Described by Brecht as a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all, Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade.
One of Bertolt Brecht's best-loved and most performed plays, The Threepenny Opera was first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble). Based on the eighteenth-century The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, the play is a satire on the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. With Kurt Weill's music, which was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce the jazz idiom into the theatre, it became a popular hit throughout the western world. This new edition is published here in John Willett and Ralph Manhein's classic translation with commentary and notes by Anja Hartl.
Margarete Buber, the journalist daughter of Martin Buber, and Milena Jesenska, the beautiful lover of Kafka, met in Ravensbruck concentration camp in 1940. For four terrible years, the two women formed an extraordinary bond and made a pact that if only one survived, the other would bear witness. Only Margarete lived to remember. This is her story of Milena--of fearless love, sacrifice, and nobility.
Heitere Gelassenheit und unaufdringliche Satire. Una historia de amor heiter-melancólica del premio Nobel de Literatura, narrada con sutil ironía y aguda sátira. En la obra de prosa de Grass, el narrador recibe un paquete con archivos de un antiguo compañero de clase, con los que escribe la historia de una "hermosa idea y su horrible materialización". En el Día de Todos los Santos de 1989, en Gdansk, se encuentran un viudo y una viuda, un historiador del arte alemán y una restauradora polaca. Ambos son desplazados y sus padres deseaban descansar en su tierra natal. Surge así la idea de una sociedad de cementerios germano-polaca, donde los desplazados puedan regresar como muertos a "cementerios de reconciliación". A lo largo de los años, esto se convierte en una próspera empresa económica y una nueva ocupación alemana en Polonia, incluyendo hogares de ancianos para los "deseosos de ser enterrados" y instalaciones de "Bungagolf" para sus nietos. Con tranquilidad y sátira, se aborda el morir, la dignidad y la paz de la muerte, recordando el mensaje de resurrección: "Verás, será como renacer".
Como obra, "Mi Lucha" representa uno de los documentos fundamentales de la ideología nazi, que en el pasado causó millones de muertes. Contiene numerosas medias verdades y mentiras, demagogia propagandística y opiniones que son despectivas hacia la humanidad, racistas y en contradicción con las leyes de los estados democráticos.
Con La vida ante sí, Romain Gary obtuvo, bajo el seudónimo Émile Ajar, su segundo Goncourt, un honor único ya que este premio solo puede concederse una vez. Una vieja prostituta judía, superviviente de Auschwitz, regenta en el barrio parisino de Belleville una casa donde crecen los hijos no deseados de las prostitutas. Momo es uno de ellos. A través de su mirada infantil, con grandes dosis de ironía y ternura, el lector descubre el mundo sórdido que le rodea y la decrepitud de la mujer que le ha hecho de madre. Uno de los libros más interesantes de la literatura francesa contemporánea de las últimas décadas.
El Reino de Fantasía enfrenta un grave peligro que amenaza su existencia, y sus habitantes se sienten impotentes ante la amenaza. Sin embargo, hay alguien que puede ayudar: un niño llamado Bastián, que vive en el mundo real. Al ser convocado, Bastián se embarca en una aventura transformadora junto a Atreyu, un valiente guerrero de piel verde, y un dragón de la suerte volador. Su misión es crucial, y el destino del Reino de Fantasía depende de él. Esta obra es un clásico que resuena con lectores de todas las edades y trasfondos, cautivando tanto a niños como a adultos. Los niños se sumergen en un mundo de fantasía lleno de misterios y aventuras, mientras que los adultos encuentran una vía de escape de la realidad y una reflexión sobre la importancia de la imaginación, un don que a menudo se olvida al crecer. Michael Ende teje una narrativa rica y compleja, poblada por personajes memorables y escenarios asombrosos, como castillos, princesas y dragones. A través de esta historia, se nos recuerda que la imaginación es un tesoro invaluable que reside en todos nosotros, y que Ende supo plasmar magistralmente en su obra, invitándonos a redescubrir el Reino de Fantasía que todos llevamos dentro.
El cascanueces y el rey de los ratones (en alemán: Nussknacker und Mausekönig) es un cuento escrito por Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann en 1816. La historia trata sobre el nuevo juguete de la joven Marie Stahlbaum, el Cascanueces, recibido la noche de Navidad que cobra vida y, después de derrotar al Rey Ratón tras una dura batalla, la lleva a un reino mágico poblado por muñecos.
Gevoelens en ervaringen van een Joodse kleuter, die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog met zijn ouders enkele jaren in een concentratiekamp doorbrengt.
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My Belief: Essays on Life and Art is a collection of essays by Hermann Hesse. The essays, written between 1904 and 1961, were originally published in German, either individually or in various collections between 1951 and 1973. This collection in English was first published in 1976, edited by Theodore Ziolkowski.
Hermann Hesse; selected by Volker Michels; translated by Ralph Manheim. Reflections. New Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1974. 1st American Edition, Hardbound, 8.5 inches tall, 197 pages. Sources. "The aging Hermann Hesse arranged to have privately printed a collection of thirty-nine brief passages culled from his writings, with which to reply to some of the innumerable letters he received. The existence of this book provided encouragement for the present expanded volume, which a first published in Germany in 1971."
Herman Hesse remained clear-sighted and consistent in his political views and his passionate espousal of pacifism and the bloody absurdity of war from the start of the First World War to the end of his life. He wrote the earliest essay in this book in September 1914, before he cemented his fame with the novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, and continued writing a stream of letters, essays and pamphlets throughout the war. In his native Germany his views earned him the labels 'traitor' and 'viper', but after World War II he was moved to reiterate his beliefs in another series of essays and letters.If the War Goes On . . . resonates as strongly today as it did when originally published and begs the question: have our politicians learnt nothing in the last seventy years?
Esta "Introducción a la metafísica" es una auténtica inmersión en el pensamiento de Heidegger. La obra se presenta como una profunda reflexión sobre los fundamentos de nuestra situación planetaria. A través de sus páginas, el autor invita al lector a explorar cuestiones fundamentales sobre la existencia, el ser y la naturaleza de la realidad. Heidegger aborda temas que trascienden el tiempo y el espacio, ofreciendo una perspectiva que invita a la meditación y el cuestionamiento. Su estilo accesible permite que la obra sea leída con facilidad, facilitando una comprensión inmediata de conceptos complejos. Esta obra se convierte así en un punto de partida esencial para aquellos que buscan adentrarse en el pensamiento metafísico y en la filosofía contemporánea.
A haunting classic from the author of All Quiet on the Western Front, Shadows in Paradise reveals the deepest scars of the men and women who experienced the Holocaust. After years of hiding and surviving near death in a concentration camp, Ross is finally safe. Now living in New York City among old friends, far from Europe’s chilling atrocities, Ross soon meets Natasha, a beautiful model and fellow émigré, a warm heart to help him forget his cold memories. Yet even as the war draws to its violent close, Ross cannot find peace. Demons still pursue him. Whether they are ghosts from the past or the guilt of surviving, he does not know. For he is only beginning to understand that freedom is far from easy—and that paradise, however perfect, has a price. “The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”—The New York Times Book Review
Rosshalde is the classic story of a man torn between obligations to his family and his longing for a spiritual fulfillment that can only be found outside the confines of conventional society.Johann Veraguth, a wealthy, successful artist, is estranged from his wife and stifled by the unhappy union. Veraguth’s love for his young son and his fear of drifting rootlessly keep him bound within the walls of his opulent estate, Rosshalde. Yet, when he is shaken by an unexpected tragedy, Veraguth finally finds the courage to leave the desolate safety of Rosshalde and travels to India to discover himself anew.
Death on the Installment Plan is the story of young Ferdinand's first 18 years. His life is one of hatred, of the grinding struggle of small shopkeepers to survive, of childhood sensations and fantasies - lusty, scatological, violent, but also poetic. There is a running battle with his ineffectual insurance clerk of a father, with his mother, who lives and whines around the junkshop she runs for the boys benefit; there is also the superbly funny Meanwell College in England, where the boy went briefly, a Dickensian, nightmare institution. Always there is humiliation, failure, and boredom, at least until he teams up with the "scientist" des Pereires. This inventor, con-man, incorrigible optimist - whose last project is to grow enormous potatoes by electricity - rescues him, if only temporarily; for the reader he is one of the most lovable charlatans in French literature.
