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The good European : essays and arguments
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In The Good European Iain Bamforth's reports on fifteen years of 'experimental living' during which his attachment to the old continent brought him from Berlin, in the week in which he saw the fall...
In The Good European Iain Bamforth's reports on fifteen years of 'experimental living' during which his attachment to the old continent brought him from Berlin, in the week in which he saw the fall of the Wall in 1989, to Strasburg, heart of aboriginal Europe and the city of noses in Tristram Shandy. With his ear attuned to the complexities of culture and politics, Bamforth attempts to discover Europe through extra-diplomatic channels: he offers essays on writers and thinkers who have done much to define the small archipelago on the edge of Asia, including classics such as Kleist, Kafka, Roth and Benjamin, WG Sebald and Mavis Gallant.
Details
- Creator
- Iain Bamforth
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Manchester : Carcanet, 2006
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (420 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781847778710, 1847778712, 9781847773470, 1847773478, 1857547659, 130611909X
- OCLC
- ocn794663431, ocn817883801, on1098625922
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Also issued in Print and PDF version.
- English
- Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- By Way of a Prologue -- The Continuing Adventures of Mr Ross Hall, Esq. (& Madam Zell) -- A Critical Consciousness -- Being Nice to Nietzsche -- Shelf-Life -- Scheherezade in Vienna -- Berlin Diary -- A Jolly Good Show -- Overwhelmed by Aura -- Politics and Aesthetics -- 'You Must Change Your Life' -- Bile with Style -- The Future of the Walk -- Cinema Verities -- Candour and Hygiene -- Third Person to Herself -- Believing in Architecture -- The Last Culture Broth -- Windfowl and Their Advantages -- Kafka and America -- Paris, France -- Russia and the End of Time. -- Next Year in JerusalemThe Life and Times of Tomi Ungerer -- A Stuttered Essay on the French -- Five Postcards from Badenweiler for Zinovy Zinik -- Iliad of Abject Europe -- The Good European -- A Lance for Hire -- All the Glory of his Father's House -- The Road Not Taken -- Afterword -- Notes and Acknowledgements -- A, B, C -- Index -- D, E, F -- G, H, I -- J, K, L -- M, N, O -- P, Q, R -- S, T, U -- V, W, X -- Y, Z -- About the Author -- Also by Iain Bamforth from Carcanet -- Copyright