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Villains, Faustian Figures and Shining Lights
To find out how literature provides a different take on the seemingly familiar world around you, look no further than Peter von Matt. In unassuming selections of text, he discovers ideas that ...
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Peter von Matt, born in 1937 in Lucerne, was Professor of German studies at the University of Zurich from 1976 to 2002. He is a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung Darmstadt, the Academy of Arts in Berlin and the Saxon Academy of the Arts. In 2014, Peter von Matt was awarded the Goethe Prize of the city of Frankfurt am Main. He lives near Zurich. Also published by Hanser: Word Lightning (Interpretive Cameos of German Poetry, 2009) and The Calf That Stopped the Gotthard Coach (Reflections on Swiss Literature and Politics, 2012).
Seven Kisses
“The master of literary forays” (NZZ) now turns his hand to stormy, mistaken and intimate kisses.
What would a novel be without the ultimate kiss? Using seven kisses from world ...
My Book Against Death
Elias Canetti, who always described himself as death’s mortal enemy, waited his whole life to write this book. He intended to write “with utter ruthlessness, or else all would be rendered ...
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Peter von Matt, one of the leading lights of Swiss Germanism, presents us with a critical yet ultimately affectionate take on Switzerland – a country situated at the very heart of Europe which ...
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In these inspired feats of matchmaking, Peter von Matt brings poem and reader together in a seductive blend of cunning and cajolery, perspicacity and persuasiveness, desire and delight.
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The Wild and the Orderly
Peter von Matt is an exceptionally gifted expounder of literature. With contagious enthusiasm, he lets his readers participate in his discoveries – en gros and en détail. In a new book that ...
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Peter von Matt is an exceptionally gifted expounder of literature. With contagious enthusiasm, he lets his readers participate in his discoveries – en gros and en détail. In a new book that ...
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