Kurt Wolff

A Portrait in Essays and Letters

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

Kurt Wolff (1887-1963) was a singular presence in the literary world of the twentieth century, a cultural force shaping modern literature itself and pioneering significant changes in publishing. During an intense, active career that took him from Weimar Germany to New York City, where he founded Pantheon Books, Wolff nurtured an extraordinary array of writers, among them Franz Kafka, Lou Andreas-Salome, Boris Pasternak, Gunter Grass, Robert Musil, Paul Valery, Julian Green, Giuseppe Lampedusa, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. His essays and letters, many published here for the first time in English, illuminate the complex relations - between publisher and author, publisher and editor, publisher and reading public - that work at their best, as in Wolff's case, to sustain culture.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-10-16
Mått:16 x 23 x 1 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:252
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226104805
Översättare:Deborah Lucas Schneider

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Michael Ermarth is professor of history at Dartmouth College. Deborah Lucas Schneider is a prolific translator whose other projects have included Caligula: A Biography, by Aloys Winterling, and Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science, by Hans Belting.

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"Pure oxygen and nutrition for exhausted and demoralized editors and publishers. One of the prophetic publishers of the century---Kurt Wolff instances in these modest reminiscences and correspondence with authors (Kafka, Werfel, Kraus, Rilke, Mann, Pasternak, Grass, et al.) the vision and devotion that bound them to him and that made him-the secret of his calling-'synonymous with his work.'" (Nation) "The invaluable correspondence, intoxicating recollections, and, best of all, engaging voice of perhaps this century's most discriminating publisher." (New York Times Book Review)"