Peter Matić Books

THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATION Within a Budding Grove describes the first shoots of an astonishing love affair. When Proust's adolescent narrator travels from Paris to the sunny seaside town of Balbec he meets an intriguing set of new acquaintances who provide him with both friendship and entertainment. Most significantly of all he meets a dark-haired girl with sparkling eyes and a tiny beauty spot on her chin: the mysterious Albertine, who will become the great love of his life.

The acclaimed autobiography of Fidel Castro, one of the towering political figures of our age, who dominated both Cuba and the world stage for over half a century. Here Castro tells his story in full for the first time, speaking openly about everything from his parents and earliest influences to his imprisonment, guerrilla war and the Cuban revolution and on to the Bay of Pigs, the missile crisis and his relationship with Che Guevara. He also remembers the people he knew, from John F. Kennedy to Ernest Hemingway. Whatever your views on Castro are, this is an essential record of an incredible life - and even more extraordinary times. 'Cubaphiles are all the richer for this book ... Castro's prodigious gifts are well displayed: his formidable erudition, steely discipline, epic curiosity and his astute grasp of history' Financial Times 'Castro's life has been extraordinary and he can tell a good story' Evening Standard

Das Burgtheater, die Josefstadt und das Schillertheater in Berlin sind seine Heimat. Peter Matić hat in sechs Jahrzehnten Hunderte Rollen gespielt. Unverwechselbar ist seine Stimme, die er als Synchronsprecher vor allem Hollywoodstar Ben Kingsley leiht und die viele TV-Dokumentationen prägt. Literaturfreunde schätzen seine Hörbücher, darunter die Gesamtausgabe von Marcel Prousts „Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit“. Matić macht sie zum Erlebnis. Der Nachkomme einer k. u. k. Offiziersfamilie mit weit reichenden Wurzeln in Österreich, Griechenland, Deutschland und Kroatien ist ein „echter Europäer“, ein Theatermann durch und durch. In seiner Autobiografie, die mit einer Fülle von Abbildungen aus seinem Privatarchiv illustriert ist, hat der hochaktive Künstler viel zu erzählen.