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Während der letzten achtzehn Monate seines Lebens, im Angesicht des drohenden Todes und zutiefst erschüttert über den kürzlichen Verlust seiner Mutter Ella stieß Richard Wright, einer der bedeutendsten afroamerikanischen Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts, im europäischen Exil durch Zufall auf die Form des Haiku. Waren es zuvor vorrangig Romane, in denen er Momente Schwarzen Lebens kraftvoll in Szene setzte, begann er nun wie besessen, im Bett, in Cafés, in Restaurants, in Paris und auf dem französischen Land jene aus drei Wortgruppen von fünf, sieben und fünf Silben bestehende japanische Gedichtform zu füllen – nicht nur mit der Darstellung menschlicher Beziehungen oder seiner eigenen Krankheit, auch die Welt der Natur in all ihrer Vielfalt fing er in mehr als 4000 Haikus ein. Von der Unmittelbarkeit des Augenblicks durchdrungen, dabei stets vor der Folie der Erfahrungen als Afroamerikaner in einem von Rassismus geprägten Land, spann er Gedichte des Lichts aus der zunehmenden Dunkelheit – und schuf mit den 817 hier erstmals ins Deutsche übertragenen Gedichten ein so schillerndes wie zärtliches Bild des Lebens in all seinen Wirrungen und Wundern.

A master chronicler of the African-American experience, Richard Wright brilliantly expanded his literary horizons with Pagan Spain, originally published in 1957. The Spain he visited in the mid-twentieth century was not the romantic locale of song and story, but a place of tragic beauty and dangerous contradictions. The portrait he offers is a blistering, powerful, yet scrupulously honest depiction of a land and people in turmoil, caught in the strangling dual grip of cruel dictatorship and what Wright saw as an undercurrent of primitive faith. An amalgam of expert travel reportage, dramatic monologue, and arresting sociological critique, Pagan Spain serves as a pointed and still-relevant commentary on the grave human dangers of oppression and governmental corruption.

A graduated intermediate reader of biblical Koine Greek with selections from the New Testament, the Septuagint, and noncanonical early Christian writings.This intermediate reader is for students, clergy, and scholars who have completed at least one year of Greek instruction and want to build reading proficiency. Through twenty-nine texts from the New Testament, the Septuagint, and noncanonical early Christian writings, readers will be exposed to a variety of different genres and authors while still being given enough content from each author to become acquainted with that author’s individual style. Notes within each selection gloss low-frequency words and clarify syntactical intricacies, and each new section of texts gradually increases in its level of difficulty, so that lessons can be worked through sequentially or as stand-alone exercises, as needed.Wright’s selections are all texts that Christians in the fourth century CE would have read, with intertextual connections between them that will stimulate discussion and reflection on the development of important ideas in the early church. Thus, this useful resource encourages progress both in Koine reading proficiency and in knowledge of Christian tradition.

Erstmals in ungekürzter Form: Der wiederentdeckte Roman von einem der bedeutendsten afroamerikanischen Autoren der USA. Es scheint ein Samstagabend wie jeder andere zu sein: Der schwarze Arbeiter Fred Daniels ist auf dem Weg nach Hause zu seiner hochschwangeren Frau, den Wochenlohn in der Hosentasche. Völlig unvermittelt halten ihn drei Polizisten an und verhaften ihn. Fred geht anfänglich noch von einem Missverständnis aus, aber als man ihn des Doppelmordes beschuldigt, ahnt er, in was für einen Albtraum er geraten ist. Schläge, Kreuzverhör, psychische Manipulation entfremden ihn von der Welt und der Realität: Er unterschreibt ein Geständnis, das ihm in einem schwachen Moment und unter falschen Versprechungen vorgelegt wird. So bleibt ihm nur die Flucht in den Untergrund – in das dunkle, nasse Labyrinth der Kanalisation.

The 'propulsive, haunting' and 'gripping' (Oprah) rediscovered classic that exposes the dark heart of America for an inncocent Black man on the run from the police Fred Daniels, a black man, is picked up randomly by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago neighbourhood and taken to the local precinct where he is tortured until he confesses to a crime he didn't commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from the precinct and takes up residence in the sewers below the streets of Chicago. This is the simple, horrible premise of Richard Wright's scorching novel, The Man Who Lived Underground, a masterpiece written in the same period as his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945) that he was unable to publish in his lifetime. Now, for the first time, this incendiary novel about race and violence in America, the work that meant more to Wright than any other ('I have never written anything in my life that stemmed more from sheer inspiration'), is published in full, in the form that he intended.

This deluxe boxed set presents Richard Wright's landmark works in their definitive edition, showcasing them as he originally intended. It offers readers a comprehensive and authentic experience of his influential writings, emphasizing their significance in American literature.

"Wright presents a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself, a man who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes. As Maryemma Graham writes in her Introduction to this edition, with its restored text established by the Library of America, "The Outsider is Richard Wright's second installment in a story of epic proportions, a complex master narrative designed to show American racism in raw and ugly terms ... The stories of Bigger Thomas ... and Cross Damon bear an uncanny resemblance to many contemporary cases of street crime and violence. There is also a prophetic note in Wright's construction of the criminal mind as intelligent, introspective, and transformative." In addition to the Introduction by Maryemma Graham, this edition includes a notes section by Arnold Rampersad."

'All eight men and all eight stories stand as beautifully, pitifully, terribly true... Here are Richard Wright's stories of eight men - black men, living at violent odds with the white world around them.

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In a small town in Canada, Clara Callan reluctantly takes leave of her sister, Nora, who is bound for New York. It's a time when the growing threat of fascism in Europe is a constant worry, and people escape from reality through radio and the movies. Meanwhile, the two sisters -- vastly different in personality, yet inextricably linked by a shared past -- try to find their places within the complex web of social expectations for young women in the 1930s.While Nora embarks on a glamorous career as a radio-soap opera star, Clara, a strong and independent-minded woman, struggles to observe the traditional boundaries of a small and tight-knit community without relinquishing her dreams of love, freedom, and adventure. However, things aren't as simple as they appear -- Nora's letters eventually reveal life in the big city is less exotic than it seems, and the tranquil solitude of Clara's life is shattered by a series of unforeseeable events. These twists of fate require all of Clara's courage and strength, and finally put the seemingly unbreakable bond between the sisters to the test.