The Director
5.990 kr.An artist’s life, a pact with the devil, a novel about the dangerous illusions of the silver screen.
G.W. Pabst, one of cinema’s greatest, perhaps the greatest director of his era: when the Nazis seized power he was filming in France, to escape the horrors of the new Germany he flees to Hollywood. But under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, who he made famous, can help him. And thus, almost through no fault of his own, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria, which is now called Ostmark. The returning family is confronted with the barbaric nature of the regime. But Goebbels, the minister of propaganda in Berlin, wants the film genius, he won’t take no for an answer and makes big promises. While Pabst still believes that he will be able to resist these advances, that he will not submit to any dictatorship other than art, he has already taken the first steps into a hopeless entanglement.
Daniel Kehlmann’s novel about art and power, beauty and barbarism is a triumph.
The Director shows what literature is capable of.
Siddhartha
3.490 kr.Dissatisfied with the ways of life he has experienced, Siddhartha, the handsome son of a Brahmin, leaves his family and his friend, Govinda, in search of a higher state of being. Having experienced the myriad forms of existence, from immense wealth and luxury to the pleasures of sensual and paternal love, Siddhartha finally settles down beside a river, where a humble ferryman teaches him his most valuable lesson yet.
Hermann Hesse’s short, elegant novel, echoing the life of the Buddha, has been cherished by readers for decades as an unforgettable spiritual primer. A tender and unforgettable moral allegory, it is an undeniable classic of modern literature.
Hermann Hesse (1877-1963) is counted among the leading novelists and thinkers of the twentieth century.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1946 for a body of literature renowned for its humanist, philosophical and spiritual insight. His most famous works include Siddhartha, Journey to the East, Demian, Steppenwolf, and Narcissus and Goldmund.
Heima
4.590 kr.Dóttir hennar er ferðalangur, langt í fjarskanum. Fyrrverandi manni sínum skrifar hún lítil bréf þar sem hún rekur hvernig henni líður. Judith Hermann segir frá konu sem skilur við ýmislegt og þróar með sér mótstöðuafl. Í áhrifamiklu landslagi við ströndina verður hún önnur en áður.
Gömul veröld glatast og ný verður til.
Madame Bovary
3.490 kr.This is the story of Emma, trapped in a disappointing marriage with a dull country doctor, she dreams for a life more like the sentimental novels she reads. In an attempt to break from the drab reality of her provincial life in Normandy, Emma takes a lover, and disaster soon follows. Greedy, delusional and selfish, the character of Emma Bovary scandalised readers from the novel’s first publication in 1857, yet her magnetism is undeniable.
A landmark work in modern realism, Madame Bovary vibrates with the inner life of a woman hungry for more. Meet ten of literature’s most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.
Nóvella – Ævintýrið
3.790 kr.Í þessari bók eru birtar tvær sígildar sögur eftir Goethe sem notið hafa mikillar hylli meðal bókmenntaunnenda allt frá því þær komu fyrst fyrir almenningssjónir fyrir tveimur öldum.
Þetta eru sögurnar Nóvella, um söngelska drenginn með flautuna og ljónið og tigrísdýrið sem sleppa úr búrum sínum hjá mannfólkinu, og Ævintýrið, um grænu slönguna og fögru liljuna þar sem vafurlogar og konungar koma við sögu.
Tvær töfrandi frásagnir, samdar af mikilli list.
Jón Bjarni Atlason annaðist útgáfuna, íslenskaði Nóvellu og ritaði eftirmála.
Kristján Árnason og Þórarinn Kristjánsson íslenskuðu Ævintýrið.
Þýski menningarjöfurinn Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749–1832) var skáld, leikskáld, skáldsagnahöfundur, náttúruvísindamaður, leikhússtjóri, stjórnmálamaður, gagnrýnandi og listamaður. Meðal frægustu verka hans er leikritið Fást (Faust) og skáldsögurnar Raunir Werthers unga (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) og Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre.
Ecce Homo : How One Becomes What One is
2.490 kr.I am not a man, I am dynamite
Weeks before his final mental breakdown, Nietzsche set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo is the result. A summary of his life’s work as a philosopher, with chapter headings including ‘Why I Am So Wise’ and ‘Why I Write Such Good Books’, it is part mocking self-judgement and part battle cry, and remains one of the most singular, strange examples of the genre ever written.
Good Girl
4.390 kr.In Berlin’s underground, where techno rattles buildings still scarred with the violence of the last century, nineteen-year-old Nila finds her tribe. In their company she can escape the parallel city that made her, the public housing block packed with refugees and immigrants, where the bathrooms are infested with silverfish and the walls outside are graffitied with swastikas.
Escaping into the clubs, Nila tries to outrun the shadow of her dead mother, once a feminist revolutionary; her catatonic, defeated father; and the cab-driver uncles who seem to idle on every corner. To anyone who asks, her family is Greek, not Afghani.
And then Nila meets American writer Marlowe Woods, whose literary celebrity, though fading, opens her eyes to a world of patrons and festivals, one that imbues her dreams of life as an artist with new possibility. But as she finds herself drawn further into his orbit and ugly, barely submerged tensions begin to roil and claw beneath the city’s cosmopolitan veneer, everything she hopes for, hates, and believes about herself will be challenged.
Kairos
3.490 kr.Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her and a dangerous crack forms between them, opening up a space for cruelty, punishment and the exertion of power. And the world around them is changing too: as the GDR begins to crumble, so too do all the old certainties and the old loyalties, ushering in a new era whose great gains also involve profound loss.
