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Kaspar by Peter Handke 9780413289100
Booksplease Price: $30.35'Kaspar is based on the historical case of a 16-year-old boy who appeared from nowhere in Nuremberg in 1828 and who had to be taught to speak from scratch . . . Handke's play is a downright attack on... -
Correspondence by Paul Celan 9780857426420
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $26.59Paul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg... -
Regulation and Inequality at Work: Isolation and Inequality Beyond the Regulation of Labour by Vanisha Sukdeo 9780367588755
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70This book examines how the law has limitations to the extent that it can combat repression, isolation, and inequality. The main point the book explores is that isolation and inequality cannot be... -
Dramatic Metaphors of Fascism and Antifascism by Leah Hadomi 9783484651128
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $143.30"Yet the dark places are the centre" claims George Steiner in "The Bluebird's Castle". Any attempt to analyze rationally the predominating barbaric phenomenon of the 20th century, namely the... -
Alone in Berlin Alistair Beaton (Author) 9781350172401
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.23A gripping portrait of life in wartime Berlin and a vividly theatrical study of how paranoia can warp a society gripped by the fear of the night-time knock on the door. Based on true events, Hans... -
Timescapes of Waiting: Spaces of Stasis, Delay and Deferral by Christoph Singer 9789004406957
Booksplease Price: $231.32Timescapes of Waiting explores the intersections of temporality and space by examining various manifestations of spatial (im-)mobility. The individual articles approach these spaces from a variety of... -
The Redemption of Things: Collecting and Dispersal in German Realism and Modernism by Samuel Frederick 9781501761560
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.00Collecting is usually understood as an activity that bestows permanence, unity, and meaning on otherwise scattered and ephemeral objects. In The Redemption of Things, Samuel Frederick emphasizes that... -
The Redemption of Things: Collecting and Dispersal in German Realism and Modernism by Samuel Frederick 9781501761553
RRP: $243.60Booksplease Price: $167.58Collecting is usually understood as an activity that bestows permanence, unity, and meaning on otherwise scattered and ephemeral objects. In The Redemption of Things, Samuel Frederick emphasizes that... -
The Caucasian Chalk Circle Bertolt Brecht 9781408126707
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.23The city burns in the heat of civil war and a servant girl sacrifices everything to protect an abandoned child. But when peace is finally restored, the boy's mother comes to claim him. Calling upon... -
War Diary by Ingeborg Bachmann 9780857425324
Booksplease Price: $25.83Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of the most important novelists, poets, and playwrights of postwar German literature. As befitting such a versatile writer, her War... -
Caledonia by Alistair Beaton 9781408136270
Booksplease Price: $29.90Caledonia is a story of greed, euphoria and mass delusion. It is the story of a small, poor country mistaking itself for a place that is both big and rich. It is an ancient story for modern times. ... -
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.16Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht... -
The Anthropocenic Turn: The Interplay between Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Responses to a New Age by GABRIELE DUERBECK
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47This interdisciplinary volume discusses whether the increasing salience of the Anthropocene concept in the humanities and the social sciences constitutes an "Anthropocenic turn." The Anthropocene... -
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'An intense, courageous novel, equal to the best of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett' The New York TimesPart detective novel, part love story, part psychoanalytic case study, Malina is a staggering... -
The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness Patrick Wright 9781912248605
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.64The story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most-influential post-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in the 1970s. In 1974, a strange man called "Charles"... -
Thomas Bernhard's Afterlives by Professor Olaf Berwald 9781501369261
Booksplease Price: $71.06In his prose fiction, memoirs, poetry, and drama, Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989)--one of the 20th century's most uniquely gifted writers--created a new and radical style, seemingly out of thin air. His...