Endpapers: a family story of books, war, escape, and home
"A literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin, Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author's grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed "perhaps the twentieth century's most discriminating publisher" by the...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "A literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin, Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author's grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed "perhaps the twentieth century's most discriminating publisher" by the New York Times Book Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II before coming to America. Kurt Wolff was born in Bonn into a highly cultured German-Jewish family, whose ancestors included converts to Christianity, among them Baron Moritz von Haber, who became famous for participating in a duel that led to bloody antisemitic riots. Always bookish, Kurt became a publisher at twenty-three, setting up his own firm and publishing Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Karl Kraus, and many other authors whose books would soon be burned by the Nazis. Fleeing Germany in 1933, a day after the Reichstag fire, Kurt and his second wife, Helen, sought refuge in France, Italy, and ultimately New York, where in a small Greenwich Village apartment they founded Pantheon Books. Pantheon would soon take its own place in literary history with the publication of Nobel laureate Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago, and as the conduit that brought major European works to the States. But Kurt's taciturn son Niko, offspring of his first marriage to Elisabeth Merck, was left behind in Germany, where despite his Jewish heritage he served the Nazis on two fronts. As Alexander Wolff visits dusty archives and meets distant relatives, he discovers secrets that never made it to the land of fresh starts, including the connection between Hitler and the family pharmaceutical firm E. Merck, and the story of a half-brother Niko never knew. With surprising revelations from never-before-published family letters, diaries, and photographs, Endpapers is a moving and intimate family story, weaving a literary tapestry of the perils, triumphs, and secrets of history and exile"-- |
| Beschreibung: | xiv, 376 Seiten Illustrationen, Porträts |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS Prologue xiii Introduction 1 One: Bildung and Books 10 Two: Done with the War 32 Three: Technical Boy and the Deposed Sovereign 53 Four: Mediterranean Refuge 78 Five: Surrender on Demand 91 Six: Into a Dark Room 113 Seven: A Debt for Rescue 128 Eight: An End with Horror 138 Nine: Blood and Shame 151 Ten: Chain Migration 182 Eleven: Late Evening 189 Twelve: Second Exile 208 Thirteen: Schweinenest 220 Fourteen: Turtle Bay 233
IX CONTENTS Fifteen: Mr. Bitte Nicht Ansprechen 241 Sixteen: Shallow Draft 253 Seventeen: Play on the Bones of the Dead 271 Eighteen: The End, Come by Itself 295 Epilogue 303 Acknowledgments and Sources 309 Bibliography 317 Image Credits 327 Notes 329 Index 365
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CONTENTS Prologue xiii Introduction 1 One: Bildung and Books 10 Two: Done with the War 32 Three: Technical Boy and the Deposed Sovereign 53 Four: Mediterranean Refuge 78 Five: Surrender on Demand 91 Six: Into a Dark Room 113 Seven: A Debt for Rescue 128 Eight: An End with Horror 138 Nine: Blood and Shame 151 Ten: Chain Migration 182 Eleven: Late Evening 189 Twelve: Second Exile 208 Thirteen: Schweinenest 220 Fourteen: Turtle Bay 233
IX CONTENTS Fifteen: Mr. Bitte Nicht Ansprechen 241 Sixteen: Shallow Draft 253 Seventeen: Play on the Bones of the Dead 271 Eighteen: The End, Come by Itself 295 Epilogue 303 Acknowledgments and Sources 309 Bibliography 317 Image Credits 327 Notes 329 Index 365 |
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