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Telegrams Of The Soul

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Telegrams Of The Soul

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'Peter Altenberg is a genius of nullifications, a singular idealist who discovers the splendors of this world like cigarette butts in the ashtrays of coffeehouses.'- Franz Kafka

Author Biography:

Peter Altenberg (akaRichard Englonder, 1859-1919) born into a well-to-do, assimilated Viennese Jewish family, took advantage of a medical diagnosis of "over-excitation of the nervous system" and a consequent "incapacity for gainful employment" to devote himself heart and soul to the life of the Bohemian poet. Author of eleven books published during his lifetime and two more after his death, Altenberg also pioneered the verynotion of loose-fitting leisure attire, designed a line of necklaces, favored sandals, walking sticks and slivovitz. His long list of literary admirers included Karl Kraus, Heinrich and Thomas Mann, Robert Musil, Arthur Schnitzler and George Bernard Shaw. Recipient of the 2012 Gold Grand Prize for Best Travel Story of the Year, Peter Wortsman is the author of A Modern Way to Die- Small Stories and Microtales, the playsaThe Tattooed Man Tells All and Burning Words, the recent memoir Ghost Dance in Berlin- A Rhapsody in Gray, and the forthcoming novel Cold Earth Wanderers. His translations from the German includeaRobert Musilos Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, Heinrich Heineos Travel Pictures, Peter Altenbergos Telegrams of the Soul, and Tales of the German Imagination- From The Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann, an anthology published by Penguin Classics.
Release date NZ
April 4th, 2005
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributor
  • Translated by Peter Wortsman
Country of Publication
United States
Imprint
Archipelago Books
Pages
250
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Dimensions
140x230x11
ISBN-13
9780974968087
Product ID
3327738

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