Memoir books from Austria
Recommended memoir books (12)
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If you are into memoir here are some memoir books from Austria for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams : A Life Story by Peter Handke EN
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The avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright examines his mother's life, which spanned the Nazi era, the war, and the postwar consumer economy, ending in suicide; while recording his rage over the problems that his mother left for him to solve after her death.
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El hombre en busca de sentido by Viktor E. Frankl ES
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El doctor Frankl, psiquiatra y escritor, suele preguntar a sus pacientes aquejados de múltiples padecimientos: «¿Por qué no se suicida usted?» Y muchas veces, de las respuestas extrae una orientación para la psicoterapia a aplicar: a éste, lo que le ata a la vida son los hijos; al otro, un talento, una habilidad sin explotar; a un tercero, quizás, sólo unos cuantos recuerdos que merece la pena rescatar del olvido. Tejer estas tenues hebras de vidas rotas en una urdimbre firme, coherente, significativa y responsable es el objeto con que se enfrenta la logoterapia. En esta obra, Viktor E. Frankl... continue
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How I Tried to Be a Good Person by Ulli Lust EN
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Lust's follow-up to her first internationally lauded graphic memoir, How I Tried to Be a Good Person, picks up directly where its predecessor left off. Revealing and powerful, Lust recounts her life as a young, enthusiastic anarchist making her way in Vienna in the 1990s - and of her love for two men: the "perfect companion" Georg, an actor twenty years her elder, and the "perfect lover," Kimata, a Nigerian man-about-town. As her relationships with the two men evolve, jealousy increasingly mounts and leads to emotional and violent outbreaks that threaten her life.
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Lumea de ieri by Stefan Zweig RO
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Evoluţia Europei între 1895 şi 1941, într-una din cele mai importante cărţi-document ale epocii noastre
„Lumea de ieri“ este Viena şi Europa de dinaintea Primului Război Mondial: o lume sigură, stabilă şi armonioasă, unde libertatea de spirit domnea neştirbită. Lumea în care s-a născut şi a început să scrie, cunoscând celebritatea, Stefan Zweig, în care el a călătorit, s-a îndrăgostit de cultura franceză, a legat mari prietenii intelectuale. Odată cu catastrofa din 1914, lumea aceasta dispare treptat: tronurile se prăbuşesc, ideile se tu... continue
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Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl EN
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With a new Foreword by Harold S. Kushner and a new Biographical Afterword by William J. Winslade Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and mov... continue
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Man's Search For Meaning : The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E. Frankl EN
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Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives.
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Memoriile unui antisemit by Gregor von Rezzori RO
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Clasic al literaturii moderne de limbă germană, Gregor von Rezzori a fost distins cu numeroase premii literare, printre care Theodor-Fontane-Preis, Premio Scanno, Premio Boccaccio, Premio Lorenzo il Magnifico.
Dacă volumul Zăpezile de altădată cuprinde cinci portrete de familie, Memoriile unui antisemit adună, sub un titlu autoironic, cinci episoade-cheie din viața autorului. Mergând din copilărie până la bătrânețe, aceste episoade se petrec în Bucovina românească, de după 1918, la București, în anii ’30, la Viena, în perioada premergătoare și... continue
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No Picnic on Mount Kenya by Felice Benuzzi EN
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A rediscovered mountaineering classic and the extraordinary true story of a daring escape up Mount Kenya by three prisoners of war. When the clouds covering Mount Kenya part one morning to reveal its towering peaks for the first time, prisoner of war Felice Benuzzi is transfixed. The tedium of camp life is broken by the beginnings of a sudden idea - an outrageous, dangerous, brilliant idea. There are not many people who would break out of a P.O.W. camp, trek for days across perilous terrain before climbing the north face of Mount Kenya with improvised equipment, meagre rations, and with a pict... continue
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The Old King in His Exile by Arno Geiger EN
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"How do we keep one another’s company? How might our lives unfold alongside those of our parents with Alzheimer’s nearby? In Arno Geiger’s exquisite memoir, he lets us into the private and sometimes sacred space he found in the company of his father—a relationship nurtured by his own willingness to share a mutual solitude, and to visit those places where his father’s spirit was broken and where it thrived. The tender stories in The Old King in His Exile hold the quiet love between these men, and invite the reader to apprehend more of what it can mean, even in our final days, to be alive." —Adr... continue
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The Only Woman in the Room by Beate Sirota Gordon EN
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The vivid account of the life of the woman responsible for drafting the women's rights section of Japan's constitution.