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]]> male 1567421 191941 0976395045 9780976395041 4 <![CDATA[Posthumous Papers of a Living Author]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172574290m/191941.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172574290s/191941.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/191941.Posthumous_Papers_of_a_Living_Author 4.03 32 "Peter Wortsman's translation is splendid, succeeding better than any I've read in capturing this author's unique combination of quizzical authority and austere hedonism."-Anthony Heilbut, The New York Times Book Review

From one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century come these chiseled essays and sketches written in the 1920s. Exploratory, quirky, full of soul and humor. (Reprint of the Eridonos edition, 1987.)

]]> 16747 4.12 1178 155 562044 4.00 46 6 1965 585494 0974968080 9780974968087 2 <![CDATA[Telegrams of the Soul: Selected Prose of Peter Altenberg]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176037395m/585494.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176037395s/585494.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/585494.Telegrams_of_the_Soul_Selected_Prose_of_Peter_Altenberg 4.00 12 "If it be permitted to speak of 'love at first syllable,' then that's what I experienced in my first encounter with this poet of prose." So wrote Thomas Mann of the work of Peter Altenberg. A virtuoso Fin de Siecle Viennese innovator of what he called the "telegram style" of writing, Altenberg's signature short prose straddles the line between the lyrical and the narrative, fiction and observation, harsh verity and whimsical vignette. Inspired by the prose poems of Charles Baudelaire, the tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Viennese Feuilleton, a light journalistic reflection current in his day, Altenberg carved out a spare, strikingly modern aesthetic that speaks with an eerie prescience to our own impatient time. Peter Wortsman's new selection and translation reads like a sly lyrical wink from the turn-of-the-century of the telegram to the turn-of-the-millennium of e-mail.

Peter Altenberg, also known as Richard Englander, 1859รข€“1919, was born into a well-to-do Viennese Jewish family, lived in hotels and listed as his official address the Cafe Central, Vienna's intellectual clubhouse (also the sometime haunt of Leon Trotsky and his chess partner Vladimir Ilyich Lenin). A renowned eccentric, Altenberg pioneered the very notion of loose-fitting leisure attire, designed a line of necklaces and favored sandals, walking sticks, slivovitz and the company of prostitutes. His literary admirers included Karl Kraus, Heinrich and Thomas Mann, Robert Musil and Arthur Schnitzler.

Recipient of the Beard's Fund Short Story Award, Peter Wortsman is the author of A Modern Way To Die: Small Stories and Microtales and the play The Tattooed Man Tells All. His translations from the German include Posthumous Papers of a Living Author by Robert Musil and Peter Schlemiel: The Man Who Sold His Shadow by Adelbert von Chamisso.

]]> 319243 3.88 17 2 562044 4.00 46 6 2005 1612111 0880641452 9780880641456 0 <![CDATA[A Modern Way to Die: Small Stories and Microtales]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246964832m/1612111.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246964832s/1612111.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1612111.A_Modern_Way_to_Die_Small_Stories_and_Microtales 3.50 2 562044 4.00 46 6 1992 2307882 0979333032 9780979333033 0 <![CDATA[Travel Pictures]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2307882.Travel_Pictures 0.0 0 One of Germany's most illustrious poets, Heinrich Heine is also celebrated for his idiosyncratic and vibrant prose. Heine's lyrical, humorous, and revealing vision in these four accounts of his voyages in Italy and Germany raises Travel Pictures into the transcendent realm of great journey literature. Over one hundred poems pepper the text.

Heinrich Heine (17971856) was one of the most significant German Romantic poets. Many of his poems were set to music by Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Brahms.

Peter Wortsman is an author and translator. His translations from the German include work by Robert Musil, Peter Altenberg, and Adelbert von Chamisso.

]]> 16071 4.02 262 13 562044 4.00 46 6 2008 6952917 098195572X 9780981955728 0 <![CDATA[Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6952917-selected-prose-of-heinrich-von-kleist 0.0 0 Peter Wortsman captures the breathlessness and power of Heinrich von Kleist's transcendent prose. These moral tales move across inner landscapes, exploring the bridges between reason and feeling and the frontiers between the human psyche and the divine.

The concerns of Heinrich von Kleist are timeless. The mysteries in his fiction and visionary essays still breathe.

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