Kategorie: PDF Books
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Zacharias Mbizo: The Hidden Chamber
Dream Worlds Next week, we will take off on a new literary journey on Planet Literature. With texts by Zacharias Mbizo we will travel to the land of dreams. To get you in the mood, today we are presenting volume 1 of his Dream worlds. At first glance, the language…
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Anna Akhmatova and the Russian Soul
Poems against Terror Anna Akhmatova, a renowned poet before the October Revolution, became an ostracised outsider in the Bolshevik state. This is also reflected in her poems.
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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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Russian Anti-War Songs
On the second anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, Russian anti-war songs can serve as proof of something that today’s Kremlin rulers would probably condemn as „extremist“: that in Russia, too, there are people who detest war. In Russia, too, there is a strong tradition of anti-militarist thinking and poetry.…
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Ilona Lay: October in the mountains. Meditations on happiness
What is happiness? Each person will give a different answer to this question. So there are no universally valid answers in this cycle of poems either. Instead, the cycle revolves around the essence of happiness in 17 meditations, which create a poetic monument to single moments of happiness. PDF Image:…
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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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