In Rome one January afternoon in 1943, a young German woman is on her way to listen to a Bach concert at the Lutheran church. The war is for her little more than a daydream, until she realizes that her husband might never return. Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman, winner of the prestigious Georg Büchner prize, is a mesmerizing psychological portrait of the human need to safeguard innocence and integrity at any cost―even at the risk of excluding reality. More than just the story of this single woman, it is a compelling and credible description of a typical young German woman during the Nazi era.

Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Delius, Friedrich Christian

Literary

FSG Originals

Fiction. Translated by Robert A. Cantrick. Rome, 2011. A German archaeologist and part-time tour guide accidentally stumbles upon the pope attending a Protestant church incognito and enters into a whirlwind of speculation: What does the pope's hand do when he's doing nothing? What might make his hand twitch? Is there such a thing as a papal slap, and if so to whom should it be administered? To the lecherous Italian Prime Minister? To a certain Libyan oil dictator as he curries favor with the Italian head of state with thirty Berber horses while at the same time attempting to convert all of Europe to Islam? And speaking of which, why did Saint Augustine have to bribe the Roman Emperor Honorius with eighty Numidian stallions to gain acceptance for the doctrine of original sin? Why do Germans long for Rome, even though--ever since the Teutonic invasions and the Nazi occupation--they have been considered the worst sort of barbarians there? Meanwhile, the narrator's sister-in-law dreams of being pope, the pizza breath of noisy tourists wafts through the Sistine Chapel, and rats swarm about Via Veneto. Looking past the idealized Rome of picture postcards, the tour guide mentally roams through the city's long history and extols the Italian art of saying yes and no at the same time. At once a timeless tale of Rome and the birth of a modern legend: how the pope became a Lutheran. "A wonderful story...here a free spirit vents his feelings on the oppressive perfume of the Roman historical superpower."--Süddeutsche Zeitung "A slender, intelligent book...satirical and written with literary finesse."--Westdeutscher Rundfunk "Besides the Baedeker, this book belongs in the luggage of every visitor to Rome."--Deutschlandfunk

The Pope's Left Hand

Robert A Cantrick (Translator)

Humor & Satire

Noumena Press

Der Spaziergang von Rostock nach Syrakus: Erzählung (German Edition)

Rowohlt

Die Birnen von Ribbeck. Erzählung. (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)

Poetry

Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH

Deutscher Herbst: Drei Romane in einem Band: Ein Held der inneren Sicherheit / Mogadischu Fensterplatz / Himmelfahrt eines Staatsfeindes (rororo Taschenbücher)

Genre Fiction

Rowohlt Taschenbuch

Series; Rororo Literatur ; 22887. Physical description; 141 p. ; 18 cm. Subject; Freidrich Christian. The flutter tongue. Narrative.

Die Flatterzunge.

Contemporary

Rowohlt Tb.

Der Sonntag, an dem ich Weltmeister wurde: Werkausgabe in Einzelbänden (Delius: Werkausgabe in Einzelbänden)

Der Spaziergang von Rostock nach Syrakus. Großdruck

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Am 1. Mai 1966 gert ein junger Deutscher aus der hessischen Provinz in einen New Yorker Jazzclub, es spielt der Saxophonist Albert Ayler. Befremdet, beleidigt, beschwingt von der unerhrtesten Musik jener Zeit, beginnt der junge Mann, das ganze unheilvolle Durcheinander der Gegenwart aus diesen Tnen herauszuhren, den Mord an Kennedy, den Vietnamkrieg, den Brsenlrm, den Kampf der Schwarzen, die Studentenproteste. Je mehr er sich einlsst auf die wilde Musik, desto nher kommt der angehende Dichter sich selbst, bis zum verdrngten Schmerz eines Vaterkonflikts, der von einem anderen Jazzkonzert ausgelst wurde, und zu den peinlichen, pubertren Anfngen seines Schreibens. Gebannt von Aylers Improvisationsruschen, begreift der junge Mann in einem hellsichtigen Assoziationstaumel die revolutionre Energie, die in Wachheit und Wut steckt. Diese Musik lsst ihn krperlich fhlen, wie Zerstren und Zersetzen der Beginn alles Schnen sein kann und die Kunst das Rettende wird.Eine autobiographische Erzhlung von Friedrich Christian Delius, die den Aufbruchsgeist einer ganzen Epoche beschwrt.

Die Zukunft der Schönheit

Rowohlt Berlin

Wenn die Chinesen Rügen kaufen, dann denkt an mich

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