Have you ever wondered how you'd go about disappearing from your own life? In this stunning new novel, Peter Stamm explores the paths taken by a man who chooses to vanish, and the woman he leaves behind.
Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up from a 66-year sleep in his subterranean Berlin bunker to find the Germany he knew entirely changed: Internet-driven media spreads ideas in minutes and fumes celebrity obsession; immigration has produced multicultural neighborhoods bringing together people of varying race, ethnicity, and religion; and the most powerful person in government is a woman. Hitler is immediately recognized . . . as an impersonator of uncommon skill. The public assumes the fulminating leader of the Nazi party is a performer who is always in character, and soon his inevitable viral appeal begets YouTube stardom, begets television celebrity on a Turkish-born comedian's show. His bigoted rants are mistaken for a theatrical satire--exposing prejudice and misrepresentation--and his media success emboldens Hitler to start his own political party and set the country he finds a shambles back to rights. With daring and dark humor, Look Who's Back skewers the absurdity and depravity of the cult of personality in modern media culture.
'Already hailed as a Cold War classic.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent Books of the Year 'Utterly absorbing, funny and humane. A romp through a twisted century in the heart of Europe.' Anna Funder, author of Stasiland International bestseller and Winner of the German Book Prize A sweeping story of one family over four generations in East Germany: the intertwining of love, life and politics under the GDR regime.
Parti sur les traces de sa propre vie, à partir de cet espace de déterritorialisation qu'est la Bucovine, Rezzori part immanquablement sur les traces d'une Europe qui ne cesse de se recomposer. Comme une photographie plongée dans le bain du révélateur, les images de ces époques s'éclaircissent au fur et à mesure de l'évocation, se reconstituent en trame pour former l'histoire d'un destin mouvementé et irréversible Ni fresque, ni autobiographie, cette oeuvre en perpétuel mouvement, écrite d'une plume alerte et jubilatoire, impertinente, rend de façon précise cet univers ambigu où le sentiment d'isolement, les déchirements identitaires, la quête d'un salvateur reniement se conjuguent de telle sorte que Claudio Magris range Rezzori parmi les grands noms de la littérature «autrichienne», au côté de Musil et de Doderer. On pourrait y ajouter Joseph Roth et Elias Canetti.
Un manuel très structuré. Panorama chronologique de la littérature française, à travers une histoire littéraire et des extraits d'oeuvre. Pour chaque siècle, les auteurs proposent un tableau historique et social, un résumé des grands courants de pensée et littéraires.