The Lord Chandos Letter

Author : Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590175439

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The Lord Chandos Letter by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal Pdf

Hugo von Hoffmannsthal made his mark as a poet, as a playwright, and as the librettist for Richard Strauss’s greatest operas, but he was no less accomplished as a writer of short, strangely evocative prose works. The atmospheric stories and sketches collected here—fin-de-siècle fairy tales from the Vienna of Klimt and Freud, a number of them never before translated into English—propel the reader into a shadowy world of uncanny fates and secret desires. An aristocrat from Paris in the plague years shares a single night of passion with an unknown woman; a cavalry sergeant meets his double on the battlefield; an orphaned man withdraws from the world with his four servants, each of whom has a mysterious power over his destiny. The most influential of all of Hofmannsthal’s writings is the title story, a fictional letter to the English philosopher Francis Bacon in which Lord Chandos explains why he is no longer able to write. The “Letter” not only symbolized Hofmannsthal’s own turn away from poetry, it captured the psychological crisis of faith and language which was to define the twentieth century.

Author : Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
Publisher : NYRB Classics
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015062834042

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The Lord Chandos Letter by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal Pdf

In The Lord Chandos Letter, the author conjures a figure from the English Renaissance in order to write about a peculiarly modern crisis of the spirit.

Author : Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590171209

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The Lord Chandos Letter by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal Pdf

Hugo von Hoffmannsthal made his mark as a poet, as a playwright, and as the librettist for Richard Strauss’s greatest operas, but he was no less accomplished as a writer of short, strangely evocative prose works. The atmospheric stories and sketches collected here—fin-de-siècle fairy tales from the Vienna of Klimt and Freud, a number of them never before translated into English—propel the reader into a shadowy world of uncanny fates and secret desires. An aristocrat from Paris in the plague years shares a single night of passion with an unknown woman; a cavalry sergeant meets his double on the battlefield; an orphaned man withdraws from the world with his four servants, each of whom has a mysterious power over his destiny. The most influential of all of Hofmannsthal's writings is the title story, a fictional letter to the English philosopher Francis Bacon in which Lord Chandos explains why he is no longer able to write. The "Letter" not only symbolized Hofmannsthal's own turn away from poetry, it captured the psychological crisis of faith and language which was to define the twentieth century.

Author : Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781400829798

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The Whole Difference by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal Pdf

Hugo von Hofmannsthal is one of the modern era's most important writers, but his fame as Richard Strauss's pioneering collaborator on such operas as Der Rosenkavalier and Die Frau ohne Schatten has obscured his other remarkable writings: his precocious lyric poetry, inventive short fiction, keen essays, and visionary plays. The Whole Difference, which includes new translations as well as classic ones long out of print, is a fresh introduction to the enormous range of this extraordinary artist, and the most comprehensive collection of Hofmannsthal's writings in English. Selected and edited by the poet and librettist J. D. McClatchy, this collection includes early lyric poems; short prose works, including "The Tale of Night Six Hundred and Seventy-Two," "A Tale of the Cavalry," and the famous "Letter of Lord Chandos"; two full-length plays, The Difficult Man and The Tower; as well as the first act of The Cavalier of the Rose. From the glittering salons of imperial Vienna to the bloodied ruins of Europe after the Great War, the landscape of Hofmannsthal's world stretches across the extremes of experience. This collection reflects those extremes, including both the sparkling social comedy of "the difficult man" Hans Karl, so sensitive that he cannot choose between the two women he loves, and the haunting fictional letter to Francis Bacon in which Lord Chandos explains why he can no longer write. Complete with an introduction by McClatchy, this collection reveals an artist whose unusual subtlety and depth will enthrall readers.

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781681370583

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The Storyteller Essays by Walter Benjamin Pdf

A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collection includes short stories, book reviews, parables, and as a selection of writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin's work. “The Storyteller” is one of Walter Benjamin’s most important essays, a beautiful and suggestive meditation on the relation between narrative form, social life, and individual existence—and the product of at least a decade’s work. What might be called the story of The Storyteller Essays starts in 1926, with a piece Benjamin wrote about the German romantic Johann Peter Hebel. It continues in a series of short essays, book reviews, short stories, parables, and even radio shows for children. This collection brings them all together to give readers a new appreciation of how Benjamin’s thinking changed and ripened over time, while including several key readings of his own—texts by his contemporaries Ernst Bloch and Georg Lukács; by Paul Valéry; and by Herodotus and Montaigne. Finally, to bring things around, there are three short stories by “the incomparable Hebel” with whom the whole intellectual adventure began.

Author : Hermann Broch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1984-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226075167

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Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and His Time by Hermann Broch Pdf

Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is remembered among English-speaking readers for his novels The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil, and among German-speaking readers for his novels as well as his works on moral and political philosophy, his aesthetic theory, and his varied criticism. This study reveals Broch as a major historian as well, one who believes that true historical understanding requires the faculties of both poet and philosopher. Through an analysis of the changing thought and career of the Austrian poet, librettist, and essaist Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), Broch attempts to define and analyze the major intellectual issues of the European fin de siècle, a period that he characterizes according to the Nietzschean concepts of the breakdown of rationality and the loss of a central value system. The result is a major examination of European thought as well as a comparative study of political systems and artistic styles.

Author : J.M. Coetzee
Publisher : Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409017158

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Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee Pdf

Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation, she has reached the stage where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. Her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world - a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public: the presentation of a major award at an American college where she is required to deliver a lecture; a sojourn as the writer in residence on a cruise liner; a visit to her sister, a missionary in Africa, who is receiving an honorary degree, an occasion which both recognise as the final opportunity for effecting some form of reconciliation; and a disquieting appearance at a writers' conference in Amsterdam where she finds the subject of her talk unexpectedly amongst the audience. She has made her life's work the study of other people yet now it is she who is the object of scrutiny. But, for her, what matters is the continuing search for a means of articulating her vision and the verdict of future generations.

Author : James Hogg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Brothers
ISBN : BSB:BSB10265058

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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg Pdf

Published anonymously in 1824, this gothic mystery novel was written by Scottish author James Hogg. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner was published as if it were the presentation of a century-old document. The unnamed editor offers the reader a long introduction before presenting the document written by the sinner himself.

Author : C. V. Wedgwood
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681371238

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The Thirty Years War by C. V. Wedgwood Pdf

Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with relentless abandon, drawing powers from Spain to Sweden into a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction.

Author : Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X004041035

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The Lord Chandos Letter by Hugo von Hofmannsthal Pdf

This is an essay in letter form, written in 1901. The fictitious writer is Philip, Lord Chandos, and the addressee is Francis Bacon. The letter is dated 22 August 1603. Lord Chandos writes in response to an enquiry by Bacon about his two years of silence after five intense years of creative writing which he began at the age of 19. Now 26, Lord Chandos explains how he has come to distrust verbal splendour which fascinates for its own sake, and has made the relationship between language and existence his principal concern. The essay explains the conundrum of writing.

Author : J. M. Coetzee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015058834527

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Letter of Elizabeth, Lady Chandos, to Francis Bacon by J. M. Coetzee Pdf

Author : Molly G. Yarn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781316518359

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Shakespeare's ‘Lady Editors' by Molly G. Yarn Pdf

This bold and compelling revisionist history tells the remarkable story of the forgotten lives and labours of Shakespeare's women editors.

Author : Unica Zürn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029478695

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Dark Spring by Unica Zürn Pdf

An autobiographical novel that reads more like an exorcism than a novel. In terse and lucid prose, Zurn traces the roots to her obsessions: the exotic father whom she idolized, the impure mother she detested, the masochistic fantasies and onanistic rituals which she said described 'the erotic life of a little girl based on my own childhood.' Dark Spring is the story of a girls's simultaneous initiation to sexuality and madness, revealing a dark side of the 'mad love' so championed and romanticized by the (predominantly male) Surrealists.

Author : Robert Southey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : England
ISBN : NYPL:33433043973498

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Letters from England by Robert Southey Pdf

Author : Ben Ware
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472591418

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Dialectic of the Ladder by Ben Ware Pdf

Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) remains one of the most enigmatic works of twentieth century thought. In this bold and original new study, Ben Ware argues that Wittgenstein's early masterpiece is neither an analytic treatise on language and logic, nor a quasi-mystical work seeking to communicate 'ineffable' truths. Instead, we come to understand the Tractatus by grasping it in a twofold sense: first, as a dialectical work which invites the reader to overcome certain 'illusions of thought'; and second as a modernist work whose anti-philosophical ambition is intimately tied to its radical aesthetic character. By placing the Tractatus in the force field of modernism, Dialectic of the Ladder clears the ground for a new and challenging exploration of the work's ethical dimension. It also casts new light upon the cultural, aesthetic and political significances of Wittgenstein's writing, revealing hitherto unacknowledged affinities with a host of philosophical and literary authors, including Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Adorno, Benjamin, and Kafka.