My life

Author: Ranitsky
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: A memoir of the German "Pope of Literature"; a "20th-century most beautiful love story"; a German bestseller that was reprinted 16 times within a year! This is an autobiography, a memoir, but its content is not just about the author. Readers who want to understand Germany before and during Hitler's rule, its cultural and social landscape, World War II history, especially the history of Jewish persecution; those who want to explore the politics and culture of post-war Eastern Europe, particularly the post-war German literary life and the literary history of contemporary German writers, will find this book provides vivid material. It is also highly suitable for critics and writers to read, as it often discusses the relationship between critics and writers, as well as the psychology of writers. This autobiography records the author's interactions with over 100 renowned German writers, including Brecht, Seghers, Walzer, Rennert, B?ll, and Grass, over more than half a century. It narrates countless anecdotes in the fields of German literature, publishing, journalism, culture, as well as music, film, theater, and painting over decades. It is also a celebration of love, as the author devotes significant space to describing his emotions and love affairs with several young women in the literary and artistic circles, as well as his first wife, Tossia. The famous German scholar Frank Schiller said: "Ranitsky has written the most beautiful love story of the century." Ranitsky himself believed that "the path he walked was woven together by the political, social, and literary trends of the 20th century," so this book is also a comprehensive, well-documented, and richly detailed history of German literature and culture. Published at the end of 1999, it caused a sensation upon release and was reprinted 16 times by October of the following year, selling 300,000 copies, and remained on the non-fiction bestseller list for several months. The author visited China in the early 1980s and, upon returning, wrote many articles on the influence of German literature on Chinese literature, which has made him deeply beloved by Chinese readers.