author of himself: the life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]The author of himself: the life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number920/0137
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]05145
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Princeton, New Jersey, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Princeton University Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
1999
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]407p.,index
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Book
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]0691090408
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
Reich-Ranicki, one of Germany's foremost contemporary literary critics was born in Poland in 1920 and moved to Berlin as a boy and was later with his family was deported to the Warsaw ghetto. The main thread of the autobiography is the author's complex relationship to Germany in general and the German language in particular