Despite his status as the most despised political figure in
history, there have only been four serious biographies of Hitler
since the 1930s. Even more surprisingly, his biographers have been
more interested in his rise to power and his methods of leadership
than in Hitler the person: some have even declared that the Fuhrer
had no private life. Yet to render Hitler as a political animal
with no personality to speak of, as a man of limited intelligence
and poor social skills, fails to explain the spell that he cast not
only on those close to him but on the German people as a whole. In
the first volume of this monumental biography, Volker Ullrich sets
out to correct our perception of the Fuhrer. While charting in
detail Hitler's life from his childhood to the eve of the Second
World War against the politics of the times, Ullrich unveils the
man behind the public persona: his charming and repulsive traits,
his talents and weaknesses, his deep-seated insecurities and
murderous passions. Drawing on a wealth of previously neglected or
unavailable sources, this magisterial study provides the most
rounded portrait of Hitler to date. Ullrich renders the Fuhrer not
as a psychopath but as a master of seduction and guile - and it is
perhaps the complexity of his character that explains his enigmatic
grip on the German people more convincingly than the cliched image
of the monster. This definitive biography will forever change the
way we look at the man who took the world into the abyss.
V januári 1965 Gabriel García Márquez cestoval s rodinou na
dovolenku do Acapulca, keď odrazu dostal nápad. Začul vravu
mestečka Macondo. Už vedel, ako napíše svoj nový román. Vrátil sa
domov, zatvoril sa do pracovne, a keď z nej po osemnástich
mesiacoch vyšiel, v ruke držal 1 300 strán rukopisu a bol šťastný.
Román Sto rokov samoty prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1967, Márquez mal
vtedy 39 rokov a svet si navždy zapamätal jeho meno. Dnes je román
považovaný za jedno z najvýznamnejších diel latinskoamerickej a
svetovej literatúry. Je komponovaný z množstva reálnych aj
fantazijných epizód a rozpráva o pôvabných i krutých príhodách
šiestich generácií rodiny Buendíovcov z fiktívneho mestečka
Macondo.
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