Clara Winston Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Heimito von Doderer was one of the twentieth century's most distinguished Austrian novelists. His finest novel is The Demons, a monumental work and itself the 'Götterdämmerung' as it were to earlier novels. The central preoccupation of this masterpiece is the decline of European civilization. He began work on it in 1931, after reading Dostoyevsky's The Devils. Symphonic in construction, it is a panoramic re-creation of Viennese society in all its strata, conjuring the depths as well as the heights of everything we might think of as Vienna. Doderer has Balzacian scope as well as owing much to Proust and Musil. His human comedy is drawn with a humour as vital when ironic as when satirical, and his baroque imagination is well served by his tireless linguistic ingenuity.

Two short novels deal with the experiences of a military officer at the close of World War I, and with the guilt of an industrialist who inadvertently causes Count Luna to be sent to a concentration camp in war-torn Europe

Collected after his death by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, here are more than two decades' worth of Franz Kafka's letters to the men and women with whom he maintained his closest personal relationships, from his years as a student in Prague in the early 1900s to his final months in the sanatorium near Vienna where he died in 1924.Sometimes surprisingly humorous, sometimes wrenchingly sad, they include charming notes to school friends; fascinating accounts to Brod about his work in its various stages of publication; correspondence with his publisher, Kurt Wolff, about manuscripts in progress, suggested book titles, type design, and late royalty statements; revealing exchanges with other young writers of the day, including Martin Buber and Felix Weltsch, on life, literature, and girls; and heartbreaking reports to his parents, sisters, and friends on the declining state of his health in the last months of his life.

Jungs levensverhaal is geen autobiografie in de gebruikelijke zin van het woord. Vóór alles is het een beschrijving van zijn innerlijke groei. Het volgt Jungs ontwikkeling vanaf het moment dat hij als kind zijn eerste diepgaande indrukken kreeg. Alles wat hij als doorslaggevend of bepalend voor zijn verdere leven voelde, krijgt ruime aandacht: een droom als kind evenzeer als de verhouding tot zijn vader of de pijnlijke breuk met Freud. Zijn bezoeken aan primitieve volkeren in de verschillende delen van de wereld waren voor Jung mijlpalen in zijn begrip van de menselijk psyche; ze worden dan ook uitvoerig beschreven. Zijn persoonlijke visioenen en zijn dikwijls dramatische confrontaties met het onbewuste worden hier voor het eerst openbaar gemaakt.