Nietzsche: A Critical Life

Politics & Social Sciences

Ronald Hayman

Philosophy

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

K, a biography of Kafka

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Tolstoy (The Profiles in literature series)

Humanities Press

How to Read a Play is an introductory guide to the art of translating the printed page of a play or screenplay into dramatic mental images; it has been a classic among actors, directors, and writers for the past twenty years. Now fully updated and revised, the book devotes a chapter exclusively to screenplays, noting the intrinsic differences between a screenplay and a playscript and thus bringing this invaluable classic up to date.

How to Read a Play

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Grove Weidenfeld

How to read a play

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

Bertold Brecht: Plays

Imprint unknown

Provides a critical analysis of the contemporary American playwright's art and achievements

Edward Albee (Contemporary playwrights)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Heinemann Educational

Quartet Books

A memorable record of Jewish family life in England, set mainly at Hayman's grandmother's seaside hotel in Bournemouth. I like Hayman's autobiography very much. The characters are all most moving to me, as are the environments...The internal changes in the hero reflected in the story as we move from boyhood to young manhood are so beautifully mirrored and so convincing."" - Angus Wilson. ""Curiously gripping and hard to put down...the writing is extremely skilful."" - The Times.

Secrets: Boyhood in a Jewish Hotel

History & Criticism

Peter Owen Ltd

Thomas Mann: A Biography

Thomas Mann, author of "Death in Venice", "The Magic Mountain", and "Buddenbrooks" was a man with secrets. This biography offers a portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning German novelist, drawing on Mann's unexpurgated diaries. It uncovers a brilliant writer's mask to reveal the private man: his bisexuality, his obsession with preserving appearances and the deep guilt which plagued him for nearly fifty years. The sanitized self-image Mann strove to maintain is revealed as a fragile veneer. Drawing on the diaries that he stipulated should remain under seal for twenty years after his death, and on interviews with Mann's children, the author depicts a man subject to nervous trembling, convulsive sobbing and moments of sexual embarrassment. When his novels are reread from this perspective, new meanings emerge and interconnections between the problems of the author and his characters become apparent. As Mann wrote to a friend, he devised "novelistic forms and masks which can be displayed in public as a means of relaying my love, my hatred, my sympathy, my contempt, my pride, my scorn and the accusations I want to make". Ronald Hayman is the biographer of Proust, Sartre, Kafka, Nietzche, Brecht and Sylvia Plath.

Arts & Literature

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