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Bernhard Karlgren
This book deals with the life and career of Bernhard Karlgren (1889–1978), whose research in a great variety of fields, particularly the historical phonology of the Chinese language, laid the foundations for modern western sinology. The definition ofthe term "sinology" has undergone great changes since Bernhard Karlgren entered the stage a century ago. At that time the term covered research related to the language, literature, history, thought, and intellectual aspects of early China. Since the mid-twentieth century the definition has been considerably broadened to include more modern aspects, with special emphasis on sociopolitical and economic topics. In many Chinese language departments...
Die Sippe der Setteline
In Ludwig Mayrs Buch 'Die Sippe der Setteline' taucht der Leser ein in eine faszinierende Welt voller Intrigen und Mysterien. Der Autor präsentiert eine komplexe Handlung, die durch seinen ausgefeilten Schreibstil und seinen Sinn für Details zu einem literarischen Meisterwerk wird. Mayr entwirft eine Welt, in der die Setteline-Sippe im Mittelpunkt steht, und führt den Leser durch Generationen von Familiendramen und Geheimnissen. Das Buch zeichnet sich durch seinen tiefgründigen Charakter und die subtile Darstellung zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen aus. Mayr schafft es, den Leser mit jedem Kapitel tiefer in die Geschichte hineinzuziehen und fesselt ihn bis zur letzten Seite. Ludwig Mayr, ein renommierter Schriftsteller und Experte für Familiengeschichten, hat sein Wissen und seine Leidenschaft in 'Die Sippe der Setteline' vereint. Durch seine detailreiche Recherche und sein feines Gespür für menschliche Emotionen, gelingt es Mayr, ein Buch zu schaffen, das sowohl unterhält als auch zum Nachdenken anregt. 'Die Sippe der Setteline' ist ein Meilenstein in Mayrs Karriere und ein Muss für alle, die sich für komplexe Familiensagas und psychologische Literatur interessieren.
Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989), a literary figure of international acclaim and arguably Austria's greatest post-World War II writer, became the first of his generation to expose unrelentingly his country's pathological denial of complicity in the Holocaust. Bernhard's writings and indeed his own biography reflect Austria's fraught efforts to define itself as a nation following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy and the trauma of World War II. Repeatedly he scandalized the nation with novels, plays, and public statements that exposed the convoluted ways Austrians were attempting to come to terms with their Nazi past--or defiantly avoiding doing so. This book, the first comprehensive biography...
The Novels of Thomas Bernhard
The book's primary emphasis is on Bernhard's later fiction, but it also explicates the early texts of the 1960s and 1970s. The book makes use of insights from recent approaches to fiction that pay attention to what can be termed "narrative dynamics." Earlier studies of Bernhard have tended to remain within the descriptive framework established in narrative studies of the 1950s and 1960s; this book views Bernhard's prose works from a more nuanced vantage point."--BOOK JACKET.
The Nihilism of Thomas Bernhard
This study examines the nihilistic basis of Bernhard's writing, and traces developments in the author's nihilistic stance throughout his career. In the first period of his prose fiction (1963-1975), nihilism is reluctantly accepted by Bernhard's fictional characters as a necessary response to a world perceived as meaningless. Various possible sources of transcendence are explored, and rejected. The autobiographical texts (1975-1982) then represent a sustained attempt by the author himself to transcend his own essentially nihilistic state. The apparent success of this attempt is quickly revealed to be illusory in the prose fiction of the second period (1978-1986), and it becomes apparent that nihilism is a no less necessary response to Austrian social reality than to the (more purely) personal problems which first motivated Bernhard's writing.
Bernard Berenson
Critic, arbiter of taste, renowned authority on Renaissance painting and oracle to millionaire art collectors, Bernard Berenson was the most formidable presence in the art world for more than thirty years. Four decades of his life are unfolded in this compelling book.
Steel Girders and Steeplechases
Born in 1900 in Ostre Aker, Norway, Bernhard Berntsen came to America when he was 19, settling in New York. Soon he was building skyscrapers, threading across open I-beams hundreds of feet in the air; at the same time the open steel and the men who worked there became the subjects of his oils, pastels and charcoals. Over the decades following Berntsen worked with artistic luminaries including Deigo Rivera, Suzuki and J. S. Curry and extended his vision beyond high-steel to rural landscapes of New York state, Pennsylvania and the horse country of Virginia where he spent his last years. Today his work hangs from the Royal Palace in Norway to the Vesterheim, the Iron Workers headquarters in Was...
Creativity, Holocaust, Reconstruction
A history of the Jews in Württemberg, from 1828 to 1945. Chs. 5-6 deal with antisemitism before the First World War and during the Third Reich, as well as Jewish reactions to it.
