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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German
Stories from My Life FROM THE PUBLISHER
Oskar Kokoschka's Stories from My Life is not a traditional autobiography. There is no attempt to produce a comprehensive account of the details of his life, to record where he went, what he did, or whom he met. Instead he has given us, Kokoschka says, "a random selection of stories from my life, just as they occur to me". "Random" is perhaps an exaggeration. What these stories do provide is an inner autobiography, an intense and vivid evocation of incidents and moments which, while often apparently trivial in themselves, reveal the spiritual development of an artist who was not only one of this century's great painters, but also one of its great humanists.
FROM THE CRITICS
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The author was one of the major Expressionist painters of the first half of the 20th century, and also wrote a number of plays, poems, and stories. These autobiographical writings, first written for his wife, are an intense evocation of incidents and moments which reveal his spiritual development, and combine elements of real encounters with dreams, fantasies, and visions. Included in German in Das schriftliche Werk by Hans Christians Verlag. A selection was published by Thames and Hudson as A Sea Ringed with Visions in 1962. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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