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A new intellectual biography of Goethe, examining the paradox of his thoughtJohann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) was a poet, a novelist, a scientist and an essayist on a dizzying …

Four years after "Mothers", "Granta 104" sets its sights on fathers. Look out for Hisham Matar on his father, who was kidnapped while living in Egypt and imprisoned by Muammar …

This is a personal history of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of Edith Kurzweil, author, teacher, editor of Partisan Review, and a recent recipient of the National …

A formally audacious and deeply moving memoir in three timeframes that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a father and son.

Etre seul des journees entieres, c'est soliloquer quelque part dans sa tete. C'est composer du silence dont l'echo n'est percu par personne. C'est faire face a un tsunami de …

The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. He hated and lusted for his mother …

Antonin Artaud's journey to Ireland in 1937 marked an extraordinary-and apocalyptic-turning point in his life and career. After publishing the manifesto The New Revelations of …

With an introduction by Siri HustvedtFriday 30 October 1936. I do not wish, for reasons I cannot now develop, to analyse that extraordinary summer. It will be more helpful & …

This antiquarian book contains Y. B. Yeats's 1914 autobiography, "e;Reveries over Childhood and Youth"e;. His first autobiography, it covers his life from its beginning - …

"Si tu as un enfant comme ça, c’est que tu l’as mérité". La violence de cette phrase, résume la souffrance et le courage de Sandrine. "À travers ces lignes je ne règle pas mes …