“In recent years, the comic book genre has been applied to a wealth of graphic nonfiction for grownups, ranging from famous biographies to philosophy, but nowhere does the genre shine more exquisitely than in Freud — a magnificent biography-as-graphic-novel of the founding father of psychoanalysis by Swiss-born writer, economist, historian, and psychoanalyst Corinne Maier, illustrated by celebrated French cartoonist Anne Simon.”>full review (c) brainpickings.org 2014
Archive for biography
Freud’s Life & Legacy – in a Comic
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, biography, comics, graphic nonfiction, Psychoanalysis, review, Sigmund Freud, Vienna on 16 February 2014 by delclem“Tête à tête with Sisi”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria-Hungary, biography, Emperess Elisabeth, mythology, poetry, Sisi on 29 October 2013 by delclem
“As a person Sisi, the Austrian Empress Elisabeth, is world famous but the
individual behind the myth is largely unknown. Two new ‘manifestations’ of
her poetic diary are now giving the reader a chance to spend intimate hours
with this famous unknown woman.” >text (c) wieninternational.at 2013
Wittgenstein – The Duty of Genius
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, biography, Great Britain, Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophy, review on 17 July 2013 by delclem
“Assessing the life of a philosopher may be a writer’s greatest challenge – with few individuals do the spiritual and emotional realms play such a prominent role in moulding professional consequences. With that in mind, author Ray Monk sets off on a very specific quest in Ludwig Wittgenstein: Duty of Genius – to draw, where countless others have failed, an unbroken line between the work of the philosopher and the man himself.” >review (c) VIENNA REVIEW, 2013
Korngold biography
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biography, Brno, Czechoslovakia, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Hollywood, Music, opera, review on 15 July 2013 by delclem
Fifteen years after its first publication, a biography of the composer is translated into German >review & illustration (c) VIENNA REVIEW, 2013
From Prague to Washington
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biography, Czechoslovakia, gender, Madeline Albright, Marie jana Korbelová, Prague, USA, Washington on 5 July 2013 by delclem
“The real Karl Marx”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biography, Jonathan Sperber, Karl Marx, Marxism, review on 6 June 2013 by delclem
“In many ways, Jonathan Sperber suggests, Marx was ‘a backward-looking figure,’ whose vision of the future was modeled on conditions quite different from any that prevail today (Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
>review (c) NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, 2013
Hesse has been dead for 50 years now…
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biography, Germany, Hermann Hesse, Literature, review, Switzerland on 9 August 2012 by delclem
“Hermann Hesse spent his life searching for truth and inner harmony outside Germany. Yet his quests to the East ultimately led him back to the West and to the realization that the alternatives he found in the East offered no short cut to salvation. To mark the 50th anniversary of his death, Gunnar Decker presents a new biography of the successful author, one which also explains the Orientalism in his work.” >review (c) Qantara.de 2012
Schrödinger’s Cat in Dublin
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, biography, cats, Dublin, Erwin Schrödinger, Ireland, physics, review on 25 June 2012 by delclem
“The Austrian Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel laureate in Physics & famous
for his theory about the feline in the box, spent his happiest years in Dublin.
Milena Mrazović(-Preindlsberger), 1863-1927
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biography, bosnia-hercegovina, Bosnische Post, Habsburg Monarchy, Milena Preindslberger-Mrazovic, newspaper, Sarajevo on 18 October 2011 by delclemThe First Female Newspaper Editor & Publisher of Sarajevo
This paper is a biographical sketch on the first woman in Bosnia and Herzegovina ever to take the position of the chief editor, publisher and owner of a newspaper. This Croatian-born writer, and journalist was in charge of the newspaper Bosnische Post (published in the German language, 1884-1918) between 1889 to 1896.”
Reblogged from Tinnitus of Books 2010
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