach. But as Adam turned from collector to dealer, learning how to spot a fake from the real deal, he discovered that in life, as in autographs, not everything is as it first appears. When your obsession is a search for the authentic, what happens when you discover fraudulence in your own family?
Feeling Jewish
In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish--even when you're not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and poignant book, Devorah Baum delves into fiction, film, memoir, and psychoanalysis to present a dazzlingly original exploration of a series of feelings famously associated with modern Jews. Reflecting on why Jews have so often been depicted, both by others and by themselves, as prone to "negative" feelings, she queries how negative these feelings really are. And as the pace of globalization leaves countless people feeling more marginalized, uprooted, and existentially threatened, she argues that such "Jewish" feelings are becoming increasingly common to us all. Ranging from Franz Kafka to Philip Roth, Sarah Bernhardt to Woody Allen, Anne Frank to Nathan Englander, Feeling Jewish bridges the usual fault lines between left and right, insider and outsider, Jew and Gentile, and even Semite and anti-Semite, to offer an indispensable guide for our divisive times.
The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
The long-awaited Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (RSE) is founded on the canonical Standard Edition (SE) translation from the German by James Strachey, while adding a new layer of revisions and translations. Conceptual and lexicographic ambiguities are clarified inextensive new annotations. Drawing on established conventions and intellectual traditions, the Revised Standard Edition supplements Freud’s writing with substantial editorial commentaries addressing controversial technical terms and translation issues through the lens of modern scholarship—a living text in dialogue with itself and the reader. The RSE also includes 56 essays and lett...
Zadie Smith
An introduction to the work of Zadie Smith, placing her fiction in a clear historical and theoretical context, and exploring her work in relation to contemporaneity and postcolonialism. Including a timeline of key dates, this guide offers an accessible reading of Smith's work and an overview of its critical reception.
Tausche zwei Hitler gegen eine Marilyn
»Schon wieder die Nazis?«, fragt Adams Mutter, wenn der Vater bereits beim Frühstück einen leidenschaftlichen Vortrag über die Verbrechen des Dritten Reichs hält. Oder im Skiurlaub dem deutschen Ehepaar stolz seine Postkartensammlung zerstörter Synagogen präsentiert. Dass er die Familie dann auch noch regelmäßig zum Israelischen Volkstanz schleift, bringt nicht nur die Mutter zur Verzweiflung. Adam jedoch weiß sich zu retten: Eine echte Berühmtheit zieht in ihren Londoner Vorort, und Adam ergattert ein Autogramm. Bald schreibt er von Sinatra bis Mandela alles an, was Rang und Namen hat, und verfällt einer Leidenschaft, die alles andere in den Schatten stellt. Eine Komödie mit Widerhaken über das Erwachsenwerden, jüdischen Familienirrwitz und das unbedingte Verlangen nach Freiheit.
On Marriage
A compulsively readable, startling, and philosophically rich book about marriage, from an acclaimed critic and filmmaker "Baum is an erudite and entertaining guide through the landscape of marriage. . . . A fascinating exploration."--Stephanie Merritt, The Guardian "As far back as our history books go, we have no record of a time preceding marriage. Isn't that an extraordinary fact?" So writes Devorah Baum in this searching and revelatory book. Marriage, for better or for worse, is how humans have organized their world and told their story. Straight, queer, coupled, single: none live outside the remit of marriage. One might as well try to live beyond language. But when confronted with the qu...
L'uomo autografo
Alex-Li Tandem è un giovane mezzo ebreo e mezzo cinese che ha sempre avuto la passione degli autografi. Li colleziona, li vende, li falsifica, e ne desidera uno: quello rarissimo di Kitty Alexander, dimenticata attrice del cinema anni Quaranta...
Love Letters
»Ich habe dich vermisst. Ich vermisse dich. Ich werde dich vermissen. Und wenn du das nicht glaubst, bist du eine langohrige Eule und Eselin.« Auf einer Dinnerparty 1922 lernt die Schriftstellerin Virginia Woolf die Autorin und gefeierte Aristokratin Vita Sackville-West kennen. Es ist der Beginn einer verzehrenden Leidenschaft und einer tiefen Freundschaft, die das literarische Schaffen beider inspiriert; eine Verbindung, die der Zeit trotzt, in der beide Frauen einander finden und erfinden und die Liebe in Kopf und Herz erforschen. Erzählt in ausgewählten Briefen und Tagebucheinträgen, ist die Geschichte von Vita und Virginia Zeugnis einer großen Liebe und des außergewöhnlichen Lebens zweier auf je eigene Weise bedeutender Frauen der Moderne.
Zwei Wochen am Meer
Voller Vorfreude bricht die Familie Stevens an die englische Südküste auf, mit sorgsam gepacktem Koffer und diesem wunderbar freien Gefühl im Bauch, wenn der Urlaub beginnt. Die geliebte Pension ist ein wenig in die Jahre gekommen, aber irgendetwas sagt Mr Stevens, dass diese Ferien die schönsten werden, die sie je hatten. Und so lassen sie sich verführen: vom Geflatter des Drachens und Cricket im warmen Sand, von einem behaglichen Glas Port und der erleuchteten Promenade am Abend. Und jeden Tag wieder lockt das Meer, das so sehr glitzert, dass man es vor Glück kaum fassen kann. Die Familie Stevens besitzt die Fähigkeit, das Dunklere, das jeder in sich trägt, zu verwandeln und die verborgene Größe des Selbstverständlichen zu genießen. Sie nimmt uns mit in einen unvergesslichen Sommer.
