The Bitter Taste of Victory: Life, Love, and Art in the Ruins of the Reich - Couverture rigide

Feigel, Lara

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1632865513 ISBN 13 : 9781632865519

Editeur : Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2016

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

I am a literary critic and cultural historian teaching in the English department at King’s College London. I am fascinated by the relationship between life, literature and history and in my books I attempt to find new ways of writing that can allow the three to intertwine. My most recent book The Bitter Taste of Victory is an account of the experiences of twenty of the British and American cultural figures sent in to Germany after the war. Before that I wrote The Love-charm of Bombs, which is about five writers in London in the Second World War. Both these books move fluidly between cultural and political history, collective biography and literary criticism while also attempting to create a narrative that unfolds with drama and suspense. Both books are set in war zones and I am intrigued by the way that war acts as a catalyst in transforming lives and creating art. I grew up in London and studied English at Oxford University, going on to do an MA at University College London and a PhD at the University of Sussex. I have been teaching at King’s since 2008 and all my books have been in part the result of conversations with colleagues and students in the English department and the School of Arts and Humanities. Since 2013, I have been the recipient of a generous European Research Council Starting Grant, which has brought a team of researchers into King’s for a project about culture in postwar Germany called Beyond Enemy Lines. I am also the beneficiary of an immensely supportive Philip Leverhulme Prize, awarded by the Leverhulme trust. At King’s I co-direct the Centre for Modern Literature and Culture and run the Ivan Juritz Prize, which celebrates creative experiment in all art forms. I review regularly for various publications (most frequently the Guardian and the Observer), have judged the Biographers’ Club Tony Lothian Prize and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize panel and am pleased to be judging the Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism in 2017. I live in West Hampstead with my husband and four-year-old son. I write at the London Library and in cottages by the sea, often in Norfolk and Suffolk.

Présentation de l'éditeur

A stunning cultural history of post-war occupied Germany from the critically acclaimed author of The Love-charm of Bombs

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1632865513
• ISBN 13: 9781632865519
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 443
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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