aw. Re: Biographies/Autobiographies

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

>On 10/9/07, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> > On 10/6/07, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > ...  and if you're interested in football (which I suspect
> > you, Dave, are not), Gary Nelson's


>Was recently reminded I once won a Trivial Pursuit game (my teammates
>were grad students from the Canary Islands ...) by virtue of having
>read a book about George Blanda as a youngster.  Sports used to be
>like opera for me, didn't attend, much les participate, but I'd read
>anything available on the subject, so ...

Our Trivial Pursuit game from the early 90s contains a very funny card where 
they ask for one of Dostojewskij's most famous novels. Among the possible 
answers there is: The Brothers Kalaschnikoff.
Of course it's since then the novel's official title in this house. An 
acceptable book on Fußball ('soccer') is Nick Hornby's "Fever Pitch". The 
guy knows more about Fußball than he knows about Musik.


>And thanks all for further suggestions (yeah, Henry Adams did come up) ...

Adams is great. He's got the style it takes. Here come three more 
biographies that you might be interested in:

Hermann Kurzke: Thomas Mann --- Life as a Work of Art

Rüdiger Safranski: Martin Heidegger --- Between Good and Evil

Myron Sharaf: FURY ON EARTH --- A biography of Wilhelm Reich


Have a nice weekend! Kai