Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Understanding Uwe Johnson
An overview of the work of Uwe Johnson, concentrating on five of his novels, including Ingrid Babendererde and Two Views. A chapter dedicated to his life describes the themes that concerned Johnson in his scandalized existence in both Germanys, the USA and Great Britain.
Anniversaries
A landmark of 20th Century literature about New York in the late 1960s, now in English for the first time. Late in 1967, Uwe Johnson set out to write a book that would take the unusual form of a chapter for every day of the ongoing year. It would be the tale of Gesine Cresspahl, a thirty-four-year-old single mother who is a German émigré to Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and of her ten-year-old daughter, Marie—a story of work and school, of friends and lovers and the countless small encounters with neighbors and strangers that make up big-city life. An everyday tale, but also a tale of the events of the day, as gleaned by Gesine from The New York Times: Johnson could hardly foresee the c...
German History and German Identity
Uwe Johnson's major novel, Jahrestage, is recognized as one of the most important and ambitious works of post-war German literature. The core to this novel is remembrance, and Jahrestage is a stunning requiem for the victims of twentieth-century German history. D.G. Bond concentrates on the text, analysing the novel and the calendar form of this work, and paying particular attention to the ways in which even the minutest details of Johnson's narrative reveal its historical themes. The author discusses Johnson's poetics, offers readings of his other major works, and considers the most recent trends in Johnson reception. He shows how an uncompromising view of German identity after the crimes of the Third Reich constitutes the very heart of Johnson's work.
Anniversaries: April 1968-August 1968
A landmark of 20th Century literature about New York in the late 1960s, now in English for the first time. As a novel, Uwe Johnson's masterpiece, Anniversaries, is at once daringly simple in conception and wonderfully complex and engaging in effect. Late in 1967, Johnson, already one of the most celebrated German novelists of his generation, set out to write a book that would take the form of an entry for every day of the year that lay ahead. The first section was dated August 20, and Johnson had of course no idea what the year would bring--that was part of the challenge--but he did have his main character--Gesine Cresspahl, a German emigre living on the Upper West Side of New York City and ...
Internationales Uwe-Johnson-Forum
Beiträge zum Werkverständnis und Materialien zum Rezeptionsgeschichte.
Anniversaries, Volume 1
The first volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2018 by The New York Times critics. Published to great acclaim as a two-part boxed set in 2018, Anniversaries is now available as two individual volumes. It is August 1967, and Gesine Cresspahl, born in Germany the year that Hitler came to power, a survivor of war, of Soviet occupation, and of East German Communism, has been living with her ten-year-old daughter, Marie, in New York City for six years. Mother and daughter find themselves caught up in the countless stories of the world around them: stories of work and school and their neighborhood, with its shifting and varied cast of char...
Johnson-Jahrbuch 29/2023
Das Johnson-Jahrbuch versammelt die Ergebnisse der aktuellen Forschung zu Uwe Johnsons Werk und Leben. In diesem Band wird der Briefwechsel zwischen Johnson und Hermann Lenz näher beleuchtet. Zweimal wird nach dem Zusammenhang zwischen dem Kulturellen Kalten Krieg und »Jahrestage« gefragt - mit Blick auf die Biografie, im Hinblick auf den Roman. Es werden die Ergebnisse der Uwe Johnson-Tagung »Johnson edieren« und die Inszenierungen von Johnsons Romanen in Dresden und Leipzig vorgestellt. Mit Beiträgen u.a. von: Ulrich Fries, Uwe Neumann, Gregor Baszak, Rainer Paasch-Beeck u. a.
Beyond the Zeus Principle
A comprehensive and concise survey of the role familial allegiances play in the French, American, and German novel (with emphasis on the latter), specifically focusing on literary images of the father, of the mother, and of the child, and their interaction in the literary image of the family. Twelve major authors are discussed in detail, spanning four literary periods: Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, and contemporary literature, with emphasis on the contemporary. It further addresses not only the mainstream literature but also three distinct minority discourses in German literature: feminist, homosexual, and Jewish. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
2022/2023
Die bewährte Dokumentation der zeitgenössischen deutschsprachigen Literaturszene umfasst über 9.000 Einträge lebender Verfasserinnen und Verfasser schöngeistiger Literatur in deutscher Sprache: Adressen, Lebensdaten, Mitgliedschaften, Auszeichnungen sowie 140.000 Veröffentlichungen; im Anhang u. a.: Übersetzer, Verlage, Literaturpreise, Fachverbände, Literaturhäuser, Zeitschriften, Agenturen; Festkalender, Nekrolog, geographische Übersicht.
The Sea View has me Again
Towards the end of 1974, a stranger arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at the bar in the Napier Tavern, drinking lager and smoking Gauloises while flicking through the pages of the Kent Evening Post. "Charles" was the name he offered to his new acquaintances. But this unexpected immigrant was actually Uwe Johnson, originally from the Baltic province of Mecklenburg in the GDR, and already famous as the leading author of a divided Germany. What caused him to abandon West Berlin and spend the last nine years of his life in Sheerness, where he eventually completed his great New York novel Anniversaries in a house overlooking the...
