Murder in the Seminar
A Perpetration. Anon
A riotous romp through the halls of light and learning which gives the quietus to academic pomp and pretension in all its forms. The Biennial Congress of the International Shakespeare Society is the scene, on an anonymous campus surrounded by Outer Darkness, for macabre murders and mayhem which at last establish the Humanities in their rightful place beside the Natural Sciences on the principle of the Indestructibility of Chatter. A Must for serious scholars and disenchanted students.
Der Abenteuerliche Komplizissimus.Teutsch
J.J. von Himmelsgrausen
The modern academic counterpart of Grimmelshausen´s 17th century adventurer is brought up on the principles of a Fifth Book of Moses, known only to the Germans, which radically revises the creation story of Genesis. Under the guidance of his Uncle Ottokar, later carried off by the Neapolitan Disease, he cheats and finesses his way through school, matriculates, graduates and is appointed to a Foundation Chair of Obscurantism, in which he edifies a generation of young seekers after truth by applying his principle of the Scientificizing of the Self–Evident. A 21st century twist to the Picaresque novel. In German.
Sea Change
by Eric Baker
The first book in the series, ´Aspects of Multiculturalism´. Eric Baker lost both parents in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. He got out of Germany in 1938, one jump ahead of the Holocaust and, penniless, found refuge in Australia, eventually joined the AIF, graduated with Honours from Sydney University and forged an outstanding career as Head of Languages at NSW TAFE and Chief Language Training Supervisor for the Australian Dept of Immigration in Geneva. He is a convinced ´assimilationist´ rejects the idea of the ´collective guilt´ of all Germans for the Holocaust and, in this quirky biography, throws important light on some neglected aspects of Australian history.
Kafka´s The Judgment
R.P. St. Leon
The second book in the series ´Franz Kafka and Jewish Mysticism´. In it the Sydney scholar shows how the perplexing action of the novella is played out against a backdrop of the great metaphors of Jewish history, and how its language, influenced by the ´Letter and number symbolism´ of Kabbalah and the ´speculative etymology´ of Samson Raphael Hirsch, lends a unity to the apparently bizarre events, which allows of a seamless interpretation: the clash of tenaciously orthodox Judaism with the pressures of Reform, assimilationism and outright apostasy.
The Scarecrow and the Snowman
A Fairy Tale. Karl Kinderlieb
Destined to become a children´s classic about two dreamers: a snowman from the arctic North, who dreams of migrating to the warm South; and a Scarecrow from the blazing South, who dreams of migrating to the fairy–tale North and does so. How they meet; their adventures; their parting...and the changed nature of their dreams.
Dareall the Donkey
Karl Kinderlieb
Dareall, a German donkey of great enterprise, persuades his parents that he can put an end to their poverty by emigrating to Australia and becoming a racehorse. He endures sea–sickness, shipwreck and daunting scepticism before realizing his ambition and winning the Melbourne Cup. The successful SBS radio serial now in book form.