Tom Reiss: 3 books
The Orientalist
Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany.
Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge...
The Black Count
Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography)
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
WINNER OF THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY
General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar**—**because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The...
Kafka, Murakami und das suspendierte Dritte
Eine Semiotik des Phantastischen
Language: German
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Die zahlreichen literarischen Verknüpfungen zwischen den Werken Franz Kafkas und Haruki Murakamis, denen sich diese semiotische Abhandlung widmet, haben bisher in der internationalen Forschung kaum Beachtung gefunden. Dabei zeigt sich im Zwischenspiel der phantastischen Erzählungen Kafkas und Murakamis...