Isolde Kurz: A Cultural Anthology

by Isolde Kurz, Becca Menon (Translator)

Overview

What do you get when you cross a radical pacific, vegetarian, education-minded noble-woman with a with a Romantic-Realist, depressive-humorist, Nationalist German writer?
Anti-fascist fiction from a Nazi Collaborator, goofy Swabian Folk Tales, and more.
The complicated life and marvelous literary legacy of a woman of two centuries.
Isolde Kurz (1853-1944) wrote delightful stories, memoirs, fairy tales and poetry – and German readers of her time could not get enough of them. Daughter of Hermann Kurz, a famous writer, she was widely admired for her versatility and erudition.
Isolde was an unabashed patriot who lived through tremendous upheavals in history while maintaining her fundamentally humanistic and compassionate outlook on the world.
Dig into this collection to discover her craft, her wit and her wiles.
Plus: at no extra charge, a bite-sized history of Europe from Napoleon to Hitler.
Illustrated.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164243517
Publisher:	Becca Menon
Publication date:	09/07/2020
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Isolde Kurz (1853-1944) was a popular, prolific and erudite German writer renowned for her fine style in all genres. She became dazzled by visions of Hitler’s Germany as a new Holy Roman Empire. The Nazis in turn fêted the writer. In her 19th century youth, nationalism had been, as it currently is in many places, liberty’s darling. She did come to distance herself from the fascists as time went on, expressing disdain for their life-negating materialism, and signing a manifesto against nationalist excesses, militarism and antisemitism.

Known for her musical storytelling craft, Becca Menon’s works, often based in fairy tale, folklore, myth and Scripture, have been hailed internationally from the Middle East to the United Kingdom. On the other hand, this American writer began her professional life as a preschool teacher. Good thing that left its mark, too. Come listen to readings and discover other mischief at www.BeccaBooks.com.