There in the giant waiting room of Marseille, the narrator converses with the refugees, listening to their stories over pizza and wine, while also gradually piecing together the story of Weidel, whose manuscript has shattered the ...

Author: Anna Seghers

Publisher: New York Review of Books

ISBN: 9781590176405

Category: Fiction

Page: 280

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Anna Seghers’s Transit is an existential, political, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom, the vitality of storytelling, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight. Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1937, and later a camp in Rouen, the nameless twenty-seven-year-old German narrator of Seghers’s multilayered masterpiece ends up in the dusty seaport of Marseille. Along the way he is asked to deliver a letter to a man named Weidel in Paris and discovers Weidel has committed suicide, leaving behind a suitcase containing letters and the manuscript of a novel. As he makes his way to Marseille to find Weidel’s widow, the narrator assumes the identity of a refugee named Seidler, though the authorities think he is really Weidel. There in the giant waiting room of Marseille, the narrator converses with the refugees, listening to their stories over pizza and wine, while also gradually piecing together the story of Weidel, whose manuscript has shattered the narrator’s “deathly boredom,” bringing him to a deeper awareness of the transitory world the refugees inhabit as they wait and wait for that most precious of possessions: transit papers.

Among Seghers's internationally regarded works are The Seventh Cross ( 1942 ) and Transit ( 1944 ) , both available as NYRB Classics . MARGOT BETTAUER DEMBO ( 1928–2019 ) was the translator of works by Judith Hermann , Robert Gernhardt ...

Author: Anna Seghers

Publisher: New York Review of Books

ISBN: 9781681375366

Category: Fiction

Page: 328

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A new translation of the best and most provocative short stories by the author of Transit and The Seventh Cross. Best known for the anti-fascist novel The Seventh Cross and the existential thriller Transit, Anna Seghers was also a gifted writer of short fiction. The stories she wrote throughout her life reflect her political activism as well as her deep engagement with myth; they are also some of her most formally experimental work. This selection of Seghers’s best stories, written between 1925 and 1965, displays the range of her creativity over the years. It includes her most famous short fiction, such as the autobiographical “The Dead Girls’ Class Trip,” and others, like “Jans Is Going to Die,” that have been translated into English here for the first time. There are psychologically penetrating stories about young men corrupted by desperation and women bound by circumstance, as well as enigmatic tales of bewilderment and enchantment based on myths and legends, like “The Best Tales of Woynok, the Thief,” “The Three Trees,” and “Tales of Artemis.” In her stories, Seghers used the German language in especially unconventional and challenging ways, and Margot Bettauer Dembo’s sensitive and skilled translation preserves this distinction.

My Heart Is Broken: Eight Stories and a Short Novel, Random House, New York, 1964; as An Unmarried Man's Summer, Heinemann, ... Paris Stories, New York Review of Books Classics, New York, 2002; McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2002.

Author: Mavis Gallant

Publisher: Everyman's Library

ISBN: 9781101907641

Category: Fiction

Page: 1000

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This generous collection of fifty-two stories, selected from across her prolific career by the author, includes a preface in which she discusses the sources of her art. A widely admired master of the short story, Mavis Gallant was a Canadian-born writer who lived in France and died in 2014 at the age of ninety-one. Her more than one hundred stories, most published in The New Yorker over five decades beginning in 1951, have influenced generations of writers and earned her comparisons to Anton Chekhov, Henry James, and George Eliot. She has been hailed by Michael Ondaatje as “one of the great story writers of our time.” 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 Italian Riviera to the Côte d’Azur, and her characters are almost all exiles of one sort or another, as she herself was for 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.

Transit. Trans. Margot Bettauer Dembo. New York: New York Review of Books Classics, 2013. Shepard, Todd. The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Re- making of France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008.

Author: Mark Ingram

Publisher: Berghahn Books

ISBN: 9781800738218

Category: History

Page: 351

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Formerly the gateway to the French empire, the city of Marseille exemplifies a postcolonial Europe reshaped by immigrants, refugees, and repatriates. The Marseille Mosaic addresses the city’s past and present, exploring the relationship between Marseille and the rest of France, Europe, and the Mediterranean. Proposing new models for the study of place by integrating approaches from the humanities and social sciences, this volume offers an idiosyncratic “mosaic,” which vividly details the challenges facing other French and European cities and the ways residents are developing alternative perspectives and charting new urban futures.

Author: Arthur James Wells

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015066099196

Category: Bibliography, National

Page: 1884

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Badiou, A. Breve tratado de ontología transitória, Fernández A. and Eguibar, B. (transl.). ... Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke,” The Polish Review, 60, no. 2 (2015): 29–37. ... New York: New York Review Books Classics, 2003.

Author: Federico Fridman

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN: 9781501384233

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 240

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At Macedonio Fernández's funeral in 1952, Jorge Luis Borges delivered the following elegy: “In those years I imitated him to the point of transcription, to the point of devout and passionate plagiarism. I felt: Macedonio is metaphysics, Macedonio is literature.” This is the first book available in English that collects essays by the world's leading scholars on Macedonio Fernández, one of Borges's most important mentors and a still enigmatic thinker of the early 20th century. Macedonio's philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and experimental writing laid the foundations for Borges's own theoretical and literary matrix. Nonetheless, Borges helped shape a myth of Macedonio as a thinker who could not translate his oratorial geniality into written intelligibility. So, despite the centrality of Macedonio to Borges's thought, his work has remained almost unknown to English-speaking readers. Contributors to this volume demonstrate, however, that this myth reduces the complexities of Macedonio's life and creative process, as each chapter shines new light on his texts. Conceived as both a companion for new readers of Macedonio's writings and an invitation for specialists to revisit his work through new perspectives, essays in this volume provide extensive background and bibliographical references, as well as English translations of Macedonio's original texts. This collection seeks to serve as a catalyst for the continued discovery and rediscovery of Macedonio Fernández's texts and the ways they might help us to rediscover the singularities of our own present moment.

“In Transit.” The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant, 310–13. London: Bloomsbury. First published 1965. _____. 2009. The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories. New York: New York Review Books Classic. Garner, Hugh. 1952.

Author: Reingard M. Nischik

Publisher: McFarland

ISBN: 9781476628073

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 272

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 In 2013, the Nobel Prize for Literature was for the first time awarded to a short story writer, and to a Canadian, Alice Munro. The award focused international attention on a genre that had long been thriving in Canada, particularly since the 1960s. This book traces the development and highlights of the English-language Canadian short story from the late 19th century up to the present. The history as well as the theoretical approaches to the genre are covered, with in-depth examination of exemplary stories by prominent writers such as Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro.

Time My 24 76 p 42 New York City's Roosevelt Island was planned as a green and spacious community that would combine insular serenity , small- town security and Manhattan - on - the - rock sophistication . Aerial tramway to operate from ...

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Publisher:

ISBN: UFL:31262070143077

Category: Transportation

Page: 490

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18 This connection has been frequently noted in research literature, see e.g., Ernst-Ullrich Pinkert, “Travens Mär vom 'einfachen ... English translation cited after Anna Seghers, Transit (New York: New York Review of Books, 2013), 27.

Author: Asher D. Biemann

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

ISBN: 9783110637618

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 316

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Homeland, Exile, Imagined Homelands are features of the modern experience and relate to the cultural and historical dilemmas of loss, nostalgia, utopia, travel, longing, and are central for Jews and others. This book is an exploration into a world of boundary crossings and of desired places and alternate identities, into a world of adopted kin and invented allegiances.

9 Anna Seghers, Transit, trans. Margo Bettauer Dembo (New York: New York Review Books, 2013), 20. 10 Ibid., 251. 11 Massumi, Parables, 5. 12 Ibid. 13 Blanchot, The Space of Literature, 150. 14 Ibid., 122. 15 André Bazin, 'The Death of ...

Author: Padraic Killeen

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN: 9781501349690

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 280

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Invoking key concepts from the philosophical writings of Gilles Deleuze and Giorgio Agamben, The Dark Interval examines a subtle but distinct iconography of passivity, stillness and profound self-affection that recurs across noir films of every era. In doing so, it identifies the emergence of a specific cinematic figure – the 'intervallic' noir protagonist exposed to the redemptive force of his or her own passion. Significantly, the book contextualises the iconography of film noir in relation to prior art-historical visual traditions, in particular earlier representations of melancholia and the saturnine, locating noir against a much broader canvas than has been the norm. Examining central noir films of the classic and modern era (The Killers, The Man Who Wasn't There) as well as films at the peripheries of noir (from Jacques Tourneur's Cat People to Wong Kar Wai's 2046), the book locates a series of iconographic gestures, performance traditions and affective tonalities at once specific to noir and yet resonant with a deeper cultural and philosophical heritage. It is a meditation that uniquely grapples with the look and the feel of noir, and which dares to detect a unique quality of 'beatitude' that runs through a certain strain of noir films. In doing so, it illuminates why film noir remains one of the most provocative and affecting visual milieus of our time.