In the Cellar - Rilegato

Reemtsma, Jan Philipp

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ISBN 10: 0375400982 ISBN 13: 9780375400988

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

Riassunto

A prominent German intellectual whose 1996 kidnapping made world-wide headlines shares with brutal honesty the painful and intimate story of the month he spent in captivity and how his time in a dank cellar still haunts his daily life.

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Praise from Germany for In the Cellar

"Reemtsma's book is a philosophical novel, a discovery of self, a journey into the cellar of an interior world where fears and hopes, love and hate, have their home. It is about the path from experience to remembrance, about the theft and recovery of one's most intimate self."
--Hellmuth Karasek, Tagesspiegel

"This is not a thriller, not some hastily cobbled bit of sensationalism. There are no shock effects, no literary thrills, no dramatics: Jan Philipp Reemtsma describes these events with an absolute matter-of-factness. And that is what makes the book so powerful. A monstrous event is recounted in cool prose from which there is no escape. You feel a man's personal torment and share his struggle to be ruthlessly honest."
--Karin Grossmann, Sächsische Zeitung

"A story that reveals a great deal about what it means to be human, about what we humans are capable of doing to others--and to ourselves. This is one man's experience of himself; seldom will we have the chance to read anything like it."
--Joachim Worthmann, Stuttgarter Zeitung

"An analytically captivating work of literature, characterized by an almost painful honesty."
--Roger Köppel, Tages-Anzeiger

L'autore:

Jan Philipp Reemtsma was born in Germany in 1952. A philologist by training, he is the director of both the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and the Arno Schmidt Foundation. He lives in Hamburg.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375400982
• ISBN 13: 9780375400988
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 223