Download E-books Women's Writing and Historiography in the GDR (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs) PDF

By Helen Bridge

This isn't purely the 1st research to provide a close comparability of old and literary discourses within the GDR, but additionally the 1st to light up kinfolk among 3 themes well known in East German women's writing: the nationwide Socialist previous; the lives of old ladies; and using legendary subject matters and types to voice reviews of history.

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Download E-books The Defense PDF

By Vladimir Nabokov

Nabokov's 3rd novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling tale of obsession and insanity. As a tender boy, Luzhin used to be unattractive,  distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his mom and dad and an item of ridicule to his classmates. he's taking up chess as a shelter from the nervousness of his daily life.  His expertise is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster--but at a cost:  in Luzhin' s obsessive brain, the sport of chess progressively supplants the realm of reality.   His personal global falls aside in the course of a vital championship fit, whilst the difficult protection he has devised withers  under his opponent's unforeseen and unpredictabke traces of attack.

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Download E-books The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Penguin Classics) PDF

By Rainer Maria Rilke

A masterly new translation of 1 of the 1st nice modernist novels

In the one novel by way of one of many German language's maximum poets, a tender guy named Malte Laurids Brigge lives in an inexpensive room in Paris whereas his assets rot in garage. each person he sees turns out to hold their loss of life with them, and with little yet a library card to tell apart him from the city's untouchables, he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic relations, of which he's the only real dwelling descendant. Suffused with passages of lyrical brilliance, Rilke's semi-autobiographical novel is a relocating and robust coming-of-age story.

For greater than seventy years, Penguin has been the top writer of vintage literature within the English-speaking international. With greater than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents an international bookshelf of the easiest works all through historical past and throughout genres and disciplines. Readers belief the series to supply authoritative texts better by way of introductions and notes by means of uncommon students and modern authors, in addition to up-to-date translations by way of award-winning translators.

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Download E-books The Brothers Karamazov PDF

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov, additionally translated because the Karamazov Brothers, is the ultimate novel by means of the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent approximately years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which used to be released as a serial within the Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880. the writer died lower than 4 months after its ebook. The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th-century Russia, that enters deeply into the moral debates of God, unfastened will, and morality. it's a non secular drama of ethical struggles touching on religion, doubt, judgment, and cause, set opposed to a modernizing Russia, with a plot which revolves round the topic of patricide. Dostoyevsky composed a lot of the unconventional in Staraya Russa, which galvanized the most environment. when you consider that its e-book, it's been acclaimed as one of many best achievements in international literature.

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Download E-books Willkommen und Abschied: Thirty-Five Years of German Writers-in-Residence at Oberlin College (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) PDF

Due to the fact 1968, Oberlin university has hosted a German writers-in-residence application, the oldest application of its style within the usa. The record of members in the course of its first 35 years is amazing, together with the various such a lot favourite writers from Germany, Austria, and German-speaking Switzerland. Christa Wolf, Jurek Becker, Helga Novak, Ulrich Plenzdorf, Barbara Frischmuth, Tankred Dorst, and Peter Bichsel have been early members. extra lately, the German-Turkish author and poet Zafer Senocak was once consultant of multicultural tendencies in German literature, whereas Anna Mitgutsch, Doron Rabinovici, and Peter Stephan Jungk have represented the recent new release of German-Jewish writers. This ebook chronicles the writers-in-residence software from 1968 to 2003. a bit on each one writer comprises an introductory write-up relationship from the time of the author's stopover at; info at the author's lifestyles and profession considering that point; a brand new fictional or biographical contribution; and an up to date bibliography. The authors' contributions variety from prose texts and poems that includes or encouraged by way of Oberlin to private stories, memories, diary entries, and letters. The publication is bilingual, with many of the new contributions in German, whereas the introductory texts and lots of the biographical updates are in English. The booklet remembers moments of the final 35 years of ecu historical past -- and eu perspectives of the USA and of a small city in Ohio that has replaced but remained an identical. Dorothea Kaufmann is a member of the college in place of abode, and Heidi Thomann Tewarson is Professor and Chair, either within the division of German Language and Literatures at Oberlin university.

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Download E-books Paula PDF

Probably the most renowned and acclaimed Latin American authors of our century provides this unforgettable memoir, an exquisitely rendered, deeply relocating mother-daughter tale that doubles as her autobiography.

"Paula" is a soul-baring memoir one reads with out drawing a breath, like a unique of suspense. the purpose of departure for those relocating pages is a sad own adventure. In December 1991, Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, turned gravely ailing and soon thereafter fell right into a coma. in the course of hours within the clinic, the writer started to write the tale of her relatives for her subconscious daughter. within the telling, extraordinary ancestors look sooner than our eyes, and we listen either pleasant and sour early life thoughts, notable anecdotes of younger years, the main intimate secrets and techniques handed alongside in whispers. Chile, Allende's fatherland, comes alive to boot, with the turbulent heritage of the army coup of 1973, the subsequent dictatorship and her family's years of exile.

As an exorcism of dying, in those pages Isabel Allende explores the earlier and questions the gods. the result's a paranormal ebook that consists of the reader from tears to laughter, from terror to sensuality and knowledge. "Paula" is a prodigious evocation and a hymn to lifestyles, written from the guts of the brave and estimable lady who created "The condo of the Spirits."

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Download E-books Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature: From the Sublime to the Uncanny PDF

David Ellison's ebook is an bold presentation of the cultured and moral dimensions of Modernist literature. the writer brings jointly philosophical, theoretical, and literary texts ranging over a century and a 1/2 highbrow history--from Kant and Kierkegaard to Freud and Woolf. His learn unearths how the fight among aesthetic and moral matters characterizes each one of them. He combines the insights of philosophical conceptualization, narratology, and psychoanalytic thought to light up the ancient passage from the elegant to the uncanny through the 150-year interval among 1790-1940.

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Download E-books Tales of Seduction: The Figure of Don Juan in Spanish Culture PDF

By Sarah Wright

Don Juan is likely one of the fascinating creations of Western literature. A mythical seducer of girls, trickster, and transgressor of sacred obstacles, he has been the thing of numerous revisions over the centuries. The twentieth-century has seen the determine afresh throughout the prism of its personal cultural phrases of reference and social matters. utilizing an interdisciplinary technique, stories of Seduction makes a speciality of the intersections among delusion, tradition, and highbrow inquiry. Sarah Wright takes Don Juan again to Spain, his birth-place, and examines the confluences of Spanish tradition with elements of Western highbrow background (medicine, psychoanalysis, linguistics), the place she reveals Don Juan keeps to transgress the bounds of tradition from the early 20th century to the present.

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