Historical books set in Austria (4)
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The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography by Stefan Zweig EN
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Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries. In this autobiography he holds the mirror up to his own age, telling the story of a generation that "was loaded down with a burden of fate as was hardly any other in the course of history." Zweig attracted to himself the best minds and loftiest souls of his era: Freud, Yeats, Borgese, Pirandello, Gorky, Ravel, Joyce, Toscanini, Jane Addams, Anatole... continue
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Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless by Robert Musil DE
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Roman speelt op militaire kostschool.
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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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Still Alive : A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered by Ruth Klüger EN
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Now in paperback, the acclaimed Holocaust memoir declared "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight.""--"LA Times"