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Books > Biography > Literary
• Daarna is dit ‘n gepaste geskenk vir enige tyd van die jaar.
• Kunstig saamgestel, duursaam en inspirerend.
• Nie net ‘n mooi geskenk nie, dis ‘n kunswerk en ‘n erfstuk.
• Die boek bestaan uit 8 hoofstukke met gepaste digkuns en kunswerk wat
jou op reis neem - deur jou eie weermag herinneringe.
• Daar is ‘n stewige koevert waarin die oorlog veteraan memorabilia
soos foto’s, dokumente, balkies en ‘n usb (vir video’s, foto’s en
stemboodskappe) kan plaas.
• Dit bevat ook kaarte waarop oud makkers kan aandui waar hulle
opleiding ontvang het en aangewend is.
• Die boek sluit ‘n kleiner handleiding in wat inspirasieprikkelaars
(prompts) bevat. Die doel is om leiding te gee, sonder om
voorskriftelik te wees.
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend and champion Max
Brod could not bring himself to fulfil Kafka's last instruction: to
burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted the rest of
his life to canonizing Kafka as the most prescient chronicler of
the twentieth century. By betraying Kafka's last wish, Brod twice
rescued his legacy - first from physical destruction, and then from
obscurity. But that betrayal was also eventually to lead to an
international legal battle over Kafka's legacy: as a writer in
German, should his papers come to rest with those of the other
great German writers, in the country where his three sisters died
as victims of the Holocaust? Or, as Kafka was also a great Jewish
writer, should they be considered part of the cultural inheritance
of Israel, a state that did not exist at the time he died in 1924?
Alongside an acutely observed portrait of Kafka and Brod and the
influential group of writers and intellectuals known as the Prague
Circle, Kafka's Last Trial also provides a gripping account of the
recent series of Israeli court cases - cases that addressed
dilemmas legal, ethical, and political - that determined the final
fate of the manuscripts Brod had rescued when he fled from Prague
to Palestine in 1939. It tells of a wrenching escape from Nazi
invaders as the gates of Europe closed to Jews; of a love affair
between exiles stranded in Tel Aviv; and of two countries whose
national obsessions with overcoming the traumas of the past came to
a head in the Israeli courts. Ultimately, Benjamin Balint invites
us to question not only whether Kafka's legacy belongs by right to
the country of his language, that of his birth, or that of his
cultural and religious affinities - but also whether any nation
state can lay claim to writers who belong more naturally to the
international republic of letters.
In Funny Thing, Getting Older, one of our most beloved novelists shares
his reflections from a lifetime of writing stories about the world.
Here, collected for the first time on Michael's 82nd birthday, are his
thoughts on nature, childhood, writing, peace and war, and getting
older. Some are deeply personal, some political, others in between. And
woven in amongst them you will find a play, a poem or two, and even a
few stories.
Full of wonder, gentle humour and sharp observation, Funny Thing,
Getting Older is a book to treasure.
A story is like a kite. If I make it right, if I fly it right, it will
swoop and soar. And it will please my heart when it's up there,
floating on the wind.
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