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Tom Reiss
Diese Abhandlung untersucht erstmalig in der deutschsprachigen Forschung die Texte Haruki Murakamis und ihre intertextuelle Verbindung zum Werk Franz Kafkas. Anhand semiotischer, asthetischer und phanomenologischer Methoden erarbeitet die Abhandlung ein…
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Tom Reiss brings us The Black Count, a non fiction master piece on General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the first person of colour to become general-in-chief of the powerful French Military. The…
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Born in St Dominigue in 1762, the son of a French nobleman and a sugar plantation slave, General Alexandre Dumas did not have an auspicious start in life. Things got…
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The Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world. Tom Reiss first…
Originally published in hardcover in 2012 by Crown Publishers.
Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a bestselling…
Essad Bey
In this lively and witty autobiography, Essad Bey, a.k.a. Lev Nussimbaum, tells the story of his childhood in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, and of his flight from the Russian…
First published in English in 1931, this tale conjures a vast panorama of the Caucasus, its people, and customs. The result is a fresh and densely atmospheric work, even if…
The Sopranos hat neue kunstlerische Massstabe gesetzt. Das uber die Episoden fortlaufende Geschehen verlasst die Vertrautheit automatisierter Schemata, die in jeder Folge aktualisiert werden und den meisten TV-Serien bis heute…
