The Author of Himself : : The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki /

The Author of Himself : : The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki / / Marcel Reich-Ranicki.

Marcel Reich-Ranicki is remarkable for both his unlikely life story and his brilliant career as the "pope of German letters." His sublimely written autobiography is at once a fascinating adventure tale, an unusual account of German-Jewish relations, a personal rumination on who's who...

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VerfasserIn:
Reich-Ranicki, Marcel,
TeilnehmendeR:
Zipes, Jack
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2001
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • The Author of Himself
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword
  • PART ONE: 1920-1938
  • I 'What Are You Really?'
  • 2 'Half Dragged, Half Plunging, so He Sank .. .'
  • 3 Herr Kastner: 'To Be Applied to the Soul'
  • 4 Reverence for Writ
  • 5 Racial Theory
  • 6 Several Love Affairs at the Same Time
  • 7 My Most Wonderful Refuge - the Theatre
  • 8 A Suffering which Brings Happiness
  • 9 The Door to the Next Room
  • 10 With Invisible Luggage
  • PART TWO: 1938-1944
  • 11 Poetry and the War
  • 12 Hunting Down Jews Is Fun
  • 13 The Dead Man and His Daughter
  • 14 From Quarantine District to Ghetto
  • 15 The Words of a Fool
  • 16 'If Music Be the Food of Love ... '
  • 17 Death Sentences to the Accompaniment of Viennese Waltzes
  • 18 An Intellectual, a Martyr, a Hero
  • 19 A Brand-new Riding Crop
  • 20 Order, Hygiene, Discipline
  • 21 Stories For Bolek
  • PART THREE: 1944-1958
  • 22 My First Shot, My Last Shot
  • 23 From Reich to Ranicki
  • 24 Brecht, Seghers, Huchel and Others
  • 25 Josef K., Stalin Quotations and Heinrich Boll
  • 26 A Study Trip with Consequences
  • 27 A Young Man with a Massive Moustache
  • PART FOUR: 1958-1973
  • 28 Recognized as Germans
  • 29 Group 47 and its First Lady
  • 30 Walter Jens, or the Friendship
  • 31 Literature as Awareness of Life
  • 32 Canetti, Adorno, Bernhard and Others
  • 33 A Tavern and a Calculating Machine
  • PART FIVE: 1973-1999
  • 34 The Sinister Guest of Honour
  • 35 Make Way for Poetry!
  • 36 A Genius only during Working Hours
  • 37 The Magician's Family
  • 38 Max Frisch
  • 39 Yehudi Menuhin and Our Quartet
  • 40 Joachim Fest and Martin Walser
  • 41 "Tis a Dream .. .'
  • 42 Thanksgiving
  • INDEX

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