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The New Sorrows Of Young W
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Author : Ulrich Plenzdorf
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2015-06-04
The New Sorrows Of Young W written by Ulrich Plenzdorf and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-04 with Fiction categories.
Edgar W., teenage dropout, unrequited lover, unrecognized genius - and dead - tells the story of his brief, spectacular life. It is the story of how he rebels against the petty rules of communist East Germany to live in an abandoned summer house, with just a tape recorder and a battered copy of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther for company. Of his passionate love for the dark-eyed, unattainable kindergarten teacher Charlie. And of how, in a series of calamitous events (involving electricity and a spray paint machine), he meets his untimely end. Absurd, funny and touching, this cult German bestseller, now in a new translation, is both a satire on life in the GDR and a hymn to youthful freedom.
The New Sufferings Of Young W
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Author : Ulrich Plenzdorf
language : en
Publisher: Waveland Press
Release Date : 1996-01-18
The New Sufferings Of Young W written by Ulrich Plenzdorf and has been published by Waveland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-18 with Fiction categories.
In English translation. One of the most talked-about works ever published in the German Democratic Republic! This innovative novel by an East German writer is a worthy companion to the classic it parodies and parallels: Goethes The Sufferings of Young Werther. Goethe and J. D. Salinger were the two greatest influences on Edgar Wibeau, Young W. Edgar is a 17-year-old with the frustrations of teenagers all over the world, living with the added pressures of an East-bloc state. A model all-GDR boy, the son of a factory director, he suddenly drops out. But not from socialism per sejust from conformity, picky regulations, and official disapproval of jeans, the blues, and girls. Hiding out, he finds and devours an old copy of The Sufferings of Young Werther. From then on he wards off reality with Goethe texts, and young Wibeaus fate is superimposed on that of Werther like a transparent overlay. It is an ironic and revealing linkage.
The New Sufferings Of Young W And Other Stories From The German Democratic Republic
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Author : Therese Hörnigk
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 1997-01-01
The New Sufferings Of Young W And Other Stories From The German Democratic Republic written by Therese Hörnigk and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with History categories.
The New Sufferings Of Young W
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Author : Ulrich Plenzdorf
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 1979
The New Sufferings Of Young W written by Ulrich Plenzdorf and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Fiction categories.
Edgar, a seventeen-year-old "model youth," fed up with conformity, drops out and runs away to Berlin to pursue the things he has always wanted to do
Days In The Caucasus
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Author : Banine
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2019-04-18
Days In The Caucasus written by Banine and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A scintillatingly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman's determined struggle for freedom We all know families that are poor but 'respectable'. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich but not 'respectable' at all... This is the unforgettable memoir of an 'odd, rich, exotic' childhood, of growing up in Azerbaijan in the turbulent early twentieth century, caught between East and West, tradition and modernity. Banine remembers her luxurious home, with endless feasts of sweets and fruit; her beloved, flaxen-haired German governess; her imperious, swearing, strict Muslim grandmother; her bickering, poker-playing, chain-smoking relatives. She recalls how the Bolsheviks came, and they lost everything. How, amid revolution and bloodshed, she fell passionately in love, only to be forced into marriage with a man she loathed- until the chance of escape arrived. By turns gossipy and romantic, wry and moving, Days in the Caucasus is a coming-of-age story and a portrait of a vanished world. Banine shows us what it means to leave the past behind, and how it haunts us. Banine was born Umm El-Banu Assadullayeva in 1905, into a wealthy family in Baku, then part of the Russian Empire. Following the Russian Revolution and the subsequent fall of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, Banine was forced to flee her home-country - first to Istanbul, and then to Paris. In Paris she formed a wide circle of literary acquaintances including Nicos Kazantzakis, André Malraux, Ivan Bunin and Teffi and eventually began writing herself. Days in the Caucasus is Banine's most famous work. It was published in 1945 to critical acclaim but has never been translated into English, until now.
Goethe The Sorrows Of Young Werther
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Author : Martin Swales
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1987-11-26
Goethe The Sorrows Of Young Werther written by Martin Swales and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-11-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
The tradition of the German novel, before the emergence of its 'classic' writers in the first half of the twentieth century does not have an assured place in the canon of European literature. The one signal exception is Goethe's novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
Those Who Forget
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Author : Géraldine Schwarz
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2020-09-24
Those Who Forget written by Géraldine Schwarz and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-24 with History categories.
A memoir of the past and a warning for today: the urgent account of a woman delving into her family's complicity with the Nazis during World War Two "An utterly original memoir for our times, elegant, courageous and deeply affecting" Philippe Sands, author of East West Street During the war, Géraldine Schwarz's grandparents were neither heroes nor villains – they just followed the current. Afterwards they wanted to forget, to bury it all under the wreckage of the Third Reich. But decades later, delving through the basement of their apartment building, Géraldine discovers that her grandfather Karl profited from the forced 'Aryanisation' of Jewish businesses – and so she is compelled to investigate her ancestors' past. On her mother's side, she delves into the role of her French grandfather, a policeman during the Vichy regime. How guilty were they? Combining generations of family stories with the history of Europe's post-war reckoning, Géraldine asks: how did Germans transform their collective guilt into democratic responsibility? And, given rising populism in Europe today, how can we ensure we learn from history? Géraldine Schwarz is a German-French journalist, author and documentary filmmaker based in Berlin. Those Who Forget, an account of her family's complicity with fascism, is her first book. It has been translated into eight languages and won the European Book Prize 2018, the German Winfried Preis and the Italian Nord-Sud Prize.
All My Puny Sorrows
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Author : Miriam Toews
language : en
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Release Date : 2014-04-11
All My Puny Sorrows written by Miriam Toews and has been published by Knopf Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-11 with Fiction categories.
SHORTLISTED 2014 – Scotiabank Giller Prize Miriam Toews is beloved for her irresistible voice, for mingling laughter and heartwrenching poignancy like no other writer. In her most passionate novel yet, she brings us the riveting story of two sisters, and a love that illuminates life. You won’t forget Elf and Yoli, two smart and loving sisters. Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yolandi, divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men as she tries to find true love: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. Yoli is a beguiling mess, wickedly funny even as she stumbles through life struggling to keep her teenage kids and mother happy, her exes from hating her, her sister from killing herself and her own heart from breaking. But Elf’s latest suicide attempt is a shock: she is three weeks away from the opening of her highly anticipated international tour. Her long-time agent has been calling and neither Yoli nor Elf’s loving husband knows what to tell him. Can she be nursed back to “health” in time? Does it matter? As the situation becomes ever more complicated, Yoli faces the most terrifying decision of her life. All My Puny Sorrows, at once tender and unquiet, offers a profound reflection on the limits of love, and the sometimes unimaginable challenges we experience when childhood becomes a new country of adult commitments and responsibilities. In her beautifully rendered new novel, Miriam Toews gives us a startling demonstration of how to carry on with hope and love and the business of living even when grief loads the heart.
A Little Life
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Author : Hanya Yanagihara
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2015-03-10
A Little Life written by Hanya Yanagihara and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-10 with Fiction categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
The Limits Of My Language
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Author : Eva Meijer
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2021-01-27
The Limits Of My Language written by Eva Meijer and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A beautiful and moving study of depression, in which the author draws on her personal experience of mental illness as well as her deep knowledge of philosophy, to show the issue in a new light Much has been written about the treatment of depression, but relatively little about its meaning. In this strikingly original book, Eva Meijer weaves her own experiences and the insight of thinkers from Freud to Foucault and Woolf into a moving and incisive evocation of the condition. She explores how depression can make us grow out of shape over time, like a twisted tree, how we can sometimes remould ourselves in conversation with others, and how to move on from our darkest thoughts. The Limits of My Language is both a razor-sharp analysis of depression and a steadfast search for the things great and small – from philosophy and art to walking a dog or sitting quietly with a cat – that make our lives worth living.