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Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The true story of two of the twentieth century's great writers exiled from Nazi Germany to a Belgian seaside resort, and the world they built there: written with a novelist's eye for pacing, chronology, and language--a dazzling work of historical nonfiction. 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...
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
�2023.
Language
English
Description
"Narrated in a series of stark, brief vignettes, The Illiterate is �Agota Krist�of's memoir of her childhood, her escape from Hungary in 1956 with her husband and small child, her early years working in factories in Switzerland, and the writing of her first novel, The Notebook. Few writers can convey so much in so little space. Fierce yet almost pointedly flat and documentarian in tone, Krist�of portrays with a disturbing level of detail and...
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