Kategorie: eBooks
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Edgar Fuhrmann. Central Station
Tales of Misery and Isolation The texts in this collection of stories deal with people on the edge of society, stranded as human flotsam at the central station, this labyrinthine center of modern societies. Realistic narratives alternate with texts that look at events as if under a magnifying glass, thus…
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Jacques Prévert: The Poet of Everyday Life
Jacques Prévert is a poetic icon in France today, his poems are part of the school curriculum. Given the poet’s deliberate distance from high culture and notably from traditional school education, this is not devoid of irony. The present eBook sketches a portrait of the poet in five chapters. In…
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Lidia Afanasyevna’s Dreams
Excerpts from Nadja Dietrich’s Novel Murder in the German Parliament! Investigations of a Cleaning Lady In a six-part series on Planet Literature, we will delve into the dreams of the protagonist of Nadja Dietrich’s novel Murder in the German Parliament! Investigations of a Cleaning Lady. What a shock for Lidia…
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Dieter Hoffmann: Charles Baudelaire’s Collection of Poetry Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil)
An Overwiew with Newly Translated Poems Charles Baudelaire’s poetic flower garden exudes many different fragrances. The most exquisite of them enable us to achieve what Baudelaire regarded as the most noble goal of his poetry: they allow us to „catch a glimpse of paradise“. – A poetic bouquet of flowers,…
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Rother Baron: Conversations with Paula
On Paula’s small South Sea island there are no prisons and no army, no parties and no property. She looks at what we take for granted with the astonished eyes of a child. „With her wrap-around dress, on which exotic birds screamed in bright colours, her face that seemed to…
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Jacques Prévert – the Poet of Everyday Life
A Portrait Based on Selected Poems Jacques Prévert is a poetic icon in France today, his poems are part of the school curriculum. Given the poet’s deliberate distance from high culture and notably from traditional school education, this is not devoid of irony. eBook PDF
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