I'll think of something later

An impressionistic outlet for some of those thoughts, musical and otherwise, I don't have a chance to air in the media

Showing posts with label Hans Fallada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hans Fallada. Show all posts
Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Hard times for the little man

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Germany in 1932 is both the setting and the place/time for the writing of Hans Fallada 's Little Man, What Now? , but the artistically...
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Monday, 11 April 2011

Himmel über Berlin

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That, of course, is how the Germans know Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire , a film which so coloured my early trips to this ever-changing c...
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Saturday, 8 January 2011

Berlin 1923, Dostoyevsky-style

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When did I last read a novelist who left me breathless across an epic span to know what was going to happen next, as I've just found wi...
Wednesday, 29 December 2010

The year of reading Ulysses

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I must have cast my eyes over those opening words at least a dozen times (opening of the 'Telemachus' chapter as illustrated by Ro...
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Sunday, 21 November 2010

Good company down the A&E

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Well, I'm not sure Hans Fallada, born Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen, makes exactly congenial reading when you're waiting for three h...
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Thursday, 18 November 2010

People who live in glass houses

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'See what he is suggesting? The house will be sort of hung from the first storey, here. Do you see? Downwards into the garden. The bed...
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