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This new translation of Critical Essays (Situations I) by Turner contains Sartre's essays on literature and philosophy from the years between 1938 and 1946, a highly formative period of the French philosopher and existentialist?s life. Collected here are Sartre?s experiments in reimagining the idea and structure of the essay. Among the distinguished writers he analyzes are Francis Ponge, Georges Bataille, Vladimir Nabokov, Maurice Blanchot, and Albert Camus, whose novel The Stranger Sartre endeavours to explain. The volume also contains a famous attack on the Catholic novelist Fran?ois Mauriac, studies of the great American literary iconoclasts Faulkner and Dos Passos, and brief but insightful essays on aspects of the philosophical writings of Husserl and Descartes. --

"The three playwrights and four dramas of this volume, expertly introduced and edited by Margaret Herzfeld-Sander, show remarkable characteristics that would become fully integrated into modern and postmodern drama."--BOOK JACKET.

Peter Weiss (1916-1982) was virtually unknown in the mid-1960s when Peter Brook made Marat/Sade into a film. The weaving of time, space, plot, real-and-imagined characters, sexual liberation, and surrealist imagery made Marat/Sade a sensation. Little did audiences realize that this counterculture classic was written by a German Jew. At that time, Weiss was also at work on a play about Auschwitz: The Investigation. These two dramas are in this volume along with The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman. All are cogently introduced and edited by Robert Cohen.

Published in 1918, Der Untertan by Heinrich Mann (1871-1950) - previously issued in the United States only in parts under the title "Man of Straw" - is a satirical novel that connects the tradition of nineteenth-century German literature with the larger problems faced on the eve of the Nazi era. This edition of The Loyal Subject is introduced and edited by Helmut Peitsch. The translation is adapted, with new portions translated by Daniel Theisen.

"Ludwig Feuerbach has stood in the shadow of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels for the past one-hundred and fifty years. This volume in The German Library redresses this situation by including some of the most influential and trenchant writings of all three socialist philosophers, together, in one volume"--Publisher's description.

Furo Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover he has turned into a white man. As he hits the city streets running, still reeling from his new-found condition, Furo finds the dead ends of his life open out before him. As a white man in Nigeria, the world is seemingly his oyster - except for one thing: despite his radical transformation, Furo's ass remains robustly black.

"Like many writers and intellectuals of the 20th century, Uwe Johnson (1934-84) had throughout his life been in conflict with the norms of his society. Speculations about Jakob, Johnson's second novel, could not be published in 1950s East Germany, which in part prompted his move to the West. Johnson's most important work, the demanding Anniversaries tetralogy - which is excerpted in the present volume - is critical of the Vietnam War and racial segregation in the US, as well as the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Also included in this volume is a new translation of "How Anniversaries Came to Be Written" and "Trip into the Blue, 1960.""--BOOK JACKET.

The volume features a substantive introduction by Sander L. Gilman and selections from some of Freud's most important writings: Letters to Fliess, On Dreams, Infantile Sexuality, The Uncanny, Delusions and Dreams in Jensen's "Gradiva," and more. --From publisher's description.