New Releases by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

The international best-seller that makes mathematics a thrilling exploration In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who leads him to discover the amazing world of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, numbers that magically appear in triangles, and numbers that expand without . As we dream with him, we are taken further and further into mathematical theory, where ideas eventually take flight, until everyone-from those who fumble over fractions to those who solve complex equations in their heads-winds up marveling at what numbers can do. Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a true polymath, the kind of superb intellectual who loves thinking and marshals all of his charm and wit to share his passions with the world. In The Number Devil, he brings together the surreal logic of Alice in Wonderland and the existential geometry of Flatland with the kind of math everyone would love, if only they had a number devil to teach it to them.

A German teenager begins to lose his identity and any hope of returning to the present when his time-traveling journeys take him further and further into the past.

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

Poems drawn from six volumes of the work of Germany''s most important and influential living poet.

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.

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.

"Seit einem Jahrzehnt hat Hans Magnus Enzensberger kein neues Gedichtbuch veröffentlicht. Diese Zurückhaltung mag daran liegen, daß die Wiederholung nicht seine Sache ist. Die mehr als fünfzig neuen Texte, die er hier vorlegt, setzen also nicht nur ein poetisches Programm fort, das mit seinem ersten Auftritt 1957 glänzend begonnen hat; sie betreten ein ungesichertes und ziemlich herrenloses Gelände. Das politische Pathos der Verteidigung der Wölfe ist dem Pathos der Distanz gewichen. Die neuen Gedichte sprechen mit der gleichen Selbstverständlichkeit und im selben Tonfall von alten Ehepaaren und von Weltuntergängen, von chinesischen Akrobaten und von den Geheimnissen des Kehlkopfs. Insofern sind sie nicht aktuell. Enzensberger hat sich gelegentlich über Dichter gewundert, denen die Dummheit als Inspirationsquelle dient. Scharfsinn, behauptet er, sei kein literarisches Verbrechen; im Gegenteil, die Sinnlichkeit der Sprache gehe am liebsten mit der Intelligenz ins Bett. Ob es um die Paradoxien unserer Wahrnehmung geht oder um das Los zweier alter Verkäuferinnen in einem Eisenwarenladen, um den politischen Terror oder um die rätselhafte Zeichnung einer Wanderdüne: die Poesie ist nicht nur, wie Novalis sagt, eine »Gemütserregungskunst«, sie kann auch das Denken beschäftigen. Die Höhenräusche der Mathematik gehen ihr ebenso unter die Haut wie die Niederlagen des Alltags. In manchen dieser Gedichte, wo die Luft dünner wird, herrscht eine eigentümliche Spannung. Aber die Mühelosigkeit, mit der sie zwischen dem Trivialen und dem Erhabenen vermitteln, täuscht. Denn mit einem plötzlichen Sprung stürzt das intellektuelle Spiel in die Evidenz ab, und die philosophische These sieht sich mit ein paar lakonischen Worten sabotiert..."

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.

Nicht aus der politischen Zentralperspektive der Macht, sondern von den Rändern her eröffnet Enzensherger unseren Blick auf ein »Europa der Wünsche«, das seine Zukunft vielleicht noch nicht hinter sich hat. In seinem Epilog, einer imaginären Reportage aus dem Jahre 2006, entwirft Enzensherger eine ironische Utopie: das Bild einer Halbinsel, die »von der Differenz« lebt und die nicht abdanken will.

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.