Johanna Adorján

"A powerful and affecting memoir––reminiscent of Sebald." —Phlipp Meyer, author of American Rust Chain-smoking, peculiarly stylish, stubborn, and eccentric—Vera and István were anything but ordinary grandparents. Sixteen years after their death, Johanna Adorján fills the gaps in their story. An Exclusive Love is a brilliantly constructed memoir and a gorgeous romance, a tale of two people who died as they lived: inseparable.

An Exclusive Love: A Memoir

Roman

Ciao

An Exclusive Love

Einige von vielen

Männer

One Sunday morning in October, István and his wife Vera start their day as usual. They tidy their house; Vera makes a festive cake to put in the freezer and cuts fresh roses for a vase in the living room. That evening, after nearly fifty years of marriage, they lie down in their bed and take their own lives. Having survived the tumult of twentieth-century Europe and after raising a family together, they could not accept the words 'until death do us part'. While sifting through the fragments of the family history in an attempt to understand this glamorous and enigmatic couple, their granddaughter Johanna Adorján imagines their final day. Amid the family stories and portraits by friends, she dares to give voice to their never-mentioned experiences in the Holocaust and their escape from Hungary during the uprising of 1956.

A Memoir

En alldeles särskild kärlek

En överförfriskad ung skådespelerska. En aggressiv yogalärare. En bortglömd filmlegendar. En driftig kultur­sidespraktikant. Två väninnor som troligtvis ses för sista gången. En osäker bästsäljarförfattare som försöker övertyga sin redaktör om kvaliteten i sin miserabla andra roman.↵↵Huvudpersonerna i novellsamlingen Mina 500 bästa vänner är ständigt upptagna med att framställa något, i bästa fall sig själva. I ett nutida Berlin befolkar de borden på de dyraste restaurangerna kväll efter kväll. Ibland, när allt stämmer, ligger det ett speciellt daller i luften - om än bara kort. De är fåfänga, förtvivlade, berusade av sig själva, krystade, rörande och löjliga. Med Mina 500 bästa vänner introduceras Adorján på svenska.

Noveller

Mina 500 bästa vänner

Ulrich Wilmes

Okwui Enwezor

Harald Szeemann

Manuel J. Borja-Villel

Pamela Kort

Danièle Cohn

Ulf Valde Jensen

The first major exhibition catalog on Jörg Immendorff (1945-2007) since his death, this volume offers a thematic overview of more than four decades of the artist's work, with more than 120 iconic paintings. For All Beloved in the World offers a thematic overview of the work of this German artist, whose identity is deeply enshrined in his home country's history and characterized by a post-war background. More than 120 works do not follow a strict chronology of the works; instead they present the key element in the development of Immendorff's oeuvre in chapters. They give a nuanced view of the artist's life and work and include some of the rarest loans, bringing together more than four decades of the artist's work united with iconic paintings. It was not until the end of the 1970s that Immendorff decided to shift his threefold existence as a political activist, teacher and painter to the side of art. The year 1976 was key in some respects; Immendorff participated in the Venice Biennale with a flyer campaign that attacked the 'deprivation of personal liberty' in the GDR and called for international artistic co-operation as a vehicle to overcome it; this was followed in 1978 by the beginning of his Café Deutschland series, inspired by Renato Guttuso's Café Greco, which Immendorff had seen in an exhibition in Cologne. With his work on the Café Deutschland series, Immendorff's painting became more expressive through his bold use of colour and gesture, thereby also freeing him of ideologically imbued emblematics. The process of change introduced here, with its formal and substantive opening-up, developed into the artist's last work phase, a visual-linguistic 'clearing' in the sense of a new pictorial energy and lightness, which Immendorff once described as a 'liberation blow'.

Fur alle lieben in der welt

Jorg immendorf

Eine exklusive Liebe

Johanna Adorján

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