Nicholas Murray Kolejność książek (chronologicznie)

Das viktorianische England gilt zu Recht als Geburtsstätte moderner Welterkundung. Wagemutige britische Frauen und Männer bereisten als Entdecker, Forscher, Spione, Kaufleute, Bürokraten oder Missionare die entlegensten Länder. Teils im Dienst Ihrer Majestät, teils aus purem Eigennutz. Ihre Erlebnisse hielten sie oftmals in faszinierenden Tagebuchnotizen und geistreichen Reiseberichten fest. Nicholas Murray versammelt die bizarrsten und farbigsten Reiseschilderungen aus Asien, Afrika, dem Nahen Osten und Europa – von Richard Francis Burtons Pilgerreise nach Mekka über Isabella Birds Ausflug nach Japan bis hin zu den Erlebnissen der bislang unbekannten exzentrischen Weltenbummlerin Fanny Park. Und anhand historischer Quellen weist er nach: Wer eine Weltreise unternimmt, sollte stets einen Korkenzieher mit sich tragen.

This gripping biography of the great Czech novelist, diarist and short story writer chronicles Kafka's entire (if tragically curtailed) life (1883-1924), but it focuses upon the writer's relationship to his father and his inheritance as a member of the Jewish mercantile bourgeoisie in Prague. Born into a German-speaking Jewish family, Kafka was a subject of the Austro- Hungarian empire until 1919 yet through his work he is one of the most modern of writers. While previous works have concentrated on Kafka and his women, Nicholas Murray will concentrate on his extraordinary relationship with his father which found its most eloquent literary expression in the story 'The Judgement' written in 1912 when Kafka was twenty-nine:in a reverse Oedipal move, the father condemns his son to death by drowning. This work is essential for an understanding of the intensely private and complex Kafka and the kind of writer he turned out to be - the creator in THE CASTLE, THE TRIAL and METAMORPHOSIS (the dazzling short story whose hero wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect) of some of the defining literature of the 20th century.

Fascinating and perceptive new biography of one of the most brilliant writers of his age: novelist, essayist and born-again mystic Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), author of BRAVE NEW WORLD and EYELESS IN GAZA schovat popis