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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The last works of the last great classic European poet now available in English. In his 96th and final year, and with the help of the poet José-Flore Tappy, celebrated Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet finished two manuscripts-in-progress, one in prose and one in poetry, both of which are presented in this volume in John Taylor's sensitive translation. The first work, 'La Clarté Notre-Dame,' takes off from the 'pure, weightless, fragile, yet crystal-clear tinkling' of a monastery bell heard during a walk with friends. With this thought-provoking sound as a leitmotiv, Jaccottet looks back on a life of writing, reading, and scrutinizing humankind's existential and spiritual aspirations. He sets these concerns against his equally lifelong preoccupation with 'the rise of evil in today's world,' notably in Syria. Composed in a baroque style, the verse poems collected in 'The Last Book of Madrigals' explore love. Jaccottet returns in spirit to Italy, the country which for him symbolizes happiness and sensuality. As he evokes amorous attraction, he conjures up Monteverdi's madrigals, one of Dante's little-known rhymes, and Giuseppe Ungaretti's last poem. Reinventing and commenting on these works, Jaccottet meditates on old age, approaching death, despair, and the persistence of love. Together, both works grapple with devastating darkness, but as Tappy observes in her afterword, however, Jaccottet's 'greatest force' was 'his perpetually renewed desire, during the most terrifying night, to head for the light.'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A novel of intersecting historical threads. Love narrates celebrated Norwegian writer Tomas Espedalâ ¿s search for death. The decision blossoms within Iâ ¿the I-personâ ¿'like some interior bloom, black and beautifulâ on a warm spring day in May, and it is this resolution that fills his self-imposed final year with meaning: Death. It can be so beautiful. One must create this beauty for oneself. One must submit to this naturalness, one must choose it, like pulling the duvet over oneself in bed or jumping off a bridge. But almost immediately life deals I a wildcard: a new love affair brings some of the best days heâ ¿s ever known and threatens his pact with death. Will he be able to leave Aka and the child sheâ ¿s carrying He has put an endpoint on his life to intensify experience but is he sure that disappearing from their lives, becoming an absent father, is the best thing for all of them Set against Espedalâ ¿s constant reference, the ebb and flow of the seasons, something close to ecstasy propels this most introspective of narratives towards a universal truth.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A genre-defying book from one of Franceâ ¿s most well-known philosopher-writers. In the Lower Saxony region of northwestern Germany sits the city of Osnabrÿck. This is where, in 1648, the Peace of Westphalia was signed, bringing the Thirty Yearsâ ¿ War and one of the most calamitous periods of European history to an end. But the city was later to witness another calamity. Today, as one walks through Old Synagogue Street in a rich neighborhood of Osnabrÿck, one might miss noticing a pile of pale stones held together by chicken wire that sits between two fashionable homes. These are the well-kept ruins from behind which stares a gaping spaceâ ¿a place of memory and oblivion. Four polished plaques tell the tale of the horror-filled night of November 9, 1938â ¿today known as Kristallnachtâ ¿when the synagogue that had stood on this spot was desecrated, looted, set on fire, and eventually demolished by Hitlerâ ¿s forces. On the same day, ninety parishioners were imprisoned by the Gestapo and eventually sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Osnabrÿck was also home to Eve Klein, a member of the cityâ ¿s early-twentieth-century Jewish community and the mother of author Hà lÿne Cixous. In Well-Kept Ruins, Cixous returns to the historic city in 2019 and reflects on the remains of the synagogue that â express the life lost, the life kept.â Walking the streets of the city, plumbing the depths of the past along with her own familyâ ¿s history, looking deep into the future, and punctuating her poetic prose with haunting photographs, Cixous explores the ruins at the heart of humanity. Part memoir, part philosophical meditation, Well-Kept Ruins is a genre-defying and timely reflection of the contemporary human condition. Â.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A biographic novel that captures the tempestuous and moving life of the poet Marina Tsvetaeva. The life of Marina Tsvetaeva (1892â ¿1941) coincided with turbulent years in Russian history. She was an eminent Russian poet and a passionate lover involved with several men at the same time, including Rilke, who chose Lou Andreas-Salomà over her, and Pasternak, who married someone else, but protected her until her death. Her life included many trials such as her poverty during the grueling Russian civil war, her young daughterâ ¿s death from hunger in an orphanage, and the death of her husband, who fought against the Communist regime and was executed by the Soviet state. Rejected by official poets, then by the wealthy Russian diaspora in France, she finally returned to her country to end her wandering life. She hanged herself from a rope in an attic from which she could see the field where she had dug with bare hands for potatoes abandoned by local farmers. A poet-martyr of the Stalinist eraâ ¿buried in an unmarked plot in the cemetery of Yelabugaâ ¿Tsvetaeva is brought to life in this poetic biographical novel by celebrated Lebanese author Và nus Khoury-Ghata. Â.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A collection of previously untranslated stories from a master of twentieth-century Austrian literature, Thomas Bernhard. â The cold increases with the clarity,â said Thomas Bernhard while accepting a major literary prize in 1965. That clarity was the postwar realization that the Westâ ¿s last remaining cultural reference points were being swept away by the ever-greater commodification of humankind. Collecting five stylistically transitional tales by Bernhard, all of which take place in sites of extreme cold, this volume extends that bleak vision of the master Austrian storyteller. Â In â Ungenach,â the reluctant heir of an enormous estate chooses to give away his legacy to an assortment of oddballs as he discovers the past of his older brother, who was murdered during a career in futile colonialist philanthropy. In â The Weatherproof Cape,â a lawyer tries to maintain a sense of familial solidarity with a now-dead client with the help of an unremarkable piece of clothing. â Midland in Stilfsâ casts a jaundiced eye on the laughable efforts of a cosmopolitan foreigner to attain local authenticity on a moribund Alpine farmstead. In â At the Ortler,â two middle-aged brothersâ ¿one a scientist, the other an acrobatâ ¿meditate on their unusual career paths while they climb a mountain to reclaim a long-abandoned family property. And in â At the Timberline,â the unexpected arrival of a young couple in a mountain village leads to the discovery of a scandalous crime that casts a shadow on the personal life of the policeman investigating it. Â.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A novel that offers a timely and important viewpoint on the immigration experience about the need for resistance to blind assimilation in a host country. In 1968, in search of a better world, a young person flees her country and ends up in Switzerland, the land of hard cheese. There sheâ ¿s told not to talk nonsense, or not to â talk cheese,â as they say in the local dialect. Home is where you can grumble, but here you have to be grateful. Her new environs seem unwieldy, aloof, and she rebels against this host country that insists on her following its rules, that wonâ ¿t let her be herself. But as an interpreter, she meets many others who have ended up hereâ ¿petty criminals, depressives, hustlers, refugees, victims of exploitation, and others who have gone out of their way to assimilate, people who share a hope that they can make something new of their lives. Gradually she learns to experience the richness of exile and foreignness, to build bridges between cultures. A brilliantly written novel about the search for identity between assimilation and resistance, Irena BreÅ¿ná⠿s The Thankless Foreigner is a significant addition to the important literature of immigrant experience. Â.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A collection of diverse yet interconnected essays from one of the worldâ ¿s most respected historians. Carlo Ginzburg has been at the forefront of the discipline of microhistory ever since his earliest works were published to great acclaim in the 1970s. The Soul of Brutes brings together four of Ginzburgâ ¿s recent scintillating essays and lectures that testify to the diversity of his thoughts on history and philosophy. Â â Civilization and Barbarismâ resurrects a sixteenth-century debate between two thinkers in Spain about the humanness, or lack thereof, of Native Americans, and highlights the influence of classical thinkers, from Herodotus to Aristotle, and the iterations and interpretations through which their writings have traversed down to the Cinquecento. In â The Soul of Brutesâ Ginzburg traces the genealogy of the debate on the rationality of animals and the limits of their imagination, from Plutarch and Aristotle to sixteenth-century thinkers like Pietro Pomponazzi and Girolamo Rorario. Following Montaigne, he provokes, are we to beasts as they seem to us In â Calvino, Manzoni and the Grey Zone,â Carlo Ginzburg pithily writes about the mental dialogue between Holocaust survivor Primo Levi and two Italians who profoundly influenced Leviâ ¿sÂsearch for these â unexplored pockets of exceptionâ â ¿his contemporary Italo Calvino and the nineteenth-century novelist and philosopher Alessandro Manzoni.ÂAnd finally, in â Schema and Biasâ , he probes whether the historian can clearly see into the past, peering through the layers of bias, which include their own prejudices, or if relativism is the only path. Â With several beautifully reproduced color illustrations, The Soul of Brutes will interest not only scholars of history, philosophy, and art, but also general intellectual readers. Â.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An intellectually stimulating yet accessible collection of short vignettes on Russia and Germany by Alexander Kluge. Not just in light of a contested pipeline during the war in Ukraine but also after centuries of both exchange and rejection, Russia and Germany were and are as far away from each other as they are intrinsically linked. The geopolitical present seems critical, the signs pointing towards conflict and polarity.  In this hot climate, German author Alexander Kluge makes Russia the exclusive subject of his latest book, offering multiple perspectives: from that of the historical German patriots of the Napoleonic Wars of Liberation to the narrative point of view of Franz Kafka and Heiner Mÿller; from messianic yearning and utopian expectations of the twentieth century to the full-blown or near-miss catastrophes in the atomic age.  Composed in Klugeâ ¿s characteristic short-prose vignette style, interspersed with numerous images and often humorous asides, Russia Container is yet another brilliant and thought-provoking work from one of Europeâ ¿s most prolific and deeply intellectual literary genius. The volume includes a preface specially written to engage with the current events in Ukraine, making Klugeâ ¿s narratives even more timely and topical. Â.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first complete publication of Robert Walserâ ¿s poems translated into English. Admired by the likes of Kafka, Musil, and Walter Benjamin and acclaimed â unforgettable, heart-rendingâ by J. M. Coetzee, Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878â ¿1956) remains one of the most influential authors of modern literature. Walser left school at fourteen and led a wandering and precarious existence while producing poems, stories, essays, and novels. In 1933, he abandoned writing and entered a sanatorium, where he remained for the rest of his life. â I am not here to write,â Walser said, â but to be mad.â Â This first collection of Walserâ ¿s poems in English translation allows English-speaking readers to experience the author as he saw himself at the beginning and the end of his literary careerâ ¿â ¿as a poet. The book also includes notes on dates of composition, draft versions of the printed poems, and brief biographical information on characters and locations that appear in the poems and may not be known to readers. Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Walser has seen in recent years, and this collection of his poems will help readers discover a unique writer whose off-kilter sensibility and innovations in form are perfectly suited to our fragmented, distracted, bewildering era. Â.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first comprehensive study of dizi, a television genre unique to Turkey akin to soap opera or telenovela. Standing at the crossroads of folklore, media, and performance studies, Arzu ÿztÿrkmen explores the rise of the dizi genre in Turkey since the 1970s, when national television broadcasting began in the country. The Delight of Turkish Dizi approaches this unique genre⠿not quite soap opera or telenovela⠿as an art form that developed with the collective creative input of writers, producers, directors, actors, editors, musicians, and, lately, international distributors. ÿztÿrkmen shows how dizi-making is a marathon run by sprinters, where production and broadcasting processes have been tightly interwoven, offering a mode of communication and consumption that is distinct to the Turkish television industry. The research consists of oral history with key figures in dizi production and ethnographic surveys of film sets, international content markets, and award ceremonies. This first-ever monograph on Turkish dizi will be a valuable addition to the field of performance and media studies while delighting the general reader as well.