Ernst Kaiser Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Pagine di profonda commozione, una lunga, intensa e drammatica confessione in cui l'uomo e lo scrittore si trovano indissolubilmente uniti di fronte alla figura del padre, troppo a lungo temuta e fuggita. È il tentativo disperato e doloroso di risalire alle origini di un rapporto difficile e profondamente conflittuale con l'autorità paterna, cieca di fronte ai bisogni di un animo particolarmente sensibile, che ha scelto di vivere appartato e in silenzio seguendo esclusivamente la propria natura e un'inclinazione eminentemente letteraria. Quasi a volersi riappropriare di tutte le ragioni sentite e abbandonate nell'angolo più intimo e segreto di se stesso, quasi a volere recuperare per un ultimo, definitivo chiarimento le parole non dette e tutti i più remoti motivi della propria angoscia, Kafka ritorna in queste splendide pagine al suo fanciullesco sentire, a una giovinezza tormentata, a un padre lontano, inaccessibile, ostile, che non l'ha mai compreso.

QXP bedeutet im Funkerjargon »erzählen, um es als erledigt abzuhaken«. Ernst Kaiser, der mit siebzehn Jahren zur U-Boot-Waffe kam und Funker wurde, führte während seiner Einsätze auf verschiedenen U-Boot-Typen, etwa im Golf von Mexiko, in den amerikanischen Gewässern und bei der Operation Paukenschlag, Tagebuch. Zwischen den jeweiligen Feindfahrten tat er Dienst in der Funkleitstelle Kernével des Befehlshabers der Unterseeboote. Anhand seiner Aufzeichnungen verfasste er dieses nichts beschönigende und nichts verherrlichende Buch über den Alltag des U-Boot-Krieges. Von etwa 50.000 U-Boot-Fahrern starben 28.748. Ernst Kaiser überlebte und berichtet ... QXP.

This book, the final and most mature work of the great Austrian novelist, revolves around the father and son team of English industrialists, Robert and Donald Clayton. The Claytons open a branch office of their business in Vienna, the center of that incredibly varied and complex universe that was the Austro-Hungarian Empire before World War I. Their ensuing social and personal entanglements furnish the materials of a superbly civilized family chronicle (quite the opposite from Sun & Moon's recent von Doderer novel, The Merowingians), whose central symbol is a gigantic, thundering mass of water -- a force that may be life-giving or terribly destructive. Beneath a staunchly bourgeois surface, von Doderer's story telling is heavily tinged with ironic social commentary and suffused with acute, post-Freudian psychology.

1. Auflage 1981 220 S. und 16 Seiten Bilder gebundene Ausgabe mit SU / 15x21 Herford : Koehler, Mit Schutzumschlag ERSTAUSGABE

Contains: A Sort of Introduction The Like of it Now Happens (I)"It would be useless to attempt a synopsis of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, not only because of its length and complexity, but also because the real action lies not on the surface, in what the characters do (though that is often dramatic enough), but within, in their states of mind, the fluctuations of their emotions, their theories, and the counterpoint between the thoughts and the behaviour of them all, in themselves and in relation to each other, especially to the Man without Qualities himself, who is the nucleus, and in relation to the demands of the indefinable pattern of this world we live in."(From the Foreword by the translators)

"Musil belongs in the company of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, and Svevo. . . . (This translation) is a literay and intellectual event of singular importance."--New Republic.