Anna Seghers in Perspective
Author : Ian Wallace
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 1998
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ISBN : 9789042005945
Author : Ian Wallace
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 1998
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ISBN : 9789042005945
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004651942
Author : Anna Seghers
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Marseille (France)
ISBN :
Seghers wrote Transit while living in exile, fleeing her Nazi persecutors. The novel captures the moods and motives of refugees from Hitler's Germany attempting to leave France via the seaport of Marseilles between the French capitulation in 1940 and the Spring of 1941. The story is told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator, a German engine-fitter who has escaped from a Nazi concentration camp (in fact, for the second time) and fled to Paris. Here he encounters a fellow escapee who asks him to deliver papers to a German writer called Weidel. The narrator finds Weidel already dead and assumes his identity, hoping to make use of his visa for Mexico. When he reaches Marseilles to avoid recapture he adds the papers of another deceased German, one Seidler, so from this point onwards he is juggling with three separate identities: those of Weidel, Seidler, and his own.
Author : Helen Fehervary
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472112159
A fascinating study of one of the greatest German woman writers of the twentieth century
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004409815
Anna Seghers: The Challenge of History features essays by leading scholars devoted to this most important German writer whose novels and stories have been read by millions worldwide.
Author : Mary Zirin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2121 pages
File Size : 44,65 MB
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 131745197X
This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.
Author : Marike Janzen
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 164014014X
This book begins to recover the global history of solidarity as a principle of authorship, taking Anna Seghers (1900-1983) as an exemplar and reading her alongside prominent contemporaries: Brecht, Carpentier, and Spivak.
Author : Amy Bess Cohen
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,46 MB
Release : 2021-01-19
Category :
ISBN :
Bernard is torn between two loves---his new home in Santa Fe and a woman who lives in Philadelphia. How will he resolve the conflict? As a young Jewish immigrant new to America in the 1850s, he finally felt at home after traveling the Santa Fe Trail and settling in Santa Fe with his older brother. His travels across America introduced him to his new nation and challenged his sense of himself and what it meant to be a man. But then he met Frances while traveling back east. Could he convince her to leave the comforts of a big city, a large Jewish community, and her family? And if he did, would she be happy? Bernard and Frances are characters inspired by real people, the author's great-great-grandparents. and their story is based on her research of their times and their lives.
Author : Anna Seghers
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590176405
Anna Seghers’s Transit is an existential, political, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom, the vitality of storytelling, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight. Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1937, and later a camp in Rouen, the nameless twenty-seven-year-old German narrator of Seghers’s multilayered masterpiece ends up in the dusty seaport of Marseille. Along the way he is asked to deliver a letter to a man named Weidel in Paris and discovers Weidel has committed suicide, leaving behind a suitcase containing letters and the manuscript of a novel. As he makes his way to Marseille to find Weidel’s widow, the narrator assumes the identity of a refugee named Seidler, though the authorities think he is really Weidel. There in the giant waiting room of Marseille, the narrator converses with the refugees, listening to their stories over pizza and wine, while also gradually piecing together the story of Weidel, whose manuscript has shattered the narrator’s “deathly boredom,” bringing him to a deeper awareness of the transitory world the refugees inhabit as they wait and wait for that most precious of possessions: transit papers.
Author : Kristy R. Boney
Publisher : Studies in German Literature L
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,12 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1640140409
Explores the storytelling of Anna Seghers and other 20th-century writers who faced the tensions between aesthetics and politically conscious writing, between conformity and resistance.