Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of 11-year-old Sally Horner. Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and social history, and literary investigation, The Real Lolita tells Sally Horner's full story for the...

The cultural dialogue between Russia and America has been going on for centuries, despite all the historical obstacles. Writers and philosophers from both countries closely followed each other's political, social, and artistic experiments.

The first major biography about the GDR's most fascinating author. Carsten Gansel's comprehensive biography provides an exciting reassessment of a writer's life in its ups and downs and a complex work that is currently being discovered and celebrated internationally.

Texts and letters of Gogol, all about spiritual growth and personal development.

It's an almost unbelievable story. The author, who was only discovered in her eighties, became one of the most successful and translated Czech writers almost overnight. He won the State Prize for Literature for his short story collection Želary, and a highly successful film was made based on Joz Hanula''s novella, which was nominated for an Oscar. But who is Kveta Legátová (real name Vera...

Broken Masculinities portrays the post-dictatorial novel of the 1970s in all its complexity, and introduces the reader to a 1968-era Turkey, a period which challenges Turkey’s now reinforced Islamic image by portraying the quest for sexual liberation and critical student uprisings. Günay-Erkol argues that the literature written after the 1971 coup in Turkey constitutes a coherent sub-genre and...

Exile under palm trees. For centuries, the Cote d'Azur has been a magnet of longing for German writers and painters. Until 1933. After that, the coast with its poetic patina became the refuge of many German artists, and Sanary-sur-Mer became the spiritual center of emigration. Thomas Mann lived here, as did Lion Feuchtwanger, Ludwig Marcuse, Franz Werfel and Bruno Frank. Many artists who had...

Brigitte Reimann ist in ihren Tagebüchern offen und schonungslos gegen sich selbst und andere. Sie erzählt darin ihr stürmisches, kreatives und unangepasstes Leben und fängt wie nebenbei Geist und Stimmung einer ganzen Periode deutscher Geschichte ein. Es ist ihr scharfer, auch gegen sich selbst unerbittlicher Blick, der dieses Werk nicht nur zu einem einzigartigen Lebenszeugnis macht, sondern...

The book contains for the first time memories of the Russian Soviet front-line poet, translator David Samoilov (1920-1990). The collection includes memoirs of the poet’s relatives, students, and friends: Veniamin Smekhov, Evgeny Yevtushenko, Igor Guberman, Alexander Gorodnitsky, Alexander Davydov, Viktor Perelygin, Lydia Libedinskaya, Mikhail Kozakov, Yuliy Kim, Tamara Zhirmunskaya, etc. The...

Der Literarische Führer Österreich stellt nach Bundesländern gegliedert und in alphabetischer Reihenfolge die Orte der Literatur vor. Neben der Strudlhofstiege oder dem Trakl-Grab in Innsbruck führt das Buch auch an unbekanntere literarische Orte wie Ludwig Ganghofers Domizil im Wettersteingebirge und Ezra Pounds Wörgl. Es folgt den Spuren ausländischer Autoren in Österreich: Wo machte Ernest...

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