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Holderlin by Peter Weiss; John Swan (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\German List Ser.
The work of German poet Frederich Hölderlin (1770-1843) has inspired countless poets and philosophers from Paul Celan to Rainer Maria Rilke to Martin Heidegger and Friedrich Nietzsche. Yet, despite the international renown and respect his hymns and elegies have since earned for their lyric style and inn ...Show more
In Field Latin by Lutz Seiler; Alexander Booth (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\German List Ser.
Lutz Seiler grew up in the former East Germany and has lived most of his life outside Berlin. His poems, not surprisingly, are works of the border, the in-between, and the provincial, marked by whispers, weather, time's relentless passing, the dead and their ghosts. It is a contemporary poetry of landsc ...Show more
King of China by Tilman Rammstedt ; Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
When Keith Stapperpfennig and his family give their grandfather the trip of a lifetime--an all expenses paid holiday to any destination in the world--the eccentric old man arbitrarily chooses China, and he asks Keith to accompany him. But when Keith loses all the money for the journey at a casino, he go ...Show more
Lions by Hans Blumenberg; Kári Driscoll (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The\German List Ser.
For distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. Lions, translated by K ri Driscoll, collects thirty-two of Blumenberg's philosophical vignettes to reveal that the figure of the lion unites two of his other great preoccupations: metaphors and anecdotes as non-philosophica ...Show more
Ludwig's Room by Alois Hotschnig; Tess Lewis (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
When Kurt Weber inherits his great-uncle's lakeside house, he finds traces of the dark secrets of his family's past. The early inhabitants of the house haunt his dreams nightly. And one day a ghostlike woman appears before him, hiding herself in a room that had been kept locked throughout his childhood. ...Show more
Moor by Gunther Geltinger; Alexander Booth (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
It's the early 1970s and Dion Katthusen, thirteen, is growing up fatherless in a small village in northern Germany. An only child plagued with a devastating stutter, Dion is ostracized by his peers and finds solace in the company of nature, collecting dragonflies in a moor filled with myths and legends. ...Show more
Mr. Zed's Reflections by Hans Magnus Enzensberger; Wieland Hoban (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Any new book by poet, essayist, writer, and translator Hans Magnus Enzensberger, one of the most influential and internationally renowned German intellectuals, is cause for notice, and?Mr. Zed's Reflections?is no exception. Every afternoon for almost a year, a plump man named Mr. Zed comes to the same s ...Show more
Night Music by Theodor W. Adorno; Wieland Hoban (Translator)
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Category: Music | Series: The\German List Ser.
Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, he began his career as a composer and successful music critic. Night Music presents the first complete English translations of two collections of texts compiled by German philosopher and musicolo ...Show more
One Day a Year - 2001-2011 by Christa Wolf; Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
$20.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\German List Ser.
During a 1960 interview, East German writer Christa Wolf was asked a curious question: would she describe in detail what she did on September 27th? Fascinated by considering the significance of a single day over many years, Wolf began keeping a detailed diary of September 27th, a practice which she carr ...Show more
Orpheus in the Underworld - Essays on Music by Theodor W. Adorno; Douglas Robertson (Translator)
$41.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: The\German List Ser.
Delves into Theodor W. Adorno's lesser-known musical career and successful music criticism. Theodor W. Adorno is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most prominent social theorists. Though best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of critical theory, Adorno began his career as a ...Show more
Rubble Flora by Volker Braun; David Constantine (Translator); Karen Leeder (Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: The\German List - (Seagull Titles CHUP) Ser.
Rubble Flora is a selection of poems from the distinguished, half-century-long career of German poet Volker Braun. Born in the former East Germany, Braun is a humane, witty, brave, and disappointed poet. In the East, his poetry upheld the voice of the individual imagination and identified with a utopian ...Show more
Save Yourself If You Can - Six Plays by Thomas Bernhard; Douglas Robertson (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: The\German List Ser.
A collection of six Bernhard plays, all in English for the first time. Save Yourself if You Can is a collection of six plays that span the entirety of Thomas Bernhard's career as a dramatist. The plays collected in this long-awaited addition to Bernhard's oeuvre in English--The Ignoramus and the Madman ...Show more