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Ein ganz anderes, farbigeres Bild erscheint, wenn man die zahlreichen literarischen Fragmente, die Tagebücher und Briefe Kafkas mit einbezieht — in all diesen Genres hat sich seine sprachliche Produktivität entfaltet, und erst in der Gesamtschau werden viele heitere, komische, groteske Facetten sichtbar, die mit seinem düsteren Nimbus als eigentlich unvereinbar gelten. Dabei gibt es einen Kafka zu entdecken, der offenbar Freude hat am Spiel mit Formen, Einfällen und Pointen.

Dâhiler ve Aşkları; sanat, edebiyat, bilim ve düşün tarihinin önde gelen dâhilerinin yaşadığı aşkları, eserleri paralelinde ortaya koyan, ansiklopedik ölçekte bir biyografi kitabı. Gerek ülkemizde, gerekse dünyada toplam olarak bu kapsamda oluşturulmuş nadir eserlerden biri olma özelliği de taşıyan bu önemli kitap; içinde yer alan dâhilere, yaptıkları çalışmalar ve ilgi alanları açısından oldukça yakın değerli yazar ve şairlerimizin yoğun çabalarıyla ortaya çıktı.

Vladimir Nabokov hat mit seinen Schriften, darunter das 1955 erschienene skandalträchtige Meisterwerk "Lolita", die Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts stark beeinflusst...

Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman is the biography of a remarkable, complicated, troubled, passionate woman, an important figure in German romanticism, the person who in a sense founded the Goethe cult that would become central to German cultural life in the 19th century, as well as someone who confronted with unusual determination and bore the burden of being both a woman in a man's world and an assimilated Jew in Germany.

First recorded in February of 1952, this remastered recording of Dylan Thomas reading A Child’s Christmas in Wales recalls all of the sights, smells, and sounds of a long-ago Christmas. Thomas’s wonderful recollection of this holiday in the seaside town of his youth is captured in this vivid...

Samu Haber - die erste Biografie über den finnischen Superstar! Mit seiner Band Sunrise Avenue ist er wohl jedem ein Begriff und im Oktober 2014 katapultierten sich Sunrise Avenue mit ihrem Album "Fairytales - Best Of 2006 - 2014" zum ersten Mal von Null an die deutsche Chartspitze. Ein absolutes Highlight in ihrer bereits so erfolgreichen langjährigen Karriere. Zu verdanken hat es die finnische Band nicht nur ihrer Musik, sondern auch dem Frontmann und Frauenschwarm Samu Haber.

Salvador Dalí - Meister des Surrealismus. Die Welt der Träume und das Unterbewusste inspirierten Salvador Dalí zu fantastischen Gemälden, die unangefochten als Ikonen des Surrealismus gelten. Der erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und erläutert verständlich, unterhaltsam und strukturiert Basiswissen. Ameisen, brennende Giraffen, schmelzende Uhren - viele solcher verschlüsselten Motive kennzeichnen die Bilderwelt des Salvador Dalí (1904­ - 1989).

In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After...

Die umschwärmte Filmschönheit und der talentierte Schriftsteller – es könnte eine Liebesgeschichte aus Hollywood sein. Marlene Dietrich und Erich Maria Remarque lernen sich in den 1930er-Jahren im politischen Exil kennen und haben von Anfang an viel gemeinsam, doch trotzdem hat ihre turbulente Beziehung nicht auf Dauer Bestand. Was bleibt, sind Remarques Briefe an seine geliebte Marlene: Dieser Band sammelt die berührenden Schriftstücke voller Sehnsucht, Intimität und Leidenschaft.

Known to millions mainly as the author of the "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson has been curiously absent from the mainstream American literary canon. A genius of literary suspense and psychological horror, Jackson plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America more deeply than anyone. Ruth Franklin reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

The world J.R.R. Tolkien created is one of the most beloved in all of literature, and continues to capture hearts and imaginations around the world. From Oxford to ComiCon, the Middle Earth is analyzed and interpreted through a multitude of perspectives. But one essential facet of Tolkien and his Middle Earth has been overlooked: science.

The 1920s in Paris are the pivotal years in Hemingway's apprenticeship as a writer, whether sitting in cafés or at the feet of Gertrude Stein. These are the heady times of the Nick Adams short stories, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and the writing of The Sun Also Rises. These are also the years of Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley Richardson, the birth of his first son, and his discovery of the bullfights at Pamplona.

¿Cómo Juan Carlos I, un rey con una fuerza icónica única en Europa, con un país a sus pies, con ciertos políticos cómplices, con dinero y con las mujeres más guapas del mundo, pudo jugárselo todo? En su carrera hacia el abismo fue dejando atrás familia, amigos, prestigio, honorabilidad… ¿Fue por una mujer? ¿Por amor al dinero? ¿Por inconsciencia o por arrogancia?

From the New York Times bestselling author and former beauty editor Cat Marnell, a “vivid, maddening, heartbreaking, very funny, chaotic” (The New York Times) memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs. At...

NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND VOGUE The first biography of Peter Matthiessen, the novelist, naturalist, and Zen roshi, whose trailblazing work championed Native American rights and helped usher in the modern...

An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be. The theory that Shakespeare may...

A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the PBS documentary Letters from Baghdad, voiced by Tilda Swinton, and the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson and directed by Werner...

""I fell in love with Maupin’s effervescent Tales of the City decades ago, and his genius turn at memoir is no less compelling. Logical Family is a must read.""—Mary Karr In this long-awaited memoir, the beloved author of the bestselling Tales of the City series chronicles his odyssey from...

Hansjörg Schneider erzählt vom Aargau, der Landschaft, die ihn geprägt hat. Von den sanften Hügeln und Auen und der kargen, autoritären Atmosphäre seiner Kindheit und Jugend in den Nachkriegsjahren. Von der Studentenzeit in Basel bis hin zum Aufbruch in ein Leben für die Literatur. Woher kommt ein Schriftsteller? Authentisch, berührend und kein bisschen milde zeichnet Hansjörg Schneider nach, wie er wurde, wer er ist.

The lives of many famous artists have been shrouded in mystery and conjecture, but none have been more controversial than the life of Vincent van Gogh. Remembered for his swirling brushstrokes and burning colors, Vincent van Gogh is today one of the best-known painters. Though his career as a painter spanned less than ten years, he produced a body of work that remains one of the most enduring in all of modern art. In his lifetime, however, he received little recognition. Today his paintings sell for countless millions, yet during his lifetime, van Gogh managed to sell just one painting.