category: german fiction

Roman um eine amerikanische Journalistin, die an einem Psychoanalytikerkongress in Europa teilnimmt. Ihr Anliegen: sich selbst und ihre Beziehung zum Sex und zu ihrer Umwelt zu ergründen.

But, as the author notes in this edition, Steppenwolf is a book that has been consistently misinterpreted.

The novel is a 'story of ideas', which takes place in the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's last days, and the plot often veers into allegorical dissections on a wide range of existential themes concerning humanity and feelings.

... naïve super- stitions , romantic legends , and strong attach- ment to the ancient patriarchal life , we must seek him in the villages and very small towns of the East , in Alsace , Germany , Austria , Poland , even in England and Spain ...

... VERONA — THE CA- be 7524 Red 1 THI > AT 3 THE IMPROVISATORE. Rosa then told me what I had already heard from Poggio , that Maria had been blind , and that her brother had given sight to her eyes . Maria ... little room where Rosa and Maria ...

... Maria , laughing . The Forester's two older boys now came running with some kindling to light a fire beside the garden wall ; and Verona ... little while she took a piece of embroidery from her handbag and a Nuremberg ... Maria . " It looks ...

... Jenny Erpenbeck's, and many are set in Berlin, where Erpenbeck lives. The things that vanish in Erpenbeck's stories are easily missed by the casual observer and thus invite the reader to slow down and take notice. For instance ...

... love at the center ? ” ( Klemm and Klemm ) . “ Always the same question : Why doesn't DEFA make comedies ? " ( Eyck ) . The consensus seemed to be that East German films were neither fun nor romantic . The thornier questions were why ...

... letter , then assail him with the weapons of reproach . More than once mistaken , he was now beginning to be really 20453.30.10.5- 20453.20.10 20452,4.5 PARVAND COLLEGE MAY 8 1922 LIBRARY Substitutia CHAP . I. ] MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP 3.

... Niflung's Heath . " He then offered to the herald a golden goblet full of rich wine , and added , " Drink that , and then carry off with thee the cup which thou hast emptied . " " The Baron of Montfaucon likewise sends greet- ing to thy ...

... chords were struck more firmly , and she sang : " All day long the bright sun loves me , Woos me with his glowing light ; But I better love ... unending , Bitter tears for love undone ; For the dearest , for the fairest , Only one . Falsest ...

Cartagena im ausgehenden 18.

... ( Demian 7 ) No novel seems more antithetical to nationalism and modernity than Hermann Hesse's Demian : die Geschichte von Emil Sinclair's Jugend . This Bildungsroman , or " coming of age novel , " of two young mystics , ostensibly ...

... Susan Sontag : ' Fascinating Fascism ' . 1974. SSR 319 . 17 Norman Spinrad : Introduction to Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg ( eds ) : Hitler Victorious . Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II . London 1986. P. 20 ...

... past , and live only in the present , my dear , sweet child ! The past is ... pardon me , Paulo , but you will also acknowledge that my enigmatical past justifies me in feeling some curiosity . Only think how it ... THE CHARMED GARDEN . 217.

... , sat down on a stone bench at the window , opened it and looked out , to divert his mind , on the starry heavens , and at the silvery moon . The street below him grew more and more silent , and , contrary to the 72 THE SPECTRE BARBER .

... , sat down on a stone bench at the window , opened it and looked out , to divert his mind , on the starry heavens , and at the silvery moon . The street below him grew more and more silent , and , contrary to the 72 THE SPECTRE BARBER .

... Knan and Meuder , there seems little love in the older narrator for the life of the peasant , no farmyard nostalgia . Sympathy may be evoked by the song " Du sehr - verachter Bauren - Stand " and laugh- ter by the Knan's attempt to ...

'Die Muschelsucher' und 'September' eroberten die Herzen der Leser. Mit 'Blumen im Regen' eröffnet Rosamunde Pilcher nun ihre einzigartige Sammlung von Erzählungen.