On a Theatre of Marionettes
10 best books like On a Theatre of Marionettes (Heinrich von Kleist): Hymns to the Night, Erotica Romana, Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading, Zwischen neun und neun, Hymns and Fragments, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte, Brand, Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry, Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes, Der goldne Topf
| Author | Novalis |
| ISBN | 0914232908 |
This bilingual, revised, third edition of Dick Higgins' popular translation presents the complete Athenaum version of Frederich von Hardenburgh's classic romantic long poem, and the substantially different manuscript version of the first section. The German text is en face. The six hymns comprise...
| Author | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Goethe verfasste sie nach seiner Rückkehr von der Italienischen Reise 1788 bis Ende 1790 und veröffentlichte 1795 zunächst zwanzig davon in Schillers Monatsschrift „Die Horen“. Johann Gottfried Herder sah sich aufgrund der erotischen Freizügigkeit der Gedichte zu der bissigen Bemerkung...
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| ISBN | 0761834117 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1860 book, The Conduct of Life is among the gems of his mature works. First published in the year of Abraham Lincoln's election as President, this work poses the questions of human freedom and fate. This new edition emphasizes Emerson's philosophy and thoughts on such issues as...
| Author | Leo Perutz |
| ISBN | 3423132299 |
Ein Student befindet sich wie gehetztes Wild auf der Flucht vor der Polizei, weil er versucht hat, einen aus der Universitätsbibliothek entwendeten Prachtband zu Geld zu machen. Sein Problem: Er ist entkommen, nachdem man ihm bereits Handschellen angelegt hatte. Er irrt durch das Wien der k.u.k....
| Author | Friedrich Hölderlin |
| ISBN | 0691014124 |
Holderlin was one among a group of German Romantic poets that were on the periphery of German Idealism. Along with Novalis and Schiller, his work utilizes Idealist concepts in an overtly aesthetic framework. Like many German Romantic poets and philosophers, he is often ignored by the sottish tendency...
| 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 | Henrik Ibsen |
| ISBN | 1406790109 |
Brand is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It is a verse tragedy, written in 1865 and first performed in Stockholm, Sweden on 24 March 1867. Brand was an intellectual play that provoked much original thought.
Brand is a priest who wants to take consequence of his choices, and is therefore...
| Author | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
| ISBN | 0801831393 |
حاول الناقد الإلماني ليسنج في كتابه "لاؤوكون" أن يرد الشعر إلى فلسفة زمانية، والتصوير إلى فلسفة مكانية في محاولة لرصد أوجه الاختلاف بينهما، وقد دفعه ذلك...
| Author | Martin Heidegger |
| ISBN | 3150084466 |
بعد از چند سال، دوباره این کتاب رو خوندم. این بار به واسطه ی آشنایی بیشتری که با هایدگر پیدا کرده بودم، خیلی راحت تر سیر بحث رو دنبال کردم. به نظرم میرسه که اگر...
| Author | E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| ISBN | 3150001013 |
I don't like this, I thought.
Clumsy Anselmus makes a silly appearance (well described, admittedly), causing a mess of carts and apples and people in a market place. I hate slapstick, and I hate clumsiness in literature, having to live with it every minute of every day in my real life!
I...
| Author | Franz Kafka |
| ISBN | 3150096774 |
A short but very profound story about different aspects:
1. The relationship between father and son.
2. How we change our emotions and thoughts quickly - we can go from empathy and generosity to anger, or from love to hate in a matter of seconds.
3. The guilt we carry from the...
| Author | Erik Davis |
| ISBN | 1891241540 |
In these wide-ranging essays, Erik Davis explores the codes — spiritual, cultural, and embodied — that people use to escape the limitations of their lives and enrich their experience of the world. These include Asian religious traditions and West African trickster gods, Western occult and esoteric...
| Author | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| ISBN | 0972869255 |
French Sculptor Auguste Rodin once wrote that "one has only to look at a human face to find a soul, no feature deceives; hypocrisy is as transparent as sincerity. The inclining of the brow, the least furrowing of a look may reveal the -secrets of the heart." Rodin was fortunate to have as his -secretary...
| Author | Klaus Mann |
| ISBN | 3499153254 |
Klaus Manns Lebensbericht gehört zu den Standardwerken moderner Autobiographien. Er gibt nicht nur einen intimen Einblick in die von Gefährdungen, Frühreife, Abenteuerlust und Außenseitertum bestimmte eigene Entwicklung, sondern erzählt auch viele Details aus dem Leben der berühmten...
| Author | Witold Gombrowicz |
| ISBN | 8308010059 |
Gombrowicz, Gombrowicz, Gombrowicz.
Sorry, I just like saying his name, even though I have no idea what to do with that consonant cluster at the end. If I ever learn another language, it just might be Polish. This is somewhere between a whim and a resolution. It’s a whimsolution.
Anyway,...
| Author | André Gide |
| ISBN | 1595690808 |
The book "Prometheus Illbound" is one of the most characteristic books of Andre Gide: a work of pure intelectual fantasy, where the subtle brain of the author has full play. It is the expression of the humorous side of a mind which must be ranked among the greatest of the world's literature. "The work of...
| Author | Mark Dery |
| ISBN | 0802136702 |
From the far left to the far right, on talk radio and the op-ed page, more and more Americans believe that the social fabric is unraveling. Celebrity worship and media frenzy, suicidal cultists and heavily armed secessionists: modern life seems to have become a "pyrotechnic insanitarium," Mark Dery...
| Author | Miguel de Unamuno |
| ISBN | 8437607361 |
‘For me alone was Don Quixote born, and myself for his sake; he knew how to act and I to write,’ Cervantes has written with his pen. And I say that for Cervantes to recount their lives, and for me to explain and elucidate them, were born Don Quijote and Sancho. Cervantes was born to narrate, and to write...
Αρχικά, πήγα σε μια περιοχή του Χάρτς όπου ζούσε ένας ιππότης. Ο ξανθός Έκμπερτ.
Αργότερα ανέβηκα το μαγικό βουνό Ρούνενμπεργκ.
Εκεί, σε αυτά τα θαυμαστά...
| Author | John Berger |
| ISBN | 1784785873 |
Landscapes, the companion volume to John Berger’s highly acclaimed Portraits, explores what art tells us about ourselves.
“Berger’s work is an invitation to reimagine; to see in different ways,” writes Tom Overton in the introduction to this volume. As a master storyteller and...
| Author | Georg Büchner |
| ISBN | 0974968021 |
Lenz, Georg Büchner’s visionary exploration of an 18th century playwright’s descent into madness, grew in part out of Alsatian pastor Johann Oberlin’s journal, which is translated here in its entirety for the first time. Lenz is a dispassionate account on the nervous system of a schizophrenic,...
| Author | Mario Praz |
| ISBN | 0192810618 |
In this now-classic study, Praz describes the whole of Romantic literature under one of its most characteristic aspects, that of erotic sensibility. This wide spread mood in literature had a major effect on 19th-century poets and painters, and the affinities between them and their 20th-century...
| Author | Paul Éluard |
| ISBN | 0976844931 |
Man Ray – Nusch Éluard - 1934 | Trasdós - http://ow.ly/OikpP
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Y tu boca que enmudece puede probar lo imposible.
Amar. Amar para olvidar que se amó. Peregrino de emociones, Paul Éluard ofrece su palabra como testimonio de sentimiento. También...
