Ralph Manheim Libri

Louis-Ferdinand Celine's second novel continues the style of black humor and the delirious but immediate prose that made the author instantly famous in his native France in the aftermath of World War I. Celine's goal was to create a kind of literature that described people in honest terms, unembellished by the conventions of fiction, no matter how mean and crummy they were, and to portray them in the real language of everyday life and thought. He succeeds darkly and brilliantly in Death on the Installment Plan, yet it is also a sweet kind of book, a young boy's coming-of-age tale, struggling with his parents and looking for his own kind of personal freedom.

A haunting classic from the author of All Quiet on the Western Front, Shadows in Paradise reveals the deepest scars of the men and women who experienced the Holocaust. After years of hiding and surviving near death in a concentration camp, Ross is finally safe. Now living in New York City among old friends, far from Europe’s chilling atrocities, Ross soon meets Natasha, a beautiful model and fellow émigré, a warm heart to help him forget his cold memories. Yet even as the war draws to its violent close, Ross cannot find peace. Demons still pursue him. Whether they are ghosts from the past or the guilt of surviving, he does not know. For he is only beginning to understand that freedom is far from easy—and that paradise, however perfect, has a price. “The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”—The New York Times Book Review

"Questo, ecco proprio questo era ciò che lui aveva sognato tanto spesso e che sempre aveva desiderato...: una stora che non dovesse mai avere fine. Il libro di tutti i libri" Michael Ende, figlio del pittore surrealista Edgar, è nato in Germania nel 1929. Ha lavorato nel mondo dello spettacolo e curato regie per il Teatro di Monaco. Oltre alla Storia infinita, grandissimo successo hanno avuto anche Momo>/i> (1981), Lo specchio nello specchio (1986) e l'azione scenica La favola dei saltimbanchi. Pubblicati dalla Salani sono Le avventure di Jim Bottone (1989) e La terribile banda de Tredici Pirati (1990).

The German existentialist delineates his theories concerning the nature, problems, and limitations of man's being

Eroe di guerra, diplomatico, cineasta, Romain Gary si suicidò il 3 dicembre 1980. La sua scomparsa fece scalpore ma il vero colpo di scena arrivò quando, pochi mesi dopo la morte, si scoprì che Gary ed Emile Ajar, autore del romanzo "La vita davanti a sé", erano in realtà la stessa persona. Il libro, che narra le vicende di Momo, ragazzo arabo nella banlieu di Belleville, figlio di nessuno, accudito da una vecchia prostituta ebrea, vinse il Goncourt inaugurando uno stile gergale da banlieu e da emigrazione, cantore di quella Francia multietnica che cominciava a cambiare il volto di Parigi.

Margarete Buber, the journalist daughter of Martin Buber, and Milena Jesenska, the beautiful lover of Kafka, met in Ravensbruck concentration camp in 1940. For four terrible years, the two women formed an extraordinary bond and made a pact that if only one survived, the other would bear witness. Only Margarete lived to remember. This is her story of Milena--of fearless love, sacrifice, and nobility.

Hermann Hesse; selected by Volker Michels; translated by Ralph Manheim. Reflections. New Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1974. 1st American Edition, Hardbound, 8.5 inches tall, 197 pages. Sources. "The aging Hermann Hesse arranged to have privately printed a collection of thirty-nine brief passages culled from his writings, with which to reply to some of the innumerable letters he received. The existence of this book provided encouragement for the present expanded volume, which a first published in Germany in 1971."

My Belief: Essays on Life and Art is a collection of essays by Hermann Hesse. The essays, written between 1904 and 1961, were originally published in German, either individually or in various collections between 1951 and 1973. This collection in English was first published in 1976, edited by Theodore Ziolkowski.

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Rosshalde is the classic story of a man torn between obligations to his family and his longing for a spiritual fulfillment that can only be found outside the confines of conventional society.Johann Veraguth, a wealthy, successful artist, is estranged from his wife and stifled by the unhappy union. Veraguth’s love for his young son and his fear of drifting rootlessly keep him bound within the walls of his opulent estate, Rosshalde. Yet, when he is shaken by an unexpected tragedy, Veraguth finally finds the courage to leave the desolate safety of Rosshalde and travels to India to discover himself anew.

One of Bertolt Brecht's best-loved and most performed plays, The Threepenny Opera was first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble). Based on the eighteenth-century The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, the play is a satire on the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. With Kurt Weill's music, which was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce the jazz idiom into the theatre, it became a popular hit throughout the western world. This new edition is published here in John Willett and Ralph Manhein's classic translation with commentary and notes by Anja Hartl.

Described by Brecht as a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all, Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade.

«La sera la mamma mi domandò che cosa avevo fatto durante il giorno. Le raccontai che ero stato insieme ai ragazzi più grandi. Mi domandò se mi prendevano così senz'altro con loro e io le spiegai che ora sì, mi prendevano con loro, perché avevo superato la prova. Ero stato all'osservatorio. Lei mi domandò che cos'era, un osservatorio. Risposi che lo sapeva benissimo, che lì c'erano i cadaveri e che sapeva anche benissimo che mio padre era stato gettato sopra gli altri cadaveri e che non aveva neppure un lenzuolo e io avevo detto ai bambini che ne aveva sì uno, mentre avevo visto benissimo che non ne aveva. Mi misi a strillare che lei era matta a lasciare che lo buttassero così sugli altri cadaveri senza lenzuolo...».

A German art historian and a Polish art restorer find adventure and love in the cemetery business. Their vision is to offer plots in Gdansk to those Germans who had been exiled after World War II. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

***Bookbot stands firmly against violence and discrimination of any kind. By purchasing this book, the reader confirms that he is aware of this fact and will use the content solely for study purposes.*** "Mein Kampf" is one of the basic documents of the Nazi ideology, which claimed millions of lives in the past. It contains many half-truths and lies, propagandistic demagogy and opinions that are inhumane, racist and contrary to the laws of democratic states.

Herman Hesse remained clear-sighted and consistent in his political views and his passionate espousal of pacifism and the bloody absurdity of war from the start of the First World War to the end of his life. He wrote the earliest essay in this book in September 1914, before he cemented his fame with the novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, and continued writing a stream of letters, essays and pamphlets throughout the war. In his native Germany his views earned him the labels 'traitor' and 'viper', but after World War II he was moved to reiterate his beliefs in another series of essays and letters.If the War Goes On . . . resonates as strongly today as it did when originally published and begs the question: have our politicians learnt nothing in the last seventy years?

Scritto nel 1816, ripreso da Dumas e trasformato in musica dal genio di Cajkovskij, Lo Schiaccianoci di Hoffmann da due secoli continua ad affascinare grandi e piccini. Fritz e Marie, come tutti i bambini, vivono con gioia i giorni del Natale. Un amico di famiglia regala loro uno Schiaccianoci di legno: un oggetto all’apparenza innocuo, ma che darà vita alle più incredibili avventure che i due fratelli abbiano mai vissuto. Durante la notte, in camera di Marie appare infatti lo spietato re dei topi, con sette teste e sette corone, alla guida di un esercito di roditori; Schiaccianoci prende vita e, divenuto generale dei soldatini, dei tamburini e dei pupazzi di marzapane, lo affronta. I due bambini vengono così trasportati in un mondo popolato da topi, fate, soldati, principi e principesse, dove sogno e realtà si legano indissolubilmente. Una favola senza tempo in un’edizione unica, impreziosita dalle originali, caleidoscopiche e coloratissime illustrazioni dell’artista e designer Sanna Annukka, che accompagnano il lettore tra animate battaglie e meravigliose peripezie.