"No-one looks behind your face"
Erich Kästner's books have become true classics, read with equal enthusiasm by children and adults. Celebrating his 100th birthday, this biography, based on Kästner's recently-released private ...
moreSven Hanuschek
Sven Hanuschek, born in 1964, is a journalist and professor at the Institute of German Philology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His most recent publications by Hanser are Elias Canetti (a biography, 2005) and Laurel und Hardy. Eine Revision by Zsolnay (2010). He is also an editor of Elias Canetti`s letters, which were published in 2018 under the title Ich erwarte von Ihnen viel. He lives in Munich.
Arno Schmidt
“I demand by law that no later than 50 years after the death of a writer, his biography not only should but must be published.”
He stylised himself as a lone wolf, and his readership ...
I Have High Expectations of You
A young author shyly turns to Thomas Mann, the Nobel prize laureate for Literature, with his first novel, and is kindly fobbed off. Half a century later, the author himself travels to Stockholm ...
moreElias Canetti
A monumental biographical achievement: Sven Hanuschek portrays the life of Elias Canetti. For the first time, we receive a complete picture of the maverick genius of 20th century literature.
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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 ...
moreLaurel & Hardy Revisited
For many of us, Laurel and Hardy represented our first experience of big-screen cinema, and as a result they play a major part in our childhood memories – yet unlike Charlie Chaplin or Buster ...
moreElias Canetti
A monumental biographical achievement: Sven Hanuschek portrays the life of Elias Canetti. For the first time, we receive a complete picture of the maverick genius of 20th century literature.
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