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"Napoleon and Countess Walewska" by Gertrude Aretz is a historical biographical novel that explores the passionate and intriguing relationship between the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his Polish mistress, Countess Marie Walewska.
Schwab's work restores and develops a sense of the value of antiquity, that inexhaustible source of folk fantasy that seeks to interpret and explain the world with the original poetic power recognized in the traditions of ancient man.
A 1782 play by Friedrich Schiller, a key work of the Sturm und Drang movement. The plot revolves around the conflict between two brothers from the Moor family, Karl and Franz, and explores the themes of freedom, morality and social justice.
In Boll's novels, one of the central themes is the attempt to preserve basic moral values in a time of terror, as well as in a period of material prosperity and corruption.
Sebald is not just a storyteller. His narrative process offers a model of consciousness that tells us: to be fully aware of oneself is to suffer from incurable vertigo.
The novel "The Glass Bead Game", published in 1943, is Hermann Hesse's greatest, almost life-long work, which he wrote for almost 12 years.