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As one of the biggest countries in Europe, Germany has long been an important world leader. Join Johann as he leads readers on a tour of his homeland and shows them what it is like to live in Germany, from what kinds of houses people live in to what they eat and what they study in school. Johann will also share his knowledge of German history, traditions, and more.
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The bells in their silence
Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the \"German problem,\" World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Wall, reunification, and the connections between them. But not travel books, not the free-ranging and impressionistic works of literary nonfiction we associate with V. S. Naipaul and Bruce Chatwin. What is it about Germany and the travel book that puts them seemingly at odds? With one foot in the library and one on the street, Michael Gorra offers both an answer to this question and his own traveler's tale of Germany.
Gorra uses Goethe's account of his Italian journey as a model for testing the traveler's response to Germany today, and he subjects the shopping arcades of contemporary German cities to the terms of Benjamin's Arcades project. He reads post-WendeBerlin through the novels of Theodor Fontane, examines the role of figurative language, and enlists W. G. Sebald as a guide to the place of fragments and digressions in travel writing.
Replete with the flaneur's chance discoveries--and rich in the delights of the enduring and the ephemeral, of architecture and flood--The Bells in Their Silenceoffers that rare traveler's tale of Germany while testing the very limits of the travel narrative as a literary form.
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Fodor's essential Germany
Describes points of interest in each region of the country, providing recommendations on restaurants, hotels, shopping, entertainment, and historic sites.
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Exploring the World of J. S. Bach
A singular resource, Exploring the World of J. S. Bach puts Bach aficionados and classical music lovers in the shoes of the master composer. Bach scholar Robert L. Marshall and veteran writer-translator Traute M. Marshall lead readers on a Baroque Era odyssey through fifty towns where Bach resided, visited, and of course created his works. Drawing on established sources as well as newly available East German archives, the authors describe each site in Bach's time and the present, linking the sites to the biographical information, artistic and historic landmarks, and musical activities associated with each. A wealth of historical illustrations, color photographs, and maps supplement the text, whetting the appetite of the visitor and the armchair traveler alike.
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Berlin
Portrait amoureux d'une ville riche de son histoire.Il en est des villes comme des hommes, certaines marquent l'histoire en majuscules. Berlin n'est pas un simple point nevralgique sur une carte, elle est avant tout la memoire vivante de l'Europe, capable d'un destin historique autant que de fougues individuelles. Dans un recit tres personnel, Jerome Enez-Vriad nous offre le spectacle fascinant d'une megalopole contemporaine indissociable de la culture qui l'a faite. Il mele le present au passe, en meme temps que s'entrecroise l'histoire de la ville avec sa propre existence. Defilent au gre des pages des figures d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, certaines celebres, d'autres plus anonymes ; sont convoques tour a tour l'histoire, la litterature, la photographie, la musique, le cinema, l'architecture... A travers ce temoignage qui se distingue a la fois par ses qualites litteraires et ses connaissances encyclopediques, Jerome Enez-Vriad nous entraine dans un voyage autant initiatique que recreatif.EXTRAITLa voix de l'hotesse resonna. Attachez vos ceintures. Eteignez vos cigarettes. L'avion mordit la piste. Je me revois passer la douane en observant autour de moi, surpris d'un aeroport moins grand qu'une gare parisienne. Le vent... Le froid... L'hiver... Ma jeunesse timide n'eut aucun mal a trouver la voiture qui m'attendait.Le temps a fait son A uvre depuis cette Saint-Valentin. Eh oui ! 14 fevrier ! Est-ce la raison du coup de foudre ? Je dis bien du non pas de mon coup de foudre, car il fut reciproque. Les villes sont des entites vivantes generatrices d'amour et de haine, autant de va-et-vient romanesques entre ce qu'elles degagent et leurs habitants. Des mon arrivee, j'ai su que Berlin m'apprivoiserait.J'y ai vecu, etudie, travaille, ecrit des livres, rencontre des duchesses et des tapins (les premieres ressemblaient parfois aux seconds, et inversement), j'y ai flirte avec les extremes et la moderation, avec le tango et la techno, avec la drogue et le sport, tant de souvenirs qui, a ma grande surprise, retrouvent naturellement leurs contours a l'heure de les exposer.Rares etaient les livres sur Berlin en 1987. Celui-ci ne raconte pas la ville, il constitue plutot une baguenaude ou l'intime prend le pas sur la force historique. Chaque chapitre est construit a la maniere d'une lanterne dont l'aura recompose le paysage. S'y melent la generosite du partage et l'egoisme des veritables amours.A PROPOS DE L'AUTEURJerome Enez-Vriad est ne a Dinan, dans les Cotes d'Armor. Apres des etudes de droit, il construit sa carriere dans le tourisme jusqu'a la parution de son premier Roman, Shuffle, en 2012. Critique, romancier, il a signe de nombreuses interviews pour la presse-magazine, parmi lesquelles celles de Brigitte Bardot, Brigitte Fontaine, Fred Vargas, Gary Numan... Il vit entre Berlin, Paris et Los Angeles.
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Germany Society & Culture Complete Report
Need to know it all? Our all-inclusive culture report for Germany will get up to speed on all aspects of culture in Germany, including lifecycle, religion, women, superstitions & folklore, sports, holidays & festivals, and etiquette.
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Fodor's inside Berlin
One of the world's coolest cities, Berlin has grabbed the world's attention with its cutting-edge arts scene. Cosmopolitan and affordable, Berlin will delight foodies, scenesters, and fashionistas. Fodor's brand new guidebook, Inside Berlin, touches on top tourist sights, including Museum Island, Schloss Charlottenburg, and Brandenburg Gate, and delves deep into the best under-the-radar places that only insiders from Berlin know and go. The Fodor's Inside series is designed for travelers looking for authentic, hyperlocal experiences. Perfectly sized to fit in your bag or pocket, these guides are designed with an artistic bent and are easy to use, look good, and don't make you feel like a tourist. Written by Berliners--and with customized neighborhood maps and one-of-a-kind, hand-drawn illustrations by illustrator Kathryn Holeman--Inside Berlin covers the restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and boutiques in the neighborhoods that locals love best.
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Specters of Berlin in A. L. McCann's \Subtopia\ and Christos Tsiolkas's \Dead Europe\
Sornig discusses the recent works of two Australian writers, Andrew McCann's Subtopia and Christos Tsiolkas' Dead Europe, which render in the course of their narratives versions of Berlin. He also interrogates how these two fiction weigh in the eschatological status of Berlin, and how it symbolizes the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
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