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»Better to survive, to be still be around, to keep working once the horror was over.«
The astonishing thing about this book is how time, the world and history are caught up from such a personal, almost intimate approach, how the cosmos of the centuries fans out completely effortlessly from such a microcosm. Important writers cannot be inward at all, they are always worldly, that is, political, admittedly in a somewhat more intense sense than the market expects today. At the same time, these notes astutely illuminate moments of German history.
The astonishing thing about this book is how time, the world and history are caught up from such a personal, almost intimate approach, how the cosmos of the centuries fans out completely effortlessly from such a microcosm. Important writers cannot be inward at all, they are always worldly, that is, political, admittedly in a somewhat more intense sense than the market expects today. At the same time, these notes astutely illuminate moments of German history.
»The way she sculpts the material of her life into literature – not only in this work but also in her poetry and short stories – involving a mixture of encryption and meticulous description, of distancing and self-absorption, identification and boundary-setting, is what creates that characteristic ›Kaschnitz sound‹ which, because it always leaves so many things open, sucks the reader into the events being described and reflected upon.« Ilka Scheidgen, Die Tagespost
»The way she sculpts the material of her life into literature – not only in this work but also in her poetry and short stories – involving a mixture of encryption and meticulous description, of distancing and self-absorption, identification and boundary-setting, is what creates that characteristic ›Kaschnitz sound‹ which, because it always leaves so many things open, sucks the reader into the events being described and reflected upon.« Ilka Scheidgen, Die...
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1973, 313 pages
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Marie Luise Kaschnitz
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Marie Luise Kaschnitz was born in Karlsruhe on January 31, 1901, and grew up in Potsdam and Berlin. After training as a bookseller, she worked at O.C. Recht Verlag in Munich and in an antiquarian bookshop in Rome. After marrying the archaeologist Guido Kaschnitz von Weinberg, she accompanied him on several of his research trips and lived in Rome, Marburg and Königsberg, among other places, and mainly in Frankfurt am Main after 1941. After the birth of her daughter in 1928, she began to write – novels, stories, essays and poems. Her first novel Liebe beginnt was published in 1933. From 1950 onwards, she also increasingly devoted herself to radio plays. She was awarded numerous prizes and was a member of the P.E.N. Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany, the...
Marie Luise Kaschnitz
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Marie Luise Kaschnitz was born in Karlsruhe on January 31, 1901, and grew up in Potsdam and Berlin. After training as a bookseller, she worked at...
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