"It was...unnecessary for me to fret about who the murderer was: Everybody was." A haunting, never-before-translated, autobiographical novella by the 2002 Nobel Prize winner. An unnamed narrator recounts a simple anecdote, his sighting of the Union Jack—the British Flag—during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, in the few days preceding the uprising's brutal repression by the Soviet army. In the telling, partly a digressive meditation on "the absurd order of chance," he recalls his youthful self, and the epiphanies of his intellectual and spiritual awakening—an awakening to a kind of radical subjectivity. In his Nobel address Kertesz remembered: "I, on a lovely spring day in 1955, suddenly came to the realization that there exists only one reality, and that is me, my own life, this fragile gift bestowed for an uncertain time, which had been seized, expropriated by alien forces, and circumscribed, marked up, branded—and which I had to take back from 'History', this dreadful Moloch, because it was mine and mine alone..." The Contemporary Art of the Novella series is designed to highlight work by major authors from around the world. In most instances, as with Imre Kertész, it showcases work never before published; in others, books are reprised that should never have gone out of print. It is intended that the series feature many well-known authors and some exciting new discoveries. And as with the original series, The Art of the Novella, each book is a beautifully packaged and inexpensive volume meant to celebrate the form and its practitioners.

"I grew up in the after-war period, hungry to see the world. That is why I moved from Gottingen to Hamburg in 1950. I learnt the basics of photography, and as I was quite smart-looking, I could earn a little bit of money working as a model. When I drove my bike through Poseldorf, a fancy white car stopped right next to me. The driver pointed at my camera and asked whether I was a photographer. It was Hans Huffzky, the founder of the women's magazine Constanze. When he saw my photographs, he said: 'Awful! What a catastrophe! Stop taking pictures of ships in the harbour. You have to photograph people.' Huffzky became my Professor Higgins and introduced me to the publishers Rudolf Augstein and Axel Springer. Both were still on their way up and very easy-going. At those times, it was easy to reach for the stars and conquer the world." Inge Feltrinelli In addition to her photographic skill and her beautiful appearance, it was Inge Feltrinelli's talent to be at the right place at the right time that opened doors for her. She shot the rich, the intelligent and the famous figures of her time. All photographs are witness to the candid, amicable relationship with her models. Marc Chagall pulled a pleasant face for her, Simone de Beauvoir looked happy, and Gary Cooper continued to get drunk while letting Inge do her job. In one of her most famous photographs, we see the beautiful young artist herself along with Ernest Hemingway, holding a giant swordfish. "

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Throughout the nineteenth century, legal barriers to Jewish citizenship were lifted in Europe, enabling organized Jewish communities and individuals to alter radically their relationships with the institutions of the Christian West. In this volume, one of the first to offer a comparative overview of the entry of Jews into state and society, eight leading historians analyze the course of emancipation in Holland, Germany, France, England, the United States, and Italy as well as in Turkey and Russia. The goal is to produce a systematic study of the highly diverse paths to emancipation and to explore their different impacts on Jewish identity, dispositions, and patterns of collective action. Jewish emancipation concerned itself primarily with issues of state and citizenship. Would the liberal and republican values of the Enlightenment guide governments in establishing the terms of Jewish citizenship? How would states react to Jews seeking to become citizens and to remain meaningfully Jewish? The authors examine these issues through discussions of the entry of Jews into the military, the judicial system, business, and academic and professional careers, for example, and through discussions of their assertive political activity. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Geoffrey Alderman, Hans Daalder, Werner E. Mosse, Aron Rodrigue, Dan V. Segre, and Michael Stanislawski. Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

"This book asks fundamental questions about the uses of history. That it does so from a rootedness in Jewish history, an unassimilated location, is one part of its strength. But history alone doesn't confer this strength; the poet's continuing labor with Jewish meaning does. The other part, of course, is the integrity of its poetics. A Klepfisz poem lives amid complex tensions, even when its texture may appear transparent. There is a voice, sometimes voices, in these poems which can often best be heard by reading aloud. Her sense of phrase, of line, of the shift of tone, is almost flawless. But perfection is not what Irena Klepfisz is after. It is the tension between so many forces: Language, speechlessness, memory, politics, irony, compassion, hunger for what is lost, hunger for a justice still to be made, that makes this poetry crucial to the new unfoldings of history that we begin, in 1990, to imagine." -- from the introduction by Adrienne Rich

Set in the Second World War, Between the Seasons of Happiness explores the relationships between three generations of the same family. Their lives and death reflect the changes and confusion of the time.

Approaching the end of her eventful life, Elisabeth Rother has decided to write her memoirs, brushing aside her and her Jewish husband's narrow escape from the Nazis and their difficult arrival in New Jersey in order to concentrate her story on the wayward behavior of her impossible daughter, Renate, and granddaughter, Irene.

Manhattan social worker Anita Servi never had any reason to suspect that her husband, Benno, was cheating. The police, however, have no problem accusing him of murder when the couple's loyal baby-sitter, Ellen Chapman, is found stabbed to death with one of his screwdrivers. Torn between believing in Benno, and the circumstantial evidence stacked against him, Anita is determined to get to the truth.

When Manhattan social worker Anita Servi stumbles over the body of an elderly woman outside her apartment, she recognizes her as Lillian, the homeless person who spent occasional nights in the hallway. Though Lillian's death is ruled accidental, Anita digs deeper into the death and Lillian's murky past, making some stunning discoveries. As she uncovers the shocking answers, the killer emerges, determined to make sure Anita takes the truth to her grave.

Louisa Gardener, the fourteen-year-old nursemaid to the young daughters of a wealthy, titled family living in London, England, in 1912, overcomes her fear of the ocean and sails with her charges to New York aboard the Titanic.

Most of us could only imagine the life that Irene Pollin has lived. In Irene and Abe: An Unexpected Life, Irene Pollin details the life journey that she and her husband Abe experienced together. From the time they fell in love as teenagers, through their careers (including bringing NBA basketball and NHL hockey to the Nation's Capital) and ultimately to Mr. Pollin's passing, Irene Pollin writes about the thrills of owning professional sports teams and building two highly successful sports and entertainment arenas....as well as the joy of raising children and the heartbreak of losing children to heart disease. She also chronicles the challenges she faced through her multifaceted career, from psychotherapist and published author, to founder of a successful, groundbreaking nonprofit organization established to raise awareness of heart disease in women. Irene and Abe: An Unexpected Life is an intimate, first person journey through the lives of two fascinating people, told by a remarkable woman.

"The Imperial Wife is a smart, engaging novel that parallels two fascinating worlds and two singular women. Irina Reyn writes beautifully of immigrants, art and the vagaries of love."--Jess Walter, National Book Award finalist and author of the New York Times bestseller, Beautiful Ruins Two women's lives collide when a priceless Russian artifact comes to light. Tanya Kagan, a rising specialist in Russian art at a top New York auction house, is trying to entice Russia's wealthy oligarchs to bid on the biggest sale of her career, The Order of Saint Catherine, while making sense of the sudden and unexplained departure of her husband. As questions arise over the provenance of the Order and auction fever kicks in, Reyn takes us into the dazzling world of Catherine the Great, the infamous 18th-century empress, who may have owned the priceless artifact, and who, it turns out, faced many of the same issues Tanya wrestles with in her own life. Suspenseful and beautifully written, The Imperial Wife asks whether we view female ambition any differently today than we did in the past. Can a contemporary marriage withstand an "Imperial Wife"?

A counter-revisionist examination of JFK and his administration, Promises Kept presents a policy history of major domestic legislative efforts between 1961 and 1963. Bernstein focuses on administraive and congressional progress under Kennedy in civil rights, education, taxes, unemployment, Medicare, and the Peace Corps. He persuasively argues that Kennedy was indeed a successful president, showing that many of JFK's campaign promises were well on their way to enactment by the time of his assassination, even after two years of dealings with a balky and often hostile Congress, and the difficulty of working in a political system changing from conservative to liberal.

The original account of a great flood— forgotten for thousands of years until it was recently rediscovered and deciphered—is now retold for children Four thousand years ago, long before the story of Noah’s Ark was written down in the Hebrew Bible, the Sumerians and Babylonians of Ancient Mesopotamia knew the story of the flood and the special boat that rescued all the animals. Its ancient Babylonian hero, Atra-hasis, was— just like Noah— ordered by his god to build a lifeboat to keep his family and all the animals safe until the flood was over. Unlike Noah, Atra-hasis was asked to build a round coracle boat the size of a soccer field—and given very precise instructions to follow. Told from the perspective both of the central hero, Atra-hasis, and of his youngest son, Very-quick, this remarkable story is supplemented with asides that give fascinating insights into daily life in Ancient Mesopotamia as well as the historical sources for the story. A tale of destruction on an unthinkable scale and survival against the odds, The Lifeboat that Saved the World is a story that has truly stood the test of time. The narrative is complemented by historically accurate detail and insights into how people lived all those years ago.

Classics of Modern Fiction - Eight Short Novels

Based on his own participation in the movement and on theoretical issues that have been debated since the turn of the century, Howe presents a searching review of American socialism--its past, present, and future. The essays deal with the promise of the Debs era (1912-1920), the disaster of 1936, when the socialist party broke with organized labor and opposed FDR's re-election, the formation of the popular front with the Communist Party in the late thirties, and why socialism failed. Surveying the movement he has known first-hand since 1930, Howe takes the state-centered political structure as it is and tries to work through it to effect the economic and social changes he thinks socialism is about. He allows for the particular historical constraints under which socialists of the past acted, hopes for a reconciliation of liberalism and democratic socialism, and weighs the chances for the survival of socialism as a living ideal. ISBN 0-15-183575-6 : $17.95.

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Psychological Analysis of Conflict, Choice, and Commitment