K. Hartig Livres

«Chacun de vous a une lourde tâche à accomplir. Vous êtes appelés à rénover une société décrépite et puante : que cette pensée stimule continuellement votre courage ! Tous vos efforts doivent tendre à ce que tout s'écroule, l'État et sa morale. Nous resterons seuls debout, nous qui nous sommes préparés depuis longtemps à prendre le pouvoir en main. Nous nous annexerons les gens intelligents, et pour ce qui est des imbéciles, nous monterons sur leur dos. Cela ne doit pas vous troubler. Il nous faudra rééduquer la génération actuelle pour la rendre digne de la liberté.

Daniel Nothafft steht zwischen zwei Frauen: Der hochbegabte Musiker heiratet die spröde Gertrud, doch seine eigentliche Liebe gehört ihrer Schwester, der lebenslustigen Lenore. Dem Künstler zuliebe führen sie eine "Ehe zu dritt". Das unglückselige Dreiecksverhältnis wird zum Skandal, Daniel zum Gespött der Stadt: Die Nürnberger nennen ihn "das Gänsemännchen", nach der berühmten Brunnenfigur, die zwei Gänse in den Armen hält. Schließlich ist die Katastrophe nicht mehr aufzuhalten; eine der Schwestern wählt den Freitod. Feinfühlig schildert Jakob Wassermann das Spannungsverhältnis zwsichen genialischer Künstlernatur und bürgerlicher Gesellschaft: Sowhl Publikum als auch Kritik waren von dem 1915 publizierten Nürnberg-Roman begeistert: Ein Werk, das sich "turmhoch über so ziemlich die ganze Romanliteratur der letzten Jahre hinaushebt", urteilte Lion Feuchtwanger.

Thomas Bernhard, one of the most distinct, celebrated, and perverse of 20th century writers, took his own life in 1989. Perhaps the greatest Austrian writer of the 20th century, Bernhard's vision in novels like Woodcutters was relentlessly bleak and comically nihilistic.

Die Seiten sind sauber, hell und fest. Abnutzung an den Kanten und Enden des Covers sowie Dellen an den Enden. Risse an den Enden des Rückens und ein Brandfleck auf dem Cover an der Kante.

'Anyone who murdered Colnonel Protheroe, ' declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, 'would be doing the world a favour!' It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come back and haunt the clergyman just a few hours later - when the Colonel is found shot dead in the clergyman's study. But as Miss Marple soon discovers, the whole village seems to have had a motive to kill Colonel Protheroe. -- back cover

In 1969, Harold Robbins began his "trilogy of greed" with The Inheritors, a tell-all novel about the entertainment industry. Spanning the years 1955 to 1965, and based on the lives of actual network executives and movie moguls, the novel exposes the sex, power, and politics of mass media. Steve Gaunt is working hard to build his television empire. He's a visionary and a bit of a rebel, making him a hit, both in the ratings and with beautiful women. Sam Benjamin, meanwhile, is building his career through the movies. When they join forces, the partnership has the potential to make them very wealthy and powerful. But it's a dirty business and a rogue industry, and friendships can fall in a heartbeat when money is on the line. In its initial publication, The Inheritors was a timely indictment of an industry on fire. Today, it is a fascinating look back at a time when television was just coming into its own, and how the movie industry dealt with this new threat.

Situé dans le puritanisme du XVIIe siècle en Nouvelle-Angleterre, le roman raconte l'histoire de Hester Prynne, une femme qui, après avoir donné naissance à une fille d'une relation adultère, refuse de révéler l'identité du père et lutte pour se forger une nouvelle vie de repentance et de dignité. La lettre écarlate est la A que chaque adultère doit porter cousue sur son sein, marquant de manière indélébile les actions et la conscience de la protagoniste, prise dans un triangle pathologique avec son mari et son ancien séducteur, dans une montée de tension, de souffrance et d'angoisse.

This is the story of an enchantment and its dramatic consequences. At the centre is the frustrated love of a man in his forties for a fourteen-year-old girl whom he meets and befriends. Drawn into her strange family and the haunting world of Childwold, he discovers that, while others find freedom for themselves, for him there is no escape. (From cover) "[A] blowsy mother whose many children have many fathers; her 14-year-old daughter, Laney, and Kasch, an anguished intellectual who loves them both...The novel's tight Oedipal triangle opens into a triple alliance against age and aggression as each person tries to turn the biological clock back towards innocence. Laney's mother wants to bear children to narrow the world to a child's room. Laney starves herself to stop her menstrual cycle and prolong her childhood. Kasch in his insanity is harmless, nonsexual, helpless...Drawn by his vulnerability in the same way that Kasch was drawn by her poverty, Laney may cling to Kasch and he to her as children cling together in the dark." (New York Times, 11/28/76)