Results for "Booth, Alexander"

For the first time available in English, two portraits of grief by Friederike Mayr cker, one of the significant European writers of our time. Friederike Mayr cker met Ernst Jandl in 1954, through the experimental Vienna Group of German writers and artists. It was an encounter that would alter the ... Read More about The Communicating Vessels

A delightfully witty and original graphic biography of Kafka, published to coincide with the centenary of the author’s deathThis bold and sharply funny new look at Kafka is told through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style and minimalist illustrations. Full of fascinating details and wit... Read More about Completely Kafka: A Comic Biography

A highly engaging exploration of existential questions, written in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic.  The Book of Commentary / Unquiet Garden of the Soul confronts the reader with questions of existential meaning, questions rendered all the more potent by the backdrop of the Coronavirus pa... Read More about The Book of Commentary / Unquiet Garden of the Soul (The German List)

A profound exploration of the enduring impact of war in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “War is back again.” So begins Alexander Kluge’s latest book, prompted by a war of aggression that, though being waged in Europe, is of global importance. Blending simple stories with multimedia and ... Read More about War Primer (The German List)

Alexander Kluge explores the madcap, multifaceted world of the circus through a global geopolitical lens. The circus has fascinated Alexander Kluge ever since he was a child, and his devotion to it has been preserved throughout his cinematic output and his most recent literary work. In the circus, h... Read More about Circus Commentary (The German List)

One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first centuryA Penguin ClassicWidely regarded as one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is a succinct yet wide-ranging expl... Read More about Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: The New Translation