books by Michael Hofmann     books:     Michael Hofmann      Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems Durs Grunbein Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006 Read them ! I don't read German, so I can't comment on the translation. However Michael Hoffman's English versions are worth reading in their own right. Wonderful poems.             The Zürau Aphorisms of Franz Kafka Franz Kafka Schocken, 2006 Heroism Writing about Kafka is just as difficult and always more useless (in the Kafka-esque sense) than reading Kafka. Really the only people who ought to be allowed to write about Kafka are those who live in caves or at the bottom of wells or in high mountain towers and ...             Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World (Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature) Kamo no Chomei Stone Bridge Press, 1996 Brief and beautiful This is the most poetic book of prose I have ever seen. Kamo-no-Chomei starts the book with recollections of a series of disasters that struck Kyoto in the late twelfth century: fire, plague, famine, and more. The descriptions are personal and vivid. The near-poetic ...             A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-1944 Willy Peter Reese Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005 This book was not written for entertainment This was a very interesting book that was written by an average soldier that had an above average intellect. This young man would have been "somebody" if he had survived the war. Unfortunately, he did not and these pages show his view of the war in the East. The book ...             Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder (Practical Clinical Guidebooks Series) Stefan G. Hofmann, Michael W Otto Routledge, 2008 Social phobia, or social anxiety disorder, is among the most common (and debilitating) of the anxiety disorders, and at any given time it effects somewhere between 3 and 5% of the US population, with similar statistics found in countries around the world. Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT) has been demonstrated to be the most effective form of ...             The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II (New York Review Books Classics) Gert Ledig NYRB Classics, 2005 An uncompromising view of war as a charnel house The Stalin Front is a closeup view of two days of confused fighting in the swamps near Leningrad, at the end of which most of the characters, German and Russian, are dead, have gone mad, or humiliated themselves. The point of view moves impassively from one character's ...             Metamorphosis and Other Stories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Franz Kafka Penguin Classics, 2008 Kafka's Best This is a definitive collection of the short work of Franz Kafka, encompassing all of the greatest moods of his writing. The following stories are included. The Judgment is a tale of what is and what is not. A young man reveals, through a letter, that he's ...             What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933 Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann W. W. Norton & Company, 2004 A masterpiece of journalistic force and observation Joseph Roth's Berlin after the Great War was a urban blend of the homeless, the displaced, Jews escaping from the East, "passengers with heavy loads," bourgeosie, bohemians and Reichstag politicians with their "reservoirs of asininity." His feuilletons, rich in ...             The Seventh Well: A Novel Fred Wander W. W. Norton, 2007 "You will become transparent, like a well yourself..." * Some books are easy to review. Fred Wander's The Seventh Well isn't one of them. This is meant as an accolade, not a criticism. Wander (born Fritz Rosenblatt; he changed his name in 1950) was a Viennese Jew who was interned by the Nazis in 1939, when he was 22 ...             Storm of Steel (Penguin Classics) Ernst Jünger Penguin Classics, 2004 World War I -- From The Trenches As It Was For most people who only know World War I from their high school days when they did a book review on "All Quiet On The Western Front" this book is required reading. Against the spate of anti-war books by those who saw limited service and little combat, Ernst Juenger's ...             Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 A Fresh Look At Modern Poetry Michael Hofmann offers us a view of what is perhaps the most modern of all major contemporary poetries. Begining with Rilke he offers intellegent selections of the modern classics Trakl, Benn, Brecht and then provdes intreging selections of the generally less well ...             Report from a Parisian Paradise: Essays from France, 1925-1939 Joseph Roth W. W. Norton & Company, 2005 Incandescent A true gift for anyone that loves writing, observation, and life, and an absolute gem for anyone that has ever been to or loved France. Heartbreakingly intelligent, perceptive, and compassionate writing from a master. Get this for yourself and all those you love (since ...             Right And Left Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann Overlook TP, 2004 Excellent Portrayal of Weimar Germany "Right and Left" chronicles the temporarily intertwined lives of two characters whose circumstances and personalities reflect the uncertainties of German society in the post-World War I era. Paul Bernheim is the weak and vacillating, though well-intentioned scion of ...             The Wandering Jews Joseph Roth, Elie Wiesel W. W. Norton & Company, 2001 The Fears of 1937 Were Realized Sooner than Roth Thought This book was a paen by a 'civilized (read westernized)' Jew on the cusp of WW2 and the holocaust. Roth travelled in most of post-WW1 Eastern Europe to learn the plight of his Jewish compatriots. In the original edition (written in 1926) he speaks of Eastern European ...             Mother Courage and Her Children (Methuen Drama) Bertolt Brecht Methuen Drama, 2007 WAR- UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL In what appears to be a permanent war in Iraq it is not untimely to address the question posed by Bertolt Brecht of how individuals caught up on the margins of warfare cope, for good or evil, with the traumas, unappetiting personal decisions and unmitigated horror of ...          products you might be interested in search for books behavioral, collection, inhumanity, literature, metamorphosis, twentieth-century      toavi.com    web we recommend World War I -- From The Trenches As It Was randomly chosen book: Visual Journeys: A Tribute to Space Artists