New Releases by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

In twaalf nachten droomt Robert over de telduivel die hem allerlei begrippen uit de wiskunde duidelijk maakt. Vanaf ca. 11 jaar.

This bilingual (German/English) edition of the talk given at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin, 1998, with illustrations by K. H. Hofmann and an introduction by David Mumford, discusses the role of mathematics within our culture.

Despues del exito obtenido con su anterior libro, El diablo de los numeros, el escritor aleman Hans Magnuest Enzensberger vuelve a sorprendernos con Donde has estado, Robert?, un viaje por el tiempo y la historia gracias a las imagenes. A Robert, el joven protagonista, le basta ver una imagen - ya sea en la television, en el cine, en un cuadro o en una fotografia - para introducirse en la escena que contempla. Es asi como el lector viajara por distintos paises y epocas: la Alemania nazi, la guerra de los Treinta Anos o la revolucion rusa seran escenarios de estos siete viajes, de estas siete aventuras diferentes que nos haran entender que detras de cada imagen existe una historia, un mundo, una epoca, y que el deber de cada uno es preguntarse sobre su significado.

I 12 drømme møder den 11-årige Robert den arrige Taldjævel, som lærer ham meget om tal og matematiske begreber. Det giver ham mange oplevelser og et nyt syn på matematikken.

A Robert no le gustan las Matemáticas, como sucede a muchas personas, porque no las acaba de entender. Pero una noche él sueña con un diablillo que pretende iniciarle en la ciencia de los números. Naturalmente, Robert piensa que es otra de sus frecuentes pesadillas, pero en realidad es el comienzo de un recorrido nuevo y apasionante a través del mundo de las Matemáticas. ¿No es extraño hallar siempre secuencias numéricas por la simple multiplicación de los unos: 1 x 1 = 1, 11 x 11 = 121, 111111 x 111111 = 12345654321, y así en adelante? Y esto es sólo la operación más sencilla. Durante doce noches, Robert sueña sistemas numéricos cada vez más increíbles. De pronto, los números cobran vida por sí mismos, una vida misteriosa que ni siquiera el diablo puede explicar del todo. Nunca las Matemáticas habían sido algo tan fascinante. Pronto, el diablo le hará abandonar los tópicos escolares y hará que acceda a niveles superiores: ¡y aun así los entiende! Y el joven lector también. Los números, cada página que pasa, se van volviendo cada vez más absorbentes. Es como magia, y Robert quiere saber más y más hasta que, al fin, el diablo le hace comprender que algunos problemas y paradojas pertenecen a las altas esferas de la ciencia.

The international bestseller turns numbers into ideas and ideas into adventures. Enzensberger brings together the surreal logic of "Alice in Wonderland" with the kind of math everyone would love, if only they had a number devil to teach it to them. Full color.

As well as being Germany's most important poet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a provocative cultural essayist and one of Europe's leading political thinkers. No British poet can match him in his range of interests and his moral passion. Born in 1929 in Bavaria, he grew up in Nazi Nuremberg. His poetry's social and moral criticism of the post-war world owes much to Marxism, yet insists on the freedoms which often denied by Communist governments: like Orwell he maintains that satire and criticism should not be party-political. In 1994 he published his Selected Poems with Bloodaxe and his essays on new world disorder, Civil War, with Granta. In Kiosk, his subsequent collection, he draws on his wide knowledge of the scientific and technical developments of the last half-century, yet comes out on the other side of extreme scepticism, on the side of poetry and poetry's 'negative capability', a kind of unknowing. Though never a confessional poet, he has won through to the freedom to draw on intimate experience too. However disillusioned now about public issues, he remains a poet of defiance, as intelligent, compassionate and trenchant as ever. Kiosk was followed in 2002 by Lighter than Air. His bilingual New Selected Poems was published by Bloodaxe in 2015.

In "Civil Wars," Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Germany's most astute literary and political critic, chronicles the global changes taking place as the result of evolving notions of nationalism, loyalty, and community. Enzensberger sees similar forces at work around the world, from America's racial uprisings in Los Angeles to the outright carnage in the former Yugoslavia. He argues that previous approaches to class or generational conflict have failed us, and that we are now confronted with an "autism of violence" a tendency toward self-destruction and collective madness.

Chronicles the adventures of Prince Esterhazy, a rabbit who goes to Berlin to find a bride and witnesses the destruction of the Berlin Wall.

Essays cover Eurocentrism, democracy in modern Germany, economic policies, and socialism.

This is a record of an extraordinary journey around Europe, made by a poet and essayist who went to countries outside the stream of modern history. He takes the reader beyond stereotypes and headlines to nations that refuse to conform to the main political trends of East or West.

Bespiegelingen over het wezen van de Europese cultuur in de nabije toekomst.

Nesta espécie de romance-reportagem, Hans Magnus Enzensberger parte do pressuposto de que não é possível ter uma visão unilateral da história e de que ela é, na verdade, uma 'ficção coletiva'. Entre a pesquisa histórica e a ficção, o texto teórico e o romance, 'O curto verão da anarquia' conta a história da Guerra Civil Espanhola e faz um estudo biográfico do anarquista Buenaventura Durruti, uma das mais singulares personalidades do conflito. O livro é constituído de entrevistas, panfletos, discursos, artigos de revistas e jornais - enfim, de narrativas esparsas e até mesmo contraditórias.