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Baltic Souls

remarkable life stories from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

Af: Jan Brokken & David Doherty
Kategori: Biography
Kategori nr.: 9030
Varenr.: 3281531
| Stregkode: 9781957363943
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A monumental journey through Baltic history and culture, in which we encounter well-known personalities and forgotten ones, and a disconcerting picture of Europe in the twentieth century. From 1999 to 2010, Jan Brokken explored life stories in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The result was his masterly Baltic Souls, available here for the first time in English. Brokken uncovered the stories of famous artists and writers such as Mark Rothko, Sergei Eisenstein, Hannah Arendt, and Jacques Lipchitz, who were all born in the regions bordering the Baltic Sea before leaving to build their work abroad, spreading a bit of the Baltic soul across Europe and America. Less well known were the stories of people such as the Rozes and their family bookstore in Riga, or the von Wrangels, the ultimate descendants of the Baltic barons. Or the story of the titanic struggle that violist Gidon Kremer fought with his father in Riga, who was burdened by the death of thirty-five family members in concentration camps. Or the story of Loreta Asanavičiūtė, who was run over by a Russian tank in 1991. It is this melancholy imbued with fatalism, this vitality forged by the upheavals of history, this appetite for reading, music, and art, that enriches the portraits painted by Jan Brokken. Conducted in the style of a travel diary where chance encounters and biographical sketches mingle, Baltic Souls makes us feel the cruelty and violence of an era, but also the tenderness and solidarity of an entire people, united across borders.

Detaljer

  • EAN
    9781957363943
  • Vægt
    436 g
  • Disponent
    Direkte titel
  • Forfatter
    Jan Brokken, David Doherty
  • Forlag
    Scribble
  • ISBN
    9781957363943
  • Sprog
    Engelsk
  • Sideantal
    432
  • Udgivelsesdato
  • Format
    PAPERBACK
  • Themakode
    DNBF, BGF, DNBH, DNBZ, DNXP, NHTB, BGH, BK, BTP, HBTB, 1DV
  • Kategori
    Biography
  • Kategori nr
    9030
  • Lev. varenr.
    1501
  • Højde/Dybde (mm)
    216 mm
  • Bredde (mm)
    134 mm
  • Længde (mm)
    36 mm