The Time before Death : : Twentieth-Century Memoirs.
This collection of fifteen essays deals with the literary memoirs of major twentieth-century writers and focuses on the spiritual, physical and moral devastation of 20th century life. They are comparative and cross-cultural. There is no other collection of essays with this range brought under one co...
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Superior document: | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; v. 159 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Editions Rodopi,, 2012. |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
159 Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 159. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (156 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- The Metaphor of Loss in Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory
- André Gide’s If It Die: The Creative Gamble
- Günter Grass’s Beim Häuten der Zwiebel: The Final Battle with the Black Witch
- Jean-Paul Sartre’s Words: On the Impact of Childhood
- Boris Pasternak’s Safe Conduct and I Remember: A Charmed Life
- Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz and The Reawakening: A Tormented Spirit
- Arthur Koestler’s The Invisible Writing: Autobiography as Escape from the Self
- Maxim Gorky’s Childhood: Beyond Good and Evil
- Octavio Paz’s The Itinerary. An Intellectual Journey: In Search of Identity
- Stefan Zweig’s Die Welt von Gestern: A Bipolar Journey
- Virginia Woolf’s Moments of Being: The Silence Within
- Katherine Mansfield’s Notebooks: The Chameleon Self
- Christa Wolf’s One Day A Year, 1960-2000: The Fear of Self-Revelation
- Natalie Sarraute’s Enfance: The Return to Life
- Lidiya Chukovskaya’s To the Memory of Childhood: In Her Father’s Shadow
- One Last Farmstead of Feeling.