Leavetaking
I was on my way to look for a life of my own.A brilliant, brutally honest autobiographical novel, long out of print, from one of the great artistic polymaths of the 20th century.This is a Sebaldian account of the narrator's attempt to break free of a repressive upper-middle-class upbringing and make his way as an artist and individual, written in a single incantatory paragraph.Leavetaking is the story of an upper-middle-class childhood and adolescence in Berlin between the wars. In the course of the book, Weiss plumbs the depths of family life: there is the early death of his beloved sister Margit, the difficult relationship with his parents,…
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Weitere Autoren: Levenson, Christopher
- ISBN: 978-1-61219-331-1
- EAN: 9781612193311
- Produktnummer: 14993319
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 144 S.
Über den Autor
PETER WEISS was a German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker. He is best known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation, as well as the monumental three-volume historical novel The Aesthetics of Resistance. Born in Germany in 1916 to a Christian mother and a Jewish father, he began his career as visual artist, studying at the Prague Art Academy in the late '30s. After the German occupation of the Sudetenland, his family moved to Sweden, where Weiss would spend the rest of his life, eventually becoming a Swedish citizen. His work won many major German literary awards, including the Buchner and Mann Prizes, and Peter Brook's production of Marat/Sade received the Tony Award for Best Play. Weiss died in 1982. CHRISTOPHER LEVENSON is a prominent Canadian poet. He was the co-founder of Arc Magazine and of the Harbinger Poets imprint of Carleton University Press.
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