Author: Franz Fühmann
Publisher: Seagull Library of German Literature
ISBN: 9781803090412
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Franz Fühmann's magnum opus. At the Burning Abyss is a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It is a taking stock of two troubled lives, a turbulent century, and the liberating power of poetry. Picking up where his last book, The Jew Car, left off, Fühmann probes his own susceptibility to ideology's seductions--Nazism, then socialism--and examines their antidote, the goad of Trakl's enigmatic verses. He confronts Trakl's "unlivable life," as his poetry transcends the panaceas of black-and-white ideology, ultimately bringing a painful, necessary understanding of "the whole human being: in victories and triumphs as in distress and defeat, in temptation and obsession, in splendor and in ordure." In 1982, the German edition of At the Burning Abyss won the West German Scholl Siblings Prize, celebrating its "courage to resist inhumanity." At a time of political extremism and polarization, has lost none of its urgency.
At the Burning Abyss
Author: Franz Fühmann
Publisher: Seagull Library of German Literature
ISBN: 9781803090412
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Franz Fühmann's magnum opus. At the Burning Abyss is a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It is a taking stock of two troubled lives, a turbulent century, and the liberating power of poetry. Picking up where his last book, The Jew Car, left off, Fühmann probes his own susceptibility to ideology's seductions--Nazism, then socialism--and examines their antidote, the goad of Trakl's enigmatic verses. He confronts Trakl's "unlivable life," as his poetry transcends the panaceas of black-and-white ideology, ultimately bringing a painful, necessary understanding of "the whole human being: in victories and triumphs as in distress and defeat, in temptation and obsession, in splendor and in ordure." In 1982, the German edition of At the Burning Abyss won the West German Scholl Siblings Prize, celebrating its "courage to resist inhumanity." At a time of political extremism and polarization, has lost none of its urgency.
Publisher: Seagull Library of German Literature
ISBN: 9781803090412
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Franz Fühmann's magnum opus. At the Burning Abyss is a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It is a taking stock of two troubled lives, a turbulent century, and the liberating power of poetry. Picking up where his last book, The Jew Car, left off, Fühmann probes his own susceptibility to ideology's seductions--Nazism, then socialism--and examines their antidote, the goad of Trakl's enigmatic verses. He confronts Trakl's "unlivable life," as his poetry transcends the panaceas of black-and-white ideology, ultimately bringing a painful, necessary understanding of "the whole human being: in victories and triumphs as in distress and defeat, in temptation and obsession, in splendor and in ordure." In 1982, the German edition of At the Burning Abyss won the West German Scholl Siblings Prize, celebrating its "courage to resist inhumanity." At a time of political extremism and polarization, has lost none of its urgency.
Free and Wild
Author: Gary Haymes
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557694108
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A fast-paced adventure novel created for anyone who has affection for horses. There are few successful books or meaningful horsemanship stories. “Black Beauty†is an exception, written in 1877 by Anna Sewell, is a great and lasting masterpiece.“Free and Wild†is about a realistic horse’s life, how he is and why.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557694108
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A fast-paced adventure novel created for anyone who has affection for horses. There are few successful books or meaningful horsemanship stories. “Black Beauty†is an exception, written in 1877 by Anna Sewell, is a great and lasting masterpiece.“Free and Wild†is about a realistic horse’s life, how he is and why.
The Binding Volume 1
Author: John Parham
Publisher: John Parham Publishing
ISBN: 1645503399
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
What happens when a 5,000-year-old Starman, a Voodoo Queen, a sarcastic, telepathic cat, and a motley crew of former Louisiana Creole military veterans join forces to save America from a mutating Nano virus? New Orleans is Ground Zero for the Russian Mafia’s most sinister plot yet. But their plan to release a Nano virus that mutates and kills food crops is missing one vital component… water. Lucky for them, The Big Easy has plenty to spare! A band of untamed and unfettered misfits join forces to stop the Russians or watch as they destroy crops from coast-to-coast. With amazing skills, highly volatile personalities, unadulterated chaos, and more drama than a soap opera, the crew of unlikely allies must achieve the impossible. Can they do it without creating another disaster or will it be chaos? Find out in this Sci-fi Action-Adventure novel!
Publisher: John Parham Publishing
ISBN: 1645503399
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
What happens when a 5,000-year-old Starman, a Voodoo Queen, a sarcastic, telepathic cat, and a motley crew of former Louisiana Creole military veterans join forces to save America from a mutating Nano virus? New Orleans is Ground Zero for the Russian Mafia’s most sinister plot yet. But their plan to release a Nano virus that mutates and kills food crops is missing one vital component… water. Lucky for them, The Big Easy has plenty to spare! A band of untamed and unfettered misfits join forces to stop the Russians or watch as they destroy crops from coast-to-coast. With amazing skills, highly volatile personalities, unadulterated chaos, and more drama than a soap opera, the crew of unlikely allies must achieve the impossible. Can they do it without creating another disaster or will it be chaos? Find out in this Sci-fi Action-Adventure novel!
The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and a Voice to Mankind
Author: Andrew Jackson Davis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harmony (Philosophy)
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harmony (Philosophy)
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Child to the Waters
Author: Kibler, James Everett
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455602094
Category : Celts
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Kibler has captured the essence of Southern writing in this touching anthology of fables.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455602094
Category : Celts
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Kibler has captured the essence of Southern writing in this touching anthology of fables.
Adventurers in Faith
Author: Mike Smathers
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499060157
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
At the beginning of his working life, a man is told that he is wasting his life by following the path he has chosen. Moreover, it is 1932, the midst of the Depression, and he cannot find a position in his chosen field. Finally, one solitary position in the whole United States opens up, and he is able to snag it. The corporation he works for is national in scope, but the division in which he has chosen to work is one of the corporations smallest. At the same time, he is desperately trying to get the woman he has been courting by mail for two years to marry him. She is resisting. He is broke and in debt, but he somehow gets money to travel the five hundred miles to see her. It is only the third time they have been together in the two years they have been writing love letters to each other. He convinces her to marry him (the best decision he ever made), and they head out on a journey to a place they have never seen and know little about. It is in the remote hills of Tennessee. Two years later, the family moves to an even more remote outpost. He has a vision of creating something that neither anyone in his corporation, nor any similar corporation, has ever achieved before. For thirty-five years, the couple labors in relative obscurity working on their vision. He refuses promotion to a more prestigious and lucrative position in his corporation. Near the end of his life, he is suddenly and surprisingly elected to the highest office in his corporation. This is their story.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499060157
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
At the beginning of his working life, a man is told that he is wasting his life by following the path he has chosen. Moreover, it is 1932, the midst of the Depression, and he cannot find a position in his chosen field. Finally, one solitary position in the whole United States opens up, and he is able to snag it. The corporation he works for is national in scope, but the division in which he has chosen to work is one of the corporations smallest. At the same time, he is desperately trying to get the woman he has been courting by mail for two years to marry him. She is resisting. He is broke and in debt, but he somehow gets money to travel the five hundred miles to see her. It is only the third time they have been together in the two years they have been writing love letters to each other. He convinces her to marry him (the best decision he ever made), and they head out on a journey to a place they have never seen and know little about. It is in the remote hills of Tennessee. Two years later, the family moves to an even more remote outpost. He has a vision of creating something that neither anyone in his corporation, nor any similar corporation, has ever achieved before. For thirty-five years, the couple labors in relative obscurity working on their vision. He refuses promotion to a more prestigious and lucrative position in his corporation. Near the end of his life, he is suddenly and surprisingly elected to the highest office in his corporation. This is their story.
Hood's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land
Author: Charles Rowcroft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bushrangers
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bushrangers
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Lights in Asphalt
Author: Leon Daneko
Publisher: Christian Leonard Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Lights in Asphalt: The Pacific Lightshow, is the first installment in a new Dystopian series. The year is 2040, a whole year has passed since Milo Palamonde has returned from sea, since everyone returned from sea. Only a few soldiers who returned know why they did so - alive and not in a post apocalyptic world following the decisions made by the leaders of nations. Now, someone is trying to eliminate all the personnel who were there that day. Silence and eliminate all the information about the Pacific confrontation in French Polynesia and uphold the narrative that the world dropped their arms and agreed to get along... even after farmers and rural folk watched giant holes open under their pastures and wheat fields. Follow a group of twenty somethings as they traverse land, sea and sky looking for answer as too what is so damning about that pink light that intervened that day and a reason for them to keep going.
Publisher: Christian Leonard Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Lights in Asphalt: The Pacific Lightshow, is the first installment in a new Dystopian series. The year is 2040, a whole year has passed since Milo Palamonde has returned from sea, since everyone returned from sea. Only a few soldiers who returned know why they did so - alive and not in a post apocalyptic world following the decisions made by the leaders of nations. Now, someone is trying to eliminate all the personnel who were there that day. Silence and eliminate all the information about the Pacific confrontation in French Polynesia and uphold the narrative that the world dropped their arms and agreed to get along... even after farmers and rural folk watched giant holes open under their pastures and wheat fields. Follow a group of twenty somethings as they traverse land, sea and sky looking for answer as too what is so damning about that pink light that intervened that day and a reason for them to keep going.
Centralia PA
Author: Andrew Shecktor
Publisher: Amazon
ISBN: 1496155793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Moved by previous visits to the Centralia, and ultimately by a trip to the now deserted town, which was bought out by the state following an unstoppable mine fire that began in 1962, the author was inspired to write a fitting eulogy. The novel is a fictional accounting based on fact and metaphorically presents the mine owners and industrialists as Satanical manifestations in need of exorcism. It is a wonderful mix of period fact with fiction - there is much to learn while enjoying a fanciful journey through the author's imagination. Sample from the book: “More water! More water damn it! The fire is spreading!” From behind a fire pumper a soot covered black-faced fireman came running and shouting. “Around the other side! Quickly!” Three more fire fighters joined in, sweat pouring from their brows in the 83 degree heat, made many times hotter by the raging fire, dragging limp cloth hose toward the quickly spreading fire that was reaching out in anger from the pit. “Charge the line,” screamed a scrawny teenage fireman. The hose they were carrying quickly filled and whipped along like a disturbed snake. The fire, in the pit of an old abandoned strip mine near the Odd Fellows cemetery was started once or twice a year to burn excess municipal rubbish, but had never gotten out of control, as did this one. This fire was started on May 27 to clean up rubbish and municipal waste in preparation for the Memorial Day celebration, and was then extinguished by the fire department and was thought to have gone out. It had again re-kindled on May 29 and was put out late in the evening. It again re-kindled on June 12, though not as bad. Now it had re-kindled yet again, this time with a vengeance, as if set by Satan himself. None of the locals had ever seen such an inferno.
Publisher: Amazon
ISBN: 1496155793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Moved by previous visits to the Centralia, and ultimately by a trip to the now deserted town, which was bought out by the state following an unstoppable mine fire that began in 1962, the author was inspired to write a fitting eulogy. The novel is a fictional accounting based on fact and metaphorically presents the mine owners and industrialists as Satanical manifestations in need of exorcism. It is a wonderful mix of period fact with fiction - there is much to learn while enjoying a fanciful journey through the author's imagination. Sample from the book: “More water! More water damn it! The fire is spreading!” From behind a fire pumper a soot covered black-faced fireman came running and shouting. “Around the other side! Quickly!” Three more fire fighters joined in, sweat pouring from their brows in the 83 degree heat, made many times hotter by the raging fire, dragging limp cloth hose toward the quickly spreading fire that was reaching out in anger from the pit. “Charge the line,” screamed a scrawny teenage fireman. The hose they were carrying quickly filled and whipped along like a disturbed snake. The fire, in the pit of an old abandoned strip mine near the Odd Fellows cemetery was started once or twice a year to burn excess municipal rubbish, but had never gotten out of control, as did this one. This fire was started on May 27 to clean up rubbish and municipal waste in preparation for the Memorial Day celebration, and was then extinguished by the fire department and was thought to have gone out. It had again re-kindled on May 29 and was put out late in the evening. It again re-kindled on June 12, though not as bad. Now it had re-kindled yet again, this time with a vengeance, as if set by Satan himself. None of the locals had ever seen such an inferno.