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Blumenberg (Hardcover)
Wieland Hoban; Sibylle Lewitscharoff
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R658
R596
Discovery Miles 5 960
Save R62 (9%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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One night, German philosopher Hans Blumenberg returns to his study
to find a shocking sight a lion lying on the floor as if it's the
most natural thing in the world. The lion stretches comfortably on
the Turkmen rug, eyes resting comfortably on Blumenberg. The
philosopher with some effort retains his composure, even when the
next day during his lecture the lion makes another appearance,
ambling slowly down the center aisle. Blumenberg glances around;
the seats are full, but none of his students seem to see the lion.
What is going on here?Blumenberg is the captivating and witty
fictional tale of this likable philosopher and the handful of
students who come under the spell of the supernatural lion
including skinny Gerhard Optatus Baur, a promising young
Blumenbergian, and the delicate, haughty Isa, who falls head over
heels in love with the wrong man. Written by Sibylle Lewitscharoff,
whom Die Welt called the "most dazzling stylist of contemporary
German literature," Blumenberg will delight English readers for the
first time.
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Max Beckmann - Departure (Hardcover)
Oliver Kase; Text written by Sarah Louisa Henn; Designed by Martha Stutteregger; Text written by James Arthur, Ulrike Draesner, …
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R1,311
Discovery Miles 13 110
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Travel is a fundamental experience of human existence. For Max
Beckmann it was of existential importance both in a symbolic, but
also in a deeply personal sense. In the 1920s, he regularly
traveled to the noble health resorts and palace hotels on the
Dutch, Italian, and French coasts. His defamation as a "degenerate"
artist by the Nazi regime, however, forced him to retreat, first
from Frankfurt to Berlin and subsequently into exile in Amsterdam.
His emigration to the United States marked the culmination of a
life entwined with the longing to travel as well as uprooting,
transit and exile. Max Beckmann. DEPARTURE assembles an outstanding
selection of artworks and initiates a dialogue with hitherto unseen
objects and materials from the Max Beckmann Archive. It shows
Beckmann’s relationship to film and literature as a producer of
images of aspirations and longing resonating with notions of
identity and home.
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Blumenberg (Paperback)
Sibylle Lewitscharoff; Translated by Wieland Hoban
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R325
Discovery Miles 3 250
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Now in paperback, from one of the most dazzling authors of
contemporary German literature comes this delightful tale of a
philosopher and his encounter with a supernatural lion. One night,
German philosopher Hans Blumenberg returns to his study to find a
shocking sight-a lion lying on the floor as if it's the most
natural thing in the world. The lion stretches comfortably on the
Turkmen rug, eyes resting on Blumenberg. The philosopher with some
effort retains his composure, even when the next day during his
lecture the lion makes another appearance, ambling slowly down the
center aisle. Blumenberg glances around; the seats are full, but
none of his students seem to see the lion. What is going on here?
Blumenberg is the captivating and witty fictional tale of this
likable philosopher and the handful of students who come under the
spell of the supernatural lion-including skinny Gerhard Optatus
Baur, a promising young Blumenbergian, and the delicate, haughty
Isa, who falls head over heels in love with the wrong man. Written
by Sibylle Lewitscharoff, whom Die Welt called the "most dazzling
stylist of contemporary German literature," Blumenberg will delight
English readers.
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Apostoloff (Paperback)
Sibylle Lewitscharoff; Translated by Katy Derbyshire
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R426
Discovery Miles 4 260
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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“Gone, finito, The End, I say. A father who puts an end to it all
before he wears down the whole family deserves more praise than
damnation.” Two sisters travel to Sofia—in a convoy of luxury
limousines arranged by a fellow Bulgarian exile—to bury their
less-than-beloved father. Like tourists, they are chauffeured by
the ever-charming Ruben Apostoloff—one sister in the back seat,
one in the passenger seat, one sharp-tongued and aggressive, the
other polite and considerate. In a caustic voice, Apostoloff shows
them the treasures of his beloved country: the peacock-eye pottery
(which contains poisonous dye), the Black Sea coast (which is
utterly destroyed), the architecture (a twentieth-century crime).
His attempts to win them over seem doomed to fail, as the
sisters’ Bulgarian heritage is a heavy burden—their father, a
successful doctor and melancholy immigrant, appears in their dreams
still dragging the rope with which he hanged himself. An account of
a daughter’s bitterly funny reckoning with her father and his
country, laden with linguistic wit and black humor, Apostoloff will
introduce the unique voice of Sibylle Lewitscharoff to a new and
eager audience.
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