{"product_id":"the-bells-in-their-silence-travels-through-germany-9780691126173","title":"The Bells in Their Silence: Travels Through Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003eNobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the German problem, World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Wall, reunification, and the connections between them. But not travel books, not the free-ranging and impressionistic works of literary nonfiction we associate with V. S. Naipaul and Bruce Chatwin. What is it about Germany and the travel book that puts them seemingly at odds? With one foot in the library and one on the street, Michael Gorra offers both an answer to this question and his own traveler's tale of Germany. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gorra uses Goethe's account of his Italian journey as a model for testing the traveler's response to Germany today, and he subjects the shopping arcades of contemporary German cities to the terms of Benjamin's Arcades project. He reads post-\u003ci\u003eWende\u003c\/i\u003e Berlin through the novels of Theodor Fontane, examines the role of figurative language, and enlists W. G. Sebald as a guide to the place of fragments and digressions in travel writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Replete with the flaneur's chance discoveries--and rich in the delights of the enduring and the ephemeral, of architecture and flood--\u003ci\u003eThe Bells in Their Silence\u003c\/i\u003e offers that rare traveler's tale of Germany while testing the very limits of the travel narrative as a literary form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Gorra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.12w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691126173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/11\/2006 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Gorra\u003c\/b\u003e is Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English at Smith College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAfter Empire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe English Novel at Mid-Century\u003c\/i\u003e, and the recipient, for his work as a reviewer, of the Nona Balakian Citation of the National Book Critics Circle. He reviews books for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40087138631795,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":34.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_3e2c5233-1ff4-4826-af42-3548eeb8905f.jpg?v=1652538692","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-bells-in-their-silence-travels-through-germany-9780691126173","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}