Login

 


 
     
Limit to available items
Record:   Prev Next
book jacket
BOOK
Title Strange bird : the Albatross Press and the Third Reich / Michele K. Troy
Imprint New Haven : London : Yale University Press, cop. 2017

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Malmö stadsarkiv:Dawit Isaak-magasinet  070.5 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript 423 p. ill
Series New directions in narrative history
Note The first book about Albatross Press, a Penguin precursor that entered into an uneasy relationship with the Nazi regime to keep Anglo-American literature alive under fascism The Albatross Press was, from its beginnings in 1932, a "strange bird": a cultural outsider to the Third Reich but an economic insider. It was funded by British-Jewish interests. Its director was rumored to work for British intelligence. A precursor to Penguin, it distributed both middlebrow fiction and works by edgier modernist authors such as D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway to eager continental readers. Yet Albatross printed and sold its paperbacks in English from the heart of Hitler's Reich. In her original and skillfully researched history, Michele K. Troy reveals how the Nazi regime tolerated Albatross-for both economic and propaganda gains-and how Albatross exploited its insider position to keep Anglo-American books alive under fascism. In so doing, Troy exposes the contradictions in Nazi censorship while offering an engaging detective story, a history, a nuanced analysis of men and motives, and a cautionary tale
Subject Dawit Isaak-biblioteket
Albatross Verlag
1900-talet
Bokförlag -- historia
Tyskland
Classmark 070.509430904
Ad
ISBN/ISSN 9780300215687 inbunden
0300215681
Record:   Prev Next