Jörg Trobitius Books

In this tenth anniversary edition of his award-winning memoir, New York Times bestselling author Peter Balakian has expanded his compelling story about growing up in the baby-boom suburbs of the '50s and '60s and coming to understand what happened to his family in the first genocide of the twentieth century—the Ottoman Turkish government's extermination of more than one million Armenians in 1915. In this new edition, Balakian continues his exploration of the Armenian Genocide with new chapters about his journey to Aleppo and his trip to the Der Zor desert of Syria in his pursuit of his grandmother's life, bringing us closer to the twentieth century's first genocide.

A comical and poignant memoir of a gay man living life as he pleased in the 1930sIn 1931, gay liberation was not a movement—it was simply unthinkable. But in that year, Quentin Crisp made the courageous decision to "come out" as a homosexual. This exhibitionist with the henna-dyed hair was harassed, ridiculed and beaten. Nevertheless, he claimed his right to be himself—whatever the consequences. The Naked Civil Servant is both a comic masterpiece and a unique testament to the resilience of the human spirit.

Die Geschichte zweier Brüder wird hier in ihren Briefen dokumentiert. Der eine ist ein »Erfinder« ohne Realitätsbezug, der andere, am alltäglichen Leben gescheitert, ist reif für die Heilanstalt. Lind zeichnet eine Welt, die sich gegen die Weltverbesserer nicht wehren und der man nur mit satirischen Mitteln begegnen kann.

George Steiners Essay versucht eine scharfsinnige Diagnose der Misere unseres Zeitalters und dessen sekundärer, parasitärer Kultur, in der die Welt zu Tode geredet zu werden droht und in der sich Beliebigkeit und Relativismus durchsetzen. Ein europäischer Intellektueller von hohem Rang eröffnet Perspektiven einer neuen Kulturtheorie.