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Author Reich-Ranicki, Marcel, author

Title The author of himself : the life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki / Marcel Reich-Ranicki ; translated from the German by Ewald Osers ; with a foreword by Jack Zipes
Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 407 pages)
Contents 'What are you really?' -- 'Half dragged, half plunging, so he sank ... ' -- Herr Kästner: 'To be applied to the soul' -- Reverence for writ -- Racial theory -- Several love affairs at the same time -- My most wonderful refuge: the theatre -- A suffering which brings happiness -- The door to the next room -- With invisible luggage -- Poetry and the War -- Hunting down Jews is fun -- The dead man and his daughter -- From Quarantine District to Ghetto -- The words of a fool -- 'If music be the food of love ... ' -- Death sentences to the accompaniment of Viennese waltzes -- An intellectual, a martyr, a hero -- A brand-new riding crop -- Order, hygiene, discipline -- Stories for Bolek -- My first shot, my last shot -- From Reich to Ranicki -- Brecht, Seghers, Huchel and others -- Josef K., Stalin quotations and Heinrich Böll -- A study trip with consequences -- A young man with a massive moustache -- Recognized as Germans -- Group 47 and its First Lady -- Walter Jens, or, The friendship -- Literature as awareness of life -- Canetti, Adorno, Bernhard and others -- A tavern and a calculating machine -- The sinister guest of honour -- Make way for poetry! -- A genius only during working hours -- The magician's family -- Max Frisch -- Yehudi Menuhin and our quartet -- Joachim Fest and Martin Walser -- ''Tis a dream ... ' -- Thanksgiving
Summary "Marcel Reich-Ranicki was born of Polish Jewish parents in the Polish town of Wloclawek in 1920. At the age of nine he moved to Berlin and it was at school there that he discovered his deep passion for literature and the theatre. But in 1938, he was deported back to Poland, where he spent the war. Written with subtlety, intelligence and lucidity, Reich-Ranicki's account of the Warsaw Ghetto and the relations between Poles and Jews, Poles and Germans, Poles and Poles is one of the most compelling and dramatic ever recorded. As well as being a related narrative of a remarkable and unusual life, this book is also a love letter to literature and the theatre, especially the work of Shakespeare. It is also an indispensable guide to twentieth-century German culture. Reich-Ranicki has known all the eminent post-war German writers and has written about most of them - often sharply criticizing their work, but just as frequently praising it."-- Book jacket
Notes "First published in English by Weidenfeld and Nicolson and in German under the title 'Mein Leben' (©1999), Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt GmbH, Stuttgart"--Title page verso
Includes index
Translated from the German
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Subject Reich-Ranicki, Marcel
SUBJECT Reich-Ranicki, Marcel fast
Subject Critics -- Germany -- Biography
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Personal narratives
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
Critics
Poland -- Warsaw
Germany
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Personal narratives
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Osers, Ewald, 1917-2011, translator.
Zipes, Jack, 1937- writer of foreword.
ISBN 9780691206059
0691206058
Other Titles Mein Leben. English