Eva Menasse: Vienna
It took a little longer, but now are the detailed contents and the commentary on Eva Manasseh: Vienna done.
soon:
"Vienna" is about a family in Vienna with Austrian and Catholic-Jewish-Slavic roots. The members it is not easy to their identities are clear. What can help them are the memories that are passed in the family. Eva Menasse uses these memories to the I-form, and instead make them fit in a linear plot, they can swarm it of quirky anecdotes.
In "Vienna" Eva Menasse are some brilliant miniatures succeeded with sparkling wit, but lacks the partially autobiographical family novel it to a gripping plot.
Detailed book:
http://www.dieterwunderlich.de/Menasse_vienna.htm
Friday, October 2, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Will Crosby Ever Play For Montreal?
Stefan Zweig: The House of Rothschild Avenue
Although I read Stefan Zweig: The House Rothschildallee on Thursday off, but only today I came to write a synopsis and a commentary about it.
In brief: The Frankfurt
cloth merchant Johann Isidor Sternberg is pleased that his older son at the outbreak of World War I volunteered. In October 1914, is Otto. Even this loss brings Johann Sternberg on it, to feel as a German patriot. He is convinced that he and most other Jews are integrated into German society. End of 1917 must see Sternberg, however, that he deceived added: Anti-Semitism in the German Reich is still widespread.
Stefanie Zweig does a lot of time, the unspectacular family history with a fine sense of humor in an elegant and understated language to tell. The novel "The House of Rothschild Avenue" begins on 27 January 1900, but played the bulk of 1914 to 1917.
Detailed book:
http://www.dieterwunderlich.de/Zweig_haus_rothschildallee.htm
NB: In the meantime I've started Eva Menasse: read Vienna.
Although I read Stefan Zweig: The House Rothschildallee on Thursday off, but only today I came to write a synopsis and a commentary about it.
In brief: The Frankfurt
cloth merchant Johann Isidor Sternberg is pleased that his older son at the outbreak of World War I volunteered. In October 1914, is Otto. Even this loss brings Johann Sternberg on it, to feel as a German patriot. He is convinced that he and most other Jews are integrated into German society. End of 1917 must see Sternberg, however, that he deceived added: Anti-Semitism in the German Reich is still widespread.
Stefanie Zweig does a lot of time, the unspectacular family history with a fine sense of humor in an elegant and understated language to tell. The novel "The House of Rothschild Avenue" begins on 27 January 1900, but played the bulk of 1914 to 1917.
Detailed book:
http://www.dieterwunderlich.de/Zweig_haus_rothschildallee.htm
NB: In the meantime I've started Eva Menasse: read Vienna.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
People Think I Act Gay
Extraordinary Women
Stefanie Zweig: The House on Rothschild Avenue I have now read. Soon more. At the moment I read Eva Menasse: Vienna .
just appeared Dieter Wunderlich: Extraordinary Women. 18 portraits (Piper Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN: 978-3-492-25459-5
270 p., 18 fig, 8.95 € (D)). The book is available in October in bookstores everywhere.
the author about his book:
Some have portrayed in this book except Ordinary women also messy. In the selection but I felt something else: I was looking for exceptional individuals who violate gender role expectations in their current order, therefore not "properly" behave. The impressive examples readers - encourage them to go their own way instead of letting yourself go critical, because a democratic society depends on self-conscious individuals with their own opinions - and readers.
Content:
Stefanie Zweig: The House on Rothschild Avenue I have now read. Soon more. At the moment I read Eva Menasse: Vienna .
just appeared Dieter Wunderlich: Extraordinary Women. 18 portraits (Piper Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN: 978-3-492-25459-5
270 p., 18 fig, 8.95 € (D)). The book is available in October in bookstores everywhere.
the author about his book:
Some have portrayed in this book except Ordinary women also messy. In the selection but I felt something else: I was looking for exceptional individuals who violate gender role expectations in their current order, therefore not "properly" behave. The impressive examples readers - encourage them to go their own way instead of letting yourself go critical, because a democratic society depends on self-conscious individuals with their own opinions - and readers.
Content:
- Lola Montez (1821-1861): "I am the mistress des Königs!«
- Franziska zu Reventlow (1871–1918): »Ich will überhaupt lauter Unmögliches«
- Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919): »Herrlich eine Zeit, die gewaltige Probleme aufwirft«
- Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927): »Autos und Fahrräder haben Rücklichter. Warum nicht ich?«
- Mata Hari (1876–1917): »Alles ist eine Illusion!«
- Alma Mahler-Werfel (1879-1964): "If I was allowed to keep the stirrups of the Knights of Light, it was justified my existence"
- Karen ("Tania") Blixen (1885-1962): "It is a heavy burden to bear alone a farm on his shoulders,"
- Anita Berber (1899-1928): "Dances of Vice, horror, and ecstasy"
- Fleisser he (1901-1974): "The love we have left out"
- Erika Mann (1905-1969): "It will be up to us to fill the minds and hearts of Germans with new ideas, hopes"
- Elly Beinhorn (1907-2007): "New wind beneath my wings"
- Rosa Parks (1913-2005): "I just knew that I was tired of being pushed around,"
- Edith Piaf (1915 & ndash , 1963): "Non, je ne regrette rien"
- Sophie Scholl (1921-1943): "Prove by the fact that you think differently,"
- Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962): "The only way for me to be something that was that I was someone else,"
- Janis Joplin (1943-1970): "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young"
- Uschi Obermaier (1946): "Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'Roll"
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali (* 1969): "I wanted to be a human, an individual with its own life,"
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