berlin stories
Berlin Stories
Philip Hensher’s selection of stories reflects the ‘desperate modernity’ of Berlin as it make and remakes itself over a period of more than a hundred turbulent years. Theodore Fontane provides a window on privileged society under Kaiser Wilhelm II while Robert Walser records the vibrant social and cultural life of the bustling imperial capital. Alfred Doblin and Vladimir Nabokov join the creative ferment of the ‘Golden Twenties’ while in the darkening world of the early Thirties, Christopher Isherwood is seduced by Berlin’s decadent cabaret society, Erich Haffner explores the city’s seamy underside and the irrepressible heroine of Irmgard Keun’s The Artificial Silk Girl seeks fame and fortune in her stolen fur coat. Thomas Wolfe’s hero visits a city shadowed by Hitler’s rise; Hans Fallada’s working-class couple quietly resists the Nazis; Heinz Rein reports on the last days of the Third Reich. Cold War espionage enlivens works by Len Deighton and Ian McEwan; Christa Wolf’s They Divided the Sky and Peter Schneider’s The Wall Jumper depict the Berlin Wall’s impact on a personal scale; Gunter Grass amd Uwe Timm examine German reunification from very different angles. Finally, more recent arrivals – from Chloe Aridjis’s Mexican-Jewish university student in Book of Cloud to the desperate African refugees in Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone – bear witness to Berlin’s continuing evolution as an arena of the possible.
3219 Руб.
Isherwood Christopher Down There on a Visit
Berlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1938 and 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as 'Christopher Isherwood'. Often regarded as the best of his novels, Down There on a Visit tells the vivid stories of Isherwood's life that, together with The Berlin Novels, were to have comprised his great unfinished epic novel.
2825 Руб.
Fallada Hans Lilly and Her Slave
Previously unpublished stories by the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin. In September 1925, Hans Fallada handed himself in to the police. Not yet a bestselling author, Fallada had repeatedly embezzled funds to finance his alcohol and morphine addictions. Desperate to escape his demons, he sought a prison cell. Now court documents from Fallada's imprisonment have recently been uncovered, and with them a never-before-seen collection of short stories. Through complex characters at odds with society, Fallada explored the lived the lives of women and male outsiders. These stories reveal to a new generation of readers Fallada's immense gifts and his intense inner battles.
2024 Руб.
Doblin Alfred Berlin Alexanderplatz
The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb new translation by Michael Hofmann Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison, he finds himself thwarted by an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate. Cheated, humiliated, thrown from a moving car; embroiled in an underworld of pimps, thugs, drunks and prostitutes, Franz picks himself up over and over again - until one day he is struck a monstrous blow which might just prove his final downfall. A dazzling collage of newspaper reports, Biblical stories, drinking songs and urban slang, Berlin Alexanderplatz is the great novel of Berlin life: inventing, styling and recreating the city as reality and dream; mimicking its movements and rhythms; immortalizing its pubs, abattoirs, apartments and chaotic streets. From the gutter to the stars, this is the whole picture of the city. Berlin Alexanderplatz brought fame in 1929 to its author Alfred Doblin, until then an impecunious writer and doctor in a working-class neighbourhood in the east of Berlin. Success at home was short-lived, however; Doblin, a Jew, left Germany the day after the Reichstag Fire in 1933, and did not return until 1945. This landmark translation by Michael Hofmann is the first to do justice to Berlin Alexanderplatz in English, brilliantly capturing the energy, prodigality and inventiveness of Doblin's masterpiece.
2568 Руб.
Schneider Peter Berlin Now. The Rise Of The City And The Fall Of The Wall
In Berlin Now, and on the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a legendary Berliner tells the inside story of the city. Over the last five decades, no other city has changed more than Berlin. Divided in 1961, reunited in 1989, it has morphed over the last twenty-five years into Europe's most vibrant melting-pot of artists, immigrants and entrepreneurs. Pieces of the wall are collected around the world. Blending memoir, history, anecdote and reportage, this legendary Berliner takes us behind the scenes - from wrenching stories of life under the Stasi, to the difference between East and West Berliners' sex-lives, to a present-day investigation of its arts scene, night-life, tumultuous politics and hidden quirks - revealing what makes Berlin the uniquely fascinating place it is.
2723 Руб.
Yello - Live In Berlin. 1 DVD
Yello - Live In Berlin [DVD]. 1 DVD. Magma (Live in Berlin), Do It (Live in Berlin), The Evening's Young (Live in Berlin), Limbo (Live in Berlin), Bostich (Live in Berlin), Electrified II (feat. Malia) [Live in Berlin], Cold Flame (feat. Malia) [Live in Berlin], 30'000 Days (Live in Berlin), The Time Tunnel (Live in Berlin), Kiss the Cloud (feat. Fifi Rong) [Live in Berlin], Lost in Motion (feat. Fifi Rong) [Live in Berlin], Tied Up (Live in Berlin), Liquid Lies (Live in Berlin), Starlight Scene (Live in Berlin), Tool of Love (Live in Berlin), Oh Yeah (Live in Berlin), Blue Biscuit (Live in Berlin), Si Senor the Hairy Grill (Live in Berlin), The Yellofier Song (Live in Berlin), The Race (Live in Berlin)
6899 Руб.
Fallada Hans Tales from the Underworld
Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin In these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking and entering; families measure their daily struggles in marks and pfennigs; a convict makes a desperate leap from a moving train; a ring - and with it a marriage - is lost in a basket of potatoes. Here, as in his novels, Fallada is by turns tough, darkly funny, streetwise and effortlessly engaging, writing with acute feeling about ordinary lives shaped by forces larger than themselves: addiction, love, money.
2605 Руб.
Fleming Ian Octopussy & The Living Daylights
There's no better time to rediscover James Bond. The British Secret Service has many enemies. Whether it's a sniper in East Berlin, a Russian agent secretly bidding for a Faberge egg, or a retired major in Jamaica with a treacherous secret, it is down to James Bond to neutralize the threat. In these stories the dirty world of international espionage tests Bond's skills to the extreme.
2998 Руб.
Fleming Ian Octopussy & The Living Daylights
There's no better time to rediscover James Bond. The British Secret Service has many enemies. Whether it's a sniper in East Berlin, a Russian agent secretly bidding for a Faberge egg, or a retired major in Jamaica with a treacherous secret, it is down to James Bond to neutralize the threat. In these stories the dirty world of international espionage tests Bond's skills to the extreme.
2342 Руб.
Funder Anna Stasiland. Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. In Stasiland, winner of the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize, Anna Funder tells extraordinary tales from the underbelly of the former East Germany, a country where the headquarters of the secret police can become a museum literally overnight, and one in fifty East Germans were informing on their countrymen and women. She meets Miriam, who as a sixteen-year-old might have started the Third World War, visits the man who painted the line which became the Berlin Wall and gets drunk with the legendary ‘Mik Jegger’ of the East, who the authorities once declared – to his face – to ‘no longer exist’.
3183 Руб.
Gallant Mavis The Collected Stories
This generous collection of fifty-two stories selected from across her prolific career by the author, is preceded by a preface in which she discusses the sources of her art. With irony and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of spare complexity, often pushing the boundaries of the form in boldly unconventional directions. The settings in the Collected Stories range from Paris to Berlin to Switzerland, from the Riviera to the Cote d'Azur, and her characters are almost all exiles of one sort or another, as she herself was the most of her expatriate life. The wit and precision of her prose, combined with her expansive view of humanity, provide a rare and deep reading pleasure. With breathtaking control and compression, Gallant delivers a whole life, a whole world, in each story.
5664 Руб.
AUDIO CD Dash Berlin musicislife
треклист1 Dash Berlin Featuring Jonathan Mendelsohn– Better Half Of Me 6:51 2 Dash Berlin Featuring Emma Hewitt– Disarm Yourself 6:30 3 Dash Berlin Featuring Chris Madin– Silence In Your Heart 3:18 4 Dash Berlin Featuring [With] ATB– Apollo Road 6:55 5 Dash Berlin Featuring Sarah Howells– Go It Alone 4:40 6 Dash Berlin Featuring Emma Hewitt– Like Spinning Plates 6:33 7 Dash Berlin Featuring Kate Walsh– When You Were Around 5:24 8 Dash Berlin Featuring Chris Madin– Fool For Life 6:40 9 Dash Berlin Featuring Shogun (15)– Callisto 4:50 10 Dash Berlin Featuring Jonathan Mendelsohn– World Falls Apart 5:25 11 Dash Berlin Featuring Shanokee– Surrender 4:36 12 Dash Berlin Featuring Hoyaa– Aviation 5:06 13 Dash Berlin Featuring [With] Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren Featuring [Vs.] Shogun (15)– Man On The Skyfire 4:42
4999 Руб.
Russian Emigre Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky
Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the 1917 revolution and subsequent Civil War, many writers went on to settle in Paris, Berlin and elsewhere. In exile, they worked as taxi drivers, labourers and film extras, and wrote some of the most brilliant and imaginative works of Russian literature. This new collection includes stories by the most famous emigre writers, Vladimir Nabokov and Ivan Bunin, and introduces powerful lesser known voices, some of whom have never been available in English before. Here is Yuri Felsen's evocative, impressionistic account of a night of debauchery in Paris; Teffi's witty and timely reflections on refugee experience; and Mark Aldanov's sparkling story of an elderly astrologer who unexpectedly finds himself in Hitler's bunker in Berlin. Exploring displacement, loss and new beginnings, their short stories vividly evoke the experience of life in exile and also return obsessively to the Russia that has been left behind - whether as a beautiful dream or terrifying nightmare. By turns experimental, funny, exciting, poignant and haunting, these works reveal the full range of emigre writing and are presented here in masterly translations by Bryan Karetnyk and others.
1201 Руб.
AUDIO CD Dash Berlin. Musicislife. Deluxe Edition (2 CD + DVD)
Bonus DVD содержит: 01. Dash Berlin - #musicislife (Music Video Mix) 02. Dash Berlin feat. Emma Hewitt - Disarm Yourself (Official Music Video) 03. Dash Berlin with Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren vs Shogun - Man On The Skyfire (Official Music Video) 04. Dash Berlin feat. Jonathan Mendelsohn - Better Half Of Me (Official Music Video) 05. Dash Berlin feat. Jonathan Mendelsohn - World Falls Apart (Official Music Video) 06. Dash Berlin feat. Sarah Howells - Go It Alone (Official Music Video) 07. Dash Berlin with ATB - Apollo Road (Official Music Video) 08. Dash Berlin feat. Kate Walsh - When You Were Around (Official Music Video) 09. Dash Berlin feat. Chris Madin - Silence In Your Heart (Official Music Video) 10. Dash Berlin feat. Emma Hewitt - Like Spinning Plates (Official Music Video) 11. Dash Berlin feat. Chris Madin - Fool For Life (Official Music Video) 12. Dash Berlin & Alexander Popov feat. Jonathan Mendelsohn - Steal You Away (Official Music Video) 13. Dash Berlin with Shogun - Callisto (Official Music Video) Picture Format: PAL 16x9 Format: DVD-5 Time: 45 mins. Color Mode: Color Region Code: 0 (All) Language And Audio Content: English / Dolby Digital 2.0 Subtitles: No
3249 Руб.
Turgenev Ivan First Love And Other Stories
This volume contains two of the world's great love stories - First Love, and Spring Torrents, which show Turgenev at his very best. Simple, direct and tender, they record the pains and glories of youthful infatuation in a style which evokes exactly and in detail what it is like to be young and in love. In addition, there is a third, much shorter story, A Fire at Sea, translated by Isaiah Berlin, and an introduction to the whole volume by V. S. Pritchett.
3389 Руб.
Lerwill Ben Wild Cities
Picture a city. What do you see? Traffic and towering buildings? Or maybe you imagine something a little... wilder? These are the astonishing stories of the animals who are adapting to live in our urban world. Picture a city. What do you see? Traffic and towering buildings? Or maybe you imagine something a little... wilder? These are the astonishing stories of the animals who are adapting to live in our urban world - and how you can help them to thrive. From the pitter-patter of penguins in Cape Town, to the prowl of a leopard in Mumbai, the splash of a seal in Sydney, cities are home to all sorts of unexpected residents. Keep your eyes wide open as as we travel the globe discovering wild cities. With magical illustration and beautiful storytelling, these incredible stories will fascinate every reader who has the travel bug, or is an animal fan, or has ever wondered what else exists in our big cities. Featuring: London, Berlin, Paris, Warsaw, Calgary, New York City, Chicago, Sydney, Beijing, Tokyo, Mumbai, Singapore, Cape Town and Seoul.
2227 Руб.