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Franz Kafka: Der ewige Sohn. Eine Biographie.(A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia)(Book review)
The Modern Language Review
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April 1, 2007|
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Franz Kafka: Der ewige Sohn. Eine Biographie. By PETER-ANDRE ALT. Munich: Beck. 2005. 762 pp. 34.90 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-406-53441-6.
A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia. By RICHARD T. GRAY, RUTH V. GROSS, ROLF J. GOEBEL, and CLAYTON KOELB. Westport, CT, and London: Greenwood Press. 2005. xlvi+344 pp. 71 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-313-30375-3.
Every biographer of a literary author faces the problem of how to deal with the literary works. If he leaves them to one side to concentrate on the dramas of the life, then the life risks lacking purpose. If he draws on them ...
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Vaux in Vogue.
Magazine article from: Town & Country
; ...rather than sell off--architect Calvert Vaux's Tomes Higgins House (with its...grade A Greenwich real estate). Vaux is best known as the designer (with...have worked their particular magic on Vaux's formal reception rooms and other...
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More than natural grace.
Magazine article from: New Criterion
; ...hundred-tenth Street.) In fact, Calvert Vaux's and Frederick Law Olmsted...rages between those who believe Calvert Vaux has the true claim on these parks...Mr. McLanghlin's mentioning Calvert Vaux only once in the book's lengthy...
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In the park with Fred The man who brought country to city -- a biography of Frederick Law Olmsted
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...may have learned from his partner, architect Calvert Vaux. Although both Olmsted and Vaux always said that their contributions were equal...heart of" it, Rybczynski writes of the Olmsted/Vaux plan. "Vaux and Olmsted took great pains to...
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It's Christmastime in the city - Beating NYC's holiday rush is like a walk in the park.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...superintendent, and the English architect Calvert Vaux, who together won an 1857 competition...Conservancy's docent program, Olmsted and Vaux's plan was chosen because it blocked...planned and contributes to Olmsted and Vaux's vision of a pastoral retreat from...
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Switcheroo
Magazine article from: The Village Voice
; ...Disappearing Sauces (and Architect) Vaux began life a year ago as a fancier...s. So the place was retooled as Vaux Bistro. And luckily, the owners...enjoy ri favorite dish. Englishman Calvert Vaux (pronounced "vawks"), the lesser...
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Morrison Heckscher, On the Park.
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY)
; ...land. A lot of people know about Frederick Law Olmsted. But can you explain the role of Calvert Vaux in the park's conception and design? Calvert Vaux had worked with Downing, the father of American landscape gardening, and if Downing had...
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 "Reforma (México D.F., México)")
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Muestran su genesis.(Cultura)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México)
; ...centro de la exposicin es la presentacin original de Calvert Vaux y Frederick Law Olmsted que, bajo el ttulo de Greensward Plan, fue declarada ganadora del concurso. Calvert Vaux (1824-1903) creci en Inglaterra, mientras que la...
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Central Park: celebrating New York's 843-acre arcadia throughout all the glorious seasons of its 150th year.
Magazine article from: Town & Country
; ...supply for the city. Olmsted and Vaux's sunken transverse roads are the...architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux (pronounced "vox") turned to for...plan for the park. (Olmsted and Vaux ate the heroes of this story, as...
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The Park and the People: A History of Central Park.
Magazine article from: The Nation
; ...Frederick Law Olmsted and his partner Calvert Vaux stepped into the early tumult of claims and intentions. Olmsted and Vaux's Greensward Plan for the park is...interpretations not only in stressing Vaux's neglected but equal contribution...
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Strawberry fields forever
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...the Greensward Plan by Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Olmsted, a young Connecticut Yankee...superintendent and architect-in-chief. Vaux, a bearded, London-born Victorian...s business partner. Olmsted and Vaux's Greensward Plan envisaged a rural...
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