Author: Anneke

Udo Breger – Extraterritorial (Zeiten mit Carl Laszlo)

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Carl Laszlo, Auschwitz survivor, art collector and art dealer with Hungarian roots, and German author and translator Udo Breger, born during World War II with close ties to key figures of the Beat Generation, meet in Basel in the late 1970s and early 1980s. One hopes to establish personal contact with William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Allen Ginsberg, while the other turns out to be a mediator who, against the backdrop of…
€ 17.50

Ed van der Elsken – Bagara

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Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) was born in Amsterdam, where he was trained as a stonecutter and sculptor until 1944. Inspired by the photojournalistic Picture Post and Weegee’s Naked City he shifted his interest from sculpting to photography in the late 1940s. When he tried his luck Paris in 1950, he took up a job…
€ 75.00

Albert Ehrenstein – Suffering

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sold outAlbert Ehrenstein was born to Hungarian parents in Vienna in 1886. Despite his poor Jewish working-class background he was admitted to the renowned Piaristengymnasium and was able to study History, Geography and Art History at the University of Vienna. After having written his History thesis in 1910, he focused on a literary career, an ambition that had developed during his years…

New arrival from Moloko+: Udo Breger – Extraterritorial

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Carl Laszlo, Auschwitz survivor, art collector and art dealer with Hungarian roots, and German author and translator Udo Breger, born during World War II with close ties to key figures of the Beat Generation, meet in Basel in the late 1970s and early 1980s. One hopes to establish personal contact with William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Allen Ginsberg, while the other turns out to be a mediator who, against the backdrop of…

Oliver Harris/Farid Ghadami – Two Assassins: Hassan Sabbah/William Burroughs

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“Two Assassins is a unique collaborative work, part detective story, part literary scholarship, part historical research, and part personal memoir that seeks to unravel a mystery: what the 11th-century Persian master of the Assassins, Hassan Sabbah, really meant for William Burroughs. Oliver Harris sheds light on the many untold backstories and dark textual secrets behind Burroughs’ invocations of Hassan Sabbah…
€ 24.00

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