Ein fliehendes Pferd
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| Author | Max Frisch |
| ISBN | 0156421356 |
April 20, 2011:
I bought this book in 1979 and read it sometime in the early 80's.
It's only a couple of hundred pages, so when Praj asked me to review it, I thought, hey, why not re-read it (even though I very rarely re-read books).
April 22, 2011:
Re-reading this novel...
| Author | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
Secrets
Orphaned fifteen-year-old Judith Sparrow brings two secrets to her uncle's house in South Carolina: one, that her grief-stricken mother died in a madhouse, the other that she has disobeyed the only condition to living in her uncle's home -- nothing green is allowed in the house.
Judith...
| Author | Hermann Hesse |
| ISBN | 0312422636 |
Peter Camenzind, a young man from a Swiss mountain village, leaves his home and eagerly takes to the road in search of new experience. Traveling through Italy and France, Camenzind is increasingly disillusioned by the suffering he discovers around him; after failed romances and a tragic friendship,...
| Author | Adelbert von Chamisso |
Adelbert von Chamissos 1814 erschienene phantastische Erzählung 'Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte' handelt von einem sanften, weltfremden Jüngling, der einem rätselhaften Mann in einem grauen Rock seinen Schatten verkauft. Er ist jedoch außerstande, den so erworbenen Reichtum...
| Author | Max Frisch |
| ISBN | 0156569523 |
Climate Change
Floods, avalanches, landslides, mass extinctions. What are we to make of these randomly destructive events? Do they exist if there is record, no memory of them? And what difference would it make to not know about them? Or to receive no news from the rest of the world at all? Catastrophe...
| Author | Annette von Droste-Hülshoff |
Der 1842 erschienenen Novelle Die Judenbuche von Annette von Droste-Hülshoff liegt eine wahre Begebenheit zugrunde. Es ist die Geschichte des aus verarmten Verhältnissen stammenden Friedrich Mergel, dessen Mord an dem Juden Aaron erst Jahrzehnte nach der Tat aufgedeckt werden kann. Das große...
| Author | Heinrich von Kleist |
| ISBN | 3150080029 |
Beim Erscheinen im Jahr 1808 wurde Heinrich von Kleists 'Die Marquise von O...' wegen der angedeuteten Vergewaltigung als Skandalgeschichte empfunden. Heute gilt die Erzählung als ein frühes Beispiel weiblicher Emanzipation. Am Schicksal der Marquise, die in einem existenziellen Konflikt...
"Montauk" is Max Frisch' final novel in which the mature writer - he was 64 at the time - gives an account of two weekend trips with a relatively young woman he has only just met. This is not a story of romance. These are two people who happen to like and trust each other enough to spend a few days together, without...
