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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A fragmentary work that stands as a testament to Wolf'sÂskill as a thinker, storyteller, and memorializer of humanityâ¿s greatest struggles. Christa Wolf tried for years to find a way to write about her childhood in Nazi Germany. In her 1976 book Patterns of Childhood, she explained why it was so difficult: âGradually, over a period of months, the dilemma has emerged: to remain speechless or to live in the third person, these seem to be the options. One is impossible, the other sinister.â During 1971 and 1972 she made thirty-three attempts to start the novel, abandoning each manuscript only pages in.ÂEulogy for the Living, written over the course of four weeks, is the longest of those fragments. In its pages, Wolf recalls with crystalline precision the everyday details of her life as a middle-class grocerâ¿s daughter, and the struggles within the familyâ¿struggles common to most families, but exacerbated by the rise of Nazism. And as Nazism fell, the Wolfs fled west, trying to stay ahead of the rampaging Red Army. 136 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book brings English-language readers works by Walser in a rare form: dramolette. Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) has seen in recent years. As more of his previously little-known work has been translated into English, readers have discovered a unique writer whose off-kilter sensibility and innovations in form are perfectly suited to our fragmented, distracted, bewildering era. The short plays presented here, inspired by the German theater Walser enjoyed in his youth, while never meant to be performed, present scenes, characters, and situations that comment on the brutality of fairy tales, the impossibilities of love, the dark fate of the Christ child (and Walser himself), and more. At the same time, like all of Walser's work they are shot through with a humor that is wholly genuine despite its shades of darkness. Gathering all of Walser's plays, as well as his later, fragmentary dramatic writings, Comedies will be celebrated by the many devoted fans of this lately rediscovered master. 294 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A brief, evocative memoir from one of Indiaâ ¿s greatest writers. â Like a dazzling feather that has fluttered down from some unknown place. . . . How long will the feather keep its colours, waiting The â ¿featherâ ¿ stands for memories of childhood. Memories donâ ¿t wait.â Â In Our Sanitikentan, the late Mahasweta Devi, one of Indiaâ ¿s most celebrated writers, vividly narrates her days as a schoolgirl in the 1930s. As the aging author struggles to recapture vignettes of her childhood, these reminiscences bring to the written page not only her individual sensibility but an entire ethos. Â Santiniketan is home to the school and university founded by the foremost literary and cultural icon of India, Rabindranath Tagore. In these pages, a forgotten Santiniketan, seen through the innocent eyes of a young girl, comes to lifeâ ¿the place, its people, flora and fauna, along with its educational environment, culture of free creative expression, vision of harmonious coexistence between natural and human worlds, and the towering presence of Tagore himself. Alongside, we get a glimpse of the private Mahaswetaâ ¿her inner life, family and associates, and the early experiences that shaped her personality. Â A nostalgic journey to a bygone era, harking back to its simple yet profound valuesâ ¿so distant today and so urgent yet againâ ¿Our Santiniketan is an invaluable addition to Deviâ ¿s rich oeuvre available in English translation.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Gupta, Tanya (illustrator). Neuware - Richly illustrated in color, this book brings a charming folktale from Northeast India to a global audience. A beautiful young girl named Lengtonghoih, dearly loved by her seven brothers, is abducted by a cruel prince who intends to marry her. This enchanting story revolves around the seven brothersâ ¿ adventure to save their sister and how, instead, she saves themâ ¿with the help of mystical power and magic. While folktales from many parts of India have been widely translated into other languages and have become part of national narratives, such stories from Northeast Indiaâ ¿a greatly underrepresented, culturally rich regionâ ¿remain relatively unknown outside their own communities. This gorgeous book changes that by showcasing a traditional yet subversive folktale from the Paite people, an indigenous community from Manipur. Conceptualized by Richard Khuptong, translated by Mercy V. Guite, and beautifully illustrated in full color by Tanya Gupta, Lengtonghoih will delight children and adults alike.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Bernhardâ ¿s Collected PoemÂis a key to understanding Bernhardâ ¿s irascible black comedy found in virtually all of his writingsâ ¿even down to his last will and testament. Beloved Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard (1931â ¿89) began his career in the early 1950s as a poet. Over the next decade, Bernhard wrote thousands of poems and published four volumes of intensely wrought and increasingly personal verse, with such titles asÂOn Earth and in Hell, InÂHoraÂMortis, andÂUnder the Iron of the Moon. Bernhardâ ¿s early poetry, bearing the influence of GeorgÂTrakl, begins with a deep connection to his Austrian homeland. As his poems saw publication and recognition, Bernhard seemed always on the verge of joining the ranks ofÂIngeborgÂBachmann, PaulÂCelan, and other young post-war poets writing in German. During this time, however, his poems became increasingly more obsessive, filled with undulantÂself-pity, counterpointed by a defamatory,ÂbardicÂvoice utterly estranged from his country, all of which resulted in a magisterial work of anti-poetryâ ¿one that represents Bernhardâ ¿s own harrowing experience with his leitmotif ofÂsuccess and failure, which makes his fiction such a pleasure.ÂThere is much to be found in these pages for Bernhard fans of every stripe.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A novel of two young friends growing up on divergent paths in the last days of Communist East Germany. Â What is it like to be young and broken in a country that is on the brink of collapse This is what acclaimed poet and sound artist Ulrike Almut Sandig shows us in her debut novel, through the story of old friends Ruth and Viktor in the last days of Communist East Germany. The two central characters are inseparable since kindergarten, but they are forced to go their different ways to escape their difficult childhood: Ruth into music and the life of a professional musician; Viktor into violence and a neo-Nazi gang. Monsters Like Us is a story of families, a story of abuse, a story about the search for redemption and the ways it takes shape over generations. More than anything, it is about the stories we tell ourselves about who we are, and who we want to be. Bold, brutal, and lyrical, this is a coming-of-age novel that charts the hidden violence of the world we live in today.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reveals the forgotten history of Baghdadi Jews' journey into India through the stories of four generations of Jewish women. An invaluable cultural document shaped from personal experience, Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames explores the fascinating social and cultural history of Baghdadi Jewish women in Calcutta, India. Through the lives of her foremothers over four generations, Jael Silliman discovers how they 'dwelled in travelling' despite being widely dispersed across Asia, which created a moving geography of Baghdadi Jewish culture. She shows us how they negotiated multiple identities, including that of emergent Indian nationalism, and how they perceived and shaped their Jewishness and gender in response to changing cultural and political contexts. She also traces the trajectory of a Jewish presence in one of the most hospitable cities of the diaspora. These rich family portraits convey a sense of the singular roles women played in building and sustaining a complex diaspora in what Silliman calls 'Jewish Asia' over the past 150 years. Her sketches of the everyday lives of her foremothers-including the food they ate and the clothes they wore-bring to life a community and a culture, even as they disclose the unexpected and subtle complexities of the colonial encounter as experienced by Jewish women. Now back in print and featuring a new preface by the author, Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames will be a vital resource for those interested in Jewish histories as well as women's studies and will prove to be a fascinating narrative for a general readership as well.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of Germanyâ ¿s greatest living writers offers up an analysis (and samples) of his failed projects. Â â My dear fellow artists, whether writers, actors, painters, film-makers, singers, sculptors, or composers, why are you so reluctant to talk about your minor or major failures â With that question, Hans Magnus Enzensbergerâ ¿the most senior among Germanyâ ¿s great writersâ ¿begins his amusing ruminations on his favorite projects that never saw the light of day. There is enlightenment in every embarrassing episode, he argues, and while artists tend to forget their successes quickly, the memory of a project that came to nothing stays in the mind for years, if not decades. Triumphs hold no lessons for us, but fiascos can extend our understanding, giving insight into the conditions of production, conventions, and practices of the industries concerned, and helping novices to assess the snares and minefields in the industry of their choice. Whatâ ¿s more, Enzensberger argues, flops have a therapeutic effect: They can cure, or at least alleviate, the vocational illnesses of authors, be it the loss of control or megalomania. In Gone but Not Forgotten, Enzensberger looks back at his uncompleted experiments not just in the world of books but also in cinema, theater, opera, and journal publishing, and shares with us a â store of ideasâ teeming with sketches of still-possible projects. He also reflects on the likely reasons for these big and small defeats. Interspersed among his ruminations are excerpts from those experiments, giving readers a taste of what we missed. Together, the pieces in this volume build a remarkable picture of a versatile geniusâ ¿s range of work over more than half a century and make us reflect on the very nature of success and failure by which we measure our lives.