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  • Borrowed Words

    de Peter Wortsman ...
    Like a farmer rotating his crops, Peter Wortsman periodically ploughs words back into the mulch of meaning. Romanian émigré DADA poet Tristran Tzara (aka Samuel Rosenstock, 1896-1963) gave it a name: cut-up (or "découpé" in French). Wortsman reverts to cutups when he's too distracted, depressed, dumbfounded or deranged to write in the regular manner. As the isolation of virtual lockdown during the ... Leer más

    $5.50 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Epiphany of a Middle-Aged Pilgrim

    de Peter Wortsman ...
    In the short personal essays that comprise Epiphany of a Middle-Aged Pilgrim, Essays in lieu of a Memoir, author Peter Wortsman, best known for his original prose fiction and stage plays, and his translations from the German, follows in the footsteps of French essayist Michel de Montaigne, taking stock of life in middle age. His perspectives, including childhood fear, chronic insomnia, ironing a ... Leer más

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  • A Modern Way to Die

    de Peter Wortsman ...
    First published in 1991, and now issued in a second edition, comprising short short fictions most written in the eighties, A Modern Way to Die by Peter Wortsman, "predates the in-vogue term flash fiction, but it's surely one of the cornerstones of the tradition," (according to short form pioneer Peter Cherches). As Wortsman notes in the book's original foreword, these texts appeared "in the ... Leer más

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  • Cold Earth Wanderers

    de Peter Wortsman ...
    16 year old Elgin Marble has had enough of a world that is decidedly vertical. When his father, an upstanding elevator man, is marked for disposal, Elgin joins an underground group called the Crabs. This illicit group tirelessly digs tunnels in the hope of one day breaking through to the outside. But who are the Crabs, and can they be trusted? Elgin's mother, Ellen, is worried sick about her son. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Ghost Dance in Berlin

    A Rhapsody in Gray

    de Peter Wortsman ...
    Every great city is a restless work in progress, but nowhere is the urban impulse more in flux than in Berlin, that sprawling metropolis located on the fault line of history. A short-lived fever-dream of modernity in the Roaring Twenties, redubbed Germania and primped up into the megalomaniac fantasy of a Thousand-Year Reichstadt in the Thirties, reduced in 1945 to a divided rubble heap, ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Sandman

    de E.T.A. Hoffmann ...
    Traducido por Peter Wortsman, Peter Wortsman ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    "Strange man, how can you have eyes for sale? Eyes? Eyes?" 'The disturbing tale of a young man's obsession with the Sandman, stealer of eyes, which has inspired writers from Sigmund Freud to Neil Gaiman.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann

    Traducido por Peter Wortsman ...
    de Various ...
    'It was a very momentous day, the day on which I was to be slaughtered'Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy, this is a new collection of the most haunting German stories from the past 200 years. Ranging from the Romantics of the early nineteenth century to works of contemporary fiction, it includes Hoffmann's hallucinatory portrait of terror and insanity 'The ... Leer más

    $14.29 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Posthumous Papers of a Living Author

    de Robert Musil ...
    Traducido por Peter Wortsman ...
    This collection of exploratory pieces, short stories, and reflections was originally published in Zurich in 1936. It was the last volume Robert Musil published before his sudden death in 1942. Musil had begun to fathom the impossibility of com- pleting his monumental masterpiece The Man Without Qualities and this volume reveals a radically different aspect of his work. Musil observes a fly’s ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm

    Traducido por Peter Wortsman ...
    de Brothers Grimm ...
    This new edition of the beloved tales of the Brothers Grimm – selected, translated and edited by Peter Wortsman - is drawn from the 1857 edition of the German original, the last edition reviewed and approved by the Brothers in their lifetime. Over the years, the Brothers' enigmatic narratives have been sanitized by Disney and children's book editors for modern consumption; this indispensable ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist

    de Heinrich von Kleist ...
    Traducido por Peter Wortsman ...
    In this extraordinary and unpredictable cross-section of the work of one of the most influential free spirits of German letters, Peter Wortsman captures the breathlessness and power of Heinrich von Kleist’s transcendent prose. These tales, essays, and fragments move across inner landscapes, exploring the shaky bridges between reason and feeling and the frontiers between the human psyche and the ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Footprints in Wet Cement

    de Peter Wortsman ...
    These Footprints in Wet Cement are just that: stories some experienced, some homespun, some dredged from the fertile detritus of dreams; impressions gathered and ruminations fermented over the past decade or so—the fleeting imprint of a life left to harden in the tenuous mold of language. Straddling the tenuous borderline between the narrative and the poetic, they are all the product of a pressed ... Leer más

    $9.95 USD

  • Intimate Ties

    Two Novellas

    de Robert Musil ...
    Traducido por Peter Wortsman ...
    A master of high modernist literature explores female sexuality and desire through the eyes of two women—one, married and unfaithful; the other, caught in a love triangle—in these two erotic novellasFirst published in 1911, Intimate Ties is Robert Musil’s second book, consisting of two novellas, “The Culmination of Love” and “The Temptation of Silent Veronica”. Each revolves around a troubled ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD