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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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Nadja Dietrich: Emperor’s Eyrie
A Crime Novel about Right-Wing Nationalist Networks New on Planet Literature: Nadja Dietrich’s novel Emperor’s Eyrie – a crime novel in diary form about right-wing nationalist networks. What is the Novel about? It all begins with an evening walk in the forest. At first, everything is quiet – until suddenly…
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Dieter Hoffmann / Ilona Lay: Paul Verlaine in the Mirror of his Poems
A Look at the Life and Work of the Poet – With English Adaptations by Ilona Lay The life of the French poet Paul Verlaine (1844 – 1896) was marked by inner conflicts and the futile search for a place in life. This is also re-flected in his poems. Their…
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Dieter Hoffmann: Italian Poetry 1885 – 1950
Giosuè Carducci – Giovanni Pascoli – Ada Negri – Eugenio Montale – Giuseppe Ungaretti – Salvatore Quasimodo – Mario Luzi – Antonia Pozzi – Cesare Pavese – Elsa Morante Italian poetry experienced an extraordinary heyday in the first half of the 20th century. The PDF/eBook Italian Poetry 1885 – 1950 opens a…
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Zacharias Mbizo: The Ukranian Apocalypse
eBook The atrocious killings in Ukraine are among the things that are usually said to leave us „speechless“. On the other hand, the monstrous nature of the crimes committed there requires that we do not remain silent about them. So these literary miniatures are an attempt to speak about the…
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