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The
Nationhood of Luxembourg |
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James
Newcomer
The Nationhood of Luxembourg
Eight Essays on the Grand Duchy
Éditions PHI & CNL
1998
James
Newcomer, professor emeritus of Texas University, knows Luxembourg
very well. His book, The Nationhood of Luxembourg, comprises
eight essays on such various topics as a first approach to Luxembourg,
the personality and irony of nationhood, Sigefroid in the twenty-first
century, Luxembourg culture within the European Union, 1996:
a postulation of threat and possibility and the Luxembourg grammar
of nationhood.
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Kann
Poesie die Welt verändern |
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Alain
Weins
Kann Poesie die Welt verändern?
Die Geschichte der Mondorfer Dichtertage
Éditions PHI & CNL
1999
This
book aims to describe the origin and evolution of the Mondorf
Literary Days. It takes into account various literary aspects,
like the relationship between the Literary Days and some important
participants, but it also traces the particular tendencies of
each year's festival. Furthermore, it reflects on the festival's
possible influence on the literary scene in Luxembourg. Finally,
the specific German-French contrast in Mondorf stands in the
centre of interest.
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Marieluise
Fleißer & Alexander Weicker
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Gast
Mannes
Marieluise Fleißer & Alexander Weicker
"Ich bin stolz auf ihn solange ich lebe"
Éditions PHI & CNL
1999
Weicker
was the first man in Marieluise Fleisser's life and together
with Lion Feuchtwanger and Bertold Brecht he became an important
influence on her evolution as a woman and author, as can easily
be proved by some as yet unpublished letters. He was the man
who regularly turned up as a protagonist in her early tales
in the twenties and who also became of great interest to interpreters
of the Fleisser prose texts. The relationship between Fleisser
and Weicker is furthermore an example for the evolution of German
literature from expressionist pathos to neo-objective austerity.
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Mirroir aux Alouettes |
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Corina
Mersch
Un Miroir aux Alouettes
Petit dictionnaire de la pensée nomade
Éditions PHI & CNL
1999
"Go
on a journey" with: Edmond Dune, José Ensch, Nico
Helminger, Pierre Joris, Anise Koltz, Paul Palgen, Jean Portante,
Guy Rewenig, Lambert Schlechter, Jean Sorrente and Félix
Thyes. Through a patchwork of commented quotations, the following
thesis is established: from one journey's end to the other,
Luxembourg's writers discover a possible founding-myth of their
national literature: the pleasure of being off-course. Portable
roots help to shut out Babylon's horrendous noise. Nomadic thinking
helps to get rid of the larks' mirror. In between two definitely
provisional landing stations, the modern Ulysses learns to resist
the charms of Melusina, who tries in vain to pull him down into
the dormant waters of the Land of Cockaigne.
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Luxemburg
- Menschen und Landschaften
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Mars
Klein und Olivier Ortolani
Luxemburg
Menschen und Landschaften
Texte von Goethe bis heute
Éditions
PHI & CNL
2001
"A
charming country, which Offenbach might have set to music. Lush
forests seemingly out of a fairy tale; vineyards crowning silver
streams; ripe fields golden in the summer sun, interspersed with
patches of blooming roses.
Mighty
factories which produce the best steal in Europe. Good wines,
friendly women. And over all this reigns a grand-duchess, as young,
pretty and charming as any princess out of a Hans Christian Andersen
tale. I should have arrived in a coach, complete with trailblazers
and drivers, leaned back into silk cushions, the face framed by
a perfumed wig."
Daniel
Varé. Italian diplomat. 1927 (transl.)
This
anthology comprises texts by over 60 foreign and Luxembourg authors,
from the end of the 18th century up to now. Arranged according
to the different regions of the country and presented in a chronological
order, the volume offers a rich selection of impressions, descriptions
and opinions on Luxembourg. A chronological table places each
contribution into its historical context.
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Der
Aufstand der Luxemburger Allliteraten
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Roger
Manderscheid
Der Aufstand der Luxemburger Allliteraten
Notizen zu Entwicklung der Luxemburger Literatur in der zweiten
Jahrhunderthälfte
Éditions
PHI & CNL
2003
die
luxemburger autoren bewegen sich energiegeladen auf einen punkt
zu, aber im zickzack, wie soldaten beim angriff. nur manchmal,
auf dem beschwerlichen gelände, bergab, bergauf, quer durch
sümpfe und moore, an wäldern vorbei und durch ebensolche
hindurch, beim ermüdenden marsch über eine sonnige lichtung,
überkommt sie ein unwiderstehliches gähnen: sie lassen
sich zu boden gleiten und schlafen ein. friedlich wie die kinder.
auf dem rücken liegend und mit dem federkiel in die wolken
zielend. um beim ersten leisesten donnergrollen wieder aufzuspringen
und ihren vormarsch fortzusetzen, von einem strategisch bedeutsamen
punkt zum nächsten. auf umwegen. manchmal auch auf schleichpfaden.
(Manderscheid, Roger: Der Aufstand der Luxemburger allliteraten,
p. 17)
(Transl.: the Luxembourg authors move energetically towards one
point, zigzagging, like soldiers charging. But sometimes, in uneven
territory, downhill, uphill, through bogs and meres, along forests
and right through them, on a tiring march over a sunny clearing,
an irresistible yawn overcomes them: they slip to the ground and
fall asleep. peacefully, like children. lying on their back, with
their quills aiming at the clouds. at the first far-away rumbling
of thunder, they jump up again and proceed in their advance, from
one strategic point to the next. by roundabout ways. sometimes
even by secret paths.)
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