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Contemporary German Fiction
The profound political and social changes Germany has undergone since 1989 have been reflected in an extraordinarily rich range of contemporary writing. Contemporary German Fiction focuses on the debates that have shaped the politics and culture of the new Germany that has emerged from the second half of the 1990s onwards and offers the first comprehensive account of key developments in German literary fiction within their social and historical context. Each chapter begins with an overview of a central theme, such as East German writing, West German writing, writing on the Nazi past, writing by women and writing by ethnic minorities. The authors discussed include Günter Grass, Ingo Schulze, Judith Hermann, Christa Wolf, Christian Kracht and Zafer Senocak. These informative and accessible readings build up a clear picture of the central themes and stylistic concerns of the best writers working in Germany today.
Writing the Holocaust Today
Originally written in French, The Kindly Ones (2006) is the first major work of the Jewish-American author Jonathan Littell. Its extraordinary critical and commercial success, spawning a series of heated debates, has made this publication one of the most significant literary phenomena of recent years. Taking the Holocaust as its central topic, The Kindly Ones is a disturbing novel: disturbing in its use of explicit sexual descriptions, in its construction of a perverted psychic world, in its combination of accurate historical descriptions and myths, and in its repeated suggestion that Nazism does not, in fact, lie outside the spectrum of humanness. Due to its striking monumental proportions ...
Kitty's Salon
There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar Republic - the city of Cabaret. But after the Nazis took power, it became something more dangerous: a spying centre with every room wired for sound, staffed by women agents specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from their VIP clients. Masterminded by Reinhard Heydrich, the spymaster whom Hitler himself called 'the man with the iron heart', the exclusive establishment turned listening post was patronised by the Nazi leaders themselves, not knowing that hidden ears were listening. One of the last untold stories of the Second World War, Salon Kitty's sensational true history is now revealed by historians Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner and Dr Julia Schrammel. After years of painstaking research and investigation, the story they tell sheds new light on Nazi methods of control and coercion, and the way that they used and abused sex for their own perverse purposes.
The World Hitler Never Made
A fascinating 2005 study of the place of alternate histories of Nazism within Western popular culture.
Kuhls Kosmos
Silvester 1979. Als der neunzehnjährige Kuhl in einem alpinweißen Dodge Challenger R/T vorfährt und eine feudale Villa in Nassau (Bahamas) anmietet, ahnt niemand, dass er ein in Frankfurt gesuchter, aus dem Stadtteil »Kamerun« stammender Raubmörder ist. Sein bisheriges Leben beschreibt er als ein mieses, billig produziertes B-Movie, doch wie lange wird die Beute reichen, wenn man Mitglied im teuersten Golfclub wird, sich unter greise Millionäre mischt und mit Pornofilmproduzenten verkehrt? Kuhl beschließt, das Ende seines biologischen Films umzuschreiben und ihm auf einer Disco-Party einen galaktischen Showdown zu verpassen ... Kuhls Kosmos ist eine Verlierergeschichte mit absehbarem Ausgang und doch ohne die bekannten Klischees. Spannende und amüsante Episoden schildern Kuhls Werdegang. Wilde Schelmenstücke mit Rentnern, mörderische Nachtwächter, scheinbar schlaue Coups und Waffengeschäfte mit amerikanischen GIs. Amüsante Diskussionen auf dem Arbeitsamt, die eines Felix Krull würdig wären, und Filmpläne mit einem alten Pornoproduzenten, der einer Vorliebe für sehr junge Mädchen mit leuchtenden Hautunreinheiten frönt.
Fact and Fiction
Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteenth century that the divide between science and literature as disciplines first began to be defined, the contributors to this collection probe how authors from that time onwards have assessed and affected the relationship between literary and scientific cultures. Fact and Fiction's twelve essays cover a wide range of scientific disciplines, from physics and chemistry to medicine and anthropology, and a variety of literary texts, such as Erasmus Darwin's poem The Botanic Garden, George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and Goethe's Elective Affinities. The collection will appeal to scholars of literature and of the history of science, and to those interested in the connections between the two.
Chaos, Glück und Höllenfahrten
Wiglaf Droste hat Zeit seines Lebens immer wieder autobiographische Erzählungen verfasst, die verstreut veröffentlicht wurden, zusammen aber eine Schnitzeljagd durch sein wildes Leben ergeben. Wiglaf Droste nimmt einen mit auf eine Reise mit Max Goldt durch Finnland, er berichtet über seine ersten Leseauftritte in den östlichen Provinzen zusammen mit Michael Stein, über eine abenteuerliche Fahrt mit Joachim Król, Fritz Eckenga und anderen ins Old Trafford Stadion, um dem Fußballgott Jürgen Kohler zuzujubeln, über ein gekreuzigtes Kaninchen in Portugal, wo Droste mit seinem Freund Vincent Klink unterwegs war, über eine Recherche im Frankfurter Blaulichtmilieu mit Achim Greser, aber ...
Urgent
The world, in all its facets – energy crises, war, coronavirus, or climate change – concerns each and every one of us. The author of this book is no exception. He narrates how, as a young man, he was abruptly torn from a promising life with a bright career by the unexpected onset of a mental illness, which later revealed itself as bipolar disorder. His mental health struggles relentlessly pursued him until Andreas Walter realized that he could not defeat them. Since then, he has not only learned to live with his condition but also to tackle the challenges that concern us all. He provides insight into his perspective on the world in this book.
Anschwellendes Geschwätz
Essays, Erwägungen und Erledigungen, Berichte, Beleidigungen und Bagatellen: Amschwellendes Geschwätz konzentriert sich ab- und umherschweifend auf allerlei Gerede in allerlei Formen und allerlei Kultur- und sonstigen Zusammenhängen.
A Book of European Writers
A Book of European Writers A-Z By Country Published on June 12, 2014 in USA.
