First English translation of the memoirs of Jean-Nicolas Cur ly. Although of lowly birth, Cur ly rose though the ranks; he became hussar at 19 years, second lieutenant at 32, squadron commander at 35, colonel at 38 and general at 40.
Second volume of French eyewitness accounts of the Battle of Waterloo published in full for the first time in English.
When the avant-garde writer Mu Shiying was assassinated in 1940, China lost one of its greatest modernist writers while Shanghai lost its most detailed chronicler of its demi-monde nightlife. As Andrew David Field argues, Mu Shiying advanced modern Chinese writing beyond the vernacular expression of May 4 giants Lu Xun and Lao She to even more starkly reveal the alienation of the cosmopolitan-capitalist city of Shanghai, trapped between the forces of civilization and barbarism. Each of these five short stories focuses on the author's key obsessions: the pleasurable yet anxiety-ridden social and sexual relationships of the modern city and the decadent maelstrom of consumption and leisure in Shanghai epitomized by the dance hall and the nightclub. This study places his writings squarely within the framework of Shanghai's social and cultural nightscapes.
Andrew Field entwirft mit seiner Biographie ein umfassendes Porträt dieser schüchternen, leidenschaftlichen, extravaganten Persönlichkeit und ein faszinierendes Bild der Künstler- und Schriftstellergenerationen der ersten drei Jahrzehnte dieses Jahrhunderts. Djuna Barnes kannte jeden, und Djuna Barns kannten alle. Sie traf Charlie Chaplin in Berlin, reiste nach Tanger zu Paul Bowles und wohnte in England mit Peggy Guggenheim zusammen. Man traf sich in den Cafés oder in Sylvia Beachs Buchhandlung „Shakespeare & Company“, in den Nachtbars von Paris, Wien, Budapest und London. Djuna Barnes hat die meisten ihrer Freunde und Zeitgenossen überlebt. Sie starb 1982 im Anlter von neunzig Jahren in New York.
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