Michael Maar: 7 books

Book cover of Bluebeard's Chamber

Bluebeard's Chamber

Guilt and Confession in Thomas Mann

by Michael Maar
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019

Over the last twenty years, much critical discussion of Thomas Mann has highlighted his homosexuality. This not only is presented as a dynamic underlying Mann’s creative work, but also is the supposed reason for the theme of guilt and redemption that grew ever stronger in Mann’s fiction, and for...
Book cover of Heute bedeckt und kühl

Heute bedeckt und kühl

Große Tagebücher von Samuel Pepys bis Virginia Woolf

by Michael Maar
Language: German
Release Date: October 18, 2013

Als tägliche Übung, zur Sammlung, zur Erinnerung, zur Selbsterfindung und gegen die reißende Zeit, ist es ein massenhaft verbreitetes Genre, jeder kennt es, jeder hat es irgendwann mal versucht oder in Erwägung gezogen, aber es gibt Höhepunkte in der Geschichte dieser Kunstform: Gemeint ist das...
Book cover of Sand
by Wolfgang Herrndorf, Michael Maar
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018

Set in the aftermath 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, this darkly sophisticated literary thriller by one of Germany's most celebrated writers is now available in the US for the first time. North Africa, 1972. While the world is reeling from the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics,...
Book cover of Tamburinis Buckel

Tamburinis Buckel

Meister von heute

by Michael Maar
Language: German
Release Date: August 21, 2014

Er ist der Detektiv unter den Literaturkritikern, der genaueste Leser, begabt mit einem analytischen Scharfblick und der Fähigkeit, sprachlich schön und elegant das Besondere eines literarischen Werks auf den Punkt zu bringen und zugleich die Quellen erahnen zu lassen, aus denen es im Leben der...
Book cover of The Two Lolitas
by Michael Maar
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017

A leading German scholar reveals his astonishing discovery about Nabokov’s influential novel We know the girl and her story, just as we know the title. But the author was Heinz von Eschwege, whose tale of Lolita appeared in 1916 under the pen name Heinz von Lichberg, forty years before Nabokov’s...
Book cover of Lexikon Raumphilosophie
by Stephan Günzel, Franziska Kümmerling, Kurt Röttgers
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Der Raum und das Verständnis des Raums sind als große neue Themen der Philosophie im Gespräch. Die damit zusammenhängenden Fragen gewinnen derart an Bedeutung, dass von einem ›spatial turn‹ der Wissenschaft gesprochen wird, in Entsprechung zum ›linguistic turn‹, der das Gesicht der Philosophie...
Book cover of The Cold War at Home and Abroad

The Cold War at Home and Abroad

Domestic Politics and US Foreign Policy since 1945

by Andrew L. Johns, Autumn Lass, David L. Prentice
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018

From President Truman's use of a domestic propaganda agency to Ronald Reagan's handling of the Soviet Union during his 1984 reelection campaign, the American political system has consistently exerted a profound effect on the country's foreign policies. Americans may cling to the belief that "politics...
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