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  Gabrielle Alioth

  The Appraising Glance

  Even in her youth, painter Angelica Kauffmann – born 1741 – was celebrated as an extraordinary talent. Her portraits of Winckelmann and Goethe attracted international attention, and her ... More about this title

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  Jürg Altwegg

  The Long Shadows of Vichy

  From Sartre, Camus, Céline and the poets-cum-diplomats Perse and Malraux to the postmodernist philosophers, from Lévi-Strauss, Foucault and Barthes to the opposing factions in the "black book" ... More about this title

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  Penka Angelova

  Elias Canetti - Trailing the Mythic Thought

  This book deals with Canetti's SKETCHES and his anthropological masterpiece, CROWDS AND POWER. The author takes multiple approaches to the entire range of Canetti's thinking, bridging disciplines ... More about this title

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  Friedmar Apel

  A Feast for the Eyes

  On the visual aspects of literature
  According to Goethe, you only see what you know, while Novalis thought of seeing as a poetic process in which memory and intuition coincide with how we view the world. Nowadays it is scientists ... More about this title

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  Fritz Arnold

  Friendships in the Time of Hate

  "I was twenty when I first left the train at the Stazione Termini, on a chilly spring morning, exhausted but full of expectation." Four years later, the narrator returns to Rome but this time ... More about this title

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  Jan Assmann

  Egypt

  A Semantic History
  The self-image of the West and Europe's sense of identity derive from the field of tension between two poles: Jerusalem versus Athens, Israel versus Hellas, the revelations of Judeo-Christian ... More about this title

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  Jan Assmann

  The Magic Flute

  The Magic Flute is Mozart's most popular opera – although it is often unclear to us. What is that country that three boys float over, while a cunning serpent gets up to mischief down below near ... More about this title

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  Reinhard Baumgart

  Addio - Farewell to Literature

  Variations on an Old Issue
  "In this century, anybody who lives to be fifty has a good chance of encountering, at least three times, announcements of the imminent demise of literature." So begins this book whose aim, ... More about this title

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  Reinhard Baumgart

  Then & Now

  A Life in Germany 1929-2003
  Reinhart Baumgart, "one of the pillars of literary life in this country" (Die Welt), recounts the story of his life: moving, ironic and always full of vivid images of meetings with remarkable men ... More about this title

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  Reinhard Baumgart

  Traces of Love

  A Literary Journey
  From Romeo and Juliet to Lolita, from Werther to Tristand und Isolde, from Liasons Dangereuses to Wahlverwandtschaften – Reinhard Baumgart has searched world literature for those key passages ... More about this title

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  Martin Roda Becher

  Permanent Residents

  His grandfathers had little time for each other. Alexander Roda Roda, the sharp-tongued man of letters, and Richard Becher, the business lawyer met only for an occasional game of chess in a New ... More about this title

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  Hans Bender

  Like the Palm of My Hand

  When Hans Bender looks up from his writing-desk, his gaze falls upon the trees in his garden, reminding him that there is a world beyond his literary profession. For decades Bender has observed ... More about this title

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  Elazar Benyoetz

  The Future is Hard on our Heels

  The new book by Israeli writer Elazar Benyoetz is the sum total of his poetic thinking and gives impressive evidence of his sensitive approach to language. Benyoetz's aphorisms and word-plays ... More about this title

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  Barbara Beuys

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  On November 20, 1907, 31 year-old Paula Modersohn-Becker, who has just given birth to a daughter, dies in Worpswede near Bremen. In less than ten years, she has created a huge body of work, in ... More about this title

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  Barbara Beuys

  The Price of Passion

  The Life and Times of Li Qingzhao, Chinas Greatest Poetess
  The extraordinary life story of Li Qingzhao and a panorama of Chinese culture, politics and religion: we hear about educated women teaching their daughters and sons, men seeking and appreciating ... More about this title

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  Hans Blumenberg

  Just About Classics

  In Hans Blumenberg's posthumous work, Fontane's tracks are everywhere, whether the author is discussing social advancement or the perceptions of the hiker in the Mark Brandenburg, the expressive ... More about this title

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  Bogdan Bogdanovic

  The Green Box

  A Book of Dreams
  Belgrade, mon amour: images, encounters, messages by the architect, writer and former mayor of Serbia's capital.
  
  Bogdan Bogdanovic, the illustrious Serbian architect, writer and former ... More about this title

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  Otto A. Böhmer

  The Poets' Encyclopaedia

  This encyclopaedia opens an entertaining back entrance to German literature and is, at the same time, an easy-to-read textbook with lots of interesting and unusal information.
  
  How to ... More about this title

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  Karl Heinz Bohrer

  Aesthetic Negativity

  On the problem of Literary and Philosophical Nihilism
  Alongside the important positivistic philosophies of the early 19th century, the representation of a negative experience of time became a dominant literary topic, as the great writers of the age ... More about this title

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  Karl Heinz Bohrer

  Aspects of Tragedy

  Manifestation, pathos, lamentation
  2500 years ago, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides created the theatrical language of Tragedy as a means of describing the conflicts of their time. It is a language that to this day has not lost ... More about this title

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