The book by Tetyana Trofymenko, a literary critic, or a critic, as she is called in the literary environment, is dedicated to iconic novels that reflected the realities of the time and recorded stylistic and worldview changes in art. Novels that tell us about the life and main problems of Ukrainians from the 19th to the first third of the 21st century.

It's the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his home in Austria has been seized. He's been dreaming of Ostend, the Belgian beach town--a paradise of promenades, parasols, and old friends. So he journeys there with his new lover, Lotte Altmann, and reunites with his semi-estranged fellow writer and...

A narrative book about the most famous Prague native, Franz Kafka, brings his life and work closer to everyone who wants to get to know his world in more detail. The world of Prague German-written literature, the world of his interests, family and friends, and also the world of very special stories come to life, which still puzzle readers and experts at their word. The author of the text is the...

In 2012 writer John Sutherland permanently lost his sense of smell. At about the same time, he embarked on a rereading of George Orwell and—still coping with his recent disability—noticed something peculiar: Orwell was positively obsessed with smell. In this original, irreverent biography, Sutherland offers a fresh account of Orwell’s life and works, one that sniffs out a unique, scented trail...

Dieses Buch handelt von Schriftstellern im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland, ihrem Spagat zwischen Anpassung und künstlerischer Integrität unter den Bedingungen der Diktatur. Opportunisten und Konjunkturritter sind dabei, aber auch Autoren, die nur ihrer Arbeit nachgehen wollten und versuchten, moralisch sauber zu bleiben. Mit leichter Hand verknüpft Anatol Regnier die Biografien von Hans...

»Es ist mit der Selbstverständlichkeit der Demokratie in aller Welt eine zweifelhafte Sache geworden.« Dieser Hinweis stammt nicht etwa aus einem Kommentar zur politischen Lage der Gegenwart, sondern aus Thomas Manns Vortrag »Vom zukünftigen Sieg der Demokratie« aus dem Jahr 1938. Nicht zufällig wird Thomas Mann in der Gegenwart als leidenschaftlicher Verteidiger der Demokratie wiederentdeckt....

This book is the third in a documentary series about the fates of Soviet writers. The first, ‘The Knot. Poets of Friendship and Breaks,’ is dedicated to the 1920s and 1930s. The second, ‘Noah’s Ark of Writers,’ is about the evacuation of Soviet writers and their families during the war to Tashkent, Alma-Ata, Chistopol, and Yelabuga. Together, these books create a kind of fresco of Soviet...