Peter Demetz
Auteur de Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes from the Life of a European City
A propos de l'auteur
Peter Demetz was born in Prague in 1922 and immigrated to the United States in 1948; he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Germank Language and Literature at Yale University, where he taught from 1956 until 1991. The many medals and prizes he has received Include a Medal of Merit from the Czech afficher plus Republic, presented to him by President Vclav Havel in 2000. He is the author of Marx, Engels, and the Poets; works on Brecht and Rilke; The Air Show at Brescia, 1909 (FSG, 2002); and Prague in Black and Gold (Hill and Wang, 1997). He lives with his wife in New Brunswick, New Jersey. afficher moins
Œuvres de Peter Demetz
Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and… (2008) 48 exemplaires
From Kafka and Dada to Brecht and Beyond: Five Essays (Monatshefte Occasional Volume) (1982) 2 exemplaires
Kitsch, Belletristik, Kunst: Theodor Fontane Vortrag zum 150. Geburtstag von Theodor Fontane 1 exemplaire
Walter Benjamin: Reflections 1 exemplaire
Traditions of Experiment from the Enlightenment to the Present: Essays in Honor of Peter Demetz (1992) 1 exemplaire
Panorama: A Novel 1 exemplaire
René Rilkes Prager Jahre 1 exemplaire
Worte in Freiheit. Der italienische Futurismus und die deutsche literarische Avantgarde 1912-1934. Mit einer… (1990) 1 exemplaire
Magister Ludi/The glass bead game (Hesse) 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings (1978) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 975 exemplaires
The Eighteenth of March + Jenny Treibel + A Man of Honor (1982) — Directeur de publication — 38 exemplaires
Delusions, Confusions / The Poggenpuhl Family (1989) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 17 exemplaires
Neue Rundschau 1/80 — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Demetz, Peter
- Date de naissance
- 1922-10-21
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Czechoslovakia (birth)
Germany
USA - Lieu de naissance
- Prague, Czechoslovakia
- Lieux de résidence
- North Haven, Connecticut, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Études
- Charles University, Prague (PhD|1948)
Columbia University (MA|1954)
Yale University (PhD|1956) - Professions
- Sterling Professor Emeritus of Germanic Language and Literature
- Organisations
- Yale University
- Prix et distinctions
- Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Preis (1994)
- Courte biographie
- to US in 1952. Married to Hana Demetz, with one daughter, Anne-Marie Bettina.
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- 6
- Membres
- 528
- Popularité
- #47,121
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 39
- Langues
- 3
Peter Demetz delivers an excellent political and social history of Bohemia through the lens of Prague. I love this approach because it's both European history and local history, which gives the narrative a sense of continuity that historical surveys sometimes lack. Demetz is a sensitive historian and remains keenly aware of the human element in all that he writes.
Czech history truly has everything—an origin story that features a literal war between the sexes, kings and emperors who are brilliant politicians but also assholes, badass nuns, tenacious Jews, epic power struggles that cut across lines of class, religion, and ethnicity, magnificent castles, magnificent cathedrals, university drama, subversive writers, peasant uprisings, bourgeoisie uprisings, alchemists, astronomers, HERETICS SO MANY HERETICS, and all the major players in European politics leaving their thumbprints, one way or another. It is fascinating, heartbreaking stuff. And I only read through the year 1600!
Recommended for those seeking a fresh look at European history. It turns out I actually do like political history; my brain just tends to shut off at any mention of Lancasters and Yorks and Tudors. This book brings the machinations of political dynasties down to the human level.… (plus d'informations)