Jitka Fučíková Boeken

Dva dětské detektivní romány německého spisovatele. Román Emil a detektivové líčí partu chlapců, kteří v ulicích Berlína honí zloděje. V románě Emil a tři dvojčata pomáhá parta chlapců, známá z předchozího románu, malémuartistovi, kterého záludně opustil jeho dospělý partner.Pro čtenáře od 9 let.

The Song of Bernadette is considered one of the twentieth century's greatest novels of triumphant religious faith. How the book came to be written is itself an inspirational and even miraculous story. In 1940, famed Austrian author Franz Werfel and his wife were on a desperate flight from the Nazi invaders, whom Franz had publicly denounced. Repeatedly thwarted in their attempts to cross the French border, they found temporary refuge in Lourdes, home of the famous shrine where Bernadette received visions of the Virgin Mary and where millions come in faith to seek a miracle. Werfel became fascinated with Bernadette's story and began to visit the sacred grotto every day, swearing that, should he and his wife be granted escape from the Nazis, he would write the story of Bernadette for all the world. Franz's prayers were answered, and in America he wrote his masterpiece, The Song of Bernadette, a beautiful fusion of faith and craft.

A new translation of one of the most important and readable novels in the German language

L'éternel féminin fascine autant les hommes que les femmes. Les poètes le chantent, les philosophes le scrutent, les théologiens l'exaltent. Ce chef d'œuvre de l'écrivain allemande Gertrud von Le Fort en témoigne, hymne intemporel inspiré par le regard d'Edith Stein, son amie déportée, moniale et fille de sainte Thérèse. Dans une prose déliée et mue par l'Amour, voici l'antidote à la guerre des sexes de Simone de Beauvoir, célébration dans le temps, hors du temps, au-delà du temps d'une féminité transfigurée par la grâce de Dieu.

Veselé a ztřeštěné povídání o dvanáctiletém Konrádovi a jeho strýci, jaké lze prožít jen v říši fantazie.

In zijn wereldberoemde debuut uit 1901 vertelt Thomas Mann de familiegeschiedenis van vier generaties Buddenbrook, een voornaam koopmansgeslacht uit Lübeck. De oprichter van de firma Johann Buddenbrook sr. en zijn zoon Johann jr. hebben de grondslag gelegd voor een solide, machtige familie- en bedrijfstraditie. Maar bij de kinderen van Johann jr. ondermijnen artistieke impulsen en een expansief gevoelsleven de robuuste vitaliteit van het handelsimperium. Met Thomas, die veel te kunstzinnig is voor de harde handelspraktijk, begint de zakelijke neergang. In Thomas' zoon Hanno, de vierde generatie, bereikt de tegenstelling tussen burger en kunstenaar een hoogtepunt. Met De Buddenbrooks schreef Mann, nog maar zesentwintig jaar oud, een epische roman die het verval van de negentiende-eeuwse Europese burgerlijke cultuur verbeeldt. De roman werd in meer dan dertig talen vertaald en geldt nog steeds als een van de meest gelezen klassiekers uit de Duitse literatuur.

Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, and Snow White are among the jewels we owe to the German brothers Grimm, who began in the first decade of the 19th century to seek out and listen to village storytellers. The best-loved of the tales they discovered are now brought together with the marvelous pictures that in 1900 first established the reputation of one of the greatest children's illustrators of all time, Arthur Rackham.

Death in Venice tells how Gustave von Aschenbach, a writer utterly absorbed in his work, arrives in Venice as a result of a 'youthfully ardent thirst for distant scenes,' and meets there a young boy by whose beauty he becomes obsessed. His pitiful pursuit of the object of his abnormal affection and its inevitable and pathetic climax is told here with the particular skill the author has for this shorter form of fiction. (blurb) Em A Morte em Veneza, Thomas Mann apresenta uma escrita complexa e profunda, onde quase cada parágrafo pode ter várias leituras. Em contraponto, o enredo é praticamente inexistente: um homem de meia-idade viaja até Veneza, apaixona-se platonicamente por um jovem rapaz polaco extremamente atraente e morre sem sequer ter trocado uma palavra com ele.