Bøger af Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Tal og matematik. Nej tak! Det er slet ikke noget for mig. Sådan tænker bogens hovedperson, Robert. Men en nat drømmer han om Taldjævelen, der i løbet af 12 nætter fra gang til gang jonglerer med nye talrækker, og til slut har Robert - og læseren - et langt mere positivt forhold til matematikken. Roman for større børn.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger er ikke kendt for at strø om sig med interviews eller udtalelser om personlige forhold i det hele taget. Tværtimod. Derfor vakte det opsigt i Tyskland, da ”Tumult” udkom sidste efterår og det stod klart, at Enzensberger havde skrevet en selvbiografi. ”Tumult” er et resultat af, at Enzensberger i sin kælder fandt en kasse med gamle notater, der bl.a. omhandler hans besøg i Krustjovs feriehus i 1963. Turene til U.S.S.R. blev også anledningen til skilsmissen fra hans første kone, da han mødte den russiske forfatter Maria Makarova, som han forelskede sig i og senere giftede sig med. I "Tumult" møder den ældre Enzensberger møder sig selv, som han var for 50 år siden, og læseren får indblik i tidens (60’ernes) politiske landskab samt forfatterens holdning til den unge Enzensberger.

I Det tandløse monster i Bruxelles tager Hans Magnus Enzensberger læseren med på en rejse for at finde virkeligheden og sandheden om EU. Turen går til Bruxelles men også til Strasbourg og Luxembourg. Her hersker bureaukratiet og bureaukraterne enevældigt. I modsætning til andre skeptikere lader Enzensberger virkelighedens absurditeter komme til orde. Det har været hans metode siden gennembruddet med Forhøret i Havanna, 1971.Han lader agurkernes krumning, wc-kummernes design og porreforordningerne så at sige tale for sig selv.

A unique and modern approach to money, wealth, greed, and financial ignorance presented via a story of a family in the Munich suburbs. The Federmanns live a pleasant but painfully normal life in the Munich suburbs. All that the three children really know about money is that there's never enough of it in their family.   Every so often, their impish Great-Aunt Fé descends on the city. After repeated cycles of boom and bust, profligacy and poverty, the grand old lady has become enormously wealthy and lives alone in a villa on the shore of Lake Geneva. But what does Great-Aunt Fé want from the Federmanns, her only surviving relatives? This time, she invites the children to tea at her luxury hotel where she spoils, flummoxes, and inspires them. Dismayed at their ignorance of the financial ways of the world, she gives them a crash course in economics that piques their curiosity, unsettles their parents, and throws open a whole new world. The young Federmanns are for once taken seriously and together they try to answer burning questions: Where does money come from? Why are millionaires and billionaires never satisfied? And why are those with the most always showered with more?   In this rich volume, the renowned poet, translator, and essayist Hans Magnus Enzensberger turns his gimlet eye on the mechanisms and machinations of banks and politicians-the human greed, envy, and fear that fuels the global economy. A modern, but moral-less fable, Money, Money, Money! is shot through with Enzensberger's trademark erudition, wit, and humanist desire to cut through jargon and forearm his readers against obscurantism.

A unique portrait of a revolutionary movement that is largely unknown outside Spain. Northern Spain is the only part of Western Europe where anarchism played a significant role in the political life of the twentieth century. Enjoying wide-ranging support among both the urban and rural working class, its importance peaked during its "brief summer"-the civil war between the Republic and General Franco's Falangists, during which anarchists even participated in the government of Catalonia.  Anarchy's Brief Summer brings anarchism to life by focusing on the charismatic leader Buenaventura Durruti (1896-1936), who became a key figure in the Spanish Civil War after a militant and adventurous youth. The basis of the book is a compilation of texts: personal testimony, interviews with survivors, contemporary documents, memoirs, and academic assessments. They are all linked by Enzenberger's own assessment in a series of glosses-a literary form that is somewhere between retelling and reconstruction-with the contradiction between fiction and fact reflecting the political contradictions of the Spanish Revolution.

In 12 dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, encounters a sly, clever number devil who introduces him to the wonders of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, and numbers that expand without end.

In Civil Wars, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Germany's most astute literary and political critic, chronicles the global changes taking place as the result of evolving notions of nationalism, loyalty, and community. Enzensberger sees similar forces at work around the world, from America's racial uprisings in Los Angeles to the outright carnage in the former Yugoslavia. He argues that previous approaches to class or generational conflict have failed us, and that we are now confronted with an "autism of violence": a tendency toward self-destruction and collective madness.

One of Germany's greatest living writers offers up an analysis (and samples) of his failed projects. "My dear fellow artists, whether writers, actors, painters, film-makers, singers, sculptors, or composers, why are you so reluctant to talk about your minor or major failures?" With that question, Hans Magnus Enzensberger--the most senior among Germany's great writers--begins his amusing ruminations on his favorite projects that never saw the light of day. There is enlightenment in every embarrassing episode, he argues, and while artists tend to forget their successes quickly, the memory of a project that came to nothing stays in the mind for years, if not decades. Triumphs hold no lessons for us, but fiascos can extend our understanding, giving insight into the conditions of production, conventions, and practices of the industries concerned, and helping novices to assess the snares and minefields in the industry of their choice. What's more, Enzensberger argues, flops have a therapeutic effect: They can cure, or at least alleviate, the vocational illnesses of authors, be it the loss of control or megalomania. In Gone but Not Forgotten, Enzensberger looks back at his uncompleted experiments not just in the world of books but also in cinema, theater, opera, and journal publishing, and shares with us a "store of ideas" teeming with sketches of still-possible projects. He also reflects on the likely reasons for these big and small defeats. Interspersed among his ruminations are excerpts from those experiments, giving readers a taste of what we missed. Together, the pieces in this volume build a remarkable picture of a versatile genius's range of work over more than half a century and make us reflect on the very nature of success and failure by which we measure our lives.

Any new book by poet, essayist, writer, and translator Hans Magnus Enzensberger, one of the most influential and internationally renowned German intellectuals, is cause for notice, and Mr. Zed‿s Reflections is no exception. Every afternoon for almost a year, a plump man named Mr. Zed comes to the same spot in the city park and engages passersby with quick-witted repartee. Those who pass ask, who is this man? A wisecracker, a clown, a belligerent philosopher? Many shake their heads and move on; others listen to him, engage with him, and, again and again, end up at the same place. He doesn‿t write anything down, but his listeners often take notes. With subversive energy and masterful brevity, Mr. Zed undermines arrogance, megalomania, and false authority. A determined speaker who doesn‿t care for ambitions, he forces topics that others would rather keep to themselves. Reluctant to trust institutions and seeing absolutely nothing as “non-negotiable,â€? he admits mistakes and does away with judgment.  He is no mere ventriloquist dummy for his creator‿he is too stubborn for that. And at the end of the season, when it becomes too cold and uncomfortable in the park, he disappears, never to be seen again. Collected in this thought-provoking and unique work are the considerations and provocations of this squat, park-bench philosopher, giving us a volume of truths and conversations that are clear-cut, skeptical, and fiercely illuminating.

The international best-seller that makes mathematics a thrilling explorationIn twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who leads him to discover the amazing world of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, numbers that magically appear in triangles, and numbers that expand without . As we dream with him, we are taken further and further into mathematical theory, where ideas eventually take flight, until everyone-from those who fumble over fractions to those who solve complex equations in their heads-winds up marveling at what numbers can do.Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a true polymath, the kind of superb intellectual who loves thinking and marshals all of his charm and wit to share his passions with the world. In The Number Devil, he brings together the surreal logic of Alice in Wonderland and the existential geometry of Flatland with the kind of math everyone would love, if only they had a number devil to teach it to them.

A unique and modern approach to money, wealth, greed, and financial ignorance presented via a story of a family in the Munich suburbs. The Federmanns live a pleasant but painfully normal life in the Munich suburbs. All that the three children really know about money is that there‿s never enough of it in their family.   Every so often, their impish Great-Aunt Fé descends on the city. After repeated cycles of boom and bust, profligacy and poverty, the grand old lady has become enormously wealthy and lives alone in a villa on the shore of Lake Geneva. But what does Great-Aunt Fé want from the Federmanns, her only surviving relatives? This time, she invites the children to tea at her luxury hotel where she spoils, flummoxes, and inspires them. Dismayed at their ignorance of the financial ways of the world, she gives them a crash course in economics that piques their curiosity, unsettles their parents, and throws open a whole new world. The young Federmanns are for once taken seriously and together they try to answer burning questions: Where does money come from? Why are millionaires and billionaires never satisfied? And why are those with the most always showered with more?   In this rich volume, the renowned poet, translator, and essayist Hans Magnus Enzensberger turns his gimlet eye on the mechanisms and machinations of banks and politicians‿the human greed, envy, and fear that fuels the global economy. A modern, but moral-less fable, Money, Money, Money! is shot through with Enzensberger‿s trademark erudition, wit, and humanist desire to cut through jargon and forearm his readers against obscurantism. Â

Presents a blend of documentary, collage, narration, and fictional interviews. This title offers an account of German General Kurt von Hammerstein whose acquiescence to Nazism consolidated Hitler's power - and of the heroic few who refused to share in the spoils.

Celebrates the tenacity of the normal and routine in everyday life, where the survival of the objects we use without thinking - a pair of scissors, perhaps - is both a small, human victory and a quiet reminder of our own ephemeral nature.

An account of the life and death of Buenaventura Durruti, a Spanish Civil War leader, that turns his life into a larger story of revolution, commitment, and failed struggles for freedom.

En dag, da Robert sidder alene i køkkenet og ser fjernsyn, sker der noget mærkeligt. Han gnider sig i øjnene, billedet på skærmen flyder ud, og pludselig befinder han sig i billedets virkelighed, på et fremmed sted i en anden tid. Han er i Sibirien i 1956 i bidende kulde og søger tilflugt på et apotek, hvor han træffer Olga, som hjælper ham. Men Robert ender alligevel i et russisk fængsel, fordi myndighederne tror, han er amerikansk spion. Efter Rusland havner han i det varme Australien i 1946. Her møder han Carolin, som bliver hans første kærlighed. Senere bliver han page i et fyrstendømme og forelsket i en prinsesse. - Syv gange i alt springer Robert fra en tid til en anden, men hvordan kan han vende tilbage til sin egen tid? Roman for større børn.

With subversive energy and masterful brevity, Mr Zed undermines arrogance, megalomania, and false authority. A determined speaker who doesn't care for ambitions, he forces topics that others would rather keep to themselves. This work collects the considerations and provocations of this squat park-bench philosopher.

Expanded dual language edition of Germany's most important poet, adding work from his later collections Kiosk, Lighter Than Air and A History of Clouds to his earlier Bloodaxe Selected Poems. The translations are by Enzensberger himself and by Michael Hamburger, David Constantine and Esther Kinsky.

The inner workings of the European Union are as much a mystery to those living within its confines as they are to those of us who reside elsewhere. This title intends to make sense of the EU's political and economic roles and examine the EU's origins and inherent contradictions.

An international best-seller that does for maths what Sophie's World did for philosophy.

Med sin sædvanlige virtuositet bevæger Enzensberger sig i disse digte rundt i modsætninger og paradokser, fra det nære og private til det fjerne, store, almene. "Enzensbergers digte er en tankepoesi, der søger ord for alt og til sidst også finder ord for det, ord ikke kan sige ... Han kan med al sin appetit på at fatte få det ufattelige med i sin poesi." - Politiken. "Samlingen er stimulerende, ikke blot intellektuelt, men også elementært menneskeligt, fordi den ... skriver smertelige erfaringer frem i suveræn kunstnerisk form." - Jyllands-Posten.