Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Peter Schlemihl by Adalbert von Chamisso
Author : Adalbert von Chamisso
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 44,2 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3734027632
Reproduction of the original: Peter Schlemihl by Adalbert von Chamisso
Author : Adelbert von Chamisso
Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 1845
Category : German fiction
ISBN :
Author : Adelbert von Chamisso
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 45,92 MB
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Journey with Peter Schlemihl, a man who sells his shadow to the devil, in this classic fable by Adelbert von Chamisso. As Schlemihl grapples with the consequences of his decision, the story delves into themes of identity, morality, and the human condition. Chamisso's tale, beautifully translated by John Bowring, is a thought-provoking exploration of the choices we make and their lasting impact.
Author : Adelbert von Chamisso
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 1824
Category : Devil
ISBN :
Author : Adelbert von Chamisso
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 39,52 MB
Release : 1843
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN :
Author : Adelbert von Chamisso
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 41,68 MB
Release : 2024-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368866729
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Author : Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamisso de Boncourt
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 1843
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Adelbert von Chamisso
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368342290
Reproduction of the original.
Author : J. H. Treadwell
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 1874
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Daniel Heller-Roazen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1942130481
An intellectually adventurous account of the role of nonpersons that explores their depiction in literature and challenges how they are defined in philosophy, law, and anthropology In thirteen interlocking chapters, Absentees explores the role of the missing in human communities, asking an urgent question: How does a person become a nonperson, whether by disappearance, disenfranchisement, or civil, social, or biological death? Only somebody can become a “nobody,” but, as Daniel Heller-Roazen shows, the ways of being a nonperson are as diverse and complex as they are mysterious and unpredictable. Heller-Roazen treats the variously missing persons of the subtitle in three parts: Vanishings, Lessenings, and Survivals. In each section and with multiple transhistorical and transcultural examples, he challenges the categories that define nonpersons in philosophy, ethics, law, and anthropology. Exclusion, infamy, and stigma; mortuary beliefs and customs; children’s games and state censuses; ghosts and “dead souls” illustrate the lives of those lacking or denied full personhood. In the archives of fiction, Heller-Roazen uncovers figurations of the missing—from Helen of Argos in Troy or Egypt to Hawthorne’s Wakefield, Swift’s Captain Gulliver, Kafka’s undead hunter Gracchus, and Chamisso’s long-lived shadowless Peter Schlemihl. Readers of The Enemy of All and No One’s Ways will find a continuation of those books’ intense intellectual adventures, with unexpected questions and arguments arising every step of the way. In a unique voice, Heller-Roazen’s thought and writing capture the intricacies of the all-too-human absent and absented.