She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the…
The objective of the award is to "honour works of artistic quality which witnesses to the power of film to reveal the mysterious depths of human beings through what concerns them, their hurts and failings as well as their hopes." [1 ] The…
Hermann Broch ( German: [bʁɔx]; 1 November 1886 – 30 May 1951) was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler, 1930–32) and The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil, 1945). [1…
A prolific writer whose œuvre spans more than half a century and a wide variety of literary movements and styles, Döblin is one of the most important figures of German literary modernism. [1 ] [2 ] His complete works comprise over a dozen…
New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.
Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. [1 ] His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of subjective…
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Solo più tardi Nelly Sachs e la madre decidono di abbandonare la Germania. L'amica Gudrun Harlan, nipote dello scrittore e drammaturgo Walter Harlan, si reca in Svezia nell'estate del 1939 per ottenere un visto con l'aiuto di Selma Lagerlöf…