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Дженни Эрпенбек — новинки
- 2 произведения
- 13 изданий на 4 языках
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Jenny Erpenbeck
Kairos
ISBN: 9780811229340 Год издания: 2023 Издательство: New Directions Язык: Английский Аннотация
Jenny Erpenbeck’s much anticipated new novel Kairos is a complicated love story set amidst swirling, cataclysmic events as the GDR collapses and an old world evaporates Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation ) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Erpenbeck’s new novel Kairos―an unforgettably compelling masterpiece―tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans. Their passionate yet difficult long-running affair takes place against the background of the declining GDR, through the upheavals wrought by its dissolution in 1989 and then what comes after. In her unmistakable style and with enormous sweep, Erpenbeck describes the path of two lovers, as Katharina grows up and tries to come to terms with a not always ideal romance, even as a whole world with its own ideology disappears. As the Times Literary Supplement writes: “The weight of history, the particular experiences of East and West, and the ways in which cultural and subjective memory shape individual identity has always been present in Erpenbeck’s work. She knows that no one is all bad, no state all rotten, and she masterfully captures the existential bewilderment of this period between states and ideologies.” In the opinion of her superbly gifted translator Michael Hofmann, Kairos is the great post-Unification novel. And, as The New Republic has commented on his work as a translator: “Hofmann’s translation is invaluable―it achieves what translations are supposedly unable to do: it is at once ‘loyal’ and ‘beautiful.’” -
Jenny Erpenbeck
Not a novel
ISBN: 978-1-78378-611-4 Год издания: 2020 Издательство: Granta Язык: Английский Аннотация
A collection of highly personal and poetic essays about life, literature, and politics by the renowned German writer, Jenny Erpenbeck
Jenny Erpenbeck’s highly acclaimed novel Go, Went, Gone was a New York Times notable book and launched one of Germany’s most admired writers into the American spotlight. In the New Yorker, James Wood wrote: “When Erpenbeck wins the Nobel Prize in a few years, I suspect that this novel will be cited.”
On the heels of this literary breakthrough comes a book of personal, profound, often humorous meditations and reflections. Erpenbeck writes, "With this collection of texts, I am looking back for the first time at many years of my life, at the thoughts that filled my life from day to day."
Starting with her childhood days in East Berlin ("I start with my life as a schoolgirl … my own conscious life begins at the same time as the socialist life of Leipziger Strasse"), Not a Novel provides a glimpse of growing up in the GDR and of what it was like to be twenty-two when the wall collapsed; it takes us through Erpenbeck’s early adult years, working in a bakery after immersing herself in the worlds of music, theater, and opera, and ultimately discovering her path as a writer.
There are lively essays about her literary influences (Thomas Bernhard, the Brothers Grimm, Kafka, and Thomas Mann), unforgettable reflections on the forces at work in her novels (including history, silence, and time), and scathing commentaries on the dire situation of America and Europe today. "Why do we still hear laments for the Germans who died attempting to flee over the wall, but almost none for the countless refugees who have drowned in the Mediterranean in recent years, turning the sea into a giant grave?"
With deep insight and warm intelligence, Jenny Erpenbeck provides us with a collection of unforgettable essays that take us into the heart and mind of "one of the finest and most exciting writers alive" (Michel Faber). -
Jenny Erpenbeck
Go, Went, Gone
ISBN: 978-1846276200, 1846276209 Год издания: 2017 Издательство: Portobello Books Язык: Английский Аннотация
One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, his books remain in their packing boxes and he steps into the streets of his city, Berlin. Here, on Oranienplatz, he discovers a new community -- a tent city, established…
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Jenny Erpenbeck
Gehen, ging, gegangen
ISBN: 978-3813503708 Год издания: 2015 Издательство: Albrecht Knaus Verlag Язык: Немецкий Аннотация
Entdeckungsreise zu einer Welt, die zum Schweigen verurteilt, aber mitten unter uns ist Wie erträgt man das Vergehen der Zeit, wenn man zur Untätigkeit gezwungen ist? Wie geht man um mit dem Verlust derer, die man geliebt hat? Wer trägt das Erbe weiter? Richard, emeritierter Professor, kommt durch die zufällige Begegnung mit den Asylsuchenden auf dem…
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Jenny Erpenbeck
The End of Days
ISBN: 978-0811221924 Год издания: 2014 Издательство: New Directions Язык: Английский Аннотация
Winner of the Presigious Hans Fallada Prize and a bestseller in Europe, The End of Days offers a unique view on twentieth-century German history.
The End of Days, by acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of an unnamed woman protagonist. How could it all have gone differently? the narrator asks in the intermezzos between. The first chapter begins with the death of a baby in the early twentieth-century Hapsburg Empire. In the next chapter, the same girl grows up in Vienna, but her strange relationship with a boy leads to another death. In the next scenario, she survives adolescence and moves to Russia with her husband. Both are dedicated Communists, but our heroine is sent to a labor camp. She is spared in the next chapter with the help of someone’s intervention and returns to Berlin to become a respected writer. . . .
The End of Days is a brilliant novel of contingency and fate. A novel of incredible breadth, yet amazing concision, The End of Days offers a unique overview of German and German-Jewish history by “one of the finest, most exciting authors alive” (Michael Faber). -
Jenny Erpenbeck
Aller Tage Abend
ISBN: 978-3813503692 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: Albrecht Knaus Verlag Язык: Немецкий Аннотация
Das Leben ist die Zeit, die dir bleibt
Wie lang wird das Leben des Kindes sein, das gerade geboren wird? Wer sind wir, wenn uns die Stunde schlägt? Wer wird um uns trauern? Jenny Erpenbeck nimmt uns mit auf ihrer Reise durch die vielen Leben, die in einem Leben enthalten sein können. Sie wirft einen scharfen Blick auf die Verzweigungen, an denen sich Grundlegendes entscheidet. Die Hauptfigur ihres Romans stirbt als Kind. Oder doch nicht? Stirbt als Liebende. Oder doch nicht? Stirbt als Verratene. Als Hochgeehrte. Als von allen Vergessene. Oder doch nicht? Meisterhaft und lebendig erzählt Erpenbeck, wie sich, was wir »Schicksal« nennen, als ein unfassbares Zusammenspiel von Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte, von familiären und persönlichen Verstrickungen erweist. Der Zufall aber sitzt bei alldem »in seiner eisernen Stube und rechnet« -
Jenny Erpenbeck
Visitation
ISBN: 9781846271908 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: Granta Books Аннотация
By the side of a lake in Brandenburg, a young architect builds the house of his dreams - a summerhouse with wrought-iron balconies, stained-glass windows the colour of jewels, and a bedroom with a hidden closet, all set within a beautiful garden. But the land on which he builds has a dark history of violence that began with the drowning of a young woman in the grip of madness and that grows darker still over the course of the century: the Jewish neighbours disappear one by one; the Red Army requisitions the house, burning the furniture and trampling the garden; a young East German attempts to swim his way to freedom in the West; a couple return from brutal exile in Siberia and leave the house to their granddaughter, who is forced to relinquish her claim upon it and sell to new owners intent upon demolition. Reaching far into the past, and recovering what was lost and what was buried, Jenny Erpenbeck tells a story both beautiful and brutal, about the things that haunt a home. -
Jenny Erpenbeck
Visitation
ISBN: 978-0811218351 Год издания: 2010 Издательство: New Directions Publishing Язык: Английский Аннотация
A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeck’s grandparents) is the focus of this compact, beautiful novel. Encompassing over one hundred years of German history, from the nineteenth century to the Weimar Republic, from World War II to the Socialist German Democratic Republic, and finally reunification and its…
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Jenny Erpenbeck
Heimsuchung
ISBN: 3821857730 Год издания: 2008 Язык: Немецкий Аннотация
Heimsuchung reicht tief in die deutsche Vergangenheit. Eine literarische Spurensuche von stupender Wucht
Ein Haus an einem märkischen See ist das Zentrum, fünfzehn Lebensläufe, Geschichten, Schicksale von den Zwanzigerjahren bis heute ranken sich darum. Das Haus und seine Bewohner erleben die Weimarer Republik, das Dritte Reich, den Krieg und dessen Ende, die DDR, die Wende und die Zeit der Nachwende. Jedem einzelnen Schicksal gibt Jenny Erpenbeck eine eigene literarische Form, jedes entfaltet auf ganz eigene Weise seine Dramatik, seine Tragik, sein Glück. Alle zusammen bilden eine Art kollektives literarisches Gedächtnis des letzten Jahrhunderts, geformt in einer Literatur, die nicht nur großartige Sätze und Bilder zu bieten hat, sondern die auch Wunden reißt, verstört, beglückt, verunsichert und versöhnt.
Worin das Geheimnis dieser Geschichten besteht, woraus sich ihr Glanz, ihre Wucht und ihre eminente Dramatik entfalten, ist schwer zu sagen. Sicher aber ist eins: Mit diesem Buch ist Jenny Erpenbeck ihr Meisterstück gelungen.
»Immer, wenn Jenny Erpenbeck ihren scharfen Blick auf die Dinge richtet, verändern sie sich blitzartig. Die Oberfläche schmilzt. Darunter kommt zum Vorschein, was als subkutane Irritation die Figuren bewegt.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
Jenny Erpenbeck
The Book of Words
ISBN: 9780811217064 Год издания: 2007 Язык: Английский Аннотация
The Book of Words