Berlin; Chronicles Abroad
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 4.875 b7 6.25 inches. x, [2], 211, [1] pages. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Includes a Preface by Vladimir Nabokov and selections from: Bertolt Brecht, Marie Vassiltchikov, Alfred Doblin, Thomas Pynchon, Franz Kafka, Marcellus Schiffer, Bennett Owen, Lillian Helman, Karl Badeker, Christopher Isherwood, Josephine Baker, Rainer Maria Rilke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Christa Wolf. In one pocket-sized volume, Berlin collects the best fiction and nonfiction about the city from an array of writers of international stature. From chanteuse Josephine Baker on her second adopted home to playwright Bertolt Brecht on the decline of the Weimar Republic, and including an excerpt from Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, a resident's 1989 account of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and a description of Berlin from the 1912 edition of a Baedeker guide (written by Karl Baedeker himself), Berlin is an engaging literary stroll through a remarkable city. Authors like Franz Kakfa, Lillian Hellman or Vladimir Nabokov, between other great ones, show us their feelings and impressions of a city that has been part of so many important moments in world history. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Berlin, Bertolt Brecht, Marie Vassiltchikov, Alfred Doblin, Thomas Pynchon, Franz Kafka, Marcellus Schiffer, Bennett Owen, Lillian Helman, Karl Badeker, Christopher Isherwood, Josephine Baker, Rainer Maria Rilke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Christa Wolf
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Price: $40.00