Winnie and Wolf
(Sprache: Englisch)
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2007
'An outstanding novel, brilliantly imaginative and hypnotically readable'
Selina Hastings, Books of the Year, Sunday Telegraph
'An outstanding novel, brilliantly imaginative and hypnotically readable'
Selina Hastings, Books of the Year, Sunday Telegraph
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Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2007
'An outstanding novel, brilliantly imaginative and hypnotically readable'
Selina Hastings, Books of the Year, Sunday Telegraph
'An outstanding novel, brilliantly imaginative and hypnotically readable'
Selina Hastings, Books of the Year, Sunday Telegraph
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Winnie and Wolf is the story of the extraordinary relationship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler that took place during the years 1923-40, as seen through the eyes of the secretary at the Wagner house in Bayreuth. Winifred, an English girl, brought up in an orphanage in East Grinstead, married at the age of eighteen to the son of Germany's most controversial genius, is a passionate Germanophile, a Wagnerian dreamer, a Teutonic patriot.
In the debacle of the post-Versailles world, the Wagner family hope for the coming, not of a warrior, a fearless Siegfried, but of a Parsifal, a mystic idealist, a redeemer-figure. In 1923, they meet their Parsifal - a wild-eyed Viennese opera-fanatic in a trilby hat, a mac and a badly fitting suit. Hitler has already made a name for himself in some sections of German society through rabble-rousing and street corner speeches. It is Winifred, though, who believes she can really see his poetry. Almost at once they drop formalities and call one another 'Du' rather than 'Sie'. She is Winnie and he is Wolf.
Like Winnie, Hitler was an outsider. Like her, he was haunted by the impossibility of reconciling the pursuit of love and the pursuit of power; the ultimate inevitability, if you pursued power, of destruction. Both had known the humiliations of poverty. Both felt angry and excluded by society. Both found each other in an unusual kinship that expressed itself through a love of opera.
Autoren-Porträt von A. N. Wilson
A.N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is an award-winning biographer and a celebrated novelist, winning prizes for much of his work. He lives in North London.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: A. N. Wilson
- 2008, 368 Seiten, Maße: 13,2 x 2,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Arrow Books
- ISBN-10: 0099492474
- ISBN-13: 9780099492474
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.06.2008
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Englisch
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A subtle and captivating fiction The Times
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