Kategorie: eBooks
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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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Nadja Dietrich: Emperor’s Eyrie
A Crime Novel about Right-Wing Nationalist Networks. It all begins with an evening walk in the forest. At first, everything is quiet – until suddenly a cry of pain comes from a hunting lodge. For the nocturnal hiker, this is the beginning of an odyssey that leads him via a…
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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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