Résultats pour "Das Meer" dans Auteurs

A “dramatic [and] ingeniously crafted” (Los Angeles Times) memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl. “A beautiful portrait of a full life that has been buoyed by an...

Das Meer war für Thomas Mann sein Leben lang ein Ort der Sehnsucht und des verheißungsvollen Sogs in die Tiefe. Ein Ort der Befreiung von den bürgerlichen, politischen und erotischen Zwängen seines Lebens. Er wächst an der Ostsee auf, aber sobald er kann, geht er in den Süden, ans Mittelmeer, verliebt sich in junge Männer, folgt aber dann doch den Konventionen der Zeit und heiratet Katia. Weidermann erzählt das Leben des Thomas Mann ganz neu.

An award-winning poet’s “beautifully written” (The Seattle Times) portrait of an American family and his own coming of age in the 1960s and 1970s in the wake of his father’s suicide. This memoir “belongs on the special shelves we keep for the books we cannot quite forget” (George...

At the time of his death Eric Hobsbawm was the most famous historian in the world. He not only wrote history was also witness to it, from the Communist uprising in Europe to revolution in Cuba where he was Che Guevara's interpreter. He was instrumental in the birth of New Labour and was also a jazz journalist for The New Statesman.