"We will stroll on our personal toes;

we will paintings with our personal hands;

we'll communicate our personal minds."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar," 1837

From the beginning of transcendentalism and America's highbrow renaissance within the 1830s, to the Civil struggle and past, the tale of 4 striking acquaintances whose lives formed a nation

"Beginning within the 1830s, coincidences that appear virtually astounding on reflection introduced jointly in harmony as buddies and acquaintances 4 males of very various temperaments and abilities who shared an identical conviction that the soul had 'inherent strength to know the reality' and that the reality may make males freed from previous constraints on suggestion and behaviour. as well as Emerson, a thinker, there has been Amos Bronson Alcott, an educator; Henry David Thoreau, a naturalist and insurgent; and Nathaniel Hawthorne, a novelist. This booklet is the tale of that designated and influential friendship in motion, of the lives the buddies led, and their paintings that led to an everlasting switch of their nation's direction."
--From the Prologue

Temporeich, authentisch und unverschämt erzählt Mano Bouzamour von einer Jugend im Einwandererviertel von Amsterdam.

Auf einem gestohlenen Flügel spielt Samir, genannt Sam, morgens klassische Musik, beim Freitagsgebet in der Moschee kämpft er mit Fantasien von blonden, nackten Teufelinnen, im Geschichtsunterricht träumt er von Rache für die mutige Anne Frank, am glücklichsten ist er jedoch, wenn er nachts mit seinem geliebten Bruder auf der Vespa durch Amsterdam brausen darf. So wächst Sam als Sohn marokkanischer Einwanderer im bunten De-Pijp-Viertel heran, bis sein großer Bruder, der von Betrug und Diebstahl lebt, verhaftet wird und für sechs Jahre in den Knast muss. Doch Sam verspricht ihm, allen Widerständen zum Trotz den Schulabschluss im bürgerlichen Elitegymnasium zu schaffen, und meistert ein Leben voller Kontraste mit viel Witz und Frechheit.

"Rewriting" within the context of serious paintings on Caribbean literature has tended for use to debate revisionism from a number of postcolonial views, similar to "rewriting background" or "rewriting canonical texts." through moving the point of interest to how Caribbean writers go back to their very own works in an effort to remodel them, this publication bargains theoretical issues to postcolonial experiences on "literariness" in terms of the near-obsessive measure of rewriting to which Caribbean writers have subjected their very own literary texts.

Focusing particularly on Frankétienne, this publication bargains an outline of ways the defining aesthetic and thematic elements of Frankétienne's significant works have emerged over the process his forty-year writing occupation. It unearths the marked improvement of key notions guiding his literary construction because the Nineteen Sixties, and demonstrates that rewriting illustrates the critical aesthetic of the Spiral which has consistently formed his œuvre. it's, the e-book argues, the regularly relocating kind of the Spiral which Frankétienne explores via his consistent remodeling of his formerly written texts.

Frankétienne and Rewriting negotiates among the literary and fabric ends of the burgeoning box of postcolonial experiences, arguing that literary features in Frankétienne hook up with altering political, social, monetary, and cultural situations within the Haiti he rewrites.

Danzatrice presso l’Opéra di Parigi, l. a. giovanissima Lucette incontra l’autore di Viaggio al termine della notte nel 1936, nella Francia del Fronte popolare. Quello che nasce è un rapporto fatto di poche parole, ma in cui immediatamente ciascuno riconosce il bisogno assoluto dell’altro. Sono anni cruciali, according to los angeles carriera e il destino di Céline, nel corso dei quali cede ai richiami dell’antisemitismo e dell’anticomunismo viscerale, ma concretamente fondato sull’esperienza dopo un viaggio in incognito in Russia, in seguito al quale denuncerà gli orrori di Stalin. Lucette e Louis-Ferdinand condividono tutto: l’arte, l. a. guerra, los angeles fuga attraverso l. a. Germania, l’esilio in Danimarca e il processo in step with collaborazionismo, l. a. condanna consistent with antisemitismo, l’ostracismo della pubblica opinione e della critica. I personaggi della scena letteraria e culturale di quegli anni intersecano a vario titolo l’esistenza di Céline e Lucette – da J.-P. Sartre a Gaston Gallimard, da Albert Camus a Marcel Aymé, da Dubuffet a Paul Morand a Arletty – e vengono in queste memorie tratteggiati rapidamente, in maniera efficace e imparziale. Allo stesso modo, con lucida leggerezza, sono rievocati i momenti terribili della povertà, los angeles solitudine, le malattie, il grande amore verso gli animali. Ciò che colpisce di queste memorie – trascritte dalla voce di Lucette quasi novantenne according to mano dell’allieva Véronique Robert – è prima di tutto il sentimento vivo di fedeltà e di totale dedizione nei confronti di Céline. Lucette non vive nel ricordo del passato, ma in una condizione di assoluta fedeltà, verso un uomo il cui nome è ancora oggi in bilico tra los angeles consacrazione e lo scandalo.

Christine Nöstlinger erzählt - jedoch nicht über den grantigen Gurkenkönig oder den Franz, der aussieht wie ein Mädchen. Hier geht es um ihr eigenes Leben: Wie sie als style den Krieg im Bombenkeller überlebt. Wie sie ihre erste Beichte mit einer Lüge beginnt. Wie sie über einen Tretroller die wahre Natur des Menschen kennenlernt. Wie sie im Tanzkurs den geliehenen BH verliert und sich als Kunststudentin in Herrenrunden behauptet.

Die große Kinderbuchautorin, Journalistin, Lyrikerin und Schriftstellerin erzählt von Ehen, Töchtern und Affären. Von ihren Erfolgen, von wütenden Lehrerattacken und aberwitzigen Political-Correctness-Sheriffs. Und auch davon, ob es erstrebenswert ist, in Würde zu altern.

Dale Ahlquist, the President of the yankee Chesterton Society, and writer of G. ok. Chesterton -The Apostle of universal Sense, provides a booklet of terrific insights on how you can "look on the complete global throughout the eyes of Chesterton". due to the fact that, as he says, "Chesterton wrote approximately everything", there's an ocean of his fabric to profit from GKC's insights on a kaleidoscope of many very important themes.

Chesterton wrote 100 books on quite a few topics, hundreds of thousands of essays for London newspapers, penned epic poetry, thrilled in detective fiction, drew illustrations, and made every body chuckle through his prepared humor. every person who knew Chesterton enjoyed him, even these he debated with. His specified writing kind that combines philosophy, spirituality, background, humor, and paradox have made him one of the main greatly learn authors of recent instances.

As Ahlquist exhibits in his enticing quantity, this so much quoted author of the twentieth century has a lot to percentage with us on themes masking politics, paintings, schooling, ask yourself, marriage, fads, poetry, religion, charity and masses extra.

an exceptional creation to 1 of the easiest recognized authors in English Literature.

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Alles begann mit einem eher erfolglosen Künstlerpaar, das sein sort kurz nach der Geburt weggab: Für Paula Fox conflict 1923 ein Findelhaus in new york die erste Station einer dramatischen Lebensreise, die sie in den folgenden zwanzig Jahren zu wechselnden Orten und Ersatzeltern einmal quer durch Amerika führen sollte. Viel später entstand aus dem verstörenden Abenteuer dieser Jahre ein schriftstellerisches Werk, dem niemand Geringerer zur Wiederentdeckung und zum internationalen Durchbruch verhalf als Jonathan Franzen.
Bernadette Conrad, Autorin und Literaturkritikerin, die sich mit Paula Fox und ihrem Werk intensiv beschäftigt hat, geht mit Jonathan Franzen auf Cape Cod spazieren, sie trifft Paula Fox’ Tochter in Oregon und sucht in New Orleans nach Schauplätzen des Romans «Der Gott der Alpträume». In San Francisco besucht sie das Krankenhaus, in dem Paula Fox zwanzigjährig ihr erstes sort bekam – und zur Adoption freigab. Vor allem aber sitzt sie immer wieder mit Paula Fox am Tisch ihres Brooklyner Hauses und forscht einem Leben nach, das selbst wie ein Roman ist.
Einmal quer durch Amerika und bis nach Europa hat sich die Autorin auf die Spur eines Lebens und Werks begeben, das auf unvergleichliche Weise nicht nur von einer persönlichen Geschichte Zeugnis ablegt, sondern vom Leben in Amerika im 20. Jahrhundert.

This sterling biography of Germany’s maximum author offers Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as though we're seeing him for the 1st time.

The paintings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has reverberated via and a part centuries, changing the process literature in methods either grand and intimate. No different author so thoroughly captivated the highbrow lifetime of overdue eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe, placing into language the anxieties and targets of a civilization at the cusp of modernity. A literary famous person by means of the age of twenty-five, Goethe, who was once born in Frankfurt in 1749, attracted the adulation and admire of the best scientists, politicians, composers, and philosophers of his day. Schoolboys dressed like his fictional characters. Napoleon learn his first novel obsessively. He used to be an astoundingly prolific author, a grasp of many genres, from poetry to clinical treatises, from novels just like the tragic Sorrows of younger Werther to dramatic works like Faust. certainly, Goethe’s unheard of literary output could come to outline the Romantic age.

Rüdiger Safranski’s Goethe: existence as a piece of Art is the 1st definitive biography in a iteration to inform the larger-than-life tale of the author thought of to be the Shakespeare of German literature. Drawing upon the trove of letters, diaries, and notebooks Goethe left at the back of, in addition to correspondence and feedback from Goethe’s contemporaries, Safranski weaves a wealthy story of Europe within the throes of revolution and of the fellow whose rules heralded a brand new era.

Safranski’s enormous biography is a cautious survey of Goethe’s wide-ranging genius. past his superb literary presents, Goethe used to be intensely drawn to common technology and took heavily his legit publish as a statesman, operating tirelessly to make sure that the operating terrible bought wages and day-by-day bread. With grace and nuance, Safranski crafts a portrait of Goethe’s internal lifestyles that illuminates either his written paintings and the turmoil and triumphs of his period. Safranski indicates that studying Goethe provides now not easily an come across with a literary virtuoso yet a chance to enhance a deeper appreciation of the human condition.

Goethe used to be writing in the middle of a dramatic and bloody time for Europe: the revolutions in France and the USA overturned the outdated regimes and brought new methods of brooding about the area. Set in contrast backdrop, Goethe’s lifestyles and paintings function a necessary touchstone for the delivery of the trendy age. yet as Safranski eventually indicates, Goethe’s maximum production used to be not just his literary masterpieces yet his very life.