Peter Conradi Libros

A survey of English poetry, fiction, and drama ranges from the 8th century Beowulf to the present

The Cold War ended twenty-five years ago, but tensions between Russia and the West are as bad as ever. What happened? Essential background reading to understanding the bizarre and shifting relationship between Trumps America and Putins Russia. Exclusive interviews with key figures both in Russia and the West, including Putins former Chief of Staff

Iris Murdoch, who died in 1999, was the author of 26 novels, including The Bell, A Fairly Honourable Defeat, The Black Prince, and the Booker Prize-winning The Sea, The Sea. In The Saint and the Artist, now fully revised and updated, distinguished literary critic Peter J. Conradi offers a lively and valuable critical appreciation of her works of fiction. He traces the way in which the zest and buoyant high spirits of her early novels gave way to a more deeply and darkly comic achievement in the novels of the 1970s. Conradi, who knew Murdoch well, suggests how her own life, wonderfully transmuted into high art, provided the raw material for her novels; he also argues that they should be read as serious entertainments and as important fictions in the Anglo-Russian tradition, and not as disguised philosophy. Peter J. Conradi is the author of the highly acclaimed biography Iris Murdoch: A Life.

In this riveting and extensively researched account, Peter Conradi - the celebrated author of The King's Speech - offers an uncompromising portrayal of Europe's royals and reveals the scandals, excesses, conflicts and interests hidden behind the pomp of the ceremonial garb and the grandeur of official functions.

The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning film The King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the relationship between the two men did not end there. Far from it: in the years that followed, Logue was to play an even more important role at the monarch's side. The King's War follows this relationship through the dark days of Dunkirk and the drama of D-Day to eventual victory in 1945 - and beyond. The King's War is a fascinating portrait of two men and their respective families - the Windsors and the Logues - as they together faced up to the greatest challenge in Britain's history

It often takes a crisis to see what a life's shape has been, to show what really matters. For Peter Conradi, writer, academic, acclaimed biographer of Iris Murdoch, the moment came in 1982. self-help book for cynics, in which it becomes clear that going Buddhist is neither a quick fix, nor a one-shot deal. Conradi explains the point of a religion relevant to Westerners, perishing from the knowingness and nihilism of the age.

It's the eve of World War II, and King Edward VIII has abdicated the throne of England to marry the woman he loves. Never has the nation needed a leader more. But the new monarch, George VI--father of today's Queen Elizabeth II--is painfully shy and cursed with a terrible stammer. How can he inspire confidence in his countrymen when he cannot even speak to them? Help arrives in speech therapist Logue, who not only is a commoner, but Australian to boot. Will he be able to give King George his voice? The King's Speech tells an inspiring tale of triumph over adversity and the unlikely friendship between a reluctant king and the charismatic subject who saved the throne.

Between June 9th and 12th 1939, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were the guests of Franklin Delano Roosevelt at his country estate in Hyde Park, New York, during what was the first ever visit by a reigning British monarch to the United States. Coming at a time when Britain desperately needed U.S. help in the conflict that now seemed inevitable, the meeting was front page news on both sides of the Atlantic and imbued with huge political significance. This fascinating book recreates the backdrop to the royal visit, analyzing the political background and the media's reaction, and tells the back stories both of the King and of Roosevelt, whose colorful personal life became entwined with the visit

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Ein Mann in Adolf Hitlers Umfeld spielte während dessen Aufstieg zur Macht eine besondere Rolle: Ernst 'Putzi' Hanfstaengl. Er lebte lange in New York, war Lebensgefährte von Djuna Barnes und ein Studienfreund von Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1921 kehrte er nach Deutschland zurück. Beeindruckt von Hitlers Auftreten wurde er Parteimitglied und stieg zum Auslandspressechef auf. Er wurde ein enger Vertrauter Hitlers, der ihn zu jeder Tages- und Nachtzeit zum Klavierspielen zitierte. 1937 wurde offensichtlich, dass sein Einfluss auf Hitler geschwunden war und die Parteispitze ihn kaltstellte. Er fürchtete um sein Leben und floh über die Schweiz nach England. Dort wurde er zu Kriegsbeginn interniert und später nach Kanada deportiert. Hanfstaengl nahm Kontakt zu Roosevelts Umfeld auf, der ab 1942 dessen Insider-Kenntnisse für die psychologische Kriegsführung gegen Nazi-Deutschland nutzte. Nach Kriegsende wandelte er sich vom Saulus zum Paulus und erklärte, dass es für ihn heute unvorstellbar ist, wie er Hitler je verfallen konnte. Peter Conradi widerlegt diese Aussage, indem er die Mechanismen von Ehrgeiz, Macht und Machterhalt analysiert. Darüber hinaus bietet dieses Buch einen lebendigen und sachkundigen Einblick in die gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse, die den Aufstieg der Nationalsozialisten erst möglich gemacht haben.

Neuvěřitelný příběh jediné osoby, která přímo pracovala pro Hitlera a Franklina D. Roosevelta - příjemného absolventa Harvardu Ernsta Hanfstaengla, který pomáhal vytvořit stvůru nacismu a později pracoval na jejím zničení. Byl to muž, který se těšil důvěře "vůdce" i F. D. Roosevelta, muž s jedinečným celosvětovým rozhledem po katastrofických událostech počátku dvacátého století. Ernst Hanfstaengl (známý jako Putzi) byl domýšlivý Hitlerův dvorní šašek, pianista, který ho dovedl uklidňovat, a mazaný šéf Hitlerova odboru pro zahraniční tisk v období jeho vzestupu; později hrál roli v Rooseveltově nanejvýš tajném projektu, zaměřeném na propagandu proti Třetí říši. Kniha Hitlerův pianista, která odhaluje mnoho skutečností z Hitlerova osobního života a popisuje americkou psychologickou válku, vypráví příběh muže, rozpolceného svou loajalitou vůči dvěma nesmiřitelným odpůrcům.

Für Falschgeld gibt es keine Schokolade - bk306; Carlsen Verlag; Peter Conradi; Paperback; 1985

Iris Murduch (1919 - 1999) - unbestrittene Doyenne der britischen Gegenwartsliteratur - prägte als Romanautorin ebenso wie auch durch ihre beeindruckende Persönlichkeit eine ganze Epoche.§Der Autor kannte Iris Murduch nicht nur persönlich, er hatte auch Zugang zu ihren Briefen und Aufzeichnungen und gibt in dieser Biografie Einblick in das sehr facettenreiche Leben einer großen Schriftstellerin.