Follows the eminent European newspaper correspondent's near-prophetic perceptions of a European order that would enable a transcendental world of beauty and promise. 12,000 first printing.

Report from a Parisian Paradise: Essays from France, 1925-1939

History

Michael Hofmann

Joseph-Roth

Europe

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

"[Joseph Roth] is now recognized as one of the twentieth century's great writers." ―Anthony Heilbut, Los Angeles Times Book Review The Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for What I Saw, a book that has become a classic with five hardcover printings. Glowingly reviewed, What I Saw introduces a new generation to the genius of this tortured author with its "nonstop brilliance, irresistible charm and continuing relevance" (Jeffrey Eugenides, The New York Times Book Review). As if anticipating Christopher Isherwood, the book re-creates the tragicomic world of 1920s Berlin as seen by its greatest journalistic eyewitness. In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic. He produced a series of impressionistic and political essays that influenced an entire generation of writers, including Thomas Mann and the young Christopher Isherwood. Translated and collected here for the first time, these pieces record the violent social and political paroxysms that constantly threatened to undo the fragile democracy that was the Weimar Republic. Roth, like no other German writer of his time, ventured beyond Berlin's official veneer to the heart of the city, chronicling the lives of its forgotten inhabitants: the war cripples, the Jewish immigrants from the Pale, the criminals, the bathhouse denizens, and the nameless dead who filled the morgues. Warning early on of the dangers posed by the Nazis, Roth evoked a landscape of moral bankruptcy and debauched beauty; a memorable portrait of a city and a time of commingled hope and chaos. What I Saw, like no other existing work, records the violent social and political paroxysms that compromised and ultimately destroyed the precarious democracy that was the Weimar Republic.

What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933

Michael Bienert

W.W.Norton&Company

This book is the companion volume to "Emotion Pictures". In the book Wenders moves from a contemplation of pure cinema, to a consideration and analysis of his own films. Beginning with the question: Why do you make films?, Wenders expresses his own unique approach to cinema. He then proceeds to discuss the full range of his work, from "Summer in the City" and his early German films, through to "Paris, Texas" and "Wings of Desire".

The Logic of Images: Essays and Conversations

Wenders, Wim

Humor & Entertainment

Faber&Faber

This collection of poetry ranges from one-horse Mexican towns to the beach at Thorpeness. By the author of "Acrimony", which was a Poetry Book Society choice, and "Nights in the Iron Hotel".

Corona, Corona

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Faber and Faber Ltd.

Though Arthur Golding's translation of 1579, Ovid's "Metamorphoses" was once the most popular Latin poem among English readers, this collection is a celebration of several translations of Ovid's piece. It features contributions from Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, C.K. Williams and Vicki Feaver.

After Ovid

Faber Paperbacks

Many of the poems in Hofmann's impressive new collection return to the subject of his father, the German novelist Gert Hofmann. In 1993 Gert Hofmann died, and the poems written since that time reflect the evolution of a complex relationship: frankness and factuality are tempered by grief, pity, pain, and bemusement. But whatever the subject matter, whatever the real or imagined impetus or poetic impulse, the lyrics throughout Approximately Nowhere are expertly conveyed in a flowing style and a variety of tones.

Approximately Nowhere: Poems

Ambrosio is a Spanish guestworker who goes to Switzerland as a farm labourer, working for the prosperous Farmer Knuchel. He ends up seven years later in the abbattoir, on the day that the prize cow of the farm - Blosch - is rendered a pathetic figure in the slaughterhouse.

The Cow

Beat Sterchi

Contemporary

Michael Hofmann's poems have been widely admired, notably for their gift of compressed and vividly pointed reportage, and the collision course of words and dictions that his poetry characteristically provokes. His subject matter has been equally individual, including his remarkable and complex series of 'father-poems', his subtle portraiture of the lives of others, "East and West", together with his acerbic impressionism of contemporary England, and his exploration of Adorno's injunction that 'it is part of morality not to be at home in one's home'.

Selected Poems Michael Hofmann

Faber and Faber

A mysterious Russian emigre manipulates the two rival sons of a wealthy banker, and Andreas, a drunkard is asked to deliver a large donation to the shrine of St. Therese

Right and Left and the Legend of the Holy Drinker

Literary

The Overlook Press

Right and Left: The Legend of the Holy Drinker

Roth, Joseph

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