Research Catalog

Title

The good European : essays and arguments / Iain Bamforth.

Author

Bamforth, Iain

Publication

Manchester : Carcanet, 2006.

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Details

Description

viii, 317 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Bamforth reports on 15 years of 'experimental living' during which his attachment to the old continent brought him from Berlin, in the week in which he saw the fall of the Wall in 1989, to Strasburg, heart of aboriginal Europe, a region whose divided loyalties have affected the nature of Europe itself.

Subject

Europe > Civilization > 1945-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-307) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The continuing adventures of Mr. Ross Hall, Esq. (& Madam Zell) -- A critical consciousness : Heinrich von Kleist -- Being nice to Nietzsche -- Shelf-life : varieties of the aphorism -- Scheherezade in Vienna : Joseph Roth -- Berlin diary 1989 -- A jolly good show : how the British saw their empire -- Overwhelmed by Aura -- Politics and aesthetics : Harry Graf Kessler, Eugene Jolas, Wolfgang Koeppen -- 'You must change your life' : a letter from Kakania -- Bide with style -- The future of the walk -- Cinema verities -- Candour and hygiene : Louis-Ferdinand Celine -- Third person to herself : Marguerite Duras -- Believing in architecture : Berlin since 1870 -- The last culture broth : Bernard Pivot's Bookshow.

ISBN

1857547659 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2006494583

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library