Letters written to F.X.Kappus during the years 1903-1908 and a series of his responses to the young, would-be poets. Chronicle of Rilkes's life for the years 1903-1908.
The author fictionalizes the life of Walter Benjamin, a German-Jewish critic and philosopher who lived during World War I and World War II in Paris, Russia, Germany, and Spain.
Contains ten letters written by poet Rainer Maria Rilke between 1903 and 1908 to Franz Xaver Kappus, a student at a Vienna military academy who asked Rilke for criticism and advice about his own poetic efforts.
Presents a short biography of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, early nineteenth-century children's authors, and chronicles their lives and works with includes their classic fairy tales.
German author G?nter Grass tells his life story, describing his experiences in the Waffen-SS during World War II and in an American prisoner of war camp afterward; his relationship with his first great love, Anna; his mother's death; and his start as a novelist.
