Ralph Manheim Knihy

Death on the Installment Plan is the story of young Ferdinand's first 18 years. His life is one of hatred, of the grinding struggle of small shopkeepers to survive, of childhood sensations and fantasies - lusty, scatological, violent, but also poetic. There is a running battle with his ineffectual insurance clerk of a father, with his mother, who lives and whines around the junkshop she runs for the boys benefit; there is also the superbly funny Meanwell College in England, where the boy went briefly, a Dickensian, nightmare institution. Always there is humiliation, failure, and boredom, at least until he teams up with the "scientist" des Pereires. This inventor, con-man, incorrigible optimist - whose last project is to grow enormous potatoes by electricity - rescues him, if only temporarily; for the reader he is one of the most lovable charlatans in French literature.

A haunting classic from the author of All Quiet on the Western Front, Shadows in Paradise reveals the deepest scars of the men and women who experienced the Holocaust. After years of hiding and surviving near death in a concentration camp, Ross is finally safe. Now living in New York City among old friends, far from Europe’s chilling atrocities, Ross soon meets Natasha, a beautiful model and fellow émigré, a warm heart to help him forget his cold memories. Yet even as the war draws to its violent close, Ross cannot find peace. Demons still pursue him. Whether they are ghosts from the past or the guilt of surviving, he does not know. For he is only beginning to understand that freedom is far from easy—and that paradise, however perfect, has a price. “The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”—The New York Times Book Review

Rob, čo chceš– tak znie nápis na symbole neobmedzenej moci v krajine Fantázia. Skutočný význam tejto vety sa však Bastián dozvie až po dlhom a dobrodružnom hľadaní...Dvanásťročný Bastián Baltazár Bux nie je v škole veľmi obľúbený, preto je často sám a najlepšie sa cíti medzi policami plnými kníh. Jedného dňa neodolá a z antikvariátu ukradne tajuplnú hrubú knihu so znakom dvojhlavého hada na obálke a s dvojfarebným písmom. Keď sa do nej začíta, kniha ho nečakane vtiahne do svojho deja a chlapec sa tak stane súčasťou napínavého príbehu. Dozvie sa, že krajine Fantázia a jej vládkyni, detskej kráľovnej, hrozí zánik. Kráľovná si na pomoc zavolá Atreja a poverí ho, aby sa spolu s drakom šťastia Falkom pokúsil zachrániť krajinu. Všetko však nasvedčuje tomu, že práve nešikovnému Bastiánovi, ktorý je v triede terčom posmechu, sa podarí odvrátiť zánik Fantázie a zachrániť jej podivuhodných obyvateľov.Nekonečný príbeh, ktorý prvýkrát vyšiel v Nemecku roku 1979, preložili do viac ako 35 jazykov a predalo sa vyše osem miliónov výtlačkov.Na motívy skvelej Endeho knihy nakrútil režisér Wolfgang Petersen roku 1984 rovnomenný film. Obľúbili si ho už celé generácie detí aj rodičov a dodnes rovnako uchvacuje malých aj veľkých divákov.

The German existentialist delineates his theories concerning the nature, problems, and limitations of man's being

Arabský chlapec Momo žije v parížskej štvrti Belleville spolu s ďalšími deťmi u Madame Rosy, starej prostitútky, ktorá prežila Auschwitz. Nevediac, koľko má rokov a kto sú jeho rodičia, sa snaží porozumieť životu a jeho ťažkostiam. S veľkými očami sa potuluje po uliciach a necháva sa oslovovať bohatými ženami. S pánom Hamilom, predajcom kobercov, ktorý videl všetko, sa rozpráva o láske, a Madame Rosu, ktorá si zaslúžila výťah, pomáha vyťahovať po schodoch šesťposchodového domu, kde žijú prostitútky, transvestiti, siroty, černosi a Arabi. Keď sa blíži jej smrť, sprevádza ju do jej „židovského úkrytu“ v suteréne. Román skúma vzťah medzi arabským chlapcom a židovskou ex-prostitutkou a vyvolal v literárnom svete veľký škandál. Romain Gary, ktorý ho publikoval pod pseudonymom Émile Ajar, získal zaň druhýkrát Prix Goncourt, čo bolo v rozpore s pravidlami tohto prestížneho literárneho ocenenia.

Margarete Buber, the journalist daughter of Martin Buber, and Milena Jesenska, the beautiful lover of Kafka, met in Ravensbruck concentration camp in 1940. For four terrible years, the two women formed an extraordinary bond and made a pact that if only one survived, the other would bear witness. Only Margarete lived to remember. This is her story of Milena--of fearless love, sacrifice, and nobility.

Hermann Hesse; selected by Volker Michels; translated by Ralph Manheim. Reflections. New Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1974. 1st American Edition, Hardbound, 8.5 inches tall, 197 pages. Sources. "The aging Hermann Hesse arranged to have privately printed a collection of thirty-nine brief passages culled from his writings, with which to reply to some of the innumerable letters he received. The existence of this book provided encouragement for the present expanded volume, which a first published in Germany in 1971."

My Belief: Essays on Life and Art is a collection of essays by Hermann Hesse. The essays, written between 1904 and 1961, were originally published in German, either individually or in various collections between 1951 and 1973. This collection in English was first published in 1976, edited by Theodore Ziolkowski.

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Rosshalda je román výnimočného autora – nositeľa Nobelovej ceny za literatúru – ktorý dosiaľ v slovenskom preklade ešte nevyšiel. Rosshalda je vlastne názov panského domu a súčasne dejisko hlbokej manželskej krízy maliara Johanna Veragutha a pianistky Adele. Spája ich už iba láska k mladšiemu synovi Pierrovi... Hesse v sčasti autobiografickom románe z roku 1914 stvárňuje konflikty vlastného životného príbehu, no rozvíja i svoje pochybnosti o manželstve, najmä ak ho uzatvárajú umelecké dvojice. Manželstvo totiž pokladal za konvenčnú meštiacku inštitúciu... Kniha v brilantnom preklade Mariána Hatalu vychádza v edícii TERRA.

One of Bertolt Brecht's best-loved and most performed plays, The Threepenny Opera was first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble). Based on the eighteenth-century The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, the play is a satire on the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. With Kurt Weill's music, which was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce the jazz idiom into the theatre, it became a popular hit throughout the western world. This new edition is published here in John Willett and Ralph Manhein's classic translation with commentary and notes by Anja Hartl.

Described by Brecht as a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all, Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade.

Gevoelens en ervaringen van een Joodse kleuter, die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog met zijn ouders enkele jaren in een concentratiekamp doorbrengt.

A German art historian and a Polish art restorer find adventure and love in the cemetery business. Their vision is to offer plots in Gdansk to those Germans who had been exiled after World War II. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Ako spoločnosť pevne stojíme proti diskriminácii akéhokoľvek druhu. Mein Kampf predstavuje jeden zo základných dokumentov nacistickej ideológie, ktorá v minulosti zapríčinila milióny mŕtvych. Obsahuje mnoho poloprávd a klamstiev, propagandistickú demagógiu a názory nehumánne, rasistické a odporujúce zákonom demokratických štátov. Čitateľ kúpou tejto knihy potvrdzuje, že si je týchto skutočností vedomý a že jej obsah užije výhradne na študijné účely.

Herman Hesse remained clear-sighted and consistent in his political views and his passionate espousal of pacifism and the bloody absurdity of war from the start of the First World War to the end of his life. He wrote the earliest essay in this book in September 1914, before he cemented his fame with the novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, and continued writing a stream of letters, essays and pamphlets throughout the war. In his native Germany his views earned him the labels 'traitor' and 'viper', but after World War II he was moved to reiterate his beliefs in another series of essays and letters.If the War Goes On . . . resonates as strongly today as it did when originally published and begs the question: have our politicians learnt nothing in the last seventy years?

Pohodlne sa usaďte a pustite sa do prezerania krásnych ilustrácií a čítania napínavej rozprávky napísanej podľa príbehu E. T. A. Hoffmanna – príbehu o Luskáčikovi!Bol Štedrý večer, vonku ticho padal sneh. Klárka a jej braček Ferko sa nemohli dočkať. Tento večer bude plný úžasných darčekov a potom príde veľkolepý večierok s hudbou a tancom... Ako táto rozprávka pokračovala a kto bol Luskáčik, sa dozviete v tejto knižke, ktorá obsahuje jednu z najkrajších rozprávok podľa príbehu slávneho spisovateľa E. T. A. Hoffmanna. Pohodlne sa teda so svojimi deťmi posaďte a pustite sa do prezerania krásnych ilustrácií a čítania napínavého príbehu o neohrozenom Luskáčikovi!