A Chinese Story from a Berlin Practice
Author: John Henry Collins
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 266
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Author: John Henry Collins
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 266
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alfred Doblin
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2015-01-13
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9629969335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1915, fourteen years before Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Döblin published his first novel, an extensively researched Chinese historical extravaganza: The Three Leaps of Wang Lun. Even more remarkably, given its subject matter, the book was written in Expressionist style and is now considered the first modern German novel, as well as the first Western novel to depict a China untouched by the West. It is virtually unknown in English. Based on actual accounts of a doomed rebellion during the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the late 18th century, the novel tells the story of Wang Lun, a historical martial arts master and charismatic leader of the White Lotus sect, who leads a futile revolt of the “Truly Powerless.” Densely packed cities and Tibetan wastes, political intrigue and religious yearning, imperial court life and the fate of wandering outcasts are depicted in a language of enormous vigor and matchless imagination, unfolding the theme of timidity against force, and a mystical sense of the world against the realities of power.
Author: Erdmut Wizisla
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2016-08-09
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1784781134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating account of the friendship between two of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century Germany in the mid 1920s, a place and time of looming turmoil, brought together Walter Benjamin—acclaimed critic and extraordinary literary theorist—and Bertolt Brecht, one of the twentieth century’s most influential playwrights. It was a friendship that would shape their writing for the rest of their lives. In this groundbreaking work, Erdmut Wizisla explores what this relationship meant for them personally and professionally, as well as the effect it had on those around them. From the first meeting between Benjamin and Brecht to their experiences in exile, these eventful lives are illuminated by personal correspondence, journal entries and private miscellany—including previously unpublished materials—detailing the friends’ electric discussions of their collaboration. Wizisla delves into the archives of other luminaries in the distinguished constellation of writers and artists in Weimar Germany, which included Margarete Steffin, Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch and Hannah Arendt. Wizisla’s account of this friendship opens a window on nearly two decades of European intellectual life.
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 1614
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Willett
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 1996-08-21
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780306807244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe period between the end of World War I and Hitler's ascension to power witnessed an unprecedented cultural explosion that embraced the whole of Europe but was, above all, centered in Germany. Germany housed architect Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus movement; playwrights Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator; artists Hans Richter, George Grosz, John Heartfield, and Hannah Hoch; composers Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schonberg, and Kurt Weill; and dozens of others. In Art and Politics in the Weimar Period , John Willett provides a brilliant explanation of the aesthetic and political currents which made Germany the focal point of a new, down-to-earth, socially committed cultural movement that drew a significant measure of inspiration from revolutionary Russia, left-wing social thought, American technology, and the devastating experience of war.
Author: Siegfried Mews
Publisher: University of North Carolina S
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781469657950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays represent the push to provide interdisciplinary Brecht research to English-speaking audiences following his death in 1956 and offer novel readings of his works indicative of the major literary questions of the time. The essays explore both Brecht's theoretical approach and political thought, with many also taking a comparative approach to analysis of individual plays. The contributors are Reinhold Grimm, Karl-Heinz Schoeps, Herbert Knust, Hans Meyer, Siegfried Mews, Raymond English, James Lyon, Darko Suvin, Gisela Bahr, Grace Allen, Ralph Ley, John Fuegi, Andrzej Wirth and David Bathrick.
Author: Alfred Döblin
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781912916221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Timothy O. Benson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780520230033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConveys the dreams and disappointments of German artists, architects, and intellectuals from World War I through the social and economic chaos of the Weimar Republic.
Author: Fred Saberhagen
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780786254859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a series of short science-fiction stories that tells of encounters between humans and the intelligent, self-aware death machines known as the Berserkers.
Author: Alfred Döblin
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Published: 2020-09-10
Total Pages: 386
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWadzek takes on the ruthless might of industrialist Rommel, the "moloch" of industry, and he is defeated and ruined. His business is destroyed and he is disorientated and driven to the edge of reason.But there is hope: Wadzek abandons Europe and sails away to America taking Gaby, Rommel's beautiful ex-mistress with him