Peter Demetz (1922–2024)
Autore di Prague in Black and Gold
Sull'Autore
Peter Demetz was born in Prague in 1922 and immigrated to the United States in 1948; he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Germank Language and Literature at Yale University, where he taught from 1956 until 1991. The many medals and prizes he has received Include a Medal of Merit from the Czech mostra altro Republic, presented to him by President Vclav Havel in 2000. He is the author of Marx, Engels, and the Poets; works on Brecht and Rilke; The Air Show at Brescia, 1909 (FSG, 2002); and Prague in Black and Gold (Hill and Wang, 1997). He lives with his wife in New Brunswick, New Jersey. mostra meno
Opere di Peter Demetz
Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and… (2008) 49 copie
From Kafka and Dada to Brecht and Beyond: Five Essays (Monatshefte Occasional Volume) (1982) 2 copie
Kitsch, Belletristik, Kunst: Theodor Fontane Vortrag zum 150. Geburtstag von Theodor Fontane 1 copia
Walter Benjamin: Reflections 1 copia
Traditions of Experiment from the Enlightenment to the Present: Essays in Honor of Peter Demetz (1992) 1 copia
Panorama: A Novel 1 copia
René Rilkes Prager Jahre 1 copia
Opere correlate
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings (1978) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 977 copie
Neue Rundschau 1/80 — Autore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1922-10-21
- Data di morte
- 2024-04-30
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Czechoslovakia (birth)
Germany
USA - Luogo di nascita
- Prague, Czechoslovakia
- Luogo di residenza
- North Haven, Connecticut, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Istruzione
- Charles University, Prague (PhD|1948)
Columbia University (MA|1954)
Yale University (PhD|1956) - Attività lavorative
- Sterling Professor Emeritus of Germanic Language and Literature
- Organizzazioni
- Yale University
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Preis (1994)
- Breve biografia
- to US in 1952. Married to Hana Demetz, with one daughter, Anne-Marie Bettina.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 28
- Opere correlate
- 6
- Utenti
- 531
- Popolarità
- #46,874
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 39
- Lingue
- 3
Peter Demetz delivers an excellent political and social history of Bohemia through the lens of Prague. I love this approach because it's both European history and local history, which gives the narrative a sense of continuity that historical surveys sometimes lack. Demetz is a sensitive historian and remains keenly aware of the human element in all that he writes.
Czech history truly has everything—an origin story that features a literal war between the sexes, kings and emperors who are brilliant politicians but also assholes, badass nuns, tenacious Jews, epic power struggles that cut across lines of class, religion, and ethnicity, magnificent castles, magnificent cathedrals, university drama, subversive writers, peasant uprisings, bourgeoisie uprisings, alchemists, astronomers, HERETICS SO MANY HERETICS, and all the major players in European politics leaving their thumbprints, one way or another. It is fascinating, heartbreaking stuff. And I only read through the year 1600!
Recommended for those seeking a fresh look at European history. It turns out I actually do like political history; my brain just tends to shut off at any mention of Lancasters and Yorks and Tudors. This book brings the machinations of political dynasties down to the human level.… (altro)