Graham Robb Bücher

Abseits einer kleinen Avantgarde zuerst völlig unbekannt, avancierte Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) zu einer der wirkungsvollsten Figuren für die zeitgenössische Kultur. Voller Hass auf die Bourgeoisie war die Liste seiner Verbrechen länger als die der von ihm selbst veröffentlichten Gedichte. Die posthume Karriere dieses Enfant terrible, das bereits mit Anfang zwanzig zu dichten aufhörte, ist erstaunlich: Heiliger für die Symbolisten und Surrealisten, Poster-Boy für Anarchisten und Drogenkonsumenten, Pionier für Schwule, Inspiration für Künstler von Picasso über Bob Dylan und Jim Morrison bis zu Patti Smith. »Ich ist ein anderer.« Wer Rimbaud war, schildert Robb in sorgfältigen Werkanalysen sowie einer präzisen Beschreibung von Lebensgeschichte und historischem Umfeld. Dabei zeigt er anhand von Rimbauds nachliterarischer Karriere (u. a. in Äthiopien) als Fabrikarbeiter, Hauslehrer, Bettler, Hafenarbeiter, Söldner, Seemann, Entdecker, Kaufmann, Geldwechsler und Waffenschieber auch, welchen Einfluss europäisches Denken und europäische Politik auf Afrika und die arabischen Länder hatte. Ein abenteuerliches Leben als Zugang zu faszinierender Poesie und aktuellen politischen Themen

`Intellectually thrilling, psychologically acute and very wittily written: a worthy offering to its subject' Observer schovat popis

‘One of the best biographies I have read, ever’ Selina Hastings ‘Mr Robb has written an enthralling book – one of the great biographies of our time. He contrives not to be dwarfed by his subject, which is some contrivance. He makes of Hugo’s life a story as exciting to read as it was extraordinary to have lived. He has a matchless gift for narrative. His style is epigrammatic and compelling. His judgements seem fair – not something Hugo was used to in life. Every Place Victor Hugo should now have a Café-Bar Graham Robb. He deserves, and will probably get, the Légion d’honneur’ Allan Massie, Daily Telegraph ‘Robb achieves the goal of all good literary biographies by making us long to regain, or savour for the first time, Hugo’s company as a writer. Surely no chronicler of his life or analyst of his work has ever looked this prodigy of nature so unflinchingly in the eye’ Jonathan Keates, Literary Review ‘Graham Robb’s exuberant biography of the French writer blows the cobwebs away from a neglected hero and sets him before us in lurid and quite unforgettable shape. Robb’s jaunty, self-confident style is gloriously appropriate to his subject . . . Robb’s enthusiasm is hugely exhilarating and his biography is a fascinating study in the making of a celebrity’ Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times, Books of the Year ‘The best life of the writer available in English (and likely to remain so for some time) . . . His fascinating, totally readable Life will introduce Hugo to many readers who know him only as a name’ Robin Buss, Independent on Sunday

From maps, migration and magic, to linguistic differences and tribal disputes, The Discovery of France tells the whole story of this remarkable - and surprising - country.

The New York Times bestseller: the secrets of the City of Light, revealed in the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten by the author of the acclaimed The Discovery of France.

Graham Robb's The Ancient Paths will change the way you see European civilization. Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their gods, their art, and, most of all, their sophisticated knowledge of science. His investigations gradually revealed something extraordinary: a lost map, of an empire constructed with precision and beauty across vast tracts of Europe. The map had been forgotten for almost two millennia and its implications were astonishing. Minutely researched and rich in revelations, The Ancient Paths brings to life centuries of our distant history and reinterprets pre-Roman Europe. Told with all of Robb's grace and verve, it is a dazzling, unforgettable book.

An authoritative, original and exciting history of the French nation, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Discovery of France and Parisians.

Describes a discovery the author made in the Alps, which uncovered a treasure trove of Druid celestial mathematics that mapped out the entire geography of ancient Europe, and discusses the implications of this new information.