Zweig bietet in der Geschichte der Edith und des Leutnants Hofmiller am Vorabend des ersten Weltkrieges ganz großes Gefühlskino in einer raffiniert psychologischen Erzählung. Die auch sagt, wie man mit Behinderten nicht umgehen sollte.
»Die Bergbauindustrie mochte wohl einigen wenigen Männern und Frauen Reichtum und Macht bescheren, aber die große Masse wurde unter ihrer Riesenferse zertreten und zerstampft.« (S. 425)
Noch im dritten Band der Tagebücher des schottischen Buchhändlers und Antiquars Shaun Bythell atmet jede Seite die besondere Atmosphäre der südwestschottischen Bücherstadt Wigtown. Und von »The bookshop«, seines speziellen Inhabers und seinem knochentrockenem Humor.Another most amazing diary of a 2nd hand book seller in Wigtown, the booktown in the Southwest of Scotland. Hows life in a bookish town, with strange customers, employees and a tomcat named Captain.
»Ich erzähle von zerbrochenen Ehen, gewaltsamen Trennungen, von Selbstmorden, Vertrauensverlust und von zerschnittenen Lebensfäden selbst der Entkommenen« (S. 15) damals wie heute.
»Drama« einer trauernden Oberklasse, dass sich alles so schrecklich verändert hat.English Summary
What an upper class drama, things have so much changed :-(
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